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Full Show Podcast: 16 June 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dicketts on
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Speaker 1: early edition with Spark for Business technology that keeps business
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Speaker 1: moving news talks.
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Speaker 2: They'd be well, good morning to you and welcome to
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Speaker 2: the program. Thank you for choosing us. Today, the Opportunities
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Speaker 2: Party announces a policy to stop their politicians gorging at
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Speaker 2: the trough? Is it a good political move? And who
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Speaker 2: really are top? We'll have Bryce Edwards on this in five.
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Speaker 2: There's a pretty interesting football game on today and our
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Speaker 2: voice of football, Jason Pine, will preview it for us
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Speaker 2: round about five twenty. And the piece in the Middle East,
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Speaker 2: how real is it? David Smith, the Washington bureau chief
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Speaker 2: of The Guardian, joins us just before six o'clock. We'll
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Speaker 2: have correspondence from right around New Zealand news as it breaks,
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Speaker 2: and you can have your say on the text ninety
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Speaker 2: two ninety two. A small charge applies at seven after five.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: So it's Tuesday, the sixteenth of June. The a US
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Speaker 2: run Peace Steel now appears to be on track, with
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Speaker 2: both sides expected to sign on Friday. They're going to
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Speaker 2: do it in Switzerland. The agreement includes an end to
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Speaker 2: military operations in Lebanon. That was a key demand for Iran.
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Speaker 3: Number one, this is the immediate opening of the Straits
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Speaker 3: of hor Moves and of course the lifting of the
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Speaker 3: naval blockade that we've had on Iran along with it.
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Speaker 3: The number two thing that it means is that Iran
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Speaker 3: will never have a nuclear weapon, and not just pursue
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Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon for procure, try to buy a nuclear
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Speaker 3: weapon as well.
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Speaker 2: Still a bit of a sticking point, though Israel is
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Speaker 2: insisting its forces will remain in Lebanon indefinitely.
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Speaker 4: This memorandum of understanding was reached despite our complete distrust
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Speaker 4: of our enemies.
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Speaker 2: We have no trust in the enemy.
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Speaker 5: Our trust lies in our military strength, our diplomatic capabilities,
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Speaker 5: and the support and unity of our own people.
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Speaker 2: And the President of the United States had more than
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Speaker 2: just a peace deal to celebrate. He hosted UFC Freedom
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Speaker 2: to Fifty at the White House. It was a sixty
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Speaker 2: million dollar event tied to America's two hundred and fiftieth
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Speaker 2: birthday celebration, and as it turns out, it also fell
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Speaker 2: on Donald J. Trump's the eightieth birthday.
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Speaker 1: Well good to website the Freedom of two fifty.
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Speaker 3: Here is the President w United States of America double
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Speaker 3: j Trump.
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Speaker 5: New historical event.
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Speaker 2: So I'm just very excited to experience everything.
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Speaker 6: It's one of one.
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Speaker 4: Honestly, it's never been done before, and I mean this
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Speaker 4: is America as America gets.
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Speaker 2: Honestly and no booing. And like the Next Game to
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Speaker 2: the UK where the pre minis of Kia Stammers announced
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Speaker 2: as social media band for unders sixteen's once it's in
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Speaker 2: place by spring twenty twenty seven.
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Speaker 7: I think most parents will welcome this action. I think
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Speaker 7: they will welcome a clear and decisive choice, and they
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Speaker 7: will welcome a government that stands by them, that supports
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Speaker 7: them to do the best for their children, and that
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Speaker 7: fights for their happiness and safety. We look carefully at
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Speaker 7: the evidence learn from countries like Australia for the taking
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Speaker 7: similar step.
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Speaker 2: So snap, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and x are among
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Speaker 2: the platforms affected, not WhatsApp or signal And how did
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Speaker 2: the kids feel about it?
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Speaker 5: Social media has had a massive impact on our generation.
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Speaker 8: Do you scroll in attention of how's quite short?
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Speaker 5: Are so the government? And about that the government do
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Speaker 5: something rather than do nothing. No, I'm not happy at
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Speaker 5: all because I don't think it should be bun but
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Speaker 5: I think it should be like limited, Like I think
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Speaker 5: you should just have a certain amount of time and
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Speaker 5: then you should be like should go outside?
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Speaker 2: Possibly, Okay, good idea. Ten and a half to five.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis early edition with Andrew Dickens and Spark for Business
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Speaker 1: technology that keeps business moving, news talks.
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Speaker 2: It'd be there we go, Here we go, Here we go.
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Speaker 2: New Zealand takes to the World Cup stage playing around
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Speaker 2: today one o'clock. It's a big game. We've been waiting
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Speaker 2: for this. It's a game full of geopolitical tension, with
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Speaker 2: the RAND and the States only coming to a deal
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Speaker 2: to stop fighting yesterday, thank heavens. The game expected to
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Speaker 2: be targeted by protests from Aian Americans. There's a surprisingly
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Speaker 2: large number of them. There are three hundred thousand Iranians
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Speaker 2: living in La alone, so both sides are coming out.
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Speaker 2: Those who are supporting it on and also those people
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Speaker 2: who are not obviously and do not like the regime.
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Speaker 2: In our group, it's a must win because you must win.
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Speaker 2: That's football. Last time we were here in South Africa,
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Speaker 2: we never lost a game. Great, but three draws you
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Speaker 2: get the same point as one win. You've got to
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Speaker 2: get a win. We need at least one. Remember we've
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Speaker 2: never made it out of the group. That would be nice.
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Speaker 2: The Iranians are very very good. Ranked twentieth in the world,
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Speaker 2: we are eighty fifth. We only have a twenty percent
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Speaker 2: chance of winning. According to the stats I saw just
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Speaker 2: before I came on here. We are the underdogs. They
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Speaker 2: have had a pretty bad build up, to be fair,
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Speaker 2: what with the war and all. But then again, so
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Speaker 2: have we. We lost four Nils to eighty A team
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Speaker 2: I saw got beaten one Nill by Scotland the other day.
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Speaker 2: So all in all, it's a juicy game, and it's
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Speaker 2: world news, and it's at one o'clock and it's free
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Speaker 2: to wear on TV in Z and the voice of football,
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Speaker 2: Jason Pie will be talking about this on this radio
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Speaker 2: station right here with me at five twenty. In a
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Speaker 2: few minutes time, I see Grant has already texted me
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Speaker 2: in saying that soccer replaces Emma Dale. Dammit New Zealand
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Speaker 2: better win then, But being ranked like eighty second, chances
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Speaker 2: aren't good. That's true as well. All right, it's twelve
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Speaker 2: minutes out to five. Top Party says no to perks
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Speaker 2: we'll talk to this with Bryce Edwards.
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Speaker 1: Next, the first Word on the News of the Day
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Speaker 1: Early edition with Andrew Dickens and Spark for Business Technology
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Speaker 1: that keeps business moving News Talks.
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Speaker 2: B Good morning to you. Fourteen minutes after five, the
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Speaker 2: Opportunities Party has come out with a wild new idea,
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Speaker 2: don't take more than you need MPs. They've committed to
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Speaker 2: all their MPs when and if they get any, they
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Speaker 2: will not be able to use taxpayer funded entitlements in
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Speaker 2: an unfair way. So that means no inflated keep we
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Speaker 2: save it by holiday homes, no one thousand dollars a
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Speaker 2: week for your mortgage free property, and no saying you
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Speaker 2: live outside of Wellington when you've actually lived in the
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Speaker 2: city for the last twenty years. Bryce Edwards is a
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Speaker 2: political commentator director of the Democracy Project. Joins me now, Bryce,
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Speaker 2: good morning.
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Speaker 9: Good morning, Andrew.
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Speaker 2: Do you like this idea?
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Speaker 10: I do.
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Speaker 9: I love this idea. I think that this is going
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Speaker 9: to connect with a lot of voters who are getting
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Speaker 9: quite a check of politicians that are perceived to be
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Speaker 9: rauting the system and feeling that they won't stick the
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Speaker 9: problems themselves because they're the ones that benefit from it,
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Speaker 9: and so hitting an outside force actually campaigning on this
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Speaker 9: might be what it needs to change some of this.
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Speaker 2: Why do the politicians who wrought the system actually wrought
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Speaker 2: the system because they must know that it's going to
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Speaker 2: make a headline and it's going to end up reputationally damaging.
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Speaker 9: Oh, they can't help themselves, I gues. I mean these
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Speaker 9: lucrative benefits and mostly they're not discussed. I mean mostly
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Speaker 9: the public haven't been focusing on this in recent years.
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Speaker 9: And suddenly it's come up in the last few weeks
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Speaker 9: and we're seeing story after story about not just MP pay,
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Speaker 9: but it's the perks, those allowances, it's the superannuation schemes
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Speaker 9: that allow you know, Chris Hopkins to buy his whole
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Speaker 9: day home, etc. And so I think politicians would probably
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Speaker 9: have been caught out by this, not realizing the public's
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Speaker 9: growing anger about these things.
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Speaker 2: I was talking to the chair of the Remuneration Authority
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Speaker 2: the other day when I was doing the drive time show.
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Speaker 2: I was asking, you know, can MP's changed their wage? Yes,
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Speaker 2: they can. You know, he's seeing maximum limits of all
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Speaker 2: these sorts of things. You don't have to do it.
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Speaker 2: Why is the Remuneration Authority seen as this untouchable entity
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Speaker 2: that ministers and politicians and government have no control over.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it's quite a useful sort of justification
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Speaker 9: by politicians. It's like taking touch really that they say, oh,
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Speaker 9: this is just all that this independent authority has. It's
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Speaker 9: their decisions, nothing to do with us. But the rules
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Speaker 9: are actually set by the politicians. They make the rules,
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Speaker 9: they just get this independent authority to carry out the rules.
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Speaker 9: And so, yeah, I think it's it's a bit it's
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Speaker 9: a raw in itself.
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Speaker 2: That it's a smoke screen.
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Speaker 9: It is a smoke screen legitimizor Yeah, indeed so, And
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Speaker 9: it's attempt to say, well, it's nothing to do with us,
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Speaker 9: but no, it's everything to do with the politicians. They
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Speaker 9: can change any of these rules if they want to.
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Speaker 2: Here's the thing for the Opportunities Party, though, I said
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Speaker 2: at the beginning, when and if they get any MPs,
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Speaker 2: do you think they do seem to be causing a
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Speaker 2: stir this time more than before? Do you think it's
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Speaker 2: possible five percent? Is it possible in a seat?
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Speaker 9: Five percent is a really high threshold under m MP,
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Speaker 9: And so it's it's going to be a pretty challenging
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Speaker 9: task I think it's unlikely they'll get there, you know,
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Speaker 9: and previous years they've got to right two percent. But
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Speaker 9: you know, it's really psychologically difficult because people don't want
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Speaker 9: to waste their vote if they think that they're going
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Speaker 9: to be below five percent. But they have had a
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Speaker 9: few polls getting around that and so, and they do
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Speaker 9: seem to be more coherent than in previous elections. Their
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Speaker 9: current leader is a bit more likable than previous ones.
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Speaker 9: I think so. And somehow I think they might just
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Speaker 9: be the sort of party that appeals to a lot
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Speaker 9: of voters that are either discontented with the current government
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Speaker 9: but not convinced by the opposition, or even people on
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Speaker 9: the left that just think Labor haven't put out enough policies,
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Speaker 9: they haven't really got things together and New Zealand First
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Speaker 9: is kind of not really that responsible. So maybe a
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Speaker 9: central party like this might be it might be the time.
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Speaker 2: Good luck for them, and I thank you. It's a
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Speaker 2: director of the Democracy Project, and we're getting into the
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Speaker 2: football hype. Finally, Bob says, getting a win very very unlikely.
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Speaker 2: Oh come on, Bob, here wickets. We're only there to
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Speaker 2: make up an over large, enlarged tournament. Still it gives
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Speaker 2: us something to watch, Okay, Bob, But here's Mike. Mike says,
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Speaker 2: morning Andrew, I put twenty bucks on New Zealand to
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Speaker 2: draw against around at three dollars fifty. What does Piney think? Please? Well, Mike,
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Speaker 2: we'll find out next Thanks for anyone.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Andrew
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Speaker 1: Dickens and Spark for Business Technology that keeps business moving
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Speaker 2: Yes five twenty one, less than eight hours until the
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Speaker 2: All Whites take on Your Run our FIFA First World
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Speaker 2: Cup match kicks off at one PMTV and Z. There's
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Speaker 2: already trouble that comp midfielder Matt Garbett miss Captain's run
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Speaker 2: yesterday because of a bad hammy, and we'll likely miss
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Speaker 2: today's game as well. And that's a problem. How much
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Speaker 2: of a problem is it, Jason Pine Voice of Football.
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Speaker 10: It's a bit of an issue, Andrew, Good morning, Matt Garvitt.
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Speaker 10: I think probably would have started the game had he
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Speaker 10: been fit. So there's a starting eleven member who won't
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Speaker 10: be playing. However, having said that, there is good depth
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Speaker 10: in his position, so it's not absolutely catastrophic. Other than that,
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Speaker 10: by the sound of it. It's a fairly fit and
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Speaker 10: firing squad that Darren basically has to choose from. So yeah,
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Speaker 10: Matt Garbetta's side, well a fully for a bunch of
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Speaker 10: men ready to go this afternoon.
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Speaker 2: Even with Matt not being there. Matt's one of the
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Speaker 2: few guys there who can score goals. And I don't
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Speaker 2: know if you've noticed in football you've got to score goals,
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Speaker 2: and not if you've noticed about the All Whites, they
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Speaker 2: haven't been scoring goals. Can we score goals?
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Speaker 10: Yeah? Goals? Goals, goals is what we need this afternoon.
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Speaker 10: You bang on Andrew, Look, you're right, Matt Garbatta has
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Speaker 10: got an eye for it and somebody's going to have
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Speaker 10: to do that because yeah, New Zealand's historically and in
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Speaker 10: the last couple of years particularly, haven't been able to
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Speaker 10: do that consistently against top sides. Chris Wood is the
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Speaker 10: obvious source of goals, but you can't just rely on
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Speaker 10: one guy. Look, I think set peace time is where
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Speaker 10: perhaps we might get a lot of change this afternoon,
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Speaker 10: and across this tournament there's a lot of good set
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Speaker 10: piece deliverers in the side, the likes of Lebecacaci Francis
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Speaker 10: de Breeze, he gets on and others are Tim Payne too,
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Speaker 10: So that might be where we get our best chances
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Speaker 10: when they do come. Got to be clinical. Just have
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Speaker 10: to take the chances. They're not going to come along
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Speaker 10: very often, must take them when they do.
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Speaker 2: Enough about the game, how about the show? Because you
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Speaker 2: know the political tensions around the Iran team, it's quite remarkable.
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Speaker 2: There's three hundred thousand Iranians in la and they're all
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Speaker 2: going to have a bit of a protest, either for
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Speaker 2: or again. So it's the first time ever in a
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Speaker 2: World Cup host has actually been in conflict with a participant.
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Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of drama, a lot.
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Speaker 10: Of drama, and we don't know how that's going to
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Speaker 10: play out this afternoon. Look, and it's going to happen
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Speaker 10: outside the White Lions, inside the white lines on the grass.
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Speaker 10: What does that mean for these two teams, in particular
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Speaker 10: for Iran and how what has that done to them?
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Speaker 10: I mean they're they're their build up has been anything
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Speaker 10: but ideal, completely disrupted. So does that really affect a
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Speaker 10: team or in fact, does it galvanize a team? We
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Speaker 10: won't know until they take to the grass. This afternoon.
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Speaker 10: But you're right, no football game, no sporting A few
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Speaker 10: sporting contests, but no World Cup game has ever been
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Speaker 10: played out against the backdrop of of of one of
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Speaker 10: the nations being at.
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Speaker 2: War behod On on the war stopped to day beforehand.
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Speaker 10: Any coincidence, Well, I mean football, the great unia unizer.
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Speaker 2: Okay, here's here's a real here's a real train spot
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Speaker 2: a question. Both teams their home strips are white. Who's
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Speaker 2: going to be wearing white today? The all whites are
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Speaker 2: Irun no Irana and white today.
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Speaker 10: The all whites will wear black today, but they will
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Speaker 10: wear white against Egypt and Belgium. As I understand.
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Speaker 2: Why has around the home team when they're the bad guys.
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Speaker 10: I'm really not sure how it works. Is it a
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Speaker 10: toss of the coin? I'm not sure. Is it alphabetical?
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Speaker 10: I'm not sure, but I do know where we're in
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Speaker 10: black for.
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Speaker 2: Su you're up early today. You wouldn't have it to
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Speaker 2: be catching a plane, would you?
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Speaker 11: Uh?
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Speaker 10: Not today? I am on a plane at some point
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Speaker 10: in the next sort of while looking forward to getting
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Speaker 10: to Vancouver to watch the Egypt and Belgium games. But no, no,
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Speaker 10: I'm just I'm up early to talking to you. This
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Speaker 10: is my sole reason for being awake.
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Speaker 2: At the moment. Well, I thank you very much, Jason.
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Speaker 2: And when I heard yesterday that you're off to Vancouver,
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Speaker 2: I think those are going to be the two best
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Speaker 2: games of our games. And Canada's a lovely place, Vancouver
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Speaker 2: is a lovely town, and you will have a great
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Speaker 2: time and you will give us great insight. And I
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Speaker 2: thank you so much for wake up early, just for
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Speaker 2: me to day. It is five twenty.
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Speaker 2: New s B five twenty seven. I'mantrew Dickens. Well, come
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Speaker 2: on in now. There's a lot of people who think
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Speaker 2: the media are a left wing lobby group, and there's
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Speaker 2: a lot of people who think that Stuff is the
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Speaker 2: leftiest of them all. So explain to me why Stuff
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Speaker 2: has just appointed Matthew Houghton as the new editor of
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Speaker 2: the Post, apparently after he was shoulder tapped by Shane Boucher.
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Speaker 2: So it wasn't his idea, it was hers. This is
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Speaker 2: what the Post said yesterday about their new editor, Matthew Houghton.
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Speaker 2: Houton CV includes being a young nat a press secretary
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Speaker 2: ultra rich. And he even had a short lived stint
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Speaker 2: as Wayne Brown's advisor. Now, does that sound like a
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Speaker 2: lefty to you? Does that sound like a socialist? Doesn't
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Speaker 2: to me? If you read Matthew and if you meet
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Speaker 2: Matthew and I have and I do, you'll know he
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Speaker 2: has one of the clearest understandings of how power works
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Speaker 2: in this country, both left and right politically and at
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Speaker 2: a corporate level, and even into ol Mali And I
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Speaker 2: think this is interesting is about how we define people
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Speaker 2: on their politics. I think people in this country are
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Speaker 2: far too quick to generalize. I think a lot of
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Speaker 2: people don't quite understand politics. They don't understand the difference
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Speaker 2: between left and right, often confusing them between conservative and liberal,
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Speaker 2: and the difference that you're asked them about the difference
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Speaker 2: between demand side and supply economics, and well you get
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Speaker 2: a little bit of confusion. But that people will swear
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Speaker 2: that their right wing. I've grown frustrated at hearing supposedly
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Speaker 2: right ast people demanding government intervention and not realizing that
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Speaker 2: they're straying out of the lane. And these are the
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Speaker 2: same people who go all the media is left wing
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Speaker 2: and they're not. All the media is biased and it's not. Anyway.
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Speaker 2: Here's Matthew Houghton and he's going to be the editor
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Speaker 2: at the Post. The Post is on a big growth
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Speaker 2: path at the moment. I actually think this is a
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Speaker 2: genius move by Shine Boucher. I think he's going to
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Speaker 2: come up with some great stuff. He doesn't have to
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Speaker 2: be a journalist, he just has to have a good brain.
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Speaker 2: At Matthew Houghton has a good brain. So let the
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Speaker 2: ructions begin.
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Speaker 1: Simby.
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Speaker 2: It's reading this morning that passengers from the Envy Hondiest
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Speaker 2: cruise ship where the Hunter virus outbreak first occurred, apparently
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Speaker 2: finished their isolation periods this past Sunday. So there was
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Speaker 2: a kiwi there in West Australia and they've been locked
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Speaker 2: been let go. And I read this article that said
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Speaker 2: this is a public health success story worth celebrating because
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Speaker 2: it could have been so much worse. We heard so
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Speaker 2: much about what went wrong during COVID and all the
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Speaker 2: systems have failed. So it's good to recognize when things
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Speaker 2: go right and you won't even hear about it in
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Speaker 2: the evening news. Well you didn't hear about it in
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Speaker 2: the evening newstitute, but you just heard about it now.
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Speaker 2: Did you also know that Gina Reinhart, Australia's richest woman,
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Speaker 12: That'd be.
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Speaker 10: To welcome back.
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Speaker 2: I'm Andrew Dickens. It is now twenty three minutes to six.
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Speaker 2: Mister Matthew Houghton is a divisive character. It's fair to
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Speaker 2: say a lot of you don't like him. Chris doesn't
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Speaker 2: like him, said, Houghton was instrumental and undermining Simon Bridges
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Speaker 2: for his Herald column. Then he popped up his Muller's
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Speaker 2: chief of Stuff. Remember all of that absolutely here we
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Speaker 2: can see he's a bit self serving and not balanced.
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Speaker 2: And Das says, the appointment of Matthew Houghton is confirmation
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Speaker 2: that Stuff is wishing to regain readership confidence and secure
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Speaker 2: a new narrative in transparency rather than the current bias
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Speaker 2: which has been seen by the readership. And I thank
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Speaker 2: you for your text ninety two to ninety two small
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Speaker 2: charge applies. It's breakfast time and you might be having
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Speaker 2: a coffee. And you know, the one thing I don't
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Speaker 2: like about these inn espresso machines, even though I like
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Speaker 2: George Clooney and do a leaper, is I look at
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Speaker 2: the pods. I go gee, that's that's you know, that's
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Speaker 2: a lot of plastic for one cup of coffee. So
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Speaker 2: the Italian coffee brand Lavazza has launched a system. It's
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Speaker 2: acording Tubbli and it's like the pods, but no plastic.
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Speaker 2: They use compact espresso tablets, condensed puck shaped tablets made
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Speaker 2: entirely of compressed coffee grounds using no plastic egg medium.
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Speaker 2: You weacom into their machine and Huilla And by the way,
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Speaker 2: because I've just launched it. It's a little cheap at
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Speaker 2: the moment. You can buy a machine sixty tablets at
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Speaker 2: a milk frother online for ninety nine ninety nine US dollars.
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Speaker 2: It's going to go up to two hundred and fifty
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Speaker 2: a bit later on. It is a green coffee machine,
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Speaker 2: like an espresso, but without the plastic. I like it.
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Speaker 2: It's twenty two to six z b all right around
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Speaker 2: the country. Go Callum Procter from Dunedin. Had a coffee yet?
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Speaker 2: Feel guilty?
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Speaker 11: Actually, I'm enjoying an espresso right now.
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Speaker 2: Oh that plastic. Hey tell us about Southn's housing market.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, well, it's a region that's really bucking the national
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Speaker 11: trend when it comes to real estate, that's for sure.
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Speaker 11: The latestn are out from the Real Estate Institute. Its
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Speaker 11: House Price Index numbers show that almost every North Island
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Speaker 11: region has declined over the past year, but Southland is
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Speaker 11: leading the country with a five point eight percent growth number. Nationally,
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Speaker 11: the index fell zero point six percent, but it's up
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Speaker 11: big time in Southend. Ray White and for Cargill's James
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Speaker 11: Mcroby says a strong rural sector, low housing stock and
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Speaker 11: high demand are what's driving prices in the South.
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Speaker 2: He says prices are still affordable.
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Speaker 11: As well, and most people who move from big centers
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Speaker 11: are blown away with what you can get for your money.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I'll tell you about Australia at a moment. But
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Speaker 2: how's your weather morning?
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Speaker 11: Frosts and patches here intned in this morning, but otherwise
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Speaker 11: fine for most of the day. The heights today just ten.
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Speaker 2: Jamie Cunningham joins us from Cross Riache. Hello Jamie, No, Jamie,
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Speaker 2: I come here an echo, Hello Jamie, good morning. All right,
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Speaker 2: we're talking housing with you as well, because you've got
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Speaker 2: a housing shortage. Yeah.
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Speaker 13: So christ Rich City councils weighing up converting a central
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Speaker 13: city site into transitional housing as women and children bear
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Speaker 13: the brunt of a lack of housing in the city.
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Speaker 13: So the city has about fifteen hundred households on the
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Speaker 13: social housing list, and as we talked about yesterday, there's
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Speaker 13: about three hundred rough sleepers. The councils are seeing weather
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Speaker 13: a converted Hereford Street motel could be modernized for transitional
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Speaker 13: housing for these women and children. Staff recommend leasing the
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Speaker 13: more than two thousand square meter site to a community provider,
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Speaker 13: mixing transitional housing with socual or market rent units to
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Speaker 13: make it financially viable.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather?
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Speaker 13: Showers clearing and becoming fine in the morning. Southwesterlyes turning northeasterly,
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Speaker 13: and also are high of ten.
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Speaker 2: Here to Wellington we go. The voice of sport, mister
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Speaker 2: Adam Cooper.
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Speaker 14: Hello morning, Andrew.
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Speaker 2: Who's going to win the game today?
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Speaker 14: Well, that's hard.
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Speaker 2: One to perk.
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Speaker 14: I'd say New Zealand's probably on the back foot, but hey,
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Speaker 14: you never know.
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Speaker 2: Micha Oh listen says three dollars fifty for a drawer.
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Speaker 2: I think that's possibly a way to make some money.
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Speaker 2: Now to more serious issues, Wellingtonians find out about their
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Speaker 2: water bills today.
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Speaker 14: Indeed, yes, so then new plan for our woeful water
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Speaker 14: network's been released. So Tiaki Wise, the organization that's inheriting
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Speaker 14: the region's water assets from July first, taking over from
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Speaker 14: Wellington Water. The major change for all residents, Andrew, is
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Speaker 14: instead of water being on your rates bill, it's going
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Speaker 14: to be billed separately. So another piece of my sort
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Speaker 14: of you know, billing that will arrive in people's letterboxes
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Speaker 14: to start with that average water bill it's going to
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Speaker 14: be around twenty four hundred dollars a year per household. However,
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Speaker 14: within ten years that's expected to rise to more than
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Speaker 14: six thousand dollars each. Now, the new agency says it
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Speaker 14: is investing eight hundred million dollars in the coming year
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Speaker 14: into the water infrastructure. Chair Will Peak says it's no
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Speaker 14: secret there's been under investment in water for a number
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Speaker 14: of years and decades in Wellington. He says a lot
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Speaker 14: of pipes are in poor condition and investment is required.
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Speaker 2: How's your weather?
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Speaker 14: Rain this morning, but then fined by the afternoon in
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Speaker 14: a high twelve.
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Speaker 2: It never if your Manda joins you from walking hell
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Speaker 2: and neither good morning? So okay, c only the Northwest
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Speaker 2: Busway is about to go slamming through a hole out
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Speaker 2: of Grayland houses and the lovees are not happy.
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Speaker 6: Yes, you're quite right there. Graylan locals are shell shocked
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Speaker 6: today look the land potentially being bought for this major
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Speaker 6: Auckland busway. Now the Transport Agency plans to build This
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Speaker 6: is this eighteen kilometer northwest busway to let the CBD
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Speaker 6: with the city's western suburbs, and it will soon be
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Speaker 6: acquiring half of the homes. This is on Ivanhoe road.
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Speaker 6: This is obviously to tear them down for this multi
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Speaker 6: billion dollar project. Resident musician and activists, this is tingy
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Speaker 6: lol Ness told the Herald Look he and his wife
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Speaker 6: they were devastated to get the news. Pretty traumatic for
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Speaker 6: a couple in their seventies. They're not alone. Quite a
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Speaker 6: few of the residents are just letting this sink in,
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Speaker 6: very very angry and disappointed.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, how's the weather Okay, well.
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Speaker 6: Rain, rain, possibly heavy in the west. This is gonna
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Speaker 6: be followed by showers. But the little bit of good
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Speaker 6: news is that those showers will ease and fine spells
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Speaker 6: will increase. A high sixteen here in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: And I thank you very much. I promise you talk
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Speaker 2: about Australia's property The property outlook in Australia taking a
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Speaker 2: bit of a sharp turn. And there's a couple of
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Speaker 2: banks who have now joined economists and saying house prices
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Speaker 2: are set to fall and they're falling fast. So this
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Speaker 2: is the a in Z and NAB and they say
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Speaker 2: there are more stillers, there's rising stale listings and auction
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Speaker 2: clearances are stuck at fifty percent. This is all because
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Speaker 2: of the removing of the tax incentives like negative gearing,
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Speaker 2: the impact is instant. Westpac reports invest alone applications have
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Speaker 2: plunged twenty percent since the May budget, twenty percent, just
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Speaker 2: like man A and Z now expects capital sitting prices
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Speaker 2: to drop two percent or two point one percent they
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Speaker 2: earlier forecast growth, NAB forecasting a similar fall after years
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Speaker 2: of rising values. The big banks are bracing for a downturn.
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Speaker 2: And it's ever since May one budget. And there we go.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of Australia, Donna Demayo is next, and Gina Reinhart
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Speaker 2: made an awful lot of money yesterday.
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Speaker 1: We'll tell you how international correspondence with NS and eye
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Speaker 1: insurance Peace of mind for New Zealand Business.
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Speaker 2: Fourteen to six. Donnor Tomorrow joins me out of Hella. Donna, Oh,
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Speaker 2: hello to you. So the Koujie Beach shark attack. We've
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Speaker 2: got a thirty five year old mum who lost her
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Speaker 2: fighting for her life in hospital.
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Speaker 15: Yes, we've had an update from the family of this
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Speaker 15: Sydney woman who was mauored by a shark. And yes
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Speaker 15: she did suffer severe wounds, critical injuries in fact to
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Speaker 15: her leg and arms. She was just thirteen meters off shore.
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Speaker 15: It is believed to be have been a great white
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Speaker 15: shark that attacked her. She's undergone multiple surgeries after sustaining
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Speaker 15: these injuries, and she remains in a critical condition. She's
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Speaker 15: going to need extensive ongoing support and rehab. Of course,
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Speaker 15: the family saying that, you know, she's a passionate teacher,
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Speaker 15: a loving mother, so obviously very very distraught about what's
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Speaker 15: what happened. Just to let you know that at the time,
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Speaker 15: she was spotted by an off duty lifeguard who was
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Speaker 15: training for a paddle bought competition and he heard her
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Speaker 15: friend scream out shark. Of course, at the time, the
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Speaker 15: lifeguards are then cleared the beat.
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Speaker 4: We had heard from local surf life savers who say
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Speaker 4: it's going to take a massive effort and a lot
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Speaker 4: of time to ensure people feel safe to return to
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Speaker 4: that very beat.
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Speaker 2: Well, there's been a spate of it, hasn't it. I
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Speaker 2: mean there's a spate of it, and of course, this
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Speaker 2: poor woman, she loved the sea and now the sea
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Speaker 2: has done this terrible thing to her. But there we go. Now,
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Speaker 2: tell me about Gena Rhinehart's big play yesterday in SpaceX.
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Speaker 4: Yes, Well, she's just revealed that she's a big fan
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Speaker 4: of Elon Musk. I tell you that much Australia's richest person,
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Speaker 4: she's worth about thirty nine billion dollars. But Gina Reinhart's
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Speaker 4: company has well made a significant investment. Oh think you'd agree,
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Speaker 4: at least one point four billion dollars into SpaceX. And
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Speaker 4: she's said quite a few glowing things. She says that
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Speaker 4: it reflects her confidence in Musk. She said he's done
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Speaker 4: what very few people in history have done. He's not
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Speaker 4: just a mad in the future. He's built companies capable
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Speaker 4: of delivering it and helped keep American technology at the forefront.
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Speaker 4: And she's called Musk a truly exceptional person, saying he
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Speaker 4: excels in every regard. Can you believe yes.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think I think the biggest thing about her
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Speaker 2: investment in space ex is that she dropped a casual
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Speaker 2: one billion dollars US and in one day she made
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Speaker 2: one hundred and ninety million dollars back. So you know
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Speaker 2: who cares. How good Elil Muscus is a person, is
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Speaker 2: a great money making machine.
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Speaker 4: Well, I'm sure she's very pleased with the Like you say,
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Speaker 4: how it's all tracking so far. She also loves the
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Speaker 4: fact that the company's got Ai prospects as well, she
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Speaker 4: calls them. She says it will continue to shape industries,
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Speaker 4: economies and opportunities for decades to come.
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Speaker 2: Yet it's great, she is absolutely Donad Demayo, and I
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Speaker 2: thank you. And by the way, this investment is the
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Speaker 2: biggest that Hancock Prospecting Gena's company has done outside iron
27:54
Speaker 2: Ore in the private miners history. It is twelve to
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Speaker 2: six Zibby. So here we are. The world is holding
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Speaker 2: their breath. It seems that the United States and Iran
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Speaker 2: have agreed to a deal to, if not in the war,
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Speaker 2: at least put it on hold for a while. Pakistan
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Speaker 2: says this deal will be signed on Friday in Switzerland.
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Speaker 2: The President of the United States says ships are starting
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Speaker 2: to move again through the stretus of horn moves. The
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Speaker 2: US market's opened sharply higher after the news oil prices
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Speaker 2: have fallen. David Smith is the Washington bureau chief for
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Speaker 2: The Guardian and joins me, Now, hello, David, so hello here,
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Speaker 2: can we celebrate yet or you know, there's no real resolution.
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Speaker 2: It's relief, not resolution.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, that's right, And I think it's hard to celebrate
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Speaker 12: after such a rough war with so many civilian casualtiess
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Speaker 12: not forget them, and frankly a war that's left the
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Speaker 12: Iranian population worst off now with a more hardline regime
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Speaker 12: and an economic crisis. And also so many critics would
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Speaker 12: argue has dealt a real blow to US power and
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Speaker 12: prestige and shown the limits of that power. Certainly there
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Speaker 12: seems a glimmer of hope that at least the fighting
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Speaker 12: will stop and the state of Hormos will reopen. Still
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Speaker 12: has to be demned, but the oil markets have responded accordingly,
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Speaker 12: and you know, look like we'll get some sort of
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Speaker 12: we've already got some kind of memo signed and more
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Speaker 12: to come.
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Speaker 2: Well, we're just waking up in New Zealand. You've been
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Speaker 2: awake all all day. Do we know anything more about
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Speaker 2: this deal other than there's a deal that it's going
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Speaker 2: to be signed.
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Speaker 12: The outline so far seems to be, you know, top
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Speaker 12: priority is reopened the Strait of Hormus, that crucial waterway,
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Speaker 12: so that oil can get flowing again. I think still
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Speaker 12: an unanswered question about is Iran going to try and
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Speaker 12: levy a toll on shipping through there, and a lot
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Speaker 12: of geptism about whether it can actually ever return to
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Speaker 12: what it used to be. But the great and answer
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Speaker 12: question that we have not seen detail on is Around's
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Speaker 12: nuclear program. Let's remember that was really the central point.
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Speaker 12: Donald Trump said it must not have a nuclear weapon,
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Speaker 12: and with the signing of this memo, we just really
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Speaker 12: kicked it down the road for sixty days of negotiations
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Speaker 12: and still a lot of ambiguity there about what will
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Speaker 12: actually be achieved.
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Speaker 2: Yes, in the prison of the United States wants a
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Speaker 2: better outcome regarding nuclear then was negotiated by Obama before.
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Speaker 2: Is it looking likely or not?
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Speaker 12: Probably not, I think partly because the Uranian regime does
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Speaker 12: feel emboldened. For them, merely hanging on and surviving was
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Speaker 12: victory and they achieve that. And we now have something
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Speaker 12: more like a military junter that is younger and more
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Speaker 12: radicalized and feels emboldened that it managed to stand.
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Speaker 2: Up to the Golias Americans.
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Speaker 12: So they're actually less willing to make concessions on the
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Speaker 12: nuclear issue. They may allow some enriched uranium to be taken,
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Speaker 12: but probably not all of it.
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Speaker 2: Yes, now, Israel, how are they feeling right now? What
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Speaker 2: are they doing?
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Speaker 12: I think this is a major blow to Israel. They
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Speaker 12: of course were involved right at the beginning. This was
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Speaker 12: a joint Israeli US operation when this war began. But
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Speaker 12: I think over recent months you've seen Israeli goals increasingly
31:28
Speaker 12: diverge from US goals. What Benjamin Messina, who the Israeli
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Speaker 12: Prime Minister, really wanted was regime change in Iran, whereas
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Speaker 12: the US wanted to cut its losses due to domestic
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Speaker 12: political pressure. And in recent days, apparently Messina, who has
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Speaker 12: been kept in the dark about negotiations over this memo,
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Speaker 12: and you know, we've had Trump insulting him a few times,
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Speaker 12: describing him as crazy. It sort of fled up again yesterday.
31:57
Speaker 12: Trump was furious that Israel continuing to attack Lebanon. Apparently
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Speaker 12: this deal includes a seafire in Lebanon, but does not
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Speaker 12: provide for a withdrawal of Israeli troops some areas they occupy.
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Speaker 12: We'll see how Iran response to that. But I think
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Speaker 12: the whole thing has been a real setback for Nathan Yahoo.
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Speaker 2: David Smith, I thank you so much. David is the
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Speaker 2: Washington bureau chief for The Guardian. It is seven minutes
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Speaker 2: to six before the news breaks here.
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Speaker 1: It first Andrew Dickens on early edition with spark for
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Speaker 1: business technology that keeps business moving, news talks there'd be.
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Speaker 2: So the game kicks off at one o'clock today. It's
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Speaker 2: at La Stadium, which is renamed by FIFA. It's the
32:37
Speaker 2: sofar Stadium and if you're looking at it, look at
32:39
Speaker 2: this ground's mind blowing. But look at the middle. There's
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Speaker 2: the Infinity Screen by Samsung, which is hanging over the top.
32:46
Speaker 2: It's an oval thing that goes right the way around.
32:47
Speaker 2: It used to be called the Oculus. This thing is
32:50
Speaker 2: one thousand and ton. This thing has eighty million pixels
32:53
Speaker 2: and this thing's got two hundred and sixty speakers. What
32:56
Speaker 2: money can by Mike.
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Speaker 8: Morning, I'll watch a lot of NFL Stadium home of course,
33:01
Speaker 8: of the charges.
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Speaker 2: And the rams, yeah yeah, yeah yeah, and the underground
33:05
Speaker 2: and where the racecourse used to be, and yeah, hell
33:08
Speaker 2: of the line they had.
33:09
Speaker 8: I saw the razors storm to see Price yesterday on
33:11
Speaker 8: the program. He was saying that it's a big deal
33:13
Speaker 8: in Australia, the World Cup, and but the numbers wouldn't
33:17
Speaker 8: be for their opening game, they wouldn't be NRL esque.
33:20
Speaker 8: But the numbers came in they are so they were
33:23
Speaker 8: on average you had three million Australians watching that opening
33:26
Speaker 8: game peaked at about four and that's that's right up
33:29
Speaker 8: there with state of origin stuff.
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Speaker 2: And they were good. Australia was good, Japan was good,
33:32
Speaker 2: Guitar was good. Everyone's saying, maybe the power and foody
33:35
Speaker 2: is actually coming down this way. Maybe it's us.
33:37
Speaker 8: So the question is do you crack a million today?
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Speaker 8: That that's you know, back in the old days, when
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Speaker 8: the All Blacks were a thing, you would get a
33:44
Speaker 8: million people, Your million New Zealanders would gather around in
33:46
Speaker 8: those days, of course are gone. So maybe football's big
33:50
Speaker 8: enough in this country to you.
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Speaker 2: Know, I've had complaints that they've knocked emmod Our farm off.
33:54
Speaker 2: Have they really for the footy? I didn't know.
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Speaker 8: I thought it was being streamed.
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Speaker 2: I thought it was on TV one.
33:58
Speaker 8: Oh yes, it's free to air anyway. Speaking of streaming,
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Speaker 8: HBO Max launch in this country today.
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Speaker 2: So we'll look at that.
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Speaker 8: Nikola willis on the whole you know, Roun deal and
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Speaker 8: what happens to petrol and whether we're going to get
34:08
Speaker 8: a fizz back on and you know, the whole economy
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Speaker 8: is going to turn around, the National is going to
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Speaker 8: win the election, blah.
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Speaker 2: Blah, blah, thank you producing Kenzy. My name's Andrew Dickens.
34:16
Speaker 2: I'll see oh. Also set up guy Sam. I'm Andrew Dickens.
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