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Full Show Podcast: 13 July 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: early edition with Spunk for Business Technology that keeps business
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Speaker 1: moving news talks.
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Speaker 2: They'd be good morning, wasn't to Monday six after five.
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Speaker 2: We've got a message for exporters this morning about this
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Speaker 2: Mody deal that we've signed. Gavin Grays in the UK
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Speaker 2: for US, Brendan McCallum has been fired as test captain there.
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Speaker 2: Vicky does the business and young people aren't ready for work.
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Speaker 2: We'll explain way.
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Speaker 3: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It is Monday in fending for July and to day straight.
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Speaker 2: Is it open as it closed? Depends on who you ask.
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Speaker 4: We bombed the hell out of him last night.
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Speaker 5: They agreed to a deal.
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Speaker 2: Yesterday, a perfect deal for US.
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Speaker 5: No nuclear, no this, no that, no nothing.
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Speaker 2: Then give up everything.
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Speaker 3: And then after that they left the room.
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Speaker 2: And then within an hour they launched a grown and
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Speaker 2: a ship. They said, your people are sick.
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Speaker 6: You're sick people.
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Speaker 2: More on that in a second. Meanwhile, Republican Senator Lindsay Grahame,
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Speaker 2: you'll know the name. You'll know who's faced close ally
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Speaker 2: of Donald Trump. Been a senator for years since the nineties.
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Speaker 2: Has died at the age of seventy one cardiac arrest
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Speaker 2: was reported at his house. He was speaking just a
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Speaker 2: week ago at the NATO Summer.
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Speaker 7: Without way to kind of go all in this summer
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Speaker 7: put as much prosare on point as we can to
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Speaker 7: get him to the piece too.
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Speaker 2: Now let's go to the UK. Police arrested a twenty
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Speaker 2: eight year old man. This is after the former Conservative
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Speaker 2: MP N Woodcombe was killed in her home. So twenty
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Speaker 2: eight year old arrested charged with murder. Barrick, it's not
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Speaker 2: political vote.
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Speaker 8: At this point, there was still no information to suggest
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Speaker 8: that this is a terrorism related incident, and at this
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Speaker 8: point we are not looking for anyone else in connection
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Speaker 8: with this murder. We retain primacy of this investigation and
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Speaker 8: detectives remain open minded about the potential motive.
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Speaker 3: 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 news talk Sai'd.
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Speaker 2: Be great to have your company. Nine two nine two
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Speaker 2: was the number six just gone eight minutes south to five.
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Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but I'm sort of sick
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Speaker 2: hearing about the investment cause in the India, FDA are
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Speaker 2: we over this yet? I am? Here is what Mody
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Speaker 2: said on the way, You're going to hear a lot
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Speaker 2: about it today unfortunately. But here is what Modi said
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Speaker 2: at the weekend in his words, because the question is
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Speaker 2: does does New Zealand and its businesses need to invest
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Speaker 2: twenty billion dollars whatever over fifteen years into India or
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Speaker 2: our exporters get stung by having some of the benefits
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Speaker 2: like free trade clawed back by the Indian government. That's
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Speaker 2: what it was being alleged at the moment, being leedged
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Speaker 2: in the last twenty four hours by Chris Hipkins of
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Speaker 2: Labor because of what Modi said. Now here is the translation,
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Speaker 2: the official translation and Mody new.
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Speaker 9: Zealand has committed to invest twenty billion dollars in India
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Speaker 9: over the next fifteen years.
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Speaker 8: The commitment to promote investment into India from New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: Now that last bit was Luxeen. Have on one hand
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Speaker 2: Modi saying there is a commitment to invest twenty billion
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Speaker 2: dollars in India over the next fifteen years, and then
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Speaker 2: you have lux In saying there is a commitment to
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Speaker 2: promote investment not E're very different things. Obviously, doesn't take
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Speaker 2: a rocket scientist to figure that out. So what I
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Speaker 2: did this morning was go along to the m FAT
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Speaker 2: website and have a look at the actual text. So
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Speaker 2: I've printed off the text of what our government's put
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Speaker 2: on their press release, and then I've printed off page
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Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty two. Took me a while to
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Speaker 2: find the actual text, the actual wording of what they
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Speaker 2: reckon they have signed. Now, our government says we have
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Speaker 2: signed a includes a commitment for New Zealand to promote investment.
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Speaker 2: All right, that's our press release. The actual wording, if
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Speaker 2: we're to believe this is the m FAT version, is
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Speaker 2: the version, okay, Page one two five to two New
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Speaker 2: Zealand shall promote FDI from investors of New Zealand into
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Speaker 2: India with the aim of increasing investment by twenty billion
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Speaker 2: dollars US within fifteen years. Shall promote Okay, that's the
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Speaker 2: official text. Now. That means Luction's right. That means Mody
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Speaker 2: either misspoke or was mistranslated, or they're being deceptive and
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Speaker 2: anyone's guess. But jumping into the fray is labor, and
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Speaker 2: is the Labor leader Chris Hipkins who is now saying
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Speaker 2: to New Zealand businesses and New Zealand exporters, you better
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Speaker 2: be careful. He says, keep your eyes wide open about this.
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Speaker 2: Any New Zealand business exporting to India need to be
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Speaker 2: eyes wide open that our respective governments take quite a
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Speaker 2: different view on what the investment calls in that free
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Speaker 2: trade agreement actually means in practice. So what do we
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Speaker 2: do about that? Well, if you're an exporter, you keep
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Speaker 2: your eyes wide open. Apparently, I think what needs to
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Speaker 2: happen today? And I know lux And will come on
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Speaker 2: with Mike this morning as he normally does. He needs
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Speaker 2: to be He's not coming on today, see more on today.
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Speaker 2: Well that'll clear things up. Someone needs to come out
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Speaker 2: and be quite decisive about this and emphatic about this
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Speaker 2: and tell New Zealand exporters the truth because you cannot
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Speaker 2: have a situation where we've just signed an agreement. We've
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Speaker 2: got the text in black and white and both leaders
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Speaker 2: are talking out different sides of.
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Speaker 3: Their mouths Ryan Bridge after five.
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Speaker 2: a little look at employees, young ones. Are they ready
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Speaker 2: for the workforce? Next News Talks VB the early.
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Speaker 2: It is fourteen minutes, half to five and your Monday Morning.
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Speaker 2: John Bolton is interesting listening to him at the weekend.
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Speaker 2: We've had him on the show before. Former boss of
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Speaker 2: the NSAY in the US SO, former National security advisor
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Speaker 2: to Donald Trump, basically said that the Americans are negotiating
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Speaker 2: with a bunch of civilians at the moment for these
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Speaker 2: free trade sorry for these peace deals, and it is
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Speaker 2: the revolutionary regard that's dropping the bombs in their left
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Speaker 2: hand doesn't seem to know what the right hand is doing.
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Speaker 2: So what the hell is the point in any of it?
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Speaker 2: And what is the outcome? Well, probably more war. Employer
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Speaker 2: is not happy with the way that employees are being
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Speaker 2: turned out. This is new ones. I put a long
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Speaker 2: list out just a few years ago, only about thirty
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Speaker 2: to five to forty percent of our members. They say
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Speaker 2: identified work readiness is one of the key issues facing employeers.
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Speaker 2: Now that number has jumped into the sixties. They don't
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Speaker 2: know what they're doing, they are not confident in what
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Speaker 2: they're doing, but they're also not being taught what to do.
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Speaker 2: Properly at a university and at school. Max Whitehead, employment
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Speaker 2: law specialists with us this morning. Morning Max, Good morning Ryan.
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Speaker 6: How you don't good?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Good, thank you? Do you agree with that assessment?
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Speaker 6: Well? No, I actually think the difficulty rate is really
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Speaker 6: is right now, is that New Zealand's made up of
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Speaker 6: sme smaller than medium and businesses. And that's ninety seven
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Speaker 6: percent of all enterprises in New Zealand are small businesses
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Speaker 6: and they just don't have the confidence to hire at
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Speaker 6: the moment. And what the government should be really focusing on,
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Speaker 6: and I think EMA might get this wrong, They should
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Speaker 6: be focusing on incentivizing employers to employ more people. And
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Speaker 6: the only way to do that is to get the
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Speaker 6: financial institutions to be incentivized rather than backing housing issues,
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Speaker 6: backing small businesses, because that's what a lot of many
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Speaker 6: other nations have woken up to decades ago.
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Speaker 2: What do you mean back? What do you mean financial
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Speaker 2: and centers to hire people?
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Speaker 6: No, what small businesses are missing out in New Zealand.
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Speaker 6: That's why our productivity is low is because we can't.
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Speaker 6: It's not because of hard work, and there's plenty of
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Speaker 6: people that will work, aren't out there, but it's because
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Speaker 6: we're lacking in robotics, AI, all those technologies that are
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Speaker 6: available if you've got the capital to buy them, and
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Speaker 6: right now semes don't have the capital, and we're a
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Speaker 6: shattered at Ugan country. We've just made up of small contractors.
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Speaker 6: And the reason for that is because employment law has
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Speaker 6: been so draconian that big businesses have got rid of
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Speaker 6: their employees and our high contractors. So New Zealand's now
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Speaker 6: a nation of contractors and what we read and they're
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Speaker 6: just like one on one man bands or just a
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Speaker 6: couple of people with employees, and they are the people
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Speaker 6: that are really the core of our country. And that's
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Speaker 6: where I think EMA is missing out is focusing on
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Speaker 6: that getting them on their feet again. Maybe even if
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Speaker 6: many of our contractors worked as cooperatives and actually purchased
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Speaker 6: collectively some equipment, that would make them axally more productive
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Speaker 6: and that would be better ideas, but that needs to
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Speaker 6: be incentivized.
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Speaker 2: Max appreciate your time. This's on who Max Whitehead, employment
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Speaker 2: law specialists with us. Time is seventeen after five. That
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Speaker 2: was sort of the idea of investment boosts. Remember that
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Speaker 2: where you would and you get more back earlier if
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Speaker 2: you invest in plant and machinery that was meant to
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Speaker 2: be the idea. That hasn't been a massive upteck or
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Speaker 2: investment in that. But Max is right and the EMA
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Speaker 2: does say this as well, and there in their release
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Speaker 2: this morning, their report that they have put out, I
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Speaker 2: should say that you need more investment into plant and machinery,
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Speaker 2: et cetera. AI is coming. But one of the interesting
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Speaker 2: things they point out is AI is a case in point.
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Speaker 2: Only recently we added coding to our school curriculum, you know,
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Speaker 2: computer coding. And if you look at what big tech
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Speaker 2: is doing right now, if you look at what Elon
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Speaker 2: Musk is doing, they have pretty much A and coders
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Speaker 2: and they use AI to write code for them now.
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Speaker 2: So what is the point in teaching kids to code
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Speaker 2: when AI is doing it for businesses already? And yet
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Speaker 2: that's something we've only just popped into our curriculum. It
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Speaker 2: is as if it's, you know, the latest thing to
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Speaker 2: fall out of the sky. Well is that smart? Eighteen
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Speaker 2: Us talks it b It is five twenty. Good morning, Ryan.
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Speaker 2: You would think Chris Hipkins would have the initiative to
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Speaker 2: do what you just said and look up the actual
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Speaker 2: text of the India FDA himself, who could have saved
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Speaker 2: himself an embarrassment. Yet on the other hand, it says Ryan,
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Speaker 2: I can't help but think that the Indian FDA is
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Speaker 2: not as we were being told it was by the
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Speaker 2: government since day one, a lot of mixed messages. Maybe
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Speaker 2: this has been rushed through to make the government look good. Well,
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Speaker 2: I mean, yes, that is true, but it's also a
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Speaker 2: good deal for New Zealand, undoubtedly. But they need to
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Speaker 2: they need to just clear up, unequivocally, clear up this
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Speaker 2: investment thing, because now you've got a leader of the
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Speaker 2: opposition who, by the way, is going to sign up
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Speaker 2: to this thing, saying to New Zealand exporters almost almost
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Speaker 2: be careful, like be careful where you step. There are
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Speaker 2: land mines all through this FTA and it could come
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Speaker 2: one of them could explode under.
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Speaker 3: Your foot bridge.
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Speaker 2: Twenty one minutes after, let's go to VICKI plus Business. Vicky,
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Speaker 2: nice to have you on the program. As always, Rachel
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Speaker 2: reeves she's got a bit of unveiling to do when
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Speaker 2: it comes to loans for small business this week.
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Speaker 10: Well, yes, I mean, the interesting thing is, first of all,
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Speaker 10: good morning, is that we are about to see a
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Speaker 10: change in the government in the UK in the sense
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Speaker 10: that I'm going to have a new prime Minister and
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Speaker 10: Rachel Eaves is a current Chancellor. Answers are she will
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Speaker 10: be replaced. She's trying to hang on to the job.
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Speaker 10: But one of the interesting things is that there have
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Speaker 10: been a few parting shots like this one, which is
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Speaker 10: basically extent for a longer period loans made small firms,
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Speaker 10: which I think is quite important. It's going to cost
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Speaker 10: a few extra billions, so the question is where is
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Speaker 10: this money going to come from? But it's in the
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Speaker 10: longer term because basically we're extending the period of the
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Speaker 10: loans two more years. So I mean, the issue is
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Speaker 10: that we are going to be having, you know, a
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Speaker 10: few sort of giveaways and little presents as both Kostarma
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Speaker 10: and Rato Eves are leaving, and the question is is
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Speaker 10: this all or are we going to have more between
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Speaker 10: now and when the official time of a new Prime
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Speaker 10: minister is, which is probably going to be the twentieth
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Speaker 10: of July, So we've got another week, so who knows
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Speaker 10: what more will come?
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Speaker 2: Little for them? Now, what about the stre the straight
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Speaker 2: off moves. Of course, the revolutionary regards is closed. Trump's
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Speaker 2: it is open. How has the all price been reacting
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Speaker 2: over the weekend?
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Speaker 10: Well, yeah, I mean the interesting thing is that that's one
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Speaker 10: of the reasons why I think Rachie Rieves is quite
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Speaker 10: worried about won't be happening to businesses because of course
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Speaker 10: the cost of energy has been going up as a
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Speaker 10: result of everything has been going on, coming down a
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Speaker 10: little bit recently, and then of course we had the
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Speaker 10: latest announcement that the ceasefire was over and the state
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Speaker 10: of home moves according to Iran, was closing. Well, I mean,
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Speaker 10: the reality is that there are still ships coming through apparently,
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Speaker 10: and the oil markets have reacted in an interesting way,
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Speaker 10: which is basically they were tightened a little bit and
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Speaker 10: then the weakened again. So basically any announcement that's made
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Speaker 10: on the straight up on moves right now is looked
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Speaker 10: at with a pinch of salt, A lot of it
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Speaker 10: has already been priced into the oil price that we're
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Speaker 10: seeing at present. It doesn't mean we're not going to
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Speaker 10: have a lot of volatility, I'm afraid. So I think
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Speaker 10: you and I have discussed this before. So every week
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Speaker 10: that comes there's a new sort of denuine morre taking
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Speaker 10: place and and we wait to see what they say. No,
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Speaker 10: the interesting thing is, she asked about the actual price,
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Speaker 10: is that there's negotiation now, suggesting that there may be
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Speaker 10: two routes, one route which needs to have permissioned by
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Speaker 10: Iran and another one which has to have permissioned by Orman,
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Speaker 10: which is right next door, but which is likely to
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Speaker 10: be easier. And how exactly those two will work one
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Speaker 10: doesn't know, but it does suggest that at least there
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Speaker 10: are some the world. There is a certain amount of
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Speaker 10: thinking about the passage of ships. So it's not as
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Speaker 10: bad as it was a few weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate the update. That's Vickey Price our Business Corresponding twenty
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Speaker 2: four minutes after five, Brendan McCallum fired anyone's surprise as
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Speaker 2: test coach for England, and Andy Flower is apparently the
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Speaker 2: leading candidate to replace him. He was in charge for
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Speaker 2: five years from twenty nine to twenty fourteen one three
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Speaker 2: eshes in his tenure and apparently he's the guy that's
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Speaker 2: going to take over. So no one's price to hear
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Speaker 2: this because it was going to happen at some point.
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Speaker 2: McCallum did say he's gusted by the call, which is
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Speaker 2: quite telling me. At least he's being honest about it,
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Speaker 2: but respects the decision. He continues to lead both white
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Speaker 2: ball teams. It is twenty five after five Hus talks MB.
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Speaker 2: It is twenty seven minutes after five. Dave Rennie had
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Speaker 2: a bit of a crack at the TMO over the weekend.
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Speaker 2: Did you see that at the same time a FIFA
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Speaker 2: semi final ball had a spider cam in the US
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Speaker 2: and the Norwegians went nuts? Why because the TMO, all
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Speaker 2: the soccer equivalent, didn't do anything about it. Apparently it
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Speaker 2: should be an automatic drop ball if that was to happen,
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Speaker 2: and was shown to have happened. Both of these games,
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Speaker 2: different sports, played halfway round the world from each other,
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Speaker 2: tell you all you need to know about tmos. When
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Speaker 2: you're up and winning, they're always budding in when they're
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Speaker 2: not wanted, aren't they. But when it's your team who's
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Speaker 2: on the back foot and could do with a pesky
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Speaker 2: technicality to get some points or lose your opponents a few.
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Speaker 2: They come in handy. Sport is live, happens quickly. That's
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Speaker 2: why it's exciting. So the only solution to this problem,
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Speaker 2: which is only really a problem exactly half the time
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Speaker 2: when your team is losing, is quite simple. Play Without it,
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Speaker 2: things will get missed, penalties go unawarded. Eyesight is not perfect,
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Speaker 2: line of sight is not perfect either. Games move faster
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Speaker 2: but the results are less accurate. Or you embrace the
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Speaker 2: technology and the cameras and the man in the bunker.
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Speaker 2: How one day it'll probably just be an AI powered
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Speaker 2: and decided thing. Personally, I'd rather something was quick and
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Speaker 2: dirty than long and accurate, wouldn't you. There's TMI from
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Speaker 2: the TMO. Mistakes happen. Chances are they'll happen to everyone equally.
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Speaker 2: We've played sports of sorts for centuries without the need
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Speaker 2: for cameras and bunkers. If we can, and if we want,
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Speaker 2: we could just keep doing that for a few centuries longer.
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Speaker 2: What's the problem. Twenty nine minutes after five nine nine two,
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Speaker 2: the number to text hey interesting what's happening over in
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Speaker 2: Australia because they have a similar, similar proposal to the
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Speaker 2: one actually to the one that the national government has here,
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Speaker 2: but that labor had with canceling the mines. So New
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Speaker 2: South Wales labor government has a twenty to fifty net
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Speaker 2: carbon zero commission thing happening like we have here. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: there's a big mine in the Hunter Valley. Fifteen hundred
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Speaker 2: jobs are on the line. They're making a big decision
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Speaker 2: about that one this week. Can it continue in its
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Speaker 2: current state or do they whack it right back? And
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Speaker 2: if they whack it right back, you lose jobs. And
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Speaker 2: you know who that annoys, the unions and you know
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Speaker 2: who the union support, labor. You're on News TALKSB. We're
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Speaker 2: That'd bet there's Monday morning on News Talks. There'd be
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Speaker 2: great to have your company. We'll heit to Gavin Gray
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Speaker 2: out of the UK. He's a europe correspondent. Shortly there
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Speaker 2: was a Ryan air going from Germany to Greece and
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Speaker 2: window cracks open and guy gets his head sucked out
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Speaker 2: of the window and his shoulders. Don't thing that stopped
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Speaker 2: him from basically flying out the plane. Anyway, He's doing
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Speaker 2: all right, but we'll have an update on what the
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Speaker 2: hell went wrong there. Also, we are talking to the
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Speaker 2: Business India Business Council here about what that deal means
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Speaker 2: for Kiwig businesses and what we make of Modu's speech
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Speaker 2: at the weekend where he mentioned the money just on
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Speaker 2: a run for it very quickly, because you might have
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Speaker 2: also heard in the news there that Lindsay Graham has died.
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Speaker 2: This is seventy one year old US senator, been around
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Speaker 2: since the nineties. You'll know his face. Well, you're not
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Speaker 2: his name too. Republican of course, golf partner of Trump,
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Speaker 2: friendly with Trump, quite a close advisor. Stands up for
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Speaker 2: Israel a lot. Was quite hawkish on Iran, fact quite
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Speaker 2: hawkish on most foreign policy matters, but particularly on Iran.
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Speaker 2: Said they say, if you break it, you own it.
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Speaker 2: I don't buy that you break it when it's a threat.
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Speaker 2: In other words, Tehran was getting too close to a
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Speaker 2: nuclear weapons So you go in and you clean them up,
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Speaker 2: and over the weekend we've seen one hundred and forty
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Speaker 2: Iranian targets hit. What I find most interesting is the
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Speaker 2: fact that the Iranians are still going after their mates
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Speaker 2: in the Golf States. They have hitched military bases in Khartar, Jordan,
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Speaker 2: the UAE, and Kuwait over the weekend. And the more
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Speaker 2: interesting part is that half of the Golf States sent
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Speaker 2: representatives to Ali Harmone's funeral just in the last week.
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Speaker 2: Isn't that interesting? So even though the Iranians are hitting
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Speaker 2: them with missiles and with drones, they still turn up
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Speaker 2: to the new leader's dad's funeral. What's up with that? Well?
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Speaker 2: And there was a great piece about this at the
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Speaker 2: weekend in the Wall Street Journal, These neighbors and like
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Speaker 2: it all lough that Iran is now posturing and is
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Speaker 2: a sort of a bigger boy neighbor. And Trump and
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Speaker 2: a couple of years won't be there Iran still will.
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Speaker 3: Bryan Bridge want.
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Speaker 2: To get on with them at some point, don't you?
20:16
Speaker 2: Twenty two away from six that's got to call them
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Speaker 2: into needing morning collum bonding. Right, So there's a bit
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Speaker 2: of a warning for businesses that hire seasonal workers.
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Speaker 7: Yes, officials have been out doing targeted winter checks in
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Speaker 7: the holidays hotspots here Ryan. In recent years, MB has
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Speaker 7: been carrying out these sweeping operations across Queenstown Lakes and
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Speaker 7: Central Otago after ongoing complaints and concerns you know, from
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Speaker 7: seasonal staff. The typically taken during the peak of the
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Speaker 7: ski season, but more than HOSPA and retail have been
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Speaker 7: looked into as well, also construction, cleaning and security firms.
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Speaker 7: Nbcays it does regular checks to make sure that businesses
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Speaker 7: are following the rules. Those in HRSA businesses need to
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Speaker 7: get their wages, their contracts, training, etc.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 7: Despite the short window to build and maintain trust with
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Speaker 7: seasonal staff, where there's more potential for situations to escalate.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather?
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Speaker 7: Another frosty start here, but a fine Monday, cloudy periods
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Speaker 7: developing northerliest and thirteen.
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Speaker 2: Luson Callum enjoyed, Claar and Christ It's morning, Claire. Thirty
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Speaker 2: homes I understand have been damaged as a result of
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Speaker 2: that flood in Caua Coda.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, the full extent of last week's flooding in the
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Speaker 11: district is now starting to emerge. As you say, thirty
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Speaker 11: properties that some rural and some urban have been damaged.
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Speaker 11: Three of them have been issued at yellow stickers. There
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Speaker 11: are two households at least that are already in temporary accommodation.
21:39
Speaker 11: That's expected to be two more properties yellow stickered once
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Speaker 11: their owners do try to return. Stane Hiway one south
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Speaker 11: of Kaikota remains closed, though they do say that we'll
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Speaker 11: open at least partially from tomorrow. The local mayor, Craig mackel,
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Speaker 11: says he's been inspecting some areas from the ground in
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Speaker 11: order to see damage that wasn't quite visible from up
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Speaker 11: in the air and the aerial searchers. He says, there
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Speaker 11: is people working everywhere. They're making really good progress, but
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Speaker 11: residents do need to stay vigilant and to keep an
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Speaker 11: eye out for any land movement in particular.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather.
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Speaker 11: Fine but frosty here in Christi. It's a bit of
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Speaker 11: cloud developing later northeasterly strengthening and the high will be fourteen.
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Speaker 2: Good stuff Clear, thank you and Tobias. In Wellington morning
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Speaker 2: to best, good morning Ryan. People want just on touching
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Speaker 2: on what Clear was talking about there. They want money
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Speaker 2: for flood resilience.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, we're a bit of damage control up here as well.
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Speaker 12: This was after the Wellington region was also Bassett's last
22:32
Speaker 12: Week hourt we're flooding and slips, wiping out multiple bridges
22:35
Speaker 12: and isolating communities over in the Wide Upper The Greater
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Speaker 12: Wellington Regional Council now says it shows the need for
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Speaker 12: central and regional government to co fund projects. An investment
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Speaker 12: strategy by sixteen regional and unitary councils means more than
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Speaker 12: four hundred million dollars in central government co funding has
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Speaker 12: been secured for one hundred and twenty nine flood resilience projects,
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Speaker 12: but Greater Wellington's calling for an on going pipeline of
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Speaker 12: funding for more action from the government to ensure it's
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Speaker 12: not a growing recovery bill after every major storm in
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Speaker 12: the Wide Upper itself. It says potentially what change options
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Speaker 12: include changes to bridge design or potentially the river channel itself?
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Speaker 2: Interesting? How's your weather?
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Speaker 12: Our cloudy periods for us today? The odd shower possibly
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Speaker 12: from late morning northerly is picking up tonight twelve degrees.
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Speaker 3: Wellington's hie all right to.
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Speaker 2: Best, thank you very much, and Wendy pictrees with us
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Speaker 2: in the Auckland Studio this morning. Wendy, good morning morning
23:27
Speaker 2: to you. Lovely to see now our train's going to
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Speaker 2: be working or not working? Well, that is the question.
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Speaker 4: Well, Auckland is apparently we'll be able to say goodbye
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Speaker 4: to full rail closures as the network reopens today. Yes,
23:39
Speaker 4: we've seen rail closures disrupt planned rail closures disrupting travel
23:43
Speaker 4: over Martavieki long weekend and the school holidays. Infrastructure upgrades
23:47
Speaker 4: this weekend we'll ensure that only certain parts of it
23:50
Speaker 4: will now have to shut in the future. The City
23:52
Speaker 4: rail Link is set to open, of course in a
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Speaker 4: few months and one of the last major steps in
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Speaker 4: the CRL. Here we rail Chief Metro Officer if naslink
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Speaker 4: since he's worked on the network for twenty years and
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Speaker 4: knows how much the CRL will improve it. And we're
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Speaker 4: thinking our newsroom thinks the end of August perhaps for
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Speaker 4: the CRL openings. What a day that will be.
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Speaker 2: Big day for Auckland. Wendy, how's our.
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Speaker 4: Weather, Well, I think it's going to be a fine day.
24:16
Speaker 4: God it's been lovely, hasn't it So cold? But so beautiful.
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Speaker 4: So a few clouds, maybe the odd shower in the morning,
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Speaker 4: and afternoon northerlyes and a high of sixteen degrees.
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Speaker 2: Nice one, thank you, good to see this morning. It
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Speaker 2: is seventeen minutes away from six Allen says Ryan Tmo
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Speaker 2: only on request please, that would make the whole things
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Speaker 2: that will all games be at football, be at rugby, faster,
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Speaker 2: dirtier and more fun. News talk said B. We're in
24:42
Speaker 2: the UK.
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Speaker 1: Next international correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of
24:46
Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 2: It has got a despection news coctm B. We will
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Speaker 2: talk about the India of changes the second first. Gavin Gray,
24:53
Speaker 2: a UK europe correspondent, has the latest on Brendan McCallum,
24:56
Speaker 2: who's been Fire's test captain for the England. Before England,
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Speaker 2: A lot of people would have seen this coming, of course,
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Speaker 2: but givin Brendan McCallum says, he's quote gutted.
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Speaker 13: Yes, and I'm not quite sure he perhaps saw it coming,
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Speaker 13: because I think he might have thought the departure of
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Speaker 13: Ben Stokes might have covered a little bit of the
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Speaker 13: ground already. But this has come as quite a decision
25:20
Speaker 13: that I think tries to put some distance and particularly
25:23
Speaker 13: regarding the discipline within England cricket and the men who
25:29
Speaker 13: have been told, you know, curfews at midnight, no drinking
25:33
Speaker 13: of alcohol even between tests. Then finding the captain has
25:37
Speaker 13: done it and was McCullum firm enough with his players
25:40
Speaker 13: did perhaps in some way his very relaxed attitude encourage
25:44
Speaker 13: it or not. And I think it's on that particular basis,
25:47
Speaker 13: on the discipline rather than on the very poor recent
25:51
Speaker 13: cricketing that he's lost his job. But two weeks after
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Speaker 13: Ben Stokes made his stunning announcement, we have lost Brendan
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Speaker 13: McCullum as well. That means we go into the series
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Speaker 13: that's coming up in Pakistan in the UK against Pakistan
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Speaker 13: in the next few weeks without a captain and now
26:08
Speaker 13: without the Test coach as well. So quite a lot
26:11
Speaker 13: going on there. But you know, although England have lost
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Speaker 13: seven of their past nine Tests, including that four to
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Speaker 13: one ashes Hammering and the two to one lost to
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Speaker 13: New Zealand recently, the start McCollum's reign and Ben Stokes's
26:23
Speaker 13: reign was quite sensational.
26:25
Speaker 2: Now this minister, well former minister, Conservative minister and had
26:29
Speaker 2: joined I understand Reform UK murdered in her home seventy
26:33
Speaker 2: eight years old, and they're saying the police they don't
26:36
Speaker 2: think it was politically motivated. Is that right?
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Speaker 13: Yes, they're saying that. Now lots of people are thinking
26:43
Speaker 13: it might be. That's because the seventy eight year old
26:46
Speaker 13: and Whittickumbe was a pretty controversial figure, straight talking, shooting
26:50
Speaker 13: from the hip, taking no nonsense. She was an extraordinary
26:53
Speaker 13: individual and will be much missed.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 13: The question is why has a twenty eight year old
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Speaker 13: white British man being arrested in Yorkshire, hundreds of miles away.
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Speaker 13: Well the police saying that they are not looking for
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Speaker 13: anyone else in connection with the incident. It is believed
27:10
Speaker 13: that the property that Anne whittickumb her home in Devon
27:13
Speaker 13: in southwest England, did have CCTV cameras and it is
27:18
Speaker 13: thought that there was a car that drew up onto
27:20
Speaker 13: her drive on the day. It is believed that she
27:23
Speaker 13: was murdered, or at least alleged murder. I say that
27:26
Speaker 13: because police aren't haven't been one hundred percent sure that
27:29
Speaker 13: this was an act carried out against hers. She was
27:32
Speaker 13: found having sustained some very serious injuries at home and well,
27:38
Speaker 13: the many other MP's have been asking for their security
27:41
Speaker 13: to be upgraded. But if it turns out the police
27:44
Speaker 13: are right this had nothing to do with the politics,
27:47
Speaker 13: then they may have to revisit that. Either way, this
27:50
Speaker 13: has been a shocking weekend in British.
27:52
Speaker 2: Politics, certainly twelve minutes away from six Kevin Gray are
27:55
Speaker 2: UK europe correspondent in Bridge Ryan. This is from Catherine
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Speaker 2: four point six earthquake felt four point thirty this morning,
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Speaker 2: twenty four k's offshore from kuy Colder a jolt for
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Speaker 2: why to Canterbury two. Not Venezuela, but still worth a mention,
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Speaker 2: very sharp jolt and work me up. There you go, Catherine.
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Speaker 2: Consider it mentioned now to the twenty billion dollar question.
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Speaker 9: With this trade deal, New Zealand has committed to invest
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Speaker 9: twenty billion dollars in India over the next fifteen years.
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Speaker 14: The commitment to promote investment into India from New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: It's got to Edwin Paul India Business Council Chair, Edwin,
28:31
Speaker 2: good morning, good money right now, excellent result. Everyone loves
28:35
Speaker 2: the fta apart from Winston. But this question of promote
28:41
Speaker 2: or invest now you heard the translation from Norandramodi. There
28:46
Speaker 2: was that accurate? Or is he saying that is he
28:50
Speaker 2: purposely removing the word promote.
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Speaker 5: Im I don't want to get into that. Actually mean
28:57
Speaker 5: that's for the government to nuance the wording, and it's
29:05
Speaker 5: agreed between both the leaders. Both the leaders have gone
29:07
Speaker 5: public and medical statements, So it really does not make
29:11
Speaker 5: out an impact on the business community. We are focusing
29:15
Speaker 5: on the outcomes and we've recently had the strategic partnership announced,
29:20
Speaker 5: So I don't want to get into what the media
29:24
Speaker 5: interprets between what each one say is an agreement that trained.
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Speaker 2: I can understand that. The problem we've got now is
29:31
Speaker 2: we've got it. We've got an FGA that's signed, we've
29:34
Speaker 2: got and we've got our opposition party here in New Zealand,
29:37
Speaker 2: with Chris Hipkins saying to businesses here, go into this
29:41
Speaker 2: with your eyes wide open. In other words, tread carefully
29:44
Speaker 2: because it could all be called back on this one
29:48
Speaker 2: clause that they're both speaking at different ends. On the
29:51
Speaker 2: left end doesn't seem to know what the right hand
29:53
Speaker 2: was saying. So I mean, I appreciate what you're saying,
29:56
Speaker 2: but it kind of is important, isn't it.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, it is important, and that's why I think the
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Speaker 15: strategic partnership is a clear, measurable roadmap and it's got
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Speaker 15: ten agreements with eighteen defined outcomes, and it's over a
30:11
Speaker 15: four year period and I think we'll know sooner than
30:13
Speaker 15: later as to what it is. And it's quite aspirational
30:16
Speaker 15: and I think the announcement of the roadmap on how
30:20
Speaker 15: that can be achieved and measured over the four years
30:23
Speaker 15: is the kind of the conference that we're getting from
30:26
Speaker 15: the from the government.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, fair enough. When was it cool to see the
30:31
Speaker 2: Prime Minister here over the weekend?
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Speaker 5: I think so he's a rock star.
30:37
Speaker 2: He certainly had a big motorcade.
30:41
Speaker 1: Yeah.
30:42
Speaker 5: I mean it's he's like a celebrity wherever he goes,
30:45
Speaker 5: and I think he deserves the I mean, the crowds
30:49
Speaker 5: love him right, so people may hate him for different reasons,
30:52
Speaker 5: but what we see is like to fill a stadium
30:55
Speaker 5: of that size and also not just an Auckland wherever
30:58
Speaker 5: he goes. I mean, that's the kind of acesion he's getting.
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Speaker 5: And he's the longest serving famalist of India, I mean
31:04
Speaker 5: then the largest democracy, so people do love him and
31:07
Speaker 5: it was good to see that, you know, in real as.
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Speaker 2: Good to have you on the show. It's always EDVN
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Speaker 2: Paul in a business council chair with us. This morning
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Speaker 2: it is twelve to six News Talks EDB.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology that Keeps Business Moving.
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Speaker 3: News Talks EDB.
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Speaker 2: Six minutes away from six. So apparently the Iranians still
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Speaker 2: desperately keen to assassinate Trump, and he's left instructions. If
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Speaker 2: anyone assassinates me, then go and blow them to Smith.
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Speaker 2: The 'reens They're likely whoever replaces them would which would
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Speaker 2: immediately be the vice president of course. But once your
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Speaker 2: heart stops beating and you're the president, you're no longer
31:46
Speaker 2: in charge anymore. So they don't actually have to do
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Speaker 2: anything that you write down on a piece of paper.
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Speaker 14: Ryan Bridge, welly, Mike good see your lovely weekend, SUPERB
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Speaker 14: weekend beautiful?
31:56
Speaker 2: Could it not be beautiful? Weather? What's on the show today?
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Speaker 3: Well?
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Speaker 2: Not the PM because holiday.
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Speaker 14: I think they missed a trick on this one.
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Speaker 2: I agree.
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Speaker 14: My personal My personal view is that an election year,
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Speaker 14: you're not on holiday.
32:09
Speaker 2: It's election year.
32:10
Speaker 14: Yeah, either take this thing seriously or you don't, ah and.
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Speaker 2: Then charge the bats.
32:16
Speaker 14: Well do you, I mean, don't be prime minister. Then
32:19
Speaker 14: you know, have a long weekend, take a Friday off.
32:22
Speaker 2: Everybody, the tank gets empty and you've got to quit suddenly.
32:25
Speaker 14: Well you know, but the point being you're coming off
32:27
Speaker 14: the back of a big win.
32:29
Speaker 2: No exactly, I mean.
32:30
Speaker 14: And the problem with Modi coming in Friday is, of
32:32
Speaker 14: course we're all on holiday, no and care. So today's
32:35
Speaker 14: the day to just sprook it up, talk about it,
32:37
Speaker 14: yeah exactly, and then leave on Tuesdays. So he's sitting
32:39
Speaker 14: in Hawaii going, oh, that went well, didn't it, Amanda?
32:43
Speaker 14: Did you see old Mody on He was fantastic and
32:46
Speaker 14: Nicholas on holiday? Two on Tom's on holiday. I mean
32:48
Speaker 14: David Seymour was not on holiday. He gets to be
32:50
Speaker 14: acting prime minister. Somebody said Winston was on holiday, but
32:53
Speaker 14: I mean it was interesting Winston wasn't in the country.
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Speaker 2: That was deliberate by the way he is back.
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Speaker 14: Is he coming back because I thought he was working,
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Speaker 14: but somebody was saying he's on holiday.
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Speaker 2: No, No, he's working to this morning.
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Speaker 14: Who would know anyway? Manufacturing have you seen the manufacturing numbers?
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Speaker 6: No?
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Speaker 2: The p of my camp. This is the other thing
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Speaker 2: from Friday from Friday. I don't know why the Friday,
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Speaker 2: but we are off to the races and keeps going up.
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Speaker 14: It's going and where's the coverage of that?
33:21
Speaker 2: Well, wre's the problem for them as they always do
33:23
Speaker 2: it on a Friday. Well, we need to know first
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Speaker 2: of all.
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Speaker 14: The primers doesn't need a holiday. Second of all, if
33:28
Speaker 14: you're putting out good news numbers, don't put him out
33:30
Speaker 14: on Friday when we're all at the Pub's interesting either either,
33:33
Speaker 14: you know, good news anyway, So.
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Speaker 2: We'll look at that this morning.
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Speaker 14: We look at the Indian deal as well, and you know,
33:38
Speaker 14: see how we go fantastic?
33:39
Speaker 2: All right, mircaus you see the warriors, no, I know
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Speaker 2: it's going to I mean.
33:44
Speaker 14: Thresh, I saw all the foot slightly cane them. Did
33:46
Speaker 14: they kill them's this year? Ryan, get on board with.
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Speaker 2: It, mate. All right, have a great day everyone to
33:54
Speaker 2: see tomorrow.
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