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Full Show Podcast: 24 January 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: What start the day Informed, Entertained inspires my Head's Early
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Welcome to Early Edition. I'm Francesca Rudkins filling
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Speaker 2: in for Ryan Broache. He is hosting Mike Costing break
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Speaker 2: the show this morning. Good to have you with us.
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Speaker 2: You're most welcome to contact me anytime this morning. You
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Speaker 2: can flict me a text on ninety two ninety two
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Speaker 2: Email me at Francesca at used of THEREV, dot co
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Speaker 2: dot m Z. Coming up on the show, we look
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Speaker 2: at the impact of the government's restructure of its Crown
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Speaker 2: Research Institutes what it means for research and scientists in
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Speaker 2: New Zealand. The Prime Minister Chris ba Luxon says the
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Speaker 2: government wants tourism turned on big time internationally. Can our
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Speaker 2: infrastructure handle it? Also this out will invest New Zealand
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Speaker 2: do the trick when it comes to attracting foreign investment
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Speaker 2: to our shores.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It's Friday, the twenty fourth of January. Thirty one thou
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Speaker 2: people are under evacuation orders and a further twenty three
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Speaker 2: thousand under warnings as two new wildfires break out in
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Speaker 2: northern Los Angeles, but we.
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Speaker 3: Feel these strong winds and that is the concern, is
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Speaker 3: that we're going to see these spot fires grow where
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Speaker 3: the ambers could spread. I mean, that's what some of
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Speaker 3: the people were saying as they were hosing down their homes,
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Speaker 3: so that they're not really concerned that the fire itself,
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Speaker 3: the mein, you know, start of the fire, was going to.
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Speaker 4: Come to them.
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Speaker 3: They're most concerned about ambers blowing.
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Speaker 2: The Large Palisades fire is now sixty eight percent contained
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Speaker 2: and the Eaten Fine ninety one percent. Twenty seven people
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Speaker 2: died between the two blazers, which started over two weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: Researchers say in the next twenty years, over half a
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Speaker 2: million Kiwis will have diabetes if current trends continue. The findings,
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Speaker 2: published this morning in the New Zealand Medical Journal are
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Speaker 2: a thirty percent increase on current numbers. They say immediate
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Speaker 2: and bold action needs to be taken to curve current
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Speaker 2: trends and prevent further burden on our health system. Red
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Speaker 2: weather warnings have been issued for parts of the UK
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Speaker 2: as they brace the storm Ewan.
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Speaker 5: The storm system has been intensifying as we've been through
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Speaker 5: Wednesday night and into Thursday. This massive cloud under there.
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Speaker 6: That's where the.
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Speaker 7: Storm is picking up intensity and will continue to do.
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Speaker 5: So as it approaches the Republic of Ireland.
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Speaker 2: Millions have been told to stay at home as damaging
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Speaker 2: winds and debris could cause a danger to life. All
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Speaker 2: schools in Northern Ireland have been advised to close and
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Speaker 2: OSCAR nominations have been released ahead of the ninety seventh
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Speaker 2: Academy Awards ceremony in March. Netflix film Amelia Peis is
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Speaker 2: leading with thirteen nominations, the most nominations ever for a
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Speaker 2: non English language film. Star Calis Sophia Garcon has made
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Speaker 2: history been the first openly transacted to be nominated. Films
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Speaker 2: Better Man, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, and
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Speaker 2: Alien Romius Romulus are all at the best visual effects,
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Speaker 2: all worked on by Keu Company Wetter Infect. They probably
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Speaker 2: worked on every film in this category.
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Speaker 1: I could stay ahead of the curve Earl edition with
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Speaker 1: one room, Make your Property research simple, News dogs envy.
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Speaker 2: So what is going on at their Ossie open? The
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Speaker 2: crowds are doing abusive at times and according to some players,
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Speaker 2: hostile and drunk. The on court interviews have been cringe worthy.
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Speaker 2: The TV commentators are trying to do comedy or satire,
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure, and several players have been offended by
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Speaker 2: it all. The Australian Open, along with other members of
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Speaker 2: the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, is regarded as the
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Speaker 2: pinnacle of professional tennis, a tournament with a rich history
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Speaker 2: and legacy, and it must experience for tennis fans. The
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Speaker 2: tennis has been awesome, lots of drama there. It's been
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Speaker 2: perfect company for a muggy summer's evening over the last
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Speaker 2: couple of weeks, but the event itself, it just feels
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Speaker 2: like a bit of a mess. Djokovic was annoyed by
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Speaker 2: comments made by an Australian broadcaster to Tony Jones on
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Speaker 2: TV saying the serp was overrated and it has been.
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Speaker 2: Semi finalist Ben Shelton has taken the Grand slams on
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Speaker 2: court interviewers to task for disrest spectful to players and
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Speaker 2: complaining about the negativity. There have been numerous comments about
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Speaker 2: the interviews and commentary. Clearly the objective this year from
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Speaker 2: Australia Tennis was to get people engaged in watching by
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Speaker 2: being entertaining throwing some banter around, rather than treating these
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Speaker 2: athletes as serious sports people, and I can see how
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Speaker 2: it irks. Some of the interviews have been an utter
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Speaker 2: waste of time. They could have hit a better balance.
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Speaker 2: But at the same time, you can't take yourself too seriously.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes in life you just have to grin and bear
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Speaker 2: the cringey dad jokes and move on. The crowd was
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Speaker 2: also happy to add to the unrulely atmosphere. I don't
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Speaker 2: know the booing really gets to me. It is not
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Speaker 2: a WWE match for crying out loud. Can't help but
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Speaker 2: think Danielle Collins had the right idea. Throw it right
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Speaker 2: back at the crowd. Provide the entertainment fact that sports
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Speaker 2: audiences love these days. Take the money, go on a
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Speaker 2: five star holiday and let it go. It is eleven
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Speaker 2: past five. You're with early edition.
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Speaker 1: Separating the fact from the fiction. Can't spill edition with
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Speaker 1: one route. Make your property search simple.
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Speaker 2: News Dogs EV thirteen past five. The government's announced an
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Speaker 2: overhaul of seven Crown Research institutes. They'll be merged into
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Speaker 2: three public research organizations and a fourth PROS will be
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Speaker 2: established to focus on advanced technology. Government agency Callahan Innovation
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Speaker 2: will be shut down as part of the reforms. Using
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Speaker 2: the Association of Scientists co president, doctor Lucy Stewart joins me. Now,
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Speaker 2: thanks for your time, Lucy, good to be here. Is
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Speaker 2: this a good idea?
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Speaker 4: So, broadly speaking, the idea of merging the SAIS is
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Speaker 4: a good idea. People have known for a really long
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Speaker 4: time that there is really unhealthy competition between the so
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Speaker 4: our eyes because they kind of have commercial requirements to
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Speaker 4: make money and they have some obile aps that they've
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Speaker 4: been competing for resources. So I think this will be
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Speaker 4: beneficial in disregard. However, without knowing you know, quite a
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Speaker 4: lot more detail, this could just end up being shuffling
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Speaker 4: with Dicchent on the Titanic. Given the state the science
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Speaker 4: is currently in.
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Speaker 2: Right, so potentially bit of value for money, but we're
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Speaker 2: not entirely sure what we might get out of it.
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Speaker 4: Well done for anything, I want to focus on, because
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Speaker 4: that's something that came up a lot in the government's announcement.
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Speaker 4: But the reality is, and so Peter Blackman's report that
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Speaker 4: was released yesterday emphasizes this. Our science system has been
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Speaker 4: desperately underfunded for thirty or forty years now. So the
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Speaker 4: idea that we're going to have sort of champagne science
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Speaker 4: on a be a budget by just you know, merging
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Speaker 4: some organizations to get better value for money is not
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Speaker 4: particularly realistic.
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Speaker 2: What were these seven institutes doing that was so valuable?
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Speaker 4: So these seven and students do a range of science.
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Speaker 4: You've got Gens for example, does earth science, so they're
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Speaker 4: studying things like you know, earthquakes and tsunamis. You've got
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Speaker 4: kneewhere doing marine science. Scion look at forestry ag research
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Speaker 4: and Pliant and Food are both looking at sort of
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Speaker 4: productions i A research and more focused on pastoral and
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Speaker 4: clime and food and more focused on you know, plants
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Speaker 4: and foods, auto culture, and but all of them are
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Speaker 4: doing a range of science between stuff that's commercial, you know,
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Speaker 4: commercially valuable for industries we have in New Zealand, and
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Speaker 4: also public good science. So that's science where you know,
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Speaker 4: it doesn't necessarily creative products you can sell, but we
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Speaker 4: still need to do it for the benefit of our country.
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Speaker 4: So if you think particularly about stuff like natural disasters,
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Speaker 4: studying natural disasters doesn't necessarily create a product you can sell,
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Speaker 4: but it gives this information that's really important in reducing
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Speaker 4: our risks so that when there is a natural disaster
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Speaker 4: there's less damage and less loss of life.
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Speaker 2: So, Lucy, you're concerned that there's too much of a
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Speaker 2: sort of a focus on the commercial benefits and the
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Speaker 2: commercializations of science and technology rather than that, you know,
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Speaker 2: providing good public public goods science.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you have to have a balance, so I think
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Speaker 4: so Peter Glegman's report is that, you know, it's really
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Speaker 4: well considered and it kind of establishes there's four different
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Speaker 4: main areas of government funded science. There's public good science,
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Speaker 4: like we'll discuss. There's science that you know, just generates knowledge,
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Speaker 4: and that's science where we don't, you know, really know
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Speaker 4: what it's going to do, but having that knowledge leads
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Speaker 4: to ideas that turn into public good science or commercial
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Speaker 4: science down the line. And you also have science which
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Speaker 4: is directly informing policy. So that's when the government kind
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Speaker 4: of knows things that's doing and they need they need
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Speaker 4: work done to support the policy work they're doing. So
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Speaker 4: that's four different areas of science, and this announcement focuses
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Speaker 4: entirely on the last one, the commercial or is the
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Speaker 4: report called it exploitable science, and it really feels like
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Speaker 4: it's at the expense of the other three. But they're
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Speaker 4: all important in the level.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so will we still produce quality science this way?
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Speaker 4: We will produce quality science this way if we are
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Speaker 4: focused on growing a well funded science system that supports
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Speaker 4: good scientists to do their work. And what we know
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Speaker 4: is that over the last year we've lost around five
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Speaker 4: hundred jobs from the government science system. So I'm really
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Speaker 4: I'm kind of really surprised to see the government in
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Speaker 4: this announcement. They're saying things like, you want to attract
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Speaker 4: skilled people to New Zealand. Well, if we could stop
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Speaker 4: making skilled people redundant and having them leave New Zealand first,
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Speaker 4: that would be a fantastic start.
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Speaker 2: Doctor Lucy Stewart, thanks for your thoughts this moment, your
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Speaker 2: thoughts this morning and talking us through that. Dr Stewart
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Speaker 2: is the New Zealand Association of Scientists co president. Right,
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Speaker 2: we're going to amp up tourism, but is the country
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Speaker 2: ready for more tourists. We're going to talk about that next.
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Speaker 2: It is eighteen past five.
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Speaker 1: First with News, First with Views. It's earlier this year
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Speaker 1: with one roof make your Property search simple. Newstalk said,
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Speaker 2: To have you with us. It's five twenty with tourism
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Speaker 2: starting to make a comeback, calls for the government to
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Speaker 2: get its checkbook ready if it plans to welcome more
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Speaker 2: tourists to our shores. Just over three hundred and twenty
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Speaker 2: one thousand tourists came to the country in November. That's
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Speaker 2: eighty six percent of pre pandemic figures from the same
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Speaker 2: month in twenty nineteen. The new Minister for Economic Growth
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Speaker 2: and Nicola Willis, has set her sights on a wealthier economy,
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Speaker 2: saying attracting more tourists would help to make that happen.
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Speaker 2: Queenstown mag Lin Lewis joins me, now, good to have
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Speaker 2: you with us.
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Speaker 1: Glynn, good morning.
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Speaker 2: Paid Tourism's bounced back in Queenstown pretty well, hasn't it.
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Speaker 8: It has it bounced back pretty hard and fast post pandemic.
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Speaker 8: And I think we've which new heights over the last
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Speaker 8: summer seeing the amount of people have come over just
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Speaker 8: the last couple of weeks.
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Speaker 2: So would you welcome more.
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Speaker 8: Tourists, i'd Rocker Morris. There is a proviso that the
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Speaker 8: infrastructure to support and accommodate more tourists and visitors is
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Speaker 8: accounted for.
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Speaker 2: Your voting package gets thrown out a lot as being
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Speaker 2: the answer to everything. What else do you need.
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Speaker 8: Look that sustainable investment in actually providing that sed infrastructure
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Speaker 8: that both residents and visitors use. I think that needs
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Speaker 8: to be really well thought through. And if that can happen, Yeah,
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Speaker 8: I think we have the capacity to have more to us.
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Speaker 8: But even the simple things like making sure that we
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Speaker 8: have enough let's say, air traffic control talent to eaually
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Speaker 8: to air functioning, airport investment, and customs security, those sorts
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Speaker 8: of things, because I can tell you now that having
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Speaker 8: an airport, an international airport here, those are the sorts
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Speaker 8: of things when I talk to my airport, we've talked
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Speaker 8: about our airport. Those are the sorts of things that
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Speaker 8: actually can get in the way of actually allowing international
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Speaker 8: visitors into the country.
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Speaker 2: Willis has hindered at making changes to visas to help
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Speaker 2: bring in more tourists. What do you think of that?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I actually do welcome that. I think there's actually
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Speaker 8: opportunity to go even further, especially in welcoming behind end
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Speaker 8: entrepreneur technology skill set. I think, yeah, that's a good start.
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Speaker 8: I've got a few more ideas that I'll suggest helming them.
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Speaker 8: She makes her way down here at some stage, and.
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Speaker 2: If you look at it, a little bit more broadly,
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Speaker 2: you know, not just in Queenstown's sort of situation, but
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Speaker 2: how can the government support the growing number of visitors?
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Speaker 2: Do you think across the country.
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Speaker 8: Look, my viewers actually sort out points of entry first,
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Speaker 8: so there's from my reckoning, there's probably four points of
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Speaker 8: entry Auckland ranked and price in Queenstown. When it comes
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Speaker 8: to international visitors through airports, sort those points of entry
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Speaker 8: out so the experience for the visitor when they first
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Speaker 8: arrive makes it makes and make sure that that distribution
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Speaker 8: outside those points of entry is as simple and as
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Speaker 8: easy as possible. So you regionalize extra tourism. It's as
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Speaker 8: easy as possible because last time they tried this, they
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Speaker 8: didn't do it and just clogged up. It just made
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Speaker 8: a mess of Queenstown back and let's say the mid
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Speaker 8: twenty tens, that's what we're really consumed about.
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Speaker 1: Glen.
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Speaker 2: Look, one, I've got you just wondering if you'd like
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Speaker 2: to comment on the Winter Games, which will no longer
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Speaker 2: be held in its current format kind of in your neighborhood.
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Speaker 2: It's a bit of a shame, isn't it.
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Speaker 8: Oh yes, so I opened it two years ago. This
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Speaker 8: is this one hurts quite a bit because obviously I
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Speaker 8: knew sit On before was passing. Here's a big player
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Speaker 8: in our district, and I think this one's things a
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Speaker 8: little bit more because of the origins of the Winter Games. Look,
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Speaker 8: I feel so sorry for Sam and Marty would have
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Speaker 8: been seem that year and made it to or have
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Speaker 8: been just such a hard decision to make given the background.
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Speaker 8: But those economic conditions indexed to the European currency for
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Speaker 8: prize money and entries and please, so yeah, real tough.
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Speaker 8: Feel really, I'm sorry for the organization and really disappointed
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Speaker 8: because it was a huge event for our district and
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Speaker 8: absolute and outside outside of the district as well.
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Speaker 2: Dan, thank you so much for your time this morning.
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Speaker 2: Really appreciate it. That was Queenstown Met Glenn.
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Speaker 2: If you didn't pick up on Christopher lux and State
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Speaker 2: of the Nation speech yesterday, the Prime Minister is looking
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Speaker 2: to grow the economy because the country desperately needs economic growth.
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Speaker 2: Just in case you missed that, Thank you, So I
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Speaker 2: am being a little facetious. Actually, I thought the Prime
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Speaker 2: Minister's performance yesterday was good both the speech and afterwards
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Speaker 2: during the press conference. Sure, he stuck to his message
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Speaker 2: like a self help guru trying to manifest an outcome,
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Speaker 2: but after taking a while to look comfortable or natural
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Speaker 2: as a politician, yesterday he sounded more authentic, like his
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Speaker 2: founder's groove. He's confident in the direction he's taking the country,
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Speaker 2: and he's not trying to appeal to everyone. For a
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Speaker 2: speech designed to set the tone for the year, he
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Speaker 2: did a good job. Last year we saw the Coalition
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Speaker 2: government repeal and reform everything from education to water and
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Speaker 2: health to greyhound racing. While there is still a way
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Speaker 2: to go with some of these, this year, the Prime
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Speaker 2: Minister has made as clear it's about dialing up the
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Speaker 2: volume on creating competition, allowing more foreign investment, and pushing
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Speaker 2: for government organizations to be more future focused. The Prime
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Speaker 2: Minister also suggested we need to grow up and shake
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Speaker 2: off our culture of saying no and start saying yes
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Speaker 2: to things like expanding the port of Todonger and more
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Speaker 2: concerts at Eden Park and unloading the dishwasher. Nope, that
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Speaker 2: was just me talking to my children. Laxon also use
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Speaker 2: the speech to make some announcements. The creation of Invest
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Speaker 2: New Zealand, an agency to attract foreign investment, major reforms
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Speaker 2: to Crown Research Institutes, and their disestablishment of the Callaghan
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Speaker 2: Innovation which, due to Collins bluntly said at her post
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Speaker 2: speech press conference, had had its day. The new announcements
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Speaker 2: are needed. National Party MPs have been sounding very well
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Speaker 2: media trained recently, sticking to their messaging, avoiding answering questions
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Speaker 2: with detail and you know, the drill. As a result,
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Speaker 2: they've been sounding a little bit empty. When there's a
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Speaker 2: lot of talking but nothing has really been said, it's
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Speaker 2: easy to lose interest. But what struck me yesterday was
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Speaker 2: how well the Prime Minister was across questions thronidom. Instead
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Speaker 2: of reverting back to the big picture, bland key messages,
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Speaker 2: he can often fall back on who throughout detail and examples.
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Speaker 2: There will be some pushback to some of his ideas,
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Speaker 2: such as mining and gene technology. Making money is one thing,
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Speaker 2: but many New Zealanders will still want the government to
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Speaker 2: balance their pragmatic approach with consideration and respect for affected communities,
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Speaker 2: the environment and the treating There is also perhaps wishful
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Speaker 2: sense from the Prime Minister that tax cuts lower inflation
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Speaker 2: and falling ocr mean New Zealanders can move on from
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Speaker 2: focusing on the cost of living. I doubt he'll be
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Speaker 2: let off the hook that easily rises and rents, rates,
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Speaker 2: insurances and other costs are still impacting household budgets. Making
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Speaker 2: New Zealand a great place to live in years to
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Speaker 2: come is important. Love me some vision, but that doesn't
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Speaker 2: mean we should lose sight of today. But hey, if
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Speaker 2: the Sight of the Nation speech is about getting out
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Speaker 2: the message, it's all about economic growth so we can
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Speaker 2: have better lives than got it loud and clear. Job done,
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Speaker 2: said what did you make of it? You can text
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Speaker 1: Setting the news agenda on early editions with one roof,
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Speaker 9: Tax.
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Speaker 2: Good morning this early edition on news dog Zby. I'm
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Speaker 2: Francisco Rudkin filling in for Ryan. He's going to be
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Speaker 2: with you at six a m. This morning. Thanks for
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Speaker 2: being with us, and the next half hour we're going
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Speaker 2: to head to the UK and Europe for the reaction
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Speaker 2: to Trump calling on Europe to spend more on defense
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Speaker 2: to deal with the existential threat posed by Poutin and
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Speaker 2: before the end of the hour, Invest New Zealand. Will
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Speaker 2: it do the trick and help bring much needed investment
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Speaker 2: into the country. Thanks for your feedback. Hamish text to say,
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Speaker 2: morning team lux and speech was great. We need to
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Speaker 2: move on from the left lead victim culture. We could
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Speaker 2: do it and this is a great start. In regards
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Speaker 2: to tourism, somebody else suggested that with tourists on the rise,
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Speaker 2: why can't we impose a two to three dollar bed
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Speaker 2: tax to assist. Yes, this was something that councils have
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Speaker 2: put back on central government that they're really hoping will happen.
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Speaker 2: I know that alland counselors because that's how they're planning
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Speaker 2: I think on funding of vents in the city going forward.
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Speaker 2: So I presume that is something that Nichola Willis will
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Speaker 2: be looking at as soon as possible. Hey, thanks for
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Speaker 2: the feedback. Keep it coming. You can text on ninety
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Speaker 2: two ninety two.
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Speaker 1: Does z be.
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Speaker 2: Alrighty? We're head around the country now and Callum Proctor
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Speaker 2: is in Dneden and it looks like Queenstown Lakes District
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Speaker 2: might have some water restrictions ahead.
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Speaker 10: Morning you that's correct and they could be imposed as
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Speaker 10: early as next week if these hot dry conditions continue
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Speaker 10: around central Otago. The Council has issued this plea with
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Speaker 10: prolonged hot dry weather and high usage putting.
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Speaker 6: The area at risk.
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Speaker 10: Lug At Arthur's Point, Wanakahawa, Lake Hayes and Arawtown have
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Speaker 10: all been identified as areas using water faster that then
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Speaker 10: can be produced. The Council says if the network continues
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Speaker 10: to come under the strain, then these temporary restrictions are
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Speaker 10: likely to help safeguard water supplies, especially in the event
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Speaker 10: of an emergency like wildfire, and they say various steps
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Speaker 10: like having shorter showers can help avoid these restrictions.
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Speaker 2: Hard to complain about hot dry conditions. What's the weather
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Speaker 2: like indonedin Callum A.
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Speaker 10: Fine but partly cloudy, fresh nor easter, the high sixteen today,
20:17
Speaker 10: thank you.
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Speaker 2: So much, cleishrewood as in christ Church and clear. Look,
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Speaker 2: there's concern for a swimmer missing from a popular beach.
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Speaker 11: That's right, Francesca. This is one of those stories we
20:26
Speaker 11: never want to be sharing. But emergency services were called
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Speaker 11: to the spits near south Shore just after three yesterday afternoon.
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Speaker 11: What we know as police officers were blocking the beach
20:36
Speaker 11: as well as some of the streets nearby.
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Speaker 2: There were at least two.
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Speaker 11: Young female swimmers sitting near lifeguards at the scene.
20:43
Speaker 2: They appeared to be very distressed.
20:45
Speaker 11: Yesterday, Coastguards some the volunteers were called in very quickly.
20:49
Speaker 11: They were using two rescue vessels as well as a
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Speaker 11: jet ski for several hours, but were eventually stood down
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Speaker 11: after dark.
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Speaker 7: Last night.
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Speaker 11: Coastguard did tell our newsroom there's the search condition and
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Speaker 11: were considered challenging. There was a pretty overcast sky overheard,
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Speaker 11: as well as a one to one point two meter
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Speaker 11: swell and very poor water visibility. The search was suspended
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Speaker 11: last night but is expected to resume again this morning.
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Speaker 11: And the weather today, Claire, pretty cloudy with some early
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Speaker 11: rain as while southerly's dying out in the morning and
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Speaker 11: northeasterlies this afternoon. We will reach a high of nineteen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Claire and Max. Whole is in
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Speaker 2: Wellington and Max, the Merrial race comes into the spotlight.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, a matter of months until the local elections. Now
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Speaker 6: the Labor Party truly stepping up their search for a
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Speaker 6: viable contender to Torifano, and we may have the answer.
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Speaker 6: Former mayor a justin Leicester. He was here in the
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Speaker 6: studio actually yesterday it seems like he might be the
21:46
Speaker 6: guy he flat out told us Labor has asked him
21:49
Speaker 6: to run again. A Leicester, meanwhile, has set up some
21:53
Speaker 6: sort of Facebook page that purports to focus on the
21:55
Speaker 6: positives in the capitol when he says there's so much
21:57
Speaker 6: doom and gloom, which is very nice and tweed does
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Speaker 6: seem to have a deeper purpose. He's in the i'm
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Speaker 6: not ruling it out stages of his campaign. Current Counselor
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Speaker 6: Ray Chung, meanwhile, is the only candidate officially declaring he's
22:12
Speaker 6: going up against Torifano. She has been a little wishy
22:15
Speaker 6: wash she but is mostly committed to running for a
22:17
Speaker 6: second term. But back to Justin Leicster, he was a
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Speaker 6: one termer. Of course, he lost a surprising election to
22:24
Speaker 6: now New Zealand first MP Andy Foster. There was a
22:26
Speaker 6: debacle revamping public transport that got pinned on him, and
22:30
Speaker 6: we'll follow the latest, of course.
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Speaker 2: Got a gorgeous day today.
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Speaker 6: Not so gorgeous, not as gorgeous as it has been,
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Speaker 6: mostly cloudy after some early drizzled twenty the High Central.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Max and Neiva dotty Man, who
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Speaker 2: is in the studio with us. Now, good morning, Happy Friday,
22:47
Speaker 2: Happy Friday. We've reached this week, the week, first week back.
22:53
Speaker 2: Well done, you feel I am.
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Speaker 7: I've walked to here and I thought, that's like Cheers city.
22:58
Speaker 7: It is like heaps of cheers.
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Speaker 2: There's a taste. It's all my imaginary friends. They come
23:04
Speaker 2: enjoy me in the morning. School, you've got no mates.
23:07
Speaker 2: It's very very quiet, no mates, very quiet in the mornings. Hey,
23:11
Speaker 2: have we got to the bottom of why thousands of
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Speaker 2: west Aukland has experienced this water disruption? Do we know
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Speaker 2: why this is so mainst.
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Speaker 7: No, we don't know why. We know not at this state.
23:22
Speaker 7: But you know, like apparently water keys said that the
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Speaker 7: water should be back on by ten am at the latest.
23:28
Speaker 7: So we do know that the suburbs this is Henderson Valley,
23:30
Speaker 7: Gleneed and codyl and Sunny Vale, auder Tier, they're the
23:35
Speaker 7: you know, the suburbs that are experiencing all these issues.
23:37
Speaker 7: But there was about fifteen thousand last night, so that's
23:40
Speaker 7: now down to three thousand, So that's pretty good. So
23:43
Speaker 7: you've probably got no water or very very low pressure.
23:46
Speaker 7: But I can tell you if you're waking up this
23:48
Speaker 7: morning and that's you, you know. Pop on down because
23:50
Speaker 7: the water tank is at Henderson Valley Road, at the
23:53
Speaker 7: corner of actually Bought Road and Netherlands Avenue, also the
23:57
Speaker 7: corner of Glengarry Road and Maywood Crescent.
23:59
Speaker 2: Pop down your dogs, have a shower.
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Speaker 7: I'll get the morning. Yet does that be the worst
24:04
Speaker 7: way you get up in the morning? You want to
24:05
Speaker 7: brush your teeth and every shower.
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Speaker 2: And then you look at how much water's left in
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Speaker 2: that kettle and you go, well, that's all we've got
24:11
Speaker 2: right now.
24:11
Speaker 7: Until someone goes and see. If that was me, I
24:13
Speaker 7: would just be all about me. Don't worry about anyone
24:16
Speaker 7: else in your household.
24:17
Speaker 2: Oh thank you?
24:19
Speaker 7: What are you saying?
24:20
Speaker 2: What about the weather today?
24:22
Speaker 7: Well there'll be no rain this morning? Unfortunately, that would
24:25
Speaker 7: have been quite good. You could have put a barrel
24:27
Speaker 7: or a plastic container out there. It's fine morning cloud
24:31
Speaker 7: there will be as few spots of ways of lated
24:33
Speaker 7: afternoon showers twenty five still miice and warm and moggy.
24:36
Speaker 2: You neither as always a pleasure, I know.
24:39
Speaker 7: Will you be here next week?
24:40
Speaker 2: No, I'm not. Oh sorry, it's just a one I'm
24:44
Speaker 2: just a one week wonder. Me and my mentionary friends.
24:48
Speaker 2: Next up after the UK Europe. Here on an early edition.
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Speaker 1: International correspondence with ends and eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
24:56
Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 2: It is fourteen to six and I'm joined now by
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Speaker 2: Vincent macaviny, our UK and Europe correspondent. Good morning, Vincent,
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Speaker 2: Good morning. The Southport killer has been sentenced.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, in the past hour he's been sentenced. This is
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Speaker 12: Axel Ruda Cabana, who you might remember last July killed
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Speaker 12: three young girls and attempted to murder ten other people
25:22
Speaker 12: and injured many when he attacked a tailors themed dance
25:26
Speaker 12: class just at the start of the school summer holidays.
25:29
Speaker 12: It was due to be a long trial, but when
25:32
Speaker 12: he appeared in court for the first day earlier in
25:34
Speaker 12: the week, he changed his plea to guilty and today
25:38
Speaker 12: there has been the sentencing of this Now he himself
25:41
Speaker 12: acted out in court this morning, yelling saying that he
25:44
Speaker 12: was unwell and that he wasn't being looked after. He
25:47
Speaker 12: was taken out of court for the disruption and it
25:49
Speaker 12: was felt he couldn't be brought back in for the
25:51
Speaker 12: reading of the sentences. But he is received. Because of
25:54
Speaker 12: his age, he cannot be given a whole life sentence,
25:57
Speaker 12: the most strict category in the UK, just under eighteen.
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Speaker 12: But he's been given a minimum of fifty two years
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Speaker 12: in jail, which is the longest jail sentence for someone
26:08
Speaker 12: under the age of eighteen we think that has ever
26:10
Speaker 12: been handed down. At that point, he would you know,
26:13
Speaker 12: face potentially getting to a parole hearing, but the judge
26:17
Speaker 12: has indicated it's incredibly unlikely he will ever be released.
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Speaker 2: Vincent. How is the US responding to President Trump suggesting
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Speaker 2: that Europe needs to focus on increasing its defense to
26:28
Speaker 2: deal with Pusan well.
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Speaker 12: As we speak right now, Donald Trump is addressing the
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Speaker 12: World Economic Forum in Davas, and he has been reading
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Speaker 12: Europe somewhat of a riot act, saying that they're still
26:38
Speaker 12: not contributing enough to NATO, that they've got too many tariffs,
26:43
Speaker 12: that they need to start making their products in the
26:45
Speaker 12: United States, and sort of saying that they've gone after
26:49
Speaker 12: too many US companies too much regulation, particularly citing the
26:52
Speaker 12: tech companies of course, which he has a close relationship with.
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Speaker 12: But the other thing that he's said is that he is,
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Speaker 12: you know, blaming He seems to accept that Vladimir Putin
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Speaker 12: is to blame for the war in Ukraine, that illegal invasion.
27:06
Speaker 12: He's warned him that Russia could face more tariffs, and
27:08
Speaker 12: it's Plutin to de escalate it. So it does seem
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Speaker 12: like some of the overtures that Vladimis Lensky has made
27:15
Speaker 12: over the past couple of years to Donald Trump have
27:17
Speaker 12: worked to secure his favor, and the Kremlin has responded
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Speaker 12: saying they're ready for a quote mutually respectful dialogue on
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Speaker 12: the issue of Ukraine. So we do believe that behind
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Speaker 12: the scenes, the White House and the Kremlin are working
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Speaker 12: on some sort of summit between Trump and Putin, But
27:34
Speaker 12: we might say as well, we might as well also
27:37
Speaker 12: expect some proper dialogue later this year, perhaps a conference
27:42
Speaker 12: or meeting of the three leaders as they try to
27:44
Speaker 12: negotiate a ceasefire settlement.
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Speaker 2: Vincent to makea any Thank you so much for your time,
27:50
Speaker 2: zibby eleven to six. Now, during his State of the
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Speaker 2: Nation speech, Prime Minister Christopher Luckson announced a new foreign
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Speaker 2: investment agency with the aim of driving more overseas revenue
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Speaker 2: to our shores. It's a model based on Ireland in Singapore,
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Speaker 2: and we'll see invest New Zealand become part of New
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Speaker 2: Zealand Trade and Enterprise, which will become an autonomous Crown entity.
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Speaker 2: Oliver Hartwich is the executive director for the New Zealand
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Speaker 2: Initiative and he joins me, now, thanks for your time, Oliver.
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Speaker 9: Very good morning.
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Speaker 8: You took.
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Speaker 2: I believe you took the Prime Minister on overseas trips
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Speaker 2: to see how a model like this could work. What
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Speaker 2: do you make of the announcement.
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Speaker 9: I think it's a wonderful announcement because it's exactly what
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Speaker 9: New Zealand needs. And you're right, we traveled with a
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Speaker 9: Prime minister. We traveled with him to Switzerland and Denmark
28:36
Speaker 9: when he was a member of our group. But we
28:38
Speaker 9: also took another group to Ireland and we encountered the
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Speaker 9: IDA Ireland agency, exactly the model on which invest New
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Speaker 9: Zealand is now based, and so we saw how it works.
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Speaker 9: We saw it in practice, and from that perspective, I
28:53
Speaker 9: can tell you this is exactly the kind of investment
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Speaker 9: agency that really makes a different that attracts for investors
28:59
Speaker 9: to the country, and that creates jobs and opportunities. So
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Speaker 9: I'm not surprised that Christopher Luxen is the enthusiastic about
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Speaker 9: this model because we were too.
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Speaker 2: What's going to be key to its success?
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Speaker 9: Oliver, Well, the really important thing is actually that it
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Speaker 9: goes hand in hand with liberalization of our foreign direct
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Speaker 9: investment rules, because they are really complicated. We have made
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Speaker 9: it extremely hard for international investors to navigate New Zealand.
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Speaker 9: And so when they look at potentially investing in New
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Speaker 9: Zealand currently, they will find all these rules and regulations
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Speaker 9: and in the end they will ask themselves, well, if
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Speaker 9: it really worth it, I should be really trying to
29:37
Speaker 9: jump through all of these hoops and jump over all
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Speaker 9: of these hurdles, or should be rather take our money elsewhere?
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Speaker 9: And often the case is that they said, well, it's
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Speaker 9: really not worth it. It's a small market, it's a
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Speaker 9: small country. New Zealand is not and must have in
29:51
Speaker 9: our portfolio. It's a nice to have, and so we
29:53
Speaker 9: rather go go somewhere else. And if we change the rules,
29:57
Speaker 9: if you make it easier, if you make it more
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Speaker 9: welcoming to be here and to be an investor in
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Speaker 9: New Zealand, then they would consider New Zealand more. And
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Speaker 9: then if they also encounter the invest New Zealand agency
30:08
Speaker 9: which takes them by the hand guides them through the
30:10
Speaker 9: system and tells them really how New Zealand works, how
30:13
Speaker 9: the country takes them, really makes that lending in New
30:16
Speaker 9: Zealand a little bit easier. Then I think we have
30:19
Speaker 9: a good chance to get way more international investment than
30:21
Speaker 9: we currently have.
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Speaker 2: Oliver, how long do you think it will take to
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Speaker 2: make those changes to the rules of legislature.
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Speaker 9: Oh, the legislative changes are easy. You could basically do
30:30
Speaker 9: them almost overnight. But you have to create an agency,
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Speaker 9: and you have to create an agency with a right mindset.
30:36
Speaker 9: We have New Zealand Trade and Investor of course right now,
30:39
Speaker 9: and that is part of their role also right now
30:41
Speaker 9: to attract international investors. But the mindset so far has
30:45
Speaker 9: been to are always be a bit careful, really emphasize
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Speaker 9: the risks and really make sure that we are getting
30:51
Speaker 9: the right kind of investors. We have to turn the
30:53
Speaker 9: mindset into something that really wants investors. I mean that's
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Speaker 9: what Ireland's done. Ireland at one stage decided they no
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Speaker 9: longer wanted to be the poor house of Europe, and
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Speaker 9: then they had this mindset to really get cracking and
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Speaker 9: really change things and attract investors. And we have to
31:06
Speaker 9: do exactly the same, so Oliver, how.
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Speaker 2: Soon do you expect it to start drawing in more
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Speaker 2: overseas investment.
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Speaker 9: I hope within the next month. I mean, the signal
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Speaker 9: that I'm going to sending out is positive. The signal
31:17
Speaker 9: to the world is we are open for business. We
31:19
Speaker 9: want you here. And that's quite a change of mindset,
31:22
Speaker 9: and I think if we continued on that path, that
31:25
Speaker 9: change could happen quite quickly.
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Speaker 2: And look, as you've been traveling to Singapore and Ireland,
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Speaker 2: anything did you pick up on anything we need to
31:31
Speaker 2: be aware of to you know that potentially you know
31:35
Speaker 2: might be wrong, or we addressed sort of any issues
31:38
Speaker 2: that may arise.
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Speaker 9: No, I think what we have to do is actually
31:41
Speaker 9: we just have to make the case. We have to
31:43
Speaker 9: explain that this is worthwhile. I can tell you one
31:46
Speaker 9: experience we had in Ireland. We have hosted the Irish
31:48
Speaker 9: Economics Minister at the time, and he told us that
31:51
Speaker 9: he could not travel to a single place in Ireland,
31:53
Speaker 9: not even the smallest village, without being asked by the lawcus, hey, minister,
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Speaker 9: what can you do to get foreign and into our area?
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Speaker 9: And then we asked, successfull would that happen in New
32:04
Speaker 9: Zealand and the answer was probably not because here we
32:07
Speaker 9: haven't actually learned to actually appreciate the benefits of foreign investment.
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Speaker 9: We always think about them as risks. We think about
32:14
Speaker 9: them as becoming tenants in our own country, boards selling
32:17
Speaker 9: out about losing control. The Irish narrative was different. The
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Speaker 9: Irish narrative was always what can this investment do for us?
32:23
Speaker 9: How many jobs can it create? How much opportunity do
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Speaker 9: we get out of it? How much growth do we
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Speaker 9: create out of this? So it was a growth mindset
32:30
Speaker 9: and that's what the Primeinster talked about yesterday. He said
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Speaker 9: we should actually think about what can it do to
32:36
Speaker 9: make the economy grow, what can it do to make
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Speaker 9: New Zealand a better place? And that should be our
32:41
Speaker 9: mindset rather than thinking what are they any potential risks?
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Speaker 2: Oliver, thank you so much for your time this morning.
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Speaker 2: Nice to talk to you. Oliver hartwhich is the executive
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Speaker 2: director for the New Zealand Initiative. It is six to six.
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Speaker 1: The latest from around the country and around the world.
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Speaker 2: This is early edition in coming up at six this morning.
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridges with you on the Mike Hosking breakfast, Good morning,
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Speaker 2: Good morn. We've got a lot of paper there.
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Speaker 5: I do have a lot of paper in front of me.
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Speaker 5: Now you've spoken about the Oscars and the nominations. I
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Speaker 5: have a problem with them. Why why is everyone making
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Speaker 5: movies that are three three and a half hours long
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Speaker 5: when people's attention spans have actually reduced, the movies have
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Speaker 5: gone increased in length that the Bruce list is apparently
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Speaker 5: three hours and forty minutes.
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Speaker 2: It's three hours and thirty five minutes. There is a
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Speaker 2: fifteen minute interval which is embedded in the film, so
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Speaker 2: you don't have a choice. It happens at about the
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Speaker 2: one forty mark. It is an extraordinary film. If you
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Speaker 2: love film, if.
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Speaker 5: You're extraordinary long, it's that too.
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Speaker 2: It's stunning. Look, if you're a discerning filmgoer, you're gonna
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Speaker 2: love it.
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Speaker 9: It is.
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Speaker 2: It is fantastic. But you do raise a very good point.
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Speaker 2: Why does Wicked a musical have to be two films?
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Speaker 5: We could annawl that and that's two and a half two
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Speaker 5: more than two and a half hours two films.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be five hours, right.
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Speaker 5: So two and a half hours and you don't even
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Speaker 5: get an ending, but.
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Speaker 2: Look, I'm sure there's more important things to talk about,
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Speaker 2: and you'll be covering them off in the Mic Hosking
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Speaker 2: Breakfast at six. Thank you for having me this week.
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Speaker 2: I will see you on Sunday nine am on the
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Speaker 2: Sunday Session. Take Care.
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