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Full Show Podcast: 11 May 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 Spark for business Technology that keeps business moving,
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Speaker 1: News talks.
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Speaker 2: They'd be good morning, Welcome to Monday six a half
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Speaker 2: the five. We've got numbers on cops crossing the Tasman
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Speaker 2: Gavins and the UK for Us on Starmer, Vicki Price
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Speaker 2: on business and how seriously do we take Putin's comments
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Speaker 2: on ending the war the agenda. It is Monday, the
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Speaker 2: eleventh of May, the first of vacuees from the Hunter
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Speaker 2: virus hit cruise ship arriving in Madrid. Passengers now in
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Speaker 2: strict quarantine.
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Speaker 3: We're told all the passengers remain a symptomatic.
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Speaker 4: The boat has arrived at six thirty am.
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Speaker 2: The entire operation is for sending normally. Now let's go
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Speaker 2: to the UK with the Starma, drama, labour and p
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Speaker 2: Catherine West has uploaded a video over the week and
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Speaker 2: she wants some gone.
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Speaker 5: We need someone from within the cabinet to step forward
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Speaker 5: as the leader and then we will have a new
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Speaker 5: leader of the party without having to have a leadership election.
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Speaker 5: If that cannot have and there are no leadership hopefuls
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Speaker 5: who come forward tomorrow, then Monday morning, I will put
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Speaker 5: my name forward to stand for the leader of the
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Speaker 5: Labor Party and I will be seeking the eighty one
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Speaker 5: names that are needed to take to the party chair
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Speaker 5: and I will begin a leadership.
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Speaker 2: Election now the Education six through Bridget Philipson. She says,
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Speaker 2: Stan is going to try and win back confidence. Is
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Speaker 2: doing a big speech tonight, our.
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Speaker 4: Tea Prime Minister will set out a fresh direction for
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Speaker 4: our country and for our party that will rise to
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Speaker 4: the scale of what we face. But we have to
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Speaker 4: be honest about the scale of what we face. I
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Speaker 4: share the impatience that people feel. You're so very frustrated
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Speaker 4: about how nearly two years on people want.
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Speaker 3: To see law.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Back to Catherine Wish, she says, you're willing to
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Speaker 2: hear him out.
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Speaker 6: I'm a fair person.
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Speaker 7: I will hear what the Prime Minister's got to say tomorrow,
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Speaker 7: and then if I'm still dissatisfied, I will put out
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Speaker 7: my email to the Parliamentary Labor Party asking for names.
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Speaker 7: And the reason I am doing that is not for me.
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Speaker 7: It's for working people.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 2: The only names you really need to know about at
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Speaker 2: ed Middleerband, we're streeting and Angela rained to a lesser extent. Then,
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Speaker 2: of course King of the North Burnhamul talked to you
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Speaker 2: about them all shortly. Finally, this morning, stars of Adolescence,
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Speaker 2: amandaland and last One Laughing have gathered at the Royal
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Speaker 2: Festival Hall in London for the Baptis.
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Speaker 8: Adolescents leading the way with seven nominations, six factors and
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Speaker 8: the Memorable Moment Award. We should also mention a mandaland
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Speaker 8: three of its stars are up for Best Female Performance
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Speaker 8: in a Comedy. Jennifer Saunders loose and punched it if
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Speaker 8: they're done.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Ellen Cumming he's never going to host the Baptors
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Speaker 2: again after BBC at a racist slur, Blame bad leadership
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Speaker 2: for it.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and Spark for Business Technology that keeps business moving
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Speaker 1: News talks that'd.
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Speaker 2: Be nine two is the number of Texas gone nine
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Speaker 2: minutes after five. Love to hear from you this Monday morning.
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Speaker 2: So it's going to be a busy couple of days
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Speaker 2: for Starma. We're streeting as his Health sex three forty
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Speaker 2: three years old. This is the guy that they talk
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Speaker 2: about being the new leader Health secretary forty three years old.
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Speaker 2: He's a career politician. He's one of those guys that
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Speaker 2: joined a borough council and then he went on to
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Speaker 2: national politics and now he's got the health job. Is
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Speaker 2: he the sort of candidate that's going to turn Labour's
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Speaker 2: fortunes around. I highly doubt that, but anyway, he's one
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Speaker 2: that will potentially have his name in the ring. And
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Speaker 2: then there's the fact that they lost all that support
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Speaker 2: to the Greens. I mean, let alone reform, but the
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Speaker 2: Greens as well, led by a guy who was a
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Speaker 2: hypnotist reckon. He could hypnotize your breast to be bigger,
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Speaker 2: was allegedly what the leader of the Green Party in
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Speaker 2: the UK used to do for a job, I mean
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Speaker 2: honestly anyway, So they've got problems. Problems are plenty, and
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Speaker 2: you need eighty supporters amongst the MPs to have a vote,
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Speaker 2: which will probably happen in the next few days. You'd
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Speaker 2: have to imagine. Also at the weekend we heard from
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Speaker 2: Putin and he said in his speech they did their
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Speaker 2: big Victory Day, which they do to mark the end
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Speaker 2: of the defeat of Nazi Germany the end of World
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Speaker 2: War II, but missing a few tanks this year, things
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Speaker 2: weren't looking. You know, it was a little thin on
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Speaker 2: the ground for a victory military parade, and Persian then
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Speaker 2: came out and said, I think the matter, in referring
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Speaker 2: to Ukraine, I think the matter is coming to an end. Okay, well,
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Speaker 2: how seriously do you take that? Minutes later we had
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Speaker 2: a Kremlin aid come out and say, well, we're hang on,
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Speaker 2: hang on, it's going to take It's a complex piece
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Speaker 2: of work. We first need to reach a peace agreement
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Speaker 2: and it is a quote very long road with many
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Speaker 2: complicated details, but a sign that things are changing potentially.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about that next. News Talks Hebb.
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Speaker 1: Bryan Bridge on early edition with Spark for Business technology
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Speaker 1: that keeps business moving.
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Speaker 2: News talksb News Talks Herb. It's thirteen minutes after five,
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Speaker 2: so Putin says Ukraine the war could be coming to
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Speaker 2: an end, but only after once a lasting peace deal
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Speaker 2: he has been done, which could take some time. Jimmy
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Speaker 2: Rushdan's a foreign policy security analyst in Kievan, joins us
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Speaker 2: this morning. Jimmy, nice to have you on the program.
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Speaker 2: How seriously do we take that? Those comments?
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Speaker 9: I don't think we can take them seriously at all.
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Speaker 9: To be honest, if you look at what Putin was saying.
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Speaker 9: He went on to say that he preferred to have
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Speaker 9: negotiations with Europe, but only if Gear Schroeder, who's a
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Speaker 9: key ally of his from Germany, would represent Europe. And
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Speaker 9: that's kind of fastercre Really, it would be like, for example,
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Speaker 9: Adolf Hitler having negotiations with Britain but having mostly as
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Speaker 9: the negotiator representing the United Kingdoms.
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Speaker 2: It's not serious.
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Speaker 9: And Putin's aide Ushakov said that they would only begin
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Speaker 9: negotiations if Ukraine withdraw from the Zombas, which is the
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Speaker 9: region of Ukraine, what parts of the region of Ukraine
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Speaker 9: the Russia claims.
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Speaker 2: So this is not serious.
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Speaker 9: This is just Putin again, you know, trying to make
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Speaker 9: these claims about the end of the war to probably
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Speaker 9: to bookate the domestic Russian audience. Who is to be honest,
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Speaker 9: they're getting kind of tired of the war, the restrictions
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Speaker 9: on the internet, the flagging economy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and what about the Americans. I mean, they make
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Speaker 2: a point. One of his aides did saying that the
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Speaker 2: Americans clearly want this thing over with quickly, but we
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Speaker 2: are actually in no hurry.
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Speaker 9: I don't think, to be honest, that the American attention
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Speaker 9: is mainly on Iran at the moment, and there have
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Speaker 9: been some noises Trump was talking about that they're going
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Speaker 9: to take over Cuba next, which is yeah, kind of strange,
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Speaker 9: But I think America would like this war to end, obviously,
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Speaker 9: but they're not willing to impose the consequences on Eva,
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Speaker 9: Russia or Ukraine that would force either side to come
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Speaker 9: to the negotiating table, because fundamentally, both sides don't believe
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Speaker 9: that there's more to gain in the negotiating room than
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Speaker 9: there is on the battlefield. At the moment, Ukraine's deep
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Speaker 9: stroke program is in very effect if and it's invicting
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Speaker 9: severe damage on Russia, and Russia still believes that it
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Speaker 9: can advance at a very slow pace on the battlefield,
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Speaker 9: taking enormous losses but still gaining territory. So at the moment,
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Speaker 9: it doesn't seem to be any real need when you're
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Speaker 9: looking at it from both Kievan and Moscow to come
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Speaker 9: to the table.
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Speaker 2: No tanks or missiles and ridsqu quite symbolic, very symbolic.
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Speaker 9: Also the fact that it was on a twenty minute
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Speaker 9: delay and that Russia had to go to the Americans
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Speaker 9: to beg them to get Ukraine to agree to a cease.
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Speaker 2: Fire to hold their parade in peace.
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Speaker 9: I mean, it's if you told Russians that the start
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Speaker 9: of this special militure operation, as Putin likes to call it,
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Speaker 9: that in four years time, not only would they not
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Speaker 9: have won, but they'd have to be begging the Americans to
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Speaker 9: stop Ukrainians from drone striking their victory Day parade. I mean,
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Speaker 9: it's fascical. They wouldn't have believed that this was possible,
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Speaker 9: but here we are, and I think it really shows
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Speaker 9: that the kind of balance of power in the relative
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Speaker 9: long range strike campaigns that the Ukrainian during campaign, the
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Speaker 9: long lean stroke campaign is more factor than the Russian
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Speaker 9: campaign at this point.
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Speaker 2: Fascinating stuff. Good to you on the show this morning.
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Speaker 2: It's Jimmy Rushton with US foreign policy expert based out
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Speaker 2: of Kiev. At sixteen after five, Ray you're on news
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Speaker 2: Talks hereb Saudi Aramco, world's biggest oil company. Their profits
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Speaker 2: were up. I mean, name me an oil company that's
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Speaker 2: not doing well out of the war. Basically, profits were
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Speaker 2: up to thirty three point six billion US for the
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Speaker 2: first quarter. That's up twenty six percent year on year.
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Speaker 2: I think last week we told you about Shell they
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Speaker 2: were up almost almost thirty percent as well. And Sadia
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Speaker 2: a Ramco has been pumping seven million barrels of oil
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Speaker 2: a day through the East West pipeline. That's allowed them
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Speaker 2: to basically export out of the west coast of Saudi
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Speaker 2: Arabia and get around the straight up for moves which
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Speaker 2: has been blocked up as everybody knows. Seventeen minutes after
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Speaker 2: five News Talks hereb quite cool what happens with football
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Speaker 2: over the weekend And I mean who saw this coming? Well,
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Speaker 2: the coach certainly did. The coach that was the Canadian
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Speaker 2: in a bit of trouble over at the Olympics. We'll
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Speaker 2: get to that next.
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Speaker 1: The News you Need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis Early edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business
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Speaker 1: Technology that keeps Business moving.
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Speaker 2: News Talk ZB five nineteen. The Wellington Phoenix women through
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Speaker 2: to their first ever A League Grand Final after a
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Speaker 2: very dramatic to Neil went over Brisbane at the weekend,
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Speaker 2: making the Phoenix the first New Zealand football team to
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Speaker 2: reach an Australian Grand Final.
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Speaker 8: Haitland Williams calls it history made for Wellington Phoenix they
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Speaker 8: advanced to an A Leagues.
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Speaker 4: Grand Final for the very first time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just so happy.
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Speaker 6: It's hard to explain that we've had such a hard
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Speaker 6: season this year and we've just been trying so hard.
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Speaker 10: The girls have been amazing.
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Speaker 2: It's been amazing. I feel like we deserve this, very
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Speaker 2: well deserved and very cool to see. Time is twenty
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Speaker 2: after five. Go to our business correspondent Vicky Price Vicky
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Speaker 2: Nice TV on the show this morning, Good Morning, tell
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Speaker 2: us about the political uncertainty over in the UK. What's
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Speaker 2: it doing the sentiment there.
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Speaker 6: Well, we've had the local elections which showed that the
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Speaker 6: ruling Labor government has lost quite significantly in terms of
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Speaker 6: the number of local seats that it has in the
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Speaker 6: various councils. And also there was voting for the Scottish
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Speaker 6: Parliament and for the Welsh Assembly and there as well
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Speaker 6: labored it very badly, in fact lost Wales completely to
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Speaker 6: a more nationalist party in Wales. So what we've got
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Speaker 6: right now is a lot of soul searching and of
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Speaker 6: course the markets are going to be looking at this
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Speaker 6: from a business confidence perspective. There is probably going to
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Speaker 6: be quite a lot of change in terms of the
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Speaker 6: direction of government, and I think the capital markets would
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Speaker 6: be watching to see whether there is any move towards
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Speaker 6: the left, in other words, maybe more spending. Sort of
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Speaker 6: the well very formed that perhaps is going to happen
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Speaker 6: isn't going to be happening. So yields are going to
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Speaker 6: stay high. In terms of bonds, it means interest rates
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Speaker 6: generally staying higher. So there is a huge amount to
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Speaker 6: sort of wait and see how things develop and therefore
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Speaker 6: making up your mind as to where the economy may
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Speaker 6: be going.
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Speaker 2: What about if you are looking to get away from
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Speaker 2: it all and go on holiday. P and O theories
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Speaker 2: have hit the holiday makers with a bit of a
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Speaker 2: search chart.
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Speaker 6: Well absolutely, I think underlying everything that happened in the UK,
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Speaker 6: we've had the sort of cost of living which has
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Speaker 6: been an issue, and of course now what is beginning
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Speaker 6: to happen is we see that exemplified not just in
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Speaker 6: terms of maybe food price is beginning to go up
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Speaker 6: and people worrying about interest rates, but also all the
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Speaker 6: search charges that are beginning to appear. Indeed, p Ando ferry,
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Speaker 6: not all ferry companies are doing in Brittany. Fairies are
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Speaker 6: not doing that yet, but certainly Piano is increasing the
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Speaker 6: costed charges for any transfers, so if you get to
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Speaker 6: your car, try and go across then you have to
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Speaker 6: pay more. And we're going to be seeing a little
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Speaker 6: bit more of that also in the airline sector, where
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Speaker 6: we've heard already that British Always may be about to
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Speaker 6: start doing precisely that, and I would be hugely surprised
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Speaker 6: if others don't do that, because of course jet fuel
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Speaker 6: is going up and costs generally are increasing for everybody.
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Speaker 2: How likely is it do you think that British steel
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Speaker 2: is going to be nationalized?
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Speaker 6: Oh that's a very good question in terms of you know,
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Speaker 6: how long we might take before it happens. That's the
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Speaker 6: real question. But we have the King's Speech which announces
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Speaker 6: the sessions for the next parliament, where the bills are
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Speaker 6: going to be sorry, the bills for the next session
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Speaker 6: of the current government parliament time that it has left.
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Speaker 6: So we've got this session starting sort of in a
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Speaker 6: week or so. We have the king Speech on Wednesday,
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Speaker 6: and what happens when the King's Speech is made there
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Speaker 6: are announcements in there of what the government intentions are
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Speaker 6: in a number of areas, or the bills are maybe
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Speaker 6: coming forward, So what the intention is in various areas,
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Speaker 6: and one of them is apparently going to be We're
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Speaker 6: not absolutely certain that this will be the case, but
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Speaker 6: it's been rumored for a while that would you still
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Speaker 6: be nationalized. It's already getting huge amount of support from
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Speaker 6: the government, is owned by a Chinese company. It has
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Speaker 6: been losing one million pounds apparently a day. Well, I
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Speaker 6: mean that is to a considerable extent unsustainable. The government
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Speaker 6: has tried to do very things like put extra tariffs
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Speaker 6: on steel coming in from elsewhere, but that isn't going
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Speaker 6: to save the company. So it's going to be probably nationalized.
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Speaker 6: But at what's cost? That's the real question.
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Speaker 2: And the Vicky Price business correspondent nice heavy on the
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Speaker 2: program this morning. It is twenty three minutes after five.
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Speaker 2: You're on News Talk CB. Next we'll look at the
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Speaker 2: two elections over well, one over in Australia, one over
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Speaker 2: in the UK over the weekend and what they could
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Speaker 2: mean for us.
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Speaker 2: IVB News TALKSIB. It is twenty six minutes after five.
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Speaker 2: It'd be easy, I think to draw comparisons or parallels
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Speaker 2: between our up coming election and the local and federal
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Speaker 2: upsets in Australia are in the UK at the weekend,
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Speaker 2: But New Zealand is a totally different kettle of fish,
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Speaker 2: in part because, unlike the Brits and the Aussies, we
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Speaker 2: run an MMP system. The smaller parties that have traditionally
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Speaker 2: been overlooked, like One Nation in Australia and Reform in
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Speaker 2: the UK, are doing well because the major parties have
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Speaker 2: failed on immigration in the economy. Our system here is
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Speaker 2: designed to allow these smaller parties more say, therefore fuel
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Speaker 2: wasted votes. But most importantly, mass migration is not the
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Speaker 2: hot button political issue here that it is in the
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Speaker 2: UK and to a less extent Australia, where migration, particularly
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Speaker 2: a legal migration, big problem. Right the vast distance that
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Speaker 2: you have to travel to get here is basically our
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Speaker 2: saving grace, but our isolation is also a curse in
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Speaker 2: many ways. Our labor productivity, low population based, lack of competition,
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Speaker 2: and key consumer sectors thick groceries make us a relatively
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Speaker 2: pricey place to raise a family, which is a bit
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Speaker 2: of an issue. We're an open economy, we are heavily
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Speaker 2: reliant on international trade, so when there's a tariff war
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Speaker 2: or international shipping routes get blocked and jammed up, we
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Speaker 2: are disproportionately affected compared to our bigger economies, our friends overseas,
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Speaker 2: where they've got more domestic demand, more buying power, etc.
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Speaker 2: A government report looking at our undersea infrastructure cables has
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Speaker 2: come out, Power and Internet shows just how vulnerable we
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Speaker 2: are because of the distance. Ninety nine percent of our
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Speaker 2: international Internet goes under sea, and the Cook Straight Power
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Speaker 2: cable provides up to thirty percent of the North Island's electricity.
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Speaker 2: If the Russians, or the Chinese or somebody else tried
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Speaker 2: to cut us off, we would be in big trouble,
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Speaker 2: and our isolation makes replacing these things more difficult than
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Speaker 2: other countries. A quarantine or a blockade of Taiwan would
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Speaker 2: be the worst case scenario for our trade flows, and
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Speaker 2: as we've been talking about for years now, could happen
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Speaker 2: anytime from twenty twenty seven onwards. Our isolation protects us
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Speaker 2: from the threats faced by the UK, America and to
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Speaker 2: a lesser extent than Aussies, but exposes unique ones that
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Speaker 2: we should be king to guard against. Bryan Bridge he
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Speaker 2: be coming up twenty nine minutes halfter five. We will
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Speaker 2: get to the UK just before quarter two this morning
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Speaker 2: and we will talk about another problem, and that is
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Speaker 2: our cops being siphoned over to Australia. They're quite aggressive,
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Speaker 2: according to our Police commissioner, quite aggressively targeting us here
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Speaker 2: in New Zealand. Also got some numbers on productivity that
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Speaker 2: I want to share with you. So this is Stats
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Speaker 2: Department published twenty third of April, so they're a little old,
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Speaker 2: but there was a really good write up by guy
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Speaker 2: called Keith Woodford who has written for Interest dot co
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Speaker 2: dot n Z. Over the last five years, labor productivity
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Speaker 2: here has increased one percent. Capital productivity during this period down,
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Speaker 2: multi factor product activity down and you look at the
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Speaker 2: particular industries, so good news if you're a farmer. That's
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Speaker 2: gone way out. Anything to do with manufacturing is backwards
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Speaker 2: over the last ten years. So we have a bit
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Speaker 2: of a problem there. We lack a competitive advantage. You
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Speaker 2: add in the price of actually getting electricity to your factory,
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Speaker 2: things start to look a bit grimm and that regad
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Speaker 2: News talk STB back to the UK next.
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Speaker 1: Here it first Ryan Bridge on early edition with Spark
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Speaker 1: for business technology that keeps business moving.
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Speaker 2: News Talks at Bay sum twenty four away from six
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Speaker 2: here on news Talks HEB This Monday morning we will
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Speaker 2: get to Ginny Anderson from labor On the Aussies coming
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Speaker 2: for our cops and Gavin is in the UK for us.
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Speaker 2: We talk about the Starma drama over there, Tony Alexander,
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Speaker 2: you know the economist does a really good survey. Well,
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Speaker 2: a couple of good surveys. One is of landlords and
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Speaker 2: the other is of listate agents. The realistate agent survey
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Speaker 2: numbers are interesting. Well, they are because they shed light
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Speaker 2: on a problem we already know about, which is property prices,
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Speaker 2: especially if you are in Auckland or in Wellington, have
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Speaker 2: either been flat or in the case of Wellington, falling
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Speaker 2: off a cliff. Now, Tony Alexander has latest survey shows
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Speaker 2: forty four percent of agents say prices are currently going
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Speaker 2: down in the area they work and that is the
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Speaker 2: worst result since twenty twenty two. Top three concerns for
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Speaker 2: your buyers interest rates going up, employment or lack thereof,
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Speaker 2: and falling house prices. So buyers who go I don't
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Speaker 2: want to buy a house now, because if I buy
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Speaker 2: a house now I feel like it's going to be
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Speaker 2: worth less in three months than it is today, which
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Speaker 2: is probably not untrue either, And a net fifty one
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Speaker 2: percent of agents said that fewer people are attending open homes.
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Speaker 2: That's the worst result again since twenty twenty two. Basically
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Speaker 2: there is loads of stock out there, rentals are relatively
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Speaker 2: inexpensive if you want to stay in one's sort of
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Speaker 2: like why would you jump? And also the prices might
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Speaker 2: come down in the coming month, So all sort of
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Speaker 2: reasons stacking up for people not to want to buy.
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Speaker 2: Twenty two to six red clur reporters around the country
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Speaker 2: and Callum is with us from dened and Morning Callum Morning.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: What's going on in to needing with the alcohol rules.
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Speaker 11: Well, it's the residents turn to have their say on
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Speaker 11: the city council survey. They open an online survey as
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Speaker 11: part of their review into their local alcohol policy. It's
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Speaker 11: the second stage of a three stage process here. The
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Speaker 11: first was with key stakeholders like police and supermarkets, so
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Speaker 11: now it's the public's turn.
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Speaker 2: This policy aims to reduce harm from alcohol while.
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Speaker 11: Balancing the needs of business and community, and only includes
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Speaker 11: matters to do with licensing the council says a range
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Speaker 11: of possible changes are on the table here. This public
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Speaker 11: feedback period will help shape the city's approach for the
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Speaker 11: next six years.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather clear? To find this morning?
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Speaker 2: A strong cells to today fourteen the high nice one.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Claire in christ It's morning, Claire morning. Thousands
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Speaker 2: more homes coming to the outskirts of the city.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, look, this is yet another big development for Rolliston.
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Speaker 12: The first sections are being sold for this new three
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Speaker 12: hundred hectare West Haven development. Now this will bring four
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Speaker 12: and a half thousand homes. We know that it will
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Speaker 12: be one of the largest subdivisions we have in South Island,
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Speaker 12: much larger than the likes of Pegasus in North Canterbury
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Speaker 12: for example. There are obviously already concerns about the infrastructure
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Speaker 12: in the fastest growing district of Selwyn and these big
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Speaker 12: development sort of further that. But the director Tim Carter
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Speaker 12: says more than one hundred million dollars will be going
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Speaker 12: towards a council for the infrastructure. He says the developers
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Speaker 12: also planning to build their own retail and commercial centers,
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Speaker 12: as well as sewer and pump systems, and is working
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Speaker 12: with the Ministry of Education in order to help meet
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Speaker 12: school demands that the subdivision will create. So Carter says
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Speaker 12: there's been massive demand from builders already and hopefully this
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Speaker 12: will further support housing affordability in.
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Speaker 13: The area of Selwyn.
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Speaker 2: Great. How's your weather.
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Speaker 13: We've got a bit of frost.
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Speaker 12: About this morning in sheltered places. There's also some showers
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Speaker 12: but otherwise should clear. To find southwesterly strong a bit
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Speaker 12: later and a high thirteen excellently.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Max and Wellington Morning Max, Good morning. What
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Speaker 2: are these emails between the Mirror and the officials?
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Speaker 14: Yeah?
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Speaker 15: Good story in the post this morning. We know there's
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Speaker 15: already been some tension between Andrew Little and those the
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Speaker 15: faceless suits who reside on the much fancied top floor
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Speaker 15: of the City Council's new Harbour Side offices. We report
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Speaker 15: a little while back on the mayor demanding the cost
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Speaker 15: of a ceremony to open the new library be slashed
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Speaker 15: from more than four hundred thousand bucks to just under
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Speaker 15: one hundred and eighty thousand. He said at the time
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Speaker 15: it would be ridiculous to spend four hundred bucks on
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Speaker 15: an opening ceremony, and he's doing his best to change
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Speaker 15: council thinking around money. So now you've got these emails
21:51
Speaker 15: that have been released under request and one of these
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Speaker 15: faceless suits the council's head of Creative Capital, objecting to
21:57
Speaker 15: the mayor's language and saying it's not fair to suggest
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Speaker 15: staff are acting inappropriately and out of control. Disagreeing with
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Speaker 15: the picture being presented to the public by Andrew Little
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Speaker 15: around council spending, she said staff acting under the last
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Speaker 15: council's instruction and the budget for the event had gone
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Speaker 15: through the right channels, which, of course is often the
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Speaker 15: problem with local bureaucracy. Everyone passes the buck quite literally.
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Speaker 15: Original ceremony plans included a street festival, food trucks, performances.
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Speaker 2: And road closures. Yes me, how's your weather clearing? A
22:28
Speaker 2: fine Southerly's eleven? Nice one? Next, thank you neighbors an
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Speaker 2: Aukland morning, neighbor, Good morning, Auckland. Council's ninety percent of
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Speaker 2: the way to achieving it, saving Scott It's.
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Speaker 6: Right, yeah, yay.
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Speaker 13: So the Value for Money Committee they've managed to save
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Speaker 13: seventy seven point six million dollars. This is in the
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Speaker 13: nine months to March. HEAs until June thirty to save
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Speaker 13: just over eight million more. So this has been done
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Speaker 13: by cutting costs, increasing revenue, removing all this duplication in
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Speaker 13: putting technology in place. Daisley Simpson Committee che says that
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Speaker 13: you know it builds on the previous big savings and
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Speaker 13: she says in the past three years they managed to
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Speaker 13: achieve two hundred two hundred million dollars in savings.
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Speaker 2: Wow, so they're on track and has anyone noticed what
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Speaker 2: was missing? How's that we the Neva don't boost.
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Speaker 13: My bubble showers clearing this morning? Patchy rain developing tonight
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Speaker 13: seventeen the high.
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Speaker 2: eighteen minutes away from six year. On News Talk SeeDB,
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Speaker 1: International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
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Speaker 2: New Chicken with Gavin Gray are UK europe correspondent for
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Speaker 2: the latest staff of those elections, dismal result for Labor
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Speaker 2: over the weekend. Gavin, what do we know about Starmer's job?
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Speaker 3: Well, he's certainly going to be facing the music tomorrow
25:07
Speaker 3: or Monday our time when it looks like the challenges
25:11
Speaker 3: may begin to appear. That is because really an MP
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Speaker 3: very very unheard of in London. One of the backbench
25:18
Speaker 3: MP's says, right, if nobody else stands for reelected for
25:22
Speaker 3: election against Sakir Starmer, then I will. And of course
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Speaker 3: what they're hoping to do here is to flash out
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Speaker 3: and flush out the main big candidates, those who are
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Speaker 3: already well known within the party to take him on.
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Speaker 3: There are appeared to be three main runners in this
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Speaker 3: the Health Secretary Where Streeting, the former deputy to Sekir Starmer,
25:41
Speaker 3: Angela Rainer, and of course Andy Burnham, who is a
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Speaker 3: mayor in Manchester, Northwest England, so he would have to
25:49
Speaker 3: become an MP first, and it's thought that there are
25:51
Speaker 3: a couple of local MPs to him who are willing
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Speaker 3: to step aside. But certainly the knives have been out
25:57
Speaker 3: just in the last few hours now. Angela Rainer has
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Speaker 3: former assistant and the former deputy Sekires Starmer said basically
26:04
Speaker 3: he was in the last chance saloon after that heavy
26:06
Speaker 3: election loss, and she has backed Andy Burnham to return
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Speaker 3: to Westminster. No doubt they will run on a sort
26:12
Speaker 3: of two person ticket, possibly with her being promised the
26:15
Speaker 3: deputy job. And it's a thousand word statements she's issued,
26:20
Speaker 3: and I have to say it's pretty excuriating of Sekir
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Speaker 3: Starmer saying you need to get your act together.
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Speaker 2: How does in order for that to Haven Burner needs
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Speaker 2: to get back in right? How did you get back in?
26:29
Speaker 2: What's the ticket?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so you know it'll probably be one of those
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Speaker 3: four MPs that we think are offering to effectively step
26:37
Speaker 3: down as a Member Parliament. They'll probably be offered some
26:40
Speaker 3: you know, lordship or something in the House of Lords
26:43
Speaker 3: to go with it, and then he would simply have
26:45
Speaker 3: to have a by election and get in. That would
26:47
Speaker 3: take more time than many would like to see in
26:49
Speaker 3: the labor parties. So that's why some are predicting west
26:52
Speaker 3: streeting is ready to move. It's reported but not confirmed.
26:56
Speaker 3: He has the backing of at least thirty MPs who
26:59
Speaker 3: are willing to support him in this battle, and potentially
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Speaker 3: Angela Raina back again, very very on the left of
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Speaker 3: the party though, and that will really put the jitters
27:08
Speaker 3: up the business community.
27:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, fascinating stuff.
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Speaker 1: That is.
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Speaker 2: Gavin Gray are UK, you're a corresponding good TV on
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Speaker 2: the show is always twelve minutes away from six Ryan Bridge.
27:17
Speaker 2: So police admitting that they just basically and it's not
27:20
Speaker 2: a surprising admission given the numbers that are the eye
27:23
Speaker 2: watering numbers that are on offer, but they just can't
27:25
Speaker 2: compete with the money on offer across the ditch.
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Speaker 16: It's frustrating, frankly, and I've told my police commissioner colleagues
27:32
Speaker 16: across Australia that I would rather they didn't come to
27:36
Speaker 16: New Zealand and poach my people.
27:38
Speaker 2: One hundred and forty four cops left for Australia in
27:40
Speaker 2: the past year, and now one in three resignations is
27:43
Speaker 2: linked to the move. Jenny Anderson, as Labour's police spokesperson,
27:45
Speaker 2: joined US Live this morning.
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Speaker 17: J Any, good morning, Good morning mine.
27:48
Speaker 6: How are you.
27:49
Speaker 2: I'm very well, thank you. So what are we going
27:51
Speaker 2: to pay them more? And how much does that cost?
27:54
Speaker 14: Well, it looks like cost of loving is really pushing
27:57
Speaker 14: not just can you we've the police way said for
28:00
Speaker 14: us who want to have people staying here because they
28:03
Speaker 14: are a family and we love them. So it's a
28:05
Speaker 14: real loss in New Zealand to have so many one
28:07
Speaker 14: hundred and forty four I think you said, wasn't it in.
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Speaker 2: The past year is a lot totally and how do
28:13
Speaker 2: you get them back?
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Speaker 14: Well, I think these push and pull factors, these several
28:17
Speaker 14: push factors. I mean one of the factors is the
28:19
Speaker 14: fact that the government has failed to deliver on the
28:21
Speaker 14: five hundred that they promised, and that just puts more
28:24
Speaker 14: pressure on the front line. So I think we've seen
28:27
Speaker 14: more pressure on police on the front line, less support,
28:30
Speaker 14: whether or that support staff or it support in pull factors,
28:35
Speaker 14: which is great pay, so pay is definitely right part
28:38
Speaker 14: of effector.
28:39
Speaker 2: Is labor promising to pay them more.
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Speaker 6: Well.
28:42
Speaker 14: One thing that I think needs looking at, and I'm
28:45
Speaker 14: prepared to take a look at that if we deform
28:47
Speaker 14: the government, is that police currently have twenty one steps
28:51
Speaker 14: in their pay, so wages are not only not keeping
28:53
Speaker 14: up with inflation, but it means it takes police much
28:57
Speaker 14: longer than any other profession to reach the top.
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Speaker 8: Of their payscale.
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Speaker 14: And so while police might start earning more a bit
29:03
Speaker 14: more than the nurses or teachers. It doesn't take very long,
29:07
Speaker 14: three or four years, and then those professions are any
29:10
Speaker 14: more than police. So I think the fact that there
29:12
Speaker 14: are twenty one steps in that payscale, that's a factor
29:14
Speaker 14: that needs to be looked at.
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Speaker 2: Okay, and so you'll look at that, but it doesn't
29:18
Speaker 2: necessarily mean you're going to pay them more, just maybe
29:21
Speaker 2: more sooner.
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Speaker 14: Well, what sounds like the Commission has sort of given
29:25
Speaker 14: up on that sense. They've paid what thirty five thousand
29:29
Speaker 14: dollars and got advertising campaign and got two people back.
29:33
Speaker 14: But we think that it's the campaign that the Police
29:37
Speaker 14: Association currently have in place, which is repay the risk
29:40
Speaker 14: and acknowledging the risk that police take every day needs
29:43
Speaker 14: to be remunerated. The part of that is that there's
29:47
Speaker 14: too many steps in your payscale. The police take too
29:49
Speaker 14: long to earn as much as similar professions in New Zealand,
29:53
Speaker 14: and so we think that that's a good thing that
29:55
Speaker 14: we need to take a look at to say that
29:57
Speaker 14: you should be earning more earlier on in your career.
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Speaker 2: Interesting, what's happening overseas, isn't it over in the UK?
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Speaker 2: With performing over in Australia with one nation.
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Speaker 14: Yes, very interesting times and again that just puts more
30:08
Speaker 14: pressure on frontline police of situations are becoming difficult in public.
30:14
Speaker 14: So that's another factor as well that you need to
30:16
Speaker 14: be considering if you're going over there.
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Jenny, thank you, Ginny Anderson from labor.
30:21
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Speaker 2: It is six minutes away from six. A lot of
30:37
Speaker 2: feedback coming in on Jenny Anderson and police. By the way,
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Speaker 2: did even mention the war in Iran? Well, do we
30:43
Speaker 2: still call it a war if there's been a ceasfar
30:45
Speaker 2: for this loan. But anyway, Iran has apparently sent its
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Speaker 2: response to the latest proposal from the US another draft
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Speaker 2: agreement for ending the war, and that is a more
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Speaker 2: substantive peace deal rather than a ceasefire. Six to six
30:59
Speaker 2: Rand Mike's in the studio.
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Speaker 17: Good morning, Mike, morning mate. Why were you fascinated by
31:03
Speaker 17: the cops.
31:04
Speaker 2: Well, it's it's it's mildly interesting. A thought of resignations
31:08
Speaker 2: are now down to going to Australia.
31:11
Speaker 17: Yeah, but why wouldn't that be applicable to engineers, miners, teachers. Well,
31:15
Speaker 17: I suppose every every everyone, massive brain drain on. So
31:20
Speaker 17: why why why are cops more interesting than anybody else
31:22
Speaker 17: going to Australia. Most people going to Australia, most people
31:25
Speaker 17: going to Australia will doing more money in Australia, wouldn't they. Ye,
31:28
Speaker 17: what's the average price of a house in Sydney one
31:30
Speaker 17: point massive one point seven?
31:33
Speaker 2: But what's the average price on the outskirts of Brisbane
31:36
Speaker 2: the Australia.
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Speaker 17: The outskirts where he was going.
31:39
Speaker 2: You're not going to central Brisbane anymore.
31:41
Speaker 17: What I'm what I'm saying is that the media seems
31:43
Speaker 17: fixated with the cops for some reason, as opposed to
31:45
Speaker 17: any other job or any other reason that people, you know,
31:48
Speaker 17: going to Australiable. It's the weirdest thing, isn't it. At
31:52
Speaker 17: the end of the day.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, cops are quite important because smashes your
31:56
Speaker 2: window when you kind of want I think you.
31:59
Speaker 17: Know what I think. I think people much to their
32:01
Speaker 17: own tune. You know what I'm saying. People go, oh,
32:03
Speaker 17: there's more money, or there's more sunshine, or there's more beer,
32:06
Speaker 17: or there's whatever. People, do you know where my brother's moving?
32:08
Speaker 2: No Dubai now at a time like this when everyone
32:12
Speaker 2: else is leaving.
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Speaker 17: Do you know why he's doing it?
32:14
Speaker 2: Because it's good for his business money.
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Speaker 17: And he runs his own business and he can't run
32:18
Speaker 17: it from here. It's based in Dubai. So he's moving
32:20
Speaker 17: to Bay. He's been to Dubai before. So he sends
32:22
Speaker 17: me a photo over the weekend and he's sitting on
32:25
Speaker 17: his balcony. He's got a bottle of New Zealand wine
32:27
Speaker 17: looking at the bouge Khalifa and so I'm so, I'm going,
32:30
Speaker 17: what are you doing there? He goes, oh, we're moving
32:32
Speaker 17: and some things. You know, like life just continues, doesn't it.
32:35
Speaker 17: Like you know, you make your own decisions.
32:37
Speaker 2: I went to buy two beers and Dubai and this
32:42
Speaker 2: is maybe a year ago, and it was seventy six
32:44
Speaker 2: dollars for two heinekens.
32:46
Speaker 17: Not good with the alcohol on that and that particular
32:48
Speaker 17: part of the will. It's amazing, shocking, but I figure,
32:51
Speaker 17: if my brother can move to Dubai, yeah, for us all.
32:55
Speaker 17: Then the odd cops moving to Cerdney. He's not really
32:58
Speaker 17: the end of the world, isn't it. No, do you
33:00
Speaker 17: did you do the school story, the private school story?
33:02
Speaker 14: No?
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Speaker 2: I didn't on that this morning.
33:05
Speaker 17: Increasingly we had. Last time we were involved in a
33:07
Speaker 17: private school. I can't remember, but it was high teens,
33:11
Speaker 17: was like eighteen nineteen thousand dollars a year and they're
33:15
Speaker 17: now cracking thirty. Here's your next thing, here's your next
33:19
Speaker 17: thing for your cop moving to Australia. Now at the
33:20
Speaker 17: cracking in Australia for a private school.
33:22
Speaker 2: Fifty fifty to fifty are you seeing if you're a
33:26
Speaker 2: comp of New Zealand, are you sending a kid for
33:28
Speaker 2: a private school rural period? That that and the Prime
33:31
Speaker 2: Minister fantastic. Have a great Monday. See tomorrow for more
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