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Duncan Bridgeman: NZME Managing Editor expresses his concerns with economic growth in the business community · The SME Stream

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  Speaker 1: Right now to the juice the mood of the boardroom.
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  Speaker 1: How did our executive fear? This is basically our business
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  Speaker 1: leaders judging our politicians, and we all love a bit
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  Speaker 1: of that, don't we. Erica Stanford came out on top
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  Speaker 1: at number one of the choices here, four point zero
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  Speaker 1: one out of five, Simmy and Brown, Nichola Willison, Chris
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  Speaker 1: Bishop up there too. Luxon came in sixth, Winston Peters seventh,
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  Speaker 1: David Seymour He's done in twelve, sandwiched between Andrew Bailey
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  Speaker 1: and Simon Watts. Overall, the sentiment seems to be quite
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  Speaker 1: good from our business leaders for the direction that the
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  Speaker 1: government is taking. And we're going out to Duncan Bridgman,
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  Speaker 1: who is the managing editor of nzenmy Business for the
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  Speaker 1: mood of the boardroom. Duncan, good morning, Oh, good morning, Ryan,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for being with me. What is the mood?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, as you said, they have ranked the politicians
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  Speaker 2: and that's one thing, but they've also given us an
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  Speaker 2: insight into their own thinking around the economy, how they
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  Speaker 2: think their businesses will fare themselves, and the general kind
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  Speaker 2: of business environment. So there's one hundred and three chief
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  Speaker 2: executives and a couple of shaers involved in this, and
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  Speaker 2: we go out to them in August and September with
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  Speaker 2: a range of questions. As you touched on, we talked,
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  Speaker 2: they gave us feedback on the cabinet the government's top
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  Speaker 2: ranked politicians, and number one was Eric at Stanford, as
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned that, with a score of four point one
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  Speaker 2: out of five. Now that means that very impressive as
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  Speaker 2: five and not very impressive as one. So she's obviously
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  Speaker 2: scoring well and the executives obviously liked what she's doing
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  Speaker 2: in the education portfolio was obviously back to basics reform
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  Speaker 2: that's happening. Where Christopher Luxen as Prime Minister, came in
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  Speaker 2: at six with three points seven three, so above average,
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  Speaker 2: but he is ranked six in the cabinet, so you
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  Speaker 2: know we're looking at that, and as you mentioned, there's
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  Speaker 2: some others in there, Chris Bishop, Nicola, Willis, Judith Collins
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  Speaker 2: all was growing well. So it's a pretty positive look
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  Speaker 2: at the at the top cabinet, right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting the comments surrounding this, saying the message seeming to
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  Speaker 1: be time to focus on the future, a positive future
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  Speaker 1: rather than just bashing labor. Kind of put that behind.
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  Speaker 2: You, Yeah, definitely that was a theme that came through.
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  Speaker 2: We've had a year now of the new government and
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  Speaker 2: yes they've had to what they described as unwind a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things that were put in place. So the
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  Speaker 2: business community is saying, right, you've done that. Now is
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  Speaker 2: time to take some bold steps to really spurdy the
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  Speaker 2: economic growth that's needed. So I think there's definitely some
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  Speaker 2: uncertainty there around the delivery that Crystopher Luxon and his
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  Speaker 2: team can I can pull through. They're obviously making good
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  Speaker 2: headway on some things, but but but then there's there's
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  Speaker 2: other constraints such as the things like cost blowouts and
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  Speaker 2: infrastructure projects, you know, the other big sort of issues
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  Speaker 2: with it, d Eden Hospital and of course the very's
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  Speaker 2: infrastructure problems. So yeah, there's a bit of uncertained whether
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  Speaker 2: whether a delivery will come through there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Duncan, thank you very much for that. Duncan Bridgeman,
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  Speaker 1: who's the managing editor of NZ and ME Business, go
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  Speaker 1: and pick up you copy the Herald this morning. It's
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  Speaker 1: got the mood of the boardroom. If you are interested,
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  Speaker 1: there's a huge well, it's quite think I could probably
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  Speaker 1: make a sound if I dropped it.
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  Speaker 2: On the desk.
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  Speaker 1: It's in the Herald today,