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Full Show Podcast: 10 November 2025 · 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 2: That'd be good morning Monday morning. Great to have your company.
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Speaker 2: The government's taking another crack at the meth problem. We'll
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Speaker 2: look at that before six this morning. And solvencies are up.
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Speaker 2: We've got new numbers for you. Sport with Andrew Liam
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Speaker 2: Lawson and contention. Also a bit of AB's assessment and
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Speaker 2: Gavin's in the UK for us this morning. UK providing
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Speaker 2: military support to Belgium will tell you why. The agenda
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Speaker 2: Monday to tenth and November. Another Russian drone thing suspected.
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Speaker 2: That is, Belgium had to shut its main airport. Apparently
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Speaker 2: the drones entered airspace and military based airspace. The UK
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Speaker 2: offering support.
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Speaker 3: Defense Section I agreed that we would deploy our people
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Speaker 3: of our equipment to Belgium to help them. It is
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Speaker 3: important to be clear though that we don't know and
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Speaker 3: the Belgians don't yet know the source of backed those drones.
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Speaker 4: And.
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Speaker 3: But we will help them by providing our kit and capability.
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Speaker 2: This typhoon in the Philippines big typhoon apparently now super typhoon.
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Speaker 2: A million people evacuated.
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Speaker 5: Many people have left their homes and moved into stronger
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Speaker 5: buildings into evacuation centers for safety to ride out this storm.
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Speaker 5: And of course the Philippines has been basted already by
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Speaker 5: another typhoon, Camegi, which kills at least a couple of
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Speaker 5: hundred people. Further south in Sabooth there's been an earthquake already.
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Speaker 5: This country is really reeling from natural disasters this year.
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Speaker 2: To the US we go now, Senators worked all week
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Speaker 2: in trying to open up the government and stop the shutdown.
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Speaker 2: Didn't work in predictably, they're all blaming Trump, while the
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Speaker 2: Dems are at least.
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Speaker 6: He had no interest or energy into avoiding this government shutdown.
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Speaker 6: He has no interest or energy to end it today.
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Speaker 6: He's the president of the United States. As someone who's
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Speaker 6: an executive chief detective state larger than twenty one state
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Speaker 6: populations combine the fourth large economy, you have irresponsibility in
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Speaker 6: that raw so convene to bring people together. That's why
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Speaker 6: there's a government shutdown period.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 2: That'd be eight after five on your Monday morning, nine
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Speaker 2: two nine two the numbers text. You know the AI
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Speaker 2: bubble that we've been talking about for a while, and
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Speaker 2: now we forget about that. What about the the energy
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Speaker 2: crash that's coming from AI. Let's talk about that this morning.
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Speaker 2: So AI very electricity hungry beast. As we know. Apparently
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Speaker 2: for a seuit you do on Google, for the same
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Speaker 2: search you do on Chat GPT ten times the energy
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Speaker 2: required for one Google search. Data centers need massive amounts
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Speaker 2: of energy, big data energy these guys need, and that
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Speaker 2: pushes demand up, which presumably pushes prices up. Right, the
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Speaker 2: Aussies are having problems with their grid, much like we are.
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Speaker 2: New South Wales has just fast tracked twenty three data centers.
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Speaker 2: This is despite not having enough affordable electricity to tap
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Speaker 2: into keep their aluminium smelters open. Beyond I think it's
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight. I was reading at the weekend now
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Speaker 2: here Luxon like Adourn before him, promising Amazon will build
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Speaker 2: these massive data centers in New Zealand. Great, what will
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Speaker 2: we power them with? What will the demand due to
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Speaker 2: prices in the States. Apparently electricity prices have jumped as
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Speaker 2: much as two hundred percent in homes around data centers
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Speaker 2: where they've been built. And we've got a government hell
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Speaker 2: bent on oil and gas saving our energy day. We've
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Speaker 2: got an opposition hell bent on anything but that, and
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Speaker 2: international investors in the middle kind of scratching their heads
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Speaker 2: keeping their wallets closed. We've got markets unsure if the
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Speaker 2: gent tailors that we taxpayers own half of will be
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Speaker 2: sold off completely or thrown into some labor party fund
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Speaker 2: as seed assets for an investment scheme. You know, wind solar,
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Speaker 2: great weather dependent. Whether it's a mill in Tocodo, data
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Speaker 2: centers in Auckland, they all need a consistent, reliable supply
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Speaker 2: to keep the lights on and to keep growth happening.
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Speaker 2: And our politicians might promise the world on growth, but
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Speaker 2: none of it is possible or affordable without a decent
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Speaker 2: energy solution. And at present, given the bickering between the
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Speaker 2: two big parties, I don't think we.
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Speaker 7: Have one bridge bridge.
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Speaker 2: Five ten on news talks. He be coming up next,
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Speaker 2: we'll look at unfortunately related issue, which is insolvencies. Business
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Speaker 2: in solvency is up quite massively since twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 2: That's next. News Talk Set B.
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Speaker 2: B five twelve. Did you watch the meth announcement yesterday?
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Speaker 2: Probably not, but I had a wee look of it.
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Speaker 2: We've got Nicole McKee on the show before six, and
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Speaker 2: I couldn't help but feel like I've heard this all
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Speaker 2: before you. Now we're going to boost the inspections of
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Speaker 2: the borders. We're going to give an extra I think
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Speaker 2: it was thirty million dollars to rehab facility. I mean,
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Speaker 2: they're so under resourced as it is. Is that going
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Speaker 2: to make much of a difference. Do we really think,
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Speaker 2: you know, meth use is apparently doubled. Do we really
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Speaker 2: think that throwing thirty million dollars and a few extra
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Speaker 2: custom staff that the problem is going to fix it?
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Speaker 2: I don't think so. And point to me a country
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Speaker 2: which has had success in stopping this the war on
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Speaker 2: drugs thing. Point to me a country that's had success
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Speaker 2: in doing this following our approach. You can't five thirteen
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Speaker 2: Ryan Breds, insolvencies are up one hundred and fifteen percent
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Speaker 2: since mid twenty twenty two. It is expected to continue
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Speaker 2: until next year, well into next year. Actually, retail, transport, construction, hospitality,
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Speaker 2: they're taking the biggest hits, up nearly forty percent on
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Speaker 2: pre COVID levels. Catherine Rich is Business New Zealand Chief
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Speaker 2: Executive with me this morning. Catherine, Good morning, Good morning, Ryan.
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Speaker 2: Good to have you on the show. Is this trend easing?
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Speaker 2: You know, this is over sort of three year period
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Speaker 2: we're talking about. Is it now easing or is it
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Speaker 2: just the same as it was a couple of years ago.
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Speaker 8: Well, according to the lake To data release bicentrics, the
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Speaker 8: liquidation rates are improving across some of the sectors, but
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Speaker 8: it still reflects how tough it is to be in
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Speaker 8: business and many there are many reasons which we could
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Speaker 8: point to. I think we're still facing a post COVID hangover.
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Speaker 8: Some firms faced inflation and higher interest rates. Consumers stopped
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Speaker 8: spending cost pressures. Of course, ireds taking a few more
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Speaker 8: to court. So the combination of that's still concerning.
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Speaker 2: What is the lesson we're learning from this, because this is,
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Speaker 2: as you say, we've had COVID, We've had the interest rates,
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Speaker 2: We've had weather events, you know, the whole bunch of
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Speaker 2: stuff is compounding, and the bad things are happening one
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Speaker 2: after another and people can't hold on. What do we
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Speaker 2: learned from.
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Speaker 8: This, Well, I think we need to go right back
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Speaker 8: to how handled COVID, you know, and think the initial lockdowns.
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Speaker 8: Everybody supported those more or less, but we did make
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Speaker 8: a lot of firms that could have traded safely shut down.
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Speaker 8: So I think next time, when there is a new pandemic,
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Speaker 8: and there will be one, that we say, which of
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Speaker 8: the firms that can trade safely rather than just have
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Speaker 8: an arbitrary delimination of your essential or you're not essential.
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Speaker 8: But also I think looking at the trend, there is
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Speaker 8: some good news. It looks like liquidations are easing. Remember,
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Speaker 8: liquidations are just the tip of the iceberg. Most firms
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Speaker 8: just quietly closed shut their doors and leave a hole
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Speaker 8: on the high street. But overall, I think business conditions
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Speaker 8: are going to be improving heading into twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 2: Do you want the government to do anything to help
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Speaker 2: business right now?
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Speaker 8: I think we're coming to a situation where the government
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Speaker 8: can do a few things. It's working pretty hard to
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Speaker 8: strip back unnecessary regulation. It's also looking to fill the
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Speaker 8: infrastructure pipe because, as you noted, constructions being one of
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Speaker 8: the hardest hit and that's because councils and the government
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Speaker 8: stop spending on infrastructure and maintenance, so those that expenditure
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Speaker 8: will start to filter through. I think also the government's
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Speaker 8: needs some of the problems of getting staffed. It's looked
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Speaker 8: at how it can cut back on its own spending
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Speaker 8: to introduce greatest fiscal discipline. We know inflation is under control,
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Speaker 8: so that's having a positive impact on debt servicing for businesses.
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Speaker 8: So there are a lot of things happening. It's just
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Speaker 8: there's been a long lead time before we're seeing some
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Speaker 8: positive change.
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Speaker 2: Catherine, appreciate your time this morning. Catherine Rich Business New
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Speaker 2: Zealanty of Executive Times, seventeen after five, Ryan Bridge, we'll
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Speaker 2: talk about the the flow on it. You know, you've
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Speaker 2: got one event then the next thing. Normally you think
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Speaker 2: you got six or seven good years between bad things
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Speaker 2: happening to the economy, but it just doesn't seem like
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Speaker 2: we're getting any breathing room. A Liam Dan had a
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Speaker 2: good piece in the Herald about this at the weekend.
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Speaker 2: There's just no breathing space, so you can't recover your losses.
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Speaker 2: If you're on the edge, you just get pushed over.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about that twenty past five this morning, which
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Speaker 2: is in three minutes, so I better hurry up. Ryan.
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Speaker 2: This is from Paul. My neighbor is a significant meth dealer.
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Speaker 2: I've been reporting it to police for four months. They've
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Speaker 2: done nothing, no response, even five point seventeen. On News
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Speaker 2: Talk Seed B, we'll talk to Colm Key about all
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Speaker 2: of that. You know, is throwing a little bit of
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Speaker 2: money and a few extra cops on the beat actually
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Speaker 2: going to fix a problem that is, you know, doubled
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Speaker 2: in size over the last year. News Talk Seed B
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Speaker 2: All in one News Talk Seed B five twenty. Great
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Speaker 2: to have your coming this morning. I watched a movie
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Speaker 2: at the Week in a House of Dynamites on Netflix.
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Speaker 2: Really good. I would highly recommend it. Well, if you
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Speaker 2: want to see lots of action, there's not a lot
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Speaker 2: of action. It's basically, there is a missile, nuclear missile
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Speaker 2: coming towards America. It's going to take out Chicago, and
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Speaker 2: the whole movie is the video conference call with the
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Speaker 2: president about what to do about it, and they replay
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Speaker 2: that from three different perspectives over the space of an
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Speaker 2: hour and a half. So if you like action, they're
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Speaker 2: at there's a lot of talking and sitting at on
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Speaker 2: zoom calls. But it's fascinating because it's it's kind of based.
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Speaker 2: It goes through the whole chain of command. You know
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Speaker 2: what happens if there's a decapitation event where the president
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Speaker 2: is taken out. All of this stuff. I find it fascinating. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: it's a really good movie. Actually, the nuclear stuff never
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Speaker 2: really happens, does it certainly hasn't happened in a long time,
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Speaker 2: which is the whole point of it. It's a deterrent.
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Speaker 2: The real action is actually in space and with drones. Germany,
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Speaker 2: this is in real life. Germany and the UK have
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Speaker 2: warned about Russian Chinese space satellites. Apparently they're spying on
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Speaker 2: our satellites in space. They're stalking them, they're jamming them,
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Speaker 2: and they're interfering with them, and they're doing this on
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Speaker 2: a frequent basis. In the last couple of weeks, Belgium
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Speaker 2: as I mentioned earlier the military base there had Russian
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Speaker 2: drones into the airspace. Airports closed. This is Belgium where
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Speaker 2: the EU Parliament is based. So yeah, fun and fancy
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Speaker 2: with the nukes up up in the movie land, but
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Speaker 2: down here it's the real action really is drones and
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Speaker 2: space on the defense front. It's twenty one minutes, half
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Speaker 2: to five. Have a sport. Good morning, Andrew, Greetings Ryan.
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Speaker 2: Let's start with Liam Lawson and f one. That's happening
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Speaker 2: six this morning out time clock.
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Speaker 9: So got what landed Orison, Pole and Lawson and seventh
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Speaker 9: on the Great it's got a prime opportunity here to
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Speaker 9: get some points. And of course Bo his chances of
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Speaker 9: retaining that seat for twenty twenty six with Racing Bulls
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Speaker 9: or Red Bull depending on where to go. But and
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Speaker 9: what happens with that that syndicate, But yeah, prime chance
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Speaker 9: at and Telagos when that gets underway in Supaula.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant, No doubt you and Michael would both be across that.
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Speaker 9: Well, Michael probably be crossing more Thannihili. He's the avid
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Speaker 9: petrol head amongst us.
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Speaker 2: You know, Thank goodness for Damien McKenzie at the weekend.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, Jamie McK that's a fair effort is as a
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Speaker 9: super sub for one of a better terms that and
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Speaker 9: I don't know quite how he can taart himself to
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Speaker 9: get that try, but it was pretty welcome at that
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Speaker 9: stage in the piece, wasn't it. I Mean they've survived,
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Speaker 9: they've got their twenty five seventeen. The Grand Slam dream
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Speaker 9: remains alive. But McKenzie well both with that and the
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Speaker 9: penalty goal towards the end of me the classic blood
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Speaker 9: streaming down the face as he.
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Speaker 2: Does, which you could see because they were wearing the
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Speaker 2: white jersey.
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Speaker 9: Yes, yes, you know it's sort of accentuated it didn't it.
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Speaker 2: It did Actually looking at them yesterday and looking at
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Speaker 2: them doing the interviews on the news last night. I
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Speaker 2: mean it looks like they've been in a gang fight,
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Speaker 2: doesn't you know. They're just bruised and bloodied, and the
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Speaker 2: white shirts made that all the more.
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Speaker 9: It was quite the yeah, the battle at Murrayfield, so
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Speaker 9: to speak. So yeah, they've been able to keep this
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Speaker 9: record alive against Scotland as well, Scotland looking a lot
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Speaker 9: stronger than they have done. Well, they've become stronger in
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Speaker 9: recent years, but there was a period or a lull
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Speaker 9: there where they were pretty weak. But that, yeah, it's
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Speaker 9: not going to get any easier for the All Blacks
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Speaker 9: up against England that took them this weekend.
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Speaker 2: Now in Black Caps, how are we doing? Yes, well, superbly.
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Speaker 9: I mean they've they've held their nerve in the last
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Speaker 9: two games at least, and remarkably just the margin of
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Speaker 9: victory in each of the game's so seven runs, three
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Speaker 9: runs and nine runs all going down to the final over.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, that's.
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Speaker 9: That's a terrific effort in Nelson to be able to
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Speaker 9: take a two to one lead in the five match series.
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Speaker 9: Fourth match today again at Saxton Oval, And yeah, well
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Speaker 9: I was quite impressed, particularly by the bowling of East
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Speaker 9: Sody on this occasion, just with three weeks. It's got
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Speaker 9: three weeks in the previous game as well. Always likes
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Speaker 9: seeing the league spin an action in particularly the googly
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Speaker 9: and gaining the wickets. So that if that makes any
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Speaker 9: sense to your right, not really, but ah, well, was
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Speaker 9: the cricket fans out there, I hope.
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Speaker 2: And you thank you Andrew Watison the Sport this morning
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Speaker 2: and there's twenty four minutes after five news talks.
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Speaker 2: Five twenty six News Talks. They'd be great to have
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Speaker 2: your company this morning. Tom Riedo is a national park
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Speaker 2: for a reason. It's a stunning, beautiful part of this
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Speaker 2: country and the fact that's currently on fire is obviously worrying,
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Speaker 2: not just because it's a fire and you want filers
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Speaker 2: to be put out, but also because of where it's happening.
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Speaker 2: It will pay who central North Island. I've been taking
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Speaker 2: a hammering lately. You'll know this. You know Meles Factory. Forestry,
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Speaker 2: tourism has been affected. We've had the alpine lifts debarcle.
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Speaker 2: The mountain's kind of been battling for a week while
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Speaker 2: all this after COVID and now you potentially putting summer
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Speaker 2: bookings at risk with a decent chunk of the park
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Speaker 2: now raging fire. Businesses can only take so much before
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Speaker 2: something breaks, as it has for many since the heady
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Speaker 2: days of free government money during the pandemic. Today we're
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Speaker 2: reporting one hundred and fifteen percent increase in insolvent seasons
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. The problem is not just inflation eating
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Speaker 2: into consumer spending and confidence and all that stuff. But
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Speaker 2: also the sequence of the shocks. You know, it's kind
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Speaker 2: of one thing after another and then those on the
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Speaker 2: edge get pushed off. The economy generally has had inflation, recession,
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Speaker 2: you know, weather events, tariffs, all this stuff happening. And basically,
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Speaker 2: what I think this tells us is that shocks can
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Speaker 2: come at any time, any place, not necessarily with a
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Speaker 2: nice six or seven good years between them. What is next?
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Speaker 2: Who knows? Is it the AI bubble bursting as we've
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Speaker 2: been hearing about for the last couple of months. Is
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Speaker 2: it another war, is it an oil shock, is it
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Speaker 2: another fire ripping through a tourist hotspot. Take your pick.
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Speaker 2: But the lesson I think the message is don't expect
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Speaker 2: that it won't come soon, or that it won't come tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Brian Bridgley twenty eight minutes after five News Talks hed
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Speaker 2: b Now, apparently there's a thing going on with boyfriend's
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Speaker 2: girls not wanting to say women and girls not wanting
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Speaker 2: to let the internet know that they've got boyfriends. I
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Speaker 2: know it sounds weird, but apparently this is a sort
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Speaker 2: of a movement where young women. There was a Vogue
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Speaker 2: article that was published about how it's not cool to
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Speaker 2: have a boyfriend anymore. It was like so early two
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Speaker 2: thousand and early two thousands, and they're basically women are
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Speaker 2: erasing their relationships from social media because it's no longer
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Speaker 2: cool to have a boyfriend. I don't really understand why,
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Speaker 2: and trying to get Kenzy to explain it to me
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Speaker 2: earlier before the program. I think it's because men don't
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Speaker 2: treat women right and there's a problem with that in
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Speaker 2: the Internet's identifying it, so it's no longer a cool thing.
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Speaker 2: So the trend is changing. Coming up after News at
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Speaker 2: five thirty, we're going to talk to our reporters obviously,
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Speaker 2: and we will also head to the UK find out
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Speaker 2: what's going on with the drones. Nicole McKee on the
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Speaker 2: government's plan to tackle meth. That's coming before six as
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Speaker 2: well News Talks, AB.
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Speaker 2: Twenty four away from six. News Talk said bigreat to
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Speaker 2: have your company This Monday morning before six, we'll look
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Speaker 2: at the government's plan to tackle meth and we will
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Speaker 2: head to the UK with Gavin Gray. Just a quick
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Speaker 2: mention off the back of sport, what a fantastic performance
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Speaker 2: from Emma Tweg. I saw some of it Beach sprint
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Speaker 2: rowing Champs. Did you know it was the thing, to
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Speaker 2: be honest, didn't really until I was watching it. A
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Speaker 2: fantastic event and man it's hard to be in the
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Speaker 2: water expelling so much energy and then running on sand
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Speaker 2: that looked like the hardest part, to be honest. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: congratulations to her. Hopefully she will be appearing at the
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Speaker 2: LA Olympics in a very different sport to rowing. It
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Speaker 2: is twenty three minutes away.
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Speaker 7: From six rayam Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Clum procdri enginetin for us this morning. Get a Cullum
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Speaker 2: morning right, good morning. Southend's emergency Management plan is getting
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Speaker 2: a bit of a reboot.
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Speaker 10: Yeah it is, and it's all about the timing here
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Speaker 10: because this comes hot on the heels of, of course,
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Speaker 10: last month's severe weather that thrashed the region and it's
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Speaker 10: still recovering. Emergency Management seens inviting public feedback on its
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Speaker 10: next draft group plan. This will set the stage for
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Speaker 10: twenty twenty five through to twenty thirty. Are the plans
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Speaker 10: setting the direction for how Southland will reduce risk and
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Speaker 10: recover from future emergencies. Emergency Management south And says this
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Speaker 10: plan reflects a modern hazard landscape, the reliance on technology now,
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Speaker 10: the aging population costs a living and also cross boundary
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Speaker 10: risks with Otaga and the West Coast.
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Speaker 2: All right, Calum, how's your weather?
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Speaker 10: Mixed bag, high cloud, afternoon, fine spells, then a strong
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Speaker 10: southerly change this evening heavy thundery, shells and hail later
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Speaker 10: today the high twenty two brilliant.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Let's go to clear on christ Chach morning.
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Speaker 8: Claire, good morning.
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Speaker 2: A cup and show week this week for you.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, big one down here, big one for the social
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Speaker 11: calendars for many anyway. It is also for visitors who
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Speaker 11: flock into the city. We're expecting thousands in christ Church
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Speaker 11: from today really, but the events really kick off tomorrow
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Speaker 11: for New Zealand Cup Day at Addington. I actually said
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Speaker 11: last week to someone that it was our version of
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Speaker 11: Melbourne Cup. I think that's blasphemy though for anyone who's
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Speaker 11: actually been to Flemington. But it is a very big
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Speaker 11: day for those here. We have thousands who pack into
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Speaker 11: Addington for the big day. Some action starts at midday.
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Speaker 11: There'll be a big race.
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Speaker 5: Of course.
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Speaker 11: At ten to six, we've got the likes of five
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Speaker 11: hundred kilos of Salm and Phillett seven hundred kilos of
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Speaker 11: chicken being prepared for the special day. The events center
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Speaker 11: manager Graham Jones says it is their biggest event and
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Speaker 11: they prepare.
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Speaker 8: All year for it.
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Speaker 11: Then we've got the show kicking off on Thursday. The
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Speaker 11: event will run through to Saturday for the second time,
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Speaker 11: which makes it easier for families to get along.
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Speaker 2: Oh great, how's the weather going to be for all
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Speaker 2: of this?
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Speaker 11: Well, we start the week with a high of twenty five,
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Speaker 11: a fine day, normally's gusty for a time a bit later.
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Speaker 11: Some showers on the forecast later in the week.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant, Thanks Claire, Max and Wellington Morning Max, good morning.
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Speaker 2: You've got public sector workers taking more sickly for how
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Speaker 2: much we're talking Yes, story in the post this morning.
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Speaker 12: This is the government's latest workplace wellness report, and I
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Speaker 12: would say it does nothing to allay certain stereo types
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Speaker 12: around public sector workers. On average, they're taking nearly two
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Speaker 12: more sick days a year than those in the private sector,
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Speaker 12: eight point four to an average of six point five.
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Speaker 12: We did look at sick leave last week. As z B,
21:12
Speaker 12: workers in general are taking more than ever before, a
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Speaker 12: lot of employer business types telling us it could actually
21:17
Speaker 12: be a good thing, as post COVID, we're being a
21:20
Speaker 12: little more responsible with sickness. But the increase from the
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Speaker 12: public to private sector is interesting. The PSA UNI and
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Speaker 12: patting itself on the back, it says unions are stronger
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Speaker 12: at government agencies and departments, therefore workers feel more confident
21:33
Speaker 12: at taking their sick leave a lot, also reporting that
21:36
Speaker 12: their staff will work from home a lot when mildly
21:39
Speaker 12: sick as well. In the public sector, the Ministry of
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Speaker 12: Social Development topping the rankings with an astonishing average of
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Speaker 12: fifteen days of sick leave taken on average a year.
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Speaker 2: Fifteen. Yeah, goodness me, there must be a bug going
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Speaker 2: around that particular office round as you're with the.
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Speaker 12: Me yeah, fine to start some cloud and showers later
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Speaker 12: strong northerlyas nineteenth.
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Speaker 2: How do you justify that?
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Speaker 7: Max?
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Speaker 2: Thank you? Nevas are not neva good morning, fifteen secon
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Speaker 2: day the average, So imagine what some would must be
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Speaker 2: taking for the average to be fifteen?
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Speaker 13: Well, can I just say, is you well know last
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Speaker 13: week Yeah, I had the flu. I was so bad.
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Speaker 1: Listen to me.
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Speaker 7: I was so bad.
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Speaker 2: I nearly died.
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Speaker 7: I nearly died.
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Speaker 13: Well, that's where I came into the newser I was
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Speaker 13: so bad. I went, Oh, here comes Neva.
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Speaker 2: I can still hear it in your voice.
22:30
Speaker 13: The huskiness I sound like ten men instead of My
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Speaker 13: voice has dropped even more. No, but I took a
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Speaker 13: couple of COVID tests because I thought, was this COVID?
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Speaker 7: Yeah?
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Speaker 13: And then I played that doctor Google game. I should
22:44
Speaker 13: never have done that. I couldn't get out of bid
22:46
Speaker 13: for six.
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Speaker 9: Days, you poor things, exactly, and.
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Speaker 13: You didn't even text me and bring around anything, flipping.
22:53
Speaker 2: To fear I was away for half. Oh that's what
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Speaker 2: you were too anyway. But you're better than well, you're enough.
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Speaker 13: There was the first thick days that I've taken in oh,
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Speaker 13: I don't know about two years.
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Speaker 2: And not fifteen days, though even though you probably could
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Speaker 2: you could have used an extra couple.
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Speaker 7: Of days exactly.
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Speaker 13: I mean, I really should have been here today, but
23:16
Speaker 13: I'm just so diligent.
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Speaker 2: Don't get too close, then, exactly why do I hit
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Speaker 2: the measles?
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Speaker 13: I thought I've got all the symptoms except that crucial
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Speaker 13: rash of the spots. I started getting sore eyes and
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Speaker 13: I thought, well that'll be it. I can't do my job.
23:30
Speaker 13: How can I read the news if I can't see it.
23:33
Speaker 13: That's talk about the weather, now, can we Okay?
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Speaker 2: How we're looking.
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Speaker 13: Showers, some heavy from afternoon tuning to rain at night.
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Speaker 13: Twenty four is the high today and I shall good
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Speaker 13: day for me to go throw back into my bed.
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Speaker 2: A horrible time to have the flu and be, you know,
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Speaker 2: for your temperature to be skew with because it's so human.
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Speaker 13: And I've just got to say this one thing is
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Speaker 13: it's about me and I haven't been on here for
23:53
Speaker 13: a few days. It was my birthday yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Oh, you're the worst friend of the whole. I thought
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Speaker 2: I put it in my calendar last year, but I
24:04
Speaker 2: can't have.
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Speaker 13: Because we are scorpio twins and birthday coming up and
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Speaker 13: it was your husband's last week. So how Fanny's birthday?
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Speaker 5: The dog?
24:14
Speaker 2: How do we know this? Because I remember, Okay, I'm
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Speaker 2: a bad person. You are god self righteous? Neither off
24:22
Speaker 2: you go seventeen away from sex News Talks.
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Speaker 2: News talks, they'd be We'll get to Nicole McKee on
24:34
Speaker 2: meth in just a second. Well, she's not on myth obviously,
24:38
Speaker 2: but on the meth issue, they are tackling the problem.
24:41
Speaker 2: They've got money, they've got extra resources. We'll find out
24:44
Speaker 2: what difference it'll make first though, Let's go to the UK.
24:47
Speaker 2: So the Brits are helping Belgium. Belgium's had a problem
24:50
Speaker 2: with the drones, are potentially the Russians incurring into the airspace.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to our UK correspondent, Gavin Gray. Gavin, good
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Speaker 2: morning on Iran.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know we've been reporting on this, haven't we,
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Speaker 4: Because there's been drone incursions over several European airports, both
25:07
Speaker 4: civilian airports but also of the military AirPods, and people
25:12
Speaker 4: have said, well, is it Russia? Plenty of finger pointing.
25:14
Speaker 4: Russia says it's not, and it's not quite known whether
25:18
Speaker 4: we should be taking this seriously. Now we know that
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Speaker 4: Britain is giving both kit and manpower to Belgium in
25:25
Speaker 4: order to try to stop these drone incursions into its airspace,
25:30
Speaker 4: and I think all of a sudden we view this
25:32
Speaker 4: through a very different mirror now, because it's all really
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Speaker 4: I think part of this concern that Russia is deliberately
25:38
Speaker 4: flexing its muscles, making Europe feel awkward and testing the
25:43
Speaker 4: resolve of the European nations. Now we've learned already the
25:46
Speaker 4: German Defense Ministry is supporting Belgium with anti drone measures
25:49
Speaker 4: after a request from Brussels. And we do know as
25:52
Speaker 4: well that there was considerable cost for the canceling of
25:56
Speaker 4: or diverting of dozens of flights at this particular airport.
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Speaker 4: And so we believe the RAF's two Force Protection Wing,
26:03
Speaker 4: which was also deployed in an anti drone role to
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Speaker 4: the Paris Olympics last year, is now in action in Belgium.
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Speaker 2: What about this accidentally releasing prisoners, There's a couple more
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Speaker 2: or are these old ones that we're finding out details
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Speaker 2: about now?
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Speaker 4: Yes, they are old cases that we are only now
26:21
Speaker 4: finding out about. We have had weeks now of this
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Speaker 4: of prisoners being accidentally released when either they should have
26:28
Speaker 4: been staying in prison or they should have been deported.
26:31
Speaker 4: Instead they've been freed. And now we learn that actually
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Speaker 4: there are two hundred and sixty two prisoners in England
26:37
Speaker 4: and Wales mistakenly freed in the year to March.
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Speaker 7: Who were they.
26:41
Speaker 4: Well, we're not talking petty thieves here. Some of them
26:43
Speaker 4: are sexual assaults, sex offenders, others violent offenders, some for
26:50
Speaker 4: fraud as well. Now we learn two of them are
26:53
Speaker 4: still on the run after being mistakenly freed last year,
26:57
Speaker 4: and according to reports, another two set free in in
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Speaker 4: June also remain missing. It's become a real political hot potato.
27:05
Speaker 4: The Deputy Prime Minister is in charge of Justice and
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Speaker 4: the presence. He's saying he's put these stringent measures in place,
27:11
Speaker 4: and there is disagreement over how many have actually managed
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Speaker 4: to be mistakenly released after those stringent measures were put
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Speaker 4: into places.
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Speaker 2: What a mess, total shamozzle. Thank you so much, Gavin
27:24
Speaker 2: Gavin Gray are UK Europe correspondent.
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Speaker 7: It's twelve to six rail Bridge now.
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Speaker 2: The government having another crack at the meth problem. There'll
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Speaker 2: be an ad campaign, joint ops between Customs Defense, the GCSB,
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Speaker 2: tougher police powers border security. Meth use, as you know,
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Speaker 2: has doubled last year, heading nearly fifteen hundred kilos. Nicole McKees,
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Speaker 2: the Associate Minister of Justice with me this morning. Minister
27:46
Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning Ryan. How much like do you
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Speaker 2: have a number? What impact will this have on the
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Speaker 2: supply of meth in New Zealand? Will we have ten
27:56
Speaker 2: thousand fewer addicts as a result of the program you've
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Speaker 2: an bounced? Do we know?
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Speaker 14: Well, that's the thing, Ryan, is that we've known for
28:04
Speaker 14: the last twenty years that we've got a methanphetamine problem
28:08
Speaker 14: in New Zealand, but no one's actually been able to
28:11
Speaker 14: coordinate to do anything about it. So there's been no
28:13
Speaker 14: stats around whether or not we are having any effect
28:18
Speaker 14: in the right areas, and it would seem that we're
28:20
Speaker 14: not when we see that there's a doubling in the
28:23
Speaker 14: consumption over the last year, when we see that there's
28:25
Speaker 14: a two hundred and sixty six percent increase in siezures
28:29
Speaker 14: at the border. So what we can do is actually
28:32
Speaker 14: implement some of these ideas. So we've got the whole
28:34
Speaker 14: justice sector, Ministers of come in looked at our portfolios.
28:38
Speaker 14: What can we do. I can smash it in the
28:40
Speaker 14: organized crime criminal proceeds area, for example, can we funnel
28:45
Speaker 14: that money back into the community. Then how do we
28:48
Speaker 14: assess it? What is it that we're actually going to
28:51
Speaker 14: be looking for and I guess some of the areas
28:53
Speaker 14: that we already know about. So we have this massive
28:56
Speaker 14: increase in violence for examples. So this fits very nicely,
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Speaker 14: this plan of what we're doing into the government's target
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Speaker 14: four of twenty thousand fewer victims by the end of
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Speaker 14: twenty twenty nine. So we look at the victims and
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Speaker 14: we know that there is a portion of people on meth.
29:15
Speaker 14: They'refore times likely to commit violence. We know that those
29:19
Speaker 14: that are on meth are also three points six times
29:22
Speaker 14: more likely to be victims, so we can measure it
29:26
Speaker 14: if we see that coming down.
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Speaker 2: I get all that, but as you have said, we
29:30
Speaker 2: know that the problem's gotten way worse despite everything we
29:35
Speaker 2: have been doing. So yeah, it is. And how radically
29:39
Speaker 2: different is.
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Speaker 14: This Well, I think the coordinated approach not just going
29:44
Speaker 14: off after them at the border, not just me going
29:46
Speaker 14: after their funds of misery and giving it back to
29:49
Speaker 14: the community, but also looking at how we can support
29:52
Speaker 14: the community. So, as an example, eleven million dollars is
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Speaker 14: going into the Resilience to Organize Crime and Communities Less
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Speaker 14: initiative that helps the communities use their own community networks
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Speaker 14: to support them to get off mes, stay off mess.
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Speaker 2: We've also got what's eleven million is it?
30:11
Speaker 14: So it's eleven eleven million dollars.
30:14
Speaker 2: The shortage of rehab beds in this country is a
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Speaker 2: massive problem. Is eleven million dollars going to fix it?
30:21
Speaker 14: Well, eleven million dollars is going into the rock Work
30:24
Speaker 14: program to make sure that we can utilize what we
30:27
Speaker 14: have in our communities. This is pulling everything together from
30:31
Speaker 14: all angles instead of just attacking one. So that eleven
30:35
Speaker 14: million dollars is not over four years until the end
30:37
Speaker 14: of December twenty twenty six, helps us pull everything up,
30:41
Speaker 14: identify where these community lead projects are. Twenty three million
30:45
Speaker 14: dollars going into a police AML team working with our
30:48
Speaker 14: international partners. Thirty million dollars also going into secondary school
30:53
Speaker 14: based teams. I mean there's money going into all sorts
30:57
Speaker 14: of areas so we can tackle it from all.
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Speaker 2: We will see, see mister, we will see whether that
31:03
Speaker 2: bears fruit. Appreciate your time this morning, Nicole McKee, who's
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Speaker 2: the Associate Justice Minister. It is eight to six news Talk, said.
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Speaker 2: To six on news Talk sib I hope you have
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Speaker 2: a great date work, unless you're with MSD and then
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Speaker 2: you're probably not going. We heard from Max and Wellington
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Speaker 2: earlier this morning that they take on average at the
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Speaker 2: Social Development Ministry fifteen six days a year. That's the average,
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Speaker 2: So imagine what the range would be. Ryan, I own
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Speaker 2: a forestry crew, eight employees. Only one has been sick
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Speaker 2: in the last two years. We're out in all sorts
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Speaker 15: It's all about the vibe, isn't it?
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Speaker 2: The vibe in that it's about the vibe.
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Speaker 15: If you enjoy your job, you turn up at work.
31:56
Speaker 15: If you don't like your job and the Ministry of
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Speaker 15: Social Development does that sound like?
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Speaker 2: That doesn't sound No, it doesn't. It sounds like a
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Speaker 2: lot of computer says No, computer says maybe. But obviously
32:07
Speaker 2: Neva's just headed a week off. I didn't realize.
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Speaker 15: That she was ill. I mean, I knew she had
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Speaker 15: some time off. I didn't realize she was she was
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Speaker 15: ill with it? But man, what what?
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Speaker 7: What?
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Speaker 15: A fabulous dissertation she gave you about herself on this program.
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Speaker 15: So it's still nice to dominate a radio program with
32:20
Speaker 15: your own personal problems.
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Speaker 2: For the stop, I didn't know. I just sort of
32:24
Speaker 2: let her run, really you did. But no in her
32:28
Speaker 2: birthday yesterdays yesterday as well, which was mentioned a couple
32:31
Speaker 2: of times.
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Speaker 15: It's almost as though she wants her own program or
32:36
Speaker 15: I'm surprised she hasn't got a podcast.
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Speaker 2: It's just the stuff stuff.
32:40
Speaker 15: I'm currently thinking about by Neva.
32:42
Speaker 2: Do you find it entertaining every time we see another
32:44
Speaker 2: tweet from Winston Peters saying we you know, correcting?
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Speaker 15: Is he still on about that?
32:49
Speaker 2: He did another one at the weekend? Did you not
32:51
Speaker 2: see this? This was about what was the first one about?
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Speaker 15: The first one was about the deal that the deal
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Speaker 15: with Malaysia time, and.
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Speaker 2: One was about Gumboot Friday. Luxon said National maybe he
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Speaker 2: should just stop tweeting. Actually National funded Gumboot Friday, and
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Speaker 2: then in steps wants them to say, we good.
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Speaker 15: It's going to be an interesting election year, isn't it.
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Speaker 15: You look at you know, I was talking to somebody
33:16
Speaker 15: over the weekend and it will have been my guess
33:19
Speaker 15: let's let's open a book on this. My guess is
33:21
Speaker 15: it was this last Saturday a year ago, yes, so
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Speaker 15: early no bit six or seven and November it will
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Speaker 15: be is that your number is it?
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Speaker 2: Well, that's the number from that. The Irenz has a
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Speaker 15: They've also got a burden one of those as well.
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Speaker 2: In the house service, which is quite informative, and that
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Speaker 2: they looked at the calendar and they basically said the
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Speaker 16: Good, the the the in the in the house service.
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Speaker 16: Oh my god, you're more boring than Diva. Well, Orens,
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Speaker 16: that's got it in the half fabulous.
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Speaker 2: All right, Well, my show starts all right, great, looking
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Speaker 2: forward to it. Mike News Talks MB see tomorrow.
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Speaker 7: For more from early edition with Ryan Bridge.
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