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Full Show Podcast: 03 November 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickens on
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Speaker 2: They'd be welcome wanting to you so ACC staff have
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Speaker 2: been told that they will have to work at least
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Speaker 2: three days in their office in a week instead of two,
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Speaker 2: which is the current deal. The union's outraged. We're going
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Speaker 2: to find out why in about five minutes time. A
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Speaker 2: great weekend of sport with a load of winds. Andrew
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Speaker 2: Ordison will wrap it up all in ten minutes time,
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Speaker 2: including the retirement of King Williamson from T twenty. I'll
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Speaker 2: tell you which river in North Auckland is being systematically
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Speaker 2: ruined by water care and five reew wards are being
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Speaker 2: built at our hospitals. They're called rapid builds that look
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Speaker 2: suspiciously like prefabs. Will have Health Minister sim And Brown
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Speaker 2: to tell us about the plans and he'll be talking
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Speaker 2: to us just before six. We're off to the UK
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Speaker 2: with Gavin Gray. We have correspondence from right around New
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Speaker 2: Zealand and you can have your say as well by
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Speaker 2: texting ninety two ninety two. A small change does apply
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Speaker 2: a good Morning tier. It's seven out of five.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's Funday, the third of November. A horrific scene
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Speaker 2: on a train from Doncaster to London, a mess stebbing lived,
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Speaker 2: eleven people in hospital and two fighting for their lives
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Speaker 2: at Both attackers are apparently in custody.
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Speaker 3: Within eight minutes of the nine to nine to nine
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Speaker 3: call being made, two men were brought into police custody,
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Speaker 3: where they remain this morning.
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Speaker 1: I can tell you that.
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Speaker 3: These are the first mail A thirty two year old male,
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Speaker 3: a black British national, and a thirty five year old man,
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Speaker 3: a British national of Caribbean descent. They were both arrested
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Speaker 3: on suspicion of attempted murder.
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Speaker 2: And authority say there's no sign that was terror related
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Speaker 2: to and Meanwhile, in the UK, the Royal cleanup continues.
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Speaker 2: The UK governments here as it's working to remove Prince
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Speaker 2: Andrews's former Prince Andrews last honorary title and they're doing
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Speaker 2: that at the King's request. He lost his title of
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Speaker 2: Prince last week. Meanwhile, over in the US, lawmakers are
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Speaker 2: digging into the Epstein case and they want Andrew to
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Speaker 2: finally front up and answer questions.
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Speaker 4: He can absolutely do it remotely. He can have a lawyer.
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Speaker 5: President.
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Speaker 6: We have many options for him to tell us what
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Speaker 6: he knows.
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Speaker 2: And finally, two more had been charged over the Louver heist,
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Speaker 2: a man and a woman, both of course denying it completely.
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Speaker 2: They'll joined two others who have partially admitted some involvement.
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Speaker 2: The jewels worth one hundred million dollars. Well, they're still missing.
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Speaker 7: When these five were picked up on the Wednesday, we
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Speaker 7: were told that one of them, one of the five,
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Speaker 7: was somebody who had been at the scene but not
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Speaker 7: gone into the loop, been down below and helped with
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Speaker 7: the getaway. So it seems likely that this other person charged,
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Speaker 7: a thirty seven year old man, was one of the
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Speaker 7: people on the ground on the road outside the loop
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Speaker 7: when all this took place.
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Speaker 2: It's nine minutes after five.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Andrew
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Speaker 2: So this coming week in the twenty twenty five United
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Speaker 2: Nations Climate Change Conference gets underway in Brazil, and the
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Speaker 2: world will gather yet again to discuss the climate and
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Speaker 2: come up with not much at all. But America is
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Speaker 2: not going. They have decided not to send a representative
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Speaker 2: because Donald Trump thinks the climate change is a con job,
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Speaker 2: which I think is a cop out from the cop conference.
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Speaker 2: If you don't believe in it, go and change the
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Speaker 2: world's mind. Don't sulk at home calling bs. If you
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Speaker 2: think the world is being conned, go and tell them how.
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Speaker 2: But no matter what you believe, the weather continues. The
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Speaker 2: headlines have been everywhere over the past week. New Zealand storms,
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Speaker 2: communities without power, the Caribbean being wrecked by a superpowered
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Speaker 2: hurricane fired on by superheated oceans. And then the UN
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Speaker 2: Secretary General last week waited in saying we've to prevent
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Speaker 2: a one point five degree rise in temperatures, So world,
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Speaker 2: brace yourself for a bad climate. And then there was
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Speaker 2: Bill Gates. He released a memo ahead of this climate summit.
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Speaker 2: He argued that climate change is serious, but it's not apocalyptic,
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Speaker 2: and he said let's talk innovation and not alarmism. So
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Speaker 2: when peoplehoard Bill say that, they argued that he's made
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Speaker 2: a one hundred and eighty degree turn against climate change.
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Speaker 2: But actually I don't think he said that at all
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Speaker 2: he reckoned. The focus should shift from strictly reducing emissions
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Speaker 2: and temperature targets to improving human lives in the face
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Speaker 2: of the climate, especially the poorest countries, that we should
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Speaker 2: concentrate on surviving whatever comes our way. He didn't turn
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Speaker 2: his back on climate change mitigation on human activities. He's
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Speaker 2: just being pragmatic and rational, saying, well, where this is
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Speaker 2: pretty horrific, you're going to have to do something about it.
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Speaker 2: If you want to live in Jamaica, build homes that
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Speaker 2: can take two hundred kilometers in our winds and flooding.
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Speaker 2: And if you want to live in Kluther, make sure
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Speaker 2: your infrastructure is strong enough to take some wild weather.
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Speaker 2: So that's what I think COP thirty should be about
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Speaker 2: as it arrives in Brazil this weekend, they should be
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Speaker 2: talking about how we get through, how we survive what's
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Speaker 2: already hitting us. And the States turning their back on
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Speaker 2: the conference is a bit like an ostriche bearing its head.
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Speaker 1: As that be.
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Speaker 2: So apparently the people who run the ACC went to
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Speaker 2: the staff and gave them one hour notice and said, look,
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Speaker 2: from now on, you have to work three days in
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Speaker 2: the office, are not two and the workers were outraged,
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Speaker 2: and so are you. I can see already we've got
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Speaker 2: texts coming through ACC stuff should be in their office
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Speaker 2: Monday through Friday. So why is the union so outraged
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Speaker 2: at what does not seem to be an onerous task
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Speaker 2: of being in an office three days of a week
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Speaker 2: in a five day working week. We'll find out in
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Speaker 2: a few moments time. Flurffit Simons will be joining us.
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Speaker 1: News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 2: It's coming up fifteen minutes after five. So the PSA
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Speaker 2: is taking the ACC to the EERA, that's the Employment
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Speaker 2: Relations Authority. They claim they've been blindsided over new work
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Speaker 2: from home rules ACC Todd staff. They now need to
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Speaker 2: be in the office three days a week. That's up
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Speaker 2: from two. And the Union's here is they got less
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Speaker 2: than one hour's notice of the change. So PSA National
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Speaker 2: Secretary Flir fitz Simons is joining me. Now come on
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Speaker 2: into your flir.
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Speaker 4: Good morning, Andrew.
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Speaker 2: What's the case you're taking?
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Speaker 4: Really? What we're asking the employments authority to do is
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Speaker 4: to suspend the new role and instead engage in some
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Speaker 4: proper consultation with ACC staff with an open mind. Because
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Speaker 4: many people have planned their whole lives around their current
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Speaker 4: working from home arrangements. And we've got a provision in
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Speaker 4: the employment agreement that says they meant to talk to
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Speaker 4: us before they make changes, just not announce them to staff.
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Speaker 2: Why should they get these rights because a lot of people,
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Speaker 2: and I'm seeing this happening already on our text, a
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Speaker 2: lot of people would say that working three days in
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Speaker 2: an office is not a hard ask.
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Speaker 4: Well, actually, what many people at ACC did is they
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Speaker 4: saw the jobs that they've currently got advertised, and when
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Speaker 4: they were advertised, they said three days working from home.
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Speaker 4: So people applied for these jobs changed roles and now
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Speaker 4: they feel really deceived and consider it sort of false advertising.
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Speaker 4: But actually, when you can work from home, and when
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Speaker 4: it can work for you and your employer, it can
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Speaker 4: be a very good thing. It can improve productivity, it
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Speaker 4: can mean better concentration, and we know that it does
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Speaker 4: improve staff morale as well.
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Speaker 2: But shouldn't the employer get the right to choose the
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Speaker 2: best way to improve productivity and if they believe it's
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Speaker 2: from working in the office three days a week. That's
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Speaker 2: the way. Why shouldn't they have that right, Well, the.
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Speaker 4: Reality is they agreed a provision in the con tracked
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Speaker 4: with us which says that they will consult with staff
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Speaker 4: on proposed policy changes, and then they recruited all these
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Speaker 4: workers on the basis that they could work from home
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Speaker 4: like that. So they're feeling really cheated and misled.
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Speaker 2: So if you got together and you had a bit
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Speaker 2: of a negotiation about it and they gave you more notice,
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Speaker 2: the one hour thing was I was a bit rough.
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Speaker 2: But if you got together had a bit of a
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Speaker 2: chat about it, is three days a week really such
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Speaker 2: a hard ask?
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Speaker 4: Well, there are two elements really. The first one is
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Speaker 4: they do need to talk to us. We will listen
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Speaker 4: and we expect them to listen to staff. Then there's
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Speaker 4: another element, which is that staff do have this agreed
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Speaker 4: commitment that's been made to them. Now, employers in New
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Speaker 4: Zealand can't simply change contractual commitments. They need to agree
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Speaker 4: them with the worker. So there's sort of two elements
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Speaker 4: to it really, And we're asking the Employment Relations Authority
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Speaker 4: to tal ACC that they need to listen it's pretty unfortunate.
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Speaker 4: It's come to that we shouldn't need to tell an
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Speaker 4: employer through legal action that I need to listen to
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Speaker 4: their staff before they make it a decision.
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Speaker 2: But here we are all right, Flur, I thank you
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Speaker 2: so much for your time this Monday morning. Flir FitzSimons
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Speaker 2: as the PSA National Secretary, how do you feel about this?
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Speaker 2: You can textas ninety two ninety two small charge does apply.
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Speaker 2: Already got a text in and it says Andrew. It
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Speaker 2: has become patently obvious that the labor friendly unions are
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Speaker 2: held bend on undermining this government. And it has been
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Speaker 2: proven that our productivity is very low and working from
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Speaker 2: home is clearly not helping. So are they just causing trouble?
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Speaker 2: What do you think? Ninety two ninety two is the number?
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Speaker 2: It is eighteen minutes after five the marathon, the Auclad
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Speaker 2: Marathon was over the weekend. Seventeen thousand people went and
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Speaker 2: ran all round the streets of all beautiful weather for
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Speaker 2: it as well, and in the women's race, Bridget Dennahey,
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Speaker 2: who was the champion last year, was the champion again
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Speaker 2: this year and she broke the record. She ran that
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Speaker 2: marathon in two hours and thirty eight minutes and ten seconds,
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Speaker 2: which is a great time. She was on fire. And
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Speaker 2: I want to say a big ups to the guy
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Speaker 2: spotted on the side of the course who had a
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Speaker 2: big sign on as seventeen thousand people ran past and
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Speaker 2: the sign read I can call you an uber. Eighteen
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Speaker 2: after five Looking more sport with Andrew Ordison in just
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Speaker 2: a few moments.
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Speaker 2: Andrew Ordison Cricket Tragic is in the studio with Mike
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Speaker 2: warning to you reading's Andrew so Cane quit yesterday from
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Speaker 2: T twenties for the internationals but not the money makers.
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Speaker 2: So was this a shock or not? I don't think so. Really,
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Speaker 2: I think it's been coming for a while.
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Speaker 8: I mean, as he is, he famously said back in
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Speaker 8: the day, I mean, was it with it that T
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Speaker 8: twenties wasn't as you know.
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Speaker 2: That it was at least preferred of the three forms.
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Speaker 2: Thing not his thing. He likes to build a build
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Speaker 2: it slowly. Third favorite He's not whacking bash. So he's
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Speaker 2: still with us for the fifty Games, fifty overs, he's
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Speaker 2: still still with the one day to Nationals, and still
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Speaker 2: with tests, and you think about the test program coming up.
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Speaker 8: Well in the coming year they'll go to England, they'll
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Speaker 8: play India as well at home, and then they'll play Australia.
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Speaker 8: So there's still plenty on the horizon for came Williamson.
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Speaker 8: In that regard, you would think fitness pending. But thirty
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Speaker 8: five years old now and perhaps time just to step
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Speaker 8: back from one and it's just going to be one.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely and well what a great whitewash of England. And
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Speaker 2: now it happens all over again because Thursday West Indies. Yes,
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Speaker 2: so there's.
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Speaker 1: Your bumper spring of cricket.
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Speaker 2: This continues, Andrew. I didn't like the idea of the
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Speaker 2: spring of cricket, but I'm actually begetting to quite enjoy
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Speaker 2: it well, especially when we went. The w's helped. I
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Speaker 2: also like watching rugby early on a Sunday morning, not
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Speaker 2: too early, so you can wake up, have a cup
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Speaker 2: of coffee and set down. That's a great time for
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Speaker 2: it is that and I knew that Island would be rough,
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Speaker 2: but I didn't expect the All Backs to be as
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Speaker 2: rough as they were.
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Speaker 8: Yeah it was, and it was sort of stop stars turnovers.
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Speaker 2: It was messy, was that first half.
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Speaker 8: But they pulled it together thankfully, and I guess that's
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Speaker 8: that's what you want and expect those All Black teams
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Speaker 8: in the past to do it in the last twenty minutes,
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Speaker 8: what three tries and effectively turning the game around and
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Speaker 8: keeping the Grand Slam narrative.
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Speaker 2: We're going to hear a lot about in the next
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Speaker 2: few weeks. Everyone talked to me about, you know, all
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Speaker 2: Ireland is going to be the big challenge, but then
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Speaker 2: England just wasted Australia in the weekend and I've been
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Speaker 2: watching their Premiership and they're playing really beautiful football over there,
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Speaker 2: and I'm getting a bit concerned about this game.
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Speaker 8: I'm thinking England's probably the big the key to it,
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Speaker 8: I mean Scotland and going all right as well. I
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Speaker 8: mean Wales not so much and many of the last
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Speaker 8: last I guess Domino to four if you're going to
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Speaker 8: take out their fifth Grand Slam. But yeah, I good
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Speaker 8: to knock over Ireland, especially when you look back me
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Speaker 8: now that Soldier Field episode from twenty sixteen and et cetera.
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Speaker 8: It was a bit haunting, but they were able to
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Speaker 8: do it and move on through. But I mean, yeah,
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Speaker 8: just good to see the last twenty gets good to
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Speaker 8: see some of the other players coming in off the
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Speaker 8: bench after sudden injuries with the Jordian and Scott Barrett,
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Speaker 8: et cetera.
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Speaker 2: So and Live Sport, we've got a World Cup final happening. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and last I saw fifty one for one in the tenth.
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Speaker 2: It's probably moved on a little bit now. But importantly
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Speaker 2: for South Africa against India and Mumbai, Laura vulbart Is
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Speaker 2: the opening bat of course, made that one sixty nine
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Speaker 2: off one hundred and forty three balls in the semi
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Speaker 2: absolute star player for them of eight and share.
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Speaker 8: It's gonna be interesting. They're chasing two ninety nine to win.
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Speaker 8: So yeah, I think she could be another thriller. Keep
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Speaker 8: us up to potentially.
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Speaker 2: It's five twenty six. I'm Andrew Dickinson for Bryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: He's back again. On Thursday, Heather was away on Friday.
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Speaker 2: She went to Oats in Melbourne and it was amazing.
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Speaker 2: So I was on the radio. So in the drivetime
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Speaker 2: show ran about six pm Friday, I interviewed representative of
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Speaker 2: oyster farmers in the Mahangi area who were outraged at
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Speaker 2: a wastewater dumped by Watercare that had poisoned all their oysters.
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Speaker 2: They have to close because of this dump. They have
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Speaker 2: to close for twenty eight days, close down their business.
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Speaker 2: One farmers had to dump eighty thousand oysters. That is
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Speaker 2: not good for business, that's not good for their cash flow.
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Speaker 2: And as the interview went on, I found out that
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Speaker 2: this is not an isolated incident. In fact, it's happened
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Speaker 2: wait for this, thirty nine times this year. And even worse,
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Speaker 2: apparently Watercare has the right to do a dump like
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Speaker 2: this two hundred times every year. I was flabbergasted. That's
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Speaker 2: a lot of dumping into a river, of a lot
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Speaker 2: of wastewater that's killing the oysters and the mullets. And
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Speaker 2: then on the weekend I actually got a personal call
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Speaker 2: from a local MP and she told me the Watercare
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Speaker 2: basically wrote their own consent, they needed to involve public consultation.
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Speaker 2: Yet all they did was drop some leaflets at the
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Speaker 2: walk with Library, so nobody knew this was happening. She
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Speaker 2: raised the issue with the mayor, the man who wants
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Speaker 2: to make Auckland a global city, and mister fix It
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Speaker 2: didn't seem at all interested in fixing it. And so
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Speaker 2: now they dumped the region's wastewater into the Muhoe Rangy
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Speaker 2: River and they're allowed to do that two hundred times
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Speaker 2: a year. It's killing the river, it's destroying the oyster business.
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Speaker 2: It's decibated commercial fishing in the area. So it's a
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Speaker 2: bit of a symptom of intensification because walkwiths going off.
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Speaker 2: It's a symptom of the infrastructure being unable to cope
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Speaker 2: with the new demand. We build the houses, we don't
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Speaker 2: make the infrastructure. And it's a symptom of a council
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Speaker 2: not having enough money to fix the problem and not
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Speaker 2: having enough desire to help the effective businesses and not
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Speaker 2: wanting to rescue a wrecked river. And honestly, I'd rather
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Speaker 2: go and swim in the River Thames in London or
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Speaker 2: the sand in Paris than swim in the Maharangi in
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Speaker 2: rural North Auckland. And isn't that a shame? This issue
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Speaker 2: has been swept under the carpet by water Care and
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Speaker 2: the authorities. And it's frankly just not good enough because
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Speaker 2: day by day, clean green functioning New Zealand is becoming
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Speaker 2: a myth and a lie we all like to tell.
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Speaker 1: Zibby.
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Speaker 2: So the PSA up in arms at the ACC was
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Speaker 2: told that, oh, you're going to have to work three
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Speaker 2: days a week in the office now instead of two
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Speaker 2: one hour's notice, and so they're taking them to legal action.
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Speaker 2: All right, I said, how do you feel? Well? Nobody
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Speaker 2: is supporting the PSA. Everyone says a text and needs
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Speaker 2: to go back to work. That's why all these shops
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Speaker 2: and small businesses are failing in the business zones. There's
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Speaker 2: no one out buying the sandwiches, pies and coffee. Marty Andrew,
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Speaker 2: I know an ACC worker. He's fine with three days
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Speaker 2: a week, but only if they don't mandate the days,
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Speaker 2: because he's petrified of losing his four day weekends. The
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Speaker 2: er better support ACC on this because workers are taking
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Speaker 2: the piss. Another Texas says, father them if they don't
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Speaker 2: want to drag themselves to the office at least three
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Speaker 2: days a week. ACC is a cockcase anyway, and another
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Speaker 2: one says entitlement. This is appalling as we have low productivity.
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Speaker 2: Said at home if you want to, but yeah, Fleur
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Speaker 2: is so out of touch, so that issue will rumble on.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of issues rumbling on, Karen Ture said something to
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge bet a fortnight ago on this radio station,
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Speaker 2: the numbers of people who have been abused in state care.
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Speaker 2: And Ryan held her up on that.
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Speaker 9: Well.
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Speaker 2: Over the weekend on Q and A talking to Jack Tame,
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Speaker 2: Karen came out and said, made it an apology. So
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you the full details about this and the
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Speaker 2: Karen Schuer back down because of the Ryan Bridge interview,
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Speaker 2: which took two weeks for her to do that. That's
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Speaker 2: coming up and we'll go right around the country. We'll
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Speaker 2: hear the latters from Gavin Gray about that terrible stabbing
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Speaker 2: in Doncaster on a train. It's here the addition, I'm
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Speaker 2: Andrew Dickins. This is News TALKSB.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth analysis.
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Speaker 2: According Welcome to the Working Week. I Maderew Dickinson for
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge, and he's back by Thursday. So everyone's getting
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Speaker 2: stuck into the PSA. Everyone's getting stuck into the acc
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Speaker 2: workers who are outraged that they were told they have
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Speaker 2: to come to the office three days a week instead
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Speaker 2: of two. But every now and then a few people
18:25
Speaker 2: are actually saying, well, actually, it's not that bad. Andrew
18:30
Speaker 2: writes a texta, instead of vilifying the people who work
18:32
Speaker 2: from home, why don't you animize the benefits of a
18:34
Speaker 2: modern approach enabled by technology in terms of work? Okay,
18:38
Speaker 2: thank you, and someone else says I'm tired of hearing
18:40
Speaker 2: people go on about public servants not being productive because
18:42
Speaker 2: they have a working from home option. There is no
18:45
Speaker 2: evidence other than someone's opinion. Statistically staff for breaking records
18:49
Speaker 2: weekly where I work, which is immigration and working from
18:52
Speaker 2: home doing it fighting for their contractual rights while no
18:55
Speaker 2: pay rises is in sight. So stop saying they're fighting
18:59
Speaker 2: the current government. Our union is standing up for the
19:02
Speaker 2: injustice of public opinion. And if it was your employer
19:05
Speaker 2: changing the terms of your contract with an hour's notice,
19:08
Speaker 2: you'd be rightfully upset as well. So thank you for
19:10
Speaker 2: your texts. It is twenty two to six now if
19:14
Speaker 2: you cast your mind back a couple of weeks to
19:17
Speaker 2: this radio show. Ryan Bridge was interviewing Karen Ture and
19:22
Speaker 2: they were talking about the abuse in state care and
19:25
Speaker 2: she was touting a fourteen percent drop and abuse in
19:28
Speaker 2: state care residences, but unfortunately she left out the part
19:32
Speaker 2: where overall abuse and care hit record levels. Have I listen,
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Speaker 2: are you cherry putting here?
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Speaker 1: What's going on?
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Speaker 9: So the harm that you were speaking to around that
19:44
Speaker 9: could be anything so low level high level. The harm
19:49
Speaker 9: that I'm talking about in the decrease in residences is
19:53
Speaker 9: as serious harm.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
19:56
Speaker 2: And now two weeks later, talking to Jack Tame on
19:58
Speaker 2: Q and A, she finally admitted she got it wrong.
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Speaker 8: Reflecting on those comments in that interview, do you accept
20:05
Speaker 8: they would have mislead people?
20:07
Speaker 9: I accept that that people may have thought that, and
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Speaker 9: I apologize if they have. My intention was never that.
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Speaker 2: How about that? I think, ladies and gentlemen, that's what's
20:19
Speaker 2: called the media holding power to account. It's twenty one to.
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Speaker 1: Six Newstalk Sidby.
20:26
Speaker 2: Let's go right around the country. We're going to Dunedin
20:28
Speaker 2: and Jamie Cunningham joins me. Hello, good morning. No longer
20:32
Speaker 2: free to park in Dunedin City Center.
20:34
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's right. The city Council's introducing parking fees seven
20:38
Speaker 10: days a week to multiple streets in the CBD after
20:40
Speaker 10: consulting with the public twice. Sundays used to be free
20:44
Speaker 10: for residents, but council says not paying an overstaying time
20:48
Speaker 10: limits means others can't use these spaces and freeing up
20:51
Speaker 10: parks allows for more customer turnover and benefits local businesses.
20:55
Speaker 10: But parts of George and Prince's Street will remain free
20:59
Speaker 10: of charge with time life it's still enforced.
21:01
Speaker 2: All right. How's the weather for Rotago today?
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Speaker 10: Mainly fine, high cloud from this evening with westerly's turning
21:08
Speaker 10: northeasterly this afternoon and a high of twenty one to
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Speaker 10: christ Church.
21:11
Speaker 2: We go closse sure with good morning, Good morning, So
21:14
Speaker 2: we know the Chrastach has got a number of abandoned
21:16
Speaker 2: mansions because of what happened back in the day. Now
21:19
Speaker 2: one of those mansions is going to be renovated.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, and lots of people will know Rickitton's Antonio Hall.
21:25
Speaker 11: It is really badly earthquake damage. It's also been the
21:28
Speaker 11: scene of multiple fires and there have been numerous problems
21:31
Speaker 11: with it being overridden by rodents and homeless people squatting
21:35
Speaker 11: in there, for example, for several years. Now we finally
21:38
Speaker 11: have confirmation there is plans to transform Antonio Hall into
21:41
Speaker 11: student accommodation. It is less than a kilometer from Canterbury University.
21:45
Speaker 11: We've reported on it extensively, but around a third of
21:48
Speaker 11: applicants for the Canterbury Uni halls are missing out on
21:52
Speaker 11: a spot. Spokesperson for Mainland Capital Director Ben Bridge says
21:56
Speaker 11: the hall will target students beyond first year and we'll
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Speaker 11: hope to open in twenty twenty eight. He says residents
22:02
Speaker 11: will have their own defined house and also shares some
22:05
Speaker 11: communal facilities on site.
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Speaker 2: How to weather a bit cloudy early, otherwise fine.
22:10
Speaker 11: Northeasterly is turning northwest at a high twenty.
22:13
Speaker 2: Speaking of weather, Wellington looked beautiful yesterday, Max Toll.
22:17
Speaker 5: Yes, the tides have turned. It's just sun here, sun
22:21
Speaker 5: and sea. Wonderful times, all right.
22:23
Speaker 2: And somebody's fallen off a balcony.
22:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, bit of drama yesterday afternoon on Brooklyn Roads. What
22:30
Speaker 5: we do know, and it's not a great deal at
22:31
Speaker 5: this stage, is that there was a gunshot heard yesterday
22:34
Speaker 5: afternoon and then a person then fell from a balcony
22:39
Speaker 5: from an apartment complex. Police were told about the gunshot
22:42
Speaker 5: when they arrived. They haven't definitively confirmed it was a
22:45
Speaker 5: shot from a gun. They are investigating armed officers, but
22:48
Speaker 5: there yesterday. Thankfully the fallen person has moderate injuries. I say, thankfully,
22:53
Speaker 5: only moderate injuries. Brooklyn Road is, of course, the windy
22:56
Speaker 5: street leading up from the city toward the suburb of
22:59
Speaker 5: Brooklyn Water. Come on, I'm sure, and.
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Speaker 2: Will your golden weather continue?
23:03
Speaker 5: Certainly well, mainly find today some stronger wind, but that's
23:06
Speaker 5: just Wellington sixteen.
23:07
Speaker 2: Today's high and I thank you. Neither read your money
23:09
Speaker 2: From Auklan. Good morning, good morning. We've got an electric
23:12
Speaker 2: bus catching fire.
23:13
Speaker 12: Yes now, look what's happened is that this overbridge was
23:16
Speaker 12: hit by an electric bus which then caught fire. Now
23:19
Speaker 12: the overbridge will remain closed until it's been assessed by
23:22
Speaker 12: a structural engineer the emergency services. They were called to
23:25
Speaker 12: the Constellation Bus station. This is obviously on the North Shore.
23:28
Speaker 12: This happened yesterday afternoon. We know the bus was out
23:31
Speaker 12: of service at the time. No passengers on board. The
23:35
Speaker 12: driver got out safely, thank goodness. A number of bus
23:38
Speaker 12: routes are being detoured until the overpass is deemed safe.
23:41
Speaker 2: Okay, everyone's going Was it the battery? Was it the battery?
23:47
Speaker 2: Is it because of the battery?
23:48
Speaker 12: Well, look, I know people will be saying things like that,
23:50
Speaker 12: but there will be an investigation. Nothing has been said yet, Skamer.
23:54
Speaker 2: But yes, how's hawkand's weather? Okay?
23:56
Speaker 12: Well, Auckland is you can brace yourself a hot, hot,
23:58
Speaker 12: hot fine weather this week today fine twenty one is
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Speaker 12: a high. It's going to be like that for the
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Speaker 12: rest of the week and it's going to climb to
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Speaker 12: up to twenty three by midweek.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful, And I thank you to seventeen minutes to six. Now,
24:09
Speaker 2: speaking about overpasses, there's a brand new overpass and Auckham
24:12
Speaker 2: built by AT It's called the Reeves Road Flyover and
24:16
Speaker 2: it's part of that whole eastern busway around Pacoranga area
24:20
Speaker 2: and it just opened the other day and everyone went hurrah,
24:23
Speaker 2: particularly the local MP Simmy and Brown. Unfortunately, it doesn't
24:26
Speaker 2: seem as though the flyover works perfectly, particularly on the
24:29
Speaker 2: afternoon drive home. So I'm going to talk to Simmy
24:32
Speaker 2: and Brown about that because he is the local MP
24:34
Speaker 2: and he was very rare rah about that flyover and
24:37
Speaker 2: it opened and then it's half a disaster, So we'll
24:39
Speaker 2: talk about that shortly with Symyan Plus he's come up
24:42
Speaker 2: with this idea of a rapid builled ward for hospitals,
24:46
Speaker 2: which sounds awfully like prefabs, and we know what prefabs
24:51
Speaker 2: are like. They get trucked in and after a little
24:53
Speaker 2: while they suddenly become permanent. And you know it's not
24:56
Speaker 2: the world's greatest architecture nor fit for purpose. So what
25:00
Speaker 2: the new rapid build wards and where are they're going
25:02
Speaker 2: to be built? Simeon Brown just before six right here
25:04
Speaker 2: on News TALKSB but Gavin Gray from the UK is
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26:05
Speaker 2: Zid Kevin Gray from the UK, Good morning, Mine there Andrew.
26:11
Speaker 2: The London train from Doncaster was a horror show.
26:15
Speaker 3: I'm afraid.
26:15
Speaker 6: So it's a great deal of shock in this country
26:17
Speaker 6: actually over what happens. So this was a train traveling
26:20
Speaker 6: from Doncaster in the North of England and to London
26:22
Speaker 6: on a Saturday night, and all of a sudden, after
26:26
Speaker 6: it had stopped at its sort of last big stop
26:29
Speaker 6: at Peterborough. It was then supposed to be running direct
26:32
Speaker 6: through to London on a fast line. Sadly, two men
26:36
Speaker 6: are then believed to have got up with knives and
26:39
Speaker 6: started stabbing people. At the moment, we have been told
26:43
Speaker 6: that two are being held. They are British nationals and
26:46
Speaker 6: being questioned on suspicion of attempted murder. We now know
26:50
Speaker 6: that there are two in hospital with life threatening conditions.
26:53
Speaker 6: Earlier today it was said to be up to nine,
26:55
Speaker 6: so that's a more positive figure, and now four have
26:59
Speaker 6: been discharged from hospital. A quick thinking train driver, when
27:03
Speaker 6: he was alerted that there was a crisis on board,
27:06
Speaker 6: moved phone ahead to the control center and moved the
27:09
Speaker 6: train from the fast line which he wouldn't have been
27:13
Speaker 6: able to stop on, and they were diverted to the
27:15
Speaker 6: slower line and then the train stopped at an unscheduled
27:19
Speaker 6: stopped at Huntingdon, about one hundred and fifty kilometers north
27:22
Speaker 6: of London, and there at the platform the police met
27:25
Speaker 6: the train, everyone poured off and two men there were arrested. Now,
27:29
Speaker 6: originally counter terrorism police were investigating this. We are now
27:32
Speaker 6: being told it is likely not to be terror related.
27:36
Speaker 2: Yes, and indeed the people who are against immigration have
27:38
Speaker 2: been going on about them being immigrants, but they're British born,
27:42
Speaker 2: aren't they, And so the question will be how many
27:44
Speaker 2: generations do you have to live in England and before
27:46
Speaker 2: you become not an immigrant?
27:49
Speaker 1: Yep, yep.
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Speaker 6: More details are coming out of this pair, but at
27:52
Speaker 6: the at the moment, just that bald statement as it were,
27:55
Speaker 6: just saying they are British nationals and they are being questioned.
27:59
Speaker 2: All right, I think for your time, Gavin Gray from
28:01
Speaker 2: the UK. It is now eleven Minister six, all right.
28:05
Speaker 2: The government's adding one hundred and forty new hospital beds
28:08
Speaker 2: across five hospitals from mid next year. Health Minister Simy
28:11
Speaker 2: and Brown says Middlemore, White Cattle, Wellington and Nelson will
28:15
Speaker 2: get new wards along with Hawk's Bay. They announced the
28:17
Speaker 2: Hawks Bay ward earlier this year. The wards will be
28:20
Speaker 2: built off site and then installed at each hospital. They're
28:24
Speaker 2: calling them rapids build units and so the Health Minister
28:28
Speaker 2: Simyon Brown joins, we now get barding to U Simion.
28:30
Speaker 1: Good morning.
28:31
Speaker 2: So by rapid build you mean prefabs emergency stop gaps.
28:36
Speaker 13: No, this is a different way of delivering hospital wards effectively.
28:40
Speaker 13: It's building them off site means they can be built
28:43
Speaker 13: a lot faster, but they're built to a fifty year
28:46
Speaker 13: life expectancy, which is effectively the same as any any
28:49
Speaker 13: build of any major infrastructure. It's built to the Building Code.
28:53
Speaker 13: So these are high quality modern hospital wards. But by
28:58
Speaker 13: delivering them through modular design, build off site, then deliver
29:02
Speaker 13: and install, we can deliver this a lot faster, meaning
29:06
Speaker 13: we get the benefits for patients and the staff a
29:08
Speaker 13: lot sooner, so.
29:09
Speaker 2: They won't need to be replaced in the short term.
29:12
Speaker 1: Absolutely not.
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Speaker 13: But these are designs as are said to the Building Code,
29:18
Speaker 13: modern standards. But we have to do things differently as
29:22
Speaker 13: a country if we want to get the infrastructure we
29:24
Speaker 13: need much faster and also more cost effectively. And that's
29:27
Speaker 13: the other benefit of doing things this way, and we're
29:30
Speaker 13: open to looking at that through infrastructure. You've seen that
29:33
Speaker 13: with the work Ericus Stanford's been doing with school classrooms
29:37
Speaker 13: as well. How do we bring the cost down, how
29:39
Speaker 13: do we deliver faster so that people actually benefit from
29:42
Speaker 13: the infrastructure sooner, which is actually what we want to
29:44
Speaker 13: build the infrastructure for now.
29:46
Speaker 2: Will these one hundred and forty beds materially alter our
29:49
Speaker 2: capacity and do they improve the core problem which at
29:52
Speaker 2: the end of the day, is a shortage of staff.
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Speaker 13: Look at the same time, howth New Zealand will be
29:57
Speaker 13: investing in additional staff for these new wards because ultimately
30:02
Speaker 13: we need to make sure that they're there for to
30:05
Speaker 13: be able to provide their extra care to patients. But
30:07
Speaker 13: ultimately the purpose of these wards and these hospitals is
30:10
Speaker 13: to do two things. One is to improve the number
30:13
Speaker 13: of hospital beds but also to help support additional hospital
30:18
Speaker 13: flow through from the emergency department into the hospital. So
30:20
Speaker 13: they've been around the hospitals has been identifying what the
30:23
Speaker 13: critical pinch points are, what the key areas of need are,
30:27
Speaker 13: and that's where the focus of these new wards will be,
30:30
Speaker 13: so that we can make sure people are being seen sooner,
30:33
Speaker 13: getting a treatment in any faster.
30:34
Speaker 2: So this is the future, this is how we're going
30:36
Speaker 2: to see our hospitals built in the future.
30:39
Speaker 13: Well, I think this is a new opportunity and this
30:42
Speaker 13: is a different way of doing things. You know, when
30:45
Speaker 13: it comes to some of the larger builds, this tension
30:47
Speaker 13: are as well around modular design, construction and build as well. Ultimately,
30:52
Speaker 13: though we want these buildings to be long lasting, they
30:55
Speaker 13: need to be to high standards and to be able
30:58
Speaker 13: to meet care that patients need. But we absolutely as
31:01
Speaker 13: a country need to be looking at what is the
31:02
Speaker 13: most cost effective way to deliver the infrastructure we need
31:06
Speaker 13: so we can get it done quickly. We spend far
31:09
Speaker 13: too long as a country talking about infrastructure and not
31:12
Speaker 13: enough time delivering it. And so it's it's ways to
31:14
Speaker 13: do things faster and cheaper, more cost effectively, so we
31:17
Speaker 13: actually get the infrastructure delivered. We should absolutely before that.
31:21
Speaker 2: So while we're talking about infrastructure, and while I've got
31:23
Speaker 2: to hear the new Reefs Road lyover in Pakaranga, which
31:26
Speaker 2: is an AT project that you've been very supportive of
31:29
Speaker 2: for quite some time, but they opened it up. It
31:31
Speaker 2: turns out it's got traffic flow problems for the afternoon
31:34
Speaker 2: drive time. So what's wrong with it? And what are
31:36
Speaker 2: you going to do?
31:37
Speaker 13: Oh if it's working very effectively for traffic going to
31:40
Speaker 13: the city, I met someone the other days said they
31:41
Speaker 13: used to spend forty minutes going to work. It's now
31:43
Speaker 13: fifteen minutes, so that's fantastic. But all the way home,
31:47
Speaker 13: it used to have the intert Key, the key intersection
31:50
Speaker 13: where the traffic met used to have three lanes of throughput.
31:53
Speaker 13: Now it's down to two and so the simple message
31:56
Speaker 13: to Opland transporters we need a third lane in the
31:59
Speaker 13: intersection redesigned. Ultimately, if you reduce the number of lanes,
32:02
Speaker 13: you reduce the flow and the traffic backs up. So
32:05
Speaker 13: we meet with Allking Transport on Friday. They're going to
32:08
Speaker 13: have a relook at it, and my message to them
32:11
Speaker 13: as we need to look at it changes urgently.
32:14
Speaker 2: And it's an early start for you. How are we
32:16
Speaker 2: going with a wage negotiations.
32:19
Speaker 13: In terms of the negotiations with the unions around the
32:22
Speaker 13: bargaining bargaining does continue and my message to both parties
32:28
Speaker 13: is to negotiate in good faith and find a resolution
32:32
Speaker 13: so that we can continue to provide the care that
32:33
Speaker 13: patients need.
32:34
Speaker 2: Syrian, I thank you very much for your time. Simon
32:36
Speaker 2: joining us from the airport. He's taking the brand new
32:38
Speaker 2: Red Eye which happens at six o'clock to Wellington right now,
32:41
Speaker 2: getting into work early. It is six to six.
32:44
Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day Early
32:47
Speaker 1: edition with Andrew Dickins and r V super Center explore
32:51
Speaker 1: r VS accessories and servicing all in one news talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be so my costumes in the circle, what is
32:57
Speaker 2: now John sent me a text already and yes, very
32:59
Speaker 2: good question. Can you ask Mike what is the point
33:02
Speaker 2: in interviewing Dame no Lan when she is under contract
33:05
Speaker 2: and New Zealand Netball management. I'm damn sure that she
33:07
Speaker 2: will not be allowed to comment on the appalling process
33:10
Speaker 2: that has been treating her and heaps the staff are
33:12
Speaker 2: leaving the organization, but she'll be staying stull. She's talking
33:15
Speaker 2: with you today. Will she say anything?
33:18
Speaker 14: Well, I don't know. That's why we're having her on
33:19
Speaker 14: a program. That's that's the whole point of the exercise.
33:22
Speaker 14: If where if we canceled or didn't do things simply
33:24
Speaker 14: because we're sitting there in the morning going I don't
33:26
Speaker 14: think she'll say anything, So we won't ask any questions.
33:28
Speaker 14: We wouldn't actually do.
33:29
Speaker 2: Anything, would we do?
33:30
Speaker 14: And so I'll be I'm I mean, the interesting thing
33:33
Speaker 14: about the interview is she hasn't spoken. Everybody I think
33:37
Speaker 14: is in some way, shope or form interested in what's happened.
33:40
Speaker 14: How it happened, why it happened hasn't been resolved to
33:44
Speaker 14: her satisfaction. Is she genuinely happy?
33:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the very big thing. Because they all talked
33:48
Speaker 2: about you know, the player's mental, wealth, health and well being.
33:51
Speaker 2: What about no leagons.
33:53
Speaker 14: I mean, that's that's a tough in our I think
33:56
Speaker 14: the general consensus is she's been treated abysmally, yes, and
33:59
Speaker 14: she may come on and go, I was treated abysmally
34:02
Speaker 14: but it's sorted.
34:02
Speaker 2: Or she may come on and go, look I'm happy
34:05
Speaker 2: and we all move forward.
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Speaker 14: So you will never know that unless you ask the
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Speaker 14: question of seven o'clock, seven o'clock, seven o'clock.
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Speaker 2: The leader lead, no lead. On the Mike Husking Breakfast,
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Speaker 2: my name is Andrew Dickinson.
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Speaker 5: Here.
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34:19
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