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Full Show Podcast: 18 May 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: early edition with sparks for business technology that keeps business moving,
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Speaker 1: news talks.
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Speaker 2: They'd be good on to.
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Speaker 3: Welcome to Monday. Paul Goldsmith with us this morning on
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Speaker 3: good character changes. Gavin's in the UK. We're streating throwing
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Speaker 3: his hat in the ring over the Evicti price with
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Speaker 3: business and we'll look at the NCAA changes announced over
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Speaker 3: the weekend. Two the agenda. It is Monday, the ADDCT
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Speaker 3: of May, the World Health Organization declaring in a bowler
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Speaker 3: outbreak in Congo.
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Speaker 4: We realized that the first person fell ill in late
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Speaker 4: April and died on April twenty fourth in Bunya. It
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Speaker 4: was the return of this body to the Mongua lu
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Speaker 4: healsoon that caused the Ebola outbreak to escalate.
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Speaker 3: Doesn't reach the threshold for a global health emergency, you'll
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Speaker 3: be pleased to know. And the UK, tens of thousands
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Speaker 3: of protesters joined two rival marches in London on Saturday.
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Speaker 3: So you had the Unite the Kingdom rally that was
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Speaker 3: your far right figure Tommy Robinson, and then on the
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Speaker 3: other side you had your pro Palestinian demonstrators. Starmer called
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Speaker 3: the organizers of the Unite the Kingdom rally quote thugs
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Speaker 3: and racists.
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Speaker 5: People like us nowhere as a budge.
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Speaker 3: Of honor, as you're happy, you're happy being Gordifar.
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Speaker 6: We laugh at it because we know we're not call
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Speaker 6: everyone racists. Sense I've got I've got Asian friends, I've
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Speaker 6: got black friends, actually immigrations the problems.
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Speaker 7: We want the correct message being said on there, not
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Speaker 7: the fake message that you know we hate everyone and
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Speaker 7: the racist because we're not.
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Speaker 3: You know, we have not had anyone say.
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Speaker 8: Anything right that said.
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Speaker 3: We're treating his confirmed Whill in fact will be running
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Speaker 3: to replace Starma as Labour's leader.
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Speaker 9: We need a pop contest with the best candidates on
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Speaker 9: the field, and I'll be standing.
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Speaker 3: He's putting bricks in on the bell.
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Speaker 9: We need a new special relationship with the EU because
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Speaker 9: Britain's future lies with Europe. And one day, one day
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Speaker 9: back in the European.
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Speaker 3: Union, Strading's friend, the Business Secretary, gave him his support
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Speaker 3: with this odd quote.
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Speaker 7: As Emily says in the Devil Where's Prada? You have
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Speaker 7: no idea how many legends have walked these halls. She said, well,
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Speaker 7: not really legends, but supermodels and some are legendary. Well,
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Speaker 7: where's is legendary? And a good, solid, courageous friend who
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Speaker 7: is a talent that is much needed by this party.
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Speaker 3: Wow, that was super weird. Don't get ai to do
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Speaker 3: you jokes to people.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and Spark for business technology that keeps business moving,
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Speaker 1: news talks, it'd.
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Speaker 3: Be very strange, very strange nine minutes after five would
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Speaker 3: love you text this morning on New Zealand first and
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Speaker 3: their policies that they were announced. You've got two different
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Speaker 3: means of the spectrum and the coalition, don't you were
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Speaker 3: that saying let's sell stuff like give it a palm
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Speaker 3: the government farms, let's sell our stake because the government
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Speaker 3: isn't good at owning things that they're not a business.
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Speaker 3: Business is best placed and left to business. And now
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Speaker 3: Winston's talking about buying back. B and Z, by the way,
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Speaker 3: has policy announcements over the weekend. None of them had
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Speaker 3: any costings, so we don't know whether how they will work. However,
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Speaker 3: with the B and Z money did tell us this
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Speaker 3: about how the buyback would happen.
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Speaker 5: Well, I said, I've announced how I'm going to do
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Speaker 5: that further up in the campaign. We're the ones that
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Speaker 5: announced that we are going to have a future fund
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Speaker 5: of a billion dollars. We made that announcement last year
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Speaker 5: and we're now setting out to acquire that money. And
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Speaker 5: we'll let you know how you got about it. Well,
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Speaker 5: you'll sold for one point one on our current inflationary costs.
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Speaker 5: It should be capably been brought back for three point
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Speaker 5: five billion Australian. You say it's six point one. Well,
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Speaker 5: let's see at the time. Well, i'll tell you. What
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Speaker 5: we're not going to do is be ripped off.
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Speaker 3: Now here's a prediction for you never happen. And saying
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Speaker 3: with a lot of the asset sales that National is
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Speaker 3: talking about, you know, the asset recycling that they're talking about,
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Speaker 3: what they want to do, and the act Party is
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Speaker 3: saying that they'd like to get you know, government out
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Speaker 3: of business, Well, none of that's going to happen. We
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Speaker 3: won't see large scale asset sales. But we also won't
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Speaker 3: see large scale renationalization of banks or energy companies despite
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Speaker 3: what they are promising, because they have to work together
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Speaker 3: and surely the ACT Party would block the nationalization of
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Speaker 3: ben Z bank and vice versa. New Zealand first would
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Speaker 3: block any potential moves to sell assets. Therefore they sort
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Speaker 3: of cancel each other out. Eleven after five, Ryan Bridge
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Speaker 3: Talok to Andy England next. Starfield High School principle had
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Speaker 3: him on the show before. He's quite good and he
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Speaker 3: has some views on the government's NCA changes announced at
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Speaker 3: the weekend.
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Speaker 1: That's next, the news you need this morning and the
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Speaker 1: in depth and Elysis earlier this with Bryan Bridge and
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Speaker 1: Spark for business Technology that keeps business moving News talks.
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Speaker 3: That' be time. It's thirteen minutes after five. Great to
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Speaker 3: have your company. Nine two nine two is the numbers
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Speaker 3: two text. We were just talking about the protests over
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Speaker 3: in London at the weekend. Well on Friday there was
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Speaker 3: a demonstration in New York and you had you know,
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Speaker 3: they have the big masks so on, so you can't
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Speaker 3: see who they are. You can just see their eyes
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Speaker 3: and you sort of wonder out why have you got
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Speaker 3: a mask on? You know, like, what trouble are you
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Speaker 3: going to get up to with a mask on? And
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Speaker 3: the reason they were wearing masks, some of them at least,
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Speaker 3: is because they were waving flags. Someone was waving a
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Speaker 3: mask flag. It was dubbed by the sort of Fox
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Speaker 3: News of the world as an anti Israel protest, though
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Speaker 3: I'm sure that some of the protests would have seen
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Speaker 3: it as anti well, you know, not necessarily anti the religion. However,
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Speaker 3: there was also someone there with a his Buller flag
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Speaker 3: being waved in the crowds, and authorities charged and alleged
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Speaker 3: his Buller operative with plotting attacks on the Jewish community
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Speaker 3: centers a Manhattan synagogue. So I mean, not a great place.
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Speaker 3: I mean, and that's London, and that's New York. Just
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Speaker 3: over the weekend fourteen after five Ryan Bridge grades are
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Speaker 3: coming back a plus to E compulsory science in the
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Speaker 3: fifth form and the government's NCAA replacement being announced at
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Speaker 3: the weekend.
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Speaker 7: What you could do before was game the system by
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Speaker 7: doing a random mix of credits that weren't put together
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Speaker 7: in a good, solid package of learning.
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Speaker 2: That has gone.
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Speaker 3: Today's year nine students will be the first group to
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Speaker 3: go through the new system, and the England Darfield High
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Speaker 3: School principal with me this morning, Andy, Good morning Monday, Ryan.
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Speaker 3: Good to have you on the show. Are you a
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Speaker 3: fan of this?
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Speaker 8: I think it's okay. You a retro sort of were Ye.
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Speaker 3: Retro's good though, isn't it? We need retro because it
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Speaker 3: worked for us, so why wouldn't it work for these
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Speaker 3: guys and their grades have been falling right on an
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Speaker 3: international scale.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Well, there's two big topics there, right, So if we
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Speaker 8: go to the first one, do we need retro? I
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Speaker 8: don't think we do, but I'm not a big critic
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Speaker 8: of it, so I don't want to say that's there's
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Speaker 8: some okay stuff in here. Definitely, and if there's some
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Speaker 8: good stuff in here, NCA did need a revamp for
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Speaker 8: the very least. No issues with losing another one, excuse me, although,
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Speaker 8: although we do need to keep that effort in with
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Speaker 8: our year eleven students in particular, Year ten and eleven
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Speaker 8: can be quite a lost time. So my hope is
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Speaker 8: that the Foundational Award can have enough meat in it
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Speaker 8: to let those students feel motivated. I you know we
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Speaker 8: talked before. I'm a big fun of the vacational pathways.
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Speaker 8: I've got a particular interest there, so I'm pleased to
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Speaker 8: see that these can be integrated with the academic pathways
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Speaker 8: and to see that they're we're getting equal status. Of course,
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Speaker 8: the delivery that remains. We've seen a big concerncy outdur
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Speaker 8: Ad still being bugged into the vacational side of things,
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Speaker 8: and I think my concern around the whole retro thing
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Speaker 8: is what we don't need is oversimplification the employers. I knew, Yeah,
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Speaker 8: some people found it out to get and see hey,
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Speaker 8: but once they looked into it themselves and they could
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Speaker 8: get there. So I don't think that's the biggest issue.
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Speaker 8: But you know, the actual system itself is okay, what
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Speaker 8: about the going forward.
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Speaker 3: To the exams and what's wrong with you know, compulsory
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Speaker 3: exams for every subject as opposed to internal assessment, because
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Speaker 3: how do you know, like, how do you really know
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Speaker 3: how good a student is until they you've put them
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Speaker 3: in an exam with no influence and check their knowledge.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I just said there's lots of good stuff on this.
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Speaker 8: I'm certainly not sitting there to bag it. The exams,
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Speaker 8: on their own line, are one way of assessing a student.
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Speaker 8: I'm really I loved exams when I was at school. However,
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Speaker 8: that was thirty one years ago, and there are some
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Speaker 8: better ways to assess students. Too much internal assessment takes
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Speaker 8: away teaching time, so there's a disadvantage in that, and
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Speaker 8: so exams We've got their place, of course, but I
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Speaker 8: wouldn't want to be entirely reliant on it. Not that
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Speaker 8: everything is entirely reliant on it in this assessment system either,
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Speaker 8: So there are some good quality there.
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Speaker 3: Appreciate your time this morning, Andy, Andy England, Darfield High
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Speaker 3: School principle with us this morning. It is seventeen after five.
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Speaker 3: News Talks the b Vicki Price with Business Next.
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Speaker 1: Hererett First, Ryan Bridge on early edition with Spark for
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Speaker 1: business Technology that keeps business moving News TALKSB five nineteen.
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Speaker 3: Manufacturing sector is still expanding, but just buy a whisk
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Speaker 3: of This is the bean Zead Business pm I released
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Speaker 3: Friday fifty point five and April. That's down from a
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Speaker 3: fifty two point eight March, which was itself revised. So
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Speaker 3: you know, anything above fifty is good means you're expanding.
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Speaker 3: We're on fifty point five, so literally a slither over.
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Speaker 3: New orders are the problem. They have slumped. They have
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Speaker 3: shrunk to their lowest since May of twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 3: which is not great news for future activity, you see,
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Speaker 3: but at least at this point, still an expansionary territory
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Speaker 3: twenty after five. So Vicky Price, our business correspondent, this morning, Vicky,
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Speaker 3: good morning, good evening to you. Good morning, So UK
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Speaker 3: GDP and Q one bitter than expected.
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Speaker 10: Well, yes, I've just been hearing you talk about your
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Speaker 10: actual data, which didn't sound too good. But what we
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Speaker 10: did see here was in the UK was an increase
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Speaker 10: of point six percent in the quarter in GDP, which
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Speaker 10: is quite unexpected. However, if you look at the monthly figures,
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Speaker 10: we had no growth in January, then we had zero
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Speaker 10: point four percent in February, then we had point three
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Speaker 10: percent in March. So you're beginning to think, oh my god,
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Speaker 10: what's going to happen next. But r PMI figures for
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Speaker 10: both April and what looks like possibly in Mail so
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Speaker 10: look a little bit better. Certainly, the April data show
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Speaker 10: an expansion, a much greater expansion than had been anticipated,
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Speaker 10: both in services and in the production sectors too. Not
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Speaker 10: so much in construction, which is suffering, but in the
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Speaker 10: other two and there are all sorts of reasons for it,
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Speaker 10: and we think a lot of that has to do.
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Speaker 10: I mean, first of all, very nice weather in Aprils,
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Speaker 10: so lots of people went out the tech sectors doing
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Speaker 10: well generally, and also on the production side, an awful
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Speaker 10: lot of you know, doing things now and maybe putting
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Speaker 10: things into a sort of invertory in a way in
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Speaker 10: case there are any serious supply constraints in the future
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Speaker 10: or prices go up even more. So there's a little
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Speaker 10: bit of that which we have seen actually happen in
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Speaker 10: other countries as well, so we're not unique in that.
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Speaker 10: But the question is what happens next?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely what about the Stama drama, the leadership troubles, big
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Speaker 3: impact they're on the bond markets right, Well.
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Speaker 10: Yes, I mean what we've seen is that there are
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Speaker 10: now some resignations from the cabinets, so the Health secretary
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Speaker 10: has gone, and there is a possibility of someone new
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Speaker 10: entering Parliament who is now the mayor in Greater Manchester
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Speaker 10: and he comes in he will challenge k Istama, So
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Speaker 10: Kistama the Prime minister. So I'm afraid, yes, huge volatility here.
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Speaker 10: We don't know what's going to happen next. And what's happening,
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Speaker 10: of course in the bond market is that that type
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Speaker 10: of insecurity is not liked. So our ten year bond
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Speaker 10: yield has gone up to over five percent, and that's
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Speaker 10: a real concern because it affects mortgages and everything else. However,
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Speaker 10: I think we've all felt and you'll be feeling it too,
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Speaker 10: that the oil price has been also particularly important in
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Speaker 10: that regard, because whatever's going on right now, the latest
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Speaker 10: bance for President Trump have meant that oil prices have
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Speaker 10: gone up over the last of this weekend. Really that
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Speaker 10: in your case, of course, Monday morning, you'll see this
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Speaker 10: in the figures, to nearly one hundred and ten dollars
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Speaker 10: a barrow for Brent crude, and that of course affects
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Speaker 10: views on inflation and up to a point, bond yields
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Speaker 10: are affected by that, and also what they think perhaps
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Speaker 10: interest rates will do the central bank interest rates ahead
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Speaker 10: if we get into this really higher inflation environment and
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Speaker 10: stay there for some time.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and we saw that the inflation for Europe for April.
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Speaker 3: Was that UK getting data this week.
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Speaker 10: It is, it's on Wednesday, so we'll see that, and
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Speaker 10: of course everyone will be watching that very carefully, because
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Speaker 10: of course we did see an increase to three point
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Speaker 10: three percent in the in March, and really the April
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Speaker 10: figures which have already come out from Europe suggests that
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Speaker 10: quite a substantial increase. And we remember that Europe has
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Speaker 10: had periods of below target inflation below two percent. Well
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Speaker 10: that's no longer happening, and everyone is thinking that the
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Speaker 10: European Center Bank will raise rates a couple of times
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Speaker 10: in the rest of twenty twenty six. It could be more,
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Speaker 10: but we know that they're very concerned about growth, so
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Speaker 10: that they might think about it twice or three times.
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Speaker 10: See what happens really. But here in the UK again
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Speaker 10: we haven't seen an increase in rates yet, but if
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Speaker 10: that inflation out looked seriously worse since then, the markets
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Speaker 10: are braced for that as well.
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Speaker 3: Vicky Good on the show as always for a Monday
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Speaker 3: morning Vicki Price to our business correspondent twenty four minutes
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Speaker 3: after five, Ryan Bridge in Christ to the weekend, and
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Speaker 3: what a beautiful thing you have done, Christ Congratulations. The
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Speaker 3: stadium right in the center of town. Who knew it
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Speaker 3: would be that convenient. I sort of was walking to
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Speaker 3: my hotel, looked up and oh there it is amazing concert,
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Speaker 3: amazing venue, everyone having a great time. And the rebuild.
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Speaker 3: It's been a few years since I've been to christ Church.
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Speaker 3: The rebuild has they have done an exceptional job. Just
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Speaker 3: from a weekend visitor point of view, everything in walking
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Speaker 3: distance down by the avon off to the riverside markets,
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Speaker 3: get yourself something to eat, get yourself a coffee, and
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Speaker 3: then the ease with which you can just wander from
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Speaker 3: your hotel to the stadium and back again at the
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Speaker 3: end of the concert. Fantastic top Mark's well done. Twenty
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Speaker 3: five after five News Talks VP the early.
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Speaker 3: Talks IV five twenty seven on your Monday Morning. In education,
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Speaker 3: old school is the best kind of school. Secondary students
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Speaker 3: will be forced to learn science as well as maths
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Speaker 3: and English in the fifth form or year eleven they
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Speaker 3: call it. Now. They'll be graded not on me or
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Speaker 3: achieved or whatever, but a plus two E. So far,
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Speaker 3: so uncontroversial, I would have thought. On top of that,
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Speaker 3: exams will be compulsory in every subject, everyone gets an exam.
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Speaker 3: Gone are the days of handing in pre prepared essays
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Speaker 3: drafted with the assistance with the help of Google. Now,
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Speaker 3: despite the fact that ten thousand people provided feedback on
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Speaker 3: these changes, there will no doubt be union reps upset
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Speaker 3: with change because they normally are. But old school practices
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Speaker 3: are back in vogue, even in their beloved Scandinavia of Sweden,
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Speaker 3: for example, going back to basics in order to get
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Speaker 3: their reading levels back up. They're bringing back physical books
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Speaker 3: like pages with paper, getting rid of iPads and laptops
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Speaker 3: for some classes. They're bringing back handwriting too, not typing handwriting.
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Speaker 3: They'll have less time in front of screens. Why are
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Speaker 3: they doing this? Well? Is better for the kids learning.
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Speaker 3: You're more likely to retain information if you've taken the
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Speaker 3: time to write it up by hand. It imprints it
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Speaker 3: into your brain in way that's not possible with a
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Speaker 3: laptop or a computer. The BBC reports Sweden's reading levels
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Speaker 3: were top of the class in Europe in two thousand,
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Speaker 3: then they took a nosedive. What happened around the same
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Speaker 3: time books were replaced by digital in classrooms. So when
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Speaker 3: people complain about these changes being made here, it might
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Speaker 3: be prittn to ask whether there was anything wrong with
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Speaker 3: the way that we were doing things back in the day, and,
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Speaker 3: more to the point, what's happened to achievements since we
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Speaker 3: made changes. Barnyard style classrooms, more internal assessment, choose your
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Speaker 3: own adventure, qualifications, fewer exams, laptops on every desk. These
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Speaker 3: things make students' lives easier, I'm sure, but easier doesn't
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Speaker 3: mean better, certainly not in the long run. Bryan Bridge
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Speaker 3: your on news Talk ZB twenty nine after five nine
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Speaker 3: two nine two is the number to text right. One
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Speaker 3: more thing, the last time I talked about Charmers budget
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Speaker 3: because then we need to start talking about Nicholas budget
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Speaker 3: that's coming our way shortly. But there was a news
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Speaker 3: pole pole from the Australia on the weekend and labor
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Speaker 3: didn't move in terms of support. But basically everyone thinks
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Speaker 3: the budget was a bit of a stinker. Sixty percent
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Speaker 3: think the housing measures which are the center of this thing.
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Speaker 3: Sixty percent said either a step in the wrong direction
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Speaker 3: or will make no difference whatsoever. News talksb Live to
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Speaker 3: London next.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for business technology that
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Speaker 1: keeps business moving. News Talks EDB.
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Speaker 3: Twenty four away from six year on News Talks that'd
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Speaker 3: be great to have your company. Paul Goldsmith on changes
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Speaker 3: to sentencing and good character. Gavin in the UK for
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Speaker 3: us getting there in ten minutes time. A lot of
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Speaker 3: love for the changes to NCAA over the weekend that
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Speaker 3: were announced. Ryan, this is Lynne. Totally agree with the
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Speaker 3: old school learning. Bring it back pad and pen for exams,
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Speaker 3: no AI answers, Yes please, real books would work very quickly. Interesting.
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Speaker 3: What's happening with the price of petrol? Well, not interesting
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Speaker 3: because you know it's going up stats and the figures
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Speaker 3: these are from Friday. Petrol prices up thirty four percent
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Speaker 3: over two months, diesel ninety five percent over two months. Wow,
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Speaker 3: it doesn't get any less shocking no matter how many
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Speaker 3: times you read stuff like that. However, food prices are interesting.
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Speaker 3: So they went up from two point six percent for April,
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Speaker 3: and that is slow down from the three point four
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Speaker 3: percent in March. So even though the cost of farying
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Speaker 3: things around the country is getting more expensive, the price
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Speaker 3: of food actually is increasing at a slower rate last
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Speaker 3: month than it did the month before that. It is
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Speaker 3: twenty three to six, Ryan Bridge need and Callum Proctor,
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Speaker 11: today a Maori and Otago's only curda co paper Maori.
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Speaker 11: The school's role Ryan's nearly doubled this year, from forty
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Speaker 11: three students in twenty twenty two to eighty three this year,
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Speaker 11: so more classrooms are needed. Due to this rising demands
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Speaker 11: are planning new teaching spaces, including a music block, specialist
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Speaker 11: classrooms and a fudday.
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Speaker 3: Two extra classrooms were added a couple.
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Speaker 11: Of years ago, but the Ministry of Education says growing
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Speaker 11: demand means more spaces now needed.
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Speaker 3: How's your weather? Morning?
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Speaker 11: Frost here minus two at our airport, but a fine day,
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Speaker 11: A headlight Wednesday eleven today.
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Speaker 3: Nice one callum, thank you Claires and crash this morning, Claire,
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Speaker 3: good morning. So what do we know about this golf course?
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Speaker 3: The piggas Is Golf Course sale.
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Speaker 12: Yes, we got word this was happening last week and
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Speaker 12: sure enough we now have confirmation from developer Wolfbrook Property
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Speaker 12: that they have purchased the Pegas's golf course. It went
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Speaker 12: into liquidation in March with the owners owing about nine
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Speaker 12: million dollars. We now know via a press release that
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Speaker 12: Wolfbrook's planning to convert the land into residential development, potentially
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Speaker 12: using the government's fast track process to do so. Now
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Speaker 12: why marked Eddie Mayor Dan Gordon says he wants some
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Speaker 12: more clarity on the proposals for rezoning the golf course,
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Speaker 12: which the council does not yet have an application to do.
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Speaker 3: He does say that.
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Speaker 12: Any future development must have meaningful community input, with the
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Speaker 12: council committed to ensuring the local voices are heard. That said,
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Speaker 12: professional property developer David Whitburn says there's no denying that
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Speaker 12: a sort of an acquisition of the scale is compelling
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Speaker 12: for the likes of Wolfbrook. It's eighty hectares thirty minutes
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Speaker 12: from christ Church. He says, if the fast track pathway
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Speaker 12: is pursued, there is a very small window for meaningful
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Speaker 12: community engagement and that time.
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Speaker 13: Is right now.
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Speaker 3: How's you wear the clip for.
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Speaker 13: Christ Church today?
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Speaker 12: Mostly cloudy's in northeasterlies and thirteen degrees.
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Speaker 3: Excellent, Thank you very much. And Adam Cooper for Wellington Morning,
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Speaker 3: Adam Morning One, speaking of fast track, clear was you're
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Speaker 3: talking about fast track for Wellington Airport.
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Speaker 14: They'll be happy with this. A new seawall for the
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Speaker 14: airport's finally off the ground. After years of discussions. One
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Speaker 14: hundred million dollars dollars is what this project's costs, and
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Speaker 14: it's been granted fast track approval six months after the
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Speaker 14: airport lodged applications. So it'll be replacing the seawall at
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Speaker 14: the southern end of the runway that's right by the
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Speaker 14: now infamous Moer Point area. It'll build two penguin colonies.
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Speaker 14: Most importantly protect the runway from coastal erosion and severe weather.
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Speaker 14: We know that the waves and cooks straight nearby regularly
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Speaker 14: get over ten meters. Former Wellington Airport board chair Tim
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Speaker 14: Brown says the project has been a long time coming.
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Speaker 14: He said it was fifteen years ago the airport identified
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Speaker 14: that the existing seawall was at the end of its life.
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Speaker 14: Good news as well for the job market. They say
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Speaker 14: it will create one hundred and fourteen jobs annually through
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Speaker 14: the construction period.
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Speaker 3: Oh that's good to know. How's your weather?
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Speaker 14: Fine morning, clouds today southeasteries and high.
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Speaker 3: Fourteen jeers Adam, thank you, Neva and Auckland, good morning,
21:53
Speaker 3: good morning. We had Sindra Drningtown last night.
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Speaker 13: A bit of a protest, Yes, I can tell you
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Speaker 13: there was about anti vaccine activists. They tuned up at
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Speaker 13: Altia Square last night and this is the protestous and
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Speaker 13: Dardoune's appearance and at the Auckland Writers' festival. Now the
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Speaker 13: heralders reporting that the protesters they carried all these you know,
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Speaker 13: large placards and they formed a semi circle. This was
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Speaker 13: at the foot of the staircase, so it was partially
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Speaker 13: blocking the food trucks and activities Marquini the main entrance
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Speaker 13: to Altia Center. But police say that, you know, they
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Speaker 13: were preparing for everything like this. They had They told
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Speaker 13: of entertendees that they were advised of heightened security measures
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Speaker 13: and that included, you know, additional screening and bags larger
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Speaker 13: than a four size not permitted. All reports indicate that
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Speaker 13: there was no major, major disorder and police said earlier
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Speaker 13: year they were aware of the plans of the protest
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Speaker 13: and they're pretty gone to it.
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Speaker 3: All right, very good. How's our weather five.
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Speaker 13: For most isolated early morning showers. They will come back
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Speaker 13: again tonight. This is near Funger PADOA eighteen is the high.
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Speaker 3: Here and all plant brilliant nav. Thank you very much
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Speaker 3: that nineteen minutes away from six. You're on news talks.
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Speaker 3: He B. Devin Gray is in the UK for us.
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Speaker 3: We'll get the lateateest on wedstreaming officially throwing this heat
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Speaker 3: in the ring. Also Paul Goldsmith, Justice Minister on Changes, Descendancing,
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Speaker 3: All Ahead News talks head.
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Speaker 1: B International correspondence with ends in Eye Insurance Peace of
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Speaker 1: Mind for New Zealand Business.
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Speaker 3: News talks hereb at a sixteen minutes away from six on
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Speaker 3: your Monday morning. We'll get to Paul Goldsmith in just
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Speaker 3: a few seconds. First, Devin Gray are UK europe correspondent.
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Speaker 3: Given quite the bill for keeping these protesters apart in
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Speaker 3: London at the weekend.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, quite extraordinary. Nine and a half million New Zealand
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Speaker 2: dollars in a police operation. Four thousand police officers deployed
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Speaker 2: to the center of London yesterday and that was to
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Speaker 2: keep two separate marches apart. One of them was a
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Speaker 2: rally organized by a far right character called Tommy Robinson
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Speaker 2: and Unite the Kingdom, and also a pro Palestinian demonstration
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Speaker 2: taking place at the same time. Now, every year pro
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Speaker 2: Palestinian protesters whole March the weekend closest to the fifteenth
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Speaker 2: of May, normally in order to mark Nakbar, that is
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Speaker 2: really the day of the displacement of Palestinians who fled
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Speaker 2: from their homes during the war surrounding Israel's creation in
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Speaker 2: nineteen forty eight. But already on the sixteenth of May,
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Speaker 2: the Metropolitan Police had received an application from the anti
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Speaker 2: Islam campaign that Tommy Robinson for his Unite the Kingdom
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Speaker 2: march is In the end they decided to let both
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Speaker 2: go ahead, but to keep them separate. Well, the numbers
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Speaker 2: weren't as bad ours many as they expected, but of
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Speaker 2: the thousands of officers drafted in six hundred and sixty
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Speaker 2: were from other forces, including in Wales, and the cost
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Speaker 2: of it is absolutely enormous. And for the first time
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Speaker 2: as well, police were using live facial recognition of the
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Speaker 2: protesters as they arrived at railway stations in order to
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Speaker 2: try and arrest those connected with other matters.
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Speaker 3: Goodness, democracy don't come cheap. How's we're strading doing? He's
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Speaker 3: officially in trying is hitting the ring.
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Speaker 2: He is and we expect to hear fairly soon about
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Speaker 2: the date of this by election that the other big
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Speaker 2: contender may seek to get back into Parliament in order
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Speaker 2: to contest the Prime Ministership that Andy Burnham, the current
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Speaker 2: mayor of Manchester. We think it's going to be in
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Speaker 2: mid June, possibly June the eighteenth, for him to try
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Speaker 2: and tire get in at a by election. But it's
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Speaker 2: by no means a certainty. Reform has really done well
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Speaker 2: in that particular area and it's very interesting that also
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Speaker 2: the round now really about the leadership, has moved on
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Speaker 2: a bit to discuss the future of the UK's relationship
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Speaker 2: with the EU. With Wes Streeting, who resigned amid a
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Speaker 2: very acrimonious resignation letter at the back end of last
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Speaker 2: week as Health Secretary. He's saying that Brexit was one
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Speaker 2: of the most biggest catastrophic mistakes ever, that this country's
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Speaker 2: committed and he is going to try and make sure
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Speaker 2: that we rejoin the EU if he gets picked as
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Speaker 2: party leader. Very interesting because at that by election seat
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Speaker 2: it was said that sixty said that people had voted
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Speaker 2: for Brexit exactly.
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Speaker 3: That is the fascinating part about it. But he's clearly
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Speaker 3: determined to put bricks back on the ballot paper. Good
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Speaker 3: to have you on as always. That is Gavin gray
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Speaker 3: Are UK europe Correspondent. It is thirteen minutes away from
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Speaker 3: six so national campaigning on scrapping good character assessments at sentencing.
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Speaker 3: This is for all sexual offenders. Marie Dieberg, KC defense
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Speaker 3: lawyer says a functioning justice system must not have a
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Speaker 3: one size fits all system for sentencing. It doesn't like
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Speaker 3: the change proposed.
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Speaker 7: Change within any crime, there are factors that.
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Speaker 3: Make one crime much more serious than another. Paul Goldsmith
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Speaker 3: is with us now. Paul, good morning. Good to have
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Speaker 3: you on the program this morning, as always, Kim, can
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Speaker 3: we start with it? So what I want to know?
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Speaker 3: First of all, why because the chief victim's advocate, Ruth Money,
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Speaker 3: has said previously that she wants this change, but wants
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Speaker 3: it for all crimes. So why have you only gone
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Speaker 3: with sexual offending?
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Speaker 15: Well, the focus, initial focus was on sexual offending because
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Speaker 15: you know, primarily when we talk about.
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Speaker 16: The reputation or the so called good character, often that
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Speaker 16: that that actually enables sexual offending, which is, you know,
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Speaker 16: by its nature sometimes you know, silence and secret and
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Speaker 16: so you.
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Speaker 15: Know that there's logic around that. And if you look
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Speaker 15: around from parts of Australia and things, sexual offending has
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Speaker 15: been a particular focus around us. But you know we're
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Speaker 15: open further down the line to considering it for for everybody.
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Speaker 15: But you know, it's part and parcel though of a
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Speaker 15: particular effort we've been making to you know, to send
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Speaker 15: a very clear message around sexual offending. You know, we've
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Speaker 15: done the stalking legislation. We've also changed the rules around
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Speaker 15: name suppression for you know, making it you need to
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Speaker 15: have the victim agreeing before you can get permanent name
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Speaker 15: suppression for sexual offending.
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Speaker 3: And so this is.
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Speaker 15: Part of that effort because you know, we're I've actually
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Speaker 15: got to start continuing to change public attitudes around this
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Speaker 15: to be very clear that there are real consequences of
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Speaker 15: sexual offending.
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Speaker 3: Paul, If I murder somebody, could I get a discount
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Speaker 3: for good character?
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Speaker 8: Very unlikely?
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Speaker 3: Right? And what about if I bet someone up? You
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Speaker 3: know what I mean like that? I mean, yeah, sure,
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Speaker 3: they're all bad things. I mean, why not I guess,
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Speaker 3: why not just do the same thing for all the
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Speaker 3: bad ones, all the violent ones at least?
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Speaker 15: Well yeah, yeah, I mean that's an argument. But you know,
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Speaker 15: we're suggesting that we start with sexual offending, like I say,
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Speaker 15: because of what I said, in the sense that caught.
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Speaker 15: Quite often it's people who are people in positions of trust,
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Speaker 15: who can who lead into sexual offending, and so you
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Speaker 15: know that's why it's particularly you know, you're sitting there,
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Speaker 15: you're a victim of crime, You've suffered the consequences of
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Speaker 15: it all, and then you have to go along and
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Speaker 15: hear everybody reading out of these letters of support from
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Speaker 15: the local rugby club or whatever it is, which compounds.
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Speaker 15: I mean, our whole approach is to look at it
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Speaker 15: from the point of view of victims. And you know,
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Speaker 15: if you're a victim of the sexual offense, it doesn't
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Speaker 15: matter about the how good the reputation of the person
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Speaker 15: was who did it. You're still suffering the same outcome
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Speaker 15: and the same impact.
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Speaker 3: Do you have any Have you been given any advice
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Speaker 3: on how many more prison sentences you could see as
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Speaker 3: a result of this, or the length or longer sentences
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Speaker 3: as a result.
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Speaker 15: Yes, well, yes, we've tried to calculate that and it
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Speaker 15: might be around fifteen to thirty more people in prison
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Speaker 15: as a result with the monstery of justice. That an
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Speaker 15: experiment to try and sort of find out the extent
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Speaker 15: of these kind of discounts last year or so, and
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Speaker 15: for a slice of the sentence people they found about
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Speaker 15: seven or eight percent had received these kinds of discounts
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Speaker 15: that they will all weren't sexual offenders. So you know
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Speaker 15: there's a category there of people who are getting these
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Speaker 15: things and we want to trim that back and that
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Speaker 15: we'll have some consequence for the prison, but we think
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Speaker 15: that's justified because we want to send a clearant message.
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Speaker 3: Fair Enough, how times you haven't sent the message already,
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Speaker 3: like why are you making this a campaign as you're
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Speaker 3: for national as opposed to something you did? You know
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Speaker 3: in the last three.
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Speaker 15: Years, Well, I mean, I think I can point to
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Speaker 15: probably one of the most substantial legislative packages over the
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Speaker 15: last two and a half years of any justice minister
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Speaker 15: in a very long time. You know, we've brought back
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Speaker 15: three strikes, We've tough we've removed put a cap on discounts.
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Speaker 15: We've given the police extra powers to deal with gangs.
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Speaker 15: We've brought the stalking legislation. We've done an enormous amount
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Speaker 15: and there's only so we're doing all the retail crime
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Speaker 15: stuff at the moment. So we've been extremely busy and
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Speaker 15: we want to keep being busy next term, and so
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Speaker 15: we're indicating some of the directions that we want to
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Speaker 15: go in.
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Speaker 3: All right, fair enough, minister, appreciate your time. This one
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Speaker 3: in Paul Goldsmith Justice. It is eight minutes away from six.
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Speaker 3: News TALKSB get ahead of the headlines on early edition
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Speaker 3: with Ryan Bridge and Spuck for Business Technology that keeps
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Speaker 3: business moving News TALKSB. It is six minutes away from
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Speaker 3: six Monday Morning. Ryan. The idea of going back to
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Speaker 3: the educational old days with exams and let fewer internal
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Speaker 3: assessments and kids turning up to class and having to
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Speaker 3: do science. This person says it's about as productive as
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Speaker 3: Trump putting people back on production lines. The rest of
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Speaker 3: the world will just pass us by using cutting edge technology.
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Speaker 3: Future is not going back to the old and what
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Speaker 3: we knew and what was safe. It's venturing into the unknown. Okay,
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Speaker 3: six away from six, Ryan Bridge. The Swedes are just
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Speaker 3: now going back to books. So is the rest of
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Speaker 3: the world in fact going on and moving on with
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Speaker 3: new technology. I'm not sure that they are. Mike's in
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Speaker 3: the studio this morning morning. Mike's rules to see you Ryan.
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Speaker 3: As always, you would have never touched a tablet or
31:59
Speaker 3: a laptop at school because the great.
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Speaker 17: Debate when I was at school was you weren't allowed
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Speaker 17: to use this thing called calculator and that that would
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Speaker 17: allow you to cheat and you still needed to use
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Speaker 17: your brain to add up and stuff like that. So
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Speaker 17: it's a fascinating interface. Well, I'm finding even more interesting
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Speaker 17: at the moment is that there's a lot of stuff.
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Speaker 17: I mean, it's only May and all the information's coming
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Speaker 17: out already. You've got your mate Paul there on his
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Speaker 17: announcement over the weekend, You've got Peter's buying a bank.
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Speaker 17: You got you got a lot of stuff unfolding fairly
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Speaker 17: early on, isn't it. And whether or not people can
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Speaker 17: absorb this, whether they're interested at this particular point in
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Speaker 17: times long way to go to November.
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Speaker 3: Well there's one party of course not doing that, and
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Speaker 3: that's late.
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Speaker 17: There's not a single policy to be had. Mind you,
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Speaker 17: they do say to their credit, I guess is they
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Speaker 17: wait for the budget and post the budget.
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Speaker 3: There's no excuse.
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Speaker 17: They can see the numbers and what they can spend
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Speaker 17: or not spend. But you gripped by it at the
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Speaker 17: moment you think, my whole thing, I'm absolutely convinced this
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Speaker 17: election is going to be one and lost on basically,
32:59
Speaker 17: do you want this lot, don't. It's not about the
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Speaker 17: individual nuance and subtleties of things that may or may
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Speaker 17: not happen given under MMP. I mean, I can tell
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Speaker 17: you now in case you're worried, Peters isn't buying the bank.
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Speaker 17: It's not going to happen. And so all the other stuff,
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Speaker 17: most of it's not going to happen.
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Speaker 3: Neither will any of the stuff that the act Party
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Speaker 3: or National might talk about selling off. But it won't
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Speaker 3: happen either. The same reason.
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Speaker 17: What they need is a bottom line, is to say
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Speaker 17: this particular policy is that will happen, or else we
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Speaker 17: will not join a government. That's what you need because
33:29
Speaker 17: at that point you know where you're at. Otherwise it
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Speaker 17: kind of like just a whole lot of ideas floating
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Speaker 17: about the place. So I'm going to ask Peters about that,
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Speaker 17: because it's a weird thing to say, isn't it to say?
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Speaker 17: When someone said to him yesterday, you know, how do
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Speaker 17: you know it's for sale? Because I say it is?
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Speaker 17: I mean, honestly, that is that what we've come down
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Speaker 17: to us. I mean, that's pathetic. Anyway, he's with us
33:49
Speaker 17: along with the prime ministers.
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Speaker 3: Fantastic and have a fantastic morning. See tomorrow.
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