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Full Show Podcast: 09 December 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: Well, good morning to you, Ed, thank you so much
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Speaker 2: for choosing us. Coming up in the next hour. There's
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Speaker 2: a whole lot of people who now own the Hurricanes
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Speaker 2: as the superside sells fifty percent of their shares, So
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Speaker 2: what is the grand plan. We're going to have the
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Speaker 2: CEO of the side in five minutes time. There's a
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Speaker 2: new type of space age wool on the market, so
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Speaker 2: will it save the industry? We'll have that story in ten.
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Speaker 2: Donald Demayo will be joining us from Australia. And today
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Speaker 2: is the day that the RAMA finally SLINKs off to die,
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Speaker 2: So what's taking its place and how are the farmer's feeling.
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Speaker 2: We'll have that story just before six. We'll have correspondence
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Speaker 2: from right around New Zealand and news as it breaks,
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Speaker 2: including news on that tsunami warning out of Japan. And
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Speaker 2: you can have your say anytime you like by using
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Speaker 2: the text machine. It's ninety two to ninety two and
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Speaker 2: a small charge applies. It is seven up to five.
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Speaker 2: It's Tuesday, the ninth of December, and tsunami warnings have
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Speaker 2: been issued. There was a seven point six magnitude earthquake
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Speaker 2: struck off the northeastern coast of Japantus to the right
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Speaker 2: of Hakkaido. It was detected in the regions called al Maori,
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Speaker 2: and they reckon that waves as high as three meters
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Speaker 2: could be hitting the east coast.
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Speaker 3: When you have the displacement of water from the seafloor
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Speaker 3: all the way up to the surface, that's what can
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Speaker 3: trigger a big tsunami.
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Speaker 4: And it's that subduction zone where.
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Speaker 5: The plates move up and down, not necessarily side signed.
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Speaker 1: That is where the biggest risk for tsunamis.
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Speaker 5: And the people who live in Japan and the authorities
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Speaker 5: there they know that, so they are they may be
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Speaker 5: some of the best prepared in the world.
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Speaker 2: So we'll keep our eye on this. At the moment,
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Speaker 2: no risks to New Zealand to the Ukraine, and she's
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Speaker 2: getting a bit dicey there. Zelenski has been visiting Downing
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Speaker 2: Street having more piece talks with Keir Starmouth, Emmanuel Macron
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Speaker 2: and from Germany Friedrich Metz.
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Speaker 6: He's sad with mccra.
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Speaker 1: And sis fire is fil just lost.
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Speaker 2: But here's the thing, Donald Trump's here's Zolensky hasn't read
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Speaker 2: Trump's peace plan yet.
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Speaker 6: I have to say that I'm a little bit disappointed
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Speaker 6: that President Zelensky hasn't yet read the proposal that was
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Speaker 6: as of a few hours ago. His people love it,
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Speaker 6: but he has it. Russia's fine with it. Russia's you know, Russia, Russia,
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Speaker 6: I guess would rather have the whole country when you
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Speaker 6: think of it.
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Speaker 2: But Russia is, I believe, fine with it all right.
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Speaker 2: And to the whole Netflix and Warner Brothers thing, a
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Speaker 2: Paramount is going in swinging. They have launched a hostile
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Speaker 2: bed for Warner Brothers Discovery after losing out to Netflix
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Speaker 2: and that big money bidding. Warn Now they're putting thirty
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Speaker 2: dollars a share on the table, which is more than Netflix.
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Speaker 2: They put twenty seven to seventy five down. They reckon
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Speaker 2: that their offer is the superior one.
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Speaker 4: Paramount succeeded in getting President Trump to weigh it over
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Speaker 4: the weekend, and therefore it feels it's on stronger ground
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Speaker 4: on Monday to take its pitch directly to the shareholders.
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Speaker 4: And you may be aware, of course, that the shareholders
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Speaker 4: have not yet as signed off on the deal with Netflix,
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Speaker 4: so there's lots to play here.
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Speaker 2: Yes, there's lots of people making lots of money right now.
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Speaker 2: Whether they'll continue to who knows. It is nine minutes
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Speaker 2: after five.
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Speaker 1: The First Word on the News of the Day Early
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Speaker 2: You know, I hate it when politicians tell little porky's
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Speaker 2: to try and get their point across, because it's just wrong. Now,
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Speaker 2: submissions close on Plan Change one twenty for Auckland on
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Speaker 2: December the nineteenth, and there have been a number of
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Speaker 2: vociferous opponents who have unfortunately exaggerated the effects of the
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Speaker 2: plan to get support against it. And that's not how
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Speaker 2: democracy is supposed to work. Anyway, This Plan Change one twenty,
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Speaker 2: All cuities are doing it. This is Auckland's one. This
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Speaker 2: is the plan where more homes can be built within
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Speaker 2: the city limits because we're all expecting our population to grow.
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Speaker 2: So these opponents have claimed that this city will be
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Speaker 2: indiscriminately blanketed with higher density homes. Well that's not true.
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Speaker 2: In fact, that's rubbish. Taller buildings are only proposed in
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Speaker 2: certain areas, mostly their train stations or bus routes, in
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Speaker 2: their town centres, where there are already jobs, shops and services.
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Speaker 2: The fact is some areas will actually end out with
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Speaker 2: less homes than are allowed under the current plan. But
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Speaker 2: that doesn't stop people saying the city's going to be
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Speaker 2: full of high density homes. Now that's not true. They've claimed.
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Speaker 2: The christ Church successfully pushed back on intensification and so
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Speaker 2: Auckland should too well. Christ Church withdrew because parts of
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Speaker 2: their plan already allow greater density than the government was demanding,
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Speaker 2: and of course the two cities are completely different to
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Speaker 2: their needs. These opponents have claimed that two million houses
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Speaker 2: in Auckland is far too many will never need that
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Speaker 2: much housing, even in the next one hundred years or more. Well,
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Speaker 2: the two million figure is absolutely aretical. It's only achievable
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Speaker 2: if every single site was exploited and developed, and the
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Speaker 2: reality is that far fewer houses will ever be built
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Speaker 2: because at the end of the day, the sites will
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Speaker 2: only be developed if they're sold to developers, and many
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Speaker 2: homeowners don't want to do that, and if the new
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Speaker 2: place is severely out of Kilter with the rest of
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Speaker 2: the suburbs. They won't sell and no developer will build
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Speaker 2: an unsellable house. There's room for two million, we won't
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Speaker 2: hit two million. And they also claim that the city
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Speaker 2: is going to change overnight, and it just won't. At
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Speaker 2: the end of the day. All our cities are growing
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Speaker 2: and the government has said, figure out where you're going to,
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Speaker 2: where you're going to put the people. You have to
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Speaker 2: meet the market. These opponents, and I couldn't name them,
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Speaker 2: but I won't, but they've been around for ages. These
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Speaker 2: opponents who are over hyping concerns, are stick in the MUDs,
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Speaker 2: who don't believe in progress, growth and change, and even
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Speaker 2: worse than that, they're prepared to tell mistruths to try
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Speaker 2: and get their point across Z twelve after five. So
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Speaker 2: I got a phone call last night and it was
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Speaker 2: from a mate and said, what are you doing right now?
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Speaker 2: And I said, I don't know. Come come down, come
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Speaker 2: and have it, Come and have a glass of champagne
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Speaker 2: with me. And I said, I can't have cooked dinner,
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Speaker 2: and I'm listening to Ryan Bridge and I'm getting ready
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Speaker 2: to work tomorrow morning. I can't come drinking down I'm sorry,
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Speaker 2: Why why do you want to go drinking? He said,
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Speaker 2: I've just brought him to the Hurricanes went no, really,
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Speaker 2: she said, why didn't you choose a better team? That
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Speaker 2: didn't go down very well anyway? Yeah, the Hurricanes, there
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Speaker 2: was fifty percent of their shares up for the grabs
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Speaker 2: yesterday and they were bought. So why was this happening
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Speaker 2: and who's bought them? Well, that story is.
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Speaker 2: My thoughts on the roma change that's coming up at
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Speaker 2: one o'clock today in a few moments time. So the
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Speaker 2: Hurricanes are going to start the new season with a
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Speaker 2: different ownership model and the chain follows the Wellington Rugby
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Speaker 2: sale of its fifty percent stake in the club. So
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Speaker 2: what does this mean for fans and what does it
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Speaker 2: mean what can we expect to see at ground level?
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Speaker 2: I've got online interim Hurricanes CEO Tony Phelp who joins me? Hello, Tony,
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Speaker 2: get out Andrew, good morning, How are you very good?
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Speaker 2: So what's the new model.
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Speaker 7: It's it's exciting ownership model where we've got Malcolm Gillies
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Speaker 7: and John and Peter with s I who brought fifty
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Speaker 7: percent of the years from Wellington Rugby right and.
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Speaker 2: Who owns the other fifty percent just to keep every
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Speaker 2: money in mine?
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Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, We've we've got still existing owners made up
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Speaker 7: of private ownership with a group called hy eleven. We've
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Speaker 7: also got ended our contribution and support from them as
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Speaker 7: well as some provincial Union board members. So between all
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Speaker 7: of that we feel like we've got a really exciting
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Speaker 7: and balanced board.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Now, the Wellington Union sold this year is because
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Speaker 2: the franchise had racked up two million dollars worth of losses.
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Speaker 2: So my question is will this new ownership fix the
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Speaker 2: situation and why is the franchise losing so much money?
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Speaker 7: So I think it's as we all know, rugby's had
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Speaker 7: a difficult few years and there's certainly some opportunities here
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Speaker 7: for the club moving forward to be able to settle
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Speaker 7: the financial reality of the club and take it into
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Speaker 7: the future with thinking a little bit differently about the
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Speaker 7: game and how we continue to engage our community and
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Speaker 7: our fans and get people to the stadium and you know,
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Speaker 7: continue to support our loyal commercial partners through playing some
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Speaker 7: exciting rugby on the field.
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Speaker 2: Of course, and that is that is that is that's
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Speaker 2: the base level. Does the Gillies Andcode the new owners,
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Speaker 2: do they have any bright new ideas?
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Speaker 7: As we all know about the hurricanes, you know, we
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Speaker 7: dare to be different and certainly Malcolm, John and Peter
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Speaker 7: and our boarder thinking differently about how we you know,
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Speaker 7: show rugby of the public both on and off the field.
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Speaker 7: And you know it's fair to say that Malcolm in
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Speaker 7: particular is bringing some innovative thoughts and ideas to our game,
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Speaker 7: which I think is exciting overall.
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Speaker 2: Will the fans see any change.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think they'll see. Yeah, they'll see an exciting
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Speaker 7: brand of rugby first and foremost. And you know, we
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Speaker 7: can really harbor the stadium to be innovative around how
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Speaker 7: we can allow it to be a really great event
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Speaker 7: for people to attend and come along to and feel
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Speaker 7: like they're part of it. And you know, from a
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Speaker 7: club point of view, we're putting lots of energy and
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Speaker 7: tension into the community and engagement with our community. And
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Speaker 7: as you know, our region is as vast and we've
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Speaker 7: got a game up in Napier which are excited about
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Speaker 7: and as well as the stadium in Wellington, and we're
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Speaker 7: looking to get up to Parmerston North and our bye
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Speaker 7: week and connect with the community out there.
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Speaker 2: Well Tony, we wish you are the very best of.
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Speaker 2: Like Tony philp is the interim Hurricanes CEO, my mate
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Speaker 2: who's brought into it is actually out of Hawks Bay,
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Speaker 2: so he's think for more Hawk's Bay influenced there in
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Speaker 2: there as well. As you heard Tony said, it's the
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Speaker 2: game day experience. That's what you were learning from AUCANDFC.
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Speaker 2: That's what we're learning from the Warriors. That's what we've
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Speaker 2: learned from the Breakers. It's the game day experience and
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Speaker 2: make that more attractive. The fans will come and then
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Speaker 2: they bring the money. Speaking about money, it's fair to
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Speaker 2: say one of the motivating factors for Donald Trump's tariff
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Speaker 2: wars against the world was the success of China. So
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Speaker 2: of course the tariffs were designed to contain the Chinese dragon.
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Speaker 2: Guess what they failed. Yesterday, China's Customers Agency announced that
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Speaker 2: the country's accumulated trade surplus reached one point zero eight
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Speaker 2: trillion dollars through November. It's the first time they broken
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Speaker 2: the trillion dollar barrier, and they did it in just
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Speaker 2: eleven months. Exports to the States dropped by nearly a fifth,
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Speaker 2: but China has throttlebackets purchases of American stuff, and so
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Speaker 2: despite the tariffs, they're still selling three times as much
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Speaker 2: stuff to the United States as it buys. And they've
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Speaker 2: realized that the United States is not the be all
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Speaker 2: and end all to global trade. They've wrapped up their
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Speaker 2: sale to other countries consumer electronics, cars, solar panels. They're
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Speaker 2: all flooding Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America with
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Speaker 2: Chinese stuff, and carmakers are go and bust in other countries.
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Speaker 2: Factories in some countries like Indonesia and South Africa have
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Speaker 2: had to curtail production because China's just on fire. And
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Speaker 2: also the other thing is they've got a weak currency
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Speaker 2: right now, the red Minbi is undervalued by about thirty
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Speaker 2: percent against the Euro. So they're making money and I
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Speaker 2: think that's a good lesson for New Zealand. America is
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Speaker 2: not the be all and end all. In speaking of which,
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Speaker 2: New Zealand has a new product to sell to the
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Speaker 2: world and it's called wool particle.
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Speaker 8: What is it?
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Speaker 2: While tee you more next.
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Speaker 2: That'd be it's five twenty two. We've got some more
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Speaker 2: Ki ingenuity on the show today. QWI company Wool Sauce
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Speaker 2: has landed its first big export with Japan. They're shipping
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Speaker 2: off eight tons of their wool particle product. Some people
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Speaker 2: are calling this the holy Grail for strong wool, and
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Speaker 2: some people are also saying this will give a farmers
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Speaker 2: a decent boost because we all know that wool has
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Speaker 2: been struggling, so rural communities. Minister Mark Pattison joins me. Now,
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Speaker 2: goodboring to you, Mark, Good morning Andrew. What exactly is
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Speaker 2: wool particle.
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Speaker 9: It's deconstructed wall fibers. So there's a secret process that's
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Speaker 9: been two decades in the development out at Lincoln University
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Speaker 9: and we're finally getting at the commercial stage.
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Speaker 2: So you're deconstructed, then you're reconstructed and it comes back tougher.
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Speaker 9: Well, in this case, it's particles, but we can take
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Speaker 9: it right down sort of pigment size. So look, it's
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Speaker 9: a secret process, so I don't actually know, but I
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Speaker 9: do know it's keenly sought and of very high value,
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Speaker 9: which is of course free interest much interest to her fund.
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Speaker 2: So far, the first country debate is just Japan and
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Speaker 2: they're buying eight tons, So why is that? Is that important?
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Speaker 2: Is it showing that the innovation is working or has
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Speaker 2: it been slow on the uptake?
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Speaker 9: No, it's more the ability to process that. There's a
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Speaker 9: very small laboratory plant. So the next phase is to
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Speaker 9: scale this up as demand comes in. So we're very
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Speaker 9: much constrained by capacity at the moment. But eight ton
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Speaker 9: it's a fear lot of wallpowder when you see it
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Speaker 9: in a store room. So yeah, very big step forward.
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Speaker 9: This is our moonshot moment. This is where we can
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Speaker 9: take wall to a whole different plane in terms of value.
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Speaker 2: I love it. Moonshot moment. Are we going to make
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Speaker 2: the moon I mean, is this going to work? What
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Speaker 2: is How will this affect the wall sector? How will
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Speaker 2: it affect finners?
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Speaker 9: Well, Often these kind of innovations are quite a niche,
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Speaker 9: but this has the ability to be quite large in
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Speaker 9: the sense that we believe it could take twenty percent
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Speaker 9: of New Zealand strong Wall Club once fully up and
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Speaker 9: running at a very high price point. So it has
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Speaker 9: the opportunity or the potential to really move the needle
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Speaker 9: for us sheep farmers.
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Speaker 2: And they want it to. And I thank you so
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Speaker 2: much Mark Patterson, who is the rural Community's Minister. And
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Speaker 2: this is news Talks here B. It's like the secret
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Speaker 2: Kernel's secret recipe for wool, which no one knows except
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Speaker 2: for the people who own the IP five twenty five
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Speaker 2: B News Talks it B five twenty seven. I'm Andrew
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Speaker 2: Dickens and for Ryan Bridge. For as long as I've
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Speaker 2: been in talk radio, I've been talking to people about
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Speaker 2: RIMA reform. And you know I first turned up and
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Speaker 2: talked radio back in nineteen ninety six. It's a long time.
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Speaker 2: The Resource Management Act, it's been around a long time too,
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Speaker 2: introduced in nineteen ninety one, and it's fair to say
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Speaker 2: it's ballooned into being an albatross around our necks. To comply,
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Speaker 2: you need to pay a fortune to check your compliance.
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Speaker 2: Authorities have to spend weeks reviewing your plans. That costs
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Speaker 2: a fortune. So today we're going to learn what comes next.
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Speaker 7: Now.
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Speaker 2: The reason the roma grew like a cancer of growth
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Speaker 2: around our progress is quite simple. Too many people took
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Speaker 2: too many liberties and caused too much damage, and worrying
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Speaker 2: about their margins, they took shortcuts and then projects failed,
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Speaker 2: And like so many laws, we had to take into
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Speaker 2: account those lowest common denominators, the developers who did it cheap,
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Speaker 2: the developers who did it bad and then liquidated the
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Speaker 2: company to leave others to clean up the mess, or
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Speaker 2: the people who built stuff and it fell down, or
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Speaker 2: the people who built stuff and it polluted the environment.
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Speaker 2: The experience is why many will not welcome today's simplification
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Speaker 2: of the rules. But the overcompensation for those bad actors
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Speaker 2: has cost us all too much. So today I think
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Speaker 2: we're all looking for efficiencies. We are still looking for
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Speaker 2: the safeguard to protect us from the cowboys who are
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Speaker 2: far too many in our countries these days. But apparently
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Speaker 2: there's going to be some national agency that's going to
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Speaker 2: overlook particularly the environmental concern. So I wish Chris Bishop
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Speaker 2: all the best of luck today. The work needs to
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Speaker 2: be done. But again I beg the developers not to
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Speaker 2: take the piss. Your selfish concern for your bottom line
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Speaker 2: has resulted in this mess, so just stop it. Here's
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Speaker 2: a thing for anybody building anything, whether you're getting a
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Speaker 2: building consent or a resource consent or anything. Build it once,
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Speaker 2: build it right, make it last, and care about your legacy.
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Speaker 7: Said.
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Speaker 2: It's five twenty nine. So johnod Demai is on the
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Speaker 2: way and we're going to talk more about this politician
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Speaker 2: who went for a meeting at a ski field and
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Speaker 2: decided to take along her partner and the kids and
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Speaker 2: got the taxpayers to pay for it in the cost
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Speaker 2: of taxpayers three grand. Turns out she also ship the
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Speaker 2: husband off to a couple of boxing day tests or
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Speaker 2: something over the course of time. Anyway, this person is
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Speaker 2: spending taxpayers money like anything, and there is more pressure
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Speaker 2: on the Sports Minister, who is the person concerned. So
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Speaker 2: Donald de Mayers got that story. Hey, we'll run through
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Speaker 2: the poll that came out yesterday, the One News poll
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Speaker 2: which was well, I thought, business as usual and good
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Speaker 2: news for national and labor, but more on that coming up.
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Speaker 2: Just after the news and just before five before sex,
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Speaker 2: we will be talking to the farmers about what they're
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Speaker 2: hoping for from the new changes to the Reserve Management Act.
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Speaker 2: I can tell you that the Prime Minister said that
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Speaker 2: it will drop the cost of consents for farmers by
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Speaker 2: forty six percent and that's got to be good news.
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Speaker 2: they've said is all the air conditioning is nice. She
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Speaker 2: is hot right now, isn't it? Did you see the
18:50
Speaker 2: Telly last night? Did you see the poll one news
18:52
Speaker 2: variant pole? What did it show? Show that our traditional
18:56
Speaker 2: leading parties are regaining their bases because both the national
18:59
Speaker 2: labor pretty happy. Other than that, not much really to report.
19:02
Speaker 2: The Greens are lagging because they're failing to connect on
19:04
Speaker 2: the social issues which are there go to these days
19:06
Speaker 2: instead of the environment. New Zealand First continued to appeal
19:09
Speaker 2: to older middle New Zealand. I've always thought New Zealand
19:12
Speaker 2: First is a funny old hybrid of old school conservatism
19:15
Speaker 2: combined with a lasting concern for the old fashioned working class,
19:18
Speaker 2: and that's what keeps them going. Actors back up to
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Speaker 2: ten percent and getting credit for keeping national focused on
19:23
Speaker 2: economic issues and fighting the debt. But of course to
19:29
Speaker 2: Pati Mari to Pati Mai are collapsing because of all
19:33
Speaker 2: the shenanigans. There are just one percent.
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Speaker 9: We've got time on our side to repair, have you.
19:40
Speaker 2: Mister Tamaharry? And why do we hear from mister Tamaharry
19:42
Speaker 2: all the time? He's the president, not in the politicians.
19:46
Speaker 2: Do you ever hear from the National president or the
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Speaker 2: Labor President. No, you hear from the politicians and the
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Speaker 2: leader of the party. But well, John's John. Meanwhile, of
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Speaker 2: course Hipkins and Luxon have strengthened despite both their obvious weaknesses.
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Speaker 2: In fact, the only thing that leapt out to me
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Speaker 2: from the preferred prime minister's numbers as the sudden appearance
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Speaker 2: of Chris Bishop. Chris is on too.
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Speaker 8: The National Party has an ongoing game of thrones internally.
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Speaker 1: Goodness knows who'll be leading them into the next election.
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Speaker 10: Oh, I've got a lot of grave ministers doing working
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Speaker 10: incredibly hard, doing a fantastic job.
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Speaker 9: You didn't have any concerns that he was plodding against
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Speaker 9: you in any kind of a way.
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Speaker 2: No, huh, So good on Chris Bishop. Here's the thing.
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Speaker 2: National now has a comer. But I don't think Luxlon
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Speaker 2: has to be worried just yet, said be twenty one
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Speaker 2: to six and Callen Proctor joins us now from Dunedin
20:34
Speaker 2: Haller Callen morning, Andrew, Oh, no all backs tests at
20:38
Speaker 2: Forsyth Bar. Yeah, look, that appears to be the case.
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Speaker 11: We understand that there will be no all Blacks tests
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Speaker 11: here for the first time in five years, with christ
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Speaker 11: Church's new stadium apparently set to host the first of
20:51
Speaker 11: only four tests on New Zealand soil next year, and
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Speaker 11: official announcements being made later this morning by New Zealand
20:58
Speaker 11: Rugby Our mayor he has Sophie Barker says to miss
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Speaker 11: out on a test next year is a big blow
21:02
Speaker 11: for the city. She says the most recent test had
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Speaker 11: a fourteen million dollar economic impact, so she says that's
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Speaker 11: tough for businesses who rely on the big test rugby
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Speaker 11: crowds to get through the off season here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, fifteen all black tests next year, but only four
21:16
Speaker 2: in New Zealand because they're chasing the dollars. How's your weather?
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Speaker 7: Hot?
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Speaker 11: Yep, warm today again twenty three to Eden's High.
21:22
Speaker 2: A fine day with northeasterlies. And I thank you very
21:25
Speaker 2: much to can Agory we go clear, sure and good
21:27
Speaker 2: morning to you.
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Speaker 12: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: So there was a there was a morning tea at
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Speaker 2: a school that went horribly wrong.
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Speaker 12: Well, this sounds like my worst nightmare.
21:33
Speaker 3: That's right.
21:34
Speaker 12: A shared morning tea and why targeting Primary School and
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Speaker 12: Burwood has left more than twenty of the school staff
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Speaker 12: battling gastro symptoms and two hundred and fifty students are
21:44
Speaker 12: staying home as a precaution. The school principal, Andrew Barker
21:48
Speaker 12: says staff members, including some teachers, learning assistants and library staff,
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Speaker 12: fell sick after this morning tea on Friday. He says
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Speaker 12: the school is open, but see he is warning that
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Speaker 12: they may neede to swap to an alternative program if
22:01
Speaker 12: the illness continues to spread. Barker says, while there are
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Speaker 12: no student cases of the illness for now, most staff
22:08
Speaker 12: need to be off work until at least Wednesday. At
22:10
Speaker 12: this stage, the National Public Health Service doesn't believe there's
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Speaker 12: any ongoing public health risk, but the Ministry of Education
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Speaker 12: has confirmed it's aware of the situation and monitoring it.
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Speaker 5: They will keep FARO.
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Speaker 12: Informed, particularly if there is a need to change the
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Speaker 12: learning program.
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Speaker 2: That story is making me feel queasy. Now, how's your weather?
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Speaker 12: A hot one here today, as you said, some low
22:31
Speaker 12: early morning cloud but then should be fine, light winds
22:33
Speaker 12: afternoon northeasterlies and twenty nine.
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Speaker 2: To Wellington we go. Max told good morning to you.
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Speaker 9: Good morning.
22:39
Speaker 2: Changes to public transport.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, it's something that's been a bit of a no
22:43
Speaker 10: brain here for some time, paying on buses, trains and
22:45
Speaker 10: ferries with your phone or your debit or credit card.
22:49
Speaker 10: We've been waiting for this for some time. Christ Jurge
22:51
Speaker 10: got it this year. Auckland has had it for some
22:53
Speaker 10: time and it is coming to the capital next year,
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Speaker 10: the first half of next year. In fact, despite the
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Speaker 10: fact it was first signed off on by regional authorities
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Speaker 10: more than sixteen years ago, five point five million dollars
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Speaker 10: for contactless public transport payment it'll cost the regional council.
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Speaker 10: They're going to do it in the first half of
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Speaker 10: next year. We currently use the Snapper card system. That'll
23:16
Speaker 10: obviously still work for some time as well. This just
23:19
Speaker 10: offers a bit more flexibility.
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Speaker 2: Yes, what we've got hop and Orka, we've got Snapper
23:23
Speaker 2: down there. We've got what you've got metlink, an app
23:26
Speaker 2: called metlink, is it right? I mean all this is great,
23:28
Speaker 2: but it's sort of we went down one direction and
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Speaker 2: now we're going down another. So wait to see what
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Speaker 2: happened here. How's your weather? How's your weather.
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Speaker 10: Yes, it's been more convenient if it was the same nationwide,
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Speaker 10: wouldn't it mostly fine today with Northerly's twenty one the
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Speaker 10: high in the city, as you said earlier, thirty one
23:44
Speaker 10: into the thirties in Masterton.
23:46
Speaker 2: Well, good stuff in max And it was a very
23:47
Speaker 2: smart thing to say one card to rule them all
23:51
Speaker 2: to walk theme we go neither Writt to man. Hello greetings.
23:54
Speaker 2: So there's a music venue which is facing closure.
23:58
Speaker 3: That's right, you'll know this one. This is very historic
24:01
Speaker 3: Kahue Saint David's, Kayper's past now it's facing closure now.
24:05
Speaker 3: This is due to council rates, insurance costs surging to
24:08
Speaker 3: about fifty thousand dollars a year now. It was built
24:12
Speaker 3: to be a soldier's memorial church. This was back in
24:14
Speaker 3: nineteen twenty seven and the space has been transformed to
24:17
Speaker 3: host various community events and services for New Zealand's Defense
24:20
Speaker 3: Force Director Paul Baragwanath says, despite the building's heritage status,
24:25
Speaker 3: their rates bell you know, in the tens of thousands.
24:27
Speaker 3: No remission there. It's an underresourced sector and it relies
24:31
Speaker 3: heavily on donations and grants.
24:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a lovely, lovely, love lo lovely thing, lovely
24:35
Speaker 2: church and the Baragwyouths have been involved with that church
24:38
Speaker 2: since I were first, since I was a kid. So
24:42
Speaker 2: that is sad, but you know that's insurance. And we're
24:44
Speaker 2: walking hit by that house. You weather fine.
24:46
Speaker 3: Apart from morning Cloud twenty eight, as you've been saying,
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Speaker 3: another sculpture for everyone twenty eight here in Auckland.
24:51
Speaker 2: God, I love the air conditioning in my car as well.
24:53
Speaker 2: He got into the car and just went, oh okay.
24:55
Speaker 3: And it's lovely and cool and here too, oh lovely.
24:58
Speaker 3: I might just stay here now.
24:59
Speaker 2: We're talking about the farmers who are now moving the
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Speaker 2: beasts to new pastures at three or four o'clock in
25:04
Speaker 2: the morning now, to save the beasts and to save
25:06
Speaker 2: the farmers. Idea idea, She's hot. It is sixteen to
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Speaker 2: six Donald Tomorow coming up from Australia just a few
25:13
Speaker 2: moments time, and then we're going to look at this
25:15
Speaker 2: RMA reformants being announced at one o'clock today. We will
25:17
Speaker 2: bring you all the details as soon as we can.
25:20
Speaker 2: Farmers are excited. How excited you'll find out just before.
25:22
Speaker 1: Six International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of
25:27
Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
25:30
Speaker 2: Yes, we're after Australia donad tomorrow. Good morning to you, oh,
25:33
Speaker 2: good morning to you. So there's even more pressure on
25:36
Speaker 2: the Sports Minister who believes that going for a skiing
25:38
Speaker 2: holiday with her whole family appears to be her human right.
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Speaker 13: Are the questions about these taxpayer funded travel expenses by
25:46
Speaker 13: the Sports Minister just continue because the Sports Minister is
25:52
Speaker 13: pretty much under fire for a range of expenses that
25:55
Speaker 13: the tax payers of paying paid for, and it some
25:59
Speaker 13: of them in relation to claims she made for her
26:02
Speaker 13: in her family to attend the AFL Grand Final for instance,
26:06
Speaker 13: and cricket test matches. And so we do know that
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Speaker 13: these expenses are within the guidelines, but the Coalition is
26:12
Speaker 13: asking does it you know, does the travel meet community
26:16
Speaker 13: expectations as they say? Now, for instance, a couple of
26:19
Speaker 13: flights for a self in hubby to the twenty twenty
26:21
Speaker 13: two and twenty twenty four Boxing Day tests. You know,
26:24
Speaker 13: it cost around three grand and the flights were taken
26:27
Speaker 13: under family reunion entitlements. So the coal istion she's saying,
26:31
Speaker 13: is she taking advantage of the rules. Also, the twenty
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Speaker 13: twenty two twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four AFL
26:37
Speaker 13: Grand Finals. Now, she was a guest of the AFL,
26:40
Speaker 13: but it costs upwards of eight point five thousand dollars
26:43
Speaker 13: when she claimed family travel. Now, the Liberals say that
26:45
Speaker 13: these expenses are way more than what the community expects
26:49
Speaker 13: of politicians, and they want Miss Wells to refer herself
26:53
Speaker 13: and her expense claims to independent scrutiny. We've heard from
26:57
Speaker 13: the PM as well, I will add, and the pmsas Yes,
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Speaker 13: the travel does meet the guidelines, but then we've got
27:03
Speaker 13: additional insights that he cleared the minister's travel to New
27:07
Speaker 13: York for the UN General Assembly and how much did
27:09
Speaker 13: that cost? More than one hundred thousand dollars?
27:13
Speaker 2: Hobby, he's having a lot of fun though. Hey, so
27:15
Speaker 2: the Federal police cracking down on people they allege are
27:19
Speaker 2: a threat to Australian cohesion.
27:22
Speaker 13: Yes, it's been a week long blitz targeting individuals and
27:25
Speaker 13: groups that police say are damaging Australia's cohesion cohesion and
27:29
Speaker 13: as part of the operation they've arrested and charged a
27:32
Speaker 13: twenty one year old Queensland man who allegedly was in
27:35
Speaker 13: possession of violent extremist material. Separate incident a twenty five
27:39
Speaker 13: year old man from Sydney's Northwest and he's been issued
27:41
Speaker 13: a court attendance notice, so he's heading to court after
27:44
Speaker 13: allegedly using the Nazi salute at a recent public gathering.
27:48
Speaker 13: And in another incident just before the Blitz, a Queensland
27:51
Speaker 13: man's been charged with allegedly displaying Nazi symbols and posting
27:55
Speaker 13: content on x which violates Commonwealth law. Online three year
28:00
Speaker 13: old has been arrested and is also heading to course.
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Speaker 2: And Tomoratow from Australia. I thank you for your time.
28:05
Speaker 2: It's eleven to six news talks 'd be So the
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Speaker 2: government is announcing this major shakeup of the Resource Management
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Speaker 2: Actor at one o'clock today. Will bring you everything as
28:14
Speaker 2: it happens. Regional councils have already been slashed, but now
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Speaker 2: the government's eyeing up a forty to fifty percent cut
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Speaker 2: on the number of consents required. Zoning is getting a
28:23
Speaker 2: clean up too, trimming down from the one, one and
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Speaker 2: seventy five zones we've got at the moment. And apparently
28:29
Speaker 2: there's some new agency that will overlook environmental concerns. So
28:32
Speaker 2: I'm joined now by Federated Farmer's Arroma Reform spokesperson Mark Hooper,
28:36
Speaker 2: who joins with kill Mark, good morning, this is what
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Speaker 2: you've been wanting for years.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, well that's right. We have been campaigning around this
28:44
Speaker 8: for a long time.
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Speaker 2: And with your campaigning, have you been coming up with
28:49
Speaker 2: the ideas and you've been helping the government, you know,
28:52
Speaker 2: in their time in opposition, Because I heard the EMA
28:54
Speaker 2: guy yesterday he's been working on reform and reform ideas
28:58
Speaker 2: and presenting it to politicians for eight years. Have you,
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Speaker 2: guys Farmer has been doing the same.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I think ours goes back for a good
29:06
Speaker 8: twenty odd years in some form or another. But certainly,
29:10
Speaker 8: you know, since the term of the previous government, you know,
29:13
Speaker 8: we've been pretty pretty proactive around this and particularly focusing
29:16
Speaker 8: I guess, a really really quite simple message that the
29:20
Speaker 8: current system is broken, that it's too expensive, it's too
29:26
Speaker 8: time consuming, and it's too unpredictable. So really we're looking
29:30
Speaker 8: for a good outcome, which is faster, the cheaper better.
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Speaker 2: I said a bit earlier in the program though, the
29:36
Speaker 2: reason the Garram may balloon to become this cancelus growth
29:38
Speaker 2: around our economy is because too many people actually did
29:41
Speaker 2: some stuff and actually ruin the environment. Will there be
29:44
Speaker 2: environmental safeguards you reckon? From what you know?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely there will be. I mean one of the
29:51
Speaker 8: reasons you mentioned there in the intro cutting consents by
29:56
Speaker 8: you know, up to fifty percent. So that's around the
29:59
Speaker 8: basis having a good set of national standards for common
30:02
Speaker 8: activities things like farming, vegetable growing, various things that we
30:08
Speaker 8: need just to kind of run. If you have good
30:10
Speaker 8: national standards around there, you've still got environmental conditions in place.
30:15
Speaker 8: And as long as those conditions have been met, then
30:17
Speaker 8: that becomes a permitted activity and cuts down the number
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Speaker 8: of consents.
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Speaker 2: So mistery Kraig this year Christopher ux to the Prime Minister,
30:24
Speaker 2: reckoned that this would cut the costs of consents required
30:27
Speaker 2: by farmers by forty six percent. Now what is that
30:31
Speaker 2: going to do to the farmer's bottom line and what
30:33
Speaker 2: is that going to do in terms of what they
30:35
Speaker 2: can do going forward to make their operations better?
30:39
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I think this is the big thing is
30:42
Speaker 8: that really we've got to get back to a position
30:45
Speaker 8: where we can have a growth economy, and we've got
30:49
Speaker 8: to look at what are the things that are holding
30:51
Speaker 8: us back, and it's this ability to get on and
30:53
Speaker 8: do things. It's all the additional cost associated with what
30:58
Speaker 8: would otherwise be a standard farmer activity. So it's having
31:02
Speaker 8: to get all of the expert planners, the consultants, the
31:07
Speaker 8: extra e weeek consultation at a consent level, all this
31:10
Speaker 8: sort of thing. It all takes time, slows things down,
31:13
Speaker 8: adds a huge amount of bureaucratic costs. So it's going
31:16
Speaker 8: to help enormously.
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Speaker 2: Well, Mark, we wait for one o'clock and I thank
31:19
Speaker 2: you so much for your time today. I who will
31:21
Speaker 2: not be enjoying this right now. That's all the guys
31:23
Speaker 2: who are regional counselors and who work for regional councils.
31:26
Speaker 2: They're the ones doing the consents. They've been using this
31:28
Speaker 2: as you know, Well they make money from it, don't they.
31:30
Speaker 2: But that's going to be slashed. The councils are going
31:33
Speaker 2: to be gone. The councilors that will take over the
31:36
Speaker 2: regional councils operations, well you know they're going to lose
31:40
Speaker 2: money and they've got a rates cap on as well.
31:43
Speaker 2: So I'd have to say the councilors are sitting there
31:45
Speaker 2: going well, who's taking away the big golden egg. Oh,
31:50
Speaker 2: it's the government and what will that mean for ratepayers?
31:53
Speaker 2: And what will that mean for whatever? We'll find out
31:56
Speaker 2: more at one It's News Talks b it is seven
31:58
Speaker 2: to six.
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Speaker 1: As you need this morning and the in depth analysis
32:02
Speaker 1: earlier this year when Andrew Dickens and our the Supercenter
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Speaker 1: explore our these accessories and servicing all than one US
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Speaker 1: talks that'd.
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Speaker 2: Be Muzz can also see how the councils are not
32:13
Speaker 2: going to like it. Muzz says Dickens. I agree with
32:16
Speaker 2: the dropping of the cost for consents, but that means
32:17
Speaker 2: the councils aren't going to get as much revenue. So
32:20
Speaker 2: how are they What are they going to do it?
32:21
Speaker 2: Are they going to look at other areas? Yes, as
32:24
Speaker 2: I said, their lunch has been cut in all sorts
32:26
Speaker 2: of different ways, and you might see a whole lot
32:28
Speaker 2: of new user pays coming after all the consents drop away. Now,
32:31
Speaker 2: Heather walked into the studio and complained it was too cold. Well,
32:35
Speaker 2: but you know the rest of the world is complaining
32:37
Speaker 2: that it's too hot. How's your family coping with the heat?
32:41
Speaker 5: Oh it's okay. No, We've got because we've got a
32:43
Speaker 5: pool put in. I mean, it's the boogiest thing I've
32:46
Speaker 5: ever done in my whole entire life. So we got
32:48
Speaker 5: a pool put in. I thought, Jesus might I'm risking
32:50
Speaker 5: it in the middle of a recession, but when and
32:52
Speaker 5: did it anyway, And it's it's paying dividends at the
32:54
Speaker 5: moment because everybody comes but Wallows comes home from candy
32:57
Speaker 5: and work and stuff, jumps in the pool.
32:59
Speaker 2: Human and also really helpful yesterday.
33:02
Speaker 5: Because the three year old who's almost four has got
33:04
Speaker 5: a little bit of a fever, and what the hell's
33:06
Speaker 5: going on with all the sickness? And then in late
33:09
Speaker 5: spring summer, Yeah, well, no, do I look like a
33:12
Speaker 5: doctor anyway?
33:12
Speaker 7: You did?
33:13
Speaker 5: No, you don't, not like literally not at all. And
33:15
Speaker 5: I've seen what you consume, so you're definitely not a doctor.
33:18
Speaker 5: The thing, the RM is coming out at one o'clock
33:21
Speaker 5: this afternoon. I mean, I feel like we've had a
33:23
Speaker 5: bunch of false starts, so I don't I wouldn't be
33:25
Speaker 5: surprised to people a bit like talked about We've been
33:28
Speaker 5: talking about the RMA for donkeys years now, but this
33:31
Speaker 5: is hopefully the time that we get on top of
33:35
Speaker 5: it and reform it. And it sounds like it's going
33:36
Speaker 5: to be quite massive. Like we have apparently about twelve
33:39
Speaker 5: hundred zones in this country right where you've got your
33:41
Speaker 5: bespoke rules, twelve hundred of them in a place like
33:43
Speaker 5: New Zealand, they're going to take it down to fewer
33:45
Speaker 5: than twenty. That's pretty significant.
33:47
Speaker 2: And also everybody would you know, perceive the rules and
33:51
Speaker 2: regulations in different ways depending on which regional council they
33:53
Speaker 2: were with. Now that is going to be one national
33:55
Speaker 2: agency that's going to say this is out with you.
33:57
Speaker 2: Ever try to get a resource consent une building, but
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Speaker 2: not resources.
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Speaker 5: Literally, people sitting next to each other at Auckland Council
34:04
Speaker 5: will disagree on what the rules are.
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Speaker 2: Yes, so infurious, I know, but they also make money
34:09
Speaker 2: and that then gets turned into libraries and roads. No, Matt,
34:16
Speaker 2: there we go. My thanks to Producing Cancy.
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