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Full Show Podcast: 31 January 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues these reviews and the insight.
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Speaker 2: Andrew Dickens on early edition with one roof make your
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Speaker 2: property search simple, new stalks, it'd be.
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Speaker 3: Well, good morning to you, Thank you so much for
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Speaker 3: choosing us, Welcome to Friday. That's a good feeling. So
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Speaker 3: on the program today, would you look at that Kayega
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Speaker 3: order will use wool in their houses after all? So
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Speaker 3: what caused that flip flop? We'll have that story for
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Speaker 3: you in five minutes time later. New statistics show that
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Speaker 3: the United States is becoming more and more important for
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Speaker 3: New Zealand as an export partner. So what's booming and
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Speaker 3: what new challenges are arising. We'll talk to Export New
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Speaker 3: Zealand and good news for Bananos with some new funding
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Speaker 3: coming through from the government. It's good to have a
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Speaker 3: good news story on a Friday, and we will have
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Speaker 3: that story for you before six. We'll have correspondence from
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Speaker 3: around the world and around New Zealand and news as
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Speaker 3: it breaks. And if you want to say anything, you
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Speaker 3: and if you want to say something more fulsome you
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Speaker 1: Zs the agenda.
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Speaker 3: It's Friday, the thirty first of January, the last of
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Speaker 3: the month, and we go to the American air tragedy.
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Speaker 4: First.
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Speaker 3: Twenty eight bodies have now been pulled from the Potomac
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Speaker 3: River in Washington, d C. After a passenger jet collided
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Speaker 3: with a military helicopter while on a final approach to
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Speaker 3: Reagan National Airport. We had sixty four people on board
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Speaker 3: the American Eagle flight and three were on the military helicopter.
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Speaker 5: We are now at a point where we are switching
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Speaker 5: from a rescue operation to a recovery operation. At this point,
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Speaker 5: we don't believe there are any survivors from this accident,
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Speaker 5: and we have recovered twenty seven people from the plane
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Speaker 5: and one from the helicopter.
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Speaker 3: The American Airlines chief executive has spoken about the crash overnight.
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Speaker 6: It collided with a military aircraft on an otherwise normal approach. Now,
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Speaker 6: at this time, we don't know why the military aircraft
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Speaker 6: came into the path of the PSA aircraft.
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Speaker 3: And this is the first passenger JENI aircraft crash in
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Speaker 3: the United States since January two thousand and nine. That
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Speaker 3: was when a US Airways flight crash landed in the
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Speaker 3: Hudson River in New York City and made a hero
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Speaker 3: of the pilot Sully, who was then played by Tom
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Speaker 3: Hanks in the movie. To the Middle East and the
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Speaker 3: release of over one hundred Palestinian prisoners has set to
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Speaker 3: go ahead after being delayed due to a chaotic hostage
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Speaker 3: released by Hamas, with Israel saying they want to see
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Speaker 3: safer conditions in future releases.
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Speaker 7: Seen the release of Agamberger, she was brought out from
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Speaker 7: the ruins of a house in the Jabalia camp.
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Speaker 1: She was put on a stage and parated.
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Speaker 7: By Hamas militants, forced to waive for the cameras and
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Speaker 7: for the crowd before she was handed over to the
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Speaker 7: Red Cross and driven to an Israeli military position.
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Speaker 3: Eight hostages were released by Hamas today as according to
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Speaker 3: Israeli officials, and finally, he's on a roll. He's a
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Speaker 3: busy boy. Donald Trump has ordered a detention facility for
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Speaker 3: migrants to be built at a place called Guantana Mobay.
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Speaker 3: It will hold as many as thirty thousand people, and
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Speaker 3: Trump's borders are Tom Homan says migrants could be brought
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Speaker 3: there directly by the US Coast Guard after being intercepted
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Speaker 3: at sea making their way to the States.
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Speaker 2: The news you Need this morning, and the in depth
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Speaker 2: analysis early edition with Andrew Dickens and one roof Make
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Speaker 2: your Property search Simple, Use talk Siddy.
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Speaker 3: So it's ten out to five, and it's Friday, and
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Speaker 3: it's been a long week, and it's been the first
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Speaker 3: week of the working week. Should I say of the year,
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Speaker 3: And look at this. I'm tired, You're tired, We're all tired.
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Speaker 3: And so I don't really want to get too hot
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Speaker 3: and heavy right from the get go today. So here's
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Speaker 3: the story I loved from this week. They opened Sheinnado
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Speaker 3: O'Connor's will. She's left everything for her children. It's three
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Speaker 3: point four million dollars. Considering I've got four of her albums,
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Speaker 3: I thought it might be a little bit more than that,
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Speaker 3: but three point four is still three point four. What
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Speaker 3: I love about this is that she's told her children
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Speaker 3: to maximize the value of her music catalog. Here you go, kids,
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Speaker 3: here's everything I ever made. Milk it for all it's worth.
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Speaker 3: I'm not here. I don't care. Cash me out, have fun,
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Speaker 3: get rich. I wasn't so I thought about my will.
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Speaker 3: My will is far more prosaic. It just says, I
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Speaker 3: leave all my worldly possessions to Helen. If we pass together. Well,
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Speaker 3: it's not our problem, it's the boy's problem. So good luck, guys.
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Speaker 3: But having read Sannades, I'd like to take my will
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Speaker 3: upper level. I'd like to find the lawyer today and
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Speaker 3: say I want to redo the will. I want to
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Speaker 3: give it some sparkle, and then I'd write, I Andrew Dickens,
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Speaker 3: being of sound mind, leave all my stuff to Helen,
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Speaker 3: the mother of my children, the love of my life.
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Speaker 3: Go crazy, girl, travel the world, buy a ridiculous car,
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Speaker 3: give it to a dog's home. Whatever. Just go out there,
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Speaker 3: my baby, and live your best life. But there's only
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Speaker 3: one Profisoma. Leave nothing for the boys.
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Speaker 1: Dickens.
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Speaker 3: The deputy mayor of Auckland, Desick Simpson, suddenly made the
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Speaker 3: news yesterday. Her son registered the domain name Deslie for
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Speaker 3: mayor dot co dot in is Head just before Christmas.
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Speaker 3: Doesn't work now, Smog being touted that she would run
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Speaker 3: one day. The excitement lasted only until she stepped off
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Speaker 3: a plane yesterday after a twenty seven hour flight. She
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Speaker 3: had been on holiday. She talked to the Herald. She
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Speaker 3: said her son registered the name as a Christmas joke.
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Speaker 3: They all had a laugh, but when asked directly if
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Speaker 3: she was running, she said she wouldn't rule it out.
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Speaker 3: Apparently she has withdrawn from the Communities and Residence Party.
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Speaker 3: That further adds fuel to the fire if Desi Rand
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Speaker 3: should be a real threat. She's well liked, the Dago
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Speaker 3: dresser who looks like a hoop with a sparking personality.
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Speaker 3: She embodies Auckland and Ork remembers her strength during the floods.
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Speaker 3: She's tough. She's an old school Conservative. Her husband, Peter Goodfellow,
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Speaker 3: has been the National Party president. She's a strong center
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Speaker 3: right candidate and there have been many calling for her
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Speaker 3: to step it up for many years, and I'm one
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Speaker 3: of them. But she's always demurred, always happy to be
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Speaker 3: the second fiddle, particularly when there's a conservative mayor in
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Speaker 3: Wayne Brown in the post. But you know, maybe something's changed.
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Speaker 3: But ask yourself, if the deputy mayor decides to run
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Speaker 3: for mayor, what has that got to say about the
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Speaker 3: current mayor and the way she feels about them. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 3: on learning about the Christmas prank, the Taxpayers Union offered
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Speaker 3: to pay for the site, which I thought was a
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Speaker 3: very interesting move. If Desi and Wayne ran for the job,
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Speaker 3: it would split the center right vote and clear the
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Speaker 3: way for a lefty which the Taxpayers Union and Desley
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Speaker 3: and Wayne wouldn't want. So why are they prodding her along?
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Speaker 3: And again what does that say about the current mayor?
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Speaker 3: What I can say is I hear a sound, and
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Speaker 3: that is the sound of Paula Bennett's day dreams going
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Speaker 3: up in flames. It's five point thirteen good news for
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Speaker 3: the wall sector. A kayanga Or is going to use wool.
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Speaker 3: Remember that they said before. Now we're going to go
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Speaker 3: for synthetic. It's cheaper. Put in a bid wool and
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Speaker 3: we'll see. But they just never looked at the bids. Well,
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Speaker 3: apparently they've now decided to use wool. I think it's
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Speaker 3: a great story for a Friday and we'll talk about
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Speaker 3: it in a moment.
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Speaker 3: It is five sixteen good news for wool kaing or
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Speaker 3: Or has made a U turn on the carpets. If
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Speaker 3: you remember last year, Housing New Zealand asked for tenders
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Speaker 3: from synthetic carpet suppliers for more than five thousand of
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Speaker 3: its homes, which caused an uproar from the wall sector.
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Speaker 3: Now it will reopen tenders allowing bids from suppliers of
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Speaker 3: wool carpets. So the Campaign for Wall General manager Kara
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Speaker 3: Biggs joins me. Now in Cara, you must be ecstatic.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, thanks for having us, Andrew. We are really ecstatic.
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Speaker 8: It's very good news. And you know, hats off to
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Speaker 8: kind of Order because they listened. You know, there was
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Speaker 8: a huge collective cry across New Zealand of you know,
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Speaker 8: come on, guys, this isn't right. You know what we
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Speaker 8: need some answers. They knew it wasn't going on, and
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Speaker 8: they reopen the tender. So it's very good news.
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Speaker 3: They're allowing bids from wool suppliers, but they can still
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Speaker 3: decide to go with synthetic. Does that disappoint.
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Speaker 8: You No, No, Look, all that we were asking for
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Speaker 8: from Coying Order was a chance to be able to
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Speaker 8: show them not just the price of wool and how
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Speaker 8: we can compete on price, but how we can compete
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Speaker 8: on value and significantly outperform synthetic carpets as well. And
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Speaker 8: you know, I have full confidence in our wall carpet
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Speaker 8: companies that they can show coying order that there's a
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Speaker 8: huge amount of value that maybe needs to be accounted
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Speaker 8: for by coying order and have a slightly higher weighting.
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Speaker 8: You know, the value of wool is you know, it's natural,
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Speaker 8: it's flame resistant, it's warmer, it's more absorbent, all these
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Speaker 8: things that actually mean that it's a better and healthier
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Speaker 8: alternative for the people that they're putting into their community housing.
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Speaker 3: I did talk bick about this when the issue first
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Speaker 3: came up, and everyone said, you just said, well, it's
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Speaker 3: more absorbent and the problem with people are craying or
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Speaker 3: houses that they're constantly spilling stuff on carpets one percent.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, and you know, wool carpets are more durable as well.
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Speaker 8: They actually, if they're looked after, they can actually be
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Speaker 8: a lot more durable, last a lot longer. So there's
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Speaker 8: a wee bit of education that needs to happen around
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Speaker 8: there as well. But this is all stuff that we
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Speaker 8: can we can do. You know that this can happen.
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Speaker 3: So is it an even playing field? But between synthetic
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Speaker 3: and wall.
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Speaker 8: Now, I think being able to be a being able
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Speaker 8: to put a proposal in makes it an even playing
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Speaker 8: field in this instance, and saying that I do think
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Speaker 8: that the waiting around environmental care and you know the
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Speaker 8: value of wall versus just having a cost conversation is
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Speaker 8: going to be really important going forward. And that's where
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Speaker 8: we need our government agencies to be thinking not just
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Speaker 8: about cost but about value for the New Zealand people.
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Speaker 3: All Right, Cara, I think I congratulate you and I
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Speaker 3: thank you for your time today. That's Kara Biggs, the
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Speaker 3: campaign for wooll General Manager. I've always been a fan
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Speaker 3: of wool. I've always been a fan of wall carpets.
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Speaker 3: I do not understand why wool has been a dying trade.
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Speaker 3: More the better as far as I concern. Now you
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Speaker 3: want another good news story? Here it is the United
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Speaker 3: States is now officially our second largest export destination total
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Speaker 3: value nine billion dollars. The States overtook Australia according to
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Speaker 3: Stats New Zealand but remains behind China. So how good
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Speaker 3: is that and what are the new challenges? We'll talk
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Speaker 3: to Export New Zealand.
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Speaker 3: It is five twenty one time for the second good
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Speaker 3: news story of the day. The US is our second
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Speaker 3: largest export market. It overtook Australia. China is now number one.
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Speaker 3: Katherine Beard joins me now she is the Advocacy Director
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Speaker 3: of Export New Zealand.
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Speaker 1: HOWI Catherine, good morning.
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Speaker 3: So what drove it up? What spiked it over Australia?
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Speaker 3: What's working? What are we selling?
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Speaker 1: Look?
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Speaker 9: A lot of it's been driven actually by beef exports,
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Speaker 9: and that beef has been used in hamburger patties. And
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Speaker 9: what seems to be really well received is the grass
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Speaker 9: fed New Zealand beef. And I think they mix it
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Speaker 9: with grain fed USA beef, so they get the fat
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Speaker 9: from the US beef and the nice lean beef from
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Speaker 9: New Zealand.
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Speaker 3: That is very good. I love a good New Zealand beef. Now,
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Speaker 3: is this rise in US exports balancing out the lack
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Speaker 3: of demand in China as their economy stagnates a little bit?
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Speaker 9: Look, it's definitely helping. China is hugely important to New Zealand.
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Speaker 9: But what is remarkable about the US skiing into the
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Speaker 9: number two spot for our exports is we don't actually
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Speaker 9: have a free trade agreement with United States, So it
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Speaker 9: just goes to show that it's actually a very open market.
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Speaker 9: And while there are some tariffs, you know, they're not
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Speaker 9: high enough to be you know, preventing that trade happening.
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Speaker 9: I think the key WE dollar is probably helping as well,
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Speaker 9: and that it's quite low versus the US dollars, so
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Speaker 9: that's going to make our beef, you know, quite affordable.
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Speaker 3: But if we're hoping for a free traded agreement, if
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Speaker 3: we're hoping for a better market to go to, the
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Speaker 3: chances of that happening are very low under the current
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Speaker 3: administration in the United States of America. So what challenges
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Speaker 3: will that provide?
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Speaker 1: You know?
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Speaker 4: That's right.
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Speaker 9: So the big challenge and worry that I think a
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Speaker 9: lot of countries have and everybody's watching it closely, is
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Speaker 9: what the United States will do with regard to tariffs.
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Speaker 9: So we're definitely keeping an eye on that. If the
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Speaker 9: United States puts on blanket tariffs for all imports, then
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Speaker 9: that wouldn't be so for us because we'd still be competitive.
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Speaker 9: I mean, it means everybody's being taxed at the same
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Speaker 9: rate essentially, so yet that cost would then fall on
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Speaker 9: the USA consumer, but we would still be competitive, so
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Speaker 9: we just have to watch and wait and see. Our
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Speaker 9: trade balance with the United States is quite even, so
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Speaker 9: you know, we important export about the same. Ye know,
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Speaker 9: it's not hugely different in terms of value, so I
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Speaker 9: can't really see New Zealand being picked out. So let's
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Speaker 9: just let's just keep our fingers crossed.
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Speaker 3: Execurators, when you have an excess and when you have
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Speaker 3: an imbalance, that's when you get picked upon. And Katherin Beaird,
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Speaker 3: congratulations and I thank you for your time today, the
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Speaker 3: advocacy director for Export New Zealand. It is five twenty four,
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Speaker 3: speaking about overseas. Vincent mcavenniy is joining us a bit
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Speaker 3: later on hold. Lot of chaotic, crowded scenes during the
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Speaker 3: hostage releases in Israel. He'll tell us more about that,
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Speaker 3: and we'll also talk about small boat crossings. Five twenty
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Speaker 3: News Talks There be good morning to thank you for
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Speaker 3: choosing us. I'm Andrew Dickens and for Ryan who's doing
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Speaker 3: the drive show. It's five twenty six. We are at
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Speaker 3: the end of the week. In the word of the
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Speaker 3: week obviously was privatization, and it became a debate because
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Speaker 3: David Seymour said we should do it now, and that
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Speaker 3: was in his State of the Nation's speech on Monday,
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Speaker 3: So obviously the media asked the Prime Minister what he
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Speaker 3: thinks of the junior coalition partner's thoughts, and when asked,
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Speaker 3: Christopher Luxen vacillated, he gave the cautious political answer he
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Speaker 3: was trying not to upset anyone. He would said something like, oh,
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Speaker 3: it's something we might look at, but not without a mandate,
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Speaker 3: so we might campaign on it in two years time,
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Speaker 3: so it won't happen for two years or maybe even more.
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Speaker 3: So don't worry about it right now. Don't worry, we're
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Speaker 3: all and his answers were so convoluted that obviously the
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Speaker 3: media asked even more questions and then of course people said,
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Speaker 3: bloody media trying to stir up trouble with their leftist bias.
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Speaker 3: But it was the Prime minister's fault for fath and
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Speaker 3: about trying not to upset, said anyone, and more specifically
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Speaker 3: the center left and all the nationalists who hate the
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Speaker 3: idea of privatization. So in all his fair thing I
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Speaker 3: don't think it worked. Why couldn't he just say good idea,
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Speaker 3: we agree next time next and walk on because we
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Speaker 3: all know he agrees with the idea. We all know
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Speaker 3: the National Party agrees with the idea, ACT agrees with
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Speaker 3: the idea, and we all know his supporters agree with
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Speaker 3: the idea. But he didn't. Some think that's good politics.
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Speaker 3: I don't. I vote for ideas, not people who say maybe,
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Speaker 3: because I have to say, Christopher Luxon is just like
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Speaker 3: every other politician. Their values blow in whichever win they
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Speaker 3: think the electorate is blowing. Politicians who don't just say yes,
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Speaker 3: They don't just say no, They say maybe, which frankly
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Speaker 3: is worse than both of the others. They all do it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, if you doubt me, why don't you go
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Speaker 3: along and talk to Chris Hipkins about capital gains tax
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Speaker 3: and watch the tap dance that happens after that.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens, five twenty eight.
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Speaker 3: I have revealed it at the top of the program
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Speaker 3: that I have four shnad O'Connor albums, because I was
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Speaker 3: talking about Shannada Connor's will and I've had a text
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Speaker 3: through this said Shnado Conna four albums. Gee I thought
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Speaker 3: she was only famous for being bald and cantankeris. Well,
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Speaker 3: she is bald and cantankeris. That's right, But she's also
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Speaker 3: vulnerable and she's a great storyteller with a wonderful voice.
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Speaker 3: I thought she was a magnificent artist with a tragic life.
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Speaker 3: And the albums are brilliant and go kids, go take
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Speaker 3: it for all.
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Speaker 4: It's worth.
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Speaker 3: Going to talk about the banks in a few moments
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Speaker 3: time too, once we get through the news and the sport.
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Speaker 3: Of course, banks have been dominating the talkback over the
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Speaker 3: course of today on being woke, and there's a new
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Speaker 3: outrage which is in the Herald if you want to
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Speaker 3: look between the banks and the coal miners, that I'll
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Speaker 3: tell you about right after the news, So we'll look
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Speaker 3: forward to that later, of course. Vincent mcavenni and before
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Speaker 3: six o'clock this morning, I'm going to talk to Barnardo's
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Speaker 3: who have discovered new funding from the government for their services.
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Speaker 3: Don't know if he saw the news last night Social
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Speaker 3: services government funded Social services, people crying all over the
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Speaker 3: place because the funding had been cut. It was very
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Speaker 3: very dramatic. Well, here's a good news story. It's a
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Speaker 3: Friday of a social service and NGO whatever you want
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Speaker 3: to call them, actually getting some money from the government.
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Speaker 3: So in this age, what are they doing right? We'll
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Speaker 3: find out from Bernardo's Just before Sex on Early Edition
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Speaker 3: on News Talks YB.
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Speaker 4: I I'm Andrew Dickens, News.
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Speaker 1: And Views you Trust to start your day.
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Speaker 2: It's Early Edition with Andrew Dickens and one roof Make
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Speaker 10: It be.
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Speaker 3: Welcoming in to the end of the week. If it
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Speaker 3: was your first week back at work, you almost made it,
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Speaker 3: but you've still got to work hard for another day.
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Speaker 3: After my comments about Christopher Luxon's attitudes to privatization over
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Speaker 3: the course of the week, I've got a couple of texts.
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Speaker 3: First Texas from Ben Ben says, exactly, Andrew, you nailed it.
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Speaker 3: He is just another politician with the same old crap.
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Speaker 3: Nothing will change with Chris in there. But here's another
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Speaker 3: opinion from Joanne says, Andrew Luxen's not Trump. He doesn't
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Speaker 3: make policy on the hoof, as frustrating as you may
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Speaker 3: find that there is a process for policy development, and
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Speaker 3: I agree with both those statements. It is now twenty
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Speaker 3: three to six. Now on the Woke banks. This is
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Speaker 3: your latest outrage of the day. The Herald reports a
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Speaker 3: coal mining firm has been told by the bn Z
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Speaker 3: that the bank would be slowly withdrawing its services, which
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Speaker 3: would force those coal miners to have to move to
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Speaker 3: another bank. Their crime mining coal. The bank has determined
18:54
Speaker 3: to end all financing of coal mining by the end
18:56
Speaker 3: of the year. They say they've been upfront about it,
18:59
Speaker 3: and that there's twenty seven other banks and numerous other
19:01
Speaker 3: non bank lenders that a coal miner could use, so
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Speaker 3: bugger off. Well, of course, yesterday Shane Jones got volcanically
19:07
Speaker 3: furious all over again for the second time this week,
19:10
Speaker 3: and once again it's promising to take on the Ossie
19:12
Speaker 3: banks and they're moralizing.
19:14
Speaker 4: Now.
19:14
Speaker 3: Look, I could see the B and z's view if
19:16
Speaker 3: coal was extraneous to our economy, but it's not. We
19:20
Speaker 3: need coal to make up the shortfall and our electricity production,
19:24
Speaker 3: as we found out last winter. We need coal in
19:26
Speaker 3: our milk industry, We need coal all over the place.
19:29
Speaker 3: Coal is not redundant yet. If it was, if we
19:33
Speaker 3: developed a new energy source, that meant that coal was
19:36
Speaker 3: unnecessary and the burning of coal was actually just a dirty,
19:39
Speaker 3: little cost cutter. Then we could aid its path to
19:42
Speaker 3: go the way of the dinosaurs. But that's not what's
19:45
Speaker 3: happening right now. That's our energy problem. No new dams,
19:48
Speaker 3: no lake onslow insurance policy, some wind and geo thermal
19:52
Speaker 3: that that will well, I can tell you will not
19:54
Speaker 3: make up the shortfall. We need coal and until someone
19:57
Speaker 3: finds the long awaited alternative, then coal is here to stay.
20:01
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, bean Zed, and I wonder. I wonder if
20:03
Speaker 3: the banks are still prepared to lend to their big
20:06
Speaker 3: clients who criss crossed the world in private jets or
20:10
Speaker 3: is their moral judgment selective. Seconds around the country we
20:15
Speaker 3: go Callum Proctor, Hello.
20:17
Speaker 11: I'm morning Andrew.
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Speaker 3: We should do this with him quietly, shouldn't we? Because
20:21
Speaker 3: apparently Dunedin's doing something about sound sensitivity.
20:26
Speaker 11: Yes it is, and that's tonight at Forsyth Bar Stadium.
20:29
Speaker 11: From tonight it's the South Island's first sound sensitivity station
20:34
Speaker 11: at the stadium, offering free air plugs to those in need. Look,
20:38
Speaker 11: this is intended to create an inclusive environment for kwis
20:42
Speaker 11: who struggle with noise at big events, and it's off
20:45
Speaker 11: the back of a successful launcher eed in Park last year.
20:47
Speaker 11: And now it's come to the South. There's also a
20:50
Speaker 11: growing amount of people who are opting for air plugs
20:53
Speaker 11: to protect their hearing at large scale events. The stadium's
20:55
Speaker 11: commercial managers, Rachel Jenkins. She says that these are free
20:58
Speaker 11: sound stations crucial to ensure they provide a welcoming atmosphere
21:03
Speaker 11: for all, and they'll be available for tonight's motocross show
21:07
Speaker 11: at Forsyth Bars Stadium.
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Speaker 3: Oh, there we go motocross. So it's going to be loud,
21:10
Speaker 3: but you can be quiet. But there we go. And
21:11
Speaker 3: how high do you have your headphones? Callum too loud?
21:16
Speaker 11: Andrew far too loud?
21:17
Speaker 3: Me too, freaks out? Make it can tear. How's your weather?
21:21
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's good, mainly fine morning and evening, cloud light. Wednesday,
21:24
Speaker 11: it's high twenty today.
21:25
Speaker 3: What's happening in christ Is? Shannon Johnston joins me, Hello, Shanna,
21:28
Speaker 3: good morning. Tell me about Urban Jungle.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
21:31
Speaker 10: So this is set to become the first major concert
21:34
Speaker 10: at the Red Zone Sector seven off New Brighton Road
21:36
Speaker 10: in March. The city Council's trialing use of the space
21:40
Speaker 10: this summer. Director JB. Moyer says there's a venue shortage
21:43
Speaker 10: currently and noise restrictions in the city center aren't helping.
21:47
Speaker 10: It says Sector seven's location is a bit of a downside,
21:50
Speaker 10: so that organizing buses to the event. Moyer says it's
21:53
Speaker 10: a good option for events, but there is a lack
21:55
Speaker 10: of mid sized venues in christ.
21:57
Speaker 3: Church good enough And how's the weather.
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Speaker 10: Cloud clearing to fine around midday but returning in the
22:03
Speaker 10: evening southerly's developing for a time This arvo in evening
22:06
Speaker 10: high twenty.
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Speaker 3: Three to Wellington we go a mex told joins me
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Speaker 3: hallo Max, good morning, So the match loved Wellington Water's
22:13
Speaker 3: making changes at the top.
22:15
Speaker 12: Well, yeah, Wellington Water was really talking itself up last
22:18
Speaker 12: week and apparently much improved twenty twenty four after a
22:23
Speaker 12: disastrous few years. That would be fair to say. It
22:26
Speaker 12: believes it is on track to get a grip on
22:28
Speaker 12: the city's leaks, the vast amount of water being lost
22:31
Speaker 12: via old rusting pipes, so off the back of that,
22:35
Speaker 12: and it's got a new chief executive as well, really
22:37
Speaker 12: making his mark. Our newsroom can reveal that Wellington Water
22:42
Speaker 12: is undergoing a restructure and creating two new senior roles,
22:45
Speaker 12: a Chief operating Officer and a head of transformation, not
22:49
Speaker 12: cutting any jobs. It should be clarified. Wellington Water wants
22:53
Speaker 12: to bring back in house some responsibilities previously given to subcontractors.
22:58
Speaker 12: Subcontractors like full and Hogan, et cetera. More accountability is
23:03
Speaker 12: the aim. The chief operating Officer will oversee more of
23:06
Speaker 12: the day to day operations. These changes to come into
23:09
Speaker 12: effect February ten.
23:10
Speaker 3: More leek fixing should be the aim. But there we go.
23:13
Speaker 3: How's your weather.
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Speaker 12: Scattered rain clearing this afternoon twenty two the High Central And.
23:18
Speaker 3: I thank you for your time, Neva writtenman who now
23:20
Speaker 3: joins me.
23:20
Speaker 13: Yay, Happy Friday.
23:23
Speaker 3: We've made it delightful.
23:25
Speaker 12: So come ea.
23:27
Speaker 3: Scooters have been around for a while, but we're not
23:28
Speaker 3: getting any better on riding them.
23:30
Speaker 13: No, does this surprise you? I have figured for you
23:32
Speaker 13: this morning from ACC. So this is the new data
23:35
Speaker 13: that's been released to news Talk ZB and it shows
23:37
Speaker 13: it ACC paid out almost fifteen million dollars for injuries
23:42
Speaker 13: last year. Now that's up almost fifty percent on the
23:45
Speaker 13: year before. So we've got three thy four hundred new claims.
23:49
Speaker 13: They were launched and about a third of them are
23:52
Speaker 13: in Auckland.
23:53
Speaker 3: Well, look, I have a NYE scooter. I have a
23:55
Speaker 3: personal one. Oh do you I've never crashed it, yeah,
23:58
Speaker 3: because you know, but I'm self righteous, you know, I'm magnificent, etcetera.
24:01
Speaker 4: I've never crashed it.
24:01
Speaker 3: But I watch all the kids and all the young
24:04
Speaker 3: adults right around on the East scooters, and they are
24:06
Speaker 3: not skilled, and often they are drunk, and so I'm
24:10
Speaker 3: not surprised.
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Speaker 13: Well, and that's the other thing too, because AA is
24:12
Speaker 13: saying that that private ees scooter ownership that's continuing to rise,
24:16
Speaker 13: and you know, and you can buy the scooters, you know,
24:19
Speaker 13: I mean that's the thing. And they can go up
24:20
Speaker 13: to one hundred and twenty k Now, I can't.
24:22
Speaker 3: Think my one can go thirty. Yeah, and it costs
24:25
Speaker 3: fifteen hundred bucks.
24:26
Speaker 4: And we commute.
24:27
Speaker 3: Do you use it all the time when I'm going
24:29
Speaker 3: around town? Yeah, that's great fun.
24:31
Speaker 4: Yeah.
24:31
Speaker 3: How's the weather okay?
24:32
Speaker 4: Right?
24:33
Speaker 3: Cloudy?
24:33
Speaker 13: Isolated chairs clearing in the afternoon. Muggie, twenty six is
24:37
Speaker 13: the high today?
24:38
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
24:38
Speaker 3: Neither Retama. Who's seventeen minutes to six. We're after Europe
24:41
Speaker 3: in a few moments time. The prisoner release in the
24:44
Speaker 3: Middle East is chaotic. But who's surprised at that and
24:48
Speaker 3: the UK has a new idea to stop the small
24:51
Speaker 3: boat crossings and Vincent McAvennie will be telling us about
24:54
Speaker 3: that in a few moments time. And before sex good
24:57
Speaker 3: news for Bernados this Friday.
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Speaker 2: International correspondence with insin Eye Insurance feace of mind for
25:05
Speaker 2: New Zealand business.
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Speaker 3: It's fourteen to six, fourteen minutes away from the Mike
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Speaker 3: Hosking breakfast and we go to Europe with Vincent mcavinie
25:14
Speaker 3: who joined in El Hella.
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Speaker 4: Vincent, good morning.
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Speaker 3: So the prisoner released in the Middle East is chaotic.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, there's been pretty chaotic scenes. A further eight hostages
25:25
Speaker 14: were released, three of them were Israelis, five of them
25:28
Speaker 14: were Thai agricultural workers who were also taken back on
25:31
Speaker 14: October seventh, twenty twenty three. But there have been these
25:34
Speaker 14: scenes once again where huge numbers of Hamas fighters have
25:37
Speaker 14: come out and they've been filming the releases using drones
25:41
Speaker 14: and everything. But there have been huge crowds, so much
25:44
Speaker 14: so that two of the Israelis whilst they were being released,
25:48
Speaker 14: looked to be being swarmed and crushed by these sort
25:51
Speaker 14: of dozens and dozens of people. It's angered the Israeli
25:55
Speaker 14: government so much that Benjaminettannia, who has warned that this
25:58
Speaker 14: cannot happen again, in fact, pause of some Palestinians, that
26:03
Speaker 14: some one hundred and ten Palestinians being released from prisoners
26:06
Speaker 14: for several hours because he was so annoyed at the
26:08
Speaker 14: pictures that were coming out, the sort of you know,
26:11
Speaker 14: it's quite traumatic for these people that have been hidden
26:13
Speaker 14: away in tunnels for many months to suddenly be in
26:16
Speaker 14: daylight for the first time again and just absolutely surrounded
26:20
Speaker 14: by people. So some ugly scenes there, but at least
26:22
Speaker 14: they are now home in Israel being looked after, and
26:26
Speaker 14: those Thai workers as well are being treated before they'll
26:29
Speaker 14: get to go home finally to Thailand.
26:32
Speaker 3: Well, meanwhile, let's talk about refugees and people escaping from
26:36
Speaker 3: the country. The United Kingdom wants to stop small boat
26:40
Speaker 3: crossings with a new criminal offence, So how are they
26:42
Speaker 3: going to do this?
26:44
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 14: We hit a record last year of small boat crossings
26:48
Speaker 14: from the north of France across the Channel's highly dangerous
26:51
Speaker 14: route which people smugglers in the past of five six
26:54
Speaker 14: years have just cottoned onto. And now we're getting tens
26:57
Speaker 14: of thousands this way each year. The government has said
27:00
Speaker 14: it was going to set up the new laid government
27:02
Speaker 14: set up, it was going to have a new sort
27:04
Speaker 14: of command to try and tackle this. But they've also
27:08
Speaker 14: now announced that they're going to bring in a new
27:10
Speaker 14: criminal offense of up to five years in jail for
27:13
Speaker 14: endangering lives at sea. The Channel is the busiest shipping
27:17
Speaker 14: lane in the entire world. Every day there are these
27:20
Speaker 14: huge tankers going back and forth there and we've seen
27:23
Speaker 14: several incidents where people have died making this crossing. So
27:26
Speaker 14: they're trying to make it even tougher. But it seems
27:30
Speaker 14: that the real sort of problem they've got is trying
27:33
Speaker 14: to stop the gangs on the other side and trying
27:35
Speaker 14: to get France to cooperate to stop the launchers, which
27:38
Speaker 14: is proving pretty tricky.
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Speaker 3: So making a new criminal efint of endangering lives at sea,
27:43
Speaker 3: will it really with a five year jail to it,
27:45
Speaker 3: will it really make a difference. I mean they're doing
27:47
Speaker 3: it anyway, Yeah.
27:48
Speaker 14: I mean they are doing it. It's sort of more
27:51
Speaker 14: the French side that you think where the problems are.
27:54
Speaker 14: Because the UK gives France millions of pounds for sort
27:57
Speaker 14: of funding the police. Essentially in France to patrol these
28:02
Speaker 14: sort of coastlines, which are of course vast, but there
28:04
Speaker 14: are certain hotspots where these boats launched from. And France,
28:08
Speaker 14: of course, you've always been the suspicion that actually they're
28:11
Speaker 14: sort of not that bothered about these people going off,
28:13
Speaker 14: even though it is highly dangerous for them.
28:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, the old maximum cut it off at the source
28:17
Speaker 3: of Vincent Macavelli from Europe. I thank you so much
28:19
Speaker 3: for your time. It is now eleven to.
28:21
Speaker 1: Six Andrew dickens.
28:22
Speaker 3: So Children's Minister Cantour has reversed an ol Tamariki decision
28:27
Speaker 3: to pull funding from the Bernardo's helpline, and this comes
28:31
Speaker 3: after ol ang A Tamariki providers were given very little
28:34
Speaker 3: notice that their funding would end, which resulted in much
28:37
Speaker 3: tears approaches by the way that the Auditor General is
28:40
Speaker 3: looking into. The Minister has told Old Tamariki to pause
28:43
Speaker 3: its review of funding and extend existing contracts with providers
28:47
Speaker 3: until the end of the year. So Bernardo's chief executive
28:50
Speaker 3: Matt Reed joins me, Now, good morning to you, Matte.
28:53
Speaker 15: Good morning injury.
28:54
Speaker 3: So a reprieve, but you'd probably argue you shouldn't have
28:58
Speaker 3: ever been in danger Anyway.
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Speaker 15: Oh, Andrew, it's been a really difficult process with Orro
29:02
Speaker 15: and Tamriki, but I understand their focus on their corresponsibilities.
29:07
Speaker 15: They've got the hardest job to do, arguably doing the
29:11
Speaker 15: most important work, so they've you know, there's been a
29:13
Speaker 15: fiscal squeeze and I've had some tough decisions to make,
29:17
Speaker 15: so I do understand.
29:18
Speaker 3: Okay, how are you told about the funding decision being reversed?
29:23
Speaker 15: So I've got an email from the Minister's office yesterday morning.
29:25
Speaker 15: Obviously we were delighted. I eight hundred. What's up as
29:28
Speaker 15: a really important service for five to nineteen year olds
29:31
Speaker 15: doing professional counseling for young ones when they need instant
29:36
Speaker 15: support and advice?
29:39
Speaker 4: Okay?
29:39
Speaker 3: And what's it like trying to get a contract from
29:41
Speaker 3: Olang and Tamariki? How torturous is it or not?
29:45
Speaker 15: I Andrew, Again, it's been a difficult process around contracting,
29:47
Speaker 15: but again I understand the context. They have a difficult
29:50
Speaker 15: job there, but there's only so much money and they
29:53
Speaker 15: are focusing rightfully on care and protection, which is you know,
29:56
Speaker 15: young people in care and FINO young people close to cares.
30:01
Speaker 15: So I do understand, and I think the greater challenge.
30:04
Speaker 15: Here is a whole of government challenge around how these
30:07
Speaker 15: other services, particularly prevention early intervention services get funded again.
30:13
Speaker 3: Fix it at the source and you don't get bigger
30:15
Speaker 3: problems down further down the track. So you've got funding
30:19
Speaker 3: for a year and then the course is up in
30:22
Speaker 3: the air again. So what can you do with that?
30:24
Speaker 15: Well, I think we need to understand a bit more
30:26
Speaker 15: detail about the announcement yesterday. My reading of it is
30:30
Speaker 15: that the funding form walks Up will continue beyond this year,
30:35
Speaker 15: which we're delighted about. For Bernardo's Eartce. We have to
30:39
Speaker 15: raise the other half of the cost of the service
30:42
Speaker 15: ourselves through incredible partners like Milford Foundation in OfficeMax and
30:47
Speaker 15: amazing New Zealanders and so that call to action is
30:52
Speaker 15: still there from Bernardo's. We still need support to keep
30:55
Speaker 15: this really important service going. Obviously the government decision yesterday
30:59
Speaker 15: has been hugely helpful.
31:01
Speaker 3: This community help and altruism is a good thing. So
31:03
Speaker 3: if someone listening to this wants to give you some
31:05
Speaker 3: money to do the WhatsApp thing, how could they do that?
31:08
Speaker 1: Oh?
31:08
Speaker 15: Please look at it. Please look at our website. Contact
31:11
Speaker 15: anyone at Bernado's contact me personally. But you can go
31:14
Speaker 15: straight to our website and have a look at the
31:16
Speaker 15: firstly the incredible work serving thirteen thousand young people every year,
31:21
Speaker 15: and if you want to support we would obviously be
31:24
Speaker 15: really thankful for that.
31:25
Speaker 3: All right, Matt, go to work. You've got great work
31:27
Speaker 3: to do, and I thank you so much for your time,
31:29
Speaker 3: Matt Reid. He is Bernado's Chief executive Mike Hoskins. Here.
31:33
Speaker 3: Next it is seven to six.
31:36
Speaker 2: Andrew Dickens on the early edition with one Room, Make
31:40
Speaker 2: your Property Search Simple used dog Zibby.
31:43
Speaker 3: So on the woke banks war on coal. You can't
31:46
Speaker 3: punish coal until coal is redundant in an economy, and
31:49
Speaker 3: it's not. So how are we going about getting some
31:52
Speaker 3: alternatives so that the banks could have a right to
31:54
Speaker 3: punish coal? Well, apparently New Zealand's largest solar farm will
31:58
Speaker 3: start construction later this year. Here it's a UK based
32:01
Speaker 3: energy developer and a company called First Renewables and they're
32:03
Speaker 3: building it near to Adaha. It's called the Tohey Solar Farm.
32:07
Speaker 3: Should be completed by twenty twenty six, two hundred and
32:10
Speaker 3: eighty gigaw hours, enough to supply thirty five thousand homes.
32:14
Speaker 3: This thing is on one hundred and eighty two hectares.
32:17
Speaker 3: One hundred and eighty two hectares has an awful lot
32:20
Speaker 3: of very pretty and productive land around to Abaha. I
32:23
Speaker 3: don't like a solar farm, to be honest. They take
32:26
Speaker 3: up a lot of space and they look ugly. So
32:29
Speaker 3: is that the silver bullet who knows m cole is
32:33
Speaker 3: here to stay? Mike Hosking has arrived.
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Speaker 16: Good morning the solar farms. You got to understand, first
32:38
Speaker 16: of all, the ugliness is in the eye of the beholder.
32:42
Speaker 16: Second of all, you can run sheep under them, so
32:45
Speaker 16: you can still run the land while doing the solar
32:48
Speaker 16: So there's something in that. But the bank thing this morning,
32:51
Speaker 16: what I think Shane Jones is giving a speech today
32:54
Speaker 16: about this, and it seems have you you've seen the letter.
32:58
Speaker 16: Look at the letter and they're right. The mind don't
33:01
Speaker 16: want to be named, but they've written to them and said,
33:04
Speaker 16: so here's the structure of how it's going to work.
33:06
Speaker 16: We're going to cut your credit cards off and then
33:08
Speaker 16: we're going to stop you borrowing money. It's not it's
33:11
Speaker 16: not like you know we we kind of are keen
33:13
Speaker 16: on the and so let's have a discussion it's just
33:15
Speaker 16: like this stops now.
33:16
Speaker 3: It's water drip torture.
33:19
Speaker 16: Slowly, it screws up a business of allaty of all
33:23
Speaker 16: the things we've discussed this week, about asset sales which
33:25
Speaker 16: aren't happening, in school lunches, which arrive late, all the
33:28
Speaker 16: frippery that we seem to obsess ourselves within this country.
33:31
Speaker 1: This is a real story.
33:32
Speaker 16: This is this is a this is one business looking
33:35
Speaker 16: to destroy another legitimate business, and somehow that's legal in
33:39
Speaker 16: this country. And so you've now got a minister who
33:42
Speaker 16: has to allegedly seemingly pass some law to prevent you
33:46
Speaker 16: from behaving that way. And you wonder why we've got
33:48
Speaker 16: no growth and no productivity. I mean, what do you
33:50
Speaker 16: do anyway? Much more on this this one.
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Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to it.
33:53
Speaker 3: Have a great weekend. My name's Andrew Dickins. I'll be
33:55
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33:57
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33:59
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