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Full Show Podcast: 29 January 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: an earlier is show with one roof love where you
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Speaker 1: Live News Talks.
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Speaker 2: They'd be six half to five, great to have your company.
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Speaker 2: This morning, fees three is a big flop. So why
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Speaker 2: is the coalition keeping it? We're head to our US correspondent.
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Speaker 2: Trump's threatening Iran Nick Touffy this morning on house prices
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Speaker 2: this year and why do we have so many ambulance
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Speaker 2: calls out in this country? The Agenda Thursday the twenty
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Speaker 2: ninth January. Trump says he will de escalate a little bit.
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Speaker 2: His words on Minnesota.
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Speaker 3: Bottomlander was terrible. Both of them were terrible. The other
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Speaker 3: was terrible too. And I'm not sure about his parents,
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Speaker 3: but I know her parents were big Trump fans. Makes
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Speaker 3: me feel bad anyway, but I mean, I guess you
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Speaker 3: could say even work.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Bizarre. Meanwhile, Congressman Ilhan Omar was attacked during her
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Speaker 2: speech at a Minneapolis town hall event. Police say there
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Speaker 2: was a guy holding a syringe you can watch the
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Speaker 2: video online sprayed her with some sort of liquid. Don't
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Speaker 2: know what was in it.
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Speaker 4: She keeps speaking, Here is the reality that people like
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Speaker 4: this ugly man don't understand we.
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Speaker 5: Will stay basilient in the face of whatever they might.
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Speaker 6: Throw in us.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, in other great news, the Bulletin of the Atomic
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Speaker 2: Scientists have moved the doomsday clock a little closer to midnight.
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Speaker 7: It is now eighty five seconds to midnight. This is
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Speaker 7: the closest the world has ever been to midnight. The
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Speaker 7: risks we face from nuclear weapons, climate change, and disruptive
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Speaker 7: technologies are all growing. Every second counts, and we are
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Speaker 7: running out of time.
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Speaker 2: All right, calm down. I just feel like they're a
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Speaker 2: little panicky over there at the doomsday clock. Now, more
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Speaker 2: tennis players. We brought you the story yesterdayut of Australia.
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Speaker 2: More tennis players now jumping on the privacy bandwagon over
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Speaker 2: the cameras at the Aussie Open, six time major championship.
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Speaker 2: Egastrion Tech says players are being watched like animals in
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Speaker 2: a zoo.
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Speaker 4: Are we tennis players or are we like animals into zool?
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Speaker 7: They are observed like even when they popriate that it's exaggerating, obviously,
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Speaker 7: but it will be nice to have some privacy.
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Speaker 2: Does she say, kudsy that talk about pooping? Adam was
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Speaker 2: pooping at the zoo? Okay, the organizers, this is how
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Speaker 2: they've defended it. They say, no, no, the cameras are
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Speaker 2: there to create a quote deeper connection between fans and players.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one Roofe Love where you Live News.
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Speaker 2: Talk said be as I said yesterday, I don't think
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Speaker 2: we need to watch them stretching and warming up. I
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Speaker 2: think we watch them play tennis, and that's what they're
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Speaker 2: paid to do. The rest of it is just well, yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's voyeurism, isn't it now. I watched Judith Collins press
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Speaker 2: yesterday this announcing she's leaving the big league at Parliament,
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Speaker 2: heading off to the Law Commission, and good on her.
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Speaker 2: Twenty five odd years is a hell of a shift
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Speaker 2: for such a brutal job. She's always been one of
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Speaker 2: my favorite politicians. Judith has I just like her attitude.
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Speaker 2: She's nice and cheeky, you know, quick to a laugh.
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Speaker 2: But she's also most importantly smart, well read, comes prepared,
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Speaker 2: generally has good insights. Father. When she was younger, her
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Speaker 2: father didn't approve of her relationship. When she was at
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Speaker 2: university she started dating a cop. The problem he was
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Speaker 2: of Sarmon Chinese heritage David and it was nineteen seventies
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Speaker 2: New Zealand and didn't approve of the relationship, and you
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Speaker 2: know there was pushback from that era. She didn't care,
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Speaker 2: married him anyway, been together forty years. Wonderful story and
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Speaker 2: given that, I always thought it must have been a
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Speaker 2: little rough when all of these young enns on social
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Speaker 2: media with no idea started criticizing her for that twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty debate moment. Remember that my husband is Sarmon's hod
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Speaker 2: to Lofa. It was a little clumsy. I think you'd
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Speaker 2: have to say she copped a lot of abuse for it, though,
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Speaker 2: But she gave as good as she got, so I'm
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Speaker 2: sure she didn't lose too much sleep over that one.
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Speaker 2: She always knew how to get the media's attention, which
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Speaker 2: is important in politics. And at the other end of
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Speaker 2: the spectrum, also retiring Adrian Duafi. He runs from the media,
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Speaker 2: hates the spot light. In fact, he's apparently so not
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Speaker 2: into himself that he doesn't want to do a valedictory
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Speaker 2: speech and he doesn't want to do any exit interviews.
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Speaker 2: He's another favorite of mine. Quiet humble, collegial, just quietly
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Speaker 2: goes and gets things done, not dogmatic about his politics.
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Speaker 2: He's a work across the aisle type of guy. And
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Speaker 2: that's what Judith Collins the point she made in her
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Speaker 2: press conference yesterday. If you want to make change in
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Speaker 2: politics and have it be enduring, you need to get
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Speaker 2: buy in from other parties. I interviewed Adrian once at
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Speaker 2: the Speaker's flat, because the Speaker has a flat inside
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Speaker 2: Parliament where they can stay if they want to, though
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Speaker 2: he didn't. I think he just had an ironing board
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Speaker 2: in the corner of one room to do some ironing.
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Speaker 2: But he said when he was showing me around most
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Speaker 2: of the areas were too fancy for him to use.
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Speaker 2: And this was the Speaker of the House. I thought
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Speaker 2: that said a lot about him. So two politicians. Parliament
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Speaker 2: will be the poorer for missing them both and both
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Speaker 2: went about their business in total different but equally impressive ways.
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Speaker 2: Bryan Bridge eleven after five. Great to have your company.
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Speaker 2: As I say, nine two ninety two is the number
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Speaker 2: to text now. Next we'll talk about the ambulance call outs.
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Speaker 2: Why are we making so many of them?
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Speaker 1: Newstalksb News and Views you trust to start your day.
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Speaker 1: It's early edition with Bryan Bridge and One Rouge Love
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Speaker 1: Where You Live News Talks b five thirteen.
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Speaker 2: We've had a November surprise in job numbers. So this
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Speaker 2: is the monthly Employment Indicator's report that comes out and
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Speaker 2: it was flat for December, but the interest which was fine,
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Speaker 2: that's expected. The interesting part was the revision for November.
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Speaker 2: Normally they would revise a number down because initially they
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Speaker 2: get overstated, overhyped, but this time they've revised it up,
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Speaker 2: so the job adds for a sorry. Job placements for
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Speaker 2: November up from zero point three to zero point five
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Speaker 2: half a percent. Biggest increase in April twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 2: This after a year basically of going backwards, so more
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Speaker 2: signs they reckon. Their economy is on the up, Bryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: For ambulances highest on record last year. This is according
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Speaker 2: to stats from Saint John seven hundred thousand callouts thirty
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Speaker 2: percent increase over five years, and the ambulance crews attending
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Speaker 2: five hundred and fifty thousand of them an average of
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Speaker 2: fifteen hundred a day. Mark quinn Is with the Ambulance
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Speaker 2: Association joins us now Hey Mark, good morning, Ryan, good
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Speaker 2: to have you on. Why is this is this in
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Speaker 2: line with population growth or is it over and above that.
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Speaker 6: No, it's over about. There's a number of factors and
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Speaker 6: there's no single one factor. But as a population growth.
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Speaker 8: We've got a tsunami of over sixty five population coming.
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Speaker 6: You've got services in certain areas like rural and even
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Speaker 6: provincial where people a straving to get into their GP
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Speaker 6: or actually have a health service at.
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Speaker 8: All in those areas.
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Speaker 6: And there's a financial cost because obviously trying to get
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Speaker 6: in their cost money. Even if I've got a card,
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Speaker 6: a community service card, that still costs.
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Speaker 2: What percentage of those cares that are actually needed, Well.
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Speaker 8: That's a good question.
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Speaker 6: So the majority of and we would say probably cut
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Speaker 6: my information that over eighty percent of them are at
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Speaker 6: the lowering or lower acuity patients and those are patients
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Speaker 6: that could probably be BC seen by a GP or
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Speaker 6: GP type service. And so sometimes the eminence service for
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Speaker 6: end is the only health service in a particular area.
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Speaker 6: So that's why sometimes we will the services used almost
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Speaker 6: like a pseudo GP, because that's the only way they
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Speaker 6: can access health.
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Speaker 2: That's not great, So what do we do about it?
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Speaker 2: But well, I mean, apart from trying to fund them
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Speaker 2: more GPS in the meantime for you guys, the workload
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Speaker 2: I imagine is a little unbearable.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's constant, and it's I mean, it's what we're
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Speaker 6: there to do. But it has grown from you know,
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Speaker 6: I've been twenty five years in the inblance services where
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Speaker 6: we were only really responded to emergency calls, and I've
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Speaker 6: seen a complete change where it's dominated by the lowercurity
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Speaker 6: GP type patients. And that's even though there's a number
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Speaker 6: of initiatives and St John have teletriods, remote triarchs, we
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Speaker 6: have paramedics and eblance obvious more skills and medications. We've
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Speaker 6: got other initiatives, you know, community based initiatives in.
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Speaker 8: There, but they're not keeping pace with the demand.
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Speaker 6: And and there's still is at times no national strategy
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Speaker 6: between embleance service primary and secondary care health services.
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Speaker 8: And this probably needs to be more work done in
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Speaker 8: that area.
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Speaker 6: It does require staff at times, it requires experienced practitioners.
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Speaker 6: But yeah, it's going to be continue to be a
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Speaker 6: challenge going forward.
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Speaker 2: Mark, appreciate your time this morning. Thank you. Mark. When
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Speaker 2: the Ambulance Association National Secretary at seventeen after five Brian
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Speaker 2: b More in part your small Kwy businesses will hate
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Speaker 2: this story this morning, so I'll get it to you.
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Speaker 2: This is I care. You know, big multinational international chain.
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Speaker 2: They are upping their wages, hiring a bunch more staff,
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Speaker 2: extra eighty five people they're bringing on board, and they're
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Speaker 2: paying them the living wage, which is the Union invention.
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Speaker 2: But they say what you need to actually live on
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Speaker 2: twenty nine dollars an hour, So they're upping their pay.
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Speaker 2: Union says to you Kiwi retailers out there, you need
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Speaker 2: to step up your game. You need to match the
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Speaker 2: international the multinationals pay and conditions. Now, I'm sure I
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Speaker 2: would love to hear from you this morning nine two,
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Speaker 2: nine and two, but I'm sure if you could, you would.
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Speaker 2: These guys have got massive economies of scale. Seventeen after five,
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Speaker 2: what's happening with your property prices? Next? The news you.
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Speaker 1: Need this morning and the in depth analysis early edition
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Speaker 1: with Ryan French and One Room Love where you Live
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Speaker 1: news talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be a bit of love. But I hate for
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Speaker 2: Judith Collins, which I think you would expect, wouldn't you.
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Speaker 2: She's a polarizing figure morning, Ryan. Judith Collins is my
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Speaker 2: role model, says Jane as a woman in business in
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Speaker 2: her early sixties. I still deliver an add value just
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Speaker 2: as she does for New Zealand. A stunning example of talent,
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Speaker 2: resilience and courage. Thank you, Jane. And this text of
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Speaker 2: no name says, come on, Ryan Collins hasn't put in
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Speaker 2: a shift. She's been in a well paid job for
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Speaker 2: twenty five years. She could have been doing something more
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Speaker 2: practical and meaningful, like mowing lawns. I don't know is
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Speaker 2: Jed Collins wasted mowing lawns. I think you could probably
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Speaker 2: say she would be yes. Five twenty Your totality survey
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Speaker 2: out this morning. People working in the property industry, seventy
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Speaker 2: five percent of them reckon house prices will go up
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six, but only fourteen percent of them
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Speaker 2: think that we're going to get an increase of more
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Speaker 2: than five percent. Nick Tuffley, ASP chief Economist, joins me
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Speaker 2: this morning, Hey.
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Speaker 9: Nick, good morning.
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Speaker 2: In line with what you're seeing thinking.
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Speaker 9: Look, generally, we are seeing signs that the market is
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Speaker 9: starting to lift a little bit. You know, lower interest
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Speaker 9: rates are starting to help. But when we look at
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Speaker 9: our own housing confidence survey, similar pattern, the sense that
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Speaker 9: there is that caution there, price expectations are quite tempered
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Speaker 9: compared to what they were during the booms, and people
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Speaker 9: are again showing some hints of being a bit cautious
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Speaker 9: about where their interest rates will fall a bit further
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Speaker 9: as well, and that's I think since we've seen signals
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Speaker 9: that the inflation figures are looking a little bit higher
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Speaker 9: and the reserve banks a little bit more. Hey, we
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Speaker 9: may have done enough.
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Speaker 2: Now when do you think the rates will go up?
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Speaker 2: The other day I saw someone saying maybe may.
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Speaker 9: We do think by the end of the year there's
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Speaker 9: a pretty good chance that will happen. We're thinking December,
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Speaker 9: which is the last meeting that the Reserve Bank will
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Speaker 9: do this year.
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Speaker 2: And what about the election, because there's the potential for
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Speaker 2: a capital gains tax not on the family home but
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Speaker 2: through labor, and does that you put the kibosh on
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Speaker 2: any hikes before then?
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Speaker 9: All come down to inflation figures, and the Reserve Bank
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Speaker 9: is apolitical, it will need to do what it thinks
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Speaker 9: is appropriate for inflation. But look, we've only just been
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Speaker 9: starting to talk about economic recovery. We want to make
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Speaker 9: sure that we're having that happen as well, So the
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Speaker 9: Reserve Bank will want to be confident. We do think
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Speaker 9: inflation is going to fall back, fall back down. It's
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Speaker 9: just looking a little bit stickier than what we would
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Speaker 9: have thought last year.
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Speaker 2: Yes, right, sorry, now I meant for people who are
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Speaker 2: in the looking for a property in the property market,
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Speaker 2: does the specter of a potential labor government with a
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Speaker 2: potential tax on property does that dampen property prices or
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Speaker 2: is it not really a factor?
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Speaker 9: It's likely to be effective for some people because when
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Speaker 9: you're looking at say property, and you have possible different
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Speaker 9: alternative paths because of policies, you know, people are likely
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Speaker 9: to be a little bit cautious as well, and that
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Speaker 9: just reinforces that. Yes, FoST we're likely to see some
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Speaker 9: recovery in the housing market. There are many reasons and
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Speaker 9: including the election, why it's likely to be more more
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Speaker 9: moderate in terms of the pick up in house prices.
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Speaker 2: All right, now, I appreciate your time. This more. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: That's Nick Touffley from ASB. It is twenty three minutes
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Speaker 2: after five A and Z. By the way, yesterday they've
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Speaker 2: revised down their house price growth expectations for this year.
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Speaker 2: They say, well because of election related uncertainty. They say,
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Speaker 2: because of interest rate track, you know, being obviously potentially
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Speaker 2: going up from you know, maybe May, maybe September, maybe December.
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Speaker 2: They say that their increase goes from five percent expected
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Speaker 2: to two percent. News Talk SEB the early.
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Speaker 1: Edition full the show podcast on iHeartRadio how It By
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Speaker 1: News Talks AB News.
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Speaker 2: Talks HEB five twenty five. Reading the story this morning
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Speaker 2: about fees free, You've got to wonder how the policy
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Speaker 2: got through the Botains and Wellington in the first place.
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Speaker 2: It has, by all accounts, failed to achieve its objectives.
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Speaker 2: Did we see floods of people charging into lecture halls
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Speaker 2: and studying at university?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 2: Do we see loads of poorer students benefiting?
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Speaker 8: No?
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Speaker 2: What did it cost us? Again? Two point six billion
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Speaker 2: dollars was the policy costing three and a half million
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Speaker 2: last year alone. That's one and a half brand new
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Speaker 2: dened in hospitals. In case you're interested, and this is
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Speaker 2: what it got us, no increase in participation. Two hundred
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Speaker 2: and thirty students from poor schools were helped. This is
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Speaker 2: last year. That is one point three percent, a whopping
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Speaker 2: seventy percent of the kids who had their UNI fees
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Speaker 2: paid for up to twelve thousand dollars each were from
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Speaker 2: above average socioeconomic schools. They were the wealthier kids. Did
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Speaker 2: they need it?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 2: I've always backed the interest free student loan idea because
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Speaker 2: you can borrow and you don't have to stress about
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Speaker 2: the interest piling up. Then you can work hard to
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Speaker 2: pay it down once you finish. But clearly fees free
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Speaker 2: was too much of a free lunch, not enough discipline
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Speaker 2: or focus in its spending. Now, the problem is that
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Speaker 2: Winston and National have kept this policy alive. They've just
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Speaker 2: changed it to the final year of study instead of
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Speaker 2: the first year of study. The idea is that it
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Speaker 2: will encourage students to finish their education, to finish their degrees.
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Speaker 2: The problem it's not doing that either. There's no evidence
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Speaker 2: that it's doing that either. So after all of that
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Speaker 2: said and done, you've got to ask yourself, with such
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Speaker 2: a high price tag, is the whole thing worth having
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Speaker 2: at all? Cryin Bridge, you'll remember some of this. We
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Speaker 2: had a big treaty debate in this country. In case
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Speaker 2: you had your head under a rock last year. Members
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Speaker 2: of this House can still change their minds.
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Speaker 10: Hold it.
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Speaker 2: Where are the police helping us with this?
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Speaker 11: The real problem is that this institution, this House has
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Speaker 11: only ever recognized one partner, one culture, one language, from
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Speaker 11: one treaty.
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Speaker 5: The partnership principle tells us that kiwis.
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Speaker 2: Should be ranked by the arrival of their ancestors. Now
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Speaker 2: ARINZI has done a part of their pole that they
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Speaker 2: do political poll that they do. They have asked the question,
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Speaker 2: thinking about the influence of the Treaty of Wyetangy has
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Speaker 2: our government decision making? Do you think got too much
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Speaker 2: focus on the Treaty about right or too little? Now,
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Speaker 2: what's interesting about the result is that more voters think
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Speaker 2: the Treaty of Wyetangy has too much influence on government
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Speaker 2: decisions rather than too little. Here are the numbers too
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Speaker 2: much thirty eight point one percent, almost forty percent of
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Speaker 2: us are those who say it's about right thirty one
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Speaker 2: point four and those who say too little seventeen percent,
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Speaker 2: eleven percent do not know, which is just an interesting
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Speaker 2: observation and an interesting result given the media coverage of
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Speaker 2: that particular situation. Now I've got an update for We
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Speaker 2: were going to a US correspondent after five point thirty,
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Speaker 2: but Marco Rubio has been given evidence to a Senate
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Speaker 2: committee about the capture of Maduro over in Venezuela.
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Speaker 4: We made multiple attempts to get Maduro to leave voluntarily
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Speaker 4: and to avoid all of this because we understood that
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Speaker 4: he was an impediment to progress. You couldn't make a
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Speaker 4: deal with this guy. Okay, this guy has made multiple deals.
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Speaker 4: He's broken every one of them.
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Speaker 2: Now Maduro is a bit last month, well earlier this
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Speaker 2: month is about two weeks ago. Now the real action
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Speaker 2: is the Middle East. So the same aircraft carrying that
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Speaker 2: they use the USS Abraham Lincoln to capture Maduro is
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Speaker 2: now nearing Iran. What's going on there. We'll speak to
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Speaker 2: our US curry out of Washington News Talks AB.
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Speaker 1: The First Word on the News of the Day, earlier
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and One Route Love where you
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Speaker 1: Live News Talks AB.
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Speaker 2: Away from Secure on News Talks. Great to have your
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Speaker 2: cany this Thursday morning. Coming up, we'll look at the
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Speaker 2: fees free failure. Trump's making new threats to Iran overnight,
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Speaker 2: the US military building up there. They're sending ships and
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Speaker 2: we'll get to our US correspondent on that. Staying in
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Speaker 2: America very quickly though. The stocks are looking good, so
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Speaker 2: we got record gold prices one day we got recorded stocks.
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Speaker 2: The next the S and P five hundred crossing the
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Speaker 2: seven thousand point threshold for the first time. Bit of
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Speaker 2: a symbolic moment for the SMP. The Dow is higher
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Speaker 2: as well. They loving the AI stocks today. Chip maker ASML,
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Speaker 2: they were spoken about them before. They have had a
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Speaker 2: good orders report. China. This is on Nvidia. China is
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Speaker 2: starting to green light some in Vidio chips for purchase.
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Speaker 2: So the market's like that bit of a chip stock rally.
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Speaker 2: They're loving this. This morning on Wall Street twenty three
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Speaker 2: to two six, Ryan, they show to Dunedin. From Wall
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Speaker 2: Street to Dunedin, Calum prox is with us. Hey Callum
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Speaker 2: morning Ryan, So what have you got for us? This
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Speaker 2: is about UNI students from the North is to travel
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Speaker 2: to Dunedin. Yep, they can get a taste of Danita now.
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Speaker 12: Thanks to a new collaboration between Otago aut and Victoria
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Speaker 12: University of Wellington, I've launched a UNI Exchange Altre program,
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Speaker 12: giving second year undergraduates the chance to study at other
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Speaker 12: universities for a semester. So this is a first of
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Speaker 12: its kind co lab. It offers students a taste of
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Speaker 12: travel without the challenges of going overseas. Our Vice Chancelly
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Speaker 12: here Grant Robinson says there's a number of programs offering
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Speaker 12: international experiences currently, but not everyone can afford that, and
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Speaker 12: so this program is now available that will start small.
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Speaker 12: There will be ten spaces available in semester two this year.
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Speaker 2: Robertson says.
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Speaker 12: If it works well, the scheme will expand from here.
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Speaker 2: Okay, sounds like a good idea. How's the weather.
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Speaker 12: Starts off good, but a few afternoon showers possibly heavy
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Speaker 12: for Daneeda in today's high twenty two Cheeth callum clear than.
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Speaker 2: Christ It hey clear?
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Speaker 9: Good morning?
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Speaker 2: What's the smellout east?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 13: The smell out east? This has been going on for
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Speaker 13: years now. Environment Canterbury has confirmed, yes, you're right. If
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Speaker 13: you're in christ Church now you are smelling a stench
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Speaker 13: coming from the east. They've received more than two hundred
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Speaker 13: complaints about it. It is a sewage like odor and
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Speaker 13: has been there for the last couple of days. Of course,
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Speaker 13: anyone here will know that this is likely to be
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Speaker 13: coming from the Bromley wastewater treatment plants, and I know
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Speaker 13: it has been going on forever. So Council says it's
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Speaker 13: really odd this time though normally a heavy period of
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Speaker 13: rain will actually reduce the smell and help with the
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Speaker 13: oxidation pond's recovery. For some reason, this latest about of rain, though,
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Speaker 13: has meant that the smell has gotten worse. City council
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Speaker 13: staff say the monitoring the situation, which is different from
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Speaker 13: other events.
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Speaker 2: Data is being.
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Speaker 13: Collected to try to work out exactly why it's changed.
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Speaker 13: And people will remember that this fire damaged trickling filter
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Speaker 13: was destroyed back in twenty twenty one in a big fire.
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Speaker 13: They've been demolished since constructions underwon a new activated sludge
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Speaker 13: reactor there too, so.
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Speaker 2: The fire issue is no longer the issue. It's rain.
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Speaker 13: Well, it's rain, but that the the infrastructure is not
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Speaker 13: working the way it should because of that fire and
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Speaker 13: then being destroyed.
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Speaker 2: So it doesn't matter whether it's fire or whether it's rain.
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Speaker 2: It's just stinks.
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Speaker 13: Thanks, no matter what. How's the weather well, very pongy,
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Speaker 13: also cloudy, isolated showers. The bad news is it's a
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Speaker 13: nice day to be outside today. Northwesterlies at a high
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Speaker 13: twenty six.
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Speaker 2: Thanks clear Max and Wellington Heymex. Good morning, im sir.
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Speaker 2: The big Superministry is starting in sex shape them.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, the job add to be the new boss of
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Speaker 14: this ministry for cities, the Environment, Regions or Transport has
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Speaker 14: just closed. Public Service Commissioner, said Brian Roche. Believe someone
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Speaker 14: will be in place by April. That's when things start
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Speaker 14: to get going. Thirteen hundred employees. Is the plan operational
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Speaker 14: by July? Yeah, Environment, Transport, housing ministries all rolled into this,
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Speaker 14: plus local government functions from internal affairs. So Brian Roch
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Speaker 14: appeared for a selecting met yesterday to talk about the
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Speaker 14: progress they've made. Apparently they're insisting this is a mid
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Speaker 14: sized merger, and I would assume they're calling it a
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Speaker 14: mid sized minister rather than a mega one or a
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Speaker 14: super one. They're fairly insistent on that for some reason.
22:04
Speaker 14: Apparently the idea also came about I suppose when a
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Speaker 14: number of vacant chief executive roles that some of those
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Speaker 14: ministries became vacant all at once, So why not save
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Speaker 14: a few bucks and merge a few functions. Rama Reform
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Speaker 14: Minister Chris Bishop says it'll be a real sprint between
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Speaker 14: now and July to get things operational to roll out
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Speaker 14: major reform from July.
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Speaker 2: Didn't you say yesterday? Toy is looking for a job.
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Speaker 14: No, there you go.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, problem solved. How's your winner? Exactly?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 14: I don't have the weather from me. I mostly find
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Speaker 14: strong norwesteries about twenty the.
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Speaker 2: High Hey never greetings, Noah, the city rail link, it's coming,
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Speaker 2: it's coming.
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Speaker 5: I thought i'll give you a little weekly tiny update,
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Speaker 5: and tiny it is. We now know that work's been
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Speaker 5: completed on the renewals around White Matar Station. Aw that's
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Speaker 5: obviously formally cor Britomart, so that includes the station's plaza,
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Speaker 5: the eastern glasshouse entrance. But they've been completed, Ryan, Yes,
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Speaker 5: But what's also happening to is that the renewal projects
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Speaker 5: these are at stations in Alti Square and k Road.
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Speaker 5: We can tell you that they'll be finished by the
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Speaker 5: end of the year. But you know it's slowly slowly
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Speaker 5: getting here.
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Speaker 2: So is it not Britamart anymore?
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Speaker 5: No, Well, you know it's now called they've got all
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Speaker 5: these they've changed all the names officially, so it's going
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Speaker 5: to be called the White Maitar Station.
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Speaker 2: So we don't call it anymore.
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Speaker 5: No, no, so, but people will go, oh no, wa,
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Speaker 5: can I call it Badamart. It's still on the trains.
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Speaker 5: They have to tell tell you that the entire train
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Speaker 5: network is up and running from today because they've been
23:37
Speaker 5: testing you see, so it was you know, they were
23:40
Speaker 5: only there were only partial openings for the train lines.
23:43
Speaker 5: It's it's kind of been like the on and off again.
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Speaker 5: And then the news room said, oh, Neva, tell everybody
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Speaker 5: that the lines are going to be open today for
23:50
Speaker 5: all the trains. But then people are going to be
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Speaker 5: very unhappy with me because then they're going to close
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Speaker 5: again for testing for white on weekend.
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Speaker 2: So they're open for a week zero correct, all right,
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Speaker 2: how's that with her? Fine?
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Speaker 5: Twenty five is the high that's positive?
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Speaker 2: His Nevor eighteen away from sex on News Talk ZIB,
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Speaker 2: A little update on Memdami in New York. He's got
24:10
Speaker 2: a budget deadline he needs to meet first big test
24:13
Speaker 2: for him. Also, we'll get to a US correspondent on
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Speaker 2: Trump and Iran and his tweets. Overnight News Talk.
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Speaker 1: ZIB International correspondence with Ensi Eye Insurance Peace of Mind
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Speaker 2: It to sexual do do three in a sick and
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Speaker 2: it's got to Jagouti Dave our US correspondent Jigouti. What's
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Speaker 2: Trump being tweeting or true socialing overnight about Iran.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, he has threatened essentially more action in Iran. He said,
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Speaker 11: a massive armada is heading that way. It's moving quickly
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Speaker 11: with great power, enthusiasm, and purpose. This is a fleet.
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Speaker 11: It's the USS Abraham Lincoln with warships alongside that has
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Speaker 11: been sent to Iran. This is the President confirming on
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Speaker 11: truth social and he's saying that this fleet is larger
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Speaker 11: than that was to Venezuela. And he is essentially calling
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Speaker 11: on Iran to come to the table and negotiate a
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Speaker 11: nuclear deal, one that is involving no nuclear weapons, is
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Speaker 11: what he said in capitals. He's saying, as I told
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Speaker 11: Iran once before, make a deal. They didn't, and there
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Speaker 11: was Operation Midnight Hammer. This is a reference to last
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Speaker 11: June's US strikes on the three nuclear facilities in Iran,
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Speaker 11: and he said that the next attack will be far worse.
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Speaker 11: Don't make that happen again.
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Speaker 2: And it's not like this is Others aren't paying attention
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Speaker 2: this time, right, The Europeans are very nervous about this.
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Speaker 2: The Israelis are really nervous about you know, what does
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Speaker 2: Iran do if America does do something?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, you've got a response to this from
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Speaker 11: the Iran's mission to the United Nations. They say that
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Speaker 11: Iran is ready for dialogue based on mutual respects and interests,
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Speaker 11: but if pushed, it would defend itself and respond like
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Speaker 11: never before. So you have, you know, US and Iran,
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Speaker 11: their relations have been pretty shaky as the thing as
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Speaker 11: an understatement, and Donald Trump has talked about intervention following
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Speaker 11: those massive protests that we've seen in Iran, the biggest
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Speaker 11: in decades, and he first of all said that he
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Speaker 11: would intervene if protesters were killed, but then he changed
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Speaker 11: his mind, saying that it looks like things were calming
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Speaker 11: down there. Now protests there have stopped, and in this
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Speaker 11: message through social posts, the president is now threatening. It
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Speaker 11: appears over nuclear program the US pulled. Remember President Trump
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Speaker 11: pulled the US out of the Iran nuclear deal and
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Speaker 11: subsequent talks have stalled. Partners in the region have said,
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Speaker 11: you know, the UA in Saudi Arabian particular, have said
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Speaker 11: most recently that any US led operation in Iran would
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Speaker 11: not they would not be participating in it, They would
26:52
Speaker 11: not be using their territorial waters or airspace to take
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Speaker 11: part in those in any further strikes on Iran. So
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Speaker 11: I think this is something that the US is weighing,
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Speaker 11: whether the partners in the Middle East are going to
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Speaker 11: be on board, and also whether people in Iran strikes
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Speaker 11: in Iran, whether that would help or hinder protesters, and
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Speaker 11: how it would be received internally in Iran as well.
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Speaker 11: So I think there's lots of considerations, but the clearly
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Speaker 11: action is not off the table yet.
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Speaker 2: To Grouty, appreciate your time this morning to gritty down
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Speaker 2: to our US correspondent, it is twelve to six Bryan
27:26
Speaker 2: Bridge Prize. Surprise Labour's fees free wasn't all it was
27:29
Speaker 2: supposed to be. New numbers out this morning show just
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Speaker 2: two hundred and thirty students from the most disadvantaged schools
27:35
Speaker 2: in New Zealand used it. By twenty twenty four, seventy
27:39
Speaker 2: percent of the users came from above average socioeconomic backgrounds.
27:43
Speaker 2: The Ministry of Educations admitted that fees weren't a major barrier. Actually,
27:47
Speaker 2: to start with, Aidan Donahue is the viewser Vice President
27:50
Speaker 2: joining us this morning, Hey, Aiden, good morning. Doesn't well,
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Speaker 2: it's been a bit of a failure in terms of
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Speaker 2: what it's set out to do right.
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Speaker 10: In the terms of addressing the disparities between socioeconomic different backgrounds. Then, yeah,
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Speaker 10: it's been tough going for that one.
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Speaker 2: So does it work now because coalitions come in and
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Speaker 2: they've changed it from the first year to the last year.
28:13
Speaker 2: The idea is that it will help students or encourage
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Speaker 2: them to finish their degrees, finish their studies. Does that
28:19
Speaker 2: actually stack up either?
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Speaker 10: Not really, as the real issue is not where that
28:26
Speaker 10: the weather students will be paying more or less debt
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Speaker 10: off at the end, but rather how much money they
28:31
Speaker 10: have to play with during the week a week, And
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Speaker 10: that's really the decision or the key decision for students
28:36
Speaker 10: whether or not they actually go to university or work
28:38
Speaker 10: full time.
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Speaker 2: Do you do many students work full time and go
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Speaker 2: to university.
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Speaker 10: No, they don't work full time or go to university,
28:46
Speaker 10: but many of them do work up to twenty hours.
28:48
Speaker 10: But even if you work twenty hours and got the
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Speaker 10: maximum amount of living costs and you're working at minimum wage,
28:53
Speaker 10: it'd still be one hundred and fifty dollars worse off
28:55
Speaker 10: than if you just work full time at minimum wage.
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Speaker 2: The reason I'm asking is that do you think students
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Speaker 2: could be working more on the side while they're studying
29:03
Speaker 2: in order to fund the living costs, and then you
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Speaker 2: chuck the fees onto the student loan and you pay
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Speaker 2: that down once you've got a full time gig.
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Speaker 10: I don't believe shiins could work more than say the
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Speaker 10: sixty hour weeks. Studying should be a full time job
29:19
Speaker 10: if we really want to get the best out of
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Speaker 10: our tertiary students and they really engage with the material,
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Speaker 10: and we really get a return on investment by having
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Speaker 10: really good educated workforce at the end.
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Speaker 8: At the end of the road.
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Speaker 2: Is it frustrating when politicians have these great hair brained
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Speaker 2: ideas and they don't work and they cost us I
29:39
Speaker 2: think this one is two point six billion dollars something
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Speaker 2: like that, and then everyone goes, oh, well, that was
29:44
Speaker 2: a waste of money. They didn't need it. You know,
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Speaker 2: it sort of undermines any you know, you might want
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Speaker 2: funding for something else that might work. Kind of undermines that,
29:51
Speaker 2: doesn't it.
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Speaker 6: It is tough.
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Speaker 10: It's always a question of decisions. The money still goes
29:58
Speaker 10: towards the universities, so it isn't just going off to
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Speaker 10: the ether. But ultimately you would like to see that
30:04
Speaker 10: sort of money go towards allowing more students more flexibility
30:07
Speaker 10: with their options.
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Speaker 2: All right, Aid and appreciate your time this morning. Thanks
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Speaker 2: for being with me. Aiden Donahue. Is the views of
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Speaker 2: Vice President. That's the Victoria University Students Association. By the
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Speaker 2: way in Wellington, it is nine to six News Talks
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Speaker 2: here b Mike's here with you.
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Speaker 1: Next, get ahead of the headlines on early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one roof love where you Live News
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Speaker 1: Talks at.
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Speaker 2: B seven away from six. The Dutch have finally got
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Speaker 2: a government three months after they had an election. It
30:34
Speaker 2: was a big upset election and so it's a minority,
30:37
Speaker 2: very rare for them. A minority coalition deal that's been
30:41
Speaker 2: struck with your liberal, progressive, pro European lot, throw in
30:45
Speaker 2: the conservative Christian lot, throw in VVD, which is a
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Speaker 2: right wing party, and you get sixty six seats out
30:52
Speaker 2: of one hundred and fifty. So they basically have to
30:55
Speaker 2: work through try and get a majority. If they can't
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Speaker 2: get a majority, then they can resort to a minority coalition,
31:01
Speaker 2: which is what they've ended up with. And they'll have to,
31:03
Speaker 2: of course on those numbers, work with opposition parties on
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Speaker 2: every piece of legislation that they want to get through.
31:09
Speaker 2: They'll have to work with someone else to try and
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Speaker 2: get it done. And Bread read and likes with us. Now, Hey, Mike, Hey, Ryan, Hey,
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Speaker 2: do you think what do you think Winston's going to
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Speaker 2: do after the election, Like, I know, what do you mean? Well,
31:23
Speaker 2: who's he going to go with?
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Speaker 9: Why?
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Speaker 2: Why? What is it with you? Guys?
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Speaker 15: He's going with the National Party.
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Speaker 2: Really, this idea that he's going.
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Speaker 15: To toy with labor and work with labor and side
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Speaker 15: it isn't happening. Give it up now, do not know?
31:38
Speaker 2: This is?
31:39
Speaker 15: This is everything you are everything that's wrong with the
31:40
Speaker 15: media in this country, Your endless speculation, pontification. Put the
31:45
Speaker 15: smoke up the chimney and see if anyone bites. He
31:47
Speaker 15: stays with the slot. What do you want your bucks.
31:52
Speaker 2: To the charity? You explain me twenty seventeen?
31:55
Speaker 15: Then no, you can't. You can't go back and revise history.
31:58
Speaker 2: Well, he's not revising history. Happened. He's a different play.
32:02
Speaker 2: He's ruled labor out, He's ru ruled Hepkins out.
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Speaker 15: Hopkins isn't getting rolled. Okay, here's a scenario on thirty
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Speaker 15: five percent at the moment, Labor are traveling well. You
32:14
Speaker 15: don't roll a leader of a party traveling well in election.
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Speaker 2: Yet here's a scenario after the election negotiations. Winston says, Hey,
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Speaker 2: I want to I don't know, share the PM roll
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Speaker 2: something chippy? Will you move over? Will you put Barbara?
32:29
Speaker 2: And I don't know, is it to get rid of
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Speaker 2: the the Herald?
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Speaker 15: I mean, what's going on? What's going one hundred dollars
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Speaker 15: to the charity of your choice that one Hipkins won't
32:38
Speaker 15: get rolled and two Peters isn't going with Labor guarantee it.
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Speaker 2: No, I'm not reputation say he was. I didn't say
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Speaker 2: he was. I asked for your opinion and you've got ed.
32:49
Speaker 2: You just got it.
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Speaker 15: And if you raise it again between now and November
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Speaker 15: the seventh, I'll come across there and smack you're on
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Speaker 15: the hend.
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Speaker 2: You got it. By the way, how.
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Speaker 15: Long do you think? Well after that your career is
32:59
Speaker 15: not going to go that. But I was going to
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Speaker 15: ask you how long you reckon you're going to be
33:02
Speaker 15: in your career? Reason I asked, this is Colin's twenty
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Speaker 15: four year Everyone goes twenty four years, don't they go? Oh,
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Speaker 15: twenty four years. Is it the term or is it
33:11
Speaker 15: the contribution?
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Speaker 2: Well, the contribution. Of course you could sit there and
33:14
Speaker 2: do nothing for.
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Speaker 15: A well, that's right, and so but we'd still go, oh,
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Speaker 15: twenty four years, wouldn't it? But I think the contribution's
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Speaker 15: worth dwelling on, isn't it? Eighteen portfolios? A lot of portfolios,
33:24
Speaker 15: because I think about this Yesterday's two. There's two things
33:28
Speaker 15: in politics, isn't There's one. There's the running of the country,
33:31
Speaker 15: So those the decisions you have to make country.
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Speaker 2: There's the theater in the business.
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Speaker 15: Yes indeed, and so therefore then there's a contribution that
33:38
Speaker 15: might stand the test of time. So what did you
33:41
Speaker 15: do that change the face of the country that in
33:43
Speaker 15: twenty years time will and go oh they did that?
33:45
Speaker 15: Remember you see what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's the reformers, but also there's also just the
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Speaker 2: competent people that know how to run ministry. She is
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Speaker 2: one of them.
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Speaker 15: And that's the other thing I'll talk to for about
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Speaker 15: this morning, because I suspect in the twenty four years
33:57
Speaker 15: she's been there that the game has changed, unfortunately for
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Speaker 15: the worse, and we don't attract some of the quality
34:04
Speaker 15: players like we might work that we might once have,
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Speaker 15: which is said, it.
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Speaker 2: Is a sorry sorry. Same with broadcasting for college. It
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Speaker 2: is so true, isn't it true. News Talks Mike with
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