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Full Show Podcast: 22 October 2025 · 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 2: There'd be Good Morning's Wednesday six after five. We'll look
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Speaker 2: at the maccabill that cassed in parliament last night in Paris.
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Speaker 2: Nicholas Sarkozy's in jail right now. We'll go to a
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Speaker 2: correspondent on that road cones. Are they driving road rage
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Speaker 2: in New Zealand? And we'll speak to Todd McLay, Agricultural
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Speaker 2: Minister on alliance but also the dairy auction. The agenda Wednesday,
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Speaker 2: the twenty second of October. Japan has a new Prime minister,
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Speaker 2: so nah Ataka each year is her name. We've spoken
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Speaker 2: about her on the show before. She's conservative, she's Nationalists. Well,
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Speaker 2: she's a woman and first time they've done that. Also,
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Speaker 2: big fan of Maggie Thatcher.
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Speaker 3: We need to have easy of the Paris from the
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Speaker 3: United States. It is very important to have wiscontrol. We
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Speaker 3: are going to change your future anxiety for wish hooks
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Speaker 3: and he's going to have a ball.
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Speaker 2: Plus and Israel they're trying to keep a lid on
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Speaker 2: the ceasefire. Jd vances there.
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Speaker 4: Every time that there is an act of violence, there's
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Speaker 4: this inclination to say, oh, this is the end of
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Speaker 4: the ceasefire, this is the end of the peace plan.
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Speaker 4: It's not the end. It is in fact exactly how
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Speaker 4: this is going to have to happen when you have
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Speaker 4: people who hate each other, who have been fighting against
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Speaker 4: each other for a very long time. We are doing
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Speaker 4: very well. We are in a very good place. We're
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Speaker 4: going to have to keep working on it, but I
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Speaker 4: think we have the team to.
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Speaker 2: Do exactly that. You'll remember they say he said that
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Speaker 2: Sarkozy took money from Gaddafi in Libya, while he has
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Speaker 2: become the first French ex president to go to jail.
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Speaker 2: This is over that scandal for the.
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Speaker 5: Hold of France.
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Speaker 6: This is a shocking and quite unusual movement, whether you
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Speaker 6: are for him or against and so yes, he's gone
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Speaker 6: in making quite clear he does not want to have
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Speaker 6: any special favors done. He did not ask to be
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Speaker 6: put in the isolation wing, but he was put there
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Speaker 6: for his own safety by the prison authorities.
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Speaker 2: Me nine two nine two. Would love to hear from
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Speaker 2: you this morning. Just gone eight minutes after five. So
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Speaker 2: the solitary confinement. This is Sarcosey's jail cell. Apparently he
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Speaker 2: was trying to avoid the cameras as he was being
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Speaker 2: lead in and all that, but they got him. He's
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Speaker 2: expected to be held in solitary confinement for his own security.
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Speaker 2: In an individual cell. It's about nine square meters. It's
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Speaker 2: got his own shower, he'll get his own toilet, he'll
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Speaker 2: get his own phone line, but he can only ring
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Speaker 2: his lawyer on it, and I think some family members.
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Speaker 2: No cell phone's allowed for Sarcozy in jail. Apparently at
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Speaker 2: night it's quite noisy, so they've advised he wears air plugs.
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Speaker 2: Sounds a bit grim for an next president, doesn't it.
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Speaker 2: We'll speak to Gavin Gray about that later in the program.
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Speaker 2: Nine minutes after five, And Sir Brian Roach, did you
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Speaker 2: read this yesterday? He's the Public Services Commissioner. And the
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Speaker 2: big mega strikes happening tomorrow or is it happening tomorrow?
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Speaker 2: Because maybe you'll be too windy anyway, sir Brian Roach
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Speaker 2: is on holiday on the Gold Coast bad call. Sorry,
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Speaker 2: shouldn't have gone. Apparently, according to the press reports, it's
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Speaker 2: a holiday any other time, Fine, any other time fine,
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Speaker 2: middle of contract negotiations with the biggest strike apparently in
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Speaker 2: decades since the eighties. No, Sometimes you've got to fit
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Speaker 2: your life around your work, and I think this is
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Speaker 2: one of those cases. And I've got a lot of
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Speaker 2: respect for Sir Brian Roach and everything that he has accomplished. However,
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Speaker 2: now is not the time to go on holiday. You know,
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Speaker 2: sometimes you've got to do this, like next year is
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Speaker 2: an election year, and I just know, and this has
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Speaker 2: been at previous jobs as well. You can't take a
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Speaker 2: holiday four months prior you're basically glued to your seat
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Speaker 2: at work. And then afterwards as well, you probably don't
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Speaker 2: take where you don't until Christmas, you know, you don't
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Speaker 2: take a day off. Basically, you can't have a holiday.
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Speaker 2: And that's just the way it is, and that's fine.
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Speaker 2: I'm not complaining, but I think it's the same for
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Speaker 2: Sir Brian Roche. Now is not the time to be
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Speaker 2: suns out, guns out, buns out on the Gold Coast
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Speaker 2: Bridge five ten will speak to Alan Pollard, here's a
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Speaker 2: civil contractors in New Zealand a lot of abusive road
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Speaker 2: workers and no, I'm not excusing that because it's unforgivable
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Speaker 2: and unforgivable. You don't abuse, you don't yell at, you
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Speaker 2: don't throw things, you know, you don't get aggressive, you
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Speaker 2: don't ram them with your car, which apparently is happening. Happening,
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Speaker 2: but is it? Are we being driven there by the
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Speaker 2: fact there are so many road cones out there? We'll
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Speaker 2: talk about that next News talks at B.
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Speaker 2: Third and great to have your company this business with
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Speaker 2: the banks being too woke to lend. You know when
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Speaker 2: you saw those stories about them not wanting to bank
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Speaker 2: roll petrol stations or even not renewing loans on petrol stations, farms,
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Speaker 2: this kind of stuff. Well, they had all the bank's
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Speaker 2: CEOs at a finance conference last week and someone asked
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Speaker 2: them about this and I hadn't seen these comments, but
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Speaker 2: Interest dot co dot Nz has published them yesterday. You know,
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Speaker 2: you had your A and z' your West paxibnz's Antonia
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Speaker 2: Watson from A and Z. She had a crack at
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Speaker 2: New Zealand first because they've got this bill, the so
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Speaker 2: called woke Banking Bill, and she kind of explains, we
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Speaker 2: are not not funding anti woke agendas here. So this
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Speaker 2: is what she said. There's this thing called the woke
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Speaker 2: Banking Bill that's sitting around at the moment. Do I
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Speaker 2: care if it gets past there'll be some compliance, I'm
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Speaker 2: sure so yes, I sort of do, But it's not
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Speaker 2: going to change anything because we don't make decisions based
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Speaker 2: on wokeness. We make decisions based on our risk appetite
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Speaker 2: to provide credit to the economy. Sometimes you find yourself
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Speaker 2: over exposed, she says. An Z did this over exposed
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Speaker 2: itself to dairy in the twenty tens, so we had
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Speaker 2: a particular appetite. So isn't that interesting. I've kind of
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Speaker 2: always been of the opinion that it's not about wokeness
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Speaker 2: but more about, you know, a commercial decision about what
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Speaker 2: is viable and what is not, and what is worth
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Speaker 2: lending to. Fourteen after five you check the survey shows
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Speaker 2: abuse towards road workers is getting worse. Two thirds of
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Speaker 2: traffic controllers a coppying abuse on a weekly basis. In
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Speaker 2: the last year, one in five have been physically assaulted,
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Speaker 2: some even hit by vehicles. Alan Pollard's as civil Contractors
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Speaker 2: in New Zealand CEO of me this morning, Allan, good morning.
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Speaker 2: Not excusing this behavior because it's completely unacceptable. But why
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Speaker 2: do you think it's gotten worse? You know, Is it
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Speaker 2: because we're doing so much more road safety? Are there
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Speaker 2: more people out there therefore more likely to be encounter abuse?
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Speaker 7: You're right, I will not excuse kind of the he
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Speaker 7: so that's not accessible. But there are probably other factors
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Speaker 7: of play here. If you lock around society at the
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Speaker 7: moment of your frank people are stressed, are towt are frustrated,
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Speaker 7: people are losing their jobs. That there's quite a somber
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Speaker 7: mood away in the country, and I'm sure that drives
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Speaker 7: some of the sort of behavior. I think also, I
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Speaker 7: think the industry can do a bit, as the survey
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Speaker 7: suggest that actually just to improve people's understanding and awareness
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Speaker 7: of why we do things on the road. We're really
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Speaker 7: good at saying what we're going to do. But I
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Speaker 7: think we probably need to do a better job of
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Speaker 7: why we're doing it.
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Speaker 2: What do you want to happen? You've talked about enforcement
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Speaker 2: and consequences and physical protection on road work sites. What
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Speaker 2: exactly do you mean.
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Speaker 7: Well, physical protection could be having barriers between between traffic
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Speaker 7: and the workers and makes it a little frustrating for
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Speaker 7: drivers because it is disrupting. But it's also things like
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Speaker 7: having body cameras, for example, they have been trilled on
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Speaker 7: some of the sites. It's just having something that's physical
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Speaker 7: and tangible that actually deministrates to both the workers we're
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Speaker 7: trying to keep them safe, but also to the drivers
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Speaker 7: that we actually have these tools and we're not afraid
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Speaker 7: to use them.
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Speaker 2: Why do we hear about jobs we're half the cost
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Speaker 2: as traffic management, you know, motorways. I can understand because
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Speaker 2: the cars are going really fast. But you know when
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Speaker 2: you've got five guys and a thousand road codes to
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Speaker 2: change the street lamp and we see this like like,
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Speaker 2: I know this is anecdotal, but I see it in
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Speaker 2: my neighborhood. People on the text machine right now who
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Speaker 2: are texting, and see it in theirs. What's up with this?
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Speaker 7: Yeah? Look, look I've to ask we don't always get
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Speaker 7: it right. That's really didn't not that. But you know,
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Speaker 7: road homes are one of the tools in the toolbox
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Speaker 7: to keep people safe. The whole point of having this
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Speaker 7: traffic management in place is to keep the road workers
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Speaker 7: safety and to keep the traveling public safe so they
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Speaker 7: all get home safety to their families. So you know,
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Speaker 7: it's really important that we use the tools that we
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Speaker 7: have available to us to achieve their goal. Now, some
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Speaker 7: sites are high risk sites and some sites are low
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Speaker 7: risk site, so you won't necessarily see the same setup
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Speaker 7: as you travel around the country. But you know, a
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Speaker 7: lot of work goes into designing traffic management. There's been
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Speaker 7: a move away from a more arbitrary approach to a
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Speaker 7: much more focussed approach based on each site. So so
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Speaker 7: I think what you will see as an improvement in
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Speaker 7: targeted traffic management solutions. And again, as I said, it's
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Speaker 7: all about getting people home. The safety is possible at
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Speaker 7: limited disruption.
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Speaker 2: All right, appreciate your time. Allan Allan Pollo, Chief executive
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Speaker 2: at Civil Contractors. It is five point seventeen Ryan Bridge
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Speaker 2: Ryan A thousand road cones out on my street yesterday,
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Speaker 2: ten people standing around doing hardly anything. And I want
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Speaker 2: to between each of these texts, I'm going to say,
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Speaker 2: don't abuse them, you know, like it's not their fault
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Speaker 2: that the country is over policed with road cones. Ran
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Speaker 2: I know a heap of roadworkers through various places, and
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Speaker 2: they are lazy asses. They laugh about how cruzy their
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Speaker 2: job is, and they also talk about how making it
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Speaker 2: harder on traffic winds us up totally out of hand,
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Speaker 2: the road cones and the trucks, ETCeteras as Mark, and
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Speaker 2: this is from a text from another Ryan, good morning.
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Speaker 2: Sounds like the cost of the traffic control will increase
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Speaker 2: two or three times. That's my concern. You know, the
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Speaker 2: more abusive we become, the worse the problem become. You know,
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Speaker 2: we make the problem worse for ourselves in a way,
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Speaker 2: don't we. Five eighteen News Talks edb.
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Speaker 2: News Talks edb five twenty on News TALKSB we got
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Speaker 2: the decision on alliance through yesterday eighty seven percent of
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Speaker 2: shareholders and favors to two hundred and seventy million dollar
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Speaker 2: investment from the Irish outfit, Dawn meets, it'll take a
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Speaker 2: sixty five percent steak. Cash goes to paydown debt, strengthen
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Speaker 2: the balance sheet, fun future growth, all that sort of stuff.
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Speaker 2: Todd McLay is Agriculture Minister.
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Speaker 8: Good morning, Hey, Ryan, good morning.
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Speaker 2: Happy about this?
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Speaker 8: Well, look, I think it gives some certainty. In the end,
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Speaker 8: it was a decision for the farmers of the owners themselves.
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Speaker 8: The company had been facing a lot of death and
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Speaker 8: I know they were still pressure from the banks. So
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Speaker 8: this gives certainly the company will continue. The brightest part
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Speaker 8: of it, I suppose, is that there's going to be
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Speaker 8: a lot of investment in plant and that gives job
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Speaker 8: securities as well. You'll know that the plant had to
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Speaker 8: close down the year or so ago with six hundred
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Speaker 8: job losses.
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Speaker 2: Is it a shame though, that it's going to the
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Speaker 2: Irish and we've got the you know, Fonterier doing consumer
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Speaker 2: That brand's going to the French. Is it strategically important
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Speaker 2: for Keywis to own this stuff?
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Speaker 8: Well, I think as far as the farmers are concerned,
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Speaker 8: you know what's important is this competition for their meat.
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Speaker 8: You know, it's happened at a time when meat prices
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Speaker 8: Lamb as an example, prices are up, but if we
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Speaker 8: look at the cycle of the last period of time,
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Speaker 8: it's been very, very hard for there Lamb farmers. And
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Speaker 8: you know, if the existing company with some new owners
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Speaker 8: wants to be able to sell meat overseas, they're going
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Speaker 8: to have to buy it because there is no guarantee
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Speaker 8: of supply. So I think the farmers themselves have voted
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Speaker 8: both strategically and you know, for what they think is
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Speaker 8: the best in just for the company that they own.
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Speaker 8: They continue to have choice. If they don't want to
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Speaker 8: sell their meat to that company because it's not performing,
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Speaker 8: they get to choose to put it somewhere else.
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Speaker 2: Saw the numbers the Merchandise Trade devisit numbers yesterday, GAP
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Speaker 2: is closing, that's looking promising.
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Speaker 8: It is we've seen experts overall up about twelve billion
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Speaker 8: dollars since we came to government. Some of that's commodity prices,
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Speaker 8: but what it's also is we've got better access to
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Speaker 8: a number of markets around the world. Take the EU
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Speaker 8: as an example, and the Trade Commissioner I'll be announcing
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Speaker 8: today tomorrow he's coming down to visit us, to visit me.
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Speaker 8: Letter this week we'll be here on Friday. Our overall
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Speaker 8: exports are goods and services to the European Union are
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Speaker 8: up more than two billion dollars over the last year
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Speaker 8: and a half since the FDA came into effect. And
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Speaker 8: so I think what we're doing is we're seeing you know,
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Speaker 8: better access to markets four kiwis and you know, both
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Speaker 8: goods and services what we're selling are worth a lot more,
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Speaker 8: albeit you know, challenges in the US with those terrif rights.
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Speaker 8: Although we've seen our exports go up to the US
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Speaker 8: with that ten percent tariff and even fifteen percent. So
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Speaker 8: the world wants to buy what New Zealand is producing,
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Speaker 8: and we've got you know, very very good companies that
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Speaker 8: are making the most of that and smartly looking for
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Speaker 8: the best opportunity in markets around the world.
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Speaker 2: You mentioned the US, how we are How are we
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Speaker 2: getting on there? I think you gave us an update
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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, but I saw the OAA
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Speaker 2: of your of the correspondence on the day that it
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Speaker 2: all got announced. Are we thinking to buying some big
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Speaker 2: boeings from Trump? Is that going to help you?
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Speaker 8: Yeah? Well, I mean I've continued to make the case
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Speaker 8: to the US USCR that you know, most of the
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Speaker 8: time they have a fairly large trade surplus against US,
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Speaker 8: and at the moment occasionally we have a modest trade surplus.
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Speaker 8: It goes and the other way, in his edit, are
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Speaker 8: buying planes from them. We announced a small short while
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Speaker 8: ago military spend including helicopters. This is actually just all
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Speaker 8: business as usual. So you know, we're making the case
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Speaker 8: to them that that ultimately the trade is very you know,
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Speaker 8: it's well balanced, it's complementary. But again, the President made
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Speaker 8: a decision every single country who had a trade surplus
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Speaker 8: last year against them as fifteen percent or more. What
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Speaker 8: we're working through with them is what the mechanism is
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Speaker 8: if we go back to a dessicit for that to
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Speaker 8: come back to ten percent, And frustratingly, the answer is
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Speaker 8: they don't know yet.
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Speaker 2: That is frustrating. What about do you think Kiwi businesses
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Speaker 2: were buying, making big purchases. Should they consider going US now?
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Speaker 8: I think they should continue to make decisions for themselves
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Speaker 8: as to you know, where to get whatever they need
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Speaker 8: from or what's the best of them and their business
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Speaker 8: equally the same as selling. But the US remains a
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Speaker 8: very close friend of ours. We trade a lot with them.
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Speaker 8: It is important market to us. And as I said,
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Speaker 8: if we look at red meat as an example, right,
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Speaker 8: I think last month I saw set said we sold
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Speaker 8: them more than any months before, certainly a lot more
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Speaker 8: than before before the terrorists came on. So US consumers
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Speaker 8: still want to buy things from New Zealand, even though
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Speaker 8: it's costing them. I'd ask them ten to fifteen percent more.
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Speaker 2: Topic lay Agriculture and UST. Appreciate your time This morning,
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Speaker 2: Five twenty seven. It was always going to be a
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Speaker 2: risky strategy, but it seems to be backfiring kind of
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Speaker 2: badly for Labour At the moment, the two year policy
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Speaker 2: drought is now over over, it's been broken. The heavens
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Speaker 2: have opened and a flood, or more like a couple
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Speaker 2: of rain drops of policy have come through. The reason
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Speaker 2: it's gone about Haywhy is not just because Hipkins forgot
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Speaker 2: that his health spokesperson was actually announcing a policy yesterday,
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Speaker 2: but because of the contents of the policy. In a nutshell,
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Speaker 2: it's about letting some independent group of experts decide on
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Speaker 2: health funding for GPS, and as I mentioned yesterday, a
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Speaker 2: trend is now emerging. Labour doesn't trust itself to make
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Speaker 2: wise choices, or rather it knows the electorate doesn't trust
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Speaker 2: it to make wise choices with their hard earned money.
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Speaker 2: That's why they are outsourcing decisions about funding to other people.
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Speaker 2: They did it with the Future Fund and now they're
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Speaker 2: doing it with health. In some ways it's smart. They're
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Speaker 2: trying to suggest that National will sell off the assets,
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Speaker 2: they'll defund the doctors, so there needs to be an
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Speaker 2: independent group making these decisions. But mostly it's done because
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Speaker 2: there's one thing key Wes don't like backing, and that's
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Speaker 2: a loser. And this strategy feels like a loser because
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Speaker 2: it lacks confidence. It's the message it's sending. It doesn't
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Speaker 2: say here's where i'll put your money, here's how, here's why.
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Speaker 2: It says I'm not too confident that you're confident in me,
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Speaker 2: so I'll give your money to someone else to decide.
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Speaker 2: Feels a bit weak. It's not a plan or a policy.
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Speaker 2: It's almost an admission of guilt of failure in the
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Speaker 2: previous government. If the goal was to box National into
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Speaker 2: a corner during an election campaign that also creates problems.
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Speaker 2: Are these the best policies to grow New Zealand and
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Speaker 2: can get the best outcomes, or are they just politically
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Speaker 2: expedient policies designed to start fights on a campaign trail.
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Speaker 2: All of this, of course, comes ahead of capital gains
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Speaker 2: tax announcement. We're expecting that apparently in a couple of
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Speaker 2: weeks time. What's next they'll let a group of accountants
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Speaker 2: decide who should pay tax on what income. Confidence is
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Speaker 2: key in politics, and you've got to know what you
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Speaker 2: want and you've got to go for it. Chippy so
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Speaker 2: far looks like he's left his mojo at the door.
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Speaker 2: Five nine on News Talks, HEIDB Gavin Gray out of
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Speaker 2: the UK after News.
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Speaker 2: Pretty far away from six here on News Talalks, HEB
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Speaker 2: we'll get to the maccabill past in Parliament last night
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Speaker 2: before six. Gavin Gray out of the UK for US.
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Speaker 2: Nicholas Psarcosy's in jail right now in Paris. Some things
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Speaker 2: going on with the Global Dairy Trade Auction results the
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Speaker 2: website this morning, and because normally we bring you these
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Speaker 2: numbers because we're up in early and we're up in Adam.
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Speaker 2: But this morning the Global Dairy Trade Auction website did
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Speaker 2: an update. There was an auction last night. We know
18:14
Speaker 2: that much. The newsroom got an email and so they
18:18
Speaker 2: reckoned that whole milk powder was down four point six percent,
18:21
Speaker 2: which is the one we really care about. Skim milk
18:23
Speaker 2: powder down two point one. But I didn't really want
18:25
Speaker 2: to read those numbers out because I'm not entirely sure
18:27
Speaker 2: that they're accurate. At this point. Judy has text and
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Speaker 2: soa Ryan. The results have been removed off the website
18:34
Speaker 2: for recalibration, so we'll have to come back to you
18:36
Speaker 2: on that one. I'm afraid. Now in the UK the
18:41
Speaker 2: Brits are all nickers in a twist still about Prince Andrew,
18:45
Speaker 2: and with good reason. And there are now EMPs lining
18:48
Speaker 2: up to say, actually we because at the moment his
18:51
Speaker 2: titles he can, he still has them, he just doesn't
18:54
Speaker 2: use them. They're like almost dormant while they're trying to
18:56
Speaker 2: get rid of them. Altogether.
18:57
Speaker 9: He had associations with Jeffrey ight'stone of which they were
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Speaker 9: victims and survivors from that abuse that we do know
19:03
Speaker 9: took place. So of course what we want to make
19:06
Speaker 9: sure is that there are mechanisms in place, whether they're
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Speaker 9: triggered or not. That I am not making that call.
19:12
Speaker 9: What I'm saying is that aren't those mechanisms in place,
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Speaker 9: and really they should be, cryen Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to our reporters around the country. Callum Proctor
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Speaker 2: Undernedan Callum, good morning morning, Right, Whetucky District Council. They're
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Speaker 2: doing water, Yeah, they are.
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Speaker 10: This is due to the government's announcement that they're appointing
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Speaker 10: a Crown Facilitator to help them redo their water service
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Speaker 10: delivery delivery plan for the White Tuckey They've been told
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Speaker 10: to include assessment of their drinking water, wastewater and stormwater
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Speaker 10: networks as required undernew local Water Done Well laws. The
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Speaker 10: mayor elect for the White Tacky Council is Melanie Taverndale.
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Speaker 10: She's thanking the local government Minister Simon Watts and his
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Speaker 10: support for a new plan. She says the new council
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Speaker 10: will seek a pathway forward after they are sworn in
19:59
Speaker 10: to day the updated plan, including of full as set
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Speaker 10: assessments due by June next year. This Crown Facilitator Ryan
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Speaker 10: will be confirmed by mid November.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather.
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Speaker 10: It's fine but still windy, So we got Gail Force
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Speaker 10: westerlies at times today the high twenty.
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Speaker 2: Thanks Callum and Claire Sherwood's and christ this morning, Claire,
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Speaker 2: good morning. Now overwhelming demand. This is another one of
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Speaker 2: those stories about a job opening up and then you
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Speaker 2: get thousands of applications.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, crazy numbers of applications. This is where our new
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Speaker 11: metro sports center, Padakiode Councils confirmed more than three thousand
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Speaker 11: people applied for two hundred and twenty six jobs. The
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Speaker 11: center will open a bit later this year and council
20:39
Speaker 11: tells us that there were roles for the likes of lifeguards,
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Speaker 11: admin staff and swimming tutors. They received applications from people
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Speaker 11: aged anywhere from sixteen right up to sixty. Head of
20:50
Speaker 11: Recreation in Sports Nigel Cox says jobs at council facilities
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Speaker 11: and do always attract a good response, but not usually
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Speaker 11: anywhere near the scale. He says the market is pretty
20:59
Speaker 11: unique with record numbers of people moving to Christ Church
21:02
Speaker 11: and of course the UNI here, he says, it shows
21:05
Speaker 11: some excitement for the center, and of course it does
21:08
Speaker 11: come after the Rolliston packinsay, which had three two hundred
21:11
Speaker 11: applications for roughly the same number of jobs.
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Speaker 12: It is believed to be a bit of a reflection
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Speaker 12: of the wider job markets.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, how's your weather? Clear?
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Speaker 11: Mainly find today a bit of high cloud about northwesterlies
21:22
Speaker 11: will be strong at times, the high twenty one.
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Speaker 2: All right, thank you very much. Max, and Wellington Max,
21:27
Speaker 2: we know Wellington's windy, but yesterday was something else.
21:30
Speaker 13: Oh look, we're famed for our gusts, but Wellingtonian knows
21:33
Speaker 13: when the wind is out of the ordinary, and it
21:34
Speaker 13: was certainly out of the ordinary yesterday. We got close
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Speaker 13: to one hundred and fifty clicks kilometers per hour in parts.
21:41
Speaker 13: It got up to one hundred and twenty one hundred
21:43
Speaker 13: and thirty in the city, which is close to unprecedented
21:47
Speaker 13: tragedy a man walking beneath trees in Mount Victoria killed
21:50
Speaker 13: by a falling branch. Video as well, that's now gone
21:55
Speaker 13: viral of a woman being hurled into traffic. She can't
21:58
Speaker 13: help herself. The wind picks her up effectively throws are
22:01
Speaker 13: into traffic really fortunately seen by approaching cars that we're
22:04
Speaker 13: able to stop in time. Damage to trees, roofs, structures, services,
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Speaker 13: canceled or delayed flights, trucks and trailers overturning as well.
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Speaker 13: What we're looking at is two more days of gale
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Speaker 13: winds now, but today not as bad Thursday. It looks
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Speaker 13: almost as dangerous as it was yesterday. So plenty of
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Speaker 13: wind warnings around. Please take care out there.
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Speaker 2: All right, it sounds like it, Max, Thank you for that. Max,
22:28
Speaker 2: and Wellington and Neva and Auckland never good morning, Good
22:30
Speaker 2: morning you. Wahiki Fury being launched today.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, good news.
22:34
Speaker 12: And this is because you know, tourism seektor ramping up
22:37
Speaker 12: summers coming, so Island direct they're adding more than one
22:41
Speaker 12: hundred and fifty seats to its Auckland Wahiki Fery route.
22:43
Speaker 12: This is a new twenty two meter ketamaran, so it's
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Speaker 12: going to have sailings almost every hour, which is good.
22:50
Speaker 12: And that's from both downtown Auckland and also Wayhiki's Matitia Wharf.
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Speaker 12: David Todd, he's the director of Island Directors, is look
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Speaker 12: that they just had to make them most to the
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Speaker 12: demand coming through get it off the ground.
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Speaker 2: That's cool because they've already got some services off and
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Speaker 2: I've unlike the regular Fury service, you can book a
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Speaker 2: seat full. You can book a seat on this one.
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Speaker 2: I think. Yeah, so you can actually get a guaranteed
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Speaker 13: And that's right.
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23:24
Speaker 2: He's done the head, he's done the beard. Yes, he's
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Speaker 2: Nikola Psychozy, ex French president, is in jail right now,
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Speaker 2: fourteen away from six Scavin gray Are UK europe correspondents
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Speaker 2: Gevin extraordinary.
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Speaker 14: Yes, he becomes the first French ex president to go
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Speaker 14: to jail. He's starting a five year sentence for conspiring
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Speaker 14: to fund his election campaign with money from the late
25:11
Speaker 14: Libyan dictator Mohamaga Daffi. He denies this. Nevertheless, he has
25:15
Speaker 14: been sentenced to this time behind bars. And the last
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Speaker 14: French leader of a political party was sentenced eighty years
25:24
Speaker 14: ago to prison. That was for treason for being a
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Speaker 14: collaborator during World War Two. So this is a really
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Speaker 14: really monumental moment. Sarkas he was president from two thousand
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Speaker 14: and seven to twenty twelve, and as I said, he
25:36
Speaker 14: has appeared against his jail term. But it's going to
25:40
Speaker 14: be pretty tough in there. The Montpasse district south of
25:44
Speaker 14: the River Seine, which is where this nineteenth century prison is.
25:48
Speaker 14: It's notoriously overcrowded. He'll be in isolation in a cell
25:52
Speaker 14: that's roughly nine to eleven square meters and he will
25:57
Speaker 14: in that have a desk, a show, a toilet, a
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Speaker 14: small electric hob and a small fridge. But this is
26:03
Speaker 14: a huge comedown for the former president and allowed just
26:08
Speaker 14: one hour a day for exercise. It seems really pretty tough.
26:12
Speaker 14: Indeed so tough that at the end of the last week,
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Speaker 14: sa was received at the Elisee Palace by President Emmanuel Macron.
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Speaker 14: He wouldn't comment on what had happened to one of
26:22
Speaker 14: his predecessors, but he said, you know, as a former president,
26:25
Speaker 14: he's entitled to come. And in another show of support
26:28
Speaker 14: for the ex president, the Justice Minister said he would
26:31
Speaker 14: go to visit him in prison as part of his
26:33
Speaker 14: role in ensuring his safety and the proper functioning of
26:36
Speaker 14: the jail. Safety a big issue. There are some terrorists
26:39
Speaker 14: in that prison and there are also some very very
26:42
Speaker 14: heavy criminals. Shall I phrase it that way?
26:45
Speaker 2: It's all about Missy over there, isn't that the politicians
26:48
Speaker 2: and their brushes with the Lord because Lapina is still bad,
26:51
Speaker 2: isn't she from running for president over there?
26:54
Speaker 14: Yes, that could change.
26:58
Speaker 2: Kevin Gray are UK, you're correspondent. It is twelve minutes
27:01
Speaker 2: away from.
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Speaker 15: Six Brian Bridge.
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Speaker 2: The maccabill This is multi customary title passes its third
27:07
Speaker 2: reading in the House last night.
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Speaker 16: The bill seeks to restore the clarity to the Marine
27:13
Speaker 16: and Corstal Area Acts. It seeks to protect property rates
27:17
Speaker 16: and pass through legal clarity.
27:19
Speaker 2: He should be ashamed of the bill, and he.
27:21
Speaker 16: Should be ashamed of himself, and he thinks it's a
27:25
Speaker 16: big joke.
27:26
Speaker 17: This bill is not, as the Government insists, a tidy
27:29
Speaker 17: clarification of an old law. It is an incredibly blunt
27:33
Speaker 17: instrument that tears the very foundations of justice, uppins our
27:38
Speaker 17: court processes, and undermines a hard fought relationship between ta
27:43
Speaker 17: Ewie Maldy and the Crown.
27:45
Speaker 2: Tom Bennion is a marti wrights lawyer, former registrar for
27:48
Speaker 2: the White Thing He Tribunal. Joins me this morning, Tom,
27:50
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good to have you on the show.
27:54
Speaker 2: Does this not just restore the original intent of the
27:57
Speaker 2: law than twenty eleven?
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Speaker 15: Doesn't that fact that the Act itself actually says listen,
28:05
Speaker 15: please put decide the purpose of the twenty eleven Act
28:09
Speaker 15: when you're when you're interpreting this new edition, which is
28:14
Speaker 15: a sure giveaway.
28:16
Speaker 2: What exactly is changing that you know? The general line
28:20
Speaker 2: is that there will be stronger proof required for you
28:23
Speaker 2: have to prove that you had uninterrupted exclusive use of
28:28
Speaker 2: a foreshore sea bed since eighteen forty? Is that basically it?
28:33
Speaker 7: Yeah?
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Speaker 15: Well, The way it was worded before was listen, everybody
28:37
Speaker 15: go to court. Here's some words, argue it out. See
28:42
Speaker 15: under the purpose of the Act, et cetera. Where you think,
28:44
Speaker 15: you know these rights ended up, and this new one
28:48
Speaker 15: says no, we'll listen. That that was the course of
28:51
Speaker 15: said interpreted it to say that you might get these
28:54
Speaker 15: customer rights along most of the coast. Don't like that,
28:58
Speaker 15: so listen, we'll just change it to say basically, yeah,
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Speaker 15: you've got to Basically it looks like I mean that
29:03
Speaker 15: the lawyers argued out. It looks like they're trying to
29:06
Speaker 15: say you're just about to have to stand there with
29:09
Speaker 15: a with a t on the water's edge and tell
29:11
Speaker 15: everybody to bugger off since eighteen forty three to the
29:14
Speaker 15: current day, and if you didn't do that, you're not
29:16
Speaker 15: getting anything. That seems to be the test now. But
29:19
Speaker 15: you know they'll always argue whether that really is the case,
29:22
Speaker 15: and that we'll we'll we'll try clearly to try and say,
29:26
Speaker 15: you know, Parliament still hasn't actually entirely said we're going
29:30
Speaker 15: to eradicate Malori wrights right up and down the coast.
29:33
Speaker 15: Because these guys are making these changes are too coy
29:36
Speaker 15: to say that out front and we'll see, we'll see.
29:39
Speaker 8: What we get to.
29:41
Speaker 2: Does this mean that people like you, lawyers are going
29:44
Speaker 2: to make a lot of money out of this?
29:46
Speaker 15: This is a lawyer's payday. Thank you very much to
29:49
Speaker 15: this government. They've turned a problem that was pretty much
29:53
Speaker 15: solved into I think not only will lawyers make money
29:56
Speaker 15: out of this now, but I think you've you've basically
29:59
Speaker 15: turned something that was a sense solved into a multimillion
30:02
Speaker 15: dollar problem for probably hundreds of millions of dollars for
30:05
Speaker 15: a subsequent.
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Speaker 8: Set of taxpayers.
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Speaker 15: Well, this will come back.
30:09
Speaker 8: I mean, I mean, I do legal history.
30:11
Speaker 15: This will come back people. The last words of this
30:15
Speaker 15: act that was past us I'm looking at it now
30:17
Speaker 15: says a person is not entitled compensation of any kind
30:21
Speaker 15: on account of the operation of this amendment, which lets
30:24
Speaker 15: you know they're taking something away and that will cost
30:29
Speaker 15: some future taxpayers of New Zealand quite a lot of money.
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Speaker 2: I appreciate your time this morning. Tom Bennyan, who's a
30:36
Speaker 2: mighty rights lawyer, former registrar at the White Tanking Tribune,
30:39
Speaker 2: or nine minutes away from six News talks at b Marke.
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Speaker 1: Next, the first word on the News of the Day
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Speaker 1: Early edition with Ryan Bridge and Are the SuperStor explore
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Speaker 2: Is six minutes away from six mics in the studio. Mike,
30:56
Speaker 2: good morning, good morning. Hey you know, sir Brian Roch.
30:59
Speaker 2: Do you how do you? I disagree with you?
31:01
Speaker 18: I mean, not vehemently, I don't really care, but it
31:05
Speaker 18: would be a better look if he was sort of
31:07
Speaker 18: there on the day and all that sort of stuff.
31:08
Speaker 18: But then again, you given credence to a bunch of
31:10
Speaker 18: no hopers who are just wandering around in the rain.
31:12
Speaker 18: Have you seen the forecast for tomorrow pouring in the frame?
31:15
Speaker 2: It would be a safety issue should they proceed were well, probably,
31:18
Speaker 2: I don't know.
31:19
Speaker 18: The inkle drip off the placards, I don't know, But I.
31:21
Speaker 2: Mean the point is, what do you want them to do?
31:22
Speaker 2: Well to say, what be available?
31:25
Speaker 8: I do it for what?
31:26
Speaker 2: For negotiation?
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Speaker 18: They're not negotiating on the day they're on.
31:29
Speaker 2: Strike, No, but leading up to I mean I think
31:32
Speaker 2: they should all be locked in a room together until.
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Speaker 18: That's compulsory arbitration. Couldn't agree with you more, but I
31:37
Speaker 18: asked the Prime Minister about this on Monday because I
31:39
Speaker 18: had singing and on last week and I said, you
31:41
Speaker 18: need to change the law and he said, we're going
31:43
Speaker 18: to look at that, and I thought good. Then I
31:44
Speaker 18: asked the Prime Minister on Monday, said what about changing
31:46
Speaker 18: the law and he goes, na, not now, and I thought,
31:49
Speaker 18: come on, get a backbone. You should have rules whereby
31:52
Speaker 18: you go. And these are the same people. You've got
31:54
Speaker 18: to remember, teachers, nurses, doctors, they're all the same people.
31:57
Speaker 18: So you go, look, have three cracks, best shot and
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Speaker 18: at the end of its compulsory arbitration and they make
32:02
Speaker 18: a call and that's the end of it. And you
32:04
Speaker 18: realize we used to do this in this in the country,
32:07
Speaker 18: so it's not like we haven't been here.
32:09
Speaker 2: But with critical you know, if it's student achievement at risk,
32:11
Speaker 2: if it's healthcare at risk.
32:14
Speaker 18: Yeah, but I mean yeah, but I mean, how long
32:16
Speaker 18: do you go run around the mulberry bush on this.
32:18
Speaker 18: It's like that argument that's not really about money, it's
32:20
Speaker 18: about student achievement.
32:21
Speaker 2: Is no, are you asking for money? I mean the
32:23
Speaker 2: disruption to student achievement from strikes, of.
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Speaker 18: Course, So the wider necessit, the wider good needs a
32:29
Speaker 18: greater waiting, which is what compulsory arbitration is all about.
32:32
Speaker 18: You say, eventually, look you've had a crack. We're going
32:34
Speaker 18: around and around in circles. We'll make a call and
32:37
Speaker 18: that'll be the end of that one. I mean, you've
32:38
Speaker 18: got to remember the government takes a risk on that
32:40
Speaker 18: because of course, if you go to compulsory arbitration and go, well,
32:43
Speaker 18: I don't care if you've got no money, they deserve
32:45
Speaker 18: three and a half a cent.
32:45
Speaker 15: There it is.
32:46
Speaker 2: How do you think Nicholas Sarkoz is feeling in this
32:48
Speaker 2: little isolated cell in a Paris prison right now using.
32:52
Speaker 18: The phone to ring the lawyer and go how long
32:54
Speaker 18: does this last? Because I'm assuming he's not going to.
32:56
Speaker 5: Be there for years, but he does get his own phone.
32:58
Speaker 5: Apparently a direct to the lawyer deserved. But see, yesterday
33:03
Speaker 5: I saw a photo of Carlo. She was out on
33:04
Speaker 5: a knee scooter and she looked. They claimed she was
33:08
Speaker 5: looking without a care in the world, and I thought, well,
33:10
Speaker 5: that's not right anyway. Today she looked miserable as she
33:13
Speaker 5: sort of turned up and said, well you would be,
33:16
Speaker 5: but lonely, wouldn't she What she can make some more music.
33:19
Speaker 18: Hold you, it'll be fantastic.
33:22
Speaker 2: Hey, who's on the show this morning?
33:23
Speaker 18: Goldsmith on the marine stuff that got passed last night.
33:27
Speaker 2: I don't know.
33:27
Speaker 18: Did people go out last night and light the fires
33:29
Speaker 18: on the beach?
33:29
Speaker 11: That was well?
33:31
Speaker 2: Actually Finns came out and said, it's a very bad
33:33
Speaker 2: time to do that. We've got vegetation fires at this price.
33:36
Speaker 14: What do you do?
33:37
Speaker 2: Do you strike? Maybe that's what caused the fires. Where
33:41
Speaker 2: when you need him? All right, have a great day, everyone,
33:45
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