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Full Show Podcast: 04 February 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 edition with one roof Love where You Live
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Speaker 1: News TALKSBI Good Morning six.
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Speaker 2: Half to five coming up, the driver licensing changes, we'll
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Speaker 2: look at those before six. Mandlsson, the cops are getting
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Speaker 2: involved in the UK will head to Mike psa UK correspondent.
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Speaker 2: Unemployment numbers out today in New Zealand and great Growlers
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Speaker 2: got too many Greats? The agenda weesday the fourth of February.
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Speaker 2: The Lord's Speaker has just announced that Peter Mandlsson is
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Speaker 2: stepping down from the House of Lords.
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Speaker 3: But the Clerk of the Parliaments has today received notifications
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Speaker 3: from Lord Mandelsson of his intention to retire from the
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Speaker 3: Host effective from fourth February. I will formally notify this
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Speaker 3: to the Host tomorrow in the usual web.
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Speaker 2: Now, the Clintons have finally agreed to testify before more
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Speaker 2: before Congress. More on that later. Nigel Farage wants Prince
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Speaker 2: Andrew in the hot seat as well to go for
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Speaker 2: his own sake and satisfy.
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Speaker 1: Otherwise he's going to be stuck at Marsh Farms or.
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Speaker 4: Probably more likely living in at least never to be
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Speaker 4: seen again.
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Speaker 2: Now In other news, French cybercrime prosecutors they're raiding the
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Speaker 2: Paris offices of X. This is Musk's X over alleged
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Speaker 2: illegal data use and child exploitation content.
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Speaker 5: As a result of this investigation, they're also calling on
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Speaker 5: Iroon Musk to appear voluntarily before their inquiry later this spring.
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Speaker 2: This is all about Europe taking on big tech out
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Speaker 2: of America. Things couldn't get worse for Musk and as Tessler's,
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Speaker 2: China has decided to ban hidden car doors from twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty seven because of safety concerns.
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Speaker 6: There have been a number of high profile cases, and
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Speaker 6: notimately just some months ago, one in which an electric
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Speaker 6: vehicle crashed in which the doors were not able to
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Speaker 6: open because there were these concealed doors, and the people
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Speaker 6: inside unfortunately perished without manual It means that regulators here
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Speaker 6: now believe that the doors should all have a manual
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Speaker 6: means of being open to allow people to be rescued here.
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Speaker 2: It is hard, isn't it. Sometimes you get in an
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Speaker 2: uber and you think, how do I get out.
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Speaker 1: Views and views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: earlier this ship with Ryan Bridge and one roof Love
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Speaker 1: Where you Live News talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be great to have your company this Wednesday morning,
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Speaker 2: short week. Of course, nine two ninety two is the
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Speaker 2: number to text. It's amazing to me how everyone else
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Speaker 2: is such a bad driver, everyone else but you. It's
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Speaker 2: human nature, I guess you know. We all think we're
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Speaker 2: amazing and the problem with the roads is everybody else.
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Speaker 2: I read an article yesterday about It was about people's
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Speaker 2: opinions on driving after these license changes. Yesterday, people saying
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Speaker 2: we have the worst drivers in the entire world. Some
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Speaker 2: people saying we need more tests, not fewer tests. The
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Speaker 2: problem isn't how many times you sit a test. I
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Speaker 2: don't think the problem is how many hours you've spent
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Speaker 2: car with a decent driver who can tell you what
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Speaker 2: to do and probably more importantly, what not to do.
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Speaker 2: Loads of people were talking about running red lights. Apparently
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Speaker 2: we are the worst in the world. If you're reading
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Speaker 2: the news history, we are just terrible at running red lights.
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Speaker 2: Not something I do, of course, not on purpose anyway,
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Speaker 2: let me clarify, But the temptations there isn't it Because
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Speaker 2: the roads are so congested, speed limits are low, it
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Speaker 2: takes you so long to get home. These days, you
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Speaker 2: see people running the gauntlet and trying to sneak through
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Speaker 2: otherwise you get stuck waiting for another round, and then
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Speaker 2: before you know it, it's midnight and you're sitting in
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Speaker 2: traffic still. Plus there's the uber drivers. Sorry to peck
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Speaker 2: on you guys, and I don't mean to, but I
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Speaker 2: think I assume you're doing this because you're trying to
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Speaker 2: save battery on your evs or something. But you drive
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Speaker 2: incredibly slow. You slow down before a light has changed
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Speaker 2: in case it does change, you know, or there's a
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Speaker 2: chance that could go yellow, So I'll just slow right down,
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Speaker 2: which is so annoying, and then speeding up. You do
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Speaker 2: that at a snail's pace, don't you. You make driving
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Speaker 2: that much more laborious on city streets. So there you go.
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Speaker 2: I've joined the rest of the country and blamed others
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Speaker 2: for the state of our roads. What became very clear
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Speaker 2: to me yesterday and coming back to this announcement watching
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Speaker 2: Chris Bishop make the announcement, is it was actually nothing
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Speaker 2: to do with road safety. It was actually nothing to
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Speaker 2: do with driving generally. It was about employment. They need
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Speaker 2: to get more young people into work. Seventy percent of
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Speaker 2: jobs require a driver's license, so they're basically just giving
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Speaker 2: them one. We'll talk about that just before six this morning,
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Speaker 2: nine two nine two. The numbers text who do you blame?
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Speaker 2: Who is the worst on the roads? Nine two nine two.
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Speaker 2: We'll look at Mandelssohn because the cops are getting involved.
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Speaker 2: That's quite interesting. Also, the number of nuclear weapons they
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Speaker 2: reckon could be a bit in existence on planet Earth
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Speaker 2: could be about to skyrocket. I'll tell you why eleven
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Speaker 2: after five.
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Speaker 1: Views and views for us to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: earlier edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof love where
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Speaker 1: you Live News Talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be five thirteen. Unemployment numbers out to the Sorry,
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Speaker 2: employment numbers are out today. We'll talk to Westpac about
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Speaker 2: that in a second. Also, I mentioned the issue of
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Speaker 2: nuclear weapons, just the small issue of nuclear weapons. So
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Speaker 2: the treaty between the US and Russia. So the US
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Speaker 2: and Russia obviously the two biggest nuclear powers in the world.
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Speaker 2: There are now no limits or heads of tonight, there
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Speaker 2: will be no limits on the number of nukes that
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Speaker 2: they can have in their arsenal at the moment they
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Speaker 2: have both signed up to the New Start Treaty. It's
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Speaker 2: about fifty years old. The last time it was re
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Speaker 2: signed was under Obama and Medvedev. That was back in
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Speaker 2: twenty ten, and it basically says, you've got a limit.
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Speaker 2: You can only have a strategic arsenal of fifteen hundred
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Speaker 2: and fifty warheads. The total number of delivery systems i e.
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Speaker 2: Your missiles and your bombers would be eight hundred. And
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Speaker 2: they signed that and that was all good. And then
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Speaker 2: Putin and Trump are not re signing this deal, so
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Speaker 2: it's going to expire. And the reason is Trump wants
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Speaker 2: China involved in it too. So the US has five
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Speaker 2: than one hundred in their stockpile, Russia has five thousand,
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Speaker 2: four hundred and its stockpile China considerably smaller arsenal six
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Speaker 2: hundred warheads, but Trump wants them involved. Then don't seem
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Speaker 2: to be coming to the party anytime soon. So the
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Speaker 2: whole thing is up and smoke tonight, Ryan Bread, not literally,
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Speaker 2: hopefully right. The wine industry is nursing a bit of
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Speaker 2: an oversupply hangover at the moment. Around one hundred thousand
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Speaker 2: tons of grapes. This is a fifth of the crop
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Speaker 2: were left on the vine last year after exports just
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Speaker 2: couldn't keep up. Growers are hoping this season's a lot
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Speaker 2: more balanced. Ty Nelson is a vineyard manager at Soljian's winery,
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Speaker 2: joins us this morning, Tie, good morning, Good morning. So
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Speaker 2: what was behind the huge boost and crops last year.
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Speaker 7: Well, we've had a couple of years of just really
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Speaker 7: good seasons. I mean we're still catching up from COVID
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Speaker 7: and we've just had bumper crops over the last couple
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Speaker 7: of years. That I mean with exports drying up, I
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Speaker 7: mean we just have me able to sell it.
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Speaker 2: And is that because people aren't drinking as much? Or
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Speaker 2: have we got more competition? Why are the export what's
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Speaker 2: happening with the exports?
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Speaker 7: It's all those things for sure. Yeah, people globally aren't
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Speaker 7: drinking as much. The demand has dropped off overseas for
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Speaker 7: all of our wines, and I mean even locally, people
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Speaker 7: aren't drinking as much. So, you know, it's hard to
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Speaker 7: keep up with production when we don't know what people
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Speaker 7: are going to be drinking.
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Speaker 2: Ty, what can you do about that as a as
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Speaker 2: a wine maker? Is you know, because people are going
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Speaker 2: to lower calorie options, they're going to lower alcohol options.
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Speaker 2: Can you do anything with wine to accommodate that?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, there's there's heaps of options you can you can
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Speaker 7: approach it with, you can, I mean, yeah, it's it's
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Speaker 7: really hard to predict what the market is going to
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Speaker 7: do year to year, especially when when people are drinking
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Speaker 7: less and it's you know, with with lower alcohol options,
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Speaker 7: the equipment to be able to produce something like that,
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Speaker 7: especially for someone small like Solgions, is a really hard
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Speaker 7: call to make. I mean, the best that we can
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Speaker 7: do is keep making good wine and hopes that people,
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Speaker 7: you know, just keep buying it and keep drinking it
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Speaker 7: and keep supporting us. But for for bigger companies, you know,
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Speaker 7: those lower alcohol options are different definitely on the on
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Speaker 7: the books, there's lots of investment into that.
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Speaker 2: What happens with leaving grapes on the well, i mean,
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Speaker 2: what does that do to your business?
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Speaker 7: Well, it's it's money left sitting out really, I mean yeah,
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Speaker 7: especially for the bigger vineyards in Marlborough, it's literally just
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Speaker 7: money sitting on the vines that that they can't do
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Speaker 7: anything with. And it's yeah, it's really disappointing, especially as
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Speaker 7: a grower to see you know, all that hard work
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Speaker 7: you've worked for a year to get to get these
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Speaker 7: you know, to get these great you know, really healthy
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Speaker 7: and really good quality, and then you're just going to
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Speaker 7: leave them sitting there because no one wants them.
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Speaker 2: I appreciate your time this morning, thanks for filling us
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Speaker 2: and Ty Nelson, vineyard manager at Souljian's Winery. Time is
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Speaker 2: seventeen after five for your O news talks here B.
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Speaker 2: We'll go to Westpac next on unemployment numbers out today,
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Speaker 2: the news.
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Speaker 1: You need this morning and the in depth analysis early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and one Root Love Where you
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Speaker 1: Live News talks.
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Speaker 2: It'd be five twenty on news Talks B. This is
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Speaker 2: from John Morning John. Ryan, wine sales are buggered globally.
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Speaker 2: It's taken a few years to hit New Zealand. Non
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Speaker 2: alcoholic wine is awful, and regulations prohibit innovation. I'd love
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Speaker 2: to know what regulations are prohibiting innovation, Morning Ryan. Staying
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Speaker 2: in Auckland for a month over January February. This is
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Speaker 2: from Jewels on driving drive to the airport from Saint
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Speaker 2: John's Road. Remuer Road has pedestrian lights. One school kid
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Speaker 2: crossing stops fifty cars at peak time eight am. These
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Speaker 2: crossings are spaced three to four hundred meters apart. Causes havoc,
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Speaker 2: and they go off at different They're not coordinated, so
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Speaker 2: you are stop start stop, start stop start at peak time.
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Speaker 2: First ten days of January was a dream, says Jewels.
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Speaker 2: What to do now? What to do? Indeed, Ryan Bridge,
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Speaker 2: we get the first job market stats of the year today.
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Speaker 2: Most major banks are expecting unemployment to hold steady five
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Speaker 2: point three percent. That's because what wage growth expected to
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Speaker 2: remain subdued, still lagging inflation. Michael Gordon West Paxine your
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Speaker 2: economist with me this morning. Michael, good morning, good morning.
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Speaker 2: What's your peck.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, Like as you said, with a lot of the
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Speaker 8: other banks, we're expecting the unemployment the whole city. It's
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Speaker 8: five point three. We saw through some of the nice
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Speaker 8: months of jobs numbers. We get them stats. Now there's
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Speaker 8: the bit of jobs growth coming through, but at the
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Speaker 8: moment it's just enough to stabilize the unemployment rate rather
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Speaker 8: than help to bring it down again. That's probably more
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Speaker 8: story as we get into twenty twenty.
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Speaker 2: Six, when does that start to turn.
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Speaker 8: I think at the moment we're expecting that to probably
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Speaker 8: start to happen by midyear and then sort of improving
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Speaker 8: over the course of the next year. Or so. Usually
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Speaker 8: jobs lager that from the broader economic cycle. So we've
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Speaker 8: had I mean, how far are we into the economic
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Speaker 8: upturn we've had. We had one good quarter reporter, we're
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Speaker 8: expecting another one to decend the quarter. So it's probably
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Speaker 8: a process that's sort of start. That happened. It's three
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Speaker 8: to six months after that.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, across the Tesman they're overheating.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, so we had the Reserve Bank of Australia raised
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Speaker 8: interest rates yesterday. I think to understand that, you've really
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Speaker 8: got to go back to I guess the history of
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Speaker 8: the last few years when everyone is raising interest rates. Australia,
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Speaker 8: they really made a choice to do the minimum required
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Speaker 8: to get inflation back into their target and try to
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Speaker 8: preserve jobs and growth. And they did that really well,
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Speaker 8: but it meant they were going to have no wiggle
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Speaker 8: room when things started to get up again. In New Zealand,
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Speaker 8: the Reserve Bank went a bit harder on inflation and
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Speaker 8: the economy suffered. But it means that they do have
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Speaker 8: more wiggle rooms. They're not as under as much pressure
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Speaker 8: to start raising rates again as inflation started to pick up.
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Speaker 2: And what is worse, Michael, what they've done or what
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Speaker 2: we've done, because the thoughts, just the thought of it
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Speaker 2: coming back again, like this monster that hides under your
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Speaker 2: bed and then leaps out whenever things get a little
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Speaker 2: too hot, is just frightening because we know how inflation
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Speaker 2: robs you and steals your wages. So what's worse what
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Speaker 2: we've done or what they're doing.
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Speaker 8: Well, it's a great question, and I think again i'd
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Speaker 8: emphasize it's been a choice that the respective countries have made,
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Speaker 8: and even I think even as a little six months ago,
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Speaker 8: I still heard a lot of people saying Australia had
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Speaker 8: made the better choice, and they may be thinking like,
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Speaker 8: it looks like the worst choice now, but I think
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Speaker 8: you've rarely got to look at it over the course
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Speaker 8: of this whole up and down cycle. So you know,
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Speaker 8: I think we're probably still not at the stage where
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Speaker 8: we can judge which one made the better choice, but
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Speaker 8: certainly at the moment that the tides have sort of
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Speaker 8: started to shift a bit more in our fader.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Michael, appreciate that. Michael Gordon, Westpac senior economist. It's
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Speaker 2: twenty three minutes half to five grand bride, so market
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Speaker 2: sensitive information. This was Mandlssohn yesterday we spoke about him.
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Speaker 2: He's now Peter Mandlsson, that is Lord Mandelsson, though they're
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Speaker 2: trying to get rid of his peerage too. But he's
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Speaker 2: quit the House of Lords overnight. He quit Labor the
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Speaker 2: night before that, so slowly he's quitting everything because he's
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Speaker 2: basically been pushed out in shame. And during the two
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Speaker 2: thousand and eight financial crash he gave well could have
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Speaker 2: may have given market sensitive information out Now the number
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Speaker 2: ten Downing Street has issued a statement. They say only
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Speaker 2: people operating in an official capacity had access to this information,
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Speaker 2: which he is then accused of emailing to his mate Epstein.
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Speaker 2: The Cabinet Office has now referred this material to police.
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Speaker 2: They say that is the right place for them to
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Speaker 2: determine whether to investigate. So the met now having a
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Speaker 2: look into Mandalson twenty four minutes after five the early.
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Speaker 1: Edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio how It by News.
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Speaker 2: Talks at Me five twenty six News Talks said, be
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Speaker 2: let that Ossie economy be a bit of a warning
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Speaker 2: to us. The inflation thief might be gone, but it
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Speaker 2: still lurks in the corner, and if you're not careful,
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Speaker 2: it happily leaps out and steals your wages. Last week
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Speaker 2: we spoke about the fact their inflation is running hot,
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Speaker 2: almost four percent across the Tasman They're now world leader's
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Speaker 2: highest rate in the developed wild, more than the UK,
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Speaker 2: the US, Germany, Japan, Canada, Spain and France. Not something
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Speaker 2: that Elbow or anyone in camber Ralli should be proud of.
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Speaker 2: So yesterday the RBA did what central banks do. Things
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Speaker 2: get a little too spicy, they hike the rates. They've
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Speaker 2: just done a quarter of a percent. They're likely to
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Speaker 2: do another one next month. Labour has a very generous system.
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Speaker 2: You might have heard friends who've moved over there talk
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Speaker 2: about it. That gets Aussies into hous its first home
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Speaker 2: buyers can get in with the ten percent there's cash
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Speaker 2: at the ready. Housing costs are partly driving this inflation.
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Speaker 2: No such thing as a free lunch. The subsidies are
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Speaker 2: also helping to drive house prices up, which in places
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Speaker 2: like Sydney, go and have a look. Melbourne and even
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Speaker 2: now Brisbane completely out of reach, not even comparable to
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Speaker 2: our big cities, especially now that ours have come down
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Speaker 2: a bit. Now the interest rate hikes that these young
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Speaker 2: new buyers are going to have to swallow as the
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Speaker 2: rates go up, will leave an estimated one point three
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Speaker 2: million mortgage holders under stress. Roy Morgan says that's thirty
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Speaker 2: percent of mortgage holders in Australia now. Alba and Labor
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Speaker 2: are overseeing near record highs of government spending at the
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Speaker 2: same time almost thirty percent of GDP Now. The problem
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Speaker 2: is when the private sector runs up against competition from
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Speaker 2: the public sector, it can cause the whole thing to
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Speaker 2: fizz and bubble up to the point of overheating. And
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Speaker 2: overheating needs calling and calling causes pain. So the next
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Speaker 2: time that politicians on this side of the Tasman telling
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Speaker 2: you that more borrowing and spending will solve our problems,
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Speaker 2: ask them how much, from where, for what exactly, and
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Speaker 2: whether the spend carries an inflation risk or not. Brian
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Speaker 2: twenty eight minutes after five gas Maoi gas field, they say,
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Speaker 2: the pundits the commentators reckon it's coming to its end
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Speaker 2: of its life. It will probably be over by twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty seven, and everyone's worried is the price going to
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Speaker 2: go up? Because other gas fields are in decline, prices
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Speaker 2: go up. But here's the thing. Jardin came out yesterday
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Speaker 2: and said that batteries and new renewables might actually cap
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Speaker 2: the spike that you'll see in prices, keep the average
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Speaker 2: wholesale prices lower than what traders are currently betting on.
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Speaker 2: This is from Business Desk. So the MAUI supply eighteen
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Speaker 2: percent of our gas and if that goes offline, you
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Speaker 2: would say, oh my goodness, that's going to really push
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Speaker 2: the prices up. But they're still predicting prices to ease
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Speaker 2: through the second half of the decade as new renewables
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Speaker 2: and batteries reduce the reliance on higher cost thermal generation.
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Speaker 2: So there you go. News Talk ZB it's tough pass.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to our UK correspondent and reporters after this.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Branch and One Root Love Where you Live.
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Speaker 2: News Talks twenty four away from the sexty're on News Talks.
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Speaker 2: It'd be great to have your company coming up the
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Speaker 2: four six, a look at the driver licensing changes that
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Speaker 2: Bishop's bringing in, and we will go to the UK
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Speaker 2: with Mike Pears.
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Speaker 6: Ryan.
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Speaker 2: The whole thing This is from David. The whole thing
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Speaker 2: that renewables or alternatives and batteries will take up the
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Speaker 2: slack of fossil fuels anytime in their future is just
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Speaker 2: a myth. The technology is not there to produce and
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Speaker 2: store enough energy to satisfying demand. David, you're absolutely right. However,
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Speaker 2: I think that what this Jarden is getting at with
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Speaker 2: their analysis of what's happening at the Mai gas field,
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Speaker 2: which is basically going to end soon, end of life.
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Speaker 2: I think what they're saying is that within a decade
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Speaker 2: that we should be there at least part the way there,
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Speaker 2: and that should pick up some of the slack. Also,
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Speaker 2: people texting in about exactly when the Maui production will end.
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Speaker 2: Someone here is saying December twenty two, late last year.
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Speaker 2: There was talk that it was the start of this year.
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Speaker 2: Of course, it wouldn't be great for a government to
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Speaker 2: have a gainsfield closed just before an election. But I wonder, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I don't know exactly when. This person seems to think
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Speaker 2: that MB has been told exactly when. I don't know
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Speaker 2: exactly when. I mean, that would be quite good and
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Speaker 2: produce the information to have, wouldn't it. Twenty three minutes
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Speaker 2: away from six bray and Bridge. Let's go to our
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Speaker 2: reporters Collen Proctor and Dnedan Cullen. Good morning morning, Right
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Speaker 2: now there's a by election coming up and not much
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Speaker 2: time left to consider a run. No, look, well that's right.
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Speaker 4: Times tickings being held the spy election to fill the
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Speaker 4: seat left faken after counsel the Jills Radick died suddenly
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Speaker 4: last month and so nominations only opened on Monday paperwork
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Speaker 4: though due by midday March second. We know of at
19:50
Speaker 4: least two former counselors who are stout on the vote
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Speaker 4: last year who will be putting their names back in
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Speaker 4: the hat for this by election. The Deputy electoral officer here, Robinsill,
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Speaker 4: and says in anyone with a strong interest in Dunedin's
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Speaker 4: future should consider standing. The other factor is these by
20:05
Speaker 4: elections typically attract low voter turnout. One in Hamilton a
20:09
Speaker 4: couple of years ago drew about thirty three percent, and
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Speaker 4: in last year's election only forty five percent of Dunedin
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Speaker 4: voters went to the polls.
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Speaker 2: Hey Callumn, this is unrelated, but have you heard about
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Speaker 2: the yellow bar leaners and the squiggly lines that have
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Speaker 2: been painted around Queen's Drive and they've closed the street
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Speaker 2: off in Dunedin? Have you seen that.
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Speaker 4: I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but you've
20:30
Speaker 4: read the stories, read the stories, seen the pictures, heard
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Speaker 4: the feedback. There's nothing positive this being said about it.
20:38
Speaker 4: In fact, this issue has been enough to convince one
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Speaker 4: local to stand in this by election just on this
20:47
Speaker 4: matter alone.
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Speaker 2: Really, we have to talk to that person tomorrow, Kenzy.
20:52
Speaker 2: So they put a ping pong table there and the
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Speaker 2: bats are already broken. And how does it cost fifteen
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Speaker 2: thousand dollars just to a little straight anyway? It sounds nuts.
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Speaker 2: How's your weather, calp? Yeah, good day today? Fine, but
21:05
Speaker 2: a morning and even cloud eighteen the height? Nice one,
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Speaker 2: Thank you? Clear in christ Church, take clear, good morning.
21:10
Speaker 2: The use of christ Church is Cathedral Square is being challenged.
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Speaker 5: Yes, well, we've got a council meeting here in christ
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Speaker 5: Church today and a petition is being handed to the
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Speaker 5: council by Resident Daniel o'mera, who is arguing that ticketed
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Speaker 5: events should no longer be allowed at Cathedral Square and
21:27
Speaker 5: should instead be moved to Hagley Park. Around eight private
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Speaker 5: events have been held in the square since twenty twenty three,
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Speaker 5: so only a handful, but that does include several drum
21:35
Speaker 5: and bass gigs, which have attracted thousands. The council intends
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Speaker 5: to rent out the area for up to one hundred
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Speaker 5: and twenty days a year. The petition argues that hiring
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Speaker 5: out the space is depriving residents of a civic and
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Speaker 5: community hub. O'mera says the square should only be fenced
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Speaker 5: off or closed to the public for things like construction
21:54
Speaker 5: or emergencies, all for cleaning, which he says should only
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Speaker 5: happen no more than four ninth year and only overnight.
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Speaker 2: Right, Okay, how's your weather fine?
22:04
Speaker 5: Aside from a bit of morning cloud about today northeasterly
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Speaker 5: is developing and nineteen degrees.
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Speaker 2: Enjoy the pong, Max and Wellington. Hey Max, good morning.
22:12
Speaker 2: Now you had the airport closed US today cancel flights
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Speaker 2: making up for it today?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, a lot of rain and fog. Yesterday it was gray, gloomy, rainy, overcast,
22:22
Speaker 9: a lot of low cloud. About fifty flights had to
22:24
Speaker 9: be canceled yesterday afternoon and evening, so a massive disruption
22:29
Speaker 9: and some international flights had to be diverted. Coming in
22:32
Speaker 9: massive disruption that of course has a tail. Those domestic
22:35
Speaker 9: passengers are scrambling to get on other flights, other flights
22:38
Speaker 9: are being put on today. I mean the good news
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Speaker 9: is the forecast from this morning through white tang You
22:43
Speaker 9: weekend is actually pretty good. Flights are taking off this morning.
22:47
Speaker 9: Yesterday just felt like I won off the forecast today
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Speaker 9: clearing to fine strong, southerly's dying out, getting up close
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Speaker 9: to twenty brilliant.
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Speaker 2: You enjoy that day, Max and Neighvas and Auckland, Neva.
22:56
Speaker 1: Good morning for reatings.
22:58
Speaker 2: Tell us about their hornets.
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Speaker 10: Yes, those yellow lead hornets. So Biosecurity is adapting this
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Speaker 10: eradication technique to changing the hornet behaviors. This is obviously
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Speaker 10: on the North Shore. So so far the teams have
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Speaker 10: located and destroyed fifty two yellow lead to hornet nests
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Speaker 10: and forty nine queens. So this is by you know,
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Speaker 10: attaching those small radio transmitters to the worker hornets and
23:22
Speaker 10: this helps, you know, then find more nests in the area,
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Speaker 10: which is pretty good. Mike Ingles, he's the Biosecurity Commissioner North.
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Speaker 10: He says, going further into summer, those insects species, they
23:33
Speaker 10: begin building larger nests. So this tracking technique with the
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Speaker 10: small radio transmitters, it's led to the removal of three
23:41
Speaker 10: nests and they're expecting more to come.
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Speaker 2: But they must be tiny radio are they on? Actually
23:46
Speaker 2: hornet at least so far. Otherwise they'd be wayed down,
23:51
Speaker 2: you know, much too much cargo on a plane. Special
23:56
Speaker 2: horrible psycho little serial killers. Those hornets.
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Speaker 10: Oh, they don't hold bad.
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Speaker 2: They go out, they wait outside the bees the nest,
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Speaker 2: and the bees are literally too scared to leave. It's terrible.
24:08
Speaker 1: But you see them.
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Speaker 2: Oh no, I was reading about them, and they're too
24:11
Speaker 2: scared to leave the nest because these guys will stalk
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Speaker 2: outside the nest, grab them, take them back to their
24:17
Speaker 2: nest and pull their bodies apart. That's seriously. Oh that
24:21
Speaker 2: is terrible. Cool.
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Speaker 10: Oh, now that's going I'm going to have nightmares.
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Speaker 2: Now blow them up? Blow them up? How's to win that?
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Speaker 5: Cool?
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Speaker 10: Held showers clearing though. Tonight twenty five is the high
24:32
Speaker 10: year at Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Mike tess Our UK eure A correspondent joins us Live Mike,
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Speaker 2: what's the latest with Mandelssohn.
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Speaker 11: Well, Lord Mandelson, of course, one of the UK's best
25:55
Speaker 11: known political figures, has resigned eventually from Parliament. In fact,
25:58
Speaker 11: in the last couple of hours. It follows the latest
26:00
Speaker 11: release of those Epstein files. Now, responding to the news,
26:04
Speaker 11: UK Prime Minister Kiss Starmer said he let the country down.
26:07
Speaker 11: It comes after the government said if he didn't resign,
26:09
Speaker 11: they'd introduce legal powers to sack him. But for now
26:13
Speaker 11: he keeps his title as a lord. That's because of
26:15
Speaker 11: existing rules. The governments say it will introduce legislation to
26:18
Speaker 11: deal with that. Now. Documents reveal a close relationship with Epstein,
26:21
Speaker 11: who it's claimed made payments to him of seventy five
26:25
Speaker 11: thousand US dollars and his partner twenty thousand dollars. He's
26:28
Speaker 11: also under investigation by police overclaims he passed on top
26:32
Speaker 11: secret government information. Now that's the big allegation he sent
26:35
Speaker 11: that really has sent this matter into overdrive. Here he
26:38
Speaker 11: was also pictured, as you may recall, in his underpants
26:41
Speaker 11: at the weekend in one of Epstein's homes when those
26:43
Speaker 11: documents were released. Now, this is turning out to be
26:46
Speaker 11: one of the biggest political scandals in the UK for
26:48
Speaker 11: many years. Manilson held many key government posts over the
26:52
Speaker 11: last forty years and was UK Ambassador to the United States. Now,
26:55
Speaker 11: in another development, a charity set up by Sarah Ferguson
26:59
Speaker 11: she the former life of Prince Andrew, has closed after
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Speaker 11: new revelations about her relationship with Epstein. It's claimed she
27:06
Speaker 11: was in contact with him while he was in prison,
27:08
Speaker 11: and the King's brother, Prince Edward said a short time
27:11
Speaker 11: ago it was important to remember in all of this
27:14
Speaker 11: the victims.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. Now what about this being on
27:17
Speaker 2: Russia taking part at the World Cup apparently could soon
27:20
Speaker 2: be lifted.
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Speaker 11: True, Well, that is what we are hearing, and of
27:25
Speaker 11: course it does follow a very controversial decision to lift
27:27
Speaker 11: the ban at the next Paralympic Games. Now, the FIFA president,
27:31
Speaker 11: of course they manage the whole World Cup, says we
27:33
Speaker 11: have to look at restoring Russian teams, adding the ban
27:37
Speaker 11: has not achieved anything, it's just created more frustration and hatred.
27:41
Speaker 11: Of course, the next World Cup games get underway in
27:43
Speaker 11: June and they're being held in America, Canada and Mexico.
27:47
Speaker 11: The Ukrainian Sports Minister has branded the remark as irresponsible.
27:51
Speaker 11: The ban was imposed at the start of the war,
27:53
Speaker 11: which is four years ago. Some European football associations say
27:56
Speaker 11: they are horrified now it comes after that decision to
27:59
Speaker 11: allow Russia to compete in the next Paralympics. Organizers they're
28:02
Speaker 11: saying they don't think athletes would use the games for
28:04
Speaker 11: political reasons. Now more than thirty countries in Europe opposed
28:08
Speaker 11: to that decision will use the Winter Olympics opening in
28:11
Speaker 11: Milan on Friday as a platform to demand a rethink
28:14
Speaker 11: on that policy.
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Speaker 2: All right, thanks to that update. That is Mike psa
28:17
Speaker 2: UK europe correspondent. By the way, he is Prince Edward
28:20
Speaker 2: who was asked about Epstein at an event in Dubai.
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Speaker 3: It's all really important always to remember the victims and
28:27
Speaker 3: who are the victims and all this.
28:28
Speaker 2: And he was the first royal actually to speak now
28:31
Speaker 2: about the whole Epstein scandal. None of them have said
28:33
Speaker 2: anything publicly. Let's go to Russia. He's over and this
28:37
Speaker 2: is the native boss over in Ukraine at the moment. Now,
28:40
Speaker 2: Ukraine has been hit overnight by the worst attacks so
28:43
Speaker 2: far this year. Russia has hit Ukraine's energy sites.
28:47
Speaker 12: THEIRK talks are now on their way and this is
28:50
Speaker 12: important progress, but Russia attacks like those last night do
28:56
Speaker 12: not signal seriousness about peace.
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Speaker 2: Praying Bridge chiners are living away from six so the
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Speaker 2: full driver's licensed tests are gone berger Instead, under twenty
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Speaker 2: fives will spend twelve months on a learner's license, zero
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Speaker 2: tolerance for booze on your learners or restricted from twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty seven. Mark revel Johnson is president of the Institute
29:17
Speaker 2: of Driver Educators, joins us this morning. Hey Mark, good
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Speaker 2: morning Ron. The government says this is going to save
29:23
Speaker 2: people about eighty bucks. Does that sound and marry up
29:27
Speaker 2: with what you're seeing.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, roughly in the in terms of cost of going
29:33
Speaker 13: through the licensing process. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Do you think the roads will be more or less safe?
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Speaker 13: I don't think it's going to change. It's certainly not
29:43
Speaker 13: going to improve matters. Let's take for example this twelve
29:46
Speaker 13: months on the restricted phase and then no test. Let's
29:51
Speaker 13: say you've passed your restricted and then toddled off on
29:53
Speaker 13: eu Rowe went to one of the biggest cities in
29:56
Speaker 13: Europe or wherever, and you live on and use public
30:01
Speaker 13: transport for the year, come back and without having driven
30:05
Speaker 13: another kilometer since your restricted test, you get your full license.
30:09
Speaker 13: They talk about doing a number of hours before your
30:13
Speaker 13: learners or that can reduce the number of the time
30:17
Speaker 13: spent on your learner's license that way, I think that
30:20
Speaker 13: would be better, or at least have an additional claws
30:24
Speaker 13: like that between between the restrictors and the full Do.
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Speaker 2: You think that the cost and the and the second
30:31
Speaker 2: practical taste for people is does put them off actually
30:35
Speaker 2: finishing the job.
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Speaker 13: It's certainly a factor. I mean, let's say, say who
30:40
Speaker 13: likes doing tests the Yeah, some people are very nervous
30:45
Speaker 13: about it. We as driving instructors, we see high anxiety
30:49
Speaker 13: rates and much students for for going for a restricted
30:52
Speaker 13: or or a full license test. That's that's a perfectly
30:57
Speaker 13: natural thing. The driving instructors, of course, can help you
31:01
Speaker 13: to prepare for that so you feel more confident going
31:03
Speaker 13: into it. But it's yeah, people don't like doing tests.
31:07
Speaker 13: And with a restricted license, if you're not driving at night,
31:10
Speaker 13: or you're not driving friends round, there isn't really a
31:12
Speaker 13: lot of incentive to go forward from there and to
31:15
Speaker 13: better yourself.
31:16
Speaker 2: As what's the thing, what is the one thing you
31:19
Speaker 2: think would actually make people be the drivers?
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Speaker 13: More training and practical training is really the thing to do.
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Speaker 13: It's you know, we can link theory, and theory has
31:31
Speaker 13: its place, but actually being behind the wheel with somebody
31:36
Speaker 13: who can watch those little the little nuances of what
31:40
Speaker 13: you're doing or not doing that can increase risk, that
31:44
Speaker 13: can be that can be invaluable. Like, for example, if
31:48
Speaker 13: you look at some of the failed failing failing reasons
31:51
Speaker 13: on the full licensed test, there's an awful lot of
31:53
Speaker 13: people who are failing that test, and they're failing it
31:55
Speaker 13: for crash promoting type behaviors, So speeding and not stopping
32:00
Speaker 13: at stop signs and not not giving way properly quite important. Yeah,
32:07
Speaker 13: important things in terms of risk. But you know this
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Speaker 13: is when the driver's supposed to be on the best behavior.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Marke appreciate that update. Mark revel Johnson, President
32:15
Speaker 2: of the Institute of Driver Educators. Time is seven Away
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Speaker 2: Talks d B five to six. Bit of a U
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Speaker 14: But I want to say one thing to the American keeching.
32:37
Speaker 14: I want you to listen to me. I'm going to
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Speaker 14: say this again, I did not have sexual relations with
32:44
Speaker 14: that woman, miss Lewanski.
32:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they were meant to that. They said they
32:48
Speaker 2: were fighting like tooth and nail. We're not going to
32:51
Speaker 2: come and do anything in front of Congress. You're not
32:54
Speaker 2: going to get us before a committee tried to dodge it,
32:57
Speaker 2: and they have now said through a spokesperson and actually, yes,
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Speaker 2: we will come and testify in front of Congress because
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Speaker 2: they were at risk of potentially an investigation and potentially
33:08
Speaker 2: being criminally liable for not doing so. So they aren't
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Speaker 2: going to appear. Not sure quite when at this stage.
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Speaker 2: Four to six Bryan Bridge Morning, Mike, greetings, who taught
33:19
Speaker 2: you how to drive? Well, mum, oh yeah, that's out
33:22
Speaker 2: all in my agent stage.
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Speaker 15: Everyone got taught by their parents in the supermarket car
33:27
Speaker 15: park because the supermarket back in the day was not
33:29
Speaker 15: open on I think it might have been Sunday. I
33:31
Speaker 15: think it was open Saturday, but it wasn't open Sunday,
33:33
Speaker 15: so the car park was empty and you went down
33:36
Speaker 15: to the car park in the hilmet avingera vinyl roof manual.
33:40
Speaker 15: Nothing automatic automatic was flashing those days. So you all
33:43
Speaker 15: learn to drive manual still can, and that's a skill
33:45
Speaker 15: you should have.
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Speaker 2: Well, I learned to emmanual.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
33:48
Speaker 2: Well we didn't have automatics when I was that age either.
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Speaker 15: Well, so anyways, mom does it? You go around to
33:54
Speaker 15: the AA, you sit the old you know, the paperwork,
33:56
Speaker 15: and then you makee Brian takes at first. Of course
33:59
Speaker 15: I pasted it.
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Speaker 2: Round my practical test. I crashed the car, backed into
34:04
Speaker 2: a lamp post and the guy still passed.
34:08
Speaker 15: That's that's and that's why my park downstairs is nowhere
34:11
Speaker 15: here your park downstairs. Anyway, we'll talk about the driving
34:15
Speaker 15: and building. Weird building stats. Despite the fact you can't
34:18
Speaker 15: sell an apartment, they're building more apartments.
34:22
Speaker 2: About it.
34:23
Speaker 15: Anyway, we'll get to the bottom of it.
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