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Roman Travers: Schmoosing the Hollywood executives should be a higher priority than fiddling with our immigration policies · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: It's great to see the Coalition government looking at every
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  Speaker 1: possible way in order to maximize the New Zealand economy.
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  Speaker 1: Right yesterday, a bunch of very important government ministers stood
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  Speaker 1: near the arrival gates of Wellington Airport to reinforce the
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  Speaker 1: news regarding the loosening of visa requirements for overseas visitors
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  Speaker 1: who want to too in New Zealand while working remotely
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  Speaker 1: for their employer at home. This is a copy and
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  Speaker 1: paste of what other countries have successfully implemented. Essentially, what
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  Speaker 1: are known as digital nomads will include visitors like IT specialists,
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  Speaker 1: as long as they are not receiving any income from
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand sources. It would also extend to social media influences,
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  Speaker 1: provided they're not being paid by overseas companies. These changes
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  Speaker 1: will apply to all visa visitors visitor visas, including tourists
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  Speaker 1: and people visiting family. Visitor visas can be extended for
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  Speaker 1: up to nine months, although the ministers warned that working
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand for more than ninety days could require them
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  Speaker 1: to declare themselves as New Zealand tax residents. This may
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  Speaker 1: well indeed help in a range of ways to sure
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  Speaker 1: that more and more overseas residents spend more time and
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  Speaker 1: money here, or indeed eventually decide to make New Zealand home. However,
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  Speaker 1: the ongoing influence of massive companies like Netflix may prove
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  Speaker 1: to be more of a success story for New Zealand
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  Speaker 1: than any policy invoked by any government. Over the past weekend,
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  Speaker 1: parts of Dunedin were turned into an eighteen hundred style
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  Speaker 1: Californian town with Hollywood heavyweights filming a new Netflix drama.
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  Speaker 1: Academy Award nominee Florence Pube is one of the actresses
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  Speaker 1: starring in a new adaptation of a nineteen fifty two
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  Speaker 1: novel East of Eden being filmed around New Zealand. Auckland
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  Speaker 1: actress Jess Hook is just one of many New Zealand
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  Speaker 1: stars hitting the big time with Netflix in a range
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  Speaker 1: of movies and Netflix series watched by millions globally. Then
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  Speaker 1: there's Lucy m Buchanan in the current super smash series
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  Speaker 1: on Netflix, The Night Agent. It's really good. Actually dial
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  Speaker 1: it up if you haven't. This is currently the number
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  Speaker 1: one show around the world for Netflix, with the ongoing
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  Speaker 1: potential to not only print money for Netflix and those
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  Speaker 1: that are invest in the company, but also for New Zealand.
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  Speaker 1: There's a very long list of actors doing amazing things
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  Speaker 1: on the big and small screens of the world. And
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  Speaker 1: this list is only fortified and embellished by the even
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  Speaker 1: longer list of producers, directors, and others behind the scenes
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  Speaker 1: talent who enhance the image, perception and geographical recognition of
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand each and every time they land a big gig.
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  Speaker 1: You've seen what the Lord of the Rings movies and
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  Speaker 1: subsequent TV series has done for New Zealand, but we've
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  Speaker 1: changed how we want to be entertained since Peter Jackson
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  Speaker 1: got stuck into the Ring thing. Government policy like we
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  Speaker 1: saw being announced yesterday is gold for the country, but
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  Speaker 1: ensuring we do everything possible to keep New Zealand high
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  Speaker 1: on the locations list for the abundance of movies and
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  Speaker 1: TV series yet to be made is crucial for the
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  Speaker 1: desperately needed growth of the economy and the ongoing careers
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  Speaker 1: for all those who continue to tread the boards and
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  Speaker 1: fiel the pool of the limelight. Schmoozing the pate of
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  Speaker 1: you and movie company executives is of greater importance than
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  Speaker 1: fiddling about with immigration policies. For more from early edition
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