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Full Show Podcast: 05 June 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 1: early edition with one roof Make your Property search Simple,
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Speaker 1: News Talks.
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Speaker 2: It'd be good morning Thursday. It is six after five.
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Speaker 2: Great to have your company. The Grocery Commissioner reckons, we
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Speaker 2: need fewer specials at supermarkets and that will make our
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Speaker 2: groceries cheaper. What's the logic here, we look at that
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Speaker 2: before six o'clock. Mitch McCann is in the US for
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Speaker 2: US this morning. The cost of insurance is going to
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Speaker 2: go up. David Seymour reckons, we'll tell you why, and
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Speaker 2: we'll have the minister on to explain a shakeup for
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Speaker 2: fish and game which is happening. Just come out this
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Speaker 2: morning as well. Just gone seven after five.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: You've got defense ministers talking Ukraine. This is the UK
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Speaker 2: and Germany meeting in Brussels. We've heard from the UK
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Speaker 2: Defense minister.
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Speaker 3: First, we delivered to Ukraine ten thousand drones last year.
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Speaker 3: We'll increase that tenfold this year. Last year we trained
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Speaker 3: Ukrainian forces in the UK. This year we will do
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Speaker 3: so again at home and abroad, increasing our funding for
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Speaker 3: that training.
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Speaker 2: Now Trump has doubled the tariff to fifty percent on
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Speaker 2: steel and aluminium. In Mexico's promising countermeasures.
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Speaker 4: We're going to bring it from twenty five percent to
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Speaker 4: fifty percent for tariffs on steel into the United States
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Speaker 4: of America, which will even further secure the steel industry.
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Speaker 2: In the street. Mushroom Lady, which is what we're calling
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Speaker 2: her now, apparently says she did indeed vomit after eating
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Speaker 2: the deadly meal. She told the court she had only
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Speaker 2: getn a small part of the lunch, but later binge
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Speaker 2: out dessert.
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Speaker 5: She did tell the jury that after the guests had gone,
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Speaker 5: she tucked into a cake that had been left by
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Speaker 5: her mother in law at Gail Patterson. It had hardly
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Speaker 5: been touched because people had eaten so much at the lunch,
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Speaker 5: and she finished it off binge eating two thirds of it,
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Speaker 5: and then she made herself sick.
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Speaker 2: Don't forget this morning. The big beautiful Bill. Trump's big
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Speaker 2: beautiful Bill. Elon Musk has Musks doubled down and it stance,
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Speaker 2: calling it a disgusting abomination.
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Speaker 6: Musk was hired to come in to this Trump administration.
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Speaker 6: He was put at the head of DOGE and really
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Speaker 6: his goal was to try and slash federal spending in
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Speaker 6: the government and this bill, and we just saw the
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Speaker 6: latest numbers from the Congressional Budget Office says that it
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Speaker 6: would add more than two trillion dollars to the federal deficit.
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Speaker 6: And so what we're hearing as well behind the scenes
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Speaker 6: is that that's also playing.
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Speaker 2: A role trying to get it through the scenate. Now
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Speaker 2: nine minutes after.
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Speaker 1: Five, the first word on the News of the Day
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Speaker 1: Early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof Make Your
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Speaker 1: Property Search and Simple Newstorg Cippy.
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Speaker 2: Good morning. How was the weather at your place last night?
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Speaker 2: They're getting a lot of warnings recently and we've had
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Speaker 2: a lot of thunderstorms coming. Look out, batten down the hatches.
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Speaker 2: I know that it was raining hard only because I
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Speaker 2: have EarPods in my ears when I'm trying to sleep
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Speaker 2: listening to a podcast, and the rain drowned out the podcast,
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Speaker 2: So I was suddenly aware that it was raining. But
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Speaker 2: other than that, I didn't really noticed much. Did you
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Speaker 2: Nine nine two the number to text? And this business
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Speaker 2: with Michael Forbes. So he's one of the Prime Minister's
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Speaker 2: pre secretaries, and he did come to the attention of
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Speaker 2: police because he recorded it was audio recordings of sex
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Speaker 2: workers that he was seeing and one of them found
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Speaker 2: out and reported it to the police. Anyway, no criminal
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Speaker 2: charges were laid. The Prime Minister's office reckons they got
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Speaker 2: told four pm on Tuesday afternoon. He used to work
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Speaker 2: for Lois Upton, actually who's the minister for was the
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Speaker 2: Minister for Womens's Social Development, So she finds out apparently
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Speaker 2: on Tuesday as well. No one has any idea of
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Speaker 2: that any of this has been going on in the background,
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Speaker 2: and they're all sort of saying no, nothing, well not
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Speaker 2: nothing to see here. He's obviously been stood down and
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Speaker 2: then he resigned on Wednesday morning. So you can just
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Speaker 2: imagine the timelines or you know, the press gallery will
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Speaker 2: be doing the timelines on all of this stuff. But
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Speaker 2: you cannot know, can you really everything about people that
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Speaker 2: you work with. I mean, there could be some really
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Speaker 2: weird people working here and you wouldn't know. Not looking
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Speaker 2: at you, Kenzy, not looking at you, but you know
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Speaker 2: you're He used to be a journalist too, Michael Forbes,
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Speaker 2: so presumably he's worked in a few newsrooms around the
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Speaker 2: country as well. You're not necessarily to know something like
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Speaker 2: that is going on, But I guess if the Prime
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Speaker 2: Minister and or the Minister Louise Upston were made aware
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Speaker 2: of something through official channels or something, then you would
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Speaker 2: expect that they would have done something about that. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: I'm sure you'll hear a lot more about that today.
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Speaker 2: It's just gone eleven minutes after five. Coming up next
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Speaker 2: the Minute of Hunting and Fishing. James Meghe he's making
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Speaker 2: some changes to fish and game. He'll explain them to
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Speaker 2: us next.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and One Roof. To make your property search
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Speaker 1: simple if you talk.
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Speaker 2: Said, be morning, it's five point thirteen. We'll get to
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Speaker 2: your insurance premiums and why they could go up a
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Speaker 2: couple one hundred bucks a year in just a few moments. Overnight,
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Speaker 2: we've had some May data in the US. Hiring in
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Speaker 2: the US is weaker than they expected. They added thirty
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Speaker 2: seven thousand jobs, which sounds good, but it's the less
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Speaker 2: it's in fact, it's actually the slowest pace of job
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Speaker 2: creation in the US in two years. They also had
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Speaker 2: services activity contracting there. So Trump's coming out and saying
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Speaker 2: this isn't good enough. You know, he doesn't like power
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Speaker 2: at the Drome, Power at the Fed. He's saying he
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Speaker 2: needs to cut cat cut, cut, cut cut, make the
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Speaker 2: economy go faster, faster, faster, because things are starting to
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Speaker 2: turn for them. Things are starting to look a little
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Speaker 2: bit down. This is at least for May. It is
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Speaker 2: fourteen after five Ryan. The governments announced this morning an
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Speaker 2: overhaul of fishing game in z to improve management of
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Speaker 2: fishing and hunting resources. Changes include things like making license
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Speaker 2: holder is eligible to stand in fishing game elections more
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Speaker 2: of them, shifting to a national fee collection system, and
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Speaker 2: requiring a national policy around restricting court proceedings. Minister for
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Speaker 2: Hunting and Fishing is James Mega with me this morning. James,
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Speaker 2: Good morning, morning, Ran. Good to have you on the show.
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Speaker 2: This all sounds quite complicated, is it. Why do you
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Speaker 2: need to do anything to fit to fishing game.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, a lot of the reformers some technical reform, but
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Speaker 7: for a while we've seen that fishing game has had
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Speaker 7: some issues around how efficiently it operates. There's been a
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Speaker 7: bit of dysfunction between the regions and the National Council.
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Speaker 7: So pre election we campaign on modernizing and reforming fishing games.
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Speaker 7: So we're going to pull it out of the Conservation
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Speaker 7: Act make its own standalone act and then tidy up
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Speaker 7: some of the issues around consistency across the country and
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Speaker 7: is operations of the regions and make sure that license
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Speaker 7: holders get better value for money.
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Speaker 2: Has this got anything to do you know the fed
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Speaker 2: farmers in south and have the stats for fishing game
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Speaker 2: and fishing game are going and advocating for cleaner waters
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Speaker 2: and it's affecting the farmers there. Has got anything to
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Speaker 2: do with that? Will it change anything to do with that?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, So that's an example of some of the consequences
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Speaker 7: of how the organization has been running over the past
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Speaker 7: few years. So one of the changes will be to
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Speaker 7: tidy out that so that the National Council actually sets
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Speaker 7: a standard advocacy policy across the country and any court
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Speaker 7: proceedings would have to go through the National Council. And
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Speaker 7: that will limit some of the advocacy functions of some
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Speaker 7: of the regions, but it also makes them consistent across
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Speaker 7: the country so that they actually focus on hunting and
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Speaker 7: fishing outcomes rather than getting involved in other areas that
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Speaker 7: actually perhaps other NGOs are a better place to be
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Speaker 7: involved in.
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Speaker 2: So if you're a farmer in Southend right now, you're
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Speaker 2: hearing this as ministers gagging fishing game Southend.
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Speaker 7: No, it's not getting fishing game south because fishing game
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Speaker 7: will still have their advocacy functions in terms of being
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Speaker 7: able to go up there and promote, say fishing to
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Speaker 7: young people, or go out there and tell people where
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Speaker 7: they can and can't be fishing or hunting game birds.
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Speaker 2: The better way of looking at it is.
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Speaker 7: That we want fishing game to be seen as a
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Speaker 7: reputable national organization, so they need to have a consistent
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Speaker 7: approach to their activities, and we want them to be
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Speaker 7: focusing on managing the game bird populations and the sport
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Speaker 7: fish populations rather than getting involved in how much of
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Speaker 7: lows and call cases.
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Speaker 2: How much cow urinees in a river. So they won't
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Speaker 2: be because the problem was this went back and forth in
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Speaker 2: the environment caught in South End, fishing Game was heavily
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Speaker 2: involved in advocating for the health of the waterways, etc.
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Speaker 2: You're saying that that wouldn't that wouldn't be their role anymore.
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Speaker 7: Well, they can still advocate for the health of waterways
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Speaker 7: where it improves fisheries, But what I'm going to say
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Speaker 7: is that there should be a consistent approach across the
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Speaker 7: country where all regions are taking a similar pathway to
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Speaker 7: them and we want it to be set at a
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Speaker 7: level where the National Council are actually directing this and
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Speaker 7: so they'll be the ones that will be able to
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Speaker 7: say where the legal proceedings go ahead or not, and
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Speaker 7: the Minister as well. We just want to make sure
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Speaker 7: that we're license holders are being forced to pay a
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Speaker 7: fee to fishing game that that seeds not then being
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Speaker 7: used to restrict the license holders income war businesses for example.
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Speaker 7: We don't think that's necessarily fair. We want to make
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Speaker 7: sure that all that kind of really strong advocacy is
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Speaker 7: well thought out and is actually contributing to enhanced fisheries
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Speaker 7: and game bud management.
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Speaker 2: All right, Minister, appreciate you time this morning. Having a
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Speaker 2: great day. James Mega, Minister of Hunting and Fishing are
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Speaker 2: also Minister of the South Island. It is eighteen after
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Speaker 2: five year on News Talks. There be still to come
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Speaker 2: Your insurance premiums and why they might be going up.
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Speaker 1: News and views you trust to start your day is
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Speaker 2: The be five twenty News Talks theb the Grocery Commissioner,
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Speaker 2: the supermarket Zar has come out swinging this morning against
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Speaker 2: the supermarket duopoly. I'll bring you the details on that
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Speaker 2: in just a second. Right now, homeowners are in for
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Speaker 2: another punch to their wallet. David Seymour says insurance levies
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Speaker 2: will have to increase to help fund the Natural Hazard's Commission.
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Speaker 2: This used to be the EQC Cabinet will soon begin
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Speaker 2: consultation on the changes could increase levies by two hundred
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Speaker 2: to three hundred bucks a year. Dean Leicster is an
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Speaker 2: insurance consultant with me this morning. Dean, good morning, Laurena,
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Speaker 2: good morning, Ryan, good morning, good morning. So two to
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Speaker 2: three hundred bucks a year. You reckon why? And this
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Speaker 2: is all because what's there are more natural disasters and
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Speaker 2: we don't have enough money in the kitty.
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Speaker 8: The second part, So there's not enough money in the kitty.
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Speaker 8: So the Natural Hazard Commission and the insurance cover that
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Speaker 8: the government provides for earthquakes, land damage, for flood's, volcanic eruption, tsunami,
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Speaker 8: that the government decides that they want to pay the
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Speaker 8: first two billion dollars worth of claims. At the moment,
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Speaker 8: they've got about five hundred billion in the kitty and
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Speaker 8: they need to increase that amount of funds. It doesn't
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Speaker 8: relate to the larger proportion of the program, which is
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Speaker 8: the world reinsurance market, where they obtain about nine billion
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Speaker 8: on the world insurance world reinsurance market. World re insurance
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Speaker 8: market's pretty positive. Those rates seems to be really confusing
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Speaker 8: reporting and these other times, but world reinsurance rates are
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Speaker 8: generally consistent. They had a good program last year of
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Speaker 8: getting good cover for nine billion dollars at good premiums.
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Speaker 8: This relates to the first amount where the government says
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Speaker 8: that they'll carry two billion dollars with a risk and
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Speaker 8: currently there is five hundred million in their kiddy.
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Speaker 2: So how will does this just mean basically we have
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Speaker 2: to swallow it. We will all have to pay more
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Speaker 2: for our levies. And that's just the way it.
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Speaker 8: Is an essence. Yes, the surprise that has existed since
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Speaker 8: the recent changes to the natural hazard cover where it's
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Speaker 8: increased cover to three hundred thousand, is that there has
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Speaker 8: been no positive reaction from private insurers to reduce their
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Speaker 8: premiums because they now don't have as much risk. So
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Speaker 8: at the time of the christ Church earthquake, for example,
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Speaker 8: EQUC as it was played the first one hundred and
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Speaker 8: fifteen thousand, that under the current legislation they now play
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Speaker 8: the first three hundred thousand. And it's always been a
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Speaker 8: surprise that private insurers are not recognizing that their exposure
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Speaker 8: and far less and that their premiums are reducing.
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Speaker 2: Right, I've got you, Dean, Thank you very much for
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Speaker 2: that update. Really interesting stuff. Dean Leicster, insurance consultant with us,
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Speaker 2: talking about the fact that the NHC, which is the
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Speaker 2: Natural Hazards Commission, used to be EQC. The levy's probably
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Speaker 2: going to go up, David Simols, the minister in charge,
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Speaker 2: he says, So it's twenty three after five, Bryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Now we've had a phone call between Putin and Trump.
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Speaker 2: Trump has said, Honor's true social it was quote a
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Speaker 2: good conversation that it was after, by the way, the
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Speaker 2: drone attack that the Ukrainians took deep inside Russia. So
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Speaker 2: Trump says the phone call was good, but he did
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Speaker 2: say Putin told him we will have to respond, so
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Speaker 2: you can expect some sort of retaliation and that was
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Speaker 2: a major embarrassment for Putin because it went way inside
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Speaker 2: eight thousand kilometers away from Ukraine, they managed to hit
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Speaker 2: with drones. Then they got the bridge and crime here.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, Putin has told Trump we will respond. Trump
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Speaker 2: also says the phone call unsurprisingly lasted an hour and
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Speaker 2: will not lead to immediate peace. Twenty four after five
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Speaker 2: more on the supermarkets.
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Speaker 9: Next the early.
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Speaker 2: Five twenty six News TALKSB. The Commerce Commission reckons we
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Speaker 2: need fewer items on sale at the supermarket. Yes, that
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Speaker 2: means less yogat on special for four ninety nine or
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Speaker 2: year one dollar ninety nine chocolate bar at the checkout. Basically,
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Speaker 2: they want less price yo yoeing. In general, this is counterintuitive.
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Speaker 2: The job of the Commerce Commission, through the Grocery Commissioner,
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Speaker 2: is meant to score us cheaper prices and boost competition. Right,
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Speaker 2: So what the lord's good name is going on here?
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Speaker 2: This morning they've announced they want to change the rules
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Speaker 2: around what the supermarkets can charge the suppliers, So your
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Speaker 2: food stuff's in your wool. Worst. They purchase about fifteen
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Speaker 2: billion dollars worth of goods from suppliers every year, and
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Speaker 2: when they do this, the suppliers will discount prices buy
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Speaker 2: about five billion dollars a year through rebates, discounts, and
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Speaker 2: promotional payments. This ensures that their stock is on sale
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Speaker 2: so that we buy it because everyone loves a bargain.
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Speaker 2: The supermarket zar says, if you're a new, smaller supermarket
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Speaker 2: chain opening up, you can't compete with that because you
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Speaker 2: don't have the buying power and the economies of scale,
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Speaker 2: so your prices would be high. You wouldn't be able
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Speaker 2: to compete. Now, this is where I think the czar
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Speaker 2: takes one of many leaps of faith. They reckon that
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Speaker 2: we consumers are overall worse off because of these specials
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Speaker 2: and discounts. They say, consumers lose out because prices jump
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Speaker 2: around more. This can mean the average price is more
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Speaker 2: expensive and it's harder for consumers to assess the value
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Speaker 2: of products. Well, can't we read the label. They don't
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Speaker 2: offer any evidence this is actually happening, nor do they
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Speaker 2: offer any evidence that a change would make things cheaper.
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Speaker 2: Leap of faith number two is that this saving will
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Speaker 2: be passed on to the consumer via the supermarket. Is
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Speaker 2: there not a flaw in this logic? Does essentially banning
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Speaker 2: discounts rarely make prices cheaper. If so, by how much?
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Speaker 2: Five billion dollars? Remember the industry's revenue is twenty five
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Speaker 2: billion dollars a year. If all of the discounts were
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Speaker 2: handed down their chain of command to US shoppers, we're
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Speaker 2: expected to believe general prices would fall by what. Remember
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Speaker 2: when they set up the Grocery Commission under Labor, we
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Speaker 2: were told the supermarkets were making excess profits of three
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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty five million dollars a year. So we're
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Speaker 2: well well and above that now, aren't we. There's a
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Speaker 2: bunch of other changes they've announced as well. Some of
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Speaker 2: the stuff is just proposed, its suggestions, it's voluntary. Some
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Speaker 2: stuff needs consultation and then reviews and twelve months and
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Speaker 2: blah blah blah more reports. By the time this is finished,
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Speaker 2: I will not only have lost the will to shop,
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Speaker 2: but potentially lost the will to live. Ran Bridge, twenty
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Speaker 2: nine minutes after five, you're on news talks. They've beat Ryan.
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Speaker 2: Let's just nuke the Russians. Well, we can't. We don't
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Speaker 2: have nukes, do we. Besides, you don't want to fire
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Speaker 2: a missile at Russia because they'll fire one back and
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Speaker 2: we're all dead. Aren't we mutually assured destruction. That's what's
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Speaker 2: kept the world safe for so long. Twenty nine minutes
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Speaker 2: after five, we'll talk more about the groceries and get
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Speaker 2: to Mitch mccannon, our reporters. Afternoon News Talk set by.
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Speaker 9: Good morning, it is twenty four away from sex here
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Speaker 9: on newstalk sip B. Great to have your company this morning,
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Speaker 9: and been trying to make sense of the Commerce Commission's
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Speaker 9: latest selvo at the supermarkets. It's like trying to make
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Speaker 9: sense of the phone book, you know, because there's no
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Speaker 9: rhyme or reason in my mind. Ryan, This is from
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Speaker 9: one of our listeners, Hands off the supermarket specials. Customers
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Speaker 9: aren't stupid. We know the price, which is why we
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Speaker 9: snap up a special. So the Commerce Commission has come
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Speaker 9: out this morning and said basically they think that the specials,
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Speaker 9: the discounts that the suppliers give to the supermarkets so
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Speaker 9: that they sell their stuff, put it on special, get
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Speaker 9: it off the shelves, that they are actually a price
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Speaker 9: distortion and that they lead to yo yoing it doesn't you.
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Speaker 9: I can't even explain it to you because it doesn't
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Speaker 9: make sense. They put something on, they give you a special,
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Speaker 9: they give you a discount, and somehow that's a bad thing.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. Explain that to me. We'll talk about
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Speaker 2: it with an expert just before six, so we'll get
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Speaker 2: some more information. I said earlier, I said I've lost
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Speaker 2: the will to shop and the will to live. And
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Speaker 2: someone said run. If you have lost the will to
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Speaker 2: live and shop, then you can just go next door
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Speaker 2: to the crematorium. How convenient. I don't know if you
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Speaker 2: heard the boys talking about that story yesterday afternoon. It
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Speaker 2: is twenty three minutes away from six.
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Speaker 1: Brian Bread goes to.
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Speaker 2: Our reporter around the country, Emily Ansel, has our Dunedin
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Speaker 2: update this morning. Emily, good morning, good morning. Now tell
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Speaker 2: us about what's happening at the bus hub. There was
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Speaker 2: a facial stabbing there of a teenager. I remember this
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Speaker 2: a year ago. If things improved, yeah.
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Speaker 11: It doesn't sound like it. There's a lot of fair
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Speaker 11: and uncertainty persisting. So any of Ettana McClaren died of
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Speaker 11: a single stab wound on Great King Street last May
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Speaker 11: a fourteen year old boy was found guilty of manslaughter
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Speaker 11: in March. New documents released under the Official Information Act
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Speaker 11: show ongoing tensions at the hub. A security report from
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Speaker 11: December notes an incident where a young male allegedly tried
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Speaker 11: to harm a teen girl and took her phone, while
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Speaker 11: in February a woman discharged a bb gun. Other entries
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Speaker 11: detailed miners drinking in public, youth damaging infrastructure, and verbal
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Speaker 11: altercations between passengers and drivers. Public complaints from last year
19:53
Speaker 11: include criticisms of security guards failing to patrol or engage
19:57
Speaker 11: with school age passengers.
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Speaker 2: And how the weather today emily cloudy.
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Speaker 11: With showers clearing and becoming fine in the morning. Strong
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Speaker 11: southwesterly is dying out in the afternoon with a high
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Speaker 11: of ten degrees.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant, Thank you very much. Now for a christ Church
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Speaker 2: update this morning, Michael Sergle joins me. We're going to
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Speaker 2: get a weather from him too, because obviously we've had
20:16
Speaker 2: bad weather overnight most places. Michael, good morning, Good morning.
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Speaker 2: Unclear when the future or what the future is for
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Speaker 2: the temporary stadium in christ Church, Yes, I mean Apollo
20:27
Speaker 2: Projects stadium in Eddington has been hosting christ churches sporting
20:29
Speaker 2: events since the quakes thirteen years ago. Obviously, many people
20:33
Speaker 2: remember the Lancaster Park severely damaged by those quakes, but
20:38
Speaker 2: the stadium has significantly outlasted its expected lifespan of three
20:41
Speaker 2: to five years. The grandstand and other structures will be
20:45
Speaker 2: removed once the one in said stadium is open in April.
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Speaker 2: Croagate City Council says it's still working on a plan
20:51
Speaker 2: for what actually happens to the site, though. It says
20:53
Speaker 2: it plans to have something before the council sometime before
20:57
Speaker 2: the end of the year. But obviously there will be
20:59
Speaker 2: low collections so the count will be out of action
21:01
Speaker 2: for a few months. All right, how's the weather? Rain
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Speaker 2: clearing to mainly find this afternoon a high tendergrees. Nice one,
21:08
Speaker 2: Thank you, Michael Mexis and Wellington Max. Good morning, good morning. Now.
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Speaker 2: I got lots of text yesterday saying we've been too
21:14
Speaker 2: negative about Wellington, but today you've got some building projects
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Speaker 2: on track.
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Speaker 12: Well exactly. We knock them when they get it wrong,
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Speaker 12: but we can't knock them this morning because it seems
21:24
Speaker 12: they're getting a lot of this stuff right, or at
21:26
Speaker 12: least close to fruition.
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Speaker 8: Light.
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Speaker 12: End of Tunnel, Cliche et cetera. Civic Square now nine
21:33
Speaker 12: months away from reopening to the public. That's quite exciting.
21:36
Speaker 12: You've got City Gallery there reopening as well. Might be
21:39
Speaker 12: some new retail and hospitality venues as well. Central Library
21:43
Speaker 12: too that seems like it's been closed for an eternity.
21:46
Speaker 12: That's reopening at the same time early next year. And
21:50
Speaker 12: the ludicrously expensive town Hall refurbishments as well. That seems
21:53
Speaker 12: to be going well as well. The city's media were
21:57
Speaker 12: even invited for a tour this week. That's how confident
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Speaker 12: the council and its builders feel about the work. Town
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Speaker 12: Hall completed next July. Worth also adding that the city
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Speaker 12: Council itself it's delayed move into new offices on Jerviski
22:11
Speaker 12: also now set for next year, delayed quite seriously. Negotiations
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Speaker 12: took far too long, millions spent in the meantime are
22:18
Speaker 12: longer than expected fit out. But the Council in its
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Speaker 12: new offices Jerviskei also early next year.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so next year will be running, not this year,
22:28
Speaker 2: next year. Next year will be read that's our year.
22:29
Speaker 2: But like the Warriors, how's they were?
22:31
Speaker 12: The max cloudy periods some morning rain, but some quite
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Speaker 12: severe win this morning as well easing this afternoon eighteen
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Speaker 12: the high nice one.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Neva's and Auckland NAVA. Good morning, good morning.
22:42
Speaker 2: Now look out because you'll be chased by a police bus.
22:46
Speaker 2: That's right now.
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Speaker 13: Look, this is pretty exciting. So police they're busting out
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Speaker 13: this new recruitment campaign, rapping five Auckland buses in police branding.
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Speaker 13: So these are the newly decorated the double deckers because
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Speaker 13: they seek five hundred people. And you know what, that's
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Speaker 13: the target number that they want to.
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Speaker 2: Recruit, five hundred people.
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Speaker 13: See those double dickers. Never have you been on those? No?
23:08
Speaker 2: But they can't seek five hundred people.
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Speaker 13: Well you know what, that's what they reckon. If you
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Speaker 13: have your seat, put them there and then you have
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Speaker 13: someone on your.
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Speaker 2: Lap, wouldn't want well, you wouldn't want to crash one.
23:18
Speaker 13: Would No, you wouldn't well, oh I shouldn't be loving.
23:22
Speaker 13: Look and the costs there, that total is about one
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Speaker 13: hundred and twenty thousand dollars. So that includes the print,
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Speaker 13: the installation, three months of media advertising and Richard Chambers,
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Speaker 13: the commissioner.
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Speaker 2: He says Auckland.
23:33
Speaker 13: Obviously is the key recruitment area. They want to be
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Speaker 13: highly visible, and they have what advertise bar and wider
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Speaker 13: they will.
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Speaker 2: Won't they? Twenty thousand dollars.
23:42
Speaker 13: Yep for all all up, yeah, all up for that
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Speaker 13: print and installation, three months of media advertising. So these
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Speaker 13: police buses are going to be in public circulation for
23:52
Speaker 13: about three months the next three months. Okay, pretty good.
23:55
Speaker 2: Pretty good price considering we're talking about it. You know,
23:58
Speaker 2: it's kind of a novel thing. Interesting. And how's the weather?
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Speaker 14: Hey?
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Speaker 15: First up?
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Speaker 13: Did you hear those thunderstorms last night?
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Speaker 1: Well?
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Speaker 2: I heard, I was saying step through it. Yeah, I
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Speaker 2: sleep with ear pods and so all right, did hear
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Speaker 2: the rain at one point? I thought it must be raining?
24:13
Speaker 13: Well, I was sound a seat by about six forty
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Speaker 13: five pm, and I missed it completely. I woke up
24:17
Speaker 13: this morning, came in here and I went, well, there
24:19
Speaker 13: was a croc, wasn't it. I didn't know thunderstorm were, Yes,
24:23
Speaker 13: you just didn't hear it. I was like, my goodness,
24:25
Speaker 13: and look, I can tell you there won't be any
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Speaker 13: thunderstorms tonight. Shower is easing this afternoon. Auklan's high nineteen brilliant.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Neva, right, that is it for us, Well,
24:33
Speaker 2: it's not quiet for us. Seventeen to six on news
24:37
Speaker 2: talks MB. It is it for us and wrapping the country.
24:41
Speaker 2: But we'll get too much. Mccanney's stateside for US. Next
24:43
Speaker 2: Trump and Poutin have how to call all the.
24:45
Speaker 1: Details international correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of
24:50
Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 2: Who's talked to be just gone fourteen minutes away from
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Speaker 2: six o'clock. We'll get to the supermarkets in just a second,
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Speaker 2: right now. Mitch McCann stateside for US, Mitch, good morning, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: good morning.
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Speaker 9: How are you?
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Speaker 8: Yeh?
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Speaker 2: I very well? Thank you. How was the call between
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Speaker 2: Trump and Potin?
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Speaker 14: Well?
25:06
Speaker 15: Donald Trump had sent said it went well. This happened
25:09
Speaker 15: this morning, a couple of hours ago. It lasted more
25:11
Speaker 15: than one hour and fifteen minutes, according to Donald Trump.
25:14
Speaker 15: And Trump actually revealed that Russia is planning to retaliate
25:18
Speaker 15: against Ukraine after that attack in recent days in which
25:21
Speaker 15: Ukraine's his forty one Russian aircraft were had, including strategic bombers.
25:25
Speaker 15: That was of course quite an embarrassment for Russia because
25:28
Speaker 15: it was well into Russian territory. Trump says he is
25:31
Speaker 15: going to retaliate. He described it as a good conversation,
25:34
Speaker 15: but not a conversation that will lead to immediate peace,
25:38
Speaker 15: is what Trump had to say.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so we want holdo breath. Then what about Trump
25:42
Speaker 2: and Musk? Because when Musk has come out and bagged
25:44
Speaker 2: his bill, as Trump responded to Musk, he.
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Speaker 15: Hasn't and Donald Trump hasn't actually done a press conference
25:50
Speaker 15: this week, which is quite unusual. But we might hear
25:52
Speaker 15: from him later today. Musk said, this big, beautiful bill
25:56
Speaker 15: that we've talked about, Ryan was massive, outrageous, poor filled
26:00
Speaker 15: congressional spending and it's a disgusting abomination.
26:03
Speaker 2: And to make that is worse for Donald Trump.
26:05
Speaker 15: This non partisan Congressional Budget Office has come up with
26:09
Speaker 15: a figure on how much this is going to cost
26:11
Speaker 15: the United States over ten years. It says it will
26:14
Speaker 15: add two point four trillion dollars to the US national debt. Now,
26:18
Speaker 15: Donald Trump wants to sign this or have it on
26:20
Speaker 15: his desk by the fourth of July, but it really
26:23
Speaker 15: is coming up against a number of roadblocks.
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Speaker 2: Now, all right, Mitch, thanks for your time this morning.
26:27
Speaker 2: Great to have you on. As always, much pcan in
26:29
Speaker 2: the US for US thirteen are twelve minutes away from
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Speaker 2: six brand. So the Commerce Commission cracking down on unfair behavior.
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Speaker 2: What they say is unfair behavior in the grocery sector.
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Speaker 2: The Grocery Commissioner is worried about promotional payments between the
26:43
Speaker 2: big supermarkets, the dropoly and the suppliers. He says that
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Speaker 2: around five billion dollars a year in promotional rebates contributes
26:50
Speaker 2: to higher average prices for goods and contributes to price fluctuation.
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Speaker 2: His warning the ComCom may have to act if the
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Speaker 2: supermarkets don't voluntarily stop the rate at which this is happening.
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Speaker 2: Ernie Newman is a grocery policy expert with me this morning. Aarnye,
27:07
Speaker 2: good morning.
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Speaker 14: Gooday, Ryan.
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Speaker 2: Can you explain to me why offering discounts or specials
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Speaker 2: at the supermarket getting rid of those would make life
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Speaker 2: better for us consumers?
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Speaker 14: Yeah, it's interesting. It's a very complicated market that we're
27:22
Speaker 14: talking about here, But what the Commissioner is showing in
27:26
Speaker 14: this report is that there are these vast sums of
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Speaker 14: money that the supermarkets are negotiating from their largest suppliers,
27:34
Speaker 14: not all of which is being passed on to consumers.
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Speaker 14: So they're talking now about five billion a year in
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Speaker 14: discounts and rebates and promotional allowances and whatever. And when
27:44
Speaker 14: you come to work that I tried to do the
27:46
Speaker 14: math last night, it comes to you know, for a
27:48
Speaker 14: family of four, that's about four grand a year per
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Speaker 14: family that the supermarkets are getting in discounts from their suppliers,
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Speaker 14: not all by any means of which is being passed
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Speaker 14: on to consumers at the checkout.
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Speaker 2: Ye, But how much is being passed on and isn't
28:02
Speaker 2: being passed on? Wouldn't that be central to whether you
28:04
Speaker 2: do anything about it?
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Speaker 14: Well? Yeah, but the way in which the commissioner is
28:10
Speaker 14: phrasing this, it's pretty obvious there is a very very
28:12
Speaker 14: large amount that is simply going into the pockets of
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Speaker 14: the supermarkets and not being passed on. And you know,
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Speaker 14: in a proper competitive market that would not be possible
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Speaker 14: because of one supermarket didn't pass it on to the customers.
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Speaker 14: Another one would problem is, of course, we've got a
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Speaker 14: broken market here. We've only got a duopoly with two
28:32
Speaker 14: people making the decisions for supermarkets at wholesale and retail
28:36
Speaker 14: level for the entire country, and so our market is broken.
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Speaker 2: Okay, And if what you're saying is true, then You know,
28:43
Speaker 2: when we started this whole exercise about the supermarkets, we
28:46
Speaker 2: were told they were making a million dollars a day
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Speaker 2: in excess profits. So three hundred and sixty odd million
28:50
Speaker 2: dollars a year. What you're now talking about, and what
28:53
Speaker 2: the Commission is now talking about is billions.
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Speaker 14: Yeah. Yeah, so it didn't come out of loose money floating?
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Speaker 2: Did we underest? Are you saying that the million dollars
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Speaker 2: a day in excess profits was out by what tens hundreds.
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Speaker 14: Of millions financially? Yeah? Yeah, there's far more loose money
29:12
Speaker 14: floating around in this sector than the Commerce Commission has
29:15
Speaker 14: identified in previous occasions.
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Speaker 2: But the problem is they haven't. They haven't identified it,
29:21
Speaker 2: had they They've just said, hey, look there are five
29:24
Speaker 2: billion dollars of payments going from A to B. They
29:27
Speaker 2: haven't said how much of it's that you've been passed
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Speaker 2: on or not? This is a Is this not a
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Speaker 2: phishing exercise? No, it's not.
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Speaker 14: It's more than that. The problem we've got here is
29:35
Speaker 14: we've got a market that is almost it's almost mafia alike.
29:39
Speaker 14: You know, there are there are just so many discounts
29:43
Speaker 14: and rebates and allowances and money going sort of under
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Speaker 14: the table. But nobody from outside can can absolutely say
29:51
Speaker 14: with certainty how much loose money there is sloshing around
29:54
Speaker 14: in the system. What we do know is that it's
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Speaker 14: the supermarket serve at the top level and not the
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Speaker 14: consumers that they're getting the benefit of a great deal
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Speaker 14: of this.
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Speaker 2: Ernie, appreciate your time this morning. Ernie Newman, who's a
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Speaker 2: grocery policy expertis gone. Nine minutes away from six are
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Speaker 2: loads of texts on this. Ryan's specials add variety and
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Speaker 2: fun to the drag of shopping. I love this, don't
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Speaker 2: touch my don't you come for my specials? Commerce Commission
30:19
Speaker 2: this is interesting. I'm a supplier to food stuffs, and
30:23
Speaker 2: what the commissioner is talking about is that we might
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Speaker 2: have a product that we want to sell at say
30:27
Speaker 2: two dollars fifty every day, but food stuffs make us
30:31
Speaker 2: put the price up so many weeks a year so
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Speaker 2: that they can call it a special, when all we
30:37
Speaker 2: really want to do is to have the price lower
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Speaker 2: every day. But the question is is overall, is the
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Speaker 2: price on average higher or lower than it would otherwise be?
30:47
Speaker 2: That's the question. Eight away from sex Mic next the.
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Speaker 2: The the Sex News Talks, they'd be Ryan Adern stop
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Speaker 2: the prompt payment discount. I remember this on our power
31:05
Speaker 2: bills because it wasn't fair on the people who didn't
31:07
Speaker 2: pay their bills on time. This move was as ridiculous
31:10
Speaker 2: as the supermarket discount plan that's been announced today. Mike
31:15
Speaker 2: is here now, Hi, Mike.
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Speaker 16: Well, it hasn't been announced. It's it's it's yet another
31:20
Speaker 16: theory from people who spend their entire life coming up
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Speaker 16: with theories that may or may not make any difference.
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Speaker 16: Largely they won't.
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Speaker 2: It's out for consultation.
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Speaker 16: As every person we're talking to old per Year today,
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Speaker 16: we're going to rustle him out of his corner office
31:33
Speaker 16: as grocery commissioner and his company everywhere life. If you
31:39
Speaker 16: go and buy stuff, and lots of it. If I
31:42
Speaker 16: come into your shop and buy one hundred envelopes instead
31:45
Speaker 16: of one envelope, you're going to give me a better deal.
31:48
Speaker 16: Just how life works. And if I'm a loyal customer,
31:52
Speaker 16: you're going to look after me, aren't you.
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Speaker 2: The whole thing is a fishing exercise, because a fishing expedition,
31:56
Speaker 2: because they can't say how much of these payments pocketed,
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Speaker 2: how much were being passed on? You remember when you
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Speaker 2: mentioned it, Doune.
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Speaker 16: You remember she told us that we were being fleeced
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Speaker 16: at the petrol stations and they did another one of
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Speaker 16: those market studies. Are we being fleeced now or not?
32:12
Speaker 16: You can't tell us. You would never clue what oils
32:14
Speaker 16: up oils down. That's how it works.
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Speaker 2: Have you just talking someone's texting about their double decker buses. Neiv.
32:19
Speaker 2: That was embarrassing. NEIV came so embarrassed. She claimed, you
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Speaker 2: can get five hundred people on a double decker bus
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Speaker 2: in Auckland.
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Speaker 16: Do you it's hard to believe that, nev to. I
32:29
Speaker 16: might be wrong, but neither tonight. You know, the radio
32:30
Speaker 16: awards are on tonight. Neiva's a finalist, and I don't,
32:36
Speaker 16: well should she? I mean when she comes on your
32:38
Speaker 16: program and says random stuff like that. I mean, really,
32:40
Speaker 16: there's a credibility issue around that, isn't it? Great voice,
32:43
Speaker 16: a fantastic voice, just not good on the detail. What
32:47
Speaker 16: was the thing I said? I said, think about an
32:48
Speaker 16: a three eighty, Yeah, a plane a plane, an A
32:52
Speaker 16: three eighty holds just under five hundred people, right, so
32:55
Speaker 16: if an A three eighty holds under five hundred, do
32:57
Speaker 16: you reckon a bus holds five hundred?
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Speaker 2: People are saying this is so apparently it's one hundred people.
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Speaker 2: Of course, it doesn't get on a double Dickaba.
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Speaker 16: If you squeezed, if you went down the island squeezed everybody,
33:06
Speaker 16: then you might be one hundred and fifty.
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Speaker 2: The size of people these days, it's just appalling.
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Speaker 16: It's appalling the size of people these days.
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Speaker 2: It's shocking.
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Speaker 10: Anyway.
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Speaker 16: Today insurance and so there's more more charging coming from
33:19
Speaker 16: what used to be called the you know the Earthqua.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it used to be called that. They called it
33:23
Speaker 2: something different and see I think.
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Speaker 16: But whatever it is anyway, it's costing us more.
33:26
Speaker 2: There's just more and more and more. MICA's next Have
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