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Full Show Podcast: 3 October 2024 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge you for
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
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Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture vents and a play at store News Talks.
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Speaker 2: He'd be good morning.
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Speaker 3: It is six half to five News Talk Sai'd be
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Speaker 3: great to have you with me on this Thursday morning.
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Speaker 3: More transport trouble the City rail link. There's an update
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Speaker 3: on that this morning. We're going to talk to former
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Speaker 3: Transport Minister Morris Williamson about this. Also the cuts too
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Speaker 3: in New Zealand flights. David Seymour on the PPGA charter
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Speaker 3: schooled U tune the mood of the boardroom. We have
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Speaker 3: all the tea, all the goths on our politicians, plus
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Speaker 3: Mitch McCann in the US on the port strikes. Could
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Speaker 3: it hurt us?
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Speaker 2: The agenda?
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Speaker 3: It is Thursday, the third of October. Israel and his
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Speaker 3: bill are still going at it on the ground in
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Speaker 3: southern eleven and IDF says eight of its soldiers have died.
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Speaker 3: The U N Security Councils held in emergency meeting.
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Speaker 2: Say thing for the secession well steel. If he's in
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Speaker 2: Lebanon re elections, what's full.
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Speaker 4: Implementation of security CONCU resolutions.
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Speaker 3: Also in developments this morning, Israel has banned Antonio Guterres
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Speaker 3: from entering the country, saying he's too sympathetic to the terrorists.
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Speaker 3: Russian troops have taken control of Valladea, a city of
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Speaker 3: Ukraine has been defending since the start of the invasion
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Speaker 3: more than two years ago. It'll get Russian troops much
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Speaker 3: closer to other cities with connections to key regional transport
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Speaker 3: routes and help them advance north. So that is not
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Speaker 3: good for Ukraine. The death toll from Hurricane Helene has
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Speaker 3: climbed to one hundred and eighty overnight with search and
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Speaker 3: rescue if it's still underway.
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Speaker 5: I don't have power, power, water, foods.
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Speaker 2: There's no water, there's no internet, there's no food.
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Speaker 3: And volunteers are now delivering supplies on horses and using
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Speaker 3: ATVs back home. Core Logics September House Value Index shows
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Speaker 3: another drop. Values were down half a percent last month.
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Speaker 3: Add that to the dayward trend, it's now reached a
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Speaker 3: total of four point seven percent down nationally since February
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Speaker 3: this year.
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Speaker 1: The News you Need this Morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: Analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and FIS City New
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Speaker 1: Zealand's furniture beds and a flying store.
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Speaker 2: News talks that'd be.
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Speaker 3: Should Air New Zealand prioritize profit or running half empty flights?
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Speaker 3: The so called social responsibility thing is wearing its head
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Speaker 3: again because in New Zealand is cutting services, not necessarily flights,
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Speaker 3: but capacity on a lot of routes, particularly regional routes
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Speaker 3: affecting mostly Queenstown, Dunedin Wellington. The reality is we don't
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Speaker 3: have the demand. And if we don't have the demand
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Speaker 3: on these routes, should we have the flights? I don't
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Speaker 3: think so. If we subsidize, and you know, continually subsidize
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Speaker 3: and try and prop up in New Zealand on flights
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Speaker 3: that aren't competitive, then we'll probably going to drive away
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Speaker 3: any potential competitors they might have, which is bad for
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Speaker 3: all of us. I just wonder what you think about this.
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Speaker 3: Nine two nine two is the number to text. What
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Speaker 3: are your thoughts? So the cuts to flights and capacity
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Speaker 3: Queenstown Dunedin, it means more than one hundred fewer seats
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Speaker 3: on some flights because they're changing the type of aircraft
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Speaker 3: that they use. Christ Church to New Plymouth that's been
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Speaker 3: reduced and of course we spoke yesterday about Invercargol to
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Speaker 3: Wellington being cut all together, which is a real shame
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Speaker 3: because you have to go through christ Church. Not that
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Speaker 3: there's anything wrong with christ Church, which just that it
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Speaker 3: takes you much longer to get to where you want
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Speaker 3: to go. Nine two nine two is the number. I'll
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Speaker 3: tell you what the mood of the boardroom is soon
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Speaker 3: the Herald's mood of the boardroom. And just nice to
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Speaker 3: see people ranked, isn't it, and who's done well and
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Speaker 3: who hasn't. I loved watching the debate yesterday with Tim
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Speaker 3: Walls and JD Evans, just because it was a lot
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Speaker 3: nicer and we're not used to nice debates. Really enjoyed it.
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Speaker 3: It was a good watch, a lot of back and
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Speaker 3: forth on policy, much more reasonable than the Trump Harris Show.
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Speaker 3: They had a good actually a good discussion about tariffs
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Speaker 3: and obviously Trump at al want the America first thing
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Speaker 3: manufacturing jobs. There was a lot they agreed on. The
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Speaker 3: moderators were annoying. I don't know if you watched it,
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Speaker 3: how did you find them that, Particularly at the start
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Speaker 3: when they were just trying to button all the time.
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Speaker 3: That was annoying. But that calmed down as well, so
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Speaker 3: it was actually quite enjoyable by the end. JD. Varance
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Speaker 3: was really quite clever on abortion. He sounded reasonable, and
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Speaker 3: his goal was to go in there and try and
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Speaker 3: be sound reasonable to suburban women because they're obviously a
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Speaker 3: flight risk for the Republicans. So will it shift the dial.
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Speaker 6: No.
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Speaker 3: But the most interesting bit, well, the best bit actually
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Speaker 3: was wolves spent some time in China. You'll probably know
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Speaker 3: that by now, and he says he was in Hong
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Speaker 3: Kong during the Tianeman Square massacre. Right. He says he
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Speaker 3: was in Hong Kong at the time, and then there's
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Speaker 3: a report saying actually he was in America, and he's
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Speaker 3: asked about this. He does a long, fumbly answer, and
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Speaker 3: then he's asked to clarify again, and that's when this happens.
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Speaker 7: All I said on this was is I got there
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Speaker 7: that summer and misspoke on this, So I will just
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Speaker 7: that's what I've said. So I was in Hong Kong
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Speaker 7: and the democracy protest went in and from that I
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Speaker 7: learned a lot of what needed to be in governance.
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Speaker 3: So you weren't in Hong Kong, It's not probably not
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Speaker 3: that important. But it just made for some really awkward
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Speaker 3: debate television. Twelve minutes after five, Brian Bridge, Right, I've
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Speaker 3: promised you the moud of the mood rather of the boardroom,
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Speaker 3: and we will get to that.
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Speaker 2: Next.
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Speaker 3: We're going to speak to well, one of the guys
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Speaker 3: who's been getting it all together for print. It's out
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Speaker 3: in the Herald today if you want to go and
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Speaker 3: pick it up. Duncan Bridgeman, managing editor of Ends INNY Business,
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Speaker 3: is with us next.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines, Ryan Bridge, you for twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New Zealand,
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Speaker 1: Furniture Beds and a playing store News talk zi'd be.
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Speaker 3: Fourteen after five. Rent Crewed futures are down slightly, around
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Speaker 3: two and a half percent. This on the back of
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Speaker 3: the news out of the Middle East. The S and
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Speaker 3: P five hundred, the Nasdaq and the Dow down slightly overnight,
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Speaker 3: but not a huge impact. Not a massive impact. War
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Speaker 3: in the Middle East, I suppose, not hugely shocking, though
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Speaker 3: there are some jitters over how Israel is going to
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Speaker 3: respond to that. We'll have more on that in the
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Speaker 3: next half hour of the program. Just gone quarter past five,
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Speaker 3: Ryan Bridge, Right now, to the juice, the mood of
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Speaker 3: the boardroom, How did our executive fear? This is basically
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Speaker 3: our business leaders judging our politicians, and we all love
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Speaker 3: a bit of that, don't we. Erica Stanford came out
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Speaker 3: on top at number one of the of the choices here,
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Speaker 3: four point zero one out of five, Simon Brown, Nichola Willis,
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Speaker 3: and Chris Bishop up there too. Luxon came in sixth,
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Speaker 3: Winston Peters seventh, David Seymour He's done in twelve, sandwiched
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Speaker 3: between Andrew Bailey and Simon Watts. Overall, the sentiment seems
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Speaker 3: to be quite good from our business leaders for the
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Speaker 3: direction that the government is taking. And we're going out
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Speaker 3: to Duncan Bridgman, who is the managing editor of nzenmy
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Speaker 3: Business for the mood of the boardroom. Dunkin, good morning, Oh,
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Speaker 3: good morning, Ryan, thanks for being with me. What is
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Speaker 3: the mood?
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Speaker 6: Well, yeah, as you said, they have ranked the politicians
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Speaker 6: and that's one thing, but they've also given us an
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Speaker 6: insight into their own thinking around the economy, how they
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Speaker 6: think their business will fare themselves, and the general kind
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Speaker 6: of business environment. So there's one hundred and three chief
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Speaker 6: executives and a coupleoard shares involved in this, and we
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Speaker 6: go out to them in August and September with a
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Speaker 6: range of questions. As you touched on, we took they
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Speaker 6: gave us feedback on the cabinet the government's top ranked politicians,
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Speaker 6: and number one was Eric at Stanford as you mentioned that,
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Speaker 6: with the score of four point one out of five.
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Speaker 6: Now that means that very impressive is five and not
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Speaker 6: very impressive as one. So she's obviously scoring well and
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Speaker 6: the executives obviously liked what she's doing in the education
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Speaker 6: portfolio was obviously back to basics reforms that's happening. Where
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Speaker 6: Christopher Luxen as Prime Minister, came in at six with
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Speaker 6: three points seven three, so above average, but he is
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Speaker 6: ranked six in the cabinet, so you know we're looking
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Speaker 6: at that, and as you mentioned, there's some others in there,
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Speaker 6: Chris Bishop nicola Willis Judith Collins, all scoring well. So
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Speaker 6: it's a pretty positive look at the at the top cabinet, right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Interesting the comments surrounding the saying the message seeming to
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Speaker 3: be time to focus on the future, a positive future
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Speaker 3: rather than just bashing labor. Kind of put that behind you.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely there was a theme that came through. We've
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Speaker 6: had a year now of a new government and yes
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Speaker 6: they've had to what they describe as unwind a lot
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Speaker 6: of things that were put in place. So the business
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Speaker 6: community is saying, right, you've done that. Now is time
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Speaker 6: to take some bold steps to really spurady the economic
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Speaker 6: growth that's needed. So I think there's definitely some uncertainty
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Speaker 6: there around the delivery that crystal Lux and his team
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Speaker 6: can can pull through. They're obviously making good headway on
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Speaker 6: some things, but then there's other constraints such the things
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Speaker 6: like cost blowouts and infrastructure projects are the big sort
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Speaker 6: of issues with Sdneden Hospital and of course the very
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Speaker 6: infrastructure problems. So yeah, there's a bit of uncertained whether
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Speaker 6: whether the delivery will come through there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, Duncan thank you very much for that. Dunkin Bridgeman,
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Speaker 3: who's the managing editor of NZ and ME Business, go
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Speaker 3: and pick up you copy the Herald this morning. It's
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Speaker 3: got the mood of the boardroom. If you are interested.
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Speaker 3: There's a huge well, it's quite thick. I could probably
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Speaker 3: make a sound if I dropped it on the desk.
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Speaker 3: It's in the Herald today, just gone nineteen minutes after five.
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Speaker 3: We're going to talk to David Seymour next. We'll ask
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Speaker 3: him about his result in this mood of the boardroom,
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Speaker 3: but also about the PPTA. They've done a bit of
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Speaker 3: a U tune on their charter school's position. We'll look
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Speaker 3: into that next on.
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Speaker 1: Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and applying
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Speaker 3: Twenty one after five news talks. They'd be great to
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Speaker 3: have your company this morning, nine two nine tours. The
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Speaker 3: number to text will get to your messages in just
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Speaker 3: a few seconds. The PPTA has done a bit of
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Speaker 3: a U turn on charter schools at their annual conference.
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Speaker 3: They're going to allow teachers who work in charter schools
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Speaker 3: future charter schools to still be members of the union. Also,
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Speaker 3: they are removing gender from their constitution, and they are
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Speaker 3: voting on becoming a peace organization with the ability to
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Speaker 3: lobby the government on foreign affairs of all things. David
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Speaker 3: Seymour is the Associate Education Minister, He's the guy behind
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Speaker 3: charter schools and he's with us this morning. Hi minister,
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Speaker 3: how are you?
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Speaker 8: Oh? Good.
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Speaker 6: Thanks, how are you.
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Speaker 3: I'm well, thank you. Good to have you on the show.
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Speaker 3: I think it's the first time for well since I've
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Speaker 3: been on here.
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Speaker 6: Anyway, let's think I believe it's taken this long.
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Speaker 3: I know, I know, But here we are the PPTO.
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Speaker 3: What is this about. Do you think they're just trying
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Speaker 3: to make sure they've got enough members to pay their
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Speaker 3: subs and fees for their union.
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Speaker 8: Well, I'm a bit puzzled by because the PPTA have
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Speaker 8: been really, really aggressive against charter schools, and I think
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Speaker 8: it's important to separate the everyday teacher that you know
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Speaker 8: and love from the union organizers in Wellington who take
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Speaker 8: the fees and do all the more political activism. It's
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Speaker 8: those organizers who have been so opposed to charter schools
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Speaker 8: for such a long time, and I think that probably
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Speaker 8: they're reading the tea leaves and saying, look, you know,
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Speaker 8: we spend over three hundred thousand dollars per citizen on
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Speaker 8: education in this country, and yet so many people come
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Speaker 8: out completely disengaged, without the most basic skills required to
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Speaker 8: navigate society in the twenty first century. So you know,
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Speaker 8: we've got to do something different. Charter schools are a
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Speaker 8: huge opportunity for those students, but they're also a massive
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Speaker 8: opportunity for teachers, because what we're basically saying is, look,
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Speaker 8: you know, get the children to attend and achieve, will
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Speaker 8: give you the money that we would have spent on
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Speaker 8: them at a traditional state school, but we'll give you
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Speaker 8: total flexibility about how you do it. And I see
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Speaker 8: that as a massive liberation for teachers.
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Speaker 4: So we.
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Speaker 8: Had to change your heart.
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Speaker 3: Maybe they feel the same way, and they are saying
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Speaker 3: it's because state schools will be able to convert into
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Speaker 3: charter schools. Do you think there'll be much of that happening?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think there will. I mean it's a good
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Speaker 8: proposition for a state school. If you are getting the results,
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Speaker 8: or you believe you can get the results that you're
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Speaker 8: going to be contracted for student attendance and student achievement,
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Speaker 8: then basically you'll get given your money that you would
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Speaker 8: have got otherwise, but be given flexibility about how you
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Speaker 8: do it. So really, with charter schools, we're just saying
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Speaker 8: we're not going to meddle, we're not going to stipulate,
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Speaker 8: we're not going to tell you what to do or
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Speaker 8: how to do it. But what we are going to
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Speaker 8: do is give you your share of the education funding
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Speaker 8: you would have god anyway, and hold you accountable for
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Speaker 8: children showing up and at achieving, which I think is
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Speaker 8: a good proposition for people that have good ideas.
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Speaker 3: Have you seen the mood of the boardroom? The hell's
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Speaker 3: mood of the boardroom this morning? It's got you way
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Speaker 3: down the list in terms of how you fed with
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Speaker 3: the CEOs and number twelve with a score of three
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Speaker 3: point four out of five. It's got you actually wedge
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Speaker 3: between Andrew Bailey and Simon Watts. Some of the comments
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Speaker 3: from them, a professional director said, you've become a bit
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Speaker 3: too extreme in your views. Maybe you're losing their support
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Speaker 3: of your supporters. Do you have any comment on that?
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Speaker 3: Have you seen that?
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Speaker 8: No, I haven't seen it. I think they've published it
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Speaker 8: at five am and you have five clearly. But I'm
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Speaker 8: not surprised by that, because you know, one of the
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Speaker 8: things about me and ACT is that we're not afraid
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Speaker 8: to take positions that may be controversial if we think
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Speaker 8: that there is a need to do it. One of
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Speaker 8: the things I find about corporate New Zealand is that
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Speaker 8: they're pretty conservative. I'm pretty afraid of taking positions. So
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Speaker 8: when they say extreme that they're really saying, oh, we
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Speaker 8: don't like perhaps what you're saying about the role of
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Speaker 8: the Treaty of White Tongue that actually, I think our
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Speaker 8: society needs someone that says that. That would be my
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Speaker 8: guess about where they're coming from. That Actually, if you
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Speaker 8: look at what Actor is doing in terms of government
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Speaker 8: spending and reducing waste, what we're doing in terms of regulation,
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Speaker 8: then actually we're doing a lot that is good for
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Speaker 8: business and ultimately good for workers and good for customers.
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Speaker 8: But you know, I can understand that corporate in New
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Speaker 8: Zealand can be pretty conservative. When you start taking on
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Speaker 8: hard issues, there will be some of them that disagree
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Speaker 8: and that pulls your efforts down. So that doesn't surprise me.
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Speaker 3: All Right, I'll let you go and read the read
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Speaker 3: the hero fold out. David, thank you very much for
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Speaker 3: coming on the show. I really appreciate it, and we
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Speaker 3: won't leave it too long before we have you back.
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Speaker 3: Thank you. That's David's or who's the EC party leader
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Speaker 3: of course, and the Associate Education when it's the coming
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Speaker 3: up next why they should leave Casey Costello alone.
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Speaker 3: You're on News Talks. It be just gone twenty eight
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Speaker 3: minutes after five o'clock. This is what they're saying about
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Speaker 3: Casey Costello.
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Speaker 2: Resign, resign, resign, resign, resign.
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Speaker 3: Okay, we might have played it five times, but Eicheverel
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Speaker 3: says that she should resign along with the Health Coalitionale
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Speaker 3: Tedo or etc. But if hysteria over Casey Costello and smoking,
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Speaker 3: the real proof will be in the pudding. If smoking
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Speaker 3: rates come down, does it really matter how she did it?
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Speaker 3: And if it was a non tobacco company getting a
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Speaker 3: tax cut to provide these heat not burned the less
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Speaker 3: harmful than SIGGI products, would there be outrage or are
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Speaker 3: we being a bit blinded by the fact that it's
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Speaker 3: a multinational who is normally in the business of selling cigarettes.
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Speaker 3: Are we being rational about this isn't the ultimate goal
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Speaker 3: to reduce smoking? And if it is, shouldn't we wait
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Speaker 3: and see whether she's able to do that? Twenty minutes
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Speaker 3: after five year on News Talks, he'd be Marris Williamson
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Speaker 3: coming up after five point thirty. He's the former Transport minister,
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Speaker 3: so we'll ask him about in New Zealand, about the fairies,
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Speaker 3: but also the story out this morning on the city
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Speaker 3: rail Link. Once it's up and running, will they actually
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Speaker 3: run on time and at top speed? Interesting yarn this morning.
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Speaker 3: Stay with US.
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Speaker 2: News and Views you trust to start your day.
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Speaker 1: It's early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New
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Speaker 1: Zealand's furniture beds and a flying store.
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Speaker 2: News Talk said, be.
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Speaker 3: Good morning. It is twenty four away from six year
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Speaker 3: old news Talk sai'd be Mitch McCann out of the
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Speaker 3: US in just a few moments. Big strikes, fifty thousand
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Speaker 3: members of the ports unions and the United States going
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Speaker 3: on strike. It will affect us, it will affect our exports.
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Speaker 3: We're going to talk transport, more transport trouble. We've had
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Speaker 3: the fairies, We've had the New Zealand flights. This morning
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Speaker 3: it's the trains in Auckland. It is really hard to
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Speaker 3: get around this little country of ours, isn't it. Marris
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Speaker 3: Williamson will tell us why he's former Transport Minister and
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Speaker 3: currently on council. Lots of your feedback coming in. Brendan
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Speaker 3: says in New Zealand should operate completely separately from a
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Speaker 3: government handout this after they cut some capacity on flights
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Speaker 3: and also some routes. On David Seymour, who we've just
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Speaker 3: had on the program, this is interesting because I think
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Speaker 3: it's quite telling. Seymour is the weak link in the coalition.
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Speaker 3: He's acting like you did during the election campaign when
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Speaker 3: he said he might sit on the cross benches. Remember
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Speaker 3: that that resulted in act vote dropping. Says this quite
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Speaker 3: astute listener. But you can ask please would you put
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Speaker 3: your name when you send it in a text? I
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Speaker 3: just like to know roughly who you are. Thank you,
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Speaker 3: Dan says morning love the show, just getting the cows
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Speaker 3: and Dan, thank you because you've put your in there.
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Speaker 3: Another says on Casey Costello. She is in the government.
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Speaker 3: She's got the job to get the smoking rates down.
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Speaker 3: She calls the shops Verril, that is Aisha Viral from
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Speaker 3: Labor needs to pull a hidden twenty two to six.
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge.
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Speaker 3: She's got to our reporters around the country. Callum Proctor
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Speaker 3: is in Dunedin. Calum, first of all, a lot of
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Speaker 3: rain last night.
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Speaker 9: Here's certainly a lot of rain and it's still falling
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Speaker 9: in duned and it's meant to get worse from here.
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Speaker 9: Though our heavy rain warnings sort of sets in later
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Speaker 9: today and overnight through into Friday, so close watch on
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Speaker 9: those on those.
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Speaker 3: River and stream levels around the region. This morning, all right,
19:38
Speaker 3: good to know Otaga University expanding into Queenstown.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, looking at creating a permanent presence in the resort town.
19:47
Speaker 9: This despite Queenstown having a real a short John howsing
19:51
Speaker 9: average property values increased by fifty percent in the last
19:54
Speaker 9: five years, tourism operators are having to purchase empty hotels
19:58
Speaker 9: to How's workers in and now with university planning on
20:01
Speaker 9: setting up shop, it could create extra pressure. Vice Chancellor
20:04
Speaker 9: Grant Robertson says it would be irresponsible for them to
20:07
Speaker 9: bring a large number of students to Queenstown and not
20:09
Speaker 9: add to the housing stock there. He says they will
20:12
Speaker 9: work with properly developers and look at accommodation options. The
20:17
Speaker 9: Queenstown Mayor, Glenn Lewis, is excited at this news, seeing
20:20
Speaker 9: university's long term strategic vision of growing a tech sector
20:23
Speaker 9: in Queenstown come to life.
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Speaker 3: A nice one. Thank you, Claire Schubert and christ Church.
20:27
Speaker 3: This morning, Hey, clear, a bit of a fight over
20:29
Speaker 3: those food trucks.
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Speaker 10: Bit of a fight, all right, Ryan, Look, the Central
20:32
Speaker 10: City business groups are pushing back on plans to or
20:35
Speaker 10: request rather to allow food trucks on the Art Center
20:38
Speaker 10: site is twelve hours a day, seven days per week.
20:41
Speaker 10: The Arts Center is applying to allow thirty three food
20:44
Speaker 10: trucks to do that. Christ Church City Council is assessing
20:48
Speaker 10: that application, which the Central City Business Association says is
20:52
Speaker 10: unfair on those that are paying in the city rates.
20:55
Speaker 10: The association chair Annabel Turley, presented a petition to council
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Speaker 10: yesterday urging it to pull all funding of the Art Center.
21:02
Speaker 10: She says it's a permanent encroachment on businesses that have
21:05
Speaker 10: invested their blood, sweat and dollars into the city.
21:09
Speaker 3: All right, how's your weather going, Claire?
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Speaker 9: Not as bad here.
21:12
Speaker 10: A bit of scattered rain about will ease this afternoon
21:14
Speaker 10: and clear by evening. Southwesterly is turning easterly high of thirteen.
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Speaker 3: Nice one, Thank you. I'm on the side of the businesses,
21:21
Speaker 3: by the way, I don't think the food truck It's
21:23
Speaker 3: not fair to have the food trucks undercutting your year's
21:25
Speaker 3: stores or your bricks and watar max Is and Wellington
21:28
Speaker 3: max Good morning. What to do with pro Palestine graffiti.
21:32
Speaker 11: Yeah, good morning. Ethan Manera, reporter in our newsroom, asked
21:36
Speaker 11: for city council correspondence regarding this increasing prevalence of pro
21:40
Speaker 11: Palestine graffiti around the city, flags, slogans, etc. What it
21:45
Speaker 11: shows is that councilors, the mayor even all weighing in
21:48
Speaker 11: and no clear consensus at the mayor. For instance, some councilors,
21:52
Speaker 11: Rebecca Matthews for instance, seem to be keen for some
21:56
Speaker 11: of it to stay. Please don't paint over the flags
21:58
Speaker 11: is the message. But then you've got I got some
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Speaker 11: high officials saying we still have to treat this stuff
22:03
Speaker 11: like in the other graffiti, perhaps with more sensitivity. Though
22:07
Speaker 11: also asked by a top official what if it were
22:10
Speaker 11: an Israeli flag, he believed we should take essentially the
22:13
Speaker 11: same approach this senior council official. And again at the
22:17
Speaker 11: more extreme level, you've had red paint thrown across the
22:20
Speaker 11: Israeli Embassy, Defense Force Office, Massy's art campus covered in
22:24
Speaker 11: Palestine slogans at the university there reacted by immediately painting
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Speaker 11: over it. So a hot topic of discussion at the moment.
22:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really interesting what they're doing in New South
22:34
Speaker 3: Wales with us. I'll explain it shortly, but you're with
22:37
Speaker 3: a today mix.
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Speaker 11: Some early rain easing this afternoon high of seventeen in
22:41
Speaker 11: the city.
22:42
Speaker 3: Thank you, Neighva's and Auckland. Good morning, Neva, good morning.
22:45
Speaker 5: I'm out of sorts today.
22:46
Speaker 3: What's wrong?
22:47
Speaker 8: Well?
22:48
Speaker 5: I started off, I weaned into the studio. This is
22:51
Speaker 5: just before five o'clock to read the five o'clock news, obviously,
22:53
Speaker 5: and I forgot my glasses, my reading glasses. So we're
22:56
Speaker 5: in the car downstairs in the basement.
22:59
Speaker 3: Can you see without them?
23:00
Speaker 5: No? I can't. It was about nine minutes to five,
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Speaker 5: okme rushing out of me. Do you think I have
23:06
Speaker 5: time to go down in the lift and get my
23:07
Speaker 5: glasses before I read Ryan's news. I went, plenty of time,
23:10
Speaker 5: plenty of time, took my swipe card, forgot my car keys,
23:13
Speaker 5: got down there, I went, oh my gosh. Then came
23:15
Speaker 5: back up and I went, no, don't have.
23:16
Speaker 3: Time, sweaty and blind correct Well, congregulation, Well the.
23:24
Speaker 5: Making some stuff up?
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Speaker 9: No it wasn't.
23:25
Speaker 5: I wasn't making it up.
23:26
Speaker 2: But I was.
23:27
Speaker 3: You're a true professional. Hey, you tell me about the
23:30
Speaker 3: Modotapo Island. It's pas three.
23:32
Speaker 5: Yes, I can see this story. So look, over the
23:35
Speaker 5: past five months, the Department of Conservation tried multiple methods
23:38
Speaker 5: this is to catch it's called the lone Norwegian rat.
23:42
Speaker 5: And the Norwegian rat isn't from Norway. I just got
23:44
Speaker 5: to tell you that because when I saw the story,
23:45
Speaker 5: I went, what is it from Norway and they went, no,
23:47
Speaker 5: it's not. But it was first spotted in late April
23:50
Speaker 5: and then it was filmed stocking up on toxic baita
23:53
Speaker 5: nearly August. But it hasn't been seen since. So you know,
23:56
Speaker 5: they got a detection dog there they found nothing. So
23:58
Speaker 5: DOC said, look, we can confidently say the rat is dead.
24:02
Speaker 5: And so, just for those who want to know, apparently
24:05
Speaker 5: it's not known why the brown red is called ratt
24:07
Speaker 5: is norvigi kis the Norwegian rat because it didn't originate
24:11
Speaker 5: from Norway. I would have done more research, but didn't
24:13
Speaker 5: have time.
24:13
Speaker 3: Without my glasses, it's sufficient information. How's the weather today, Well.
24:19
Speaker 5: We've had all that, you know, heavy rain, thunder and
24:22
Speaker 5: you know those strong winds, but I can tell you
24:25
Speaker 5: that there's going to be fine breaks developing this morning.
24:27
Speaker 3: Seventeen's the high sounds good. Neva thank you for that.
24:30
Speaker 3: I'll let you go and collect your glasses before you
24:32
Speaker 3: read the six o'clock news. That's Neva and Auckland. It
24:35
Speaker 3: is seventeen minutes away from six. Transport. Are lots of
24:38
Speaker 3: good texts coming in on in New Zealand flights and
24:41
Speaker 3: how much they're costing. You will get to those shortly soon.
24:44
Speaker 1: International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of mind
24:48
Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.
24:50
Speaker 3: Fourteen away from six news talks. They'd be great to
24:53
Speaker 3: have your company. The US President Joe Biden has just
24:55
Speaker 3: said there'll be more sanctions to come on Iran. Mitch
24:58
Speaker 3: McCann is our US correspondent is with us this morning. Hey, Mitch,
25:03
Speaker 3: morning Ryan, how are you good. Thank you, Good to
25:05
Speaker 3: have you on the show. Hey. The port strikes that
25:07
Speaker 3: are going on in the US are going to impact
25:10
Speaker 3: us here in New Zealand. Yeah, they certainly are.
25:13
Speaker 12: Fifty thousand members of America's largest port workers unions and
25:17
Speaker 12: our own strike throughout US ports. They are demanding a
25:19
Speaker 12: five dollars an hour increase and pay every year for
25:22
Speaker 12: the next six years. They also want guarantees around automation
25:26
Speaker 12: or semi automation because they want to keep their jobs
25:29
Speaker 12: in the future. Wide a week here, well, this is
25:31
Speaker 12: likely to cripple US ports on the East Coast and
25:34
Speaker 12: New Zealand exporters are likely to be affected by congestion
25:38
Speaker 12: and delays. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade at
25:40
Speaker 12: Home advises exporters to stay in contact with their freight
25:44
Speaker 12: companies to see what options are available for them, and
25:47
Speaker 12: while the strike continues, to also keep in touch with
25:49
Speaker 12: their US customers to inform them about potential delays in
25:53
Speaker 12: the coming weeks.
25:54
Speaker 3: Let's hope it doesn't push things too far. Let's go
25:56
Speaker 3: to North Carolina. The death well, actually number of states
26:00
Speaker 3: have been impacted by this and the death toll rising
26:04
Speaker 3: from Hurricane Helen.
26:06
Speaker 12: Yeah, Ryan, the images coming out of some of these
26:08
Speaker 12: states affected by Hurricane Helene are devastating. It's now the
26:11
Speaker 12: second deadliest hurricane to hi the United States mainland in
26:15
Speaker 12: fifty years, after Hurricane Katrina. The death told the stonern
26:19
Speaker 12: stands at one hundred and eighty people. That's expected to rise.
26:22
Speaker 12: The toll in North Carolina you just mentioned is ninety
26:25
Speaker 12: one people. And Joe Biden, the President, has now approved
26:28
Speaker 12: one thousand active duty soldiers to assist in the response
26:31
Speaker 12: in North Carolina. This is obviously still developing. Many people
26:35
Speaker 12: are still missing. In fact, as of last night in
26:37
Speaker 12: the state of Tennessee, eighty five people still missing after
26:41
Speaker 12: this deadly hurricane.
26:42
Speaker 3: Mitch, thank you, Mitch mccanna, US correspondent with US this morning,
26:45
Speaker 3: just gone at.
26:45
Speaker 2: Twelve to six Bryan Bridge.
26:48
Speaker 3: More transport trouble today. Concerns from Wayne Brown that when
26:51
Speaker 3: the City RAILNK opens this is the railway in Auckland
26:54
Speaker 3: City in twenty twenty six, they won't run on time
26:57
Speaker 3: because Kiwi Raw's tracks won't be sorted. In New Zealand,
27:01
Speaker 3: regional fights, capacity have been cats, fairy problems on the
27:04
Speaker 3: cook straight potholes on the road. How on earth are
27:07
Speaker 3: we meant to get around this good country of ours?
27:09
Speaker 3: Morris Williamson, former Transport Minister and Aukan City councilor with US. Morris,
27:13
Speaker 3: good morning, good running. Are you confident when the City
27:17
Speaker 3: rail Link opens the trains will run on time and
27:20
Speaker 3: run at top speed?
27:22
Speaker 4: No?
27:23
Speaker 3: Why not?
27:25
Speaker 4: Well? The City Rail Link a story that just keeps
27:29
Speaker 4: on giving in terms of it was originally going to
27:31
Speaker 4: be two billion, then it was going to be four.
27:33
Speaker 4: Currently it's five and a half. I'm told from some
27:36
Speaker 4: insiders within Treasury you can add quite a bit onto
27:39
Speaker 4: the five and a half when it's finally complete. The
27:43
Speaker 4: opening date was twenty twenty one. We're up to twenty
27:46
Speaker 4: twenty six now that's not necessarily when it will be running.
27:50
Speaker 4: And then you've got all the impact on the roading network.
27:53
Speaker 4: If you think of the number of level crossings in
27:55
Speaker 4: the city, if you've got a high frequency of trains
27:59
Speaker 4: using the network when it's all open, you're going to
28:02
Speaker 4: have cars backed up to Africa sitting at level crossings
28:07
Speaker 4: with the barriers down on, the bells ringing, and the
28:09
Speaker 4: impact on the motor vehicle fleet will be horrendous as well.
28:13
Speaker 4: So and then here we Rail say that some of
28:16
Speaker 4: their network's not up to full speed usage. So even
28:19
Speaker 4: though they closed our line out here, the Eastern Line
28:22
Speaker 4: for all year to try and bring it up the scratch.
28:25
Speaker 3: So so if you're not confident, okay, not confident, if
28:28
Speaker 3: you knew then what you know? Now? Should we have
28:32
Speaker 3: ever done it? Or do you just have to wear
28:34
Speaker 3: the stuff.
28:35
Speaker 4: I'm lucky enough to be in a position when the
28:37
Speaker 4: National Party Caucus and I made sure they recorded it
28:40
Speaker 4: at the time, I was one of the few voices
28:42
Speaker 4: that said this is a nightmare, don't go near it.
28:45
Speaker 4: Back in twenty fifteen, I think it was when it
28:48
Speaker 4: was being proposed. The mayor at the time, Len Brown,
28:51
Speaker 4: got to be careful with our Brown's hit. Len Brown
28:54
Speaker 4: was all gung ho or I just knew that anyone
28:58
Speaker 4: proposing something like a tunnel at two billion. My foolish
29:03
Speaker 4: comment at the time was I think it'll be at
29:04
Speaker 4: least twice that. Before it was that it's going to
29:07
Speaker 4: be it's going to be three times out if not four.
29:10
Speaker 3: Hey, just on Air New Zealand cutting some capacity in
29:13
Speaker 3: some regional flights around New Zealand. Is that fair enough?
29:17
Speaker 3: I mean they have to look at demand and make
29:20
Speaker 3: business decisions, don't they.
29:22
Speaker 4: Correct If you want to do anything about providing a
29:25
Speaker 4: social service, then I think that's the role of a
29:28
Speaker 4: government to say we'll put a subsidy in place and
29:31
Speaker 4: offer whoever wants to. There may be small regional airlines
29:35
Speaker 4: that want to pick up that and run smaller planes
29:37
Speaker 4: or whatever. But if you think about Air New Zealand,
29:40
Speaker 4: it's a commercial business. It's got to sit there every day,
29:43
Speaker 4: look at its load factors decide what its profitability is doing,
29:47
Speaker 4: and it should not be in any way that have
29:48
Speaker 4: been some social agency. Let's run a whole lot of
29:51
Speaker 4: things that are lost just to be nice. That's ridiculous, Morris.
29:56
Speaker 3: We've got about sixty seconds left. I want your helicopter
29:58
Speaker 3: view on transp in New Zealand, because you know, we
30:01
Speaker 3: can potholes on the roads. We've got trains that won't
30:05
Speaker 3: go fast enough, we've got planes that won't go anywhere,
30:08
Speaker 3: fairies that are sitting there. Well, actually we don't have
30:11
Speaker 3: the fairies even on order. What is the problem here.
30:15
Speaker 4: Well, there's one serious problem with New Zealand, and that
30:18
Speaker 4: is we've got so few people. Five million isn't even
30:22
Speaker 4: a modest city elsewhere. So the whole country is smaller
30:25
Speaker 4: than Sydney, the whole country smaller than Melbourne population wise,
30:29
Speaker 4: and yet we've got a sort of a champagne appetite
30:32
Speaker 4: on a beer income. So people keep saying to me
30:34
Speaker 4: when I was Minister these to say, I've just been
30:37
Speaker 4: to Hong Kong and seen this fabulous underground rail network,
30:40
Speaker 4: and I'd say, look, we can fix this easily. You
30:42
Speaker 4: give me seven million people between Parnell and Ponsonby and
30:47
Speaker 4: I'll give you a brilliant underground rail network, but we've
30:50
Speaker 4: only got one and a half million in our entire
30:52
Speaker 4: biggest city in China that's a village. So that's one
30:55
Speaker 4: of our biggest problems. But I think also setting our
30:58
Speaker 4: priorities in the right direction, I have to congratulate Simming
31:01
Speaker 4: and Brown in terms of changing all of the ludicrous
31:05
Speaker 4: blanket spleed reductions and the blankets sort of hot big
31:09
Speaker 4: speed bumps that have been put on streets which were
31:11
Speaker 4: not needed. No, and he not needed for anything.
31:14
Speaker 3: He you are joined this morning and congratulating him by
31:17
Speaker 3: the CEOs of New Zealand who, in the mood of
31:20
Speaker 3: the boardroom have given him almost a standing ovation. Maris,
31:23
Speaker 3: thank you very much for being on the show. Morris Williamson,
31:26
Speaker 3: who is the former National Party Transport Minister also Auckland
31:30
Speaker 3: Counselor it is eight to six newstor very quickly, Luke says,
31:34
Speaker 3: is it me? Or would New Zealand struggle to formulate
31:36
Speaker 3: relations in a brothel?
31:39
Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge New for twenty twenty four on early edition
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Speaker 1: with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store.
31:46
Speaker 2: News talk zibby.
31:48
Speaker 3: Five away from six year on news talk ZIBB. Thank
31:50
Speaker 3: you for all of your tech some really interesting ones
31:52
Speaker 3: on in New Zealand which I have read, but I
31:54
Speaker 3: don't have time to read out to you. Heather is
31:56
Speaker 3: in the city Studia.
31:57
Speaker 13: You want to in New Zealand.
31:58
Speaker 3: So Ryan, my son's at Canterbury. It costs me more
32:01
Speaker 3: to get him down there from Auckland than flying to Sydney.
32:04
Speaker 3: That's our busiest domestic flight leg. How does a New
32:07
Speaker 3: Zealand justify this? It's business?
32:09
Speaker 13: Do you want to hear my story about any news either?
32:12
Speaker 13: So I haven't told somebody yet, so I hope they're
32:14
Speaker 13: not listening right now. But they have a wedding this
32:16
Speaker 13: weekend and I can't go, and it's in Palmester, North.
32:19
Speaker 13: I really hope they're not listening. And I had booked
32:22
Speaker 13: flights for the husband and I to go down. We're
32:25
Speaker 13: going to leave the sun behind and stuff like that.
32:27
Speaker 13: But now we have to take them down for whatever
32:28
Speaker 13: it is and it's turned into the biggest cluster. But
32:30
Speaker 13: because of that, I can't get my money back. And
32:33
Speaker 13: it was an absolute arm and a leg. Now that's
32:35
Speaker 13: my fault for not booking a refundable ticket. But whoever
32:38
Speaker 13: books a refundable ticket?
32:39
Speaker 3: So you are going to the wedding, but you're not
32:41
Speaker 3: going to the who We're not going to go? I
32:43
Speaker 3: can't go? Well, why can't you go? Well, it's a long.
32:46
Speaker 13: Story, but who wants to go to a wedding when
32:48
Speaker 13: you've got a todd leg You've got to go home
32:49
Speaker 13: at five o'clock to feed the toddler and a motel
32:52
Speaker 13: room because Ryan, there are no hotels.
32:55
Speaker 3: You know, I don't have a lot of sympathy for
32:57
Speaker 3: you because if you didn't want that problem, don't have children.
33:00
Speaker 13: And also don't be pregnant at the wedding. You can't
33:02
Speaker 13: even drink what I really would love to go and
33:05
Speaker 13: watch absolutely everybody get.
33:07
Speaker 3: Completely wasted, and they will be in the north, you know.
33:10
Speaker 13: You know classy joint.
33:11
Speaker 3: Hey, how's what's happening on the show today?
33:14
Speaker 13: Okay, listen, we're gonna I am so excited about talking
33:17
Speaker 13: to the PPTA because they've done a complete reversal on
33:21
Speaker 13: charter schools. They hate them, they hate them, but now
33:24
Speaker 13: they're going to support the teachers working there.
33:26
Speaker 3: They want the subs, the fees from all the teachers.
33:29
Speaker 13: Yeah, because the teachers were like do I belong to
33:31
Speaker 13: the union or do I get better money at the
33:33
Speaker 13: charter school. So they were with us after seven and
33:35
Speaker 13: John too good if she had after eight.
33:36
Speaker 3: Brilliant. Heather's with the next. I'll see tomorrow Friday, have
33:39
Speaker 3: a great one.
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