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Simon Bridges: Auckland Business Chamber Chief Executive questions extent of economic relief ahead of State of the Nation speech · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: If you haven't noticed, We're in twenty twenty six, a
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  Speaker 2: selection the year, and Christopher Luxem will deliver his State
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  Speaker 2: of the Nation's speech this afternoon at the International Convention
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  Speaker 2: Center in Auckland. Now we're not expecting any new policy announcements,
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  Speaker 2: but here we talking about the focuses around fixing the basics,
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  Speaker 2: safeguarding the economy or can Business Chamber CEO Simon Bridges
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  Speaker 2: joins me. Now, Happy New Year, Simon, Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Happy New Year. Andrew good be on your first show.
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  Speaker 2: How are you going?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Really good? Year always starts well, doesn't it. You
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  Speaker 3: know you come back from holiday feeling good?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no no, Sa Sam and Summon. I asked,
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  Speaker 2: are you going? Are you going to Christopher's speech?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Actually said, how are you going?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 3: Am I going? You bet? I'm going. You know it's
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  Speaker 3: we're putting on the event with the YenS ICC and kiwibank.
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  Speaker 3: I mean you said it. I've got no inside word
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  Speaker 3: on what precisely the promise is saying, but it's the
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  Speaker 3: sort of basics focus on the results they've achieved. Well
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  Speaker 3: after that, I've got twenty minutes with him, oh you know,
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  Speaker 3: a chat on stage. You know, i'd expect hopefully we'll
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  Speaker 3: get a bit of reflection on the last couple of years,
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  Speaker 3: you know, maybe what he's learned, what he's learned around
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  Speaker 3: coalition politics, taught the economy, maybe housing intensification Auckland obviously,
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's where they won last time and they'll
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  Speaker 3: need to win it again and what's going on there.
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  Speaker 3: And then I think, look, you know, we haven't heard
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  Speaker 3: the Prime Minister yet on a lot of the international
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  Speaker 3: stuff that you've just been talking about, you know, to
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  Speaker 3: you lot's been happening. So you know, events, dear boy, events,
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  Speaker 3: they get in the way of things, and it be
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  Speaker 3: good to sort of have a discussion about some of
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  Speaker 3: that as well. And we're out on that.
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  Speaker 2: So here's some questions were after two heavy years with
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  Speaker 2: the recession and austerity combining, will it be difficult for
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Laxon to sell the green shoots that are appearing?
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  Speaker 2: Will he get the credit for the turnaround?
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  Speaker 3: I think that's a good question. I mean I think firstly,
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  Speaker 3: you know what we are seeing, you know, what is
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  Speaker 3: the last three four months. There's see a lot of these.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I hate the weird green shot, but I
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  Speaker 3: know they explain it well, the green shoot, the various
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  Speaker 3: indicators that do show that we're back on a path
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  Speaker 3: from growth, so, as you say, from tough times to growth.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the questions I intend to ask them is,
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  Speaker 3: you know what extent really what you said? Do they
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  Speaker 3: deserve the credit for this? Well? Is this simply cyclical
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  Speaker 3: things that were kind of happening anyway, or what is
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  Speaker 3: it that the government's done to be a part of that?
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  Speaker 3: And I think the other valid question is is it
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  Speaker 3: going to continue? What's the government got that's new, that's fresh,
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  Speaker 3: that's there for business. It's going to give them continued
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  Speaker 3: on going confidence over the course of this year, and
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  Speaker 3: indeed beyond what are the economic plans of Christopher Luxen's
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  Speaker 3: privileged to get another three year term.
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  Speaker 2: Good stuff. Simon, enjoy your day to day, enjoying the
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  Speaker 2: new facility. This is the International Convention Center.
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