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Full Show Podcast: 26 March 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues is the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickens
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Speaker 1: on early edition with one roof make your Property Search Simple,
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Speaker 2: Here we go halfway through the week. Good morning to
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Speaker 2: you and welcome to the program, and thank you so
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Speaker 2: much for choosing us. Coming up over the next sixty minutes,
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Speaker 2: Australia releases their budget. So where are our neighbors at?
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Speaker 2: Where's our biggest export market at. We'll have that story
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Speaker 2: for you shortly. Employers are still not confident to employ
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Speaker 2: so what are they worried about? We'll have that story
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Speaker 2: in ten and the Aucklands Stadium kafuffle countslor Morris Williamson
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Speaker 2: is going to join us just before six. We'll have
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Speaker 2: correspondence from right around New Zealand and the world. Gavin
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Speaker 2: Gray from the UK and news as it breaks, and
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Speaker 2: you can have your say by using the text. There's
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Speaker 2: a small charge and the number is ninety two ninety two.
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Speaker 2: It is seven minutes after five.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It's Wednesday, the twenty sixth of March and first of
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Speaker 2: the Russian Ukraine War. The White House has just confirmed
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Speaker 2: both Russia and Ukraine have agreed to ensure a safe
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Speaker 2: passage for commercial shipping and stop all military strikes in
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Speaker 2: the Black Sea. Washington released separate statements meeting with representatives
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Speaker 2: from both countries in Saudi Arabia. Ukraine has agreed to
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Speaker 2: stop military force in the Black Sea, but adds any
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Speaker 2: movement of Russian naval vessels would be a violation of
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Speaker 2: the agreement. To America and President Trump's administration is under
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Speaker 2: fire for adding an American journalist to a private group
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Speaker 2: chat which contains sensitive US military information about their air
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Speaker 2: strikes on Yemen. Here's an idea of what was supposedly
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Speaker 2: said in the chat. Vice President JD. Vance said I
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Speaker 2: hate bailing Europe out again, and Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth replied,
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Speaker 2: I fully share your loathing of European free loading its pathetic.
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Speaker 2: Editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldboyerg, was the
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Speaker 2: journalist added by security advisor Michael Watts, and he says
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Speaker 2: the official were lucky it was him.
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Speaker 3: According to everything I understand, they're not supposed to be
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Speaker 3: doing this on commercial messaging aims. They got quite lucky
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Speaker 3: that they included my phone number in that they're going
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Speaker 3: to pick an errand phone number. I mean at least
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Speaker 3: it wasn't somebody who supported the Hoothies, because they were
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Speaker 3: actually handing out information that I believe could have endangered
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Speaker 3: the lives of American service people who were involved in
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Speaker 3: that operation.
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Speaker 2: And several members of the CHAT have been testifying at
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Speaker 2: an already scheduled Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. We're told together
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Speaker 2: the Director of National Intelligence declined to confirm whether she
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Speaker 2: was in the CHAT or not. And to Australia, we've
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Speaker 2: already mentioned the government has released as twenty twenty five
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Speaker 2: federal budget. Treasurer Jim Charmers revealed the budget is in
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Speaker 2: the red, with a deficit of more than thirty billion
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Speaker 2: dollars for the twenty four to twenty five financial year.
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Speaker 2: Its plan includes nearly nineteen billion dollars in planned tax
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Speaker 2: cuts from next year. And this was Jim Chalmers speaking
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Speaker 2: in the Australian Parliament last night.
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Speaker 4: This budget is our plan for a new generation of
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Speaker 4: prosperity in a new world of uncertainty. It's a plan
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Speaker 4: to help finish the fight against inflation, rebuild living standards
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Speaker 4: and maximize our national advantages into the future.
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Speaker 2: But he would say that, wouldn't he. And finally, an
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Speaker 2: update on Turkey, where a sixth night of protests have
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Speaker 2: been underway and a seventh night planned over the detention
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Speaker 2: of the city's mayor, Ekremmglu A Mamglu, of course, is
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Speaker 2: Turkey's President's president Etwan's main political rival. He's now been
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Speaker 2: charged with corruption and the Turkish government has already confirmed
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Speaker 2: more than eleven hundred people have been arrested since the
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Speaker 2: protest began.
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Speaker 5: I just want to live my life.
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Speaker 1: I mean everyone else thinks to see.
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Speaker 3: I mean, no one wants.
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Speaker 6: To be here normal everyone wants to be at the hall,
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Speaker 6: but he and the artists trying to be democracy back.
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Speaker 7: We here because of the mayor of the stumble at Mamola,
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Speaker 7: but after everyone realized how bad contrastitation is because of
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Speaker 7: the economy, inflation and because of justice.
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Speaker 2: Same song all over the world. It's eleven minutes out
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Speaker 2: to five.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 2: Sidy So Yes. The Australian government has delivered its budgets.
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Speaker 2: Its tax cuts are plenty, seventeen point one billion dollars
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Speaker 2: set to head back into Australian's back pockets. There was
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Speaker 2: also Medicare funding, energy relief and twenty percent off all
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Speaker 2: student loans. So one analyst came out and said, it's
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Speaker 2: the cup of coffee a week budget, and that makes sense.
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Speaker 2: On average, Australian taxpayers will get about two hundred and
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Speaker 2: seventy dollars back in their pocket over the whole tax year,
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Speaker 2: two hundred and seventy bucks and over fifty two weeks.
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Speaker 2: That's actually not even enough for a cup of coffee,
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Speaker 2: which is a reminder to all that tax cuts are
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Speaker 2: not the windfall that people sometimes believe. But no matter
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Speaker 2: how small they are, they still cost the state plenty.
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Speaker 2: We've found that out with our fourteen billion dollar tax cut,
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Speaker 2: which barely made a daily difference to us did it
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Speaker 2: of course while inflation kept on eroding our wallets. But
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Speaker 2: if our government still had that fourteen billion dollars in
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Speaker 2: their hands, it might be handy when they face so
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Speaker 2: many infrastructure deficits and of course the interest payments. The
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Speaker 2: other headline out of the Australian budget is that they're
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Speaker 2: expecting ten years of deficits ten years of them. It's
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Speaker 2: another example that it's not just us up the proverbal creek.
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Speaker 2: We're going to look at this in five minutes time
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Speaker 2: with an Australian correspondent. Twelve after five. What's the number
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Speaker 2: one global enemy? What do you reckon? I can tell
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Speaker 2: you the number one global enemy these days appears to
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Speaker 2: be the public servant. Everywhere has worken up from its
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Speaker 2: stupor and realized that public servants have been multiplying like rabbits.
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Speaker 2: The latest is the United Kingdom, where the chances are there.
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Speaker 2: Rachel Reeves, a labor politician, has announced a wholesale reduction
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Speaker 2: of fifteen percent of all public servants and she promises
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Speaker 2: this will not affect frontline services, but the proof of
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Speaker 2: that will be in the execution. So you add the
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Speaker 2: UK to what's happening in America with their Doge campaign,
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Speaker 2: our own pruning of the public service, and then you
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Speaker 2: realize that all countries in the world are facing the
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Speaker 2: same issues. A public service that has been allowed to
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Speaker 2: balloon to an untenable size. It reminds me of the
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Speaker 2: bad old days here in New Zealand, when New Zealand
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Speaker 2: Rail was allowed to expand to a massive workforce because
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Speaker 2: it made unemployment figures look better than the politicians of
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Speaker 2: the day like that. Now you think, faced with this
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Speaker 2: around the world and with the numbers that they see,
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Speaker 2: even public servants might realize that they've been taking the mickey,
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Speaker 2: but they don't. Just yesterday I had a PSA secretary
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Speaker 2: on the program definitively saying that there are no more
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Speaker 2: efficiencies to be found in our public service. You reckon.
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Speaker 2: That is a claim the public services paymasters. That's you
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Speaker 2: and I the taxpayer, just don't believe the public service
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Speaker 2: is reducing worldwide. The public service has to reduce worldwide.
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Speaker 2: We can't afford it. And if the bureaucrats want the
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Speaker 2: job to be done fairly and equitably and efficiently, they
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Speaker 2: should get on board.
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Speaker 1: It's Andrew Dickens.
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Speaker 2: It's five fourteen. So we'll look at the Australian budget
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Speaker 2: in a few moments time, and shortly, in about five
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Speaker 2: seven minutes time, we're going to look at the employment confidence,
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Speaker 2: which in this country is down again to the lowest
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Speaker 2: level seen since post COVID in twenty twenty. So why
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Speaker 2: when there are green shoots in the economy, our employers
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Speaker 2: not employing. It's a big story and it's coming shortly
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Speaker 2: here on News talks hereb it's five point fifteen.
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Speaker 2: It'd be sixteen minutes after five. The Australian government released
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Speaker 2: its twenty twenty five budget last night. Key focuses on
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Speaker 2: the cost of living. Australians are getting tax cuts seventeen
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Speaker 2: billion dollar set to return to their pockets. Are the
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Speaker 2: winners where healthcare, student debt holders, energy bills. Treasurer Jim
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Speaker 2: Charmers says this is a budget for a new generation
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Speaker 2: of prosperity, despite the fact he's got ten years of deficits.
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Speaker 2: And he says this is happening in a new world
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Speaker 2: of uncertainty.
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Speaker 4: Trade disruptions are rising, China's growth is slowing, war is
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Speaker 4: still raging in Europe and a ceasefire in the Middle
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Speaker 4: East is breaking down.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's inspiring. Australian correspondent Leslie Yeomans is covering it
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Speaker 2: for us and joins us now and she's got up
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Speaker 2: very early. Leslie, good morning to you.
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Speaker 6: Good morning Andrews.
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Speaker 2: So is this what people wanted?
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Speaker 6: Well, I guess some people will think it's okay. What
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Speaker 6: We have to put into a into our mind here though,
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Speaker 6: that this is basically an election near budget going to
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Speaker 6: be going to the polls sometime soon, and this is
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Speaker 6: given tried to give everyone a little bit of everything,
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Speaker 6: I guess, but it is only just a little bit.
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Speaker 6: As you mentioned, there's seventeen billion dollars worth of tax cuts,
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Speaker 6: which sounds like a lot, but that's probably going to
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Speaker 6: work out too about for the average for the average
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Speaker 6: income and are probably about five dollars a week possibly,
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Speaker 6: and then they won't be coming into effect until the
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Speaker 6: new financial year. What else, sort of similar to last
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Speaker 6: year's budget to the cost of living relief, some extra
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Speaker 6: money for education, they'll be strengthening medicare, building more homes,
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Speaker 6: and people will also be getting a little bit of
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Speaker 6: help more help with their rising energy bills. Those energy
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Speaker 6: rebates they've been extended to the end of this year
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Speaker 6: and they'll be giving households around one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 6: dollars extra a year. They're also with students still have
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Speaker 6: people with HEX debts, UNI students who are still trying
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Speaker 6: to pay off their HEX debts. They're going to be helped.
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Speaker 6: Their debts are going to be cut a rye around
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Speaker 6: twenty percent, and there'll also be a different way that
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Speaker 6: they'll be able to pay it back. They won't have
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Speaker 6: to that the actual earning rate is going to be
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Speaker 6: lifted so that when their actual payoff payments cutting will
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Speaker 6: be higher now. And one of the things it's interesting
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Speaker 6: to trying to appeal to people who have been trying
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Speaker 6: to buy a home. The government's going to ban foreign
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Speaker 6: buyers from purchasing existing homes in Australia for the next
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Speaker 6: two years and that will start next month. And it's
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Speaker 6: just a bid to try and get more people to
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Speaker 6: be able to purchase an existing home here.
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Speaker 2: Which is the complete opposite of what we're doing. Funnily enough,
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Speaker 2: and as you mentioned right at the beginning, you guys
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Speaker 2: are heading to the polls shortly, so do you think
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Speaker 2: this will sway people's decisions at all or is it
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Speaker 2: a bit underwhelming?
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Speaker 6: I think the government's hoping it will sway people's decisions.
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Speaker 6: Whether it will or not, who knows. I mean, it's
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Speaker 6: really hard to tell. The government's been in a situation
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Speaker 6: over the last few months when you read some of
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Speaker 6: the social media comments and even look at some of
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Speaker 6: the polling. The polling hasn't been super bad for the government,
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Speaker 6: but a lot of comments you see from people saying
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Speaker 6: that the government's just been underwhelming absolutely that it sort
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Speaker 6: of keeps telling you that it's doing stuff but it
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Speaker 6: doesn't show or sort of actually a show is what
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Speaker 6: it is doing. There's a lot of talk and there's
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Speaker 6: a lot of defensive people sort of saying, yes, we're
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Speaker 6: doing this, that and the other thing, but you don't
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Speaker 6: actually see a lot of stuff. A lot of people
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Speaker 6: have been underwhelmed and disappointed by the government because it
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Speaker 6: was saying when it first came into power, but it
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Speaker 6: was going to get all these things done, and then
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Speaker 6: very little happened or appeared to happen. So it's just
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Speaker 6: been you just have to wait and see who knows,
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Speaker 6: who knows what can happen between now and polling day.
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Speaker 2: Humans from Australia, I thank you for your time. Beer drinkers,
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Speaker 2: by the way, will be happy. They're going to freeze
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Speaker 2: the draft beer excise indexation. That means the government misses
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Speaker 2: out on two hundred million dollars in tax revenue. It's
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Speaker 2: a win for beer drinkers, brewers and hospitality. It's five
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Speaker 2: twenty one. Why are our employers not employing that question
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Speaker 2: and maybe some answers. Next twenty three.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with
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Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens and One Roof to make your property search
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Speaker 2: Employment confidence is once again down across the country. People
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Speaker 2: struggle with job security and recruitment. The Westpact McDermott Miller
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Speaker 2: Employment Confidence Index has dropped to eighty eight point three.
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Speaker 2: This is the lowest level since September twenty twenty, a
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Speaker 2: level last scene post COVID in twenty twenty. Tom O'Neil
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Speaker 2: is an employment expert and a manager of CV dot
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Speaker 2: co dot nz and is with me this morning? Is
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Speaker 2: he indeed with me here this morning?
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Speaker 8: Oh?
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Speaker 2: There he is up there. I found to tell you
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Speaker 2: we're missing on my computer screen. Good morning to you.
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Speaker 2: Why our employers still pessimistic?
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Speaker 9: Ah, look, you know it's I think obviously we've got,
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Speaker 9: you know, the specter of tariffs from America, and I
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Speaker 9: just think it's it's the massively bad hangover of just
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Speaker 9: all the facts that have been sort of conspiring against
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Speaker 9: New Zealand over the last for the three or five years.
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Speaker 9: And it's interesting there's next messages out there. The seek
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Speaker 9: had an employment report that just came out recently, you know,
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Speaker 9: the job board, and they set after two years of
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Speaker 9: steady decline in job ed volumes, the past eight months
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Speaker 9: has been brought to be flat. Now. I know that
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Speaker 9: doesn't sound like good news. That's just some degree it's
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Speaker 9: shine that actually, you know, I think I liked to
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Speaker 9: think we've actually now flat out. And you know, as
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Speaker 9: the year progresses, and you know, as hopefully the Tara
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Speaker 9: Stone turn into something that is going to be massively
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Speaker 9: destructive for our economy, we can most fortant actually even
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Speaker 9: have a bump floater in the.
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Speaker 2: Year, hope. So a lot of people are playing for
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Speaker 2: jobs right now. But you can smell the desperation, can't you?
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Speaker 9: Oh? Absolutely absolutely. And this is the thing being a
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Speaker 9: candidate out there, you know you need to you need
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Speaker 9: to try and push that desperation down. I sort of
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Speaker 9: describe it like being a duck. You see a duck
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Speaker 9: on a lake swimming along the top half of the
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Speaker 9: duck is all nice and calming downstairs under the water,
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Speaker 9: but you know it's there to think going crazy. And
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Speaker 9: that's what we need to do when we candidates when
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Speaker 9: we going to the market. And it's a horrible thing
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Speaker 9: to say that. The end of the day, employers smell desperation.
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Speaker 9: They really really do. And so it's important during that
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Speaker 9: whole interview time, anytime in touch with employers, you just
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Speaker 9: put on that top half of the Dutch, you know,
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Speaker 9: you just put on that brave confidence failure and just
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Speaker 9: get out there.
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Speaker 2: I call it. I call it put on your big
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Speaker 2: boy pats and just go in there with confidence. Tom
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Speaker 2: O'Neil from CV dot co dot NS and thank you
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Speaker 2: so much for your time. It's five twenty six.
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Speaker 2: Talks, ITV News So Big I wanted to I'm Andrew
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Speaker 2: Dickinson for Ryan Bridge. So Auckland looks like it's doing
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Speaker 2: it again, dilly delling and decision making about big stuff.
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Speaker 2: A council advisory group has informed us at neither the
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Speaker 2: fancy waterfront stadium nor an upgrade of Eden Parker considered feasible.
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Speaker 2: The full Council still has to vote on it on Thursday,
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Speaker 2: and so we'll see if anyone has any balls to
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Speaker 2: actually do anything. Now, by not feasible, they mean not viable.
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Speaker 2: Without public funding. So we don't seem to have a
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Speaker 2: charitable billionaire in our midst so the dough would have
15:54
Speaker 2: to come from the public purse. And this is a
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Speaker 2: question that every major city wrestles with. Other cities seemed
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Speaker 2: to be braver this week. Brisbane casually announced a new
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Speaker 2: stadium to host the Olympics, calmly putting nearly four billion
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Speaker 2: dollars on the line. We are a growing nation and
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Speaker 2: we need a national stadium, and we need a venue
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Speaker 2: for the events that come, whether it's big sport or
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Speaker 2: big concerts or monster trucks. We'll see how much fun
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Speaker 2: for you Eden Park has been this week, three different
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Speaker 2: sports in one week. We need a venue that's modern,
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Speaker 2: complete and full of character and recognize around the world.
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Speaker 2: I love stadiums. I'm super excited about Canterbury's Takaha Forsyth
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Speaker 2: Bar is great and sky stadium or you need new
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Speaker 2: seats and maybe a roof. But what do I want
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Speaker 2: for Auckland now? First, I have to admit that I,
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Speaker 2: like many others, have gone to eden Park events for free,
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Speaker 2: both from eden Park and also businesses. Okay, that taken,
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Speaker 2: I would be happy for the waterfront stadium to go ahead.
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Speaker 2: We would never regret it in forty years time. I'm
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Speaker 2: also happy for an Eden Park upgrade. After all, Sydney
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Speaker 2: completely ripped down the Sydney Football Stadium and rebuilt it.
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Speaker 2: But it really is time for someone to put their
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Speaker 2: on the block and just do it. We've been talking
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Speaker 2: about this ever since the World Cup. Every city needs
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Speaker 2: a cathedral and every nation needs a national stadium, and
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Speaker 2: it needs to be iconic. Let's do it all right.
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Speaker 2: On the way, we're going to run you through the
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Speaker 2: Russian Ukraine Black Sea ceasefile, which has only just been
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Speaker 2: announced in the last forty minutes. Gavin Gray from the UK.
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Speaker 2: I'm Andrew Dickens. This is Newstalk zmb OH.
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Speaker 6: I get this in with.
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Speaker 2: Talk sid me, Thank you boy to you, Welcome to
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Speaker 2: your Wednesdays. Thank you for du I'm Andrew Dickens in prow.
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Speaker 2: I turned sixty a while ago and I realize I
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Speaker 2: have absolutely no desire to stop working. I don't want
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Speaker 2: to chill out, I don't want to retire. I like
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Speaker 2: to work. Yes, I want flexibility, and yes I want
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Speaker 2: a bit of free time to go to the beach
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Speaker 2: and have a swim. But I like work. I like
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Speaker 2: meeting people. I like feeling as though I'm productive, I'm healthy.
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Speaker 2: I feel like I'm still thirty. I'm active, I still
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Speaker 2: have experience to share. In fact, I have experience because
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Speaker 2: I'm older. I think many are like that because data
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Speaker 2: from Stats New Zealand shows there are nearly two hundred
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Speaker 2: thousand New Zealanders age sixty five or older still in
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Speaker 2: the workforce, and good on you, ninety thousand are aged
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Speaker 2: over seventy. And wait for this, there are one than
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Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty seven people aged over ninety who
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Speaker 2: are still working. Fantastic, some of that work's a bit
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Speaker 2: hefty too. Over sixty five's made up ten point three
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Speaker 2: percent of machinery operators and drivers. Eight percent of them
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Speaker 2: are laborers. Yeah, this is a white collars. Seven percent
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Speaker 2: of professionals and nine point one percent of managers. Look.
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Speaker 2: New Islanders like to work, and the older we get,
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Speaker 2: the better we get at it. So the message is
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Speaker 2: to all employers, get yourself some old guys on staff.
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Speaker 2: They're worth their weight. And gold. However, on the flip side,
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Speaker 2: it's just been announced that George Clooney has said that,
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Speaker 2: at sixty three, he is now too old to play
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Speaker 2: romantic leads, which is fair enough. I think we want
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Speaker 2: you on the tools, George, not chasing some tail that
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Speaker 2: could be your daughter. And by the way, George, I'm
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Speaker 2: not a fan of your coffee ads either. I really
19:29
Speaker 2: just don't get them. It's been two all right, let's
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Speaker 2: go right around the country. Callum Proctor joins us from Danedan.
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Speaker 2: Good morning to you. Callum, good morning. What's the shakedown
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Speaker 2: after this big shake yesterday south of Southland?
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Speaker 10: Yeah, this was the six point eight magnitude quake felt
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Speaker 10: by many here scentered west of Stuart Island that struck
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Speaker 10: at two forty three pm yesterday at a depth of
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Speaker 10: twelve kilometers. Seismologists are saying this large earthquake struck on
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Speaker 10: an area which is known to generate big shakes. There
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Speaker 10: was no threat to la but unpredictable surges and after
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Speaker 10: shocks are predicted for the coming days. Dr finn Nelsley
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Speaker 10: Kemp's from Victoria University. He says there's been two quakes
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Speaker 10: over a seven magnitude in that area since two thousand
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Speaker 10: and four, but it's an area that's poorly understood.
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Speaker 2: He says.
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Speaker 10: It's remote and offshore, so not a lot of research
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Speaker 10: has been done on it compared to the subduction zone
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Speaker 10: under the North Island.
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Speaker 2: And how's your weather?
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Speaker 10: That's mainly fine today like wins and a high of twenty.
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Speaker 2: Two crash years we go, Claire, sure were good morning
20:29
Speaker 2: to you. Good morning. One of Christtution's new charter schools
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Speaker 2: is already looking to expand.
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Speaker 11: Yes, already, Andrew, that's right. Mastery Schools in New Zealand
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Speaker 11: Ada Parky is currently sitting at sixty four students at
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Speaker 11: its new site at Hillsborough. This is after its grand
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Speaker 11: opening in February. Now it's aiming already to be opening
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Speaker 11: a year two to three class from term three of
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Speaker 11: this year. Principal Rose mcinernie says most of the original
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Speaker 11: interest had come from years four to eight students, and
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Speaker 11: that's because students in that age group are more like
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Speaker 11: to have more obvious or more awareness about learning difficulties.
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Speaker 11: But now there's increasing demand and so moving younger. Unsure
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Speaker 11: though whether they'll ever go as young as year one.
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Speaker 11: McInerney says, more people have discovered about the school and
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Speaker 11: how students are benefiting from.
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Speaker 9: The learning there.
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Speaker 2: Very cool. What a your weather?
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Speaker 11: Some cloudy periods in northeasterly is developing this morning high
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Speaker 11: of nineteen.
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Speaker 2: Max told joins me from Wellington, Hellimax, good morning. So
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Speaker 2: we've got a Wellington MP. You got stuck into the cops.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. This is a Green MP once again under
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Speaker 5: fire for comments made about the judicial system, this time
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Speaker 5: at a university panel discussion. Tamitha Paul, she's Wellington's central MP,
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Speaker 5: told this panel she'd heard nothing but complaints about police
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Speaker 5: beat controls across the country. The discussion incidentally called a
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Speaker 5: radical alternative to policing. Paul wants to see police disestablished effectively.
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Speaker 5: She believes Wellingtonians at all don't want to see offices
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Speaker 5: on the streets. In the past, Sammatha Paul has also
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Speaker 5: incorrectly claimed the vast majority of people in prison and
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Speaker 5: therefore nonviolent offenses. The Police Minister Mirk Mitchell has responded
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Speaker 5: saying Paul is talking absolute nonsense. There's very clear evidence
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Speaker 5: that people feel safer with police around, and there's been
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Speaker 5: a large decrease in violent crime in areas that their
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Speaker 5: community big teams have been deployed.
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Speaker 2: Must be lovely on her planet anyway. How's your weather?
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Speaker 5: A little cloud otherwise fine? Twenty the High Central and.
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Speaker 2: Neva Rettimano who joined us from Auckland. Hello, greetings, So
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Speaker 2: the government's being asked to turn up the tempo on Auckland.
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Speaker 12: That's right, the development. So this is Project Auckland. Now,
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Speaker 12: this is a herald lead initiative. It's kicking off later today.
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Speaker 12: Now there's going to be a speech from Infrastructure Minister
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Speaker 12: Chris Bishop. This is happening at the Northern Club. The
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Speaker 12: Project Auckland editor. Now, this is Breno O'Sullivan. We're seeing
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Speaker 12: a great deal of change in the super city, a
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Speaker 12: lot of urban rebuilds and major projects on the way.
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Speaker 12: She says, Look, the city's in a good place, and
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Speaker 12: you know we've got the projects like the City rail Link,
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Speaker 12: the International Convention Center nearing completion. So you know, really
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Speaker 12: the city in the regional deals, they provide this opportunity
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Speaker 12: to address New Zealand's infrastructure deficit. So O'Sullivan says, it
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Speaker 12: really is up to you know, Auckland Council on the government,
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Speaker 12: play nicely, play nicely and just lift that level for
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Speaker 12: the ambition here for Auckland City.
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Speaker 2: I've always seen Auckland will be great if we ever
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Speaker 2: finish it. Now, how's Hawkan's weather?
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Speaker 12: Well, morning cloud, then find another good one for us.
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Speaker 12: Twenty threes are high.
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Speaker 2: I thank you, Neva. And of course I've starting to
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Speaker 2: callum before about the earthquakes south of the South Island,
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Speaker 2: which brought warnings of excessive sea movement. Guess what We've
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Speaker 2: got more activity under the ground. Facardi White Island is
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Speaker 2: stirring fresh explosive activity at the volcano has ejected ballistic
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Speaker 2: blocks over six hundred meters from the vent. Temperature at
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Speaker 2: that vent three hundred and sixty degrees celsius. The volcanicul
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Speaker 2: level remains at two. If you live in the area,
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Speaker 2: you may notice ash and it may stink of rotten excess.
23:54
Speaker 2: The sulf is coming out. This is during northerly winds,
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Speaker 2: but otherwise the coast remains unaffected earthquakes and volcanoes. We
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Speaker 2: live in a dynamic country, at least geologically. Gavin Gray
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Speaker 2: from the UK in just a few moments time, because
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Speaker 2: about an hour ago, finally a concrete movement in the
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Speaker 2: Russian Ukraine conflict. More on netnix.
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Speaker 1: It's seventeen to six international correspondence with insign Eye Insurance
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Speaker 1: Peace of mind for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 2: This it's fourteen to six until the UK we go
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Speaker 2: and Kevin Gray joins us Hellkevin either okay, we actually
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Speaker 2: have some movement in the Ukraine Russian conflict, a ceasefire
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Speaker 2: in the Black Sea.
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Speaker 13: Yes, so we think there andrew Black Sea now should
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Speaker 13: be safe passage for commercial shipping. As the American officials
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Speaker 13: meeting with Ukraine and Russian representatives is broken up within
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Speaker 13: the last hour, and now the Ukraine is agreeing to
24:48
Speaker 13: stop any military force in the Black Sea, but it
24:52
Speaker 13: says any movement of the Russian naval vessels based of
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Speaker 13: course in Crimea and in Russia would be a breaking
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Speaker 13: of under violation of this agreement. In return, we understand
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Speaker 13: Russia is demanding that the sanctions currently in place on
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Speaker 13: the banks, the insurers, the food exporters must be lifted first.
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Speaker 13: They're demanding that before the Black Sea cease far as
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Speaker 13: it were. They also want to reconnect with SWIFT. That's
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Speaker 13: the network that facilitates secure banking and financial messaging between
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Speaker 13: banks now Zelenski. President Zelenski says if Russia violates the
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Speaker 13: treaty then he wants sanctions reimposed and more weapons. We're
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Speaker 13: expecting to find out more details later. But Andrew also
25:34
Speaker 13: with this, has of course been revelations about this chat
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Speaker 13: between JD. Vans, the numb deputy to Donald Trump, and
25:43
Speaker 13: Pete Heskeert the Defense Secretary, with Jdvans talking about freedom
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Speaker 13: of navigation and around that the bombing of the Hooties
25:51
Speaker 13: with the quote just hate bailing out the europe again,
25:54
Speaker 13: to which the Defense Secretary Pete Hesker said, I fully
25:57
Speaker 13: share your loading of European freeloading.
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Speaker 8: It's pathetic.
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Speaker 13: No news yet on a response from European leaders about that.
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Speaker 8: All right.
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Speaker 2: Now here's the thing. I even knew that the Isle
26:07
Speaker 2: of Man had its own government and they've been voting
26:09
Speaker 2: on the right to choose the right to choose to
26:12
Speaker 2: in their own lives legislation. It's been approved by the Parliament.
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Speaker 2: It can now go to Royal a scenes So tell
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Speaker 2: us about this story.
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Speaker 8: Yes, So this is a.
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Speaker 13: Large island really off Liverpool, between Central Mainland UK and
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Speaker 13: Northern Ireland, and the Isle of Man has its own
26:30
Speaker 13: legislative set of parliament, but it falls within the UK Parliament,
26:34
Speaker 13: but it does have its own rules and regulations and
26:38
Speaker 13: its own ability to make its own laws, and they
26:40
Speaker 13: are now potentially anyway going to be the first place
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Speaker 13: in the United Kingdom which allows assisted dying. Now the
26:48
Speaker 13: whole process will possibly be implemented within the next year
26:53
Speaker 13: or so, the Parliament in the Isle of Man needs
26:57
Speaker 13: to give its blessing first and that will mean it
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Speaker 13: become the first place within the British asles to allow
27:03
Speaker 13: right to die. But that has to be for people
27:06
Speaker 13: who have a prognosis left to live of twelve months
27:10
Speaker 13: or fewer. It is only available to those aged over
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Speaker 13: eighteen and in a bid to prevent what you might
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Speaker 13: call assisted dying tourism, where somebody from the Mainland who
27:19
Speaker 13: can't undergo assisted dying goes to the Isle of Man
27:22
Speaker 13: for assisted dying, there is a minimum residency period. All
27:26
Speaker 13: this comes as Whitehall, the main government for the UK,
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Speaker 13: slightly set a time tied about how it's going to
27:32
Speaker 13: approach this new law, with the latest theory that even
27:35
Speaker 13: if it gets the go ahead, it could take up
27:37
Speaker 13: to four years to implement it. Something the Isle of
27:40
Speaker 13: man seems capable of doing much faster.
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Speaker 2: Kevin Gray from the UK, I thank you. It's eleven
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Speaker 2: to six Dickens all right. The organ stadium debate, Wayne
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Speaker 2: Brown said, let's just put this to bid was hitting
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Speaker 2: up Thursday. They're going to have a council vote on this,
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Speaker 2: and the officials have received a report on the two options,
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Speaker 2: and that report warns that both eden Park and Key
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Speaker 2: Parks proposals aren't feasible without public funding. Eden Park two
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Speaker 2: point zero, for instance, will require at least one hundred
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Speaker 2: and ten million dollars alone from Central Government for its
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Speaker 2: initial stage one plan, and that's just the North stand.
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Speaker 2: So Marris Williamson is an organd councilor who will be
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Speaker 2: sitting around the table on Thursday and trying to make
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Speaker 2: a decision about all of this, and joins us our
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Speaker 2: good morning to here Morris, good funning. Of course, they're
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Speaker 2: not feasible without public investment. Wasn't that a given right
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Speaker 2: from the start?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I would have thought so. They are huge projects
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Speaker 8: with huge sums of money, and I would have thought, well,
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Speaker 8: I've still got a lot of questions, says, you can understand,
28:38
Speaker 8: we haven't had our meeting yet and one of my
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Speaker 8: questions is why are we involved in this? If these
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Speaker 8: people are going to do it themselves and they can
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Speaker 8: fund it and so on, well then we don't need
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Speaker 8: to be involved. And if we are being involved and
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Speaker 8: we're saying, well, we're not going to fund anything, it's
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Speaker 8: almost sort of a double entendre here, I.
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Speaker 2: Think absolutely, And yet Wayne Brown said put this to bed,
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Speaker 2: this this come up with a decision, and yet at
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Speaker 2: the same time it appears if you don't want to
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Speaker 2: be part of the public funding of it all, it's
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Speaker 2: never going anywhere. This has been a waste of time.
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Speaker 8: My question, I think I want to answer it on
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Speaker 8: Thursday is why are we being brought into this now?
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Speaker 8: We can obviously provide some assistance by way of consenting
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Speaker 8: and helping along the way that might assist the speed
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Speaker 8: of it, But there are huge chunks of money. If
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Speaker 8: you look at Eden Park two point one, they're talking
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Speaker 8: about five hundred million minimum to do this Stage one,
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Speaker 8: two and then the retractable roof Stage three. So again,
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Speaker 8: I mean it's pretty clear. I think the mayor has
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Speaker 8: made it clear in his statements that there will be
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Speaker 8: no funding from the council, So I guess the proposal
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Speaker 8: still got the ability to go to central government, but
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Speaker 8: I wouldn't like the chances there either.
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Speaker 2: But here's the thing. Eden Park rebranded itself as New
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Speaker 2: Zealand's national stadium, which every other stadium went what. But
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Speaker 2: that's okay, it's a branding thing. We need a national stadium.
30:05
Speaker 2: We need a focus for a country. We're what five
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Speaker 2: and a half million, it's like being a city. We're
30:10
Speaker 2: competing against Australia. Shouldn't the government actually be stepping in
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Speaker 2: and saying right, this is the main stadium for the country.
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Speaker 8: Well, much as I would love to speak on behalf
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Speaker 8: of the government and make big decisions, I really don't
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Speaker 8: think I should. It'll be up to them to decide. Now.
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Speaker 8: There are enormous economic benefits that can happen from these,
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Speaker 8: because huge events can bring in massive tourism and spending
30:36
Speaker 8: and hotel bed nights and so on. And you can
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Speaker 8: actually sometimes put a spreadsheet together which shows an investment
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Speaker 8: of a few hundred million can get you back multiple
30:46
Speaker 8: numbers of that. But that would be for central government
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Speaker 8: to make a decision. I think at Council while we're
30:51
Speaker 8: sitting on a close to fifteen billion of debt, while
30:55
Speaker 8: we're struggling to how to pay bills, and while we're
30:58
Speaker 8: trying not to make the rate payers pay rates and
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Speaker 8: increases that all make your eyes water. We really haven't
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Speaker 8: got an ability to start playing in this game as well.
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Speaker 2: And what are your constituents saying to you? What's the
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Speaker 2: public saying to you when you're out?
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Speaker 8: And about everybody I talk to is keen on Eden Park.
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Speaker 8: There's a sort of a love affair with Eden Park
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Speaker 8: based on its history, where it's been my concern about
31:22
Speaker 8: anything that was to be built down on the waterfront,
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Speaker 8: and it's a pretty sensible concern, I think, is that
31:28
Speaker 8: if you build on the waterfront, you want something that's
31:31
Speaker 8: looking out, you know, the harbor view. So you build
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Speaker 8: apartments and restaurants and hotels, and they all got their
31:39
Speaker 8: glass windows looking at their beautiful view. That's its value.
31:42
Speaker 8: But if you build a stadium, it's looking in. You
31:44
Speaker 8: go and sit down in your seat and you're looking
31:46
Speaker 8: at the grass inside. So I would have thought the
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Speaker 8: last thing you would do is build a big stadium
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Speaker 8: down on the waterfront, which is main feature is it's
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Speaker 8: phenomenal view of the most iconic harbor going. So I'm
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Speaker 8: a big fan of the old history of Eden Park.
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Speaker 8: But you know we're going to have an open mind
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Speaker 8: when we're brief. But my very first question is if
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Speaker 8: we're not funding this, why are we considering this at all?
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Speaker 2: Good question, Marris Williamson, have a good meeting on Thursday.
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Speaker 2: Text through Hospitals and infrastructure are more important than another stadium.
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Speaker 2: I think Marris Williamson is right. If the council says
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Speaker 2: they're not going to put any funding into a stadium,
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Speaker 2: and the reports here is it's not feasible without public funding,
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Speaker 2: why are you even talking about it? What a glorious
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Speaker 2: waste of time. And Mike Hoskin, you're talking to Martin Snead. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: i'd like to well, I wish I wasn't.
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Speaker 14: Not that I don't like Martin Sneddon, because I do
32:47
Speaker 14: because he's a good bloke, but I mean the irony
32:50
Speaker 14: and I do apologize to the rest of the country
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Speaker 14: this morning for literally boring them witless about yet another
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Speaker 14: inept Auckland thing that isn't going to happen. But Sneddon
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Speaker 14: was in charge of the Cup in twenty eleven, so
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Speaker 14: you know, do the math. And even then in twenty eleven,
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Speaker 14: we were talking about it then as a thing and
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Speaker 14: what we were going to do. If there's ever an
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Speaker 14: example of everything that is wrong with this country, and
33:13
Speaker 14: we've got Chris Hepkins on today to talk about this
33:16
Speaker 14: alleged cooperation on the Arima and getting things done faster,
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Speaker 14: so that'll go nowhere either. So if there's any if
33:23
Speaker 14: you ever want an example of everything that's wrong with
33:25
Speaker 14: this country, our inability to actually make a decision. Brisbane
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Speaker 14: yesterday one hundred day review and they came out with
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Speaker 14: a they said we're going to build a stadium for
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Speaker 14: the Olympics. One hundred days. We're going to do it
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Speaker 14: three point seven billion dollars. Thanks for coming. You know,
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Speaker 14: make it decision, get on with it or bugger off.
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Speaker 2: Exactly right, all right, Thank you so much. Producer Kenzie,
33:46
Speaker 2: thank you for your work today. My name Changer. I
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Speaker 2: can see you tomorrow.
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