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Full Show Podcast: 10 February 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: an earlier show with one roof love where you Live
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Speaker 1: News Talks, there'd be good morning.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to Tuesday six. After five we'll speak to an
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Speaker 2: energy sector boss on this Allen g terminal before six
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Speaker 2: this morning. Donald to Mayow in Australia for us, the
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Speaker 2: lawyer on the two hundred thousand dollars they found in
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Speaker 2: the ceiling in their home but couldn't keep the money
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Speaker 2: and top of Clay signs a new deal with the Aussies.
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Speaker 2: What's that about? We'll find out the agenda today of
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Speaker 2: tenth of February. More heat on Starmer this morning. This
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Speaker 2: is now the Scottish labor leader who's coming out against him.
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Speaker 2: A Nussawa is his name. He's calling on Starma to
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Speaker 2: stand down over mandals to the nepsteam.
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Speaker 3: The situation in Downing Street is not good enough. There
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Speaker 3: have been too many mistakes. Cure Starmer is a decent
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Speaker 3: man and it is no secret they have always got
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Speaker 3: on well with them, and he has dedicated his life
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Speaker 3: to public service. I have also dedicated myself to public
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Speaker 3: service and I need to decide what I'm willing to accept.
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Speaker 3: Are what I'm willing to tolerate.
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Speaker 2: And there's a couple of problems with him saying what
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Speaker 2: he's saying. I'll get to those shortly. Also, the PM's
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Speaker 2: in a circle fitting out. You know, yesterday we heard
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Speaker 2: about the chief staff. He's gone. Now the comms director
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Speaker 2: Tim Allen has gone too. And let's go to Japan.
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Speaker 2: Taki Ichi won with a landslide victory in the snap election.
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Speaker 2: We told you that yesterday. The top concern now, of course,
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Speaker 2: is China.
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Speaker 4: If there is an attack on Taiwan by China, that
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Speaker 4: would greatly affect Japan, and more likely than not, there
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Speaker 4: might be an intervention by the United States, and as
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Speaker 4: a treaty ally, Japan would be drawn into such a conflict.
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Speaker 4: But these sort of spats between Japan and China the
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Speaker 4: sort of ebb and flow, and it just seems to
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Speaker 4: be a sort of a never ending issue.
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Speaker 2: Would America step in though, And that's the real question
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Speaker 2: is and it let's go there. These Settle Seahawks have
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Speaker 2: won the Super Bowl, but of course no one cares
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Speaker 2: about the actual game. They're talking about the halftime performance
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Speaker 2: from Bad Bunny, Trump calling it the worst halftime show
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Speaker 2: ever for I twe.
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Speaker 5: So Chi.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, look it was a bit weird. I mean, I
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Speaker 2: don't know him as an artist, so I probably didn't
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Speaker 2: understand that Ricky Martin was there. Lady Gargo. You always
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Speaker 2: get behind a bit of Lady Gaga.
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Speaker 1: Views and views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: early edition with Bryan Bridge and one roofe Love where
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Speaker 1: you Live news talks.
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Speaker 2: He'd be like our colleague Michael, who's a straight man
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Speaker 2: that goes to Lady Gaga concerts and Taylor Swift concerts.
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Speaker 2: Very odd, very strange behavior, but he'd be into a
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Speaker 2: bit of that too, right. It's nine minutes half to five.
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Speaker 2: A little updates for you this morning, early and this
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Speaker 2: is good news to start your Tuesday. Okay, I wanted
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Speaker 2: to start with something happy, not massive news, but it's
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Speaker 2: just a little sign, a little nice piece of information
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Speaker 2: for you. Early stage angel investment. This is for small
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Speaker 2: startup businesses in New Zealand for the first time is
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Speaker 2: seeing positive growth. First time. Sin's twenty twenty one that
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Speaker 2: they have seen positive growth in early stage angel investment.
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Speaker 2: This is good. This is where great things begin. So
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Speaker 2: new deals attracted eight point six percent more capital overall.
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Speaker 2: Now the amount we're talking about, as I warned you,
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Speaker 2: not massive. It's just over thirteen million dollars. But then
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Speaker 2: they are small startups, aren't they, So they don't need
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Speaker 2: much and checks might be smaller. But more companies are
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Speaker 2: getting seated, and they reckon that the investors are holding
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Speaker 2: back for the second round hoping that they do well.
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Speaker 2: So that is good news for you, bad news because
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Speaker 2: there's always a double ed sword and you kind of
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Speaker 2: know this already. But yesterday B and Z came out
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Speaker 2: with their predictions for what the Reserve Bank is going
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Speaker 2: to do next week when they have their first OCR
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Speaker 2: review of the year, and surprise, surprise, they are saying
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Speaker 2: they will probably lift in September, so they'll hold next month,
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Speaker 2: lived in September, But they won't tell you that that's
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Speaker 2: what they're going to do because of what happened last
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Speaker 2: time where they said, yeah, we're gonna we're gonna lower
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Speaker 2: the rate, but then we're probably going to increase it
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Speaker 2: again later and everyone went, well, hang on, that undoes
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Speaker 2: undoes everything that you've just done. So they're not going
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Speaker 2: to make that mistake again, predicts B and Z. By
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Speaker 2: the way, the OCR, if you haven't caught up two
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Speaker 2: point two five percent at the moment, and the market's
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Speaker 2: pricing in a seventy five percent chance of a jump
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Speaker 2: by September. That would take us to two and a
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Speaker 2: half percent. Time is eleven after five, Brian, I'm fascinated
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Speaker 2: by the story out of America. You know Annie Guthrie,
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Speaker 2: who's a very famous newsreader, morning news TV presenter in
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Speaker 2: America and gets kidnapped in the middle of the night,
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Speaker 2: seven now, eight days on. How do they not know
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Speaker 2: anything about where she is, where she's gone. There's no cars,
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Speaker 2: there's no suspects. I'll running through those details shortly eleven
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Speaker 2: after five, The.
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Speaker 1: News you need this morning and the in depth analysis
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Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and one Root Love Where
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Speaker 1: you Live News Talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be just before six News Talks AB it's thirteen
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Speaker 2: minutes after five, just before six, we will talk about
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Speaker 2: this new al terminal that the government announced yesterday. If
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Speaker 2: you didn't catch the press conference, there was a lot
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Speaker 2: of this talk is type of talk coming from the
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Speaker 2: Prime Minister.
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Speaker 6: And as a result, and so it's an and and.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an and and and result that we're getting
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Speaker 2: apparently out of this LNG terminal in Tantanhago that.
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Speaker 7: Will be subject to commercial negotion negation which is underway.
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Speaker 3: But you're looking at north of a billion dollars okay,
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Speaker 3: four four.
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Speaker 4: And fifty million, and savings a year, sorry, savings in
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Speaker 4: terms of net savings, so that is benefits are less.
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Speaker 4: Costs in the region are two hundred and seventy five
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Speaker 4: million dollars.
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Speaker 2: Now we're not quite sure about that number. That was
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Speaker 2: Simon Watt's Energy minister. We're not quite sure about that
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Speaker 2: number because it's all based on advice and advice courses
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Speaker 2: often not that reliable. We'll talk to John Carnegie, whose
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Speaker 2: energy resources are tore to are after just before six
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Speaker 2: o'clock this morning.
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Speaker 1: Bryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: First, though, the government signed a new standards agreement with Australia.
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Speaker 2: It covers areas like AI, data management and cybersecurity. Scott
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Speaker 2: Simpson did this. He's our Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister.
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Speaker 2: He says it's going to lower costs for businesses. Brad
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Speaker 2: Olson Informetrics with us this morning. Hey Brad, good morning,
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Speaker 2: what is it? What is this thing?
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Speaker 5: Well, it's effectively making sure that all of this sort
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Speaker 5: of real base level standards. So the various things that
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Speaker 5: businesses have to do when they're operating in either New
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Speaker 5: Zealand or Australia are aligned. So if you're you know,
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Speaker 5: someone who's offering services or try and offer services in
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Speaker 5: both countries, you don't want to have to fill out
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Speaker 5: two sets of paperwork and sort of conform to two
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Speaker 5: different standards to do effectively the same work. We're so
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Speaker 5: close with Australia. They are one of our biggest trading partners,
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Speaker 5: certainly in the services industry, and so effectively this is
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Speaker 5: meant to allow a lot of businesses who do with
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Speaker 5: trans Tasmin to do that a whole lot more efficiently. Whereas,
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Speaker 5: and this is the challenge that we continue to hear
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Speaker 5: from businesses otherwise sort of start doing all that paperwork.
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Speaker 5: They're trying to sort of figure out how they do
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Speaker 5: the base stuff. They don't actually have the time to
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Speaker 5: do actual work and then make money. So this is
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Speaker 5: a good move. It's not something that I don't think
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Speaker 5: consumers are going to notice a whole lot. They're not
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Speaker 5: going to be looking at ENZ Standard three zero one
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Speaker 5: eighty five, but it's going to make a difference to
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Speaker 5: businesses not having all that admin to do in the background.
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Speaker 2: Which way does more business go trans tasmin wise from
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Speaker 2: US to them or them to us.
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Speaker 5: Looking at services activity, the Australia is the second largest
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Speaker 5: export or area that we export our services too, so
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Speaker 5: we send services over there now that includes things like
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Speaker 5: tourism as well. And it's a little bit tricky on
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Speaker 5: the services side to break down other bits and pieces,
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Speaker 5: but in terms of overall trade they're sort of second
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Speaker 5: or third largest after China and the US, so they
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Speaker 5: are vitally important. And I think the other big reason
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Speaker 5: that these sort of changes make such a difference is
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Speaker 5: because we've obviously seen such a big flow of New
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Speaker 5: Zealanders who go across to Australia and they sort of
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Speaker 5: often take their skills at points in the past, maybe
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Speaker 5: not so much at the moment, but they do often
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Speaker 5: then come back or you know, have families back in
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Speaker 5: New Zealand and the like. So there is some real
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Speaker 5: importance here and some of the areas that the government
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Speaker 5: are noting they should make a bit of a difference
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Speaker 5: under the hood for a lot of businesses. You know,
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Speaker 5: you're talking about the likes of electrical installations, you're looking
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Speaker 5: at civil engineering, you know, parts around building design and construction,
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Speaker 5: And probably the biggest one is that there's actually twenty
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Speaker 5: four standards that previously we had in certain areas that
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Speaker 5: we sort of got out of kilter. The Aussies went
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Speaker 5: one way, we'd gone another, and so again you're probably
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Speaker 5: having businesses out there that are effectively having to employ
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Speaker 5: a whole other person just to sort out the paperwork
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Speaker 5: on this stuff. Now at least they'll be a little
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Speaker 5: bit more aligned. And look, talking of businesses, there's a
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Speaker 5: whole lot of stuff they want to do more, better, faster, stronger,
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Speaker 5: But these sort of things they are the I guess
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Speaker 5: that the main app below the surface issue that if
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Speaker 5: you don't get them right, they're just such an immediate
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Speaker 5: barrier to a lot of businesses. Oftentimes people go, it's
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Speaker 5: not worth it to do that work. So this should
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Speaker 5: free up a lot of capacity across the system as
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Speaker 5: we go forward.
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Speaker 2: All right, Brad, appreciate that update this morning, Brad Elson Informetrics.
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Speaker 2: It is eighteen minutes half five, Ryan Bridge, Ryan bad bunny.
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Speaker 2: You must be getting old if you don't know who
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Speaker 2: that is, And yeah, I mean I'm not that old, bust.
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Speaker 2: It must be getting a bit. But even Mackenzie, he's
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Speaker 2: a producer. She doesn't know and she's like just got
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Speaker 2: out of school A Kent's she doesn't know who he
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Speaker 2: is are it doesn't know much about him. Someone here
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Speaker 2: was saying it was most of it was pre filmed,
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Speaker 2: but it was a great show. Yeah, I mean into
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Speaker 2: each of their own I suppose, And you can I
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Speaker 2: guess it's halftime, so you can always just go make
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Speaker 2: a cup of tea, can't you. Eighteen minutes after five
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Speaker 2: News Talks AB did you hear about that couple that
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Speaker 2: found two hundred thousand dollars in cash in the roof
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Speaker 2: of their home and first thing they did was ring
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Speaker 2: the police. Now they want a bit of the money,
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Speaker 2: thank you very much, but they can't have it. We'll
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Speaker 2: speak to a former copp And lawyer.
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Speaker 1: Next, the first Word on the News of the Day
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Speaker 1: Early edition with Ryan Bridge and One Route Love Where
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Speaker 1: You Live, News.
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Speaker 2: Talks B News Talk SAIB. It's five twenty one over.
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Speaker 2: You might have heard about it this in America, but
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Speaker 2: they the American military started giving because they had such
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Speaker 2: a problem with soldiers coming home with PTSD. They started
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Speaker 2: giving and trialing MDMA treatments. For returning servicemen and women,
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Speaker 2: and actually turns out it is quite an effective medication.
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Speaker 2: The Australian government is just putting a whole bunch of
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Speaker 2: money into doing this. We'll talk to Donnal tomorrow, who's
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Speaker 2: our Australia correspondent to back Quarter to six, find out
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Speaker 2: exactly what they're doing there, whether we should maybe look
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Speaker 2: at doing something similar here if needs be. Bran brich
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Speaker 2: shaw I mentioned this earlier fascinating story about any Guthrie
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Speaker 2: over in the US. We're now and her mum, Nancy,
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Speaker 2: who's eighty four years old, who was kidnapped middle of
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Speaker 2: the night from her home and Tucson in Arizona, nice
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Speaker 2: little rural looking property just from the photos that you
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Speaker 2: can see of it. So we're now entering day eight
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Speaker 2: of her being kidnapped, and they have this is the FBI,
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Speaker 2: no suspects and no leads. How can you And it
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Speaker 2: just baffles the mind. And you know, with all the
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Speaker 2: modern technology and all the cameras, they don't even have
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Speaker 2: a vehicle of interest. Now the FBI was seen searching
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Speaker 2: any Guthrie's home. That's the daughter the newsreader, the famous
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Speaker 2: one from the Today Show over in America, seen searching
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Speaker 2: her home she lives about. Her house is about six
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Speaker 2: k's from her mum's house. January thirty, first taken in
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Speaker 2: the middle of the night. They suspect no vehicles identified.
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Speaker 2: Ransom note was sent to the media. It gave some
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Speaker 2: dates of pay us this amount by this date, etc.
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Speaker 2: Second date apparently to pay is coming up to day,
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Speaker 2: but they still have no idea where it's come from.
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Speaker 2: There was blood nancymer Nancy's blood was found in a
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Speaker 2: trail on the front porch, the front door. You know,
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Speaker 2: you have your doorbell and it has a ring camera
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Speaker 2: in it that was actually removed. That might have given
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Speaker 2: them some clothes that was gone. Nancy had a pacemaker,
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Speaker 2: And this part is fascinating too because you can't you
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Speaker 2: can't actually use a pacemaker, although it's a technological device.
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Speaker 2: You can't track a person using a pacemaker, but you
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Speaker 2: can tell a few other things about them, including obviously
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Speaker 2: their heart activity. And you remember the actor Gene Hackman
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Speaker 2: who died and everyone was sort of baffling for a while,
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Speaker 2: and they used his pacemaker to figure out that he
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Speaker 2: died ten days before they found his body. So they're
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Speaker 2: using the pacemaker to try and figure out, you know,
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Speaker 2: what was her heart rate like, what was her heart
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Speaker 2: activity like, But they can't actually track her using the pacemaker.
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Speaker 2: Forgive me, I Savannah Guthrie is her name. I've confused
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Speaker 2: her with the sister that's the news reader, but the
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Speaker 2: mom is Nancy. Someone's just texting to clarify. I appreciate
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Speaker 2: that so baffling that they still have no idea. Well,
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Speaker 2: at least they're not telling us that they have any
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Speaker 2: clues into where the eighty four year old Nancy is.
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Speaker 2: Twenty four minutes after five, News Talks, aid B, I'll
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Speaker 2: run you through the Alleen g terminal decision when we
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Speaker 2: come back. You're on news Talk SEB. By the way,
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Speaker 2: we won't be talking to the former police officer come
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Speaker 2: lawyer about the two hundred thousand dollars found in this selling,
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Speaker 2: but we may bring you some more detail on that
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Speaker 2: afternoons at five point thirty the.
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Speaker 1: Early Edition Full show podcast on Irradio Power by News.
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Speaker 2: Talks ATV five twenty six. This government's running into similar problems.
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Speaker 2: I reckon is to send us one did on energy.
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Speaker 2: They're getting too much advice, official advice, and too many reports.
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Speaker 2: The problem when you ask the experts for advice on
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Speaker 2: every thought that pops into your head is that they
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Speaker 2: tend to agree with it, and if they don't, you
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Speaker 2: tend to ignore them. And what does that tell you
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Speaker 2: about the need for the advice in the first place.
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Speaker 2: The latest case in point is this alng terminal in
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Speaker 2: Tartanaki billion bucks. They reckon it's going to cost we'll
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Speaker 2: all be paying a levy on our power bills to
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Speaker 2: fund it, though they reckon we'll save in the long run.
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Speaker 2: Big announcement at the Beehive Theater at yesterday and the
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Speaker 2: official advice from MB and the rest was that this
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Speaker 2: is the way to go. This will save us all
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Speaker 2: on our bridge apparently fifty bucks a year on electricity
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Speaker 2: if we're lucky. Because remember, as with all advice, there
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Speaker 2: are caveats. The caveats are depends on this, depends on that.
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Speaker 2: So we've got an announcement. We hope for the best,
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Speaker 2: and this thing will be built. Come hallo high water
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Speaker 2: bar a change in government. By twenty twenty seven, when
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Speaker 2: the wind don't blow and the sun don't shine, we
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Speaker 2: will import along and keep the lights on. That's the theory.
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Speaker 2: But last year we had the Frontier Economics report, same issue,
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Speaker 2: different set of advisors. They were an independent global consultancy
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Speaker 2: crowd looking at the wider market. What they said about
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Speaker 2: ALNG was quite different. They told us it would basically
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Speaker 2: be a dumb idea to build an import terminal because
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Speaker 2: you've got a massive fixed cost that you then spread
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Speaker 2: over a relatively small amount of output because you're only
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Speaker 2: using this as a backup, and you can't sell an
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Speaker 2: ALNG terminal once you've finished with it and you have
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Speaker 2: no need for it anymore. These particular advisors made the
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Speaker 2: point it's quite a specific piece of kit, isn't It
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Speaker 2: could well turn into one of this country's biggest white
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Speaker 2: elephant investments. Yet here we are less than a year later,
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Speaker 2: with a different set of advice and a different plan.
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Speaker 2: There's no doubt the country needs a plan to deal
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Speaker 2: with energy security. Everyone knows that. But depending on who
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Speaker 2: you ask, this is either brilliant or batshit. Bryan Bridge,
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Speaker 2: it is twenty eight minutes after five. I mentioned earlier
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Speaker 2: about the Scottish labor leader who's saying Starma needs to
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Speaker 2: go because the whole Mandelson issues become a distraction. Well,
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Speaker 2: there's two reasons to maybe take what he says with
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Speaker 2: the grain of salt. One is that he has himself
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Speaker 2: said he used to he was an old mate of Mandelssyn's,
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Speaker 2: so I mean, go figure, would he not have appointed
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Speaker 2: him to the same job. The other reason is that
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Speaker 2: he's got an election coming up in May, and certainly
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Speaker 2: the tenor of the question that he was being this
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Speaker 2: is Arnus Sawa, the Scottish Labor Leader. The tenor of
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Speaker 2: the questions was, are you sure you're not just butt
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Speaker 2: covering here in case you lose that election and you
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Speaker 2: need someone that you had that you could blame for
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Speaker 2: that loss. A starmer getting in the way. So a
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Speaker 2: couple of reasons to be a little skeptical and maybe
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Speaker 2: not quite the drama that we thought it might be
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Speaker 2: with the Scottish Labor Leader this morning, coming up to
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Speaker 2: half pass to our Ossie Corry.
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Speaker 8: Next you're in.
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Speaker 1: Get Ahead of the Headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and one roof Love.
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Speaker 2: Where you live used talks, it'd be pretty far away
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Speaker 2: from the six News talks. It'd be on your Tuesday morning.
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Speaker 2: Great to have your company. We'll speak to Donald tomorrow
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Speaker 2: out of Australia shortly. Also, energy was also zelted or
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Speaker 2: on this LNG terminal in Taranaki that we will hope
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Speaker 2: to have by twenty twenty seven. Lots of feedback on this,
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Speaker 2: Mike says, morning, Ryan, How on earth are we going
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Speaker 2: to build this terminal before twenty twenty seven when it's
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Speaker 2: taken three years to do a widening of a motorway
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Speaker 2: exercise near Drury in Oakland? Good point, But this from
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Speaker 2: another text at Ryan, I work for a big gas
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Speaker 2: company that has been part of this ALERNG process, and
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Speaker 2: so much work has already gone into the project. Yes,
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Speaker 2: there is a risk, but isn't it worth it if
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Speaker 2: it gives energy security over winter months and leads to
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Speaker 2: savings for each household? Yeah? That I mean, that is
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Speaker 2: definitely the argument for it. And if you look at
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Speaker 2: Labour's solution, labor solution was basically Lake Onslow, which was
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Speaker 2: somewhere between eight they weren't quite sure, but somewhere between
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Speaker 2: eight and potentially as much as twenty eight billion dollars
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Speaker 2: to do Lake Onslow, and the timeframe to build it
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Speaker 2: was seven to nine years twenty three to six in
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Speaker 2: bread Brech go to our reporters color and to need morning, Colum.
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Speaker 4: Morning.
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Speaker 2: Right now, this new dialysis unit in south and sounds
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Speaker 2: like good news, Yes it is.
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Speaker 7: It's a new purpose built unit at open yesterday at
19:06
Speaker 7: Invercargo's Southern Hospital and what it offers is five treatment
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Speaker 7: spaces for outpatients and eligible in patients along with the
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Speaker 7: dedicated area for dialysis training and follow up care. The
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Speaker 7: Health Minister, Simeon Brown says the facility marks a major
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Speaker 7: step forward for renal care in the South and he
19:23
Speaker 7: says many southend Is up until now have had to
19:26
Speaker 7: travel to Dunedin three times a week for dialysis up
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Speaker 7: until now, so those days are gone. This new unit
19:34
Speaker 7: increases patient capacity from two chairs to five. It supports
19:37
Speaker 7: six to eight patients weekly. The numbers are expected to
19:39
Speaker 7: grow ryan over the next six months.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather.
19:44
Speaker 7: Both for in Vicargol and Andeede An occasional rain possibly
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Speaker 7: heavy this afternoon in Cargo twenty one and twenty.
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Speaker 2: Two today, nice one, cheers Callum and clear and christ
19:53
Speaker 2: this morning.
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Speaker 9: Claire, good morning.
19:54
Speaker 2: Hey, what's going on in the central city.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, we've got a police guard in place outside April
20:00
Speaker 10: on Fitzgerald Avenue. Police were called to a block of
20:03
Speaker 10: flats there just south of the Beeley Avenue intersection. Just
20:06
Speaker 10: after midday yesterday, a man was found at the scene
20:09
Speaker 10: in a critical condition. Initial reports suggests one person was
20:13
Speaker 10: taken into custody. There are also reports a rubbish truck
20:16
Speaker 10: driver was seen doing first aid on a man lying
20:19
Speaker 10: out the front of the property. Detective Sergeant Caroline Johnson
20:23
Speaker 10: says police do have increased visibility in the area overnight
20:27
Speaker 10: and today while a scene examination is continuing. She does
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Speaker 10: say there's no indication of any ongoing risk to the
20:33
Speaker 10: wider public.
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Speaker 2: All right, and how's your weather.
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Speaker 10: A bit of cloud about this morning, but clearing to
20:37
Speaker 10: mainly fine, A bit of passing high cloud northeasterly's turning
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Speaker 10: northwest late and the high should be twenty seven.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Claire. Morning Max, Good morning. Andrew Little's had
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Speaker 2: his meeting with the PM.
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Speaker 10: What do we know?
20:50
Speaker 6: Yeah, he met with Chris Luxan last night. It seems
20:54
Speaker 6: Andrew Little did get his wish that the government will
20:56
Speaker 6: initiate an independent requiry regarding the awful sewage leakun Wastewater
21:01
Speaker 6: Treatment plant debacle. Remediation work at the plant won't even
21:05
Speaker 6: start for a few weeks. They're still cleaning the things
21:07
Speaker 6: they can get in there and look at what went wrong.
21:10
Speaker 2: What did go wrong?
21:11
Speaker 6: Apparently, Yeah, we need an investigation to really dig into
21:13
Speaker 6: it because we still have no real idea why this
21:16
Speaker 6: plant stopped working and tens of millions of liters of
21:19
Speaker 6: the rural sewage flowed into the sea for several days
21:22
Speaker 6: in a row. Also important, says Andrew Little, is making
21:25
Speaker 6: sure the council looks after people on the south coast
21:27
Speaker 6: odor minimizing measures. Apparently, public health information being distributed regularly.
21:33
Speaker 6: No update on Polyduo, which you covered yesterday. It does
21:37
Speaker 6: seem though that the overflow there has stopped. The teams
21:39
Speaker 6: are still monitoring the site along manor Esplanade. All right,
21:43
Speaker 6: how's your weather mostly find strong and northern least twenty
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Speaker 6: one okay.
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Speaker 2: Max, thank you and neighbors and Auckland morning.
21:49
Speaker 9: Now, good morning.
21:50
Speaker 2: You have a South Auckland Business Association who says, surprise, surprise,
21:55
Speaker 2: Auckland Transport's got too many regulations.
21:57
Speaker 11: Well, that's right, and delaying the installation of CCTV cameras. Now,
22:02
Speaker 11: the witty business association claims, look these at rules. Uh,
22:06
Speaker 11: this is around encroachment on roads. Which means a process
22:10
Speaker 11: used to take days now takes months. So Gary Holmes,
22:14
Speaker 11: he's the general manager, saying that there's a lot of
22:16
Speaker 11: technical reports that need to be carried out. He says, look,
22:19
Speaker 11: there's a particular camera which has been delayed for months,
22:22
Speaker 11: and Homes says they want to target a specific intersection
22:25
Speaker 11: there in Witty which sees burnouts from boy races. So
22:28
Speaker 11: a bit frustrating for those guys. Delay delay, delay, Yeah, and.
22:31
Speaker 2: What's the delay? Why are they being delayed? That just
22:34
Speaker 2: computer says no type things.
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Speaker 11: I'm not sure about that. I mean we are news
22:37
Speaker 11: apparently has gone to AT because this is all to
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Speaker 11: do with.
22:40
Speaker 2: AT, and for me, they'll do a statement terribly.
22:45
Speaker 11: We're still waiting because I said, what's going on there? Well,
22:48
Speaker 11: we have gone to AT. We're just waiting. Went oh yeah, okay,
22:52
Speaker 11: don't hold your breath.
22:53
Speaker 2: Do AT will Well? Wayne Brown would have blown AT
22:56
Speaker 2: up before you get a response from the money. How's
22:59
Speaker 2: that weather, Bartley?
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Speaker 9: Cloudy?
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Speaker 11: Still muggy? Twenty seven is a high here at Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Nice one, never thank you. It is nineteen minutes away
23:06
Speaker 2: from six. Now we'll get to Donald Demo out of Australia.
23:08
Speaker 1: Next International correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of
23:12
Speaker 1: Mind for New Zealand Business six stand.
23:15
Speaker 2: Away from sixth on Newstalk ZIB, we'll go to Donnadamayo,
23:18
Speaker 2: our Australia correspondent. Donna, good morning, good morning to you.
23:22
Speaker 2: Tell us about the money that's going to help veterans,
23:25
Speaker 2: and this is the transition from military life to civilian
23:29
Speaker 2: life and quite an interesting drug that they're looking at here.
23:34
Speaker 12: They're going to spend seven hundred and thirty nine million dollars.
23:38
Speaker 12: This is a huge package, a huge announcement and the
23:41
Speaker 12: Department of Veteran Affairs says that it will fund quite
23:44
Speaker 12: a number of different ideas and concepts and including funding
23:50
Speaker 12: of medicinal cannabis but also psychedelic treatments such as MDMA
23:56
Speaker 12: treatments and combined with intensive psychotherapy. And they want to
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Speaker 12: help veterans who are suffering with PTSD. So these other offerings,
24:08
Speaker 12: I suppose it will include yoga and they'll be serf therapy,
24:13
Speaker 12: they'll be cooking lessons apparently and short courses. I'm not
24:16
Speaker 12: sure exactly what in but they also may develop other
24:21
Speaker 12: modern treatments, so very interesting to hear what they might
24:25
Speaker 12: develop with that.
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Speaker 8: Quite a hefty sum of money.
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Speaker 12: Now, this is in response to a Royal Commission into
24:31
Speaker 12: Defense and Veterans suicide, and the commission found that better
24:35
Speaker 12: support is desperately needed for service people who are transitioning
24:38
Speaker 12: out of defense, and the department's chief psychiatrists actually said
24:43
Speaker 12: that helping veterans find new purpose is what's actually quite
24:48
Speaker 12: critical for them, and it's very important that these earlier
24:52
Speaker 12: interventions are implemented and they're desperately needed before their conditions
24:58
Speaker 12: deteriorate or even become chronic.
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Speaker 2: There's a hell of a lot of money, isn't that.
25:02
Speaker 2: But as you say, it's one of those issues we've
25:05
Speaker 2: spoken about before where it bubbles away and it bubbles away,
25:08
Speaker 2: and no one wants to see the suicides that you
25:11
Speaker 2: see within military families. So doing something.
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Speaker 12: About it absolutely absolutely, Yes, I mean to be commended in.
25:18
Speaker 8: A way of course.
25:19
Speaker 2: Yeah. Now tell us about that they're trying to help.
25:21
Speaker 2: They are. Tell us about this investigation into conditions on
25:24
Speaker 2: a luxury cruise liner in Darwin.
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Speaker 8: I found this fascinating. I hope you do too.
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Speaker 12: Investigators from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.
25:32
Speaker 8: Have boarded a luxury cruise ship. It's called the Carnival Encounter.
25:36
Speaker 8: It's Doctor Darwin.
25:38
Speaker 12: And we've heard via the ABC that the Maritime Union
25:41
Speaker 12: of Australia says there've been reports.
25:43
Speaker 8: From an anonymous crew member mind you on board.
25:46
Speaker 12: These allegations are that workers are being forced to live
25:48
Speaker 12: in overcrowded conditions below deck without safe drinking water. Now
25:54
Speaker 12: I don't know, it's a bit of a human right
25:55
Speaker 12: as far as I'm aware.
25:57
Speaker 8: They are allowed.
25:59
Speaker 12: To or they get access to safe water by buying it,
26:02
Speaker 12: but wait for it, they're paid as little as two
26:05
Speaker 12: dollars fifty.
26:06
Speaker 8: An hour allegedly.
26:07
Speaker 12: Now the Maritime Authority has confirmed it's now looking into
26:11
Speaker 12: these claims related to workers welfare, and we've heard further
26:14
Speaker 12: from a union spokesperson that over the last six months
26:17
Speaker 12: there've been hundreds of complaints about this particular international cruise
26:22
Speaker 12: line and workers have described horrifying conditions.
26:26
Speaker 8: These allegations include crew.
26:27
Speaker 12: Members forced to work despite suffering from serious illnesses. Now
26:32
Speaker 12: the union is claiming the company uses a loophole to
26:35
Speaker 12: employ foreign workers who are excluded from Australia's employment laws.
26:41
Speaker 12: So interesting to hear what investigators find after they've boordered
26:45
Speaker 12: that luxury cruise ship.
26:47
Speaker 2: And thank you, Donna. Donald Demara, Australia Correspondent thirteen to six.
26:50
Speaker 2: Ryan brig Government's given the all creator build and ling
26:53
Speaker 2: import facility. This is to help with energy security in
26:56
Speaker 2: the dry years. It will cost north of a billion dollars,
26:59
Speaker 2: hopefully set up in tallahak you by next year or
27:02
Speaker 2: early twenty twenty eight. John Carnegie is Energy Resources down
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Speaker 2: to at chieved executive with me this morning, John, Good morning, Yes,
27:08
Speaker 2: good morning. Your thoughts on that?
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Speaker 13: Oh, well, look, we think it's a necessary dry year
27:13
Speaker 13: insurance policy that's required because New Zealand actually faces a
27:17
Speaker 13: massive fuel shortage with lower than anticipated domestic gas supply
27:22
Speaker 13: and the constant risk of dry years.
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Speaker 2: Is the LNG terminal the right call, though, because that
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Speaker 2: Frontier Economics report last year said it could be basically
27:32
Speaker 2: a white elephant. You've spent a billion bucks on this thing,
27:35
Speaker 2: and then what do you do with it after?
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Speaker 13: Oh, look, there's obviously a large upfront infrastructure costs of this,
27:42
Speaker 13: but officials have assured us all that this is going
27:47
Speaker 13: to be more than offset by the downward pressure on
27:50
Speaker 13: future wholesale electricity prices and are reduced and will reduce
27:55
Speaker 13: the risk premium in our years. So what this investment
27:59
Speaker 13: will affect we do is take the heat out of
28:01
Speaker 13: the electricity market and lower peak prices compared to those
28:05
Speaker 13: without the investment. And of course this is great news
28:08
Speaker 13: for anyone who cares about our major industrials, our energy
28:12
Speaker 13: intensive industries which will benefit from both moderated future electricity
28:17
Speaker 13: prices in dry years and the potential availability of freed
28:20
Speaker 13: up domestic domestic natural gas.
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Speaker 2: Will this stop the do you think will stop the
28:26
Speaker 2: closures the plant closures?
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Speaker 13: Well, it will certainly contribute to doing that, you know,
28:33
Speaker 13: It's certainly not a silver bullet, but it will take
28:38
Speaker 13: some stress off while we work to bring more domestic
28:41
Speaker 13: gas online in a medium term. And I think what
28:45
Speaker 13: we know is that New Zealand's energy system will be
28:49
Speaker 13: at its most effective when renewable generation and firming fuels
28:53
Speaker 13: like energy and domestic natural gas actually work in harmony.
28:57
Speaker 13: And we need to stop having binary good deth This
29:00
Speaker 13: is bad conversations. All fuel options need to be on
29:03
Speaker 13: the table.
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Speaker 2: John, Why don't your members pay for stuff like this?
29:07
Speaker 2: Why do we users have to pay a levy?
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Speaker 13: Yeah, well, I mean, I think the key thing is
29:14
Speaker 13: that it's the reason the crown has a role here
29:19
Speaker 13: is an acknowledgment, due to the absence of cross party support,
29:24
Speaker 13: that this vital investment wouldn't actually proceed without the Crown
29:28
Speaker 13: taking a position to secure it. So, you know, it's
29:33
Speaker 13: just a recognition that the market risk of an investor
29:37
Speaker 13: to come in and invest a billion dollars with the
29:40
Speaker 13: prospect that, however, many years later, it might become a
29:44
Speaker 13: white elephant due to government policy settings just predicates the
29:50
Speaker 13: needs of the ground to be involved.
29:51
Speaker 2: But won't it. So you're saying, if because our politicians
29:54
Speaker 2: can't agree on stuff, we're having to pay.
29:57
Speaker 13: For it, well we'd have to pay for for it
30:00
Speaker 13: anyway in all likelihood with our declining supply of domestic gas.
30:06
Speaker 13: And what this what the crown's involvement is just to
30:11
Speaker 13: bring it, to bring it forward, to provide the investor
30:14
Speaker 13: with the eventual investor, with some comfort.
30:17
Speaker 2: Is it not because does the government not have to
30:19
Speaker 2: get involved because no private investor would do this because
30:23
Speaker 2: it will become a white elephant because our energy security
30:26
Speaker 2: problem is a medium term not a long term one.
30:29
Speaker 13: Oh lookly, yeah, there are a lot of earth and
30:31
Speaker 13: buts in their rhyme. As I said, I think what
30:35
Speaker 13: we need is system.
30:37
Speaker 2: Ji, can I ask you when as it stands, Yes,
30:41
Speaker 2: I know that, But as it stands, how far do
30:43
Speaker 2: we need to leap to to get you know, to
30:46
Speaker 2: bridge this gap? How big is the gap? When will
30:48
Speaker 2: we have enough energy security or do we just need
30:50
Speaker 2: to keep adding and you know forever in the in
30:53
Speaker 2: the day.
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Speaker 13: Well, I mean, the good news is that we're growing
30:59
Speaker 13: our renewable base. But the issue was growing more renewables
31:03
Speaker 13: such as wind and solar and batteries, is that their
31:06
Speaker 13: growth also by definition exacerbates the problem of being too
31:10
Speaker 13: weather depend them. So actually, what we do need is
31:12
Speaker 13: a reliable fuel, and we will always need a reliable
31:16
Speaker 13: fuel to fill the gaps which domestic and natural guests
31:20
Speaker 13: previously filled. And you know, eventually we will get other fuels,
31:24
Speaker 13: We will get biomass and biomethane and all the alternatives,
31:30
Speaker 13: but at the moment it falls to domestic natural gas
31:36
Speaker 13: and daring gen.
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Speaker 2: John, appreciate your time this morning, John Carnegie Energy Resources
31:40
Speaker 2: are our chief executive. It's eight to six news talk,
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Speaker 2: said b.
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Speaker 2: News talk s ed B five to six. Glain Maxwell
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Speaker 2: the Houseover Committee today on EPSTEIN, but we won't get
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Speaker 2: to see it. They might relex latest and footage. Anyway,
32:05
Speaker 2: She's expected to deplete the fifth so they won't say much.
32:07
Speaker 2: But this was they were talking about the Clinton's coming
32:11
Speaker 2: in for a grilling, so they got her and for
32:13
Speaker 2: a grilling about the Clinton's coming in for a grilling.
32:15
Speaker 2: And now that Clintons have said they will come in,
32:16
Speaker 2: so the whole thing seems to be a waste of time. Anyway, Mike,
32:19
Speaker 2: good morning, greetings, How are we very well?
32:22
Speaker 9: In a couple of questions for you around the LNG.
32:24
Speaker 9: First of all, how's it taken us so long to
32:27
Speaker 9: get here? Because you'll remember Simme and Brown when he
32:29
Speaker 9: was the Energy Minister in the winter of twenty four
32:33
Speaker 9: said I reckon we should do something about LNGM We
32:36
Speaker 9: felt fair enough, why not? And so here we are
32:38
Speaker 9: a year and a half, almost two years later, for
32:41
Speaker 9: just what really is an announcement and nothing more than
32:43
Speaker 9: that second second point. Second point is do you honestly
32:47
Speaker 9: believe they can build a facility by next year.
32:49
Speaker 2: Well that's what our texts is saying. This is not
32:52
Speaker 2: a hope.
32:52
Speaker 9: And I mean sure they're being sort of it already
32:55
Speaker 9: there and they need to put a flag on top.
32:57
Speaker 9: There is no way we're building something in this country
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Speaker 9: ambitious within a year.
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Speaker 2: But also and remembering them interim, we had the report
33:05
Speaker 2: from Frontier Economics last which said the opposite said it
33:09
Speaker 2: would be a white elephant, don't build it.
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Speaker 9: Next problem and it wasn't dealt with in the press
33:12
Speaker 9: conference yesterday, yet again let down by the media of
33:15
Speaker 9: this country. First question, you ask, if you're going to
33:18
Speaker 9: build a facility that you're going to dip into the
33:21
Speaker 9: LNG market periodically, just what level of availability is there
33:25
Speaker 9: an LLERG Because one of the things you should know
33:27
Speaker 9: about Australia, the Eastern Seaboard has a lot of trouble
33:30
Speaker 9: with allergy getting it out of West Australia because the
33:32
Speaker 9: West Australians are very keen on selling it to the
33:34
Speaker 9: world at much higher prices than the Eastern Seaboard's prepared
33:37
Speaker 9: to pay. So along comes New Zealand in the middle
33:40
Speaker 9: of some dry winter and goes, hello, we want some Yeah, exactly,
33:43
Speaker 9: they pay through the notes exactly. I mean, how much
33:46
Speaker 9: are we paying for that if they work that out?
33:47
Speaker 9: And of course the answer is they haven't, And how
33:49
Speaker 9: much is it going to save us a dollar or
33:51
Speaker 9: a week? That's the hopefully should everyone be paying for
33:55
Speaker 9: it as post?
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Speaker 2: But then we can't just do nothing, can we? That?
33:57
Speaker 9: Well, that's the point, because I I thought Huntley had
34:02
Speaker 9: solved the problem, the deal they had done on Huntley
34:04
Speaker 9: and Cole.
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Speaker 2: I was led to believe you've covered it. Apparently lots
34:07
Speaker 2: of people that talk to about this this morning. Y good,
34:10
Speaker 2: Have a great day everyone. Mike's with you next.
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