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Full Show Podcast: 04 December 2024 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge new
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  Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four on an early edition with Smith City,
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture bands and a player store us Dogs.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be good morning.
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  Speaker 3: It is six after five. Great to have your company
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  Speaker 3: this morning. As we go to air. South Korean troops
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  Speaker 3: are attempting to enter its parliament hall. Have the latest
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  Speaker 3: on that, what exactly it means, how significant that is?
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  Speaker 3: Also this morning, Rob Campbell on Health New Zealand. Why
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  Speaker 3: can't they just sort their budget out? How much do
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  Speaker 3: you need? How much are you going to spend? Some
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  Speaker 3: quite basic questions for him this morning. Also we'll talk
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  Speaker 3: a set of Reese and some great news on the
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  Speaker 3: global dairy trade auction overnight. We'll have more on that shortly.
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  Speaker 3: And if you're in Auckland, does the shakeup talk? Can
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  Speaker 3: transport mean faster speeds and fewer cycle ways? We'll ask
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  Speaker 3: a local board member. The agenda, as I said, very
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  Speaker 3: busy morning this morning, and we start with South Korea
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  Speaker 3: where it is all kicking off. We con tell you
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  Speaker 3: this morning that they have entered a state of martial law.
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  Speaker 3: South Korea has declared an emergency martial law. This is
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  Speaker 3: the president. He has accused the opposition party in South
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  Speaker 3: Korea of trying to overthrow the government and being undemocratic.
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  Speaker 4: He told the nation and told members of the National
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  Speaker 4: Assembly in his televised address that the government that he
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  Speaker 4: presides over has been, in his view, paralyzed, with opposition
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  Speaker 4: forces members of the National Assembly trying to impeach him
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  Speaker 4: and trying to impeach several ministers in the government.
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  Speaker 3: South Korean media are reporting the military has halted parliamentary activity.
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  Speaker 3: Members of the National Assembly have been locked out of
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  Speaker 3: the building, and I can see some live pictures of
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  Speaker 3: this coming in at the moment. It also means there
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  Speaker 3: are restrictions on reporting in South Korea by the media,
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  Speaker 3: so getting information may become a little bit difficult as
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  Speaker 3: we head into the morning. Meanwhile, to the hot mess
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  Speaker 3: in Europe that is France, the government still on the
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  Speaker 3: brink of collapse. There is a vote of no confidence
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  Speaker 3: will be held tomorrow. Comes after the Prime minister pushed
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  Speaker 3: a budget bill through Parliament without a vote, which costs
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  Speaker 3: a lot of angst on both sides of the extremes there.
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  Speaker 3: So the Prime minister being primised to three months expected
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  Speaker 3: to speak publicly on this vote later today, the affairs
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  Speaker 3: the Israel hesbil a ceasefire is only just holding on
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  Speaker 3: by a thread. Lebanon's Health Ministry says ten people died
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  Speaker 3: in an Israeli attack. Israel says it was responding to
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  Speaker 3: a Hesbila mortar attack on a military base. The US
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  Speaker 3: Department of State, who helped negotiate this sixty day six fire,
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  Speaker 3: still has hope that it will hold.
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  Speaker 2: That's why we set up this mechanism in the first place,
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  Speaker 2: because we knew that there would be potential violations. Just
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  Speaker 2: as anywhere in the world, when you see a ceasefire implemented,
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  Speaker 2: you see various violations at times. Ultimately, what we don't
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  Speaker 2: want to see is the ceasefire breakdown.
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  Speaker 3: And to the United States the Congress, they're facing a
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  Speaker 3: December twentieth deadline to strike a government funding deal and
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  Speaker 3: avoid a government shutdown, which is you know this happens
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  Speaker 3: every year. Isn't it a temporary resolution? If past is
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  Speaker 3: likely to last until March of next year.
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  Speaker 1: News and Views You Trust has done your Day's Billy
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  Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture
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  Speaker 1: Beds and a playing store.
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  Speaker 3: You talk said bees on Auckland Council. Stephen Joyce wrote
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  Speaker 3: a really interesting article for The Herald a couple of
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  Speaker 3: days ago, which I'll read part of to you in
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  Speaker 3: a second. It basically makes a point that although everyone
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  Speaker 3: hates and particularly mayors like to hate on Auckland Auckland
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  Speaker 3: Transport like to hate on CEOs, they actually do control
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  Speaker 3: the user just indo adoism, the direction of travel for
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  Speaker 3: these CEOs. So you can't just say, oh, it's their
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  Speaker 3: fault that the cycle waves are here and all that.
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  Speaker 3: He said, there is more to it than that. So
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  Speaker 3: we're going to talk about that in just a few seconds.
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  Speaker 3: But just back to South Korea for a second. I
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  Speaker 3: have it in my hands now, a translation of the
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  Speaker 3: military decree from the Martial Law Commander. It says, and ironically,
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  Speaker 3: in order to protect liberal democracy from the threat of
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  Speaker 3: overthrowing the regime of the Republic of Korea, all political
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  Speaker 3: activity will cease. This includes the activities of the National Assembly,
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  Speaker 3: the local councils, and political parties, strikes, workstopposites while they
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  Speaker 3: are all outlawed. Violators of the above proclamation may be arrested, detained,
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  Speaker 3: and searched without a warrant. This is in accordance with
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  Speaker 3: the martial law. However, the opposition party reckons that actually
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  Speaker 3: you cannot arrest a law maker under martial law, which
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  Speaker 3: is exactly what they're saying they would do in that case.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll keep you updated on what's happening there this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Just gone eleven after five, Ryan Bridge. So this morning
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  Speaker 3: a really interesting article out of out of the UK
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  Speaker 3: about older people who fall in love and don't want
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  Speaker 3: to live together. Apparently you're a lot happier if you
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  Speaker 3: are in a romantic relationship but living separately, which is
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  Speaker 3: not to say get a divorce if you're unhappy, but
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  Speaker 3: if you're finding love. There's a new study out of
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  Speaker 3: the UK. I'll get to that later on as well.
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  Speaker 4: I used to feel.
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  Speaker 3: The work screen in the song.
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  Speaker 1: Just the News you Need this morning and the in
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  Speaker 1: depth analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Fit City,
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture Beds and a playing store News talk
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  Speaker 1: sa'd be.
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  Speaker 3: It's gone thirteen after five. Great to have your company
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  Speaker 3: this morning. So this is the second to last global
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  Speaker 3: dairy trade action for the year and it's a doozy.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great number. The farm Gate milk prices. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: the forecasts have been well, some of them been predicting
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  Speaker 3: heading north of ten dollars a kilogram of milk solids.
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  Speaker 3: So this morning's number overall the trade up one point
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  Speaker 3: two percent. The number we really care about is whole
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  Speaker 3: milk powder is up four point one percent, which is
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  Speaker 3: a great number. It's an excellent number. In fact, it
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  Speaker 3: has the biggest influence by far on our farm gate prices.
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  Speaker 3: It's half of our auction by volume, and it was
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  Speaker 3: up three point two percent at the last auction. That
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  Speaker 3: was two weeks to go three point two percent. Today
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  Speaker 3: it's up four point one, so they will be happy
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  Speaker 3: with that, no doubt. Fourteen after five ran Bridge two
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  Speaker 3: changes are coming for Auckland transport. The Council is set
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  Speaker 3: to make so sorry to take back control of policy
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  Speaker 3: and planning, and a new Regional Transport Committee will be
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  Speaker 3: established to work on a thirty year plan for the city.
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  Speaker 3: Orcand Council will also become a road controlling authority and
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  Speaker 3: it will share the decision making with the democratically elected
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  Speaker 3: local boards. Hopefully, the idea is that we will be
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  Speaker 3: able to have more say over what happens on our roads.
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  Speaker 3: The bill making the changes still needs to go through
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  Speaker 3: Parliament's going to be ages. It'll be like a two
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  Speaker 3: year transition. Damien Light is the HOW local board chair.
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  Speaker 3: He's with me this morning, Damien, good morning, good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Does this mean that we will have fewer cycle ways
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  Speaker 3: and raised pedestrian crossings and faster speeds and all the
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  Speaker 3: things that the government says that people really want in Auckland.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I hope what we'll see is better decisions being
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  Speaker 5: made or more responsive to what locals want. And I
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  Speaker 5: think there's a lot of thing about having got what
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  Speaker 5: pedestrian constants they want. Cycle ways, I think people do
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  Speaker 5: want them, but they want them in the right place.
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  Speaker 5: And I think that's the good thing about better democratic
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  Speaker 5: oversight and more powerful local boards is you're hopefully more
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  Speaker 5: likely to see pedestrian crossings and cyber ways in the
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  Speaker 5: places where people need them or where they actually want
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  Speaker 5: them to right, Because that's.
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  Speaker 3: The big thing. I think people think, oh yeay Auckland Transport,
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  Speaker 3: we're blowing it up, and that means that we're going
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  Speaker 3: to suddenly get everything but that way we want. If
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  Speaker 3: you look at How, for example, where you're the chair
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  Speaker 3: the local board you are now going to be devolved
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  Speaker 3: specific transport functions over those things, parking, speed limits, you know,
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  Speaker 3: all those kinds of things. Is it possible that we
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  Speaker 3: could actually see more of those things because local boards
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  Speaker 3: might be more gung ho than all can transport was?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean the possibility right. But I think the
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  Speaker 5: advantage of democratic oversight is that it gives the public
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  Speaker 5: the ability to express their their happiness or or displeasure,
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  Speaker 5: I guess with those decisions because we have an election
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  Speaker 5: of meats currently every three years and so the public
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  Speaker 5: will have a bit of a more say over the
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  Speaker 5: people who are making those decisions. And I think that's
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  Speaker 5: been the great value of Aukland Transport.
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  Speaker 6: And look, it's a been.
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  Speaker 5: A bit of an experiment in near fourteen years. But
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  Speaker 5: I think what I think most people would accept that
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  Speaker 5: it hasn't really worked way it was intended. You know,
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  Speaker 5: it was meant to be non political. The idea was
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  Speaker 5: leting it off and say, oh, it's a dependent it's
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  Speaker 5: not going to get political, and you know it's well
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  Speaker 5: be able to get off to get things done.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think it has.
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  Speaker 5: And I think by ironically, by trying to remove politicians
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  Speaker 5: from it. It's actually made it more for.
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  Speaker 3: What happens. Well, I suppose it removed the feeling that
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  Speaker 3: we had control over it despite its saying on a
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  Speaker 3: CEO title, do you have the local boards have the
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  Speaker 3: capacity to actually make decisions about transport projects? Now?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, well we do a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: We have a little bit to say over some projects
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  Speaker 5: that happen in the area and actually compared or can transport.
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  Speaker 5: The last couple of years, probably the last twelve months,
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  Speaker 5: they've been working really hard to listen to local boards
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  Speaker 5: better and as you respond to what our desires of
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  Speaker 5: what we said is important, which is great, so that
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  Speaker 5: their organization is capable of doing it, and I think
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  Speaker 5: local boards have shown that they could do it as well.
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  Speaker 5: Hope we need some more advice and support though. So
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  Speaker 5: it's been one of those things, right, It's not it
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  Speaker 5: won't happen over night, but there's a bit of a
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  Speaker 5: bit of a change that's going to need to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and some are definitely going to be a bit
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  Speaker 3: more on their agenda. I'd say, Damien Light, how local
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  Speaker 3: board share with us? This morning, just gone eighteen minutes
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  Speaker 3: after five news talks, I'd.
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  Speaker 1: Been the first word on the news of the day
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  Speaker 1: earlier Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds
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  Speaker 1: and a playing store.
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  Speaker 3: News Talk zibby, Good morning, it is twenty after five.
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  Speaker 3: Y're on news Talk zb for just joining us. South
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  Speaker 3: Korea's parliament has now voted because the president there declared
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  Speaker 3: martial law earlier this morning, about three hours ago. Now,
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  Speaker 3: South Korea's parliament has now voted to block the martial
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  Speaker 3: law that's been imposed. That is, despite the fact there
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  Speaker 3: are reportedly troops inside the National Assembly in Seoul. In
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  Speaker 3: South Korea, this is a democratic country and there are
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  Speaker 3: troops inside the parliament. So we'll keep you up today
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  Speaker 3: with what's happening here this morning. Twenty after five. Bridge
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  Speaker 3: All Black and Crusaders player Sevy Reese was named yesterday
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  Speaker 3: as the sports star who admitted to a charge of
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  Speaker 3: wilful damage driving a car into a garage at a
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  Speaker 3: Cup Day party in christ Church. He was granted a
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  Speaker 3: discharge without conviction. It is the second time he's been
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  Speaker 3: discharged without conviction. The last time was in twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 3: he admitted to a charge of common assault on his
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  Speaker 3: then partner. Tony Johnson is the rugby commentated with us
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  Speaker 3: this morning, tiny, good morning. Right, do you see a
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  Speaker 3: problem here? He's sorry, he's contrived. He said he's stopped drinking.
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  Speaker 3: He's been to court. That process is over story end.
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  Speaker 7: No, not really, you know it's up to him now.
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  Speaker 7: As you say, two rumins alcohol related, the first far
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  Speaker 7: more serious. He has expressed contrition and a desire to
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  Speaker 7: stay away from alcohol to sort himself out. And you
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  Speaker 7: have to stay true to that. Now it's already costing
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  Speaker 7: one lucrative job overseas another repeat, and you can't imagine
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  Speaker 7: it's going to exactly have a positive impact on his
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  Speaker 7: prospects of future employment in the game. I suppose that
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  Speaker 7: the thing is with sports people or anyone in the
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  Speaker 7: in you know, the public eye. You have to be
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  Speaker 7: careful that they don't get tried twice, you know, once
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  Speaker 7: in the courts, once in the court of public opinion.
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  Speaker 3: Do we have too much Do we put too much
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  Speaker 3: emphasis on them being perfect? I mean, they're all flawed
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  Speaker 3: humans like the rest of us, are they not.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a really good question because often, you know,
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  Speaker 7: people talk about the need to be a good role model.
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  Speaker 7: To me, that's up to the individual. I mean, don't
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  Speaker 7: get me wrong. Being well paid to play sport as
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  Speaker 7: a privilege, and with that privilege comes the responsibility of
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  Speaker 7: projecting yourself and your sport in a positive light or
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  Speaker 7: at least not to bring the sport of disrepute. And
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  Speaker 7: twice now I guess he's fallen below that line. But
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  Speaker 7: then I suppose you look at it in the broader context.
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  Speaker 7: Our courts are full of young people. A lot of
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  Speaker 7: them are there because the people who should unconditionally be
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  Speaker 7: their role model, their parents have failed them badly. So
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  Speaker 7: why should it really fall on sports people to show
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  Speaker 7: them the way. I don't think that's the case yourself,
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  Speaker 7: that that should come down to sports field. But in
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  Speaker 7: a way, Sebbe Reese has now put himself in a
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  Speaker 7: position where he has no choice but to become a
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  Speaker 7: positive role model otherwise as a risk of his career
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  Speaker 7: could be finished.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely, and he's took a step in the right
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  Speaker 3: direction I think, in doing exactly that. After the discharge
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  Speaker 3: with that conviction at court yesterday, Tony thank you very
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  Speaker 3: much for being on the show. Great to have you
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  Speaker 3: on as always. Tony Johnson Rugby commentated with us just
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  Speaker 3: gone twenty three minutes after five I do think that. Yet,
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  Speaker 3: all black sports stars in general are not perfect people,
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  Speaker 3: and often we look at them and can think that
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  Speaker 3: they should be. I think they should be good at
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  Speaker 3: their job, which is playing rugby or playing netball or
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  Speaker 3: whatever it is. And can you not look up to
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  Speaker 3: a flawed character? I mean, obviously if so long as
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  Speaker 3: you're not still driving around drunk. You know, if you
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  Speaker 3: have admitted to what you've done, if you are remorseful,
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  Speaker 3: if you're trying to fix the issue, you should be
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  Speaker 3: given a second chance. And you can still look up
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  Speaker 3: to flawed people, can you not? Nine to nine two
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  Speaker 3: the number to text? Twenty four after five the early.
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  Speaker 3: You're on news Talks THEREB twenty six after five. Here's
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  Speaker 3: a question for you this morning. How much will ever
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  Speaker 3: be enough to spend on health? The answer is there
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  Speaker 3: will never be enough, So you've got to do with
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  Speaker 3: what you've got. At least that is what Health New
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: Zealand is trying to do at the moment. We spend
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  Speaker 3: thirty billion bucks a year. That's just tax payer money
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  Speaker 3: on health. It is middle of the road for the
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  Speaker 3: OBCD in terms of a percentage of GDP comparisons. Apparently,
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  Speaker 3: according to Health New Zealand, we're ahead of the likes
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  Speaker 3: of the UK, Canada and Sweden, but we're behind France,
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  Speaker 3: Switzerland and Germany. I mean, really, what does all this mean?
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  Speaker 3: Whether that spending is any good or not is another matter.
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  Speaker 3: Ask one hundred people about their experience in the health
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  Speaker 3: system and you'll get a hundred different answers. One answer, though,
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  Speaker 3: that we should be getting a bit more right, is
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  Speaker 3: exactly how much we're spending or planning to spend on
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  Speaker 3: health because how can you know what you're doing unless
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: you know what you're spending and on what. Health New
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  Speaker 3: Zealand revised down its deficit for twenty four to twenty
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  Speaker 3: five from one point seven billion to one point one
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  Speaker 3: What does that mean? It means as recently as October
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  Speaker 3: they told us they'd need five hundred million more dollars
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  Speaker 3: to run the health system they did yesterday. That's half
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  Speaker 3: a billion bucks difference in less than two months. Why
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  Speaker 3: they thought they'd have to pay more for redundancy payments
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  Speaker 3: and making up for holiday pay And it seems extraordinary,
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  Speaker 3: doesn't it that you could have such a vast difference
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  Speaker 3: in such a short space of time. How does this
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  Speaker 3: keep happening? It comes after the target surplus for this
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  Speaker 3: year fifty four million, somehow more often to a deficit
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  Speaker 3: of seven hundred million. Retti and Verel are predictably fighting
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  Speaker 3: over whose fault. This is as you would expect from politicians.
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  Speaker 3: But if we could be a little clearer on the
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  Speaker 3: diagnosis the dollars and the cents being spent, would at
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  Speaker 3: least be clearer on exactly what it is we're fighting about.
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  Speaker 1: Bray and Bridge.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty seven minutes half to five news talks. They'd be
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  Speaker 3: great news on the global dairy trade auction if you
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  Speaker 3: haven't caught up this morning. I mentioned it earlier, but
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  Speaker 3: just to repeat, their whole milk powders up four point
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  Speaker 3: one percent, which is the biggest influence on our farm
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  Speaker 3: gate milk prices. That was up three point two percent
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  Speaker 3: at the last option, So that is great news this morning.
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  Speaker 3: South Korea's parliament has voted to lift marshal law. If
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  Speaker 3: you're just joining us, the president whose wife apparently was
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  Speaker 3: being investigated for some corruption charges. There's been a fight
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  Speaker 3: going on between the government and the opposition there over
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  Speaker 3: a budget bill that's been going through anyway. The president
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  Speaker 3: declared martial law, and the South Korean Parliament has now
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  Speaker 3: which has a majority opposition, has now voted to lift
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  Speaker 3: the martial law. We're not exactly sure what this means
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  Speaker 3: or where this goes from here, but there are troops
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  Speaker 3: reportedly inside the National Assembly in South Korea right now.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty eight minutes after five on News Talks, hered be
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  Speaker 3: Rob Campbell on the health cuts coming up just before
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  Speaker 3: six this morning. We're also going to talk about the
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  Speaker 3: issue in Otago with the interesting article actual yesterday about
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  Speaker 3: Australia's experience with the bird flu. We'll talk about that too.
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  Speaker 1: To drive run hot on the driftlands were a thousand mammables.
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  Speaker 8: Take a look at the driver next to me.
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  Speaker 1: He's just as driving home, driving.
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  Speaker 8: Driven hard.
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  Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines, Ryan Bridge, you for twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's
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  Speaker 1: furniture bids and applying store Youth Talks. It'd be.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, he said twenty four a wife from Sex
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  Speaker 3: and New Talks. It'd be great to have your company
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  Speaker 3: this morning. We're going to talk to Rob Campbell about
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  Speaker 3: health New Zealand's financial woes. Just before six this morning.
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  Speaker 3: We're also going to the UK to talk the hot
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  Speaker 3: mess of Europe that is France at the moment, with
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  Speaker 3: its government on the brink of collapse. Also Finland's lost
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  Speaker 3: Internet and why they think Russia's involved in South Korea.
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  Speaker 3: The parliament has voted to lift the martial law you
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  Speaker 3: would have heard about in the news. Basically, what happens
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  Speaker 3: this morning is the president came out and this is
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  Speaker 3: a president who everyone says is a lame duck. He's
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  Speaker 3: been embroiled in controversy for a while now, his wife
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  Speaker 3: is facing corruption charges, all this kind of stuff's going on.
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  Speaker 3: And then he comes out and says, right, I'm declaring
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  Speaker 3: martial law in South Korea, and the military moves in
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  Speaker 3: like soldiers move into the parliament to the National Assembly.
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  Speaker 3: Now they still managed to have a vote and the
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  Speaker 3: parliament voted, and interesting that it was members from both
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  Speaker 3: the governing party and from the opposition who voted to
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  Speaker 3: basically block this martial law. This idea of my law
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  Speaker 3: from the president. So that is where we're at at
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  Speaker 3: the moment. This has all just happened in the last
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  Speaker 3: couple of hours. What happens next from here? Well, it's
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  Speaker 3: anyone's guest.
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  Speaker 6: Really.
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  Speaker 3: Two is the number to text, lots of you coming
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  Speaker 3: in on severy reef. We'll get to some of that
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  Speaker 3: shortly to twenty three away from Sex Ryan Bridge. Come
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  Speaker 3: on practice into need in this one and come good
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  Speaker 3: morning to you. The number of chickens that need to
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  Speaker 3: be culled at that Otago egg farm that's been stung
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  Speaker 3: with bird flu has now doubled.
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  Speaker 9: Morning Ryany of the coling of these birds begins today
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  Speaker 9: now eighty thousand birds. Two mainland poultry barns at Mordarchy
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  Speaker 9: have now tested positive for the disease. It was first
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  Speaker 9: confirmed on Sunday, but just in the one barn. Now
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  Speaker 9: there's the two. We've spoken with nearby neighbors whose family
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  Speaker 9: members work on the farm, and look, they're quite stressed
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  Speaker 9: about the farm's situation.
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  Speaker 3: They tell us that.
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  Speaker 9: Stuff were told last week to take time off whilst
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  Speaker 9: the outbreak is dealt with. I. Meanwhile, MPI is confident
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  Speaker 9: that the risks contained to six properties, two of them
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  Speaker 9: belonging to mainland.
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  Speaker 3: All right, how's denens where they colum.
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  Speaker 9: I mainly find few late afternoon evening showers are strong
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  Speaker 9: westerly developed later tonight where there's a strong windwatch alert
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  Speaker 9: Tonedan's high twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: All right, cul and thank you for that. Clears and
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  Speaker 3: christ it's this morning clear. A decision on what to
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  Speaker 3: do with a very contentious intersection is coming today. Thanks right, Ryan.
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  Speaker 10: Look, there have been eighty three crashes in a decade
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  Speaker 10: at this particular Church corner intersection. It's the junction between Rickerson,
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  Speaker 10: Yuldhurst and Maine South Roads. It does put that in
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  Speaker 10: the top three percent of christ Church's riskiest intersections. City
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  Speaker 10: Council has sought some fresh feedback on three new options
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  Speaker 10: to fix that intersection. There have been just under six
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  Speaker 10: hundred submissions. The majority preferred option A, which is to
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  Speaker 10: remove a right hand turn from Maine South Road onto
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  Speaker 10: Rickerton and introduced a signalized pedestrian crossing as well for
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  Speaker 10: those who are at the local retirement village and so
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  Speaker 10: on to get across the road.
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  Speaker 8: Now.
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  Speaker 10: Staff have recommended councilors give that the green light at
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  Speaker 10: a meeting today. With some very minor alters.
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  Speaker 3: All right, how's the weather clear?
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  Speaker 10: Mainly find a bit of high cloud expected this evening,
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  Speaker 10: light winds with gusty nor westers later on much warmer
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  Speaker 10: though twenty eight Oh.
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  Speaker 3: It is warm, all right, thank you. Clear Mexican going
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  Speaker 3: into mesa food producerly has gone bust.
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  Speaker 11: Yeaes sad one.
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  Speaker 7: This.
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  Speaker 11: This is the popular Alamir Bakery which produces Lebanese food
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  Speaker 11: like peter bread, hummus for laffel. It's gone into liquidation
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  Speaker 11: after more than thirty years in business. It's a family
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  Speaker 11: business started by a family had moved here from the
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  Speaker 11: Middle East. Supplied products to supermarkets across the country. It
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  Speaker 11: had two factories in the capital as well, but it's
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  Speaker 11: been tough for them post COVID. Costs kept going up
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  Speaker 11: and they have tried to look into exporting to New Caledonia,
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  Speaker 11: for instance, and partner with hallow Fresh for a time
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  Speaker 11: the government school lunches program they got involved with that,
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  Speaker 11: but it just hasn't been enough and Alamir is closing that.
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  Speaker 3: Just said, how's your weather today?
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  Speaker 11: Mostly cloudy's Sampachi drizzle, strong norwesterlies getting up to twenty
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  Speaker 11: one in the CBD.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Max, thank you for that. Max Tolin, Wellington
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  Speaker 3: and Nevers and Auckland never good morning, good morning, good
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  Speaker 3: to see you so finally we might get some movement
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  Speaker 3: on our cycle ways and our speed limits and our
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  Speaker 3: speed bumps and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 12: That's mainly my topic of discussion, hot topic here in Auckland.
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  Speaker 7: Now.
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  Speaker 12: The mayor says that locals will experience better public transport
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  Speaker 12: under these new reforms. So we know that the government
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  Speaker 12: is taking away Auckland Transports power to make decisions about policy,
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  Speaker 12: planning and strategy, so the key decisions will instead be
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  Speaker 12: made by Auckland Council. Also going to be taking over
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  Speaker 12: the traffic control. Wayne Brown says, look this Auckland Transport,
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  Speaker 12: it's still going to have responsibility to deliver services, adding hopefully,
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  Speaker 12: well this is it, it's going to improve. So he's
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  Speaker 12: saying Wayne Brown is saying that the existing model's broken
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  Speaker 12: because of the poor design. It isn't fit for purpose.
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  Speaker 12: He's not blaming any one person, but it's just that design,
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  Speaker 12: that poor design something.
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  Speaker 3: Because Steven Joyce did a really good column for The
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  Speaker 3: Herald the other day about this and he said he said,
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  Speaker 3: it's a bit of a herrick. This is a bit
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  Speaker 3: of a manufactured crisis that the council does have control
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  Speaker 3: over the direction of Auckland Transport. But the council would
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  Speaker 3: need to actually agree amongst themselves what that direction is. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: because how do you know twenty councilors to decide on anything.
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  Speaker 12: We've had crisis point now. Really, if they want people
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  Speaker 12: to get out there in Auckland and use a public transfit, yeah,
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  Speaker 12: they've got to do something.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it looks like they are. It might take a while,
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  Speaker 3: a couple of years. How's the weather in the city
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  Speaker 12: Apart from areas of morning cloud twenty three is high
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  Speaker 3: It is parted to six on your Talks. Big Gavin
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  Speaker 3: Gray's a UK europe correspondent. France and Finland the focus
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  Speaker 3: this morning. We'll start in Finland with the Internet outage there, Gavin,
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  Speaker 3: what's going on here?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: So another undersea cable being in this particular instance, it's
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  Speaker 8: a broken fiber optic cable and two separate cuts to
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  Speaker 8: that cable have caused an outage affecting thousands of households,
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  Speaker 8: The Swedish governments saying it does suspect an act of sabotage.
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  Speaker 8: One of the cuts has now been fixed, but repairs
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  Speaker 8: continue on the other one. And well, since the war
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  Speaker 8: in Ukraine with Russia, there have been several cases of
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  Speaker 8: suspected infrastructure sabotage in the Baltic Sea region, just really
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  Speaker 8: in the last couple of months, and almost all the
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  Speaker 8: time the finger has been pointed at Russia. Russia denies
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  Speaker 8: any involvement in this, but it just goes to show,
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  Speaker 8: I think, how fragile the communications network can be. Sweden
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  Speaker 8: has now formally asked trying to cooperate with an investigation.
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  Speaker 8: Is the damage of two cables that were cut in
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  Speaker 8: the Baltic Sea last month. It might have been unintentional,
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  Speaker 8: it might have been a ship dragging its anchor across,
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  Speaker 8: but either way the cables were cut, and in this
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  Speaker 8: instance Sweden believes that, according to a map of the
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  Speaker 8: shipping in area at that time, that a Chinese ship
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  Speaker 8: might be behind that. So all sorts of theories about
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  Speaker 8: this between pretty confident, it's sabotage.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, as you say theories. At the moment, France's
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  Speaker 3: minority government still on the brink of collectse here. When
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  Speaker 3: are we going to have a vote on this?
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  Speaker 8: It looks like in roughly twenty four hours time. We
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  Speaker 8: should know. This is all because the Prime Minister, Michelle
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  Speaker 8: Barnier was brought in to try and bring some stability
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  Speaker 8: to the government. They need to cut a lot of spending,
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  Speaker 8: they need to increase taxes and surprise, surprise, Ryan, it's
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  Speaker 8: not popular. Indeed, it's so unpopular now that the left
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  Speaker 8: wing parties and the far right parties are now holding
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  Speaker 8: this vote of no confidence and are both saying that
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  Speaker 8: they are going to vote against the Prime Minister Michelle
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  Speaker 8: Barnier staying in power, in which case they can't hold
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  Speaker 8: another election until July. It's going to leave the country
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  Speaker 8: in a complete state of limbo, which has not been
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  Speaker 8: seen for decades. It also means that Michelle Barnier might
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  Speaker 8: the shortest reigning prime minister of the Fifth Republic in France.
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  Speaker 8: He's only really just been appointed by Macron to try
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  Speaker 8: and sort out the finances. And incidentally, if you think
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  Speaker 8: that name is popular or rather well known to you.
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  Speaker 8: Michelle Barneer was involved, of course, representing the EU in
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  Speaker 8: those Brexit trade tools.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and maybe just lasting three months in the job.
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  Speaker 3: It is twelve minutes away from six very quickly. The
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  Speaker 3: opposition party speaker, apparently this isn't in Korea. South Korean
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  Speaker 3: in parliament voted to lift the martial law that the
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  Speaker 3: president imposed earlier this morning. Apparently the opposition party speaker
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  Speaker 3: had to climb a fence that was one and a
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  Speaker 3: half meters high tool to get into the assembly because
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: police had blocked them from getting in. So whoever said
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: that politics, Ryan, I don't do a bit of manual labor.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: So it turns out the Health New Zealand's books aren't
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  Speaker 3: quite as bad as we thought, but the numbers are
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  Speaker 3: still pretty terrible. The projected deficit for the twenty four
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  Speaker 3: to twenty five financial year has reduced from one point
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  Speaker 3: seven billion to one point one billion. In October they
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  Speaker 3: said one point seven. Now they're saying it'll be one
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  Speaker 3: point one. The agency has extended its cost cutting raging
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  Speaker 3: by another year to twenty twenty seven, when it's expected
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: to return to surpus. Rob Campbell is the former health
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  Speaker 3: and zent Chaeri is with us this morning.
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  Speaker 12: Rob.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, all real a right, good to have you
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  Speaker 3: on the show. Hey, what are you reading into this?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, how can they not get the numbers right?
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  Speaker 3: Two months ago we were told that there would be
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  Speaker 3: they would need five hundred million extra than they are
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  Speaker 3: actually going to need.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's pretty glic isn't it. But you've got to
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  Speaker 6: see the history of this. I'm afraid to be a
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  Speaker 6: bit boring this. It's not an issue that was created
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  Speaker 6: by tapatu Wara. It's an issue that drags over from
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  Speaker 6: the previous arrangements between the district health boards and the
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  Speaker 6: Ministry of Health, and in some ways it's part of
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  Speaker 6: putting it right.
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  Speaker 3: How much more do we need to spend to get
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  Speaker 3: it right? I mean, how much is going to be
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  Speaker 3: enough in health when we're spending thirty billion a year.
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  Speaker 6: Well, the truth is, no one knows the answer to
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  Speaker 6: that question. But what we do know is a number
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  Speaker 6: of things. First, there are some things, like the big
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: one is the holiday pay issue, which has to be
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  Speaker 6: done because it's a legal requirement. No One quite new
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  Speaker 6: and probably still doesn't know exactly what the cost impact
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  Speaker 6: of that is. But when it is finally ascertained, it's
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  Speaker 6: a number that has to be found. Secondly, there are
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  Speaker 6: some increases which derive from basic requirements again legal ones
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  Speaker 6: such as pay equity and other pay type requirements, which
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  Speaker 6: again have to be met and can be projected, but
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  Speaker 6: we're badly projected in the previous estimates that were made.
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  Speaker 6: Then we come into the area of much bigger on owns,
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  Speaker 6: and these are particularly We know there is something like
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  Speaker 6: fourteen billion dollars worth of undone deferred maintenance within the
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  Speaker 6: system because of the way it was run before. This
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  Speaker 6: is a terrible load on the system. It can't all
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  Speaker 6: be dealt with in one hit, and maybe some of
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  Speaker 6: it will never be dealt with, But that is an
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  Speaker 6: issue which cutting staff and making the other cuts that
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  Speaker 6: are being made simply can't do anything about. And then
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: finally there is the new capital requirements outstanding in the
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  Speaker 6: new hospital and the need and in other places again
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  Speaker 6: where need has been demonstrated but the system has not
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  Speaker 6: been estimating or controlling its costs very well. This is
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  Speaker 6: all an outcome of what we needed to change.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but those estimates that you're talking about very quickly,
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  Speaker 3: who's making these estimates. How are they getting them so wrong.
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  Speaker 6: Or old to fartow work. It's caught middle of this
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: TAFAO work is trying to pull together figures from the
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  Speaker 6: plenty eye previous district goss boards. That's one part of it, right,
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  Speaker 6: But the main people who have always been in control
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  Speaker 6: of this have been the Ministry of Health and Treasury.
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  Speaker 6: They're the people who have had no changes significantly made
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  Speaker 6: to them in this respect. Ministry lost some stuff to
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  Speaker 6: PA to Ora, but it's basically the historical people who
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  Speaker 6: have got the main responsibility to this and the key
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  Speaker 6: thing is to fight to or the Commissioner or however
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  Speaker 6: it is organized. Can't staff cut and staff restrict cost
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  Speaker 6: to make this better?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you very much for being with me this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate it. Rob Campbell, former Health New Zealand Chair on
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  Speaker 3: the deficit reduction deficit good, but deficit big still bad.
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  Speaker 3: News Talk ZB six to six on News Talk CB
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  Speaker 3: and South Korea. People are gathering outside the National Assembly,
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  Speaker 3: why the president called the state of martial law the
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: parliament has in South Korean parliament has now voted to
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: lift that martial law. It's a little bit uncare of
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  Speaker 3: this point exactly what is going on, but Micha will
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: be covering that on his show. He's with us this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning. I'm trying to work.
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  Speaker 14: Out that he was claiming the president, he was claiming
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  Speaker 14: that it had something to do with North Korea, and
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  Speaker 14: he was second sec of the way things were going.
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  Speaker 14: And I assume he knew that in doing what he did,
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  Speaker 14: that they could unvote.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what he did. And there's some he says, some
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: insidious people inside the parliament.
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  Speaker 14: Well, that's true in all parliaments, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: But we don't. We don't declar marshal law. Well do we?
• 32:25
  Speaker 14: I mean I could declare martial law this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Some so I do.
• 32:27
  Speaker 14: I can name you half a dozen in citious people. Immediately,
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  Speaker 14: I was watching Old I was watching that press conference
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  Speaker 14: yesterday with Auckland Transport.
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  Speaker 3: Oh the Browns. Yeah, here's my problem with the code Brown.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: So you hate.
• 32:39
  Speaker 14: Auckland Transport, right, everyone everyone hates Auckland Transport. But what
• 32:43
  Speaker 14: you've done is you go, we hate you, so we're
• 32:45
  Speaker 14: taking some power away from you, and everyone goes, oh cool,
• 32:48
  Speaker 14: who are you giving it to? You're going to give
• 32:49
  Speaker 14: it to the council.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: I mean how local boards? Yeah, how good are they?
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: But also, but you're creating a new entity that will
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: share the power with local boards. I mean that's one
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: hundred different.
• 32:58
  Speaker 14: People hundred so one hundred different ideas. Everyone's got an agenda.
• 33:01
  Speaker 14: So part of the idea makes sense, and in theory
• 33:05
  Speaker 14: it makes sense because you know what his argument is
• 33:07
  Speaker 14: that you know, in democracy you can participate, you can
• 33:09
  Speaker 14: feel like you know, but no one turns up to
• 33:12
  Speaker 14: vote for a start.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: No, and no, who do you know who your local
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: board members are?
• 33:16
  Speaker 14: No one cares.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: And Stephen Joyce, did you see that piece from him
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: a couple of days ago where he said, actually that
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: the council does have control over Auckland transfer ort, it
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: just can't make up its mind about what it wants
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: to do exactly.
• 33:28
  Speaker 14: I mean, the reason Auckland is the way Auckland is
• 33:31
  Speaker 14: is because of the council, isn't it think about it?
• 33:33
  Speaker 14: I mean, Auckland's not one to be great cities in
• 33:35
  Speaker 14: New Zealand and it's at least partially the responsibility of
• 33:38
  Speaker 14: the council.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: So suddenly they've.
• 33:40
  Speaker 14: Got more power to do what they've been doing. So
• 33:43
  Speaker 14: does that fill you with confidence?
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: I also Auckland is too, doesn't it? They're not great
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: people to be around.
• 33:50
  Speaker 14: Good on you, right, how do your ratings?
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Have a great day everyone.
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