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Barry Soper: Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent on the Easter Trading Bill being voted down · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Just go on quarter to five news Talk Zebb. A
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  Speaker 2: senior political correspondent, Barry Soper is in Wellington with us today.
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  Speaker 2: Hey Barry, good afternoon. Right Ken, we can touch on
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  Speaker 2: the inconsistencies. Can we over the conscience vote on Easter
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  Speaker 2: trading in Sunday advertising.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's fascinating, isn't it. That You've got to remember
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  Speaker 3: they'll keep holy the Sabbath because the first reading of
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  Speaker 3: the advertising at the weekends bill that was successful ninety
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  Speaker 3: four to twenty nine. But it seems the Crucifixion and
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  Speaker 3: the rise of Jesus a couple of days later at
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  Speaker 3: Easter trading with people have broken the law.
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  Speaker 4: Essentially to trade. Easter trading has.
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  Speaker 3: Been defeated again seventy four votes to forty nine. So
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  Speaker 3: the retailers won't be able to trade at Easter weekend.
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  Speaker 3: But it's incredible, isn't it. At a time rhyme when
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  Speaker 3: you think, if ever, the retailers were facing it tough
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  Speaker 3: at the moment that the MPs would have thought, well,
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  Speaker 3: let's give them a break.
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  Speaker 2: Which MP's are we talking about? I mean, who was
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  Speaker 2: largely in four and four?
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  Speaker 4: And again, well, if you look at the Easter trading
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  Speaker 4: seventy four, we're against in forty nine four, I would
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  Speaker 4: imagine the whole of the National Party voted for.
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  Speaker 3: But you know they don't do the breakdowns of who
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  Speaker 3: voted what, and so you know, it's funny. It's a
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  Speaker 3: conscience vote.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is weird, consistent, Yeah, it is Lake Alice
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  Speaker 2: a torture survivors are to get compensation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know a dreadful period in our history
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  Speaker 3: that was they can either choose an expedited payment, a
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  Speaker 3: quick payment for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or
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  Speaker 3: they can lodge a claim and that'll be viewed by
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  Speaker 3: an independent arbiter and they'll make a determination on their mouth. Now,
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  Speaker 3: these were many of them with kids, and they were
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  Speaker 3: getting shock treatment, which was absolutely shocking. They in fact
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  Speaker 3: have got until April next year. Those are the ones
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  Speaker 3: that want the expedited payment, or they can delay it
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  Speaker 3: until September next year if they want to negotiate a payment, well,
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  Speaker 3: payments will be all done by the end of next year. Now.
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  Speaker 3: The Minister Erica Stanford said all the organs of State
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  Speaker 3: were notified about the torture of children, but it seems
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  Speaker 3: no one was listening.
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  Speaker 5: Dozens more complaints and concerns were made to every government
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  Speaker 5: department that had some connection or responsibility for Lake Elis.
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  Speaker 5: Complaints were made to police officers, social workers, kads of
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  Speaker 5: departments of Social Welfare, Education and Health, the Medical Council,
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  Speaker 5: Yombusman District inspectors, doctors and nurses, and none was sufficiently
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  Speaker 5: acted on. The Crown utterly failed survivors when we owed
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  Speaker 5: the majority of care and protection.
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  Speaker 3: You'd have to say that was absolutely the case.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely yeah, no arguing with that. The final clash of
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  Speaker 2: the leaders in the House for the year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition.
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  Speaker 3: Given the clash, they will no doubt certainly be pleased
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  Speaker 3: see the last of each other. As Parliament draws to
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  Speaker 3: a close for the year, they're having the adjournment debate.
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  Speaker 3: At the moment Chris Luckson had just been on his
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  Speaker 3: feet and Chris Hopkins followed him. But earlier on during
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  Speaker 3: question time. Here they are with Chris Luckson defending the
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  Speaker 3: record of his finance minister, Nichola Willis.
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  Speaker 6: Nicola Willis is going to go down as the best
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  Speaker 6: finance minister of those country they ever seen, because by god,
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  Speaker 6: what a mess she has picked up, and she is
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  Speaker 6: cleaning house and she's getting the job done, and she
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  Speaker 6: has delivered a value for money, reliable, sensible, fairy solution
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  Speaker 6: of rail can addible fairies, and our great Minister of
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  Speaker 6: Rail's got a limited window to try and improve upon it.
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  Speaker 6: Otherwise we're going to get new fairies twenty twenty nine.
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  Speaker 6: Don't you worry about it?
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  Speaker 7: So why does he think he's the most unpopular prime
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  Speaker 7: minister in New Zealand's history?
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  Speaker 1: And what does he think.
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  Speaker 7: Nichola Willis is more likely to replace next year the
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  Speaker 7: inter Island Fairies or him his prime Minister.
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  Speaker 6: I mean that is a bit ranch isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that a bit wrench?
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  Speaker 6: How are the conversations with David Parker and Kerr McNulty
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  Speaker 6: working out sun They're getting off very well, haven't they.
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  Speaker 2: Goodness, Okay, all right, And just finally Shane Jones while
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  Speaker 2: he's having a bit of fun too, well, look, he.
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  Speaker 3: Was at his lyrical best. I've got to say, as
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  Speaker 3: he was lauding the success of his regional summits, he's
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  Speaker 3: been holding up and down the country in his mind.
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  Speaker 3: Jones told Parliament he hasn't a sceric of doubt about
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  Speaker 3: how well they were received.
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  Speaker 7: Unheralded popularity. The summits have been a opportunity to meet
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  Speaker 7: and greet people. Occasionally there have been one of three
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  Speaker 7: protesters as I've sought to engage with garden variety kiwis.
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  Speaker 7: But the days of those mung bean medalers are over,
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  Speaker 7: without a doubt. Taranaki will enjoy a boost with offshore
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  Speaker 7: mining opportunities. Sadly, no, that's enough from the Kumua munches.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not going to have any of that today. And
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  Speaker 7: International Gas and Oil Explorer announced at six point thirty
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  Speaker 7: this morning they're no longer withdrawing from New Zealand and
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  Speaker 7: on your behalf New Zealand. I claim a little credit
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  Speaker 7: for that.
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  Speaker 4: I got to say.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great way to go out, isn't it, Because
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  Speaker 3: you know he is probably I think one of the
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  Speaker 3: most humorous and able speakers in the place at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, they're a bit short on those aren't they
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  Speaker 2: on the past.
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  Speaker 7: We had great.
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  Speaker 3: Horators in the old days and they're not quite the
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  Speaker 3: same today.
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  Speaker 4: So he's the pick of the bud at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: I think long may he rain, Uncle Shane. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: so much. Barry Soper out of Parliament. Nine Away from
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