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Full Show Podcast: 13 February 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews, and the inside Early with one
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Speaker 2: Dogs b Good morning, Welcome to Early Edition. I'm Francisco
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Speaker 2: Budkin filling in for Andrew Dickens this morning. Good to
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Speaker 2: have you with us. You're most welcome to contact me
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Speaker 2: anytime this morning. You can text on ninety two ninety two,
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Speaker 2: or you can flict me an email at Francesca at
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Speaker 2: newstalg ZDB dot co dot NZ. On the show today,
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Speaker 2: should global streamers like Netflix, Apple and Disney be required
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Speaker 2: to invest in local Keywi content? We look at the
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Speaker 2: updated rental market guidelines around what information landlords can and
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Speaker 2: can't ask for, and before the end of the hour,
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Speaker 2: we talked to Keith Morrison, new Plymouth fishermen and owner
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Speaker 2: of Egmont Seafoods about the impact proposed changes to the
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Speaker 2: Fisheries Act will have on the industry.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It's Thursday, the thirteenth of February. The Israel Hamas sistar
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Speaker 2: is still hanging on by a thread. Israeli priman Benjamin
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Speaker 2: Netanyahu has reiterated the Saturday deadline for Hamas to release
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Speaker 2: the hostages, which the militant group has threatened to delay.
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Speaker 3: If Hamas does not return our hostages by Saturday noon,
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Speaker 3: the ceasefire will end and the military will return to
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Speaker 3: intense fighting until Hamas is finally defeated.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, US Defense Secretary Pete Seth has appeared at his
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Speaker 2: first meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. He told
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Speaker 2: allies the war between Ukraine and Russia must end and
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Speaker 2: that Kiev joining NATO is unrealistic.
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Speaker 3: We must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine's pre
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Speaker 3: twenty fourteen borders is an unrealistic objective. Chasing this illusionary
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Speaker 3: goal will only prolong the war and cause more suffering.
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Speaker 2: Across the ditch. The male nurse who made threats against
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Speaker 2: Israeli patients and a viral social media video claims the
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Speaker 2: incident was a joke and a misunderstanding. The man and woman,
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Speaker 2: both employees at Sydney Hill Hospital, have been suspended for
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Speaker 2: the video, which appeared to show them threatening to kill
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Speaker 2: Israeli patients and boasting about refusing to treat them.
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Speaker 4: My client sends a very sincere apology to not only
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Speaker 4: that individual, but to the Jewish community.
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Speaker 2: And finally, Elon Musk once again has denied a hostile
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Speaker 2: takeover of the US government and defended his cost cutting plans.
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump signed an order giving Musk's Department of Government
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Speaker 2: Efficiency more authority to cut the federal workforce. The two
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Speaker 2: took questions from reporters in the Oval Office.
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Speaker 5: We have this unelected, fourth unconstitutional branch of government, which
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Speaker 5: is the bureaucracy, which has in a lot of ways
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Speaker 5: currently more power than any elected representatives. And this is uh,
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Speaker 5: there's not something that people want.
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Speaker 2: And that's their agenda.
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Speaker 1: News and Views you trust to start your day's early
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Speaker 1: edition where one room, make your property search simple.
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Speaker 2: News dogs in the nine past five now the government
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Speaker 2: is asking for fee back on five proposals aimed to
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Speaker 2: help local media go up against international competitors. This was
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Speaker 2: announced by the Minister for Media and Communications Paul Goldsmith yesterday.
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Speaker 2: One of their proposals involves streaming services and the requirement
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Speaker 2: for them to invest in New Zealand content and SPARTA
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Speaker 2: President Iron Gardner will be with us in just a
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Speaker 2: moment to talk about this aspect of the overhaul. But
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Speaker 2: also on the agenda is the question of whether we
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Speaker 2: should merge the New Zealand Film Commission and New Zealand
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Speaker 2: on Air that this is not a new idea. It
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Speaker 2: has been floating around for a while now in Duncan
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Speaker 2: Grieve and the spinoff wrote a really detailed piece about
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Speaker 2: it mid last year. Those in the industry will have
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Speaker 2: an opinion on whether this is a good move or not,
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Speaker 2: but the one thing you can't deny is that this
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Speaker 2: is a good time to discuss it. Once upon a time,
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Speaker 2: New Zealand on Air, which funds TV shows, tallyfilms, stream shows,
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Speaker 2: some music podcasts, and the Film Commission, which funds, markets
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Speaker 2: and distributes New Zealand films and administers the screen production rebate.
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Speaker 2: They had quite different jobs and they worked within quite
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Speaker 2: different realms. But these days, with changes to the way
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Speaker 2: we watch TV and film, the dominance of streaming services,
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Speaker 2: the fact that we want New Zealand content that we
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Speaker 2: relate to, but we can also sell to a global market,
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Speaker 2: and that everyone seems to be handing out rebates of
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Speaker 2: some sort, it means that these two agencies are more
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Speaker 2: aligned with what they're trying to achieve. As Greve wrote,
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Speaker 2: as the remits of New Zealand on Air and the
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Speaker 2: Film Commission have broadened, so their work has become somewhat tangled.
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Speaker 2: So this is a good time to move the industry forward,
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Speaker 2: an industry which is really struggling. Align the interests, improve
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Speaker 2: media regulations in legislation, be ambitious. It's not going to
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Speaker 2: affect funding, but the time has come for big moves
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Speaker 2: and revitalization. It is ten past five. You're with early edition, 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. Where's one roof make your property search simple
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Speaker 1: news talks that.
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Speaker 2: Be thirteen past five. Now local media may soon be
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Speaker 2: on a more level playing field. Global streamers like Netflix,
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Speaker 2: Apple and Disney could be required to invest in local
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Speaker 2: key we content underproposed changes to the media sector. The
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Speaker 2: Screen Producers Guild has been lobbying for regulation of international
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Speaker 2: streamers for quite some time. In Sparta, President Irene Gardner
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Speaker 2: is with me this morning, as always, appreciate your time, Irene.
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Speaker 6: Lovely to be here, Willie.
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Speaker 7: It is.
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Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on this? Will this be enough?
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Speaker 6: Well, it's a really good start. The discuss that's a
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Speaker 6: lot of the discussion document is actually very very good.
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Speaker 6: It's it's quite detailed, quite considered, and it shows a
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Speaker 6: really good understanding of the local production sector and the
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Speaker 6: challenges that we're currently stacing, so that's great. We feel
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Speaker 6: kind of you know, listened to, which is always a
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Speaker 6: nice thing. And as you mentioned in your intro, we're
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Speaker 6: particularly pleased to see regulating the international streaming companies is
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Speaker 6: one of the proposals because we've been lobbying for that
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Speaker 6: foot for such a long time. But it's there's still
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Speaker 6: a lot of work to be done, you know, there's
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Speaker 6: different options, and that's the whole point of a discussion
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Speaker 6: document is that people now submit and we wouldok ut
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Speaker 6: the best way forward, but at least it's there. The
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Speaker 6: way they're talking about it is perhaps an investment on
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Speaker 6: a percentage of revenue that the streamers are making, and
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Speaker 6: the same sort of local quota amount would be put
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Speaker 6: on our local broadcasters if there's slight danger there. We
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Speaker 6: don't want to hurt the local bood casters who are
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Speaker 6: operating in the same amount of money, you know, and
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Speaker 6: that's part of our problems that we don't have the
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Speaker 6: revenue so much anymore because of the impact of the streamers,
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Speaker 6: So we'd have to make sure that the local part
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Speaker 6: of it was manageable and it wasn't hurting anybody, So
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Speaker 6: that wasn't unintended consequences, but you know that's the sort
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Speaker 6: of stuff that can all be worked through. We actually
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Speaker 6: proposed for a levee system where they just paid a
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Speaker 6: percentage of their New Zealand revenue and that was invested
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Speaker 6: back into local production, which may maybe a better system
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Speaker 6: might be fairer, harder to work around a.
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Speaker 2: Little bit that's and simpler maybe to ring.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but you know, we're open to anything that helps
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Speaker 6: the level the playing field because you know, it really
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Speaker 6: has been incredibly tough as the streamers have kind of
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Speaker 6: got a string or hold over audiences and therefore, you know,
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Speaker 6: affected the ad revenue that local dictions always relied on.
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Speaker 6: So it's it's a present start. Well that's a good
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Speaker 6: little way to go.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's the question. Isn't it as New
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Speaker 2: Zealand showing up too late on this?
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Speaker 6: Well, ideally it should have happened years ago, and you know,
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Speaker 6: we wouldn't have gotten to the problem we're in now.
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Speaker 6: We're advertising revenue is completely fell off a cliff this
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Speaker 6: past year and everything is really tough, but it's never
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Speaker 6: too late, So yeah, let's just really push and hope
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Speaker 6: that it happened because they you know, I mean, we
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Speaker 6: love the streamers. They've been wonderful content here sometimes they
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Speaker 6: shoot shows here, but you know, they haven't invested in
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Speaker 6: local at all and they've taken our eyeballs and our
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Speaker 6: ad rev and so they kind of should be part
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Speaker 6: of the solution because it's them that's the great things,
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Speaker 6: and anything any regulation in this area that helps them
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Speaker 6: all the plainfield will be very very welcome.
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Speaker 2: Irene Have the streamers have faced regulation in other countries.
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Speaker 6: Starting too, Starting to Yes, there's quite a few countries
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Speaker 6: that are much further out of the block than US.
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Speaker 6: A lot, particularly European Scandinavian territories. They seem to have
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Speaker 6: all been very good at getting things happening. Australia has
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Speaker 6: been pushing and pushing and pushing, but still haven't quite
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Speaker 6: got there. And you know, what there are thought is
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Speaker 6: quite similar to what's been posed in the document, which
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Speaker 6: is a percentage of their Australian revenue you know, invested
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Speaker 6: into local content. So you know, maybe we'll do something
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Speaker 6: that's quite similar. And you know, being too, territories quite connected,
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Speaker 6: but internationally there's levees usually around about sort of five
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Speaker 6: six percent on their local revenue and there's also sort
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Speaker 6: of hybrids, you know, where you pay the levy, but
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Speaker 6: you know you can also make local content instead and
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Speaker 6: get your levee amount reduced. So there's different ways of
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Speaker 6: looking at it. And you know, to be fair, this
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Speaker 6: is a discussion document and it's just put it out,
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Speaker 6: but it's put streamers regulating in there, put a you know,
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Speaker 6: a proposed perhaps preferred way of doing it. But it's
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Speaker 6: also said that they're open to looking at different ways.
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Speaker 6: So you know, SPARTA and others can come back on
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Speaker 6: that and say, well, hey, you know, this might work.
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Speaker 6: It might be that what the reporter is down has
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Speaker 6: gone for what is most palatable, you know what, because
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Speaker 6: obviously the to big companies and they do push back
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Speaker 6: when regulation has tried. They might be thinking that this
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Speaker 6: is more palatable than a straight levy. I think the
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Speaker 6: tricky thing was something like this is you can maybe
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Speaker 6: sort of sneak around it and ways like you can
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Speaker 6: just buy a whole lot of local continent instead of
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Speaker 6: investing in making some or you can make one incredibly
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Speaker 6: expensive local production and that kind of only helps one area.
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Speaker 6: But you know, all of the splu worked out.
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Speaker 2: As you say, a discussion document lots to talk about
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Speaker 2: Iron Garden. Always appreciate your time. At is eighteen past five.
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Speaker 2: Up next, the Privacy Commissioner is wanting about the importance
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Speaker 2: of privacy when securing a flat. What can and can't
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Speaker 2: landlords ask?
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Speaker 1: The first word on the news of the day earlier
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Speaker 1: edition with one roof will make your property surge?
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Speaker 2: Simple news talks that'd be With early addition, it's twenty
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Speaker 2: past five. The Privacy Commissioner is wanting the hunter land
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Speaker 2: a flat should not come at the expense of privacy.
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Speaker 2: He's updated rental market guidelines around what information landlords can
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Speaker 2: and can't ask for. They can ask for names, proof
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Speaker 2: of identity, and legal residency status, but they can't ask
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Speaker 2: for things like bank statements, employment status, religious beliefs, or
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Speaker 2: social media URLs. Serena Gibbon is general manager of Auckland's
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Speaker 2: Property Investor Association, and she joins me, Now, good morning.
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Speaker 8: Good morning, Francesca.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me this conversation. We've had this, haven't
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Speaker 2: we happened back in twenty twenty one? So are we
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Speaker 2: still seeing landlords asking for information they shouldn't?
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Speaker 9: No, we're not.
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Speaker 8: We're not seeing on a wholesale scale that landlord's asking
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Speaker 8: for information that they shouldn't be. And look, Francesca, I
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Speaker 8: think before anyone jumps on like a sealem which hunts
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Speaker 8: against landlords and property managers, I will say this, I've
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Speaker 8: read the Commissioner's press release and the language in there
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Speaker 8: is very speculative and sort of more of PFA warning
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Speaker 8: in nature. And you know he's using words like could
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Speaker 8: to me. You know, he's certainly not saying that there's
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Speaker 8: a horde of landlords out there collecting information they shouldn't.
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Speaker 8: This is simply a reminder to the industry that, given
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Speaker 8: the summer months and students are going back to school
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Speaker 8: now and looking for flats, that everyone in the rental
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Speaker 8: sector should be very aware of their rights and obligations.
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Speaker 2: Serena, is there room for misinterpretation within rental roles or
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Speaker 2: are they pretty clear?
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Speaker 8: The rules are pretty clear. I think the one thing
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Speaker 8: I would say, because I've worked worth the Procy Commissioners
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Speaker 8: Office in the past to create the last iteration of
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Speaker 8: the guidance and the current one is in a big
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Speaker 8: departure from it, I would say, you know, with all
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Speaker 8: due respect, it would be helpful instead of producing two
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Speaker 8: separate documents, one targeting landlords and a separate one targeting tenant.
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Speaker 8: If you look at both documents side by side, the
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Speaker 8: language and the approach are very different, and that could
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Speaker 8: end up setting different expectations for the two parties engaging
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Speaker 8: in residential tendency. So really, you know, what might have
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Speaker 8: been more helpful is for there to be one uniform
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Speaker 8: document that both landlords and tenants can consult on and
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Speaker 8: guidance on. One of the examples I can give you
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Speaker 8: is in the landlord document. The language is very specific
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Speaker 8: around the taking of photographs during property inspections, and it
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Speaker 8: maps out in there are certain exceptions where landlords certain
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Speaker 8: exceptional instances where landlords can take images of personal items,
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Speaker 8: such as if they believe that these personal items are
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Speaker 8: points to a lawful act or breach of the tendency
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Speaker 8: agreement or tendency law, but none of that is mentioned
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Speaker 8: in the tenants guidance documents. Tens. The guidance documents simply
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Speaker 8: says that landlords can be too intrusive in a way
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Speaker 8: they take photographs during inspection. So I'm sure you can
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Speaker 8: see there, you know, with different languages, different guidances, it
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Speaker 8: lands everyone at a very different strike to point and
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Speaker 8: when it comes to taking photographs and that could create
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Speaker 8: some very complex disputes at the end of the line.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Serena for talking us through that.
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Speaker 2: It was Serena Gibbons, general manager of Auckland's Property Investor Association.
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Speaker 2: It's twenty four past five the Early Edition.
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Speaker 2: Twenty six past five. Y're with early edition. While there
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Speaker 2: is a Dominos in a subway, but there will be
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Speaker 2: no McDonald's in Wonica, at least at the currently proposed site. Yesterday,
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Speaker 2: commissioners declined to grant consent from McDonald's restaurant, largely due
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Speaker 2: to the location. So the proposed location was at the
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Speaker 2: edge of town where urban meets rural living. It's regarded
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Speaker 2: as outside the urban growth boundary for Wonaca, at one
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Speaker 2: of the town's entrances, directly underneath the magnificent amount iron.
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Speaker 2: The McDonald's was deemed to be at odds with rural living,
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Speaker 2: the design of the building and surroundings not consistent with
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Speaker 2: the landscape values of the site in its wider context.
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Speaker 2: Commissioners considered reports and findings about the architecture noise, traffic
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Speaker 2: and future planning. Queenstown Lakes District Council opened the proposal
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Speaker 2: for public submissions. Are there About three hundred and sixty
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Speaker 2: seven may to t One hundred and forty were very
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Speaker 2: much opposed to the development. Twenty one supported it. While
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Speaker 2: there were some who would have liked the opportunity for
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Speaker 2: a big Mac for dinner, many locals thought it would
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Speaker 2: increase traffic, drink driving, litter, take business away from existing
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Speaker 2: local businesses, stand out like a saw thumb, and have
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Speaker 2: a visual anesthetic impact on the town. Their issue was
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Speaker 2: was this rarely a fitting gateway for a town all
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Speaker 2: about healthy living and environment, yoga and well being, ditching
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Speaker 2: disposable coffee cups and slashing waste or has the horse
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Speaker 2: already bolted when it comes to Wanaka's image and culture.
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Speaker 2: The town's population has increased from ten thousand to eighteen
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Speaker 2: thousand and a decade. It's surrounded in subdivision development, and
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Speaker 2: then there's the Three Parks development not too far down
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Speaker 2: the road from the proposed McDonald's site, which is home
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Speaker 2: to a might attend Mega, a warehouse and numerous other outlets.
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Speaker 2: Last night, Queenstown District Deputy Mayor Quenen Smith told Andrew
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Speaker 2: Dickens on news talks he'd be that proposed setting and
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Speaker 2: McDonald's wasn't a good fit.
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Speaker 9: It may be parts of town where this activity might
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Speaker 9: be appropriate, and if this was within a commercial within
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Speaker 9: the town center or within a commercial zone within the town,
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Speaker 9: I there say, there's very little that anybody could do
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Speaker 9: to stop that.
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Speaker 2: So did McDonald's just get it wrong? Did they not
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Speaker 2: read the room being tucked away in the Three Parks
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Speaker 2: development or the center of town might have made it
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Speaker 2: easy to gain consent, But would even that have been
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Speaker 2: acceptable for locals? I say, good on the folks of Wanica.
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Speaker 2: Who doesn't love a David and Goliath battle? There apparently
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Speaker 2: over forty one thousand McDonald's in the world. There's one
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Speaker 2: about an hour away from Wanicah. Does another small town
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Speaker 2: need a golden arch? I personally love rolling into New
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Speaker 2: Zealand town's, exploring what's on offer, finding the best homemade pie,
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Speaker 2: shout out to Miles better pies in Tiano, and having
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Speaker 2: a chat with locals. It's always good to get away
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Speaker 2: from the familiar. Tourists don't visit a stunning place like
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Speaker 2: Wanica because it has a McDonald. So it comes down
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Speaker 2: to the community. The community feel it doesn't reflect their
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Speaker 2: values for whatever reason, protecting the vista, their brand, local businesses,
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Speaker 2: or just plain old snobbery. And I say go for it,
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Speaker 2: fight the fight, just like the Magnificent I cold it
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Speaker 2: did zimb so as Wanakura being a little bit snobby.
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Speaker 2: Should locals and the visitors be able to make a
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Speaker 2: decision about whether they eat maccas or not. Love to
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Speaker 2: hear from you ninety two ninety two. Now a proposed
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Speaker 2: major shakeup of the Fisheries Act has been announced. We're
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Speaker 2: going to cover that before the end of the hour.
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Speaker 2: News is next here on early edition.
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Speaker 2: Good morning. This is the early additional newstalks. I'm Francisco
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Speaker 2: Budkin filling in for Andrew today. Thank you for being
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Speaker 2: with us, and the next half hour head to the
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Speaker 2: US where Elon Musk is defending transparency around his government
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Speaker 2: costcusting initiatives, and Shane Jones has announced proposed changes to
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Speaker 2: the Fisheries Act that would see the loosening of catch
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Speaker 2: regulations and restrict who can access camera footage from fishing boats.
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Speaker 2: We get a fisherman's thoughts on this before the end
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Speaker 2: of the hour. Hey, thanks so much for your feedback.
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Speaker 2: And ninety two ninety two is the text. One reads.
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Speaker 2: I do not like McDonald's or businesses like them, but
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Speaker 2: I do defend their right to operate. The decision to
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Speaker 2: block them is unjust.
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Speaker 8: Do you know what.
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Speaker 2: I think they just got it wrong. I just think
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Speaker 2: they pitched the wrong place. It's the place that they
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Speaker 2: would prefer. But I think if they really wanted one
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Speaker 2: up and running in Wanaka, they should have just listened
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Speaker 2: to the community a little bit better and might have
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Speaker 2: had a bit more support. And other reads good on Wanica.
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Speaker 2: Mcmacus doesn't need to be everywhere in this country. Support
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Speaker 2: the businesses of a Wanaka. I say. We were talking
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Speaker 2: also about local content and been able to get streaming
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Speaker 2: services to pay a levy towards our industry. Francesca. The
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Speaker 2: local stuff has to be has to up its game
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Speaker 2: to stuff that people want to watch, much of it
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Speaker 2: as amateur. Do you know what? There are shows in
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Speaker 2: New Zealand, like the Broken Wood Mysteries that do incredibly
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Speaker 2: well overseas. They're hugely popular in the US and the
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Speaker 2: UK and France and Denmark and all around Europe and things.
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Speaker 2: We don't often hear about the success that we have
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Speaker 2: in selling some of these shows, and there's quite a
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Speaker 2: few of them Creamery, My Life is Murder, quite a
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Speaker 2: few of our reality shows as well, the Traders and
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Speaker 2: things that all get sold as well. So a lot
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Speaker 2: of this material is getting sold. We want it on
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Speaker 2: the streaming services and we want them to pay a little,
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Speaker 2: you know, to help uss out remain a robust industry. Hey,
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Speaker 2: thank you for your feedback. You can keep the text coming.
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Speaker 11: All right?
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Speaker 2: And we head around the country now and joining me
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Speaker 2: and anedin is Callum Proctor. Good morning, Callum. There's going
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Speaker 2: to be no sign as we were just talking about
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Speaker 2: of the Golden Arches and Wonnica.
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Speaker 4: That's right, they're a Gonburger, you could say. The Queen's
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Speaker 4: Sundlakes District Council yesterday's declining maca's resource application to set
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Speaker 4: up in Warnica. So that ends the controversy within the
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Speaker 4: town for now. Anyway, where locals strongly pushed back against
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Speaker 4: this planned restaurant, which was going to be set up
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Speaker 4: at the Mountain Iron round about, the big entrance to Wantakah,
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Speaker 4: and more than three hundred and sixty public submissions were made.
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Speaker 4: Only twenty one of those were in support, look many
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Speaker 4: saying it was more the location than a McDonald's restaurant
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Speaker 4: that they were opposing, Others citing concerns about food waste
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Speaker 4: and pollution McDonald's. They say that on our can considering the.
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Speaker 2: Next steps and the weather today and eden Callum.
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Speaker 4: Mostly cloudy, fine breaks this afternoon though light wins and
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Speaker 4: a high of twenty.
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Speaker 2: Lovely good to hear Claire Sherwood is with us in
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Speaker 2: christ Church and so good news Claire. A lower than
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Speaker 2: forecast rates increases on the card for christ Church.
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Speaker 12: That's why would you want to be anywhere? Our Sililk
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Speaker 12: City Councilors have adopted our draft to annual plan in
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Speaker 12: a fourteen to four vote. Now the initial proposed average
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Speaker 12: rates increase of eight point four eight percent has lowered
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Speaker 12: down to seven point five eight percent, although next year
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Speaker 12: is looking a bit groom. It's leaped to a forecast
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Speaker 12: ten point four Now. Deputy Mayor Pauline Cotter was one
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Speaker 12: who voted in Favy yesterday. She did, though express discomfort
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Speaker 12: at this looming hike for next year. She acknowledges it's
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Speaker 12: a good year to ease financial pressure for rate payers,
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Speaker 12: but hopes the economy will be better next year. She
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Speaker 12: does say that everyone wants to keep the increases low,
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Speaker 12: but the council also needs to be able to deliver
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Speaker 12: on services. Public consultation on this rise and the draft
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Speaker 12: annual plan in full will begin February twenty six. And
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Speaker 12: the weather today clear fine today, some light ones and
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Speaker 12: sea breezes and a high of twenty one.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, and we're off to Wellington Max
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Speaker 2: Holes with us. Good morning, Good morning. So pedestrianizing the
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Speaker 2: central city is going to take a while.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, this is the Golden Mile roading project to revamp
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Speaker 7: the backbone of the central city from Lampton Key to
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Speaker 7: Courtney Place. The mayor gave an announcement yesterday morning embargoed
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Speaker 7: until today for some reason, that that work is effectively
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Speaker 7: going to start in April, but it won't be on
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Speaker 7: the Golden Mile itself. Instead, eight months of construction work
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Speaker 7: just on an intersection at the top of Courtney Place
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Speaker 7: just so the Golden Mile can go ahead. It'll then
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Speaker 7: take two years of construction to fulfill a design that
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Speaker 7: was also unveiled yesterday morning, involving non slippery pavements, clearer
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Speaker 7: cycle and bus lanes, plants and foliage. It was not
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Speaker 7: announced though, that businesses are going to receive any tangible
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Speaker 7: financial support so they can survive through this period. They've
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Speaker 7: been crying out for help, somewhat akin to Auckland's targeted
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Speaker 7: hardship fund related to the City rail Link not to
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Speaker 7: be here. This is, of course Tory Fino's legacy project.
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Speaker 7: It's the only big thing left. We have a local
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Speaker 7: election in October and the timelines mean there's the very
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Speaker 7: real chance that work on the Golden Mile itself won't
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Speaker 7: have even started during her mayoralty.
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Speaker 2: Max Wellington's weather today.
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Speaker 7: Another lovely one. Fine Southerley's twenty three central.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Michael Sergle is with me in
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Speaker 2: the Auckland studio. Good morning, good morning, but have you
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Speaker 2: got for ustaing?
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 13: Car insurance premiums just keep getting more expensive. So we've
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Speaker 13: heard lots about home and contents insurance, but quote the
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Speaker 13: comprehensive car insurance on comparison website Quashed have written forty
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Speaker 13: one percent to two years quotes for home and contents
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Speaker 13: up thirty one percent. We're also seeing lots of variation
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Speaker 13: between providers, So take for example a twenty twenty Toyota
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Speaker 13: Corolla in Auckland. A comprehensive policy could range from anything
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Speaker 13: from nine sixty to seventeen ninety. That's almost a sort
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Speaker 13: of an ninety difference. Adjusting excess and so insured could
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Speaker 13: cut premiums by up to a third. Switching to third party,
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Speaker 13: fire and theft could cut premiums by almost two thirds.
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Speaker 13: And Quash says it's been getting lots of people investigating
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Speaker 13: cheaper options like reducing their coverage or switching to third partner.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you'd understand why you'd be doing that, wouldn't you?
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Speaker 2: Tell me about the weather and open today.
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Speaker 13: Mainly find possible showers in the south and north this afternoon,
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Speaker 13: twenty sixth high.
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Speaker 2: Lovely, Thank you so much, Michael. Next up, we are
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Speaker 2: off to the US. It is seventeen to six.
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Speaker 1: International correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance Peace of mind
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Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 2: Joining us now from the US is Mitch McCann.
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Speaker 11: Good morning, Mitch, Good morning, Francesca, how are you.
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Speaker 2: I'm very good. Thank you. So Elon Musk and President
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Speaker 2: Trump had an appearance in the Oval Office together and
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Speaker 2: Elon Musk was having to defend his transparency when it
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Speaker 2: comes to his government cost cutting initiative.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, much has been made of Elon Musk's new role
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Speaker 11: in the White House. He's leading it's called the DOGE
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Speaker 11: Department or the Department of Government Efficiency. Essentially, his job
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Speaker 11: is to root out waste and find where money is
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Speaker 11: being spent where it shouldn't and get rid of those jobs,
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Speaker 11: get rid of people, find out what's going on. But
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Speaker 11: there's a lot of criticism about his job that it's
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Speaker 11: been done in secrecy. People don't know who he's hired,
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Speaker 11: what access he has to Americans financial data. And he
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Speaker 11: helped this press conference with Donald Trump yesterday at the
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Speaker 11: White House. It was kind of strange because it just
25:29
Speaker 11: went on and on while while Elon Musk was trying
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Speaker 11: to wrangle his son, who eventually he put on his
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Speaker 11: shoulders and spoke to the press for about half an hour. Now,
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Speaker 11: he defended his job. He said that Donald Trump campaigned
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Speaker 11: on getting rid of government waste, and he said the
25:42
Speaker 11: people voted for major reform, and that's what they're going
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Speaker 11: to get. He said, it's what democracy is all about.
25:48
Speaker 11: He said he fully expects to be scrutinized. And Donald
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Speaker 11: Trump said that if there's any issues around a conflict
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Speaker 11: of interest because Elon Musk's companies get billions of dollars
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Speaker 11: from the government in grants, then Donald Trump will move
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Speaker 11: from away from whatever issue that is on to another
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Speaker 11: one to try and create this perceived transparency. But you know,
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Speaker 11: a lot of people here are confused about what Elon
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Speaker 11: Musk's actual role is and what he's doing in the
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Speaker 11: federal government.
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Speaker 2: And just quickly match, the US announces its position on
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Speaker 2: the Ukraine.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, that's right. Pete Higseth is the Defense secretary here
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Speaker 11: in the US. He's been at a meeting this morning
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Speaker 11: of other leaders around Europe to talk about Ukraine, and
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Speaker 11: he said this, we want, like you, a sovereign and
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Speaker 11: prosperous Ukraine, but we must start by recognizing that returning
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Speaker 11: to Ukraine's pre twenty fourteen borders is an unrealistic objective.
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Speaker 11: So really that is a new position or a new
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Speaker 11: position there from the United States, saying that getting back
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Speaker 11: to you know, full liberation Ukraine what it used to
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Speaker 11: be is not a realistic proposition. So that is new
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Speaker 11: from the White House and we're going to see if
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Speaker 11: Donald Trump's going to make any more comments on that
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Speaker 11: in the coming hours, which he possibly will.
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Speaker 2: Mitch McCann, thank you very much for the update, Zibby.
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Speaker 2: It is at twelve to six. Now, the fishing industry
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Speaker 2: is welcoming a proposed major shakeup of the Fisheries Act.
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Speaker 2: It would see a loosening of catch regulations and restrict
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Speaker 2: who can access camera footage from fishing boats, meaning only
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Speaker 2: MPI and the courts would have access to the footage.
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Speaker 2: Keith Morson as a fisherman and owner of Eggmont Seafoods
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Speaker 2: in New Plymouth, and he joins me now thank you
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Speaker 2: for your time.
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Speaker 14: Keith, good morning, Good morning, Francesca Hey, is this a
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Speaker 14: win for you? Look, this has been in the something
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Speaker 14: that the industry has been wanting to get addressed for
27:42
Speaker 14: a long period of time. You know, they're quite a
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Speaker 14: management system has been in force now for nearly forty years,
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Speaker 14: but we've had a real change in technology on our vessels,
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Speaker 14: the amount of transparency that we have and you know,
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Speaker 14: there's a lot of technology that the fishermen are dealing
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Speaker 14: with these days, so the regulations of the Fisheries Act
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Speaker 14: needs to take into account the changes that we've had
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Speaker 14: within the industry. So you know, the changes that are
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Speaker 14: being recommended or that are being addressed in this discussion
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Speaker 14: paper are certainly things that we've been having to deal
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Speaker 14: with for a long period of time.
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Speaker 2: Keith, the catching regulations are they holding you back?
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Speaker 14: Look, it's really complex. The catching regulations that we're having
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Speaker 14: to deal with on a day to day basis make
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Speaker 14: it really difficult for the guys on the water and
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Speaker 14: also for the land based operators as well. So I
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Speaker 14: think this will simplify and make it easier for both
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Speaker 14: the harvesters on the water and the operators on land
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Speaker 14: to be able to get on and do their business.
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Speaker 2: What do you think about anyone being able to access
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Speaker 2: footage from boats?
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Speaker 14: Yeah, Look, I know that people want and there's certainly
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Speaker 14: been some bad press around the fresh fishing industry for
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Speaker 14: a long period of time, but we're in a really
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Speaker 14: heavily regulated environment and it's very transparent what we do
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Speaker 14: on a day to day basis. A lot of these
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Speaker 14: fishermen are out on the water for three, four or
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Speaker 14: five days at a time, living on those vessels. To
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Speaker 14: have footage of those operations available to the general public,
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Speaker 14: you know, I just don't think that that should necessarily,
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Speaker 14: you know, just just be as visible as people would
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Speaker 14: like it to be. You know, the regulators certainly have
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Speaker 14: access to that information, and they can see what fishermen
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Speaker 14: are doing, where they're doing it, how they're doing it,
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Speaker 14: and I just don't know that that's something that should
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Speaker 14: be available to the general public. It could be taken
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Speaker 14: out of context if they clip or take certain parts
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Speaker 14: of a fishing activity, and we've seen that play out
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Speaker 14: in the past sometimes with NGOs. So no, I don't
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Speaker 14: think that the footage that our fishermen are supplying is
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Speaker 14: necessarily something that should be in the public.
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Speaker 9: Donay kaith, Can I.
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Speaker 2: Just go back to catching regulations for a moment. Loosening
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Speaker 2: the catch regulations? Would that be quite area specific?
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Speaker 14: Look, it's like I said, it's really complex. For example,
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Speaker 14: you have some fish species that have got minimum legal
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Speaker 14: sizes snapper, tero key. You've got other species that haven't
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Speaker 14: got minimum legal sizes. So if you have a small snapper,
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Speaker 14: you can return that to the seed. Legally, if you
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Speaker 14: have a small gernered, you're required to bring that back in,
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Speaker 14: so it's not necessarily a listening of the regulations. It's
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Speaker 14: just providing the ability for the fishermen to make some
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Speaker 14: decisions around what species they should be bringing in from
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Speaker 14: an economic point of view. But whilst they are harvested,
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Speaker 14: they are still going to be recording all of their
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Speaker 14: cats against quota, so there's not there their sustainability. So
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Speaker 14: it's just about simplifying their ability to operate and return
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Speaker 14: fist to the sea. If it has no real economic value,
31:36
Speaker 14: there's no sense in bringing in small gerner that's just
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Speaker 14: going to end up in landfill. It's better off to
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Speaker 14: be returned to the sea and go back in the
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Speaker 14: food chain.
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Speaker 2: Okay, thank you very much for your time in talking
31:46
Speaker 2: us through that. That was Keith Morson. He's a fisherman
31:48
Speaker 2: and owner of Eggmant Seafoods in New Plymouth. It is
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Speaker 2: New Talk said be coming up at six am as
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Speaker 2: Mike Hosking on the Mike Hosking Breakfast and it joins me. Now,
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Speaker 2: good morning, greetings.
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Speaker 10: Did I detect in your voice an element of interest
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Speaker 10: in the business of the media merger in your interview?
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Speaker 1: Did I?
32:16
Speaker 2: Yes? So he talking about the film commission.
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Speaker 10: Yes, here's your red flag. So as far as I
32:21
Speaker 10: can work out, so merging New Zealand on air with
32:23
Speaker 10: a film commission is like a stroke of a pen.
32:25
Speaker 10: Anyone can do that, and that's you know, it might work,
32:27
Speaker 10: it might be better off.
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Speaker 2: We're not very good at media mergers in this.
32:30
Speaker 10: Game, no we're not. But having said that, if you
32:32
Speaker 10: can do that as a government, that's my point being
32:34
Speaker 10: that Paul Goldsmith, from my view, doesn't seem particularly interested
32:37
Speaker 10: in his portfolio. There's a lot of concern in the
32:40
Speaker 10: media about what's going on and what could happen and
32:42
Speaker 10: might not happen and so on. He just doesn't seem
32:44
Speaker 10: that interested. The moment you get involved with any stream
32:48
Speaker 10: international and this goes back to things like the news
32:51
Speaker 10: deal and then paying us money for the stories day,
32:54
Speaker 10: all of that stuff. The moment you get involved in
32:56
Speaker 10: those people, nothing, nothing happens, nothing changes, and it's never happened.
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Speaker 10: We're in the world. No one has successfully managed to
33:02
Speaker 10: drag people to the table and say give me some
33:05
Speaker 10: money because they don't need us. We're a tiny little
33:08
Speaker 10: country at the bottom of the world.
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Speaker 2: I wonder though, whether we can definitely just things need
33:13
Speaker 2: to be revitalized. That that's the point. And you've got
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Speaker 2: the industry saying, actually, we've looked at this discussion document
33:18
Speaker 2: that has been put out and they've listened to us.
33:20
Speaker 2: They understand the concerns, they're addressing them. So actually the
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Speaker 2: industry themselves is pretty fantastic.
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Speaker 10: Let them sit around and talk about it till they're.
33:26
Speaker 2: Bloom in the I think you're right.
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Speaker 11: I think.
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Speaker 2: Mister Gosmith is very much putting it out there and going,
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Speaker 2: will you guys sort this out? You can't tell me,
33:35
Speaker 2: you will tell me how to sort this out. Wilson's
33:37
Speaker 2: such a bad thing.
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Speaker 10: Bring me when Netflix go what an excellent idea? How
33:41
Speaker 10: much money would you like me to invest in? I mean,
33:44
Speaker 10: come on, here's the thing.
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Speaker 2: We actually sell a lot of New Zealand of course
33:47
Speaker 2: productions we sell on heaps of the moment six. We
33:49
Speaker 2: just want to be selling them to streaming services.
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Speaker 10: Nothing wrong with that. I'll tell all tell you what
33:54
Speaker 10: if we make something that's good.
33:56
Speaker 2: Because it's the way that you know, watching a look at.
33:58
Speaker 10: That and go tell you what I need some I
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Speaker 10: wouldn't mind buying that.
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Speaker 2: But if you watch Netflix, how much crap is on Netflix?
34:05
Speaker 2: How often are you going? I've given that ten minutes,
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Speaker 2: moving on, moving on.
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Speaker 10: And so if we produce enough good product, surely they're
34:11
Speaker 10: going to buy it, aren't They as opposed to a
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Speaker 10: government interfering in the marketplace and trying to convince them
34:16
Speaker 10: to do something they may or may not.
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Speaker 2: Well, but apparently we want to, you know, have more
34:19
Speaker 2: efficient government departments. And so we'll talk more about loving it.
34:23
Speaker 2: Mike Hosking is with you next Seed tomorrow morning.
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