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Full Show Podcast: 10 June 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: an early edition with ex pole insulation, keeping Kimi Holmes
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Speaker 1: warm and try this winter news talk said, be good morning.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to you Tuesday. It's just gone six, half to five.
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Speaker 2: Great to have your company this morning, Casey Costello just
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Speaker 2: before six on corruption, there's a new report out saying
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Speaker 2: we should be more worried about it. Donnod Demayo in
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Speaker 2: Australia on that reporter hit by a rubber bullet at
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Speaker 2: the protest in la If you stand between police who
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Speaker 2: are firing rubber bullets and protesters who are hurtling items
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Speaker 2: at them, would you not expect to me hit. I
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Speaker 2: don't know. We'll talk to her about that anyway. In
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Speaker 2: the reaction in Australia to that, and Mark Robinson, what
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Speaker 2: next ends it are? Plus tourism, Does anyone believe there's
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Speaker 2: numbers that you can spend thirteen million dollars on ads
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Speaker 2: and then somehow get three hundred million dollars back in
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Speaker 2: tourists spend. We'll ask Tanya tapsle from not to do it.
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Speaker 2: Shortly seven after five the agenda Tuesday tenth, Joam, we've
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Speaker 2: got a prisoner swap this morning between Russia and Ukraine.
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Speaker 2: Photos show emaciated Ukrainian soldiers crying, hugging one another, draped
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Speaker 2: in their national flag. Only those under twenty five les
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Speaker 2: seriously wounded have been swapped.
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Speaker 3: At least one two hundred prisoners of war will be
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Speaker 3: exchanged on each side, and today it's not clear how
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Speaker 3: many were swapped. Both sides have not commented on this,
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Speaker 3: but they have said that it's the same amount of
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Speaker 3: military personnel, and the Ukraine's president a lot of Miszelinskis,
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Speaker 3: said that ukrain has received the first group.
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Speaker 2: The protests in La continue overnight that has been casted
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Speaker 2: on fire Newsom's the California governor suing Trump's White House
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Speaker 2: for sending in the National Guard.
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Speaker 4: Deploying federalized troops is a dangerous escalation. But we need
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Speaker 4: to be real about this. This is about another agenda.
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Speaker 4: It's not about public safety. There's clearly no plan and
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Speaker 4: there is clearly no policy.
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Speaker 2: Trump's hays go away Las cop this up and they
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Speaker 2: need help. We see danger to our country and to
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Speaker 2: our citizens.
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Speaker 5: Will be very very strong in terms of.
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Speaker 3: Law and order.
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Speaker 2: Greta Thunberg Thunburg, whatever on our way, to Israel now,
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Speaker 2: where she'll be deported back to Sweden after trying to
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Speaker 2: reach Gaza.
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Speaker 6: We don't know exactly what will happen to the activists
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Speaker 6: when they arrive. The latest reports in the Israeli media
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Speaker 6: say they'll be put into the custody of the police
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Speaker 6: and the Israeli government. The Israeli authorities posentially said they
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Speaker 6: wanted to port them as quickly as possible.
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Speaker 2: She's so annoying, isn't she.
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Speaker 1: Eight after five, the first word on the News of
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Speaker 1: the Day early edition with Ryan Bridge and Expole Insulation
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Speaker 1: keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and dry this winter news talk
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Speaker 1: said be We've.
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Speaker 2: Got quarter one GDP data out next week, which is
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Speaker 2: just so exciting I can barely contain myself. But what's
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Speaker 2: it going to say? We know that we went up
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Speaker 2: last time. This is the December quarter point seven percent.
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Speaker 2: We've got new numbers from stets n Z on quarter one.
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Speaker 2: So this kind of starts to paint a picture. One
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Speaker 2: is on jobs and the other is on business sales
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Speaker 2: and purchases and profit. So just running through very quickly
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Speaker 2: through the job's numbers, because it's quite interesting. This is
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Speaker 2: basically filled jobs. People working for quarter one twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 2: it's down slightly zero point one percent. Construction down one
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Speaker 2: point four percent, unsurprising, Manufacturing down half a percent. Accommodation
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Speaker 2: and food that's your cafes and restaurants up er point
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Speaker 2: five percent. That's good, they need that. But basically jobs
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Speaker 2: going backwards for the fourth quarter in a row, so
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Speaker 2: that makes a whole year where filled jobs have gone backwards. However,
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Speaker 2: quarter one twenty five less worse than the previous three quarters,
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Speaker 2: and we've had a total net loss of thirty nine
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Speaker 2: thousand jobs over the last year in this country. So basically,
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Speaker 2: things not great, but things getting less worse than they
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Speaker 2: were over the last few months. Interesting here also earnings
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Speaker 2: by industry. The largest increases in gross earnings might surprise you.
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Speaker 2: This is for the year ending March, so it's year
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Speaker 2: on year versus March twenty four. Healthcare and social assistance
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Speaker 2: up four point four percent, So the health work is congratulations.
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Speaker 2: Education and training up four point seven percent, Public administration
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Speaker 2: and safety what up four percent. Those are the biggest
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Speaker 2: rises under a national government. I guess you could argue
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Speaker 2: that those pay changes might have been offered or put
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Speaker 2: in place prior to National getting into office, because that
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Speaker 2: would seem an unusual concoction or collection of industries to
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Speaker 2: have at the top of your list. It is eleven
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Speaker 2: after five. We'll get to the business data a little
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Speaker 2: later on. It is eleven alfter five year on News
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Speaker 2: Talk set B, what are we doing next tourism? Honestly,
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Speaker 2: how can you come out and say with a straight
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Speaker 2: face you're going to spend thirteen million dollars on an
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Speaker 2: advertising campaign and how get three hundred million dollars back?
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Speaker 2: Tanya taps on next on your.
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Speaker 1: Radio and online on Iheard Radio Early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and ex full insulation, keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and
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Speaker 1: dry this winter news talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be good morning as five thirteen. I hope you're
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Speaker 2: keeping warm. Simon Porter, the player agent, on Mark Robinson's
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Speaker 2: resignation from Men's at are next right now another taxpayer
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Speaker 2: tourism marketing blitz from Upston and Luxon, proudly announcing that
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Speaker 2: yesterday thirteen point five million dollars of ads will apparently
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Speaker 2: get US an extra three hundred million dollars in tourism spending.
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Speaker 2: The advertising will target the Aussi's, Americans and the Chinese
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Speaker 2: Tannia Tapsles that also have a met with me this morning. Tiana,
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Speaker 2: good morning, good morning. Good to have you on the show.
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Speaker 2: Do you buy this, by the way, do you because
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Speaker 2: we had a blitz on Australia a couple of months ago,
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Speaker 2: have you seen any evidence that that's worked.
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Speaker 7: Yes, Actually it's been quite fantastic for us in Littlesdere,
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Speaker 7: we're top tourism destination. But you know, we forget that
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Speaker 7: only a couple of years ago the borders were closed
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Speaker 7: and it takes some time to actually get the visitors back.
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Speaker 7: And I do appreciate that Australia, China and North America
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Speaker 7: are target areas as well. So I know it seems
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Speaker 7: quite extravagant that thirteen point five million will get three
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Speaker 7: hundred million dollars in spending, but we need to remember
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Speaker 7: tourism is very competitive and we are a small country
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Speaker 7: at the bottom of the world. This sort of investment
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Speaker 7: does make sure that we get our visitors into the country.
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Speaker 2: I don't doubt you want it, but the question is
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Speaker 2: do you believe it?
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Speaker 8: Yeah?
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Speaker 7: Well, I've actually had the pleasure of meeting Trops and
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Speaker 7: New Zealand stuff in both China and Australia during recent visits.
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Speaker 7: And actually, yeah I do, because even like the Chinese visitors,
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Speaker 7: their average spend is six thousand dollars when they do
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Speaker 7: come here. That's why they are a target market for us.
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Speaker 7: They're very high spender. And so yeah, I do because
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Speaker 7: actually a lot of these ads that they see plants
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Speaker 7: the seed for them to come to New Zealand. But
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Speaker 7: what we want to do is actually create that action.
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Speaker 7: And I'm quite excited for what these additional investment and
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Speaker 7: advertising will do for us.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, interesting. Mike is going to look at this
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Speaker 2: little later on in his program. Tanya, what about I've
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Speaker 2: been reading the lots of or daily post, great newspaper,
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Speaker 2: the story about bums on the main street, urinating, defecating,
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Speaker 2: doing drug stuff like that. That's hardly a good look
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Speaker 2: for terrorism, is it.
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Speaker 7: N And unfortunately this is something that's been experienced across
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Speaker 7: the country. But actually, what we've discovered is there's different
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Speaker 7: ways to help people. So these people were choosing to
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Speaker 7: sleep on a certain street because they were getting through meals,
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Speaker 7: they were getting hot drinks, they were getting lots of
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Speaker 7: things dropped off to them. So actually we need to
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Speaker 7: make sure that when we do help people and need
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Speaker 7: in it's a way that's enabling them to actually make
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Speaker 7: the right thing, because these people do have a choice
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Speaker 7: to go somewhere other than our streets.
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Speaker 2: Because the sallies were giving them free mile oh and
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Speaker 2: stuff like that. So you reckon they should stop that.
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Speaker 7: Stop the handouts, well, just in an appropriate place, because
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Speaker 7: camping out on a footpath in the middle of the
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Speaker 7: city is not an appropriate place.
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Speaker 2: Not a good look for you? Is that for Tan?
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Speaker 2: You appreciate your time this morning, Tonia tapsle is thet
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Speaker 2: do a meha, she's buying it, she's drinking the call
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Speaker 2: aid this morning? Sixteen after are you nine two nine
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Speaker 2: two sixteen after five? Ryan, how do you know that
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Speaker 2: the reporter, this is the one in la says Graham.
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Speaker 2: How do you know the reporter was between the police
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Speaker 2: and the protests And did you see the policeman turn
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Speaker 2: aim and fire at her? Graham, Yes, I did see
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Speaker 2: the policeman do that. But is the policeman meant to
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Speaker 2: check you know, if you were in a rioter protest
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Speaker 2: a situation. I'm not saying that's the right thing that
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Speaker 2: the National Guard's gone in there, but I'm just saying,
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Speaker 2: if you're in a situation like that and you see
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Speaker 2: a person come towards you, which she did. She was
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Speaker 2: moving with their camera. How are you to know whether
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Speaker 2: that's a I suppose that's your job. And another one
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Speaker 2: here from Clive Morning Ryan, such great news. First thing
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Speaker 2: this morning that Greta the activist is getting her butt kicked.
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Speaker 2: She annoys me too. We'll talk about that a little later.
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Speaker 2: And then he club also says Trump's sorting out the
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Speaker 2: illegals and their traitor supporters. I'm not so sure that
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Speaker 2: that was a smart idea. I mean, what are they
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Speaker 2: actually going to achieve? And it's a sanctuary city Los Angeles.
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Speaker 2: By the way, a sanctuary city means that they're basically
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Speaker 2: softer on undocumented migrants. Are they actually going to change anything,
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Speaker 2: achieve anything? By sending in the National Guard? Was that
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Speaker 2: they out of control to begin with? Anyway, we'll have
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Speaker 2: reaction to Mark Robinson's resignation.
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Speaker 1: Next, Views and Views you Trust to start your day.
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Speaker 1: It's early edition with Ryan Bridge at expol Insulation keeping
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Speaker 1: Kiwi Holmes warm and dry. This winter News Talk said b.
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Speaker 2: Nineteen after five News Talk said, be Ryan, this is
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Speaker 2: from we just spoke to that ottad a mayor. From
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Speaker 2: one of our listeners this morning, Norman says, Ryan, I
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Speaker 2: worked directly across the road from where the homeless people
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Speaker 2: are camped out in the middle of Dottador, with their mattresses,
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Speaker 2: the supermarket trolleys, the luggage, the leering attitudes. It's disgusting.
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Speaker 2: If the mayor was any good, she would move them on.
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Speaker 2: Bryan bred the number text the big announcement in the
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Speaker 2: world of rugby The Inded our boss Mark Robinson is
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Speaker 2: stepping down a CEO. Wants to move back to Australia
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Speaker 2: with the wife and kids in twenty twenty six. So
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Speaker 2: what does this mean for the future of New Zealand rugby.
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Speaker 2: Reaction this morning from Simon Porter, managing director and rugby
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Speaker 2: player agent for Halo Sports. Simon, good morning, good morning.
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Speaker 9: How are you?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 7: Good?
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Good to have you on the show. Mark
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Speaker 2: says he said he's left Inded in a better place
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Speaker 2: than when he found it. Do you agree with that?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I think so.
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Speaker 8: I mean it's been a pretty tough six years with COVID.
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Speaker 8: I think they've made some substantial change around the splitting
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Speaker 8: of the commercial co with the rest of the rugby operations,
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Speaker 8: I suppose, and there's two different entities now, and I
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Speaker 8: guess I mean hopefully it is set up to be
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Speaker 8: a bit more nimble, little bit more agile as it
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Speaker 8: moves forward. I think we still the proofs to be
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Speaker 8: in the pudding a little bit around whether that separation
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Speaker 8: is going to have the benefits that we all sort
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Speaker 8: of hope that would when it came in.
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Speaker 2: That's the big issue for you, is the separation. And
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Speaker 2: I mean, do you think they should recouple?
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Speaker 4: Ah?
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Speaker 8: Well, I think it's pretty clear when Craig Finton left
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Speaker 8: last year what that was in October or November, and
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Speaker 8: he still hasn't been replaced. I think it's fairly clear
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Speaker 8: in my mind that they'll try to set up a
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Speaker 8: different structure now where, for want of a better term
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Speaker 8: of group cl come in and we'll sit across both entities.
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Speaker 8: I think splitting the entities actually makes a lot of
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Speaker 8: sense just from around their ability to work to different
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Speaker 8: strategic objectives. Because if you're the commercial operation, then you
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Speaker 8: are simply wanting to go out and get as much
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Speaker 8: money as you can. You know, you're looking at your fans,
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Speaker 8: you're running it as a professional organization like a Manchester
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Speaker 8: United or any other arge professional sporting body. But when
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Speaker 8: you're also in the new Zela Rugby Union and you've
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Speaker 8: got to look after the participant in the community, you
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Speaker 8: know your touch points and your strategic projectives are quite different.
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Speaker 8: So being a bit more honest about there and splitting
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Speaker 8: that into two companies actually makes quite a lot of
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Speaker 8: sense from the ability to work to different purposes.
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Speaker 2: Okay, let's assume that you're right and that this is
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Speaker 2: a board, this is the direction the board wants to
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Speaker 2: move and do you think that they I mean, do
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Speaker 2: whose decision was it for Mark to Goaric?
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Speaker 8: Do you think I think it was probably March's decision
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Speaker 8: to go. I definitely feel that that was the case.
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Speaker 8: I mean I was dealing with them last week on
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Speaker 8: an issue and I think it was definitely his decision
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Speaker 8: to leave. Now, I think the hard bit is that
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Speaker 8: you know, we've got two boards effectively, and how they're
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Speaker 8: going to work that if they sort of have that
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Speaker 8: group CEO. Because when the silver Aid investment was made,
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Speaker 8: the commercial board or set up and that's where silver
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Speaker 8: Lake have their representatives on the board. So how they
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Speaker 8: can resolve you know, the commitments of Made the silver
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Speaker 8: Lake around board representation and strategic direction with appointing a
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Speaker 8: group CEO that's going to set across two entities, and
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Speaker 8: how do those boards work together, et cetera. Like, there's
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Speaker 8: some big, pretty media issues that I think they need
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Speaker 8: to work through before they are ready to appoint the
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Speaker 8: CEO and and you know, announce any sort of new
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Speaker 8: new structure or way of working.
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Speaker 2: Okay, interesting, Simon, I appreciate your thoughts this morning. Simon Porter,
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Speaker 2: managing director and rugby player agent from Halo Sport. Twenty
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Speaker 2: three minutes after five Bryant Bridge speaking of companies splitting up, well,
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Speaker 2: coming together and then splitting off again. This has happened
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Speaker 2: to my old employer, Warner Brothers Discovery. Their share price
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Speaker 2: up seven point one three percent this morning, which is
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Speaker 2: great because they gave me shares when I worked there
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Speaker 2: and so they'll now be worth more. But they are
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Speaker 2: splitting the company. So they came together and Warner Brothers Discovery,
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Speaker 2: now they're going to be basically split back into two
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Speaker 2: separate businesses, two stand alone publicly traded entertainment companies, separating
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Speaker 2: HBO Max, which is their streaming service, your movie studios
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Speaker 2: and your TV productions that goes on one side, and
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Speaker 2: then your cable networks basically your legacy media on the other,
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Speaker 2: and that would presumably include TV three New Zealand. They
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Speaker 2: own the likes of CNN. Ratings for cable networks in
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Speaker 2: the US have been tanking, particularly on the left. CNN
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Speaker 2: has been hit hard cannibalized a little bit by MSNBC.
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Speaker 2: So there's problems over there, and now they're splitting up
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Speaker 2: the companies so that they can, which is hugely ironic
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Speaker 2: because it was not that long ago that they all
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Speaker 2: came together and everything went on hold, and hot businesses
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Speaker 2: just basically go sideways when they do mergers because no
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Speaker 2: one makes any decisions for a year prior or a
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Speaker 2: year after. And now they're going to uncouple themselves because
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Speaker 2: the share price is tanked something like six sixty percent
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Speaker 2: over the past year. News Talks AB twenty five After
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Speaker 2: five Thoughts on Greta.
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Speaker 1: Next the early edition full the show podcast on iHeartRadio
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Speaker 1: Power It by News.
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Speaker 2: Talks AB, News Talks MB it has just gone twenty
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Speaker 2: seven after five. Honestly, it's time Greta to get a grip.
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Speaker 2: My name is.
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Speaker 10: Getha Timber and I am from Sweden. If you see
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Speaker 10: this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped, have you?
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Speaker 2: This is a stunt. She's sailing on a yacht with
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Speaker 2: a diesel engine, which they've been using because the sales
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Speaker 2: haven't been up. By the way, there's been photos and videos.
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Speaker 2: Greta's doing the Titanic at the bow, Kate Winslet at
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Speaker 2: the front of the boat on her merciful mission to
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Speaker 2: save the Middle East on board this vessel that's complete
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Speaker 2: with aircon and TVs and Instagram.
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Speaker 10: I urge all my friends, family and comrades to put
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Speaker 10: pressure on the Swedish government to release me and the
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Speaker 10: others as soon as possible.
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Speaker 2: Reader, you should have gone home a long time ago.
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Speaker 2: As for being kidnapped, this must be the first time
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Speaker 2: the victim has broadcast their own hostage video. How does
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Speaker 2: that work? It's a tiny yacht. How much aid can
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Speaker 2: you actually have on board? Anything meaningful? There is no
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Speaker 2: doubt Palestinians desperately need aid because of Israel's inhumane blockade. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 2: they're not going to get any from this attention obsessed Swede.
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Speaker 2: This is the problem I think people have with protesters.
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Speaker 2: Not the ones who protest and then do something useful,
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Speaker 2: like become a scientist and an inventors solution to global warming.
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Speaker 2: That would be helpful. Protesters who protest for the sake
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Speaker 2: of it and change causes with the wind. One day
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Speaker 2: it's climate change and oils the devil. The house is
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Speaker 2: burning down. The next it's powering through the meat on
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Speaker 2: a diesel laden yacht to rescue Gaza. It's like a
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Speaker 2: drug to them. I think John Minto's a case in
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Speaker 2: points serial protester. You name a calls, he'll get behind it.
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Speaker 2: In Europe, they're defacing ancient artifacts, throwing soup on paintings,
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Speaker 2: confetti on the call at Wimbledon. While they're doing all
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Speaker 2: these ridiculous stunts, hoovering up social media followers along the way,
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Speaker 2: they claim, as Greta did yesterday, that it's not about them. No, no,
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Speaker 2: it's about the Palestinian people, not me, says Greta. The
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Speaker 2: lady doth protest too much? Me thinking nine after five
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Speaker 2: news talks, they'd be nine nine. The numbers of text
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Speaker 2: Morning Ryan suggests you're seeing the mayor of Ottada and
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Speaker 2: the Tourism Council. The copy of the Aussie classic The Castle,
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Speaker 2: says Michael. On those numbers, they're dreaming.
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Speaker 1: You Ryan Bridge on earlier edition with ex Pole insulation,
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Speaker 1: keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and try this.
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Speaker 2: Winter News Talks. They'd be Hello, Louis Daniel, good morning.
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Speaker 2: It is twenty four away from the new talks. They'd
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Speaker 2: be Casey Costello, the Minister, on this new report about
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Speaker 2: co option. This out this morning. We'll get to that
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Speaker 2: before six o'clock. We will also get to Dono tomorrow
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Speaker 2: out of Australia on the Aussie Reporter. Shot in the
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Speaker 2: leg with a rubber pellette from the cops in la
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Speaker 2: Elon Musk's dad is going. Apparently he's a real poutin fan.
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Speaker 2: This is from the Wall Street General last night. Apparently
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Speaker 2: he's a real potin fan and he's going to a
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Speaker 2: two day conference in Moscow. Elon Musk dad for oligarchs,
18:23
Speaker 2: and there's a particular oligarch, Constantine Malafev, who's won of
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Speaker 2: Pusan's mates. He's hosting the conference. Elon Musks dad, Errol
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Speaker 2: is going. Alex Jones, that conspiracy theorists from the US.
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Speaker 2: He's going. And Errol Musk has been photographed in Moscow.
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Speaker 2: Presumably he's being wined and dined and taken there by
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Speaker 2: Putin's people, by the Kremlin or by the probably more
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Speaker 2: likely by the oligarch himself. And he's given comments to
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Speaker 2: a newspaper, Russian newspaper, and about the Trump musk feud.
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Speaker 2: He says, Oh, don't worry about it. You know they've
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Speaker 2: been he says, quote, you know, they've been under a
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Speaker 2: lot of stress for five months. You know, give them
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Speaker 2: a break. They're very tired, in stressed. You can expect
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Speaker 2: some things like this, he says. Ultimately Trump will prevail,
19:11
Speaker 2: and that Elon he goes. You know, Elon, he made
19:13
Speaker 2: a mistake, I think, but he is tired and he
19:16
Speaker 2: is stressed. Also, he said of Putin, he's a little
19:20
Speaker 2: bit in awe of him, which, ike guess kind of
19:22
Speaker 2: makes sense once you consider, you know, Elon doesn't like
19:25
Speaker 2: USA to Ukraine, and his dad is a massive Putin fanboy.
19:30
Speaker 2: So it all makes sense, now, doesn't it. Twenty three
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Speaker 2: minutes away.
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Speaker 1: From six Ryan Bridge, our.
19:35
Speaker 2: Reporters around the country, Collen Proctor and Dunedin Calum some
19:38
Speaker 2: good signs for horticulture viticulture in Central Otago.
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Speaker 11: Here morning Ryan was seeing a good growth in the sectors,
19:45
Speaker 11: which is encouraging for the region's economy and new labor
19:48
Speaker 11: market report showing modest growth and new plantings. So total
19:52
Speaker 11: planted hectes are up from four thousand, three hundred and
19:56
Speaker 11: twenty twenty one to just under four thousand, four hundred
19:58
Speaker 11: last year, and that's large due to the horticulture sector
20:02
Speaker 11: for Central Otago. The report's also found growers are investing
20:05
Speaker 11: more in the provision of staff accommodation and there's also
20:08
Speaker 11: an increased awareness around staff well being.
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Speaker 2: O great, how's your weather? Calum, chilly this morning again.
20:14
Speaker 11: Year zero in the car and freezing on the way
20:16
Speaker 11: to work this morning, but partly cloudy nor eastlies and
20:19
Speaker 11: nine is Dunedin's high today.
20:20
Speaker 2: Nice enjoy that Calum cheers clear and christ Church clear,
20:23
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning. Now what's going on? There's a
20:26
Speaker 2: scandal with your Canterbury Uni halls of residence.
20:30
Speaker 12: A scandal indeed, look, Canterbury University is refusing to say
20:33
Speaker 12: basically why something is occurring, so they won't accept whether
20:37
Speaker 12: or not there's been a directive to have less local
20:40
Speaker 12: students in their halls of residents. Some new data that
20:43
Speaker 12: our newsroom has obtained shows there are one hundred and
20:46
Speaker 12: twenty four christ Church based students living in the halls
20:49
Speaker 12: this year. That's a drop of fifty seven percent from
20:52
Speaker 12: twenty twenty two. Now this comes at a time when
20:55
Speaker 12: it's in the paper here every day that demand is
20:57
Speaker 12: outpacing capacity. At UC there are four thousand people who
21:01
Speaker 12: applied for two four hundred hall spaces this year. The
21:05
Speaker 12: u sees Paul O'Flaherty says it doesn't decide what students
21:10
Speaker 12: go to the halls and when they were asked why,
21:13
Speaker 12: they wouldn't say whether it was a coincidence. He says
21:15
Speaker 12: there is some spaces open for next semester of people
21:17
Speaker 12: are looking for accommodation, while the Student's Association president Luke
21:21
Speaker 12: McKay couldn't comment further either, but does say there's some
21:24
Speaker 12: good support for those who are struggling to find somewhere
21:27
Speaker 12: to live.
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Speaker 2: All right, is that Duke by local do you mean
21:31
Speaker 2: like Canterbury christ.
21:33
Speaker 12: Church based students. So there was a suggestion that a
21:36
Speaker 12: lot of christ Church based students were going and living
21:38
Speaker 12: in the halls because it's cheaper and you get that
21:41
Speaker 12: UNI experience.
21:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, how's your weather, Claire.
21:44
Speaker 12: Cloudy and cold here as well. A bit more rain
21:46
Speaker 12: on the forecast today, northeasterlies and a high of ten.
21:49
Speaker 2: Nice one. Thank you Max's and Wellington Max, good morning.
21:52
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, got an update. You've got an update on
21:57
Speaker 2: the scammer in Wellington.
21:59
Speaker 13: Yeah, a good story on the one of the post
22:00
Speaker 13: this morning. Last week we reported about this scammer named
22:03
Speaker 13: Rhys Salmon being sentenced to four years prison for defrauding
22:07
Speaker 13: quite a lot of elderly people in Wellington are more
22:09
Speaker 13: than in total four hundred thousand dollars in just a
22:12
Speaker 13: matter of days.
22:14
Speaker 2: How we did it.
22:14
Speaker 13: This was an international scam that was coordinated in the UK. Salmon,
22:19
Speaker 13: British had just landed here last July straight away went
22:22
Speaker 13: to work carrying out what had been in the works
22:25
Speaker 13: for some time. These pre planned scams. Basically, nineteen people
22:28
Speaker 13: aged between sixty nine and Wellington across Welling sixty nine
22:32
Speaker 13: and ninety five across Wellington had been told over the
22:34
Speaker 13: phone that their bank details had been compromised. Police apparently
22:37
Speaker 13: needed their help in catching a dishonest employee at the bank.
22:41
Speaker 13: There were several more phone calls, a very elaborate sting
22:45
Speaker 13: that would eventually end in Salmon turning up at their
22:47
Speaker 13: front doors, pretending to be a detective and collecting large
22:50
Speaker 13: amounts of cash and gold bullion. You might think, you know,
22:53
Speaker 13: this would never happen to me. I would never just
22:55
Speaker 13: hand over cash. But it does happen, and it has
22:57
Speaker 13: happened incredibly elaborate. It has arms and Auckland across the
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Speaker 13: Lower North Island. Again the message just to stay aware.
23:04
Speaker 13: These scams do happen.
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Speaker 2: God, that is just what a prat. That's awful to
23:10
Speaker 2: thinking about those old elderly people. How's your weather clear?
23:14
Speaker 2: Us up?
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Speaker 13: No overcast as showers twelve the high central banks, Max
23:19
Speaker 13: Neivas and Auckland Neva.
23:21
Speaker 14: Do you think you'd ever cheer us up?
23:23
Speaker 15: Max?
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Speaker 2: I do not.
23:24
Speaker 4: Well.
23:24
Speaker 2: We talked to the other day about how Wellington is
23:26
Speaker 2: going to turn a corner next year and they're finding
23:29
Speaker 2: it against some events at the events at the stadium,
23:32
Speaker 2: and you know they'll get a new mia by then. True,
23:35
Speaker 2: hopefully they'll change your undies and sort your life out.
23:40
Speaker 2: The screens to protect the bus drivers a middle the
23:43
Speaker 2: problem another problem with them.
23:45
Speaker 14: You're quite right, shipping delays Now that's going to affect
23:48
Speaker 14: this roll out of all these screens to protect the
23:50
Speaker 14: bus drivers on Auckland Transport buses. So AT expected to
23:56
Speaker 14: have about three hundred screens installed by now what I
23:58
Speaker 14: can tell you they've done one hundred and fifty. Rachel Kara,
24:02
Speaker 14: she's a group manager of Public Transport Operation. She said, Look,
24:05
Speaker 14: the shipping delays earlier this year, it's affected the installation.
24:09
Speaker 14: So now they're saying, well, they're hoping to install about
24:12
Speaker 14: a rate of twenty a week. But now with all
24:16
Speaker 14: of these delays, AT aims to have about eighty percent
24:19
Speaker 14: of the buses done by July next year.
24:23
Speaker 2: Ah. In the meantime, you bus drivers are getting.
24:26
Speaker 14: Exactly just violence?
24:28
Speaker 2: Sorry for bus driver side do I? I just think,
24:32
Speaker 2: and it's probably not a good thought, but I thought
24:33
Speaker 2: the other day we should have more self driving buses
24:36
Speaker 2: than taxis.
24:37
Speaker 14: Imagine that head.
24:38
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it would take you know, I sure
24:41
Speaker 2: that would mean no job, but it would also be
24:43
Speaker 2: a lot safer.
24:44
Speaker 1: Yeah.
24:44
Speaker 14: Oh, look, I didn't feel for bus drivers because who
24:47
Speaker 14: would want to be a bus driver these days?
24:48
Speaker 2: Bactly who would want to be on us? How's the
24:52
Speaker 2: weather in Auckland right?
24:53
Speaker 14: We have a mixed bag here We've got fog this morning, rain,
24:56
Speaker 14: late morning, possible thunderstorms, hail from afternoon, strong winds.
25:02
Speaker 2: You're just covering all the bases.
25:03
Speaker 14: I know it's a line. This is not fake news.
25:06
Speaker 14: Strong winds gusting one hundred kilometers per hour in thunderstorms
25:09
Speaker 14: by afternoon. Eighteen is the high.
25:13
Speaker 2: Have a great day. What else are we getting? All right?
25:16
Speaker 2: Thank you? Never great to see You're seventeen away from
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Speaker 2: six News Talks b Donald to Mayo out of Australia.
25:21
Speaker 2: Next on that Ossie reporter reaction across the Tesman Plus
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Speaker 2: we will get to Casey Costello on corruption in New
25:27
Speaker 2: Zealand before.
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Speaker 1: Six International correspondence with ends and eye insurance peace of
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Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand Business.
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Speaker 2: News Talk'd be fourteen away from six. We'll get to
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Speaker 2: Casey Costello on corruption in just a second, right now,
25:39
Speaker 2: Donald to Mayo out of Australia, Donna, good morning.
25:42
Speaker 15: Good morning to you.
25:43
Speaker 2: Now, the Prime Minister's been asked to get involved with
25:46
Speaker 2: this ossie journalist. We've all seen the footage the rubber
25:49
Speaker 2: bullet in LA. What's the Prime minister going to do here?
25:53
Speaker 15: Well, the Prime Minister has been urged to intervene after
25:55
Speaker 15: the Ossie journo was hit by this rubber bullet in
25:58
Speaker 15: the LA protest. And you have seen that footage the incident,
26:01
Speaker 15: you know, where this rubber bullet was fired. It looks
26:04
Speaker 15: like the cop was actually directing towards, you know, firing
26:09
Speaker 15: towards the Channel nine journalist Lauren sorry, Lauren Tomasi, as
26:13
Speaker 15: she reported from the protests in downtown La. Now we've
26:16
Speaker 15: heard from Green Senator Sarah Hanson Young. She says, Anthony
26:20
Speaker 15: Alberanezi must hold Trump accountable. And we who know that
26:25
Speaker 15: the journalist says she was left with her, you know,
26:27
Speaker 15: quite a nasty bruise and can you imagine how frightening
26:30
Speaker 15: it would have been at the time when his rubber
26:32
Speaker 15: bullet struck her leg? She says, it was the size
26:33
Speaker 15: of a golf ball. And it does give a sense
26:37
Speaker 15: of the situation that it is out of control at
26:40
Speaker 15: the moment over there, and a reminder of the dangers
26:43
Speaker 15: of being a journalist. Well Sas to Hanson, Young says,
26:46
Speaker 15: now is the time for the PM to bring it up,
26:48
Speaker 15: perhaps when he next meets with the US President and
26:52
Speaker 15: get an explanation for what happened, or perhaps even pick
26:54
Speaker 15: up the phone and have that conversation. She says, it's
26:58
Speaker 15: simply shocking and completely unacceptable that US authorities would shoot
27:04
Speaker 15: at a journalist.
27:05
Speaker 2: Look, I agree with you, never should you shoot it
27:08
Speaker 2: a journalist. However, I did notice just watching the footage
27:12
Speaker 2: she did normally when you go to a war zone,
27:14
Speaker 2: when a journalist goes to war zone, they have they
27:16
Speaker 2: are TV is written on them back in front, and
27:20
Speaker 2: I just noticed that this is a violent protest. There
27:23
Speaker 2: are rubber bullets being fined, and she wasn't wearing that.
27:26
Speaker 2: I mean, if you are the police officer, how are
27:29
Speaker 2: you to know whose journalist, who's protester? You know, as
27:33
Speaker 2: they're approaching you. That was my only thought about that.
27:36
Speaker 15: Oh okay, okay, I did feel that she was. She
27:39
Speaker 15: had the camera operator right near her, and she had
27:41
Speaker 15: the chunky microphone labeled, so I'm not sure. I mean, yeah, look,
27:47
Speaker 15: there's's term all over there.
27:48
Speaker 2: As we know, it's an absolute mess. Hey, rural New
27:52
Speaker 2: South Wales community shocked by a low act. Apparently church
27:55
Speaker 2: bell has been stolen. Oh how low is this?
27:58
Speaker 15: A one hundred and eighty five year old church bell
28:00
Speaker 15: was stolen from a local rural church. Now the thieves
28:04
Speaker 15: they reckon it's two to three blokes peeled off or
28:08
Speaker 15: actually probably used an angle grinder to shear off this
28:13
Speaker 15: giant bell, possibly made of bronze. The owner says she's devastated.
28:18
Speaker 15: It's such a pointless thing to do. And the bell
28:20
Speaker 15: had such enormous significance because it was rung on Armises Day,
28:24
Speaker 15: which is now known as Remembrance Day, when the Great
28:26
Speaker 15: Wolf finished, and it was rung so hard that it
28:29
Speaker 15: had cracked. One local saying, they're absolutely shocked at the theft,
28:32
Speaker 15: such a low actress, as we said, and they hope
28:34
Speaker 15: that the thieves have a change of conscience and return it.
28:37
Speaker 2: I really appreciate your time, Donna, thank you very much
28:39
Speaker 2: for that. Donald tomorow our Ossi Cory. It is eleven
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Speaker 2: two six Bryan Bridge. The latest Organized Crime Group report,
28:46
Speaker 2: this is the advisory group the government set up, is
28:49
Speaker 2: out and it says corruption is getting worse here and
28:52
Speaker 2: in the Pacific, mainly to do with organized crime importing drugs,
28:55
Speaker 2: that sort of thing, but also the fact that some
28:56
Speaker 2: of our trading partners are more corrupt than us and
28:58
Speaker 2: there's a risk there of the rot spreading. Casey Costello,
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Speaker 2: Minister in charge of the group with me this morning. Minister,
29:04
Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning Ryan. I'm just having a look
29:07
Speaker 2: at some of the examples. There are some bad ones,
29:10
Speaker 2: you know, we've got border agents being compromised and allowing
29:14
Speaker 2: meth to be brought in, etc. But there are only
29:17
Speaker 2: a couple spread over a few years. Is this a
29:19
Speaker 2: major problem or is this one we need more data about.
29:24
Speaker 14: No.
29:25
Speaker 9: I think this is a major problem because we're talking
29:27
Speaker 9: about those agents being targeted by organized crime, so as
29:33
Speaker 9: opposed to it being someone who's chosen a different path.
29:37
Speaker 9: This is about organized crime trying to find ways to
29:40
Speaker 9: weaken our borders, weaken our controls and paint our supply chain.
29:45
Speaker 9: And this is why we can't sit on our laurels
29:47
Speaker 9: and think, well, this is this is something happens in
29:50
Speaker 9: other countries. We need to step up in line with
29:53
Speaker 9: our five life partners and do more.
29:56
Speaker 2: When you say do more, do what exactly?
29:59
Speaker 9: So this is a about you know, if you in
30:02
Speaker 9: the report, it talks about the fact that we are
30:04
Speaker 9: the only five guys partners that doesn't have a natural
30:07
Speaker 9: corruption strategy. Our legislation isn't really fits a purpose. When
30:13
Speaker 9: we talk about corruption and our Crimes Act. It's quite
30:16
Speaker 9: a weak phrasing of how we look at corruption in
30:20
Speaker 9: New Zealand always about official capacity. What we need to
30:23
Speaker 9: look at is bring our legislation up to play. And
30:28
Speaker 9: the biggest part, which is all of these reports are
30:30
Speaker 9: talking about, is how our agencies connect up better to strengthen.
30:35
Speaker 9: As we do with our border, we look at how
30:37
Speaker 9: we can strengthen our border to make it stronger. This
30:40
Speaker 9: is about our internal borders, making sure that we are connected,
30:43
Speaker 9: we're working cooperatively, that all of our agencies are sharing information.
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Speaker 2: That all sounds good? Do you This is all about
30:50
Speaker 2: organized crime and it's about money, isn't it. I mean,
30:52
Speaker 2: if your if you work for customs, it's about money.
30:55
Speaker 2: Do you know which department has the lowest pay of
30:57
Speaker 2: all the departments? I don't know, but it's not custom
31:02
Speaker 2: says the lowest average pay. I mean, do you think
31:05
Speaker 2: so If it's not about money, what is it about?
31:07
Speaker 2: Why else would you help you organize crime group? If
31:09
Speaker 2: you're a customs official.
31:11
Speaker 9: Well, it is about money. It is about as it
31:13
Speaker 9: says in the report, it's about familial collection connections. It's
31:16
Speaker 9: about customary connections. We're talking about the reason people drive
31:22
Speaker 9: do things is to help family members out. It's to
31:25
Speaker 9: protect a family member who's got to debt those sort
31:28
Speaker 9: of things. It's not necessarily about driven from making money also,
31:32
Speaker 9: and that's the part that we have to be really serious,
31:35
Speaker 9: and it's not when we talk about the organized crime
31:38
Speaker 9: component is about little players doing little pieces of work
31:42
Speaker 9: that might not seem like a major thing until it's
31:45
Speaker 9: all connected up.
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Speaker 2: Minister, appreciate your time this morning. Thanks for coming on
31:48
Speaker 2: the show Casey Costello, who is Customs and Associate Police
31:51
Speaker 2: but also Minister in charge of this group looking into
31:54
Speaker 2: organized crime. Eight to six News Talks that'd be right next.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis earlier this year with Bryan Bridge and ex Bowl
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Speaker 2: Five to six, Good morning, and you're on news Talk,
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Speaker 2: said be Lisa's Ryan. I may have this wrong, but
32:13
Speaker 2: I didn't think the journalist, the Aussie one over in
32:16
Speaker 2: LA was wearing a press vest that she wasn't, which
32:18
Speaker 2: is the point I was trying to make to Donn
32:20
Speaker 2: and Tomayo. Anyway, Mike's here, Hi, Mike, you.
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Speaker 5: Know it doesn't stop being getting shot in the league, though,
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Speaker 5: does it a best?
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Speaker 2: Well, if you that's why they wear them to war zones,
32:29
Speaker 2: you have a massive vest it's his TV Did you.
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Speaker 5: Also notice she was There were some other shots I
32:35
Speaker 5: was looking at from other channels later in the day.
32:38
Speaker 5: She seemed everywhere. She seemed on the present. And if
32:41
Speaker 5: you've ever been to a protest, what you'll see is
32:43
Speaker 5: is a collective of people who are part of the protest,
32:46
Speaker 5: and then three or four of the media who just
32:48
Speaker 5: kind of hang around in the spot all day.
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Speaker 2: I've spent many an hour doing that.
32:51
Speaker 5: And if you look at the size of Los Angeles,
32:54
Speaker 5: it's a tiny, infinitesimal part of the what review is
32:58
Speaker 5: a massive city.
32:59
Speaker 2: Which is all been blown up on social media. But
33:01
Speaker 2: the thing is, if you get between rubber bullets being
33:04
Speaker 2: fired and protests hurtling bottles without a TV vest on,
33:09
Speaker 2: you're asking for trouble.
33:11
Speaker 5: I was also watching lime scooters being hurled off the
33:13
Speaker 5: bridge down onto the cop cast. It's just unbelievad tell
33:17
Speaker 5: me what, tell me what the average principle of a
33:19
Speaker 5: high school means? Round not a bad guest two hundred?
33:25
Speaker 2: What of a primary school?
33:27
Speaker 5: Of a secondary both average. Once you average out what
33:31
Speaker 5: two dollars, what does an average secondary teacher teacher run?
33:36
Speaker 5: Number ninety one hundred.
33:38
Speaker 2: Yeah close, not bad anyway.
33:40
Speaker 5: The reason I raise that is, for the first time
33:43
Speaker 5: since records began, apparently we are having more teachers now
33:48
Speaker 5: into schools than there are. So the role goes up
33:50
Speaker 5: each year and everyone goes, oh, we'll hang on the
33:52
Speaker 5: remote kids and there are teachers. So we've reversed that.
33:54
Speaker 5: So we've got new numbers out this morning. The are
33:56
Speaker 5: more teachers now going into schools, and there are the
33:58
Speaker 5: increase in the role and tllowing you that those numbers
34:01
Speaker 5: that go along, we said, we might just have solved
34:03
Speaker 5: the problem.
34:03
Speaker 2: What are they whining about?
34:04
Speaker 1: Things?
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Speaker 2: I couldn't agree more very well paid, and that was
34:07
Speaker 2: the nurses. I might go into teaching, Go into teaching
34:10
Speaker 2: all nursing night snakes See tomorrow grun Have a great day.
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