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

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight Andrew Dickens on
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Speaker 1: good morning.
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Speaker 2: To you this Thursday morning. Thank you so much for
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Speaker 2: choosing the program. Coming up in the next sixty minutes.
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Speaker 2: The scheme is in place to get people on the
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Speaker 2: dolls working to repair flood ravage tasmin so will it work?
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Speaker 2: We'll have that story for you in ten. New Zealand
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Speaker 2: is excellent at creating video games, So how fast is
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Speaker 2: it growing? And what's the future? And that story in
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Speaker 2: fifteen A great rock and roll song turn sixty today
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Speaker 2: will be playing it? And what will the Reserve Bank's
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Speaker 2: decision yesterday? Bean called mortgages. We'll have that story for
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Speaker 2: you just before six. We'll have correspondents from right around
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Speaker 2: and zed it's coming up eight after five.
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Speaker 3: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It's Thursday, the tenth of July, and Ukraine has been
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Speaker 2: hit with the biggest ever aerial attack from Russia, after
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Speaker 2: seven hundred and twenty eight drones and thirteen crews or
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Speaker 2: ballistic missiles struck cities right around the country in multiple ways.
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Speaker 2: And the strike came after Trump got angry with pugin.
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Speaker 4: That was a war that should have never happened, and
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Speaker 4: a lot of people are dying and it should end.
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Speaker 4: And I don't know, we get we get a lot
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Speaker 4: of bullet thrown at us by poot For You want
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Speaker 4: to know the truth. It's very nice all the time,
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Speaker 4: but it turns out to be meaningless.
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Speaker 2: Gosh, have you noticed how this presence wears a lot
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Speaker 2: more than any others? Anyway, He says the US will
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Speaker 2: send more weapons to Kiev, a reversal of last week's
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Speaker 2: suspension to Texas, and the cleanup continues. Four days after
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Speaker 2: the deadly flash floods that hit part of that state,
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Speaker 2: at least one hundred and sixty one people are still missing.
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Speaker 2: At least one hundred and eleven died in the disaster,
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Speaker 2: with five campers and one councilor from the Christian or
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Speaker 2: Girls summer Camp Mystic still missing.
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Speaker 5: We're actively looking, actively working to ensure that we have
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Speaker 5: an accurate count so that we know who to look for.
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Speaker 5: We know that folks are beginning to clean up. We
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Speaker 5: have large debris piles.
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Speaker 6: We asked them not to use heavy equipment to take
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Speaker 6: down those debris piles because it's possible there are victims
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Speaker 6: in that debris pile.
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Speaker 2: YEP, and the possibility of a ceasefire deal in Gaza
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Speaker 2: has been put intoubt yet again. And that's despite Metta
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Speaker 2: Yahoo having multiple meetings with US officials.
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Speaker 7: I had another meeting with President Trump at the White
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Speaker 7: House today and then a brief meeting with Vice President Vance.
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Speaker 7: We focused on efforts to free our hostages. We're not
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Speaker 7: hitting up for a moment, and this is possible because
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Speaker 7: of the minute pressure exerted by our heroic soldiers.
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Speaker 2: So Palestinian official seers, negotiations and KATA have stalled after
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Speaker 2: three days of indirect talks and Pete Hegshith and Benjamin
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Speaker 2: Ettina who have just begun a meeting at the Pentagon.
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Speaker 2: It is ten out fives.
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Speaker 1: And views you trust to start your day. It's early
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Speaker 1: edition with Andrew Dickins at expol insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes
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Speaker 1: warm and dry. This winter, news talk said, be well.
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Speaker 2: The Trump tariff train is back on track, slamming countries
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Speaker 2: with mind meltingly high tariffs. Australia got it in the
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Speaker 2: neck yesterday on the pharmaceutical products in Albanisi was quickly
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Speaker 2: on the phone to beg Asian countries got hit last week,
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Speaker 2: places like Korea and Indonesia and Japan who have the
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Speaker 2: audacity of making stuff Americans want me and mar was
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Speaker 2: hit with a whopping forty percent tariff. It's all about
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Speaker 2: Trump's reciprocal trade relationship argument. If a balance of trade
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Speaker 2: favors a country that's not America, then he's miffed and
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Speaker 2: then the taxes come on. It's simplistic. Yes, it's full
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Speaker 2: of downsides for America, but I don't think he cares.
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Speaker 2: And while all this is going on, we keep escaping
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Speaker 2: censure and we stay on a ten percent tariff, and
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Speaker 2: believe it or not, this is good news for us
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Speaker 2: because trade is relative. If Australia is getting walloped and
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Speaker 2: we aren't, then our products can be bought by Americans
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Speaker 2: for less than our trans Tasman competitor. It is the
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Speaker 2: only silver lining on what is a global cloud? So
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Speaker 2: how long we escape a Trump terrade is anyone's guess.
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Speaker 2: I don't think he even knows. But long may it continue?
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Speaker 2: It seems if your trade relationship with the United States
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Speaker 2: isn't balanced, then you get punished. So with tongue in cheek,
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Speaker 2: I suggest that we, of course should buy New Zealand,
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Speaker 2: but we should also buy American and hope we don't
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Speaker 2: get the side eye from the commander in chief. It's
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Speaker 2: eleven after.
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Speaker 3: Five fry and Bridge.
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Speaker 2: So those are on a job seek a benefit are
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Speaker 2: being sent to Sorry that this coming up after the break,
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Speaker 2: isn't it, Richard kim Faughn. After the break? This is
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Speaker 2: the news that those on a job seeker benefit of
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Speaker 2: being sent to Tasman and Marlborough to clean up after
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Speaker 2: the floods. How many will go? Of course we know
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Speaker 2: that many people on the benefit have lives and they
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Speaker 2: don't just upsticks and move from Canterbury up to Nelson.
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Speaker 2: So this might be good for the Nelson district, but
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Speaker 2: for people stuck in the Nelson district? But what about
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Speaker 2: what about others? But anyway, we'll talk to Richard kent Thorne,
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Speaker 2: who is the former Tasman District mayor. About this. He
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Speaker 2: loves his scheme and that is next here on News
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Speaker 1: Me, the news you need this morning and the in
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Speaker 1: depth analysis earlier this year. Andrew Dickens and ex full
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Speaker 2: This is forty minutes after five, as you were asleep.
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Speaker 2: Red Bull decided to fire Christian Horner, the man who's
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Speaker 2: run Red Bull for at least twenty years, a man
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Speaker 2: who shoulder tapped Liam Lawson. This is a shock. No
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Speaker 2: one thought this was coming. Everyone talks about everyone else
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Speaker 2: being fired at Red Bull except for Christian. But Christian's
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Speaker 2: gone so Silverstone was his last race. Mike Hosking will
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Speaker 2: be absolutely myth that he's on holiday for this huge
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Speaker 2: piece of news. More than this is the morning goes
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Speaker 2: on all right. So those are on a job seeker
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Speaker 2: benefit of being sent to Tasman and Marlboro Districts to
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Speaker 2: deal with the cleanup after the floods will be paid
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Speaker 2: to do things like clear debris and repair buildings and waterways.
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Speaker 2: And Richard Kempthorne is the chairperson at the Rural Support
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Speaker 2: Trust for the top of the South Island. He's also
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Speaker 2: the former mayor of the Tasman District and he's up
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Speaker 2: this morning. Good morning to hear Richard.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, good morning.
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Speaker 8: You love this, eh, I don't know about love it,
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Speaker 8: but yeah, it's the enhanced Tustle's green does a great job.
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Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 2: All right, So this enhancement, this scheme has been in
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Speaker 2: place before. Does it work? Do people come?
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Speaker 8: Yes, they do. It works really well at hester. They
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Speaker 8: select suitable people because this is pretty tough work, really
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Speaker 8: clearing debris and slush from fences in particular, and you've
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Speaker 8: got to have people that are physically capable and it
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Speaker 8: is quite hard work.
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Speaker 3: But they do a great job.
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Speaker 8: We have had them before and they've been active in
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Speaker 8: other districts and they do a really good job and
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Speaker 8: they're very much appreciated.
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Speaker 2: So they're selected. Are they then compelled or do they
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Speaker 2: have to volunteer.
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Speaker 8: I'm not sure about compelling, but certainly if you've got
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Speaker 8: people that are physically and mentally capable to do the
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Speaker 8: work and don't do it, I'm not sure what happens there.
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Speaker 8: But I don't you know, we're talking about eighteen to
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Speaker 8: twenty people out of Motorweka Richmond Nelson. So I don't
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Speaker 8: think it's going to be difficult finding people who are
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Speaker 8: prepared to and want to do the work.
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Speaker 2: So they're coming from the district. They're not being trucked
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Speaker 2: in from Canterbury or elsewhere.
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Speaker 3: No, they're from the district.
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Speaker 2: And many of these guys would be like job workers
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Speaker 2: who have already lost their jobs because of the floods.
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Speaker 2: They would have probably already been working to clean up anyway,
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Speaker 2: but here they are getting a little bit of compensation
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Speaker 2: for them.
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Speaker 8: Well, I'm not sure that they've lost jobs. I don't
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Speaker 8: know there's been a lot of job losses because of
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Speaker 8: the flood. In fact, probably the people that have jobs
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Speaker 8: have been pretty busy. But these would be people that
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Speaker 8: aren't normally working, but they've been brought into work. So
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Speaker 8: one of the outcomes of this is once they've finished
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Speaker 8: doing this, they often find jobs in other areas or.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes they end up working on farms. So it's quite
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Speaker 3: a good outcome.
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Speaker 2: Great, So what do you need to do? I mean,
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Speaker 2: where are we at with the cleanup?
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Speaker 8: The cleanup is starting, so we've had a lot of
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Speaker 8: volunteers within.
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Speaker 3: The district so far.
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Speaker 8: That they've done a lot of helping on properties, but
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Speaker 8: there's still a lot to do. We've also got a
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Speaker 8: group called Tassel's Kiwi. These are often retired or semi
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Speaker 8: retired people from the services or emergency services and they're
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Speaker 8: at the moment and they've just started work yesterday, so
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Speaker 8: there's about twenty of them having a look around the place.
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Speaker 8: They're using our surveys that we've done. We've done about
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Speaker 8: one hundred and twenty so far of properties that need
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Speaker 8: long term help cleaning up.
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Speaker 3: So they're already there. But this group of entanced task.
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Speaker 8: For screen they'll be starting in three to four weeks time.
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Speaker 2: Fantastic And is the student Volunteer Army still there.
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Speaker 3: I'm not sure they have been there, but I don't
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Speaker 3: know if they're still there.
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Speaker 2: Great stuff. It's lovely to see in the community getting
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Speaker 2: together to fix the place up. And I thank you
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Speaker 2: for your time today, Richard, all the very very best
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Speaker 2: of luck.
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Speaker 3: Our pleasure. Thanks very much.
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Speaker 2: And it is now eighteen minutes out to five and
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Speaker 2: it's news talk to here, b. Do you realize how
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Speaker 2: big the gaming industry is in New Zealand? Not we
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Speaker 2: realize exactly how many people game all our children do.
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Speaker 2: But I'm talking about the guys who are the architects
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Speaker 2: of the game. They come together, they do the coding,
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Speaker 2: they create the game, they create the look. The list
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Speaker 2: of games that they've done is enormous. The number of
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Speaker 2: companies here enormous. So how is it going now? Some
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Speaker 2: new statistics out show that is going very very well.
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Speaker 2: Is there even more upside? Is this one of our
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Speaker 2: Could this be one of our major money earners. We'll
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Speaker 2: get to discuss this in a few moments time with
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Speaker 2: the head of the Game Developers Association here on News
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Speaker 2: B by twenty one. Simon's written to me on the
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Speaker 2: text ninety two ninety two small charge applies and says
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Speaker 2: the work reading beneficiaries are not being sent anywhere by anyone.
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Speaker 2: They've simply been offered a short term job opportunity to
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Speaker 2: help the community. This is true. They're being asked and
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Speaker 2: they're in the region, as you heard from Richard kem
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Speaker 2: Thorne as well. So this is an opportunity and an
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Speaker 2: opportunity to learn new skill and it's worked very well,
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Speaker 2: as rich it has said in the past, so all
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Speaker 2: power to it as we try to recover from the
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Speaker 2: Tasman floods. So our video game sector is having a
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Speaker 2: major boom. Jobs and game development have increased twenty and
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Speaker 2: a half percent over the past year. That's just a
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Speaker 2: year now. This is due to a government tax rebate
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Speaker 2: scheme that allowed a number of studios to claim back
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Speaker 2: twenty percent of their spend. So Joy Keen is the
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Speaker 2: executive director of the New Zealand Game Developers Association and
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Speaker 2: joins me.
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Speaker 9: Now hallo JOI hello, good morning. How are you.
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Speaker 2: I'm great, You guys are great. I mean, that's quite
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Speaker 2: incredible growth, isn't it.
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Speaker 9: It's absolutely phenomenal growth. We are so pleased with the
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Speaker 9: results of what the gens has been able to do
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Speaker 9: for the industry.
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Speaker 2: Why New Zealander so good at making video games?
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Speaker 9: I love answering this question. I think game development is
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Speaker 9: a role is quite a passionate industry and we've got
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Speaker 9: a lot of experience here, especially when you take into
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Speaker 9: account we shall workshop, for example, there's a lot of
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Speaker 9: talent that's come out of there and has naturally fallen
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Speaker 9: in from animation into game development.
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Speaker 2: So this tax rebate that gives you the chimes to
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Speaker 2: get back twenty percent of your spend. Many other industries
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Speaker 2: would love something like that. But how good has it
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Speaker 2: been for your sector? Can you continue with it or
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Speaker 2: should it even be increased?
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Speaker 9: Oh? Look, I think to answer the first question, how
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Speaker 9: good has it been for it's been phenomenal. A couple
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Speaker 9: of years ago, just before the rebate was announced, we
12:37
Speaker 9: saw a lot of New Zealand studios looking to move
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Speaker 9: to Australia because of the rebate scheme there. So it's
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Speaker 9: been a game changer. The rebate has been able to
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Speaker 9: stem that movement overseas over to Australia. But also, yeah,
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Speaker 9: the would we like it increased? Well, of course we will,
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Speaker 9: or that everybody would like funding to be increased, But
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Speaker 9: we think that increasing the GDSR to twenty five percent
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Speaker 9: from twenty percent in line was the screen production rebate
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Speaker 9: as a no brainer. Basically, the matching that screen frouction
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Speaker 9: rebate is an additional benefit to businesses who are showing
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Speaker 9: a direct economic benefit, and we believe our studios actually
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Speaker 9: show that.
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Speaker 2: So where to from here. Can you get bigger?
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Speaker 9: Yes, we can get bigger. Look, we're on track to
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Speaker 9: become a billion dollar industry. Last year, our total so
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Speaker 9: let we start again, got so really our total export
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Speaker 9: revenue was five hundred and forty eight million dollars. We
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Speaker 9: know we're going to be a billion dollar industry very
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Speaker 9: very soon. So that's where we're heading.
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Speaker 2: Good work, Joy and I thank you very very much.
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Speaker 2: They get a twenty percent rebate. The other day I
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Speaker 2: reported that EWEO authorities pay a seventeen point five five
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Speaker 2: percent tax, and they've shocked a lot of people. They
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Speaker 2: seem not to know that. And we've talked about the
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Speaker 2: incredible growth of the Maori economy. So here you go.
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Speaker 2: We do some tax rebates. When you have a favorable
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Speaker 2: corporate tax environment, you spur on industries. But the government's
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Speaker 2: not considering that for all. It is now five to
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Speaker 2: twenty five. It is News Talks B. We're going to
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Speaker 2: It's five twenty seven. Now. The OCR thing yesterday. For
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Speaker 2: a while now, I've been thinking that the Reserve Bank
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Speaker 2: and the government are working at cross purposes for the country.
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Speaker 2: So yesterday the RB kept the OCR at the same
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Speaker 2: rate it's at the reason increasing inflation and little or
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Speaker 2: no growth in GDP. Now, of course, the government has
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Speaker 2: an agenda of growth, growth, growth, so reduced interest rates
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Speaker 2: could help stimulate the economy to bring some growth, growth, growth,
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Speaker 2: an economy that has some very flat spots in between
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Speaker 2: primary produce and tourism. But the Reserve banks perview is
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Speaker 2: inflation and low interest rates fires on consumerism, fires on inflation,
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Speaker 2: so they haven't lowered the rate. It's fair to say
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Speaker 2: the RB will not do what the government would like
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Speaker 2: it to do. But meanwhile the government pulls back on
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Speaker 2: all government spending, including stuff that fires on an economy
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Speaker 2: like construction and public builds and roading and more. And
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Speaker 2: if you want proof about this claim, government accounts in
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Speaker 2: the eleven months to the end of May for investing
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Speaker 2: and operational activities was three billion less than forecast, three
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Speaker 2: billion less than they said they would spend, and it's
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Speaker 2: six point four billion less than the same eleven months
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Speaker 2: a year ago. So this is money that isn't stirring
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Speaker 2: in the pot that is the New Zealand economy. And
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Speaker 2: as the interest rates have fallen, we're not using the
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Speaker 2: cheap of cash to spend. Our farmers and our businesses
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Speaker 2: and our households are choosing to pay back debt instead.
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Speaker 2: The government wants private capital to invest in this country,
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Speaker 2: but cash ain't cheap and the investments aren't coming in.
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Speaker 2: As I said before, why would anyone want to invest
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Speaker 2: in this country when even the government is keeping its
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Speaker 2: wallet shut. So welcome to year three of recession with
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Speaker 2: no change in sight unless the policies of the Reserve
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Speaker 2: Bank and the government start working in tandem. Zibby so
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Speaker 2: got mention mc cann out of the United States in
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Speaker 2: a few moments time. And Donald Trump today is going
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Speaker 2: to be meeting African leaders who are not happy because
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Speaker 2: of course Donald Trump cut all their aid. So we'll
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Speaker 2: talk about that. Meanwhile, I've got a text here that
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Speaker 2: says Trump has now only now realized that Putin has
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Speaker 2: been stringing him along all along. Hello, says the text.
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Speaker 2: And this after the news that Russia launched the biggest
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Speaker 2: attack on Ukraine for a very very very very long time,
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Speaker 2: over seven hundred missiles and drones and loads of intercontinental
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Speaker 2: ballistic missiles just pounding at it. This is just a
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Speaker 2: few moments after Trump. Of course, he yelled at Putin,
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Speaker 2: so what do you reckon? Do you reckon? Trump has
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Speaker 2: only now realized Putin has been stringing him along. Mitch,
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Speaker 2: we can after the News and Sport, which is next? Also, Oh,
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Speaker 2: assisted reproduction, and not on natural breeding and Frankly, that's
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Speaker 2: a red flag of my book. The Moer, if it
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Speaker 2: ever came to be, would be a lonely freak, unsure
19:44
Speaker 2: of its place in the world. So as a day
19:46
Speaker 2: wore on and the jokes kept on flowing, I began
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Speaker 2: to feel that this was just a stunt from an
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Speaker 2: underemployed film director with too much time and too much
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Speaker 2: money on his hands. So Peter Jackson is putting in
19:56
Speaker 2: ten million dollars, really, honestly, if he's got that sort
19:59
Speaker 2: of chump chain sitting around, why don't you just flick
20:01
Speaker 2: it to some young New Zealand filmmaker. The Greens have
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Speaker 2: come out and called the whole More thing a magnificent
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Speaker 2: waste of money and suggested sir Peter could have put
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Speaker 2: that ten million towards saving native species that are endangered.
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Speaker 2: But they're not freaks, and you know that seems about
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Speaker 2: right to me. News dogs'd be let's get right around
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Speaker 2: the country. Calm productor joins us from Otago. How the
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Speaker 2: callum morning Andrew. We get all worried about gravel build
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Speaker 2: up in rivers, but you guys have been looking at
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Speaker 2: the Kluther and you're not worried.
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Speaker 10: No, the attack. Original council commissioned this assessment looking at
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Speaker 10: changes in the riverbed of the Kluther over several decades,
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Speaker 10: and it's good news. It's revealed that levels have either
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Speaker 10: stayed stable or have in fact fallen, apart from near
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Speaker 10: the main State highway bridge, where a slight rise was recorded.
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Speaker 2: That's to be expected.
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Speaker 10: Analysts say while some gravel bars appear more prominent during
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Speaker 10: the low flows, any build ups been localized and as minor.
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Speaker 10: They say this should provide some reassurance to residents, especially
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Speaker 10: along the Kluther River, and the Council says, look, they'll
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Speaker 10: continue monitoring this and consider its targeting gravel removal in
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Speaker 10: the future if built ups pose a flood risk.
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Speaker 2: How's Otago's weather.
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Speaker 10: It's fine today, cloudy periods like winsdad Eden's high fifteen.
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Speaker 2: All right, we joined Maclaire Sherwood out of Canary Hella Claire.
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Speaker 1: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: So why is a christ Church bloke biking across Australia.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, well, this is the story of Tony Schuke. This
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Speaker 11: is a former christ Church man who's biking across Australia,
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Speaker 11: specifically in honor of his doctor who died in the earthquake.
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Speaker 11: So Tony's now seventeen days into this four and a
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Speaker 11: half thousand kilometer journey. He's taking a trip from Darwin
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Speaker 11: to the Gold Coast. He's sixty five and he's doing
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Speaker 11: this in honor of doctor Allan Sinclair. He's a GP
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Speaker 11: who he says saved his life when he diagnosed him
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Speaker 11: with HIV two weeks before. Sinclair then died in the
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Speaker 11: CTV building collapse in February twenty eleven. Now, Schuk says
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Speaker 11: he stood at the doctor's funeral after that and gave
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Speaker 11: himself a promise that he would one day give back.
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Speaker 11: He's doing exactly that. Just now he's on this bike ride.
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Speaker 11: He's managed to get in touch with the doctor's family,
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Speaker 11: which is a really emotional story, and so far he's
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Speaker 11: raised about five thousand dollars. He says it's his way
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Speaker 11: of ensuring that the doctor's legacy lives on.
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Speaker 2: All Right.
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Speaker 11: How to weather mainly farm with a bit of high cloud,
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Speaker 11: northeasterlyies and warm fifteen degrees.
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Speaker 2: All right, and now we go to Wellington. Max Toll,
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Speaker 2: good morning.
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Speaker 3: To you, Good morning.
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Speaker 2: Have you had an earthquake?
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Speaker 12: No, no, no, no, sorry, I may have been slightly
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Speaker 12: confused with that intro I sent you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I am. It says a jumpy reminder for Wellingtonians,
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Speaker 2: and I thought that'll be a earthquake.
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Speaker 12: No, hopefully not triggering anyone that. No, I'm talking about
22:42
Speaker 12: a spider, an unwelcome HouseGuest that crawled its way into
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Speaker 12: a Wellington home a few days ago, leading to a
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Speaker 12: bit of a flurry of comments on social media. An
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Speaker 12: image of a black a large, furry black tunnel web
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Speaker 12: spider was shared on a Johnsonville community Facebook page in
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Speaker 12: some one's home. It looks a little reminiscent of a
23:02
Speaker 12: tarantula that the hairy, big body type of spider naturally
23:06
Speaker 12: gave the homeowner a bit of a fright. Some people
23:08
Speaker 12: expressing concern that this type of spider may even be
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Speaker 12: found in Wellington in the first place. We spoke to
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Speaker 12: spider expert cor vinc who says, well, this type is harmless,
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Speaker 12: actually really common to the region. The Lincoln University professor
23:22
Speaker 12: says they tend to wander this time of year. People's
23:24
Speaker 12: homes are often just in the way of these types
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Speaker 12: of spiders trying to find a mate, likely a male
23:30
Speaker 12: looking for a female.
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Speaker 9: There we go.
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Speaker 2: Hate a spider that can jump, but there we go. Well,
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Speaker 2: how's you were weather today?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, cloudy of a few showers fourteen the high central.
23:39
Speaker 2: Very good stuff. And now to Auckland and neither did
23:42
Speaker 2: you matter? Good morning to you, Good morning. We all
23:44
Speaker 2: love hospice. My mum had great hospice care. Tell me
23:47
Speaker 2: about the South Auckland Tottera Hospice, how they're going.
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Speaker 13: Well, this concerns Andrew about a threatened reduction in hospice care.
23:54
Speaker 13: This is it South Aucland's you're quite right, tilted a hospice.
23:56
Speaker 13: So the Newses organizations come out saying that staff are
23:59
Speaker 13: being told it will have to cut its services by
24:02
Speaker 13: a quarter because of lack of funds. Now Delegate and
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Speaker 13: hospice nurse Edward Boswell Correa says only the ones who
24:08
Speaker 13: need it most will be able to get care. Health
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Speaker 13: Minister Sime and Browns come out. He said, look for
24:13
Speaker 13: the twenty twenty four financial year, apparently the government contributed
24:16
Speaker 13: more than eighty percent of Tiltal hospices total funding. So
24:20
Speaker 13: that's much higher amount than the average fifty to fifty
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Speaker 13: five percent. He's saying that they need to explain why
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Speaker 13: they're choosing to reduce service.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's the weather for all con today?
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Speaker 13: Cloudy, scattered, show is becoming isolated in the afternoon. Seventeen
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Speaker 13: is the high Heroinal.
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Speaker 2: Clipp and I thank you, nave it. It's now seventeen
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Speaker 2: minutes to sex. We're off to America with Mitch McCann
24:38
Speaker 2: in a few moments time, and then we'll look at
24:39
Speaker 2: mortgage rates. I've had a text through that said, what
24:42
Speaker 2: were you just saying about that that tax for Ewie authorities. Yes,
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Speaker 2: I mentioned this the other day when we were talking
24:48
Speaker 2: about the incredible growth of the Mari economy, and I
24:50
Speaker 2: said that they get a concessionary tax rate of seventeen
24:54
Speaker 2: point five percent. And I've had a number of emails
24:56
Speaker 2: and a number of texts, a number of people saying,
24:59
Speaker 2: what is that true? And yes, it is true. It's
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Speaker 2: part of the entire package that we put together for
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Speaker 2: them ever since we started doing this stuff back in
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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy five. And year they get a seventeen point
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Speaker 2: five percent concessionary tax rate. Video gamers get a twenty
25:14
Speaker 2: percent tax rebate. We know that filmmakers get a tax
25:17
Speaker 2: rebate as well. There are some people paying less tax
25:22
Speaker 2: than others, and you could always ask the question, when
25:25
Speaker 2: might this be spread around to other corporates. It is
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Speaker 2: sixteen to six. It's News Talk set B to Mitch
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Speaker 2: McCann and the United States next New Storks STB. So
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Speaker 2: you know, it's pretty awesome businesses right here in New
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Speaker 2: Zealand who care about the planet and are doing something
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Speaker 2: real about it. And one of those businesses is x Pole.
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Speaker 2: They're leading the way. They're the warmest feet in the
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Speaker 2: world people, and they've got something called the ex Pole
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Speaker 2: Earth Initiative and it's very impressive. All seven of their
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Speaker 2: factories right across New Zealand are fitted with recycling machines,
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Speaker 2: not just for their own offcuts, but for waste collected
25:57
Speaker 2: from building science and even households. That we sit over
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Speaker 2: five hundred tons of polystyrene every year, and they've set
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Speaker 2: up recycling bins through building merchants nationwide taking back packaging
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Speaker 2: and the environment. Well, thank you. It is twelve to.
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Speaker 1: Six International correspondence with ins and Eye Insurance Peace of
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Speaker 1: Mind for New Zealand Business to America.
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Speaker 2: We go. Mitch mcairn, Good morning to you. Andrew, Good morning,
26:43
Speaker 2: how are you. I'm good. The tragedy in Texas keeps
26:46
Speaker 2: on going. I can't believe just how many people are
26:48
Speaker 2: still missing and how many have died. Yeah, truly horrible.
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Speaker 14: The deathole from the floods in central Texas is now
26:54
Speaker 14: one hundred and nineteen.
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Speaker 2: People are shocking.
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Speaker 14: One hundred and sixty people are still missing in Kerr
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Speaker 14: County where this happened. And we're also learning new information
27:04
Speaker 14: today about this camp Mystic, that's the all girls Christian
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Speaker 14: camp where two dozen people died.
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Speaker 2: Texas inspectors had actually signed off on.
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Speaker 14: The camp's emergency planning just two days before the floods
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Speaker 14: and passed all compliance regulations at the same time, though
27:19
Speaker 14: there are growing questions about why not everyone in that
27:21
Speaker 14: region received the emergency alerts on their phones warning them
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Speaker 14: of the floods that were about to arrive.
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Speaker 2: I heard a report saying that the area is called
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Speaker 2: flash flood Alley. So this was not a problem that
27:32
Speaker 2: was Brad new. This is something that they could have expected.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, that's something that's happened in recent and recent decades
27:39
Speaker 14: as well. There are multiple reports of flooding around this
27:43
Speaker 14: large river running through central Texas. In fact, there were
27:46
Speaker 14: areas that did manage to evacuate in some of these camps. Unfortunately,
27:50
Speaker 14: around twenty seven people died at this camp. Mystic they
27:54
Speaker 14: were just too late to get out in the early
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Speaker 14: arms of the morning.
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Speaker 2: All right, Now, President Donald Trump is hosting five West
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Speaker 2: African leaders today for a multilateral lunch, and of course
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Speaker 2: the Africans are not happy about the aid cuts. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's right.
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Speaker 14: Donald Trump has just held that lunch with leaders from Senegal, Gabon, Mauritania,
28:10
Speaker 14: Guinea Bissou, and Liberia to discuss a number of things.
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Speaker 14: But as you say, one of the reasons this is
28:16
Speaker 14: interesting is because Donald Trump essentially wiped out USAID, which
28:20
Speaker 14: promoted economic growth and delivered lots of aid to parts
28:23
Speaker 14: of Africa. And the Lancet Medical Journal published to study
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Speaker 14: recently they said there would be fourteen in minion additional
28:31
Speaker 14: deaths by twenty thirty because of.
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Speaker 2: US AID cuts.
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Speaker 15: However, in the last hour, I've seen even one of
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Speaker 15: these presidents in the circle say that Donald Trump deserves
28:40
Speaker 15: the Nobel Peace Prize. And Donald Trump says he would
28:44
Speaker 15: like to visit Africa at some point. So not too
28:47
Speaker 15: many hard feelings from all those leaders.
28:48
Speaker 2: Good stuff, And I think you mention McCann out of
28:50
Speaker 2: America at the time is now ten to six z
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Speaker 2: me all right, So, as predicted by economists of the
28:57
Speaker 2: Reserve bankers kept the OCA at three point twenty five percent,
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Speaker 2: and this comes after six consecutive cuts since last August.
29:03
Speaker 2: The Reserve Bank reckons it needs more clarity on inflation,
29:06
Speaker 2: but that rusted in inflation's high things like rates and
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Speaker 2: insurance and all that sort of stuff. But they're also
29:11
Speaker 2: worrying about the local economy and international trade going forward.
29:14
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, for US, it
29:17
Speaker 2: means what does it mean for your mortgage? And Lee
29:19
Speaker 2: Hodges is the Finance and Mortgage Association country manager and
29:22
Speaker 2: joins me, Now, good morning to.
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Speaker 16: You, Lee, Good morning, how are you.
29:26
Speaker 2: I'm well? Were you disappointed that there wasn't a cut.
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Speaker 16: Look, we certainly were and most sporrowers around the country
29:33
Speaker 16: would have felt disappointed as well. It just I think
29:38
Speaker 16: it's a breath. We're pausing at the moment, but we
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Speaker 16: were hopeful of at least that twenty five basis points
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Speaker 16: reduction this month, so we hold out for August.
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Speaker 2: Now, well, exactly, Well, why do you think we need
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Speaker 2: a cut, Why do you think we need a lower
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Speaker 2: interest rates?
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Speaker 16: Well, I think it's still the household spending is very stretched.
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Speaker 16: You just mentioned that the cost of liv is still
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Speaker 16: really high in different areas around the country. We're seeing
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Speaker 16: different economic pressures in the regions and the city. So
30:08
Speaker 16: what we are seeing that people are a little stretched
30:11
Speaker 16: still and looking for that bit of relief in household spending,
30:16
Speaker 16: I guess, and interest rates coming down and being able
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Speaker 16: to afford more putting money into other things apart from
30:23
Speaker 16: paying interest to a bank is something that they would
30:25
Speaker 16: look forward to.
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Speaker 2: And reading the tea leaves you mentioned August, do you
30:28
Speaker 2: think you could get a cut by then or do
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Speaker 2: you think the Reserve Bank is really sitting on their hands.
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Speaker 16: I think all the sentiment is that the Reserve Bank
30:37
Speaker 16: will drop another twenty five basis points in August. We
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Speaker 16: feel we're getting towards that bottom or that target range
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Speaker 16: with interest rates, and we just feel the sooner we
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Speaker 16: reach that the better. I think it will just stimulate
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Speaker 16: the market a little bit more. We're seeing a lot
30:55
Speaker 16: of people, particularly first time buyers, trying to get into
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Speaker 16: the market, and I think bit of a reduction will
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Speaker 16: help them again to move back in, and it'll stimulate
31:04
Speaker 16: the housing market as well. Investors might jump back in.
31:08
Speaker 16: It might just things might line up a little bit better,
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Speaker 16: and we'll see some positive signs in both of those directions.
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Speaker 2: Lee, I think you if for your time today, Lee
31:17
Speaker 2: hodgits the Finance Mortgage Association Country Manager News Talks, he'd
31:20
Speaker 2: be It is seven to.
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Speaker 1: Six on your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition
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Speaker 1: with Andrew Dickens and x Full Insulation, keeping Kiely Holmes
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Speaker 1: warm and dry this Winter News Talks.
31:34
Speaker 2: At b It's head that's doing the breakfast show while
31:36
Speaker 2: Mike Tidy is up the bat. He appears to be
31:38
Speaker 2: tiding twenty four or seven at the moment, yes.
31:42
Speaker 17: And has cleaned every single car the light shade at
31:45
Speaker 17: the top.
31:46
Speaker 2: He's doing the washing the iron sheets. Oh is that
31:50
Speaker 2: what he was iron his irons the sheets? Anyway, that's good.
31:52
Speaker 2: I mean that's his thing and all that sort of thing.
31:54
Speaker 2: But he's going to be really pissed off. He's not
31:57
Speaker 2: on air today because Christian Horner got sacked from Red Bull.
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Speaker 17: This is the first thought I had when I saw it,
32:04
Speaker 17: said Christian Horner sacked. I thought, oh, asking I beat you.
32:07
Speaker 17: Wish you were here right now.
32:08
Speaker 2: Because it is. It's big news.
32:10
Speaker 17: It's big news given the role that Christian Horner had
32:12
Speaker 17: played in Liam Lawson having such a tough time, right We've.
32:15
Speaker 2: Thought Liam might be sacked, Yuki might be sacked. You know,
32:18
Speaker 2: everyone's being sacked except for Christian. But Christians was the
32:21
Speaker 2: one who was sacked. So you got a little bit
32:23
Speaker 2: on that. Yes, we'll have a little chat to that.
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Speaker 17: We're actually going to speak to an F one journalist
32:27
Speaker 17: about that who might be able to shed light because
32:29
Speaker 17: at the moment there's a lot of internal drama, which
32:31
Speaker 17: is the most interesting thing probably about this, but it's
32:34
Speaker 17: not clear as to whether you know as to what
32:36
Speaker 17: exactly the reason for that is. We're also going to
32:38
Speaker 17: talk about the o cr Andrew because obviously, you know
32:42
Speaker 17: the cash rate was kept yesterday. But the really interesting
32:45
Speaker 17: thing about that is actually when you read the commentary
32:47
Speaker 17: that the Reserve Bank sends out, they are really what
32:49
Speaker 17: you can tell is that we are still in the
32:52
Speaker 17: dol drums economically and there's no sign we're coming out
32:55
Speaker 17: of this anytime soon.
32:56
Speaker 2: Right, And it's the inflation you've got, You've got the
32:58
Speaker 2: you've got the Financial Ministers headline story. Today, I'm going
33:01
Speaker 2: to hassle everybody about the place of butter. You know,
33:03
Speaker 2: the inflation is a problem.
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Speaker 17: Yes, inflation is a problem. And and you know we're
33:07
Speaker 17: worried about what the councils are doing, worried about the
33:09
Speaker 17: price of butter. What can you actually do? Probably now
33:11
Speaker 17: we are shifting, I think, into territory where you know,
33:14
Speaker 17: there's a you get a period of grace when you
33:16
Speaker 17: knew the new government. You can't be blamed for things.
33:18
Speaker 17: It's the old government's problem. I think we're now in
33:20
Speaker 17: a period where actually these guys are responsible for it
33:22
Speaker 17: not firing enough.
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Speaker 2: You and Sam we're talking about lizards all morning. Oh yes,
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Speaker 2: what's this lizard?
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Speaker 17: You know that you know how Shane Jones keeps banging
33:29
Speaker 17: on about this particular gold mine in central Otarget he loves.
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Speaker 2: Yeh, yeah, it's because of the lizard.
33:34
Speaker 17: It was the moths before, now it's the lizards.
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Speaker 2: Okay, lizards. Christian Horner, Interest Rates and Heather. Next, I'm
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Speaker 2: Andrew dickens By, thanks to producer Kingsey. Back again tomorrow,
33:45
Speaker 2: have yourself a wonderful day.
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