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Full Show Podcast: 12 February 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside with one room
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  Speaker 1: to make your property search simple.
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  Speaker 2: News Dogs, it'd be good morning. Welcome to early edition
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  Speaker 2: on Wednesday, the twelfth of February. I'm Francisco Radkin filling
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  Speaker 2: in for Andrew Dickins this morning. Good to have you
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  Speaker 2: with us. You're most welcome to contact me anytime this morning.
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  Speaker 2: You can flick through a text on ninety two ninety
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  Speaker 2: two or you can email me at Francesca at newstorgsib
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  Speaker 2: dot co dot nz. Right on the show today, the
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  Speaker 2: Fungerrai Mayor is with us to talk about New Zealand.
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  Speaker 2: First's built to restore powers of fluoridation back to local communities,
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  Speaker 2: What is going on with anios and New Zealand, Rugby
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  Speaker 2: and kung Aura has come up with a pragmatic approach
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  Speaker 2: to dealing with debt owed by tenants. But will it
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  Speaker 2: increase homelessness? We will discuss this before the end of
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  Speaker 2: the hour.
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  Speaker 1: The agenda.
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  Speaker 2: It's Wednesday, twelfth of February. First an update from the
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  Speaker 2: Middle East. Jordan's King Abdullah is set to meet with
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  Speaker 2: the US President Donald Trump the House after he suggested
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  Speaker 2: with holding aid to Jordan and Egypt if they don't
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  Speaker 2: cooperate with his plans to take control of Gaza. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nettanna, who has promised relentless action
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  Speaker 2: to return hostages being held in Gaza after her masked them,
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  Speaker 2: laid their release until further notice. Here's Trump's reaction to that.
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  Speaker 3: If all of the hostages aren't returned by Saturday at
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  Speaker 3: twelve o'clock, I think it's an appropriate time. I would
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  Speaker 3: say cancel it, and all bets are off and let
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  Speaker 3: hell break out.
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  Speaker 2: France has been hosting a two day artificial intelligence summit
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  Speaker 2: in Paris. Dozens of world leaders, top tech bosses, and
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  Speaker 2: policymakers gathered to debate AI's impact on security, business, jobs,
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  Speaker 2: and much more. India's Prime Minister there Endromodi called for
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  Speaker 2: an AI governance rules.
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  Speaker 4: No one holds the key to our collective frujar and
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  Speaker 4: shared dat the other than whom that sense of responsibility
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  Speaker 4: much guider.
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  Speaker 2: US Vice President Jady Varnes called for Europe to keep
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  Speaker 2: an open mind.
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  Speaker 5: America wants to partner with all of you, and we
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  Speaker 5: want to embark on the AI revolution before us with
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  Speaker 5: the spirit of openness and collaboration and.
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  Speaker 2: Finally back home a Hawk's Bay. Dad has been helping
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  Speaker 2: his son and daughter learn to hitchhike to school after
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  Speaker 2: their rural school bus route was cut by the Ministry
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  Speaker 2: of Education. Mike Brown lives on a family farm near
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  Speaker 2: the Arapawa Noi River, about forty five kilometers north of Napier,
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  Speaker 2: and he says it takes about forty five minutes to
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  Speaker 2: get into town. The Ministry of Education says the Ministry
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  Speaker 2: applies its policy consistently across New Zealand to ensure limited
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  Speaker 2: school transport funding is allocated fairly and efficiently.
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  Speaker 1: Really addition, with one roof, make your property search simple.
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  Speaker 2: News Talk sippy nine past five now. Last night we
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  Speaker 2: discovered that New Zealand has slipped to fourth place in
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  Speaker 2: the worldwide rankings of the least corrupt countries, with the
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  Speaker 2: country achieving its worst place. This is its worst placing
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  Speaker 2: ever on the Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index. Yes there
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  Speaker 2: is such a thing. The index has been comparing countries
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  Speaker 2: annually since nineteen ninety three and for many decades, New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand place number one. We were first, which I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: made us feel good because New Zealand is like a winner.
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  Speaker 2: But as fourth, really so bad out of one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and eighty countries. Top three now is now Denmarket number one,
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  Speaker 2: Finland number two, Singapore number three. This is of course
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  Speaker 2: all about transparency of government, not individual corruption crimes, and
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  Speaker 2: actually because of that we should take it seriously and
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  Speaker 2: our slow decline is worth taking note of Transparency International
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand Chief Executive Julie Haggy, she said there is concern,
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  Speaker 2: or it was noted in the report, there is concern
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  Speaker 2: about New Zealand's lack of transparency around lobbying, revolving door
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  Speaker 2: between government and lobbyists, use of urgency, issues of party financing,
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  Speaker 2: and limitations on the scope of the Official Information Act.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think that's news to New Zealanders at all.
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  Speaker 2: We've had a pretty slack response to corruption pressures over
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  Speaker 2: the years. There have been some attempt to create a
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  Speaker 2: new code of conduct for lobbyists. This will of course
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  Speaker 2: be a voluntary code of conduct. So the lobbyists did
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  Speaker 2: a good job. There are a little bit of an
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  Speaker 2: inadequate attempt to address this. So the drop in rankings
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  Speaker 2: brings the issues back to the fore. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: it's going to create too much of a stir with
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  Speaker 2: politicians yet, but you wouldn't want to see that ranking
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  Speaker 2: drop much further because we kiwis we like things to
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  Speaker 2: be straight up? Does the drop in rankings concern you'd
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  Speaker 2: ninety two it is eleven past five year with early edition.
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  Speaker 1: The first word on the news of the day in
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  Speaker 2: That'd be you're with early dedition it's thirteen pars. New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand first have introduced a bill to restore powers of
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  Speaker 2: floridation back to local communities. Their decision to floridate drinking
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  Speaker 2: water currently rests with the Director General of Health, but
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  Speaker 2: the bill would allow locals to decide what they want
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  Speaker 2: in their water through binding referendums. Fung Ray is the
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  Speaker 2: only one of fourteen councils not to fluoridate it's water
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  Speaker 2: since the government's twenty twenty two directive. Mayor Vincent Cocarilla
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  Speaker 2: joins me, Now, thanks for your time this morning.
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  Speaker 6: Vincent, good morning, How are this morning very good?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you? Are you happy to see this bill put
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  Speaker 2: in the ballot?
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  Speaker 6: I think it's a very good step forward. I have
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  Speaker 6: to say that it's great to have a central government
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  Speaker 6: backing behind local government.
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  Speaker 2: Again, why should this decision rest locally?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Look, it's one of those things, especially with fluoridation,
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  Speaker 6: there's a lot of controversy that a lot of people
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  Speaker 6: with strong opinions from both sides, and what it day
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  Speaker 6: is By putting it back to the people, it actually
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  Speaker 6: gives the people to start the say whether people like
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  Speaker 6: the decision. At the end of the day, it's still
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  Speaker 6: of like when you have a binding referee them. It
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  Speaker 6: makes it very clear that the community have spoken. So
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  Speaker 6: whichever the decision may be, the community has spoken and
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  Speaker 6: the community accept the decision when they are when the
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  Speaker 6: decision is imposed on them, they are always going to
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  Speaker 6: rebel from it.
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  Speaker 2: How do you think fan I would vote in a referendum?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, now that's a very hard arnswer answer on that one. Look,
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  Speaker 6: I have I have heard from both sides of the sense,
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  Speaker 6: and I have had very passionate people from both sides
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  Speaker 6: of the sense, both in the medical and non medical
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  Speaker 6: side of things, and both have very clear views and
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  Speaker 6: opinions about it.
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  Speaker 2: Are the options that mean that everybody gets what they
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  Speaker 2: want when it comes to this debate.
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  Speaker 6: Look, by allowing as I said, by allowing the community
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  Speaker 6: to have to say, actually makes the decision back onto
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  Speaker 6: the community, so they actually take ownership of it. That's
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  Speaker 6: what the big thing is, and that's why when you
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  Speaker 6: impose something onto a community, you will always get people
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  Speaker 6: resenting the government for it. Whereas if you give them
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  Speaker 6: the decision and give them the power to actually make
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  Speaker 6: that call, they generally accept what has been decided.
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  Speaker 2: But have you got on it?
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  Speaker 6: May not like it?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah except this.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, exactly. So, Look, if fluoridation gets put into
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  Speaker 2: place where you are, have you got an option for
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  Speaker 2: people that don't want it? If it's not put in place,
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  Speaker 2: is there another option there for people who do want it?
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  Speaker 6: And that's something that the councilor has to decide when
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  Speaker 6: that time comes. At this present moment, we have we've
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  Speaker 6: never fluoridated in sang today ever so and this has
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  Speaker 6: been through a referendum in two thousand and two, so
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  Speaker 6: we've actually been through that process a while ago, and
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  Speaker 6: it's probably a good time to redo that referendum. And
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  Speaker 6: it's probably a very good smart idea.
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  Speaker 2: About was it about sixty five percent sed no in
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  Speaker 2: that referendum.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's correct, and it was a lot of good
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  Speaker 6: councilors at the time actually were quite surprised by the result.
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  Speaker 6: They thought it'd go the other way.
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  Speaker 2: Have you got in trouble for not doing this once?
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  Speaker 6: The interesting thing is we have broken no laws at
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  Speaker 6: the present moment. And to say the same thing as
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  Speaker 6: many some of the other councils who have been asked
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  Speaker 6: to thaorroidate haven't actually started thauroidating either. So as of
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  Speaker 6: the twenty eighth of March, that's when the mandate actually
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  Speaker 6: has to happen. Until then, we've still broken broken no laws.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so it's getting It's getting close, isn't it. How
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  Speaker 2: can Yeah? How contentious do you think that this bill
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  Speaker 2: will be?
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  Speaker 6: Look, I I don't know about central government. I don't
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  Speaker 6: know how they will all or political parties will vote
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  Speaker 6: on it. I can't answer that one either. Whether it's contentious, yes,
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  Speaker 6: I do, and again I do say it's because there
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  Speaker 6: are very passionate people from both sides.
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  Speaker 2: You're spoken to other councils, are they happy with this
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  Speaker 2: bill as well?
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  Speaker 6: There are a lot of councils who are very, very
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  Speaker 6: happy And the main reason is because they actually would
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  Speaker 6: prefer to have the community have a say as well.
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  Speaker 2: Lean's appreciate your time this morning. Nice to talk to you.
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  Speaker 2: That was Funday Mayor Vince Cocurio there talking about New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand First have introduced a bill to restore the powers
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  Speaker 2: of fluoridation back to local communities.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Elliot Smith is up next on the legal battle ahead
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  Speaker 2: for New Zealand Rugby against Enios.
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  Speaker 2: News Talk ZIB five twenty Now. New Zealand Rugby has
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  Speaker 2: entered a legal battle with its major sponsor Anios. They
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  Speaker 2: say Anios have failed to make the first sponsorship payment
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  Speaker 2: of twenty twenty five and they're trying to exit their
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  Speaker 2: six year contract three years. Early ZB Rugby commentator Elliott
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  Speaker 2: Smith is with me now, Good morning Elliott.
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  Speaker 8: Good morning Francesca.
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  Speaker 2: So as the spot on the front of the AB
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  Speaker 2: shirt no longer has coveted as it once.
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  Speaker 8: Was, well, I think there's certainly elements of that in
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  Speaker 8: terms of just being a tough time for marketing and
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  Speaker 8: sports and getting value out of that dollar. But also
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  Speaker 8: in the US their commercial revenue has been eaten up
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  Speaker 8: in Europe and they are looking for a way to
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  Speaker 8: save cost. Have now got to try and find a
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  Speaker 8: new America's Cup team that they're going to try and fund.
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  Speaker 8: They've got the Manchester United now as well, and the
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  Speaker 8: squeeze has really come on at Sports, the Sports portfolio
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  Speaker 8: to try and save some money. So I think they've
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  Speaker 8: gone Actually, New Zealand, we could probably flick that off
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  Speaker 8: and and save a bit of money there eight to
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  Speaker 8: ten million New Zealand dollars a year we can get
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  Speaker 8: rid of that. New Zealand Rugby said no, you've got
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  Speaker 8: a commercial contract with us, and that's where the stalemate
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  Speaker 8: meets at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: So that eight million, that was eight million per year,
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  Speaker 2: not in the not for the total of the six.
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  Speaker 8: Years, not for the total of six years. So is
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  Speaker 8: there someone in the facility of eight to ten million
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  Speaker 8: dollars a year that New Zealand Rugby had agreed with
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  Speaker 8: any US here that's substantial?
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  Speaker 2: Is this really a case though, of them not US?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, have the All Blacks has New Zealand Rugby
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  Speaker 2: I should say, looked after this partnership, Well.
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  Speaker 8: Well, look, having been around a lot of All Blacks events.
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  Speaker 8: You see the Inenios branding on the all blacks clothing.
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  Speaker 8: You see it a lot of sidelines of games, the
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  Speaker 8: Anios logo there. I've been at training runs around the world,
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  Speaker 8: including London where a lot of the Inios companies are based,
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  Speaker 8: and you've seen a lot of Ineos representatives on the
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  Speaker 8: touch line there and being welcomed in there. So in
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  Speaker 8: terms of trying to get that commercial dollar and showing
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  Speaker 8: the opportunities there and leveraging that, I think New Zealand
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  Speaker 8: Rugby has done plenty to open the door and the
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  Speaker 8: OOS would say they could have always done more. But
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  Speaker 8: seeing a statement from any Os overnight, they're very much
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  Speaker 8: blaming a commercial downturn in Europe and in petrochemical companies
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  Speaker 8: feeling the squeeze in Europe for the decision not to
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  Speaker 8: go not to pay this payment that they were owed
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  Speaker 8: to New Zealand Rugby. They said they went to New
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  Speaker 8: Zealand Rugby to try and hammer out an agreement. Didn't
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  Speaker 8: come to that from New Zealand Rugby. New Zealand Rugby
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  Speaker 8: weren't interested so very much on a commercial side, it
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  Speaker 8: says in THEOS are blaming the fact they don't have
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  Speaker 8: the money at the moment to try and meet those
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  Speaker 8: payments that they agreed to with New Zealand rupe there.
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  Speaker 2: How long could it take to secure a new sponsorship contract.
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  Speaker 8: Well, these things are in play for nearly two years,
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  Speaker 8: is my understanding. When they go out to tend and
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  Speaker 8: the negotiations are hammer out, whether you're get in front
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  Speaker 8: of the jersey, a spot on the shorts, what kind
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  Speaker 8: of financials are involved, what kind of commercial obligations are
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  Speaker 8: from New Zealand side in terms of your tickets to
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  Speaker 8: matches or hospitality, player appearances, promotions, everything like that. It
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  Speaker 8: can take close to two years. So if they're not
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  Speaker 8: getting eight million dollars this year from in the OS,
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  Speaker 8: it's hard to see them making up in the short term.
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  Speaker 8: There aren't as we know, there's a big business turn
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  Speaker 8: don't downturn around a lot of the globe. They're not
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  Speaker 8: quelling up to sponsor sports of any shape at the moment,
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  Speaker 8: so it's going to take a lot for New Zealand
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  Speaker 8: Rugby to try and replace this, especially at short notice.
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  Speaker 8: And you remember as well, their agreement with Ford came
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  Speaker 8: to an end the end of last year as well,
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  Speaker 8: or earlier this year or at some point this year.
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  Speaker 8: So there's a couple of financial holes and shortfalls that
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  Speaker 8: New Zealand Rugby's got to meet at a time when
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  Speaker 8: the pressure is going on the community game. They're looking
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  Speaker 8: for new revenue streams. They've lost two that they are expecting,
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  Speaker 8: certainly one that are expecting in their bank accounts from
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  Speaker 8: January first.
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  Speaker 2: Elliott Smith, thank you so much for talking us through that.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it. It is twenty four pass far. You're with early edition.
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  Speaker 2: You're with early edition. It's twenty six past five. Kien
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  Speaker 2: Or is taking a step in the right direction. They
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  Speaker 2: have announced a tough approach to rental debt, but they're
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  Speaker 2: doing it in a fair way, which hopefully gives people
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  Speaker 2: who intend to pay their rent but have hit a
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  Speaker 2: hurdle a chance to get back on track. The debt
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  Speaker 2: was kind of crazy. Between two thousand and seven and
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, the total debt owed to Coying Aura
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  Speaker 2: by its tenants increased from one million to twenty one million. Now,
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  Speaker 2: obviously this period included the COVID days and cost of
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  Speaker 2: living crisis, and it would have been a little heartless
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  Speaker 2: for the government to kick people out of homes during
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  Speaker 2: a lockdown or due to a job loss caused by
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  Speaker 2: an unprecedented event like a pandemic. But twenty one million,
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  Speaker 2: it is a big number. Kung Aora has worked hard
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  Speaker 2: to reduce that debt is now down from twenty one
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  Speaker 2: point six million in January twenty twenty four to sixteen
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  Speaker 2: point one million this January. It is a good effort,
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  Speaker 2: but clearly things have gone out of control and we're
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  Speaker 2: never going to get on top of the numbers. So
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  Speaker 2: the Board of coyng Aura has decided to help some
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  Speaker 2: tenants with significant rent debt get on top of their
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  Speaker 2: debt faster. They're going to reduce the amount they owe
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  Speaker 2: down to twelve weeks worth of rent and forgive the
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  Speaker 2: rest if the tenant has been consistently paying rent and
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  Speaker 2: making reasonable payments to reduce what they owe. So this
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  Speaker 2: is going to wipe eight million off the debt number,
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  Speaker 2: which is a quick way to make the numbers look
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  Speaker 2: more appealing, isn't it. But will we either going to
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  Speaker 2: recoup the money from the twenty tenants owing more than
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  Speaker 2: twelve weeks? No, So why not give people an incentive
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  Speaker 2: to pay. This is a pragmatic decision, but it raises
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  Speaker 2: the question, what's stopping tenants just clocking up the debt
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  Speaker 2: if they know that it will be reduced back to
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  Speaker 2: twelve weeks. Well, this is a one time offer because
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  Speaker 2: from now on tenants won't get to the point of
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  Speaker 2: owing more than twelve weeks rent coying or estates. They
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  Speaker 2: will be in touch much earlier if rent is missed,
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  Speaker 2: to have a chat and to work out a payback plan.
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  Speaker 2: If this doesn't happen, if there is no intent to
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  Speaker 2: pay off debt, then eviction processes will begin, which could
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  Speaker 2: happen well before reaching the twelve week mark. So the
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  Speaker 2: message is very clear here. Sustaining tenancy's framework is coming
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  Speaker 2: to an end. It is going to be easy to
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  Speaker 2: evict people, but they'll be closely managed to prevent things
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  Speaker 2: getting to that point if possible, and I think we'd
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  Speaker 2: all agree people deserve it opportunity to get back on
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  Speaker 2: track and the last thing we want to see is
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  Speaker 2: an unnecessary increase in homelessness. As Associate Housing Minister Tama
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  Speaker 2: Portaka said yesterday, while most kang Or tenants are great
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  Speaker 2: tenants who respect the properties, good neighbors and pay their
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  Speaker 2: rent on time. Some need a little more TOTALKU encouragement
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  Speaker 2: to do the right thing.
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  Speaker 1: News Talk said, be.
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  Speaker 2: So, does this sound even handed to you or are
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  Speaker 2: you concerned that this approach may possibly cause more homelessness.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about this later in the hour
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  Speaker 2: with Brooks Stanley, who is with a homeless youth advocacy group.
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  Speaker 2: Just we're just going to see whether this approach is
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  Speaker 2: going to work for everybody. But I'd like to hear
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  Speaker 2: from you. Do you like the direction that kyang Or
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  Speaker 2: is going and do you think it's fair handed? And
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  Speaker 2: obviously we just got to get on with trying to
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  Speaker 2: get on top of this. I think they've done a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good job. Here ninety two ninety two is the text.
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  Speaker 2: News is up here, next here on news Talk, zip.
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  Speaker 9: Hear you, June your look live goody live here you
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  Speaker 9: its Jube.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: This is any addition on news toork z'd be I'm
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  Speaker 2: for tis going, I can filling in for Andrew today.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for being with us in the next half hour,
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  Speaker 2: we head to the UK to get the reaction to
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  Speaker 2: football or Sam Kerr has been found not guilty of
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  Speaker 2: causing racially aggravated harassment and as I mentioned before the
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  Speaker 2: news kan Ora has a new approach to tenants who
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: don't pay their rent. I think they've taken a pretty
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  Speaker 2: even handed approach to make sure that we don't get
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  Speaker 2: into the pickle that we got into into the previous government.
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  Speaker 2: But is it approach that will work for all tenants?
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  Speaker 2: Will it create more homelessness for our youth. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to discuss this before the end of the hour, and
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  Speaker 2: thank you for your feedback on this morning. State housing
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  Speaker 2: is a privileged to the government. Isn't the landlord the taxpayer?
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  Speaker 1: Is?
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  Speaker 2: It was always intended to be temporary accommodation for those
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  Speaker 2: who needed it, not a free, long term luxury lifestyle.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you Max. Why don't we all stop paying our landlord?
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  Speaker 2: What a kick in the guts for private renters who
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  Speaker 2: went through COVID and hardship. More pandering and another one
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  Speaker 2: here from Gary says hi, as most of the social
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  Speaker 2: housing tenants are on benefits, I don't see how they
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  Speaker 2: could not pay rent if it's taken out prior to
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  Speaker 2: the benefit being paid. Here's the thing, Gary. The point
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  Speaker 2: that you raise is a ready good one. How did
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  Speaker 2: any of this get to the point that it did,
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  Speaker 2: And that is the issue. No one should be owing
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  Speaker 2: forty thousand dollars in rent. It should never get to
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  Speaker 2: that point. And I think this is what King Ara
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  Speaker 2: is saying, whether you were earning your own money or
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  Speaker 2: you're on a benefit or a mix of the both
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  Speaker 2: and things, there is no reason why if you can't
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  Speaker 2: pay your rent one week that there is not immediate
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  Speaker 2: communication with coing or and a plan put in place
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  Speaker 2: to help you out, discussions being had. You work together
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  Speaker 2: and you work forward. And that's what the government is saying.
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  Speaker 2: No longering let tenants get to the point where they
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  Speaker 2: get into strife and they owe more than twelve weeks.
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  Speaker 2: And somebody textas say regarding Anyos and New Zealand Rugby,
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  Speaker 2: you've got an international company and a rugby player doing
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  Speaker 2: politics on stage, they will cancel. I think I can
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  Speaker 2: with one hundred percent confidence. I don't think that's got
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  Speaker 2: anything to do with why AS has pulled out. I
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  Speaker 2: think many other reasons behind that. Look, thanks for your feedback.
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  Speaker 2: Keep the feedback coming you can text. On ninety two
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  Speaker 2: ninety two News Talk said be right it is time
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  Speaker 2: to head around the country and joining me indonedin is
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  Speaker 2: Callum Proctor. Good morning, Callum, morning to you. We have
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  Speaker 2: a pivotal meeting for the Queenstown Lakes and Central Otago
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  Speaker 2: districts today, Yes we do.
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  Speaker 10: It's in Alexandra represented us from the Queenstown Lakes Central
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  Speaker 10: Otaga District. San Otago Regional Councils will gather there today
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  Speaker 10: to discuss a potential regional deal they want to propose
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  Speaker 10: to central government. This coalition deal will aim to drive
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  Speaker 10: economic growth and establish a pipeline of infrastructure to the region.
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  Speaker 10: They say it would reflect a thirty year vision for
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  Speaker 10: the area and a decade long strategic plan. This would
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  Speaker 10: include potentially pitching for a Southern Lakes based hospital and
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  Speaker 10: a mass transit gondola link between Central Queenstown and Frankton.
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  Speaker 2: And the weather in Dunedin today, Callum, I.
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  Speaker 10: Mostly fine over towards this evening and nineteen thank you
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  Speaker 10: so much.
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  Speaker 2: And Claire Sherwood is in christ Church in a big
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  Speaker 2: day head at the christ Church City Council today.
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  Speaker 11: Claire sure as Francesca. Look, counselors are today considering and
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  Speaker 11: adopting our draft annual plan. This is the plan that
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  Speaker 11: will outline what council will deliver over the coming year
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  Speaker 11: and how that will be paid for. Now there is
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  Speaker 11: a proposed eight point six four percent rates increase here
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  Speaker 11: in christ Church for the average household That works out
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  Speaker 11: to be around six dollars per week. Councilor Sam McDonald
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  Speaker 11: is acknowledging community concerns about that eight point six four
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  Speaker 11: percent figure. He says they're looking at what levers can
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  Speaker 11: be pulled to reduce that increase. The mayor has previously
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  Speaker 11: talked about things like reducing levels of service like the
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  Speaker 11: frequency of council services, rather than cutting them all together.
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  Speaker 11: Their draft to annual plan then goes up for public
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  Speaker 11: feedback from late to this month until the end.
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  Speaker 2: Of next Thank you so much, Claire. And the weather today.
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  Speaker 11: Mostly cloudings, some brief afternoon fine spells. Easterly is developing
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  Speaker 11: and the high should be two twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: Lovely. Thank you Claire. Have a good day. And Max
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  Speaker 2: Toll is with us in Wellington. Good morning, Max, I
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  Speaker 2: believe we've got an announcement coming today on Wellington's Golden
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  Speaker 2: Mile upgrades.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, good morning. So the Golden Mile development have been
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  Speaker 12: a few years in the works. The Golden Mile essentially
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  Speaker 12: is the spine of the city streets from Lampton Key
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  Speaker 12: to Courtney Place, and the mayor or when she ran,
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  Speaker 12: ran on a campaign of transforming those streets into carless,
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  Speaker 12: pedestrian friendly, bike and bus friendly a street essentially tomorrow
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  Speaker 12: today an announcement is coming that is expected to be
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  Speaker 12: the final design of this street project and the timeframes
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  Speaker 12: for when construction will begin, when construction will finish, and
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  Speaker 12: when cars will finally be banished from the central city.
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  Speaker 12: It's riled up businesses that fear that their business will
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  Speaker 12: really diminish with cars not being able to park outside
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  Speaker 12: outside their doors drive along. We kind of confirmed yesterday
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  Speaker 12: that work is confirmed stand in April according to the
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  Speaker 12: City Council, and yet a final contract for this work
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  Speaker 12: is still not signed, so that's a little contradictory. We're
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  Speaker 12: going to ask some questions at this media announcement today
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  Speaker 12: that the council is holding. We did speak to a
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  Speaker 12: business owner on Courtney Place yesterday. He fears the worst.
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  Speaker 12: He says it would be a sad day for Wellington
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  Speaker 12: when the Golden Mile is confirmed and impacted businesses have
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  Speaker 12: not been properly consulted.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Max. Have you got a nice day today?
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  Speaker 2: Were the ones we do?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah?
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  Speaker 12: It should be cloud clearing fine from pretty early in
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  Speaker 12: the morning. Southerly's a high of twenty central.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Max. Never britty man who is
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  Speaker 2: in the studio now, j weckon the buck.
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  Speaker 13: I've had three coffees this morning, so I'm gone energized,
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  Speaker 13: good to go for the morning.
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  Speaker 2: When for Auckland's cbd as plans for overnight street packing
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  Speaker 2: charges are delayed another.
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  Speaker 13: Year, Yes, I know.
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  Speaker 2: I think people gods are looking upon Oh.
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  Speaker 13: Absolutely, And I know a few people, especially in those apartments,
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  Speaker 13: and they've only got one car park, so you get
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  Speaker 13: those two car households and one of them's got to
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  Speaker 13: park out on the road.
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  Speaker 7: So yeah.
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  Speaker 13: So what we know is at Auckland Transport, the charges
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  Speaker 13: they're going to kick in from March twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 13: cost about one to two dollars an hour, depending on demand.
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  Speaker 13: But it says that this decision follows feedback from all
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  Speaker 13: the businesses, the residents and the workers. So they're going
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  Speaker 13: to wait really until the City rail Link is opening
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  Speaker 13: for twenty twenty six. Viv Beck Heart of the City
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  Speaker 13: Chief Executive. She's happy to go along with the charges
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  Speaker 13: once the project's complete.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Auckland's weather to day please fine another monkey.
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  Speaker 13: Day twenty seven.
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  Speaker 7: Is the high.
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  Speaker 13: We can't complain or can we can we?
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  Speaker 2: No, we can't.
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  Speaker 13: We have to just go and sleep.
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  Speaker 14: Out on the road.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just because you spend most of your time
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  Speaker 2: in here in the sub condition play but after you
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  Speaker 2: go go and complain to somebody else in the news room.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Thank you very much for being in here. Coming up
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  Speaker 2: next week and he heads to the UK. Gavin Graves
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  Speaker 2: with us it is sixteen to.
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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: And joining me now from the UK is Gevin greg
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 14: Devin, good morning that Hey.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me what's the reaction being to footballer Sam kurb
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  Speaker 2: being found not guilty of causing racially aggravated harassment?
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean Sam Kerr, of course, is the Australian
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  Speaker 14: international women's footballer, a major superstar as well. Thirty one
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  Speaker 14: years old, plays for Chelsea as a striker in the
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  Speaker 14: Women's Football League. She's been found not guilty of that charge,
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  Speaker 14: which could have led to a two year prison centers
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  Speaker 14: the jury clear in relation to an incident back in Twickenham,
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  Speaker 14: which is southwest London, back in January of twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 14: the thirty one year old had always said in the
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  Speaker 14: court that she was antagonized by officers when she was
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  Speaker 14: taken to a police station following a dispute with a
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  Speaker 14: taxi driver in which the one of she and her
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  Speaker 14: partner one of them was sick in the back a
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  Speaker 14: window was kicked in the tax She driver Drodan to
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  Speaker 14: the police station demanding compensation and to get the cab
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  Speaker 14: cleaned up. And during the discussion with the police officer
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  Speaker 14: about what had happened, she was caught using the words
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  Speaker 14: you're stupid and white. Now that was where really this
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  Speaker 14: whole whole court case home. Was that racially motivated? She
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  Speaker 14: denied it amounted to a racial offense. The jury agreed
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  Speaker 14: with her, but as the prosecutor said, what had happened
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  Speaker 14: if somebody would have said you're stupid and black, because
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  Speaker 14: of course that was what the prosecution was saying, it
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  Speaker 14: was clearly racist.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin Gray thank you very much for the update. Appreciate
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  Speaker 2: it right. Evocates are warning a tough approach on rent
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  Speaker 2: debt from the country's biggest landlord will force more people
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  Speaker 2: onto the streets. King Ora wants to crack down on
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  Speaker 2: tenants with rent arears, some who owe tens of thousands
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  Speaker 2: of dollars in months of unpaid rent. Brooks S. Dairley
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  Speaker 2: joins me now from Monachi Range and Advocacy Group, which
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  Speaker 2: aims to prevent and end youth homelessness. Thanks for being
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  Speaker 2: with us, bro Good morning, Good morning. What's your reaction
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  Speaker 2: to this.
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  Speaker 7: I think that the announcement made yesterday by the minister
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  Speaker 7: is going to increase and make comelessness worse, and we
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  Speaker 7: can't look at this announcement in isolation of the other
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  Speaker 7: announcements they've made. Instead of investing billions into prisons, they
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  Speaker 7: should be investing this money into preventative solutions like warm,
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  Speaker 7: affordable and universal housing and looking for cope oper multi solutions,
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  Speaker 7: because we know that those are the solutions that are
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  Speaker 7: working on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: Brook are you worried that this particular approach will affect
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  Speaker 2: younger tenants.
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  Speaker 7: We're worried that it will impact everybody who is in
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  Speaker 7: a KO house. We're worried about the pipeline from you
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  Speaker 7: homelessness because we know that that then as an indicator
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  Speaker 7: of homelessness itself. We're worried that there are no alternatives
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  Speaker 7: to emergency housing that the government is putting forward, and
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  Speaker 7: we're worried about the lack of strategy for addressing homelessness.
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  Speaker 7: There was a Homelessness plan from twenty twenty until twenty
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  Speaker 7: twenty three, and at the moment there is nothing in
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  Speaker 7: place to carry on that MAHI or ensure that we
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  Speaker 7: work towards preventing and ending homelessness in ulti oil.
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  Speaker 2: So brokers people are evicted, where will they go?
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  Speaker 7: And that's what our question is to given the announcements.
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  Speaker 7: While previous announcements made about emergency accommodation, we know that
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  Speaker 7: we're in amongst we're in the midst of a housing crisis,
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  Speaker 7: and there's no alternatives being put forward for emergency housing
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  Speaker 7: for addressing the immediate harm of that. But then also
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  Speaker 7: there's no long term strategy either. We know that people
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  Speaker 7: are ending up on the streets there and there's ending
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  Speaker 7: up in overcrowded housing and we're already seeing an increase
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  Speaker 7: of homelessness with people going back to living in their
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  Speaker 7: cars Brook.
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  Speaker 2: Why aren't tenants paying their rent?
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  Speaker 7: I think that's a good question, and I think we
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  Speaker 7: need to be looking at the wider context. We know
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  Speaker 7: that KO housing is provided to some of our most disadvantaged.
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  Speaker 7: FUNO that the reason why people are in KO housing
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  Speaker 7: is because it's affordable, but that people in their spaces
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  Speaker 7: are often experiencing poverty, They're experiencing high complex needs. There's
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  Speaker 7: a lot of intergenerational issues, and so we need to
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  Speaker 7: look to be addressing those long term and looking for
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  Speaker 7: short term solutions to ensure that that harm is addressed,
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  Speaker 7: those issues are addressed first, are also looking to longer
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  Speaker 7: term solutions to ensure that you know that we are
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  Speaker 7: ensuring the right to housing, that everybody has a warm, safe,
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  Speaker 7: an affordable home in alter.
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  Speaker 2: So, how do we resolve this because the government can't
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  Speaker 2: keep sort of paying off tens of thousands of dollars
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  Speaker 2: in people's rent.
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  Speaker 7: I think that the government is there to serve the
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  Speaker 7: communities and that they shouldn't be looking to run using
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  Speaker 7: them as a business. And I think if we look
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  Speaker 7: at centering the needs of people in the space and
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  Speaker 7: actually people in our communities, then the solutions will the
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  Speaker 7: solutions are there. We can ensrying the right to housing,
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  Speaker 7: we can have a strategy to ensure that there is
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  Speaker 7: no homelessness altered, or we can implement a duty to
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  Speaker 7: assist to ensure that no government department can turn people
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  Speaker 7: away if they're experiencing homelessness. The government has all the
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  Speaker 7: power and the resources to do that. We saw them
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  Speaker 7: enact that power during COVID with the previous government, and
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  Speaker 7: we're wondering where their energy is from this government and
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  Speaker 7: confronting the issue of homelessness and even poverty and ulti
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  Speaker 7: or these are huge crises that are happening, and we've
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  Speaker 7: seen a massive increase in homelessness and even poverty with
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  Speaker 7: this government, and the harm that causes in our communities
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  Speaker 7: is disturbing. It's horrendous, especially given the you know, we've
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  Speaker 7: just had them apologize for the report that's come out
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  Speaker 7: for people that have been abused in state of faith
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  Speaker 7: based care, and so you know, if we have that
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  Speaker 7: apology and no actions to ensure that those things don't
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  Speaker 7: happen again, and some of our Finno who have experienced
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  Speaker 7: have been mistake here in Ko Housing. Yeah, then it's empty.
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  Speaker 7: Those apologies empty.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Look, Brooke, appreciate your thoughts on this this morning. That
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  Speaker 2: was Brooke Stanley there from MONARCHI Fingertaki. It is six
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  Speaker 2: to six. I'd like to hear your thoughts to ninety
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  Speaker 2: two ninety two News.
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  Speaker 1: And Views you trust has done. Your day is early
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  Speaker 2: Dogs said, be my costking is with you shortly at
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  Speaker 2: six am. He's currently just warming up, picking his teeth,
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  Speaker 2: getting the sleep out of his eyes. Oh no, I said,
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  Speaker 2: what's feeling out?
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  Speaker 15: I was very interested in what Elliott said to you
• 32:47
  Speaker 15: earlier on I don't know, I mean he knows what
• 32:49
  Speaker 15: he's talking about. But the suggestion that any of els
• 32:52
  Speaker 15: don't have any money. This is a fifty five billion
• 32:55
  Speaker 15: dollar company who sponsors Mercedes F one and until recently
• 33:00
  Speaker 15: the America's Cup, that I don't think money's got anything
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  Speaker 15: to do with it, because I mean you're talking about
• 33:04
  Speaker 15: they say it's forty eight million sober six years, so
• 33:06
  Speaker 15: that's eight million dollars a year. Eight million dollars to
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  Speaker 15: someone like Enios is literally money down the back of
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  Speaker 15: the sofa.
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  Speaker 2: So I opened.
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  Speaker 15: My suspicion. I hope I'm wrong, but my suspicion is
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  Speaker 15: that the deal will involve a certain series of circumstances
• 33:19
  Speaker 15: that need to unfold from the sponsor's point of view.
• 33:21
  Speaker 15: I eat the number of people go to games, watch
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  Speaker 15: market the whole thing, and it hasn't happened because Rugby's
• 33:26
  Speaker 15: got problems. So if that's the side of the equation,
• 33:29
  Speaker 15: it's interesting to watch the union take them to court
• 33:32
  Speaker 15: because that side of the story will come out, presumably
• 33:34
  Speaker 15: because it's very unusual for a company to just wake
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  Speaker 15: up one morning go no, you know what, No, I
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  Speaker 15: can't be bothered anymore.
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  Speaker 12: Bye Bye.
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