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Full Show Podcast: 28 March 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside. Andrew dickens on
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Speaker 1: early edition with one roof make your property search simple,
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Speaker 2: It'd be goodboying to you. You've made it to Friday.
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Speaker 2: It's the end of the week and I'm Andrew Dickinson.
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Speaker 2: Coming up. Over the next sixty minutes. Judith Collins is
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Speaker 2: cockerhoop as she announces that she slashed eight hundred million
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Speaker 2: dollars and cuts to contractors working on government projects. So
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Speaker 2: what is the impact and could she do more? We're
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Speaker 2: going to talk to a former Associate finance minister in
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Speaker 2: five minutes. They actually did it. Red Bull demotes Liam
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Speaker 2: Lawson will cross to Ireland and talk to a respected
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Speaker 2: Formula one journalist in ten minutes. And Trump puts a
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Speaker 2: twenty five percent tariff on foreign automobiles, so how will
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Speaker 2: Europe react? Macaveny joining me later on, and the Ugland
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Speaker 2: stadium face played itself out to its logical ends, So
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Speaker 2: what happens next that story? Just before six, We'll have
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Speaker 2: correspondence from right around the world and New Zealand and
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Speaker 2: news as it breaks. You can have your say by
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Speaker 2: giving me a text. The number is ninety two ninety
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Speaker 2: two it's seven minutes after five the agenda, and it's Friday,
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Speaker 2: the twenty eighth of March. And at least six people
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Speaker 2: if the dead after a tourist submarine sunk in the
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Speaker 2: Red Sea. Several people have been injured in thirty nine
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Speaker 2: others rescued after the incident off the coast of the
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Speaker 2: Egyptian city of Heergada. Around forty passengers who are on
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Speaker 2: board the submarine and all are believed to be Russian.
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Speaker 3: We don't know yet what exactly happened that caused the
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Speaker 3: submarine to drown, but this is the second incident to
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Speaker 3: happen after the Ratsi cost in less than six months.
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Speaker 3: The frequency of these incidents raises a lot of questions
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Speaker 3: about the safety measures employed by the local authorities in
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Speaker 3: these popular see excursions.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, would you take a trip on a private submarine?
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Speaker 2: These days, EU leaders have been attending a submage in Paris,
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Speaker 2: US President's uk Sorry President, as the Kia Starmer says,
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Speaker 2: Europe is mobilizing on a scale not seen for decades
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Speaker 2: to be ready to sustain a peace steal in Ukraine.
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Speaker 2: Russia has previously said a maritime truce in the Black
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Speaker 2: Sea will only begin if Western restrictions on Russians food
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Speaker 2: and fertilizer trade are lifted. Leaders at the summit, including
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Speaker 2: Ukrainian President Zelenski, have agreed that now is not the
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Speaker 2: time to lift sanctions on Russia, and French President Emmanuel
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Speaker 2: Macron says European countries will deploy a reassurance force to
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Speaker 2: Ukraine after a peace deal is secured.
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Speaker 4: No sanctions should be lifted unless peace has been established
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Speaker 4: for good. We will continue exerting pressure from the economic
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Speaker 4: viewpoints on the shadow fleets, and we will continuemabilization.
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Speaker 2: And finally, Germany says it will not give in and
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Speaker 2: that Europe must respond firmly. After Donald Trump targeted imported
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Speaker 2: cars and card parts with a twenty five percent tariff,
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Speaker 2: the major world economy have vowed to retaliate, with France
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Speaker 2: branding the move very bad news, Canada called it a
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Speaker 2: direct attack, and China accused Washington of violating international trade rules. Immediately,
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Speaker 2: Shares in Frankfort for Porsche, Mercedes and BMW fell sharply,
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Speaker 2: alongside the French firm. Stilentis that the makers of Jeep
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Speaker 2: Pergot and Fiat.
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Speaker 5: This will continue to spur growth like you haven't seen.
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Speaker 5: Before I was elected, we were losing all of our plants,
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Speaker 5: so we're being built in Mexico and Canada and other places.
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Speaker 5: Now those plants largely have stopped and they're moving on
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Speaker 5: to our country.
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Speaker 2: And is now ten after five News and Views you
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Speaker 2: Trust to start your day.
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Speaker 1: It's early edition with Andrew Dickens and one roof Make
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Speaker 6: You talk said, be.
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Speaker 2: Hey, good morning to you. So with the global blacklash
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Speaker 2: against diversity hiring under the banner of it being woke,
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Speaker 2: it's important to remember how all this started. When a
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Speaker 2: sector became excessively dominated by a gender or a race,
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Speaker 2: questions were asked why those sectors weren't reflective of, you know,
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Speaker 2: the overall population. If seventeen percent of the population a Maori,
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Speaker 2: then why isn't seventeen percent of the doctors. If fifty
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Speaker 2: one percent of the population are women, why are fifty
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Speaker 2: one percent of engineers women? Or here we go, why
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Speaker 2: aren't forty nine percent of teachers men? So there's a
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Speaker 2: real politic here. Some professions are just preferred by different genders,
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Speaker 2: and some races are educationally disadvantaged. So to make things
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Speaker 2: more representative, some sectors took what they call proactive measures.
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Speaker 2: Now where DEI comes unstuck is when people are promoted
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Speaker 2: above their ability. At the end of the day, we
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Speaker 2: are still a meritocracy where the best people get the
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Speaker 2: most responsible positions, no matter your sex or color. Now,
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Speaker 2: the latest diversity concerned in this country is the law.
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Speaker 2: The New Zealand Bar Association has just released a report
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Speaker 2: into gender in their profession and they've asked the question,
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Speaker 2: why is the there are only thirty percent of women
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Speaker 2: in senior law positions when female lawyers make up fifty
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Speaker 2: five percent of lawyers. That disparity is only exaggerated. Amongst
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Speaker 2: lawyers with less than seven years experience. In that cohort,
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Speaker 2: sixty four percent are women. But they're not carrying on
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Speaker 2: to the top. So the Bar Association says, all the
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Speaker 2: old boys club still exist, but at a smaller level
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Speaker 2: than before, and maybe we should do something about it.
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Speaker 2: But you know, it should be remembered that parenthood takes
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Speaker 2: women out of the sector. Men keep on piling up
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Speaker 2: the billable hours and curing their way up the ladder.
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Speaker 2: They work like dogs. Lawyers learn the game. They know
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Speaker 2: if they want the gig, they have to display the drive.
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Speaker 2: So if I was to have a concern about the
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Speaker 2: law and gender, my concern would be amongst judges. If ever,
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Speaker 2: there was a profession that should be representative of our population,
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Speaker 2: it's judges. So should we be worried? Well, I took
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Speaker 2: a look at it. Sixty percent of district court judges
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Speaker 2: are men. What's that about? But hey, hold on, hold
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Speaker 2: your horses. Sixty percent of our Supreme Court judges are women,
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Speaker 2: including the Chief Justice, the boss of them all is
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Speaker 2: a woman. And isn't that proof that there is no
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Speaker 2: glass ceiling. If you want it, you can get it.
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Speaker 2: And if women don't want it, well they're not going
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Speaker 2: to go out and get it. It's twenty twenty five
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Speaker 2: and this issue has been around for a while, and
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Speaker 2: sometimes you know, it's just because people do what they
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Speaker 2: do and what they do varies because of their sex
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Speaker 2: and gender, rather than some overruching prejudice. Andrew dickens thirteen
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Speaker 2: out to five. It's the harshest decision in the sport
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Speaker 2: and it's a global news story and now it's official.
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Speaker 2: Liam Lawson's been taken out of the Red Bull team,
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Speaker 2: replaced by Yuki Sonoda. Liam, though still racing this weekend
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Speaker 2: for the racing bulls very big punt by Christian Horner
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Speaker 2: because of Yuki is beaten by Liam. Then the problem
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Speaker 2: is not the driver but the car, a car that
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Speaker 2: Max vs Stappen has already said is just not fast enough.
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Speaker 2: And if it's the then Red Bull has a very
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Speaker 2: big problem indeed, and that problem is not Liam Lawson.
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Speaker 2: So I really hope that Liam has taken the decision
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Speaker 2: with the grain of salt and goes out and proves
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Speaker 2: all his critics wrong. I think we're all there with that,
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Speaker 2: aren't we. Aim From what I hear, he's taking it
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Speaker 2: all without standing grace. He understands what's happened, he understands
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Speaker 2: what he needs now to do, and I have to
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Speaker 2: say he's so impressive. I don't know how many people
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Speaker 2: could deal with the sort of pressure that this young
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Speaker 2: lad has had so far. What an amazing fortnight five fourteen.
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Speaker 2: All right, the public service job cuts. Judith Collins came
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Speaker 2: out yesterday said we've done great double of what we
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Speaker 2: said we would do. But was that enough? Can they
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Speaker 2: do more? In a moment, I'm talking to Sir lockwood Smith,
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Speaker 2: the former Associate Minister of Finance and Speaker of the House.
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Speaker 2: This is Newstalk zeb.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 2: It's good morning to you. Thank you for choosing us.
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Speaker 2: It is sixteen minutes after five. The government's ahead of
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Speaker 2: schedule with public service job cuts. So their goal was
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Speaker 2: to cut four hundred million dollars in spending on consultants
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Speaker 2: and contractors over two years, but Judith Collins says they're
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Speaker 2: actually on track to count eight hundred million in the
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Speaker 2: same time frame. Double it. And she was so happy. Yes,
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Speaker 2: that's always a bit disturbing when you see Judith's smile.
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Speaker 2: So Lockwood Smith was the Associate Minister of Finance and
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Speaker 2: he joins us, Now, good morning to you Lockwood.
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Speaker 7: Morning Andrew.
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Speaker 2: This needed to be done, didn't it.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know you wways feel sympathy for those whose
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Speaker 7: jobs were at risk. Andry, let's be pretty clear about that.
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Speaker 7: It's not a non easy thing for people. But the
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Speaker 7: massive increase in the public sector in New Zealand has
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Speaker 7: been eyewatering. I mean I served on a after I
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Speaker 7: finished his High Commissioner in the UK. I was asked
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Speaker 7: to serve on a commission reviewing the UK public sector
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Speaker 7: and in a one of our western country. Who've got
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Speaker 7: this problem of a massive growth in the what people
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Speaker 7: loosely call the bureaucracy that's standing in the way of
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Speaker 7: our economic performance and creating sustainable jobs across the economy.
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Speaker 2: Why has it been a global phenomenon. I mean, we
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Speaker 2: see Elon Musk and dose getting stuck into the United States.
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Speaker 2: Rachel Reeves, the labor Chant of the Exchequer, has said
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Speaker 2: she's going to cut fifteen percent of public servants. Why
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Speaker 2: did all countries go down this track?
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Speaker 7: To give you a feel, Andrew for just the ridiculous increase.
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Speaker 7: You know, when I was Minister of Education, Now admittedly
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Speaker 7: that was a long time ago, I ran the entire
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Speaker 7: tertiary system, including industry training, with thirteen officials. Today four
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Speaker 7: hundred do that job, and they just get in the
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Speaker 7: way of the providers. You know, these providers out there
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Speaker 7: working hard to try and deliver education have to handle
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Speaker 7: all the bureaucratic requirements of that huge staff increase. When
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Speaker 7: I became Speaker, I reduced the judges of the Speaker's
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Speaker 7: Office by fifty percent reduced by fifty percent, and I
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Speaker 7: think most people say the Speaker's office probably ran you know,
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Speaker 7: at least as well, if not better.
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Speaker 2: Look at so can I just ask one last question.
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Speaker 2: She's done well eight hundred million so far. Is there
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Speaker 2: more that she can cut?
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Speaker 7: Well, I'm not in a position about the comment on
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Speaker 7: that all and I wouldn't recommend what's you know exactly
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Speaker 7: what's happening in the US right now, but we do
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Speaker 7: have to make sure. We've got a real problem with
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Speaker 7: productivity in this country. And you can partly see why,
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Speaker 7: you know, you've got so much unproductive work going on
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Speaker 7: if you like, by well meaning you know, good people
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Speaker 7: in the public sector, but just lack of focus on
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Speaker 7: what's really needed to deliver an effective public sector. And
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Speaker 7: as I say, we're seeing it not just New Zealand
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Speaker 7: but in other countries as well.
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Speaker 2: So lookwuld I thank you so much for your time
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Speaker 2: for getting up early for us. Today's a Lockwood Smith.
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Speaker 2: Thank yous and gentlemen, former Speaker and Associate Minister of
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Speaker 2: Finance many other jobs as well as you heard worked
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Speaker 2: in the UK. For US it is nineteen minutes after five.
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Speaker 2: I know some people are bored by the Liam Lawson story.
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Speaker 2: But it's a global story and it's leading papers all
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Speaker 2: over the places. Just extraordinary. I was reading a guy
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Speaker 2: called Thomas maher the other day from Planet f one
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Speaker 2: and wouldn't you know, I'm talking to him next.
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Speaker 8: Here are news talks here b the first Word on
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Speaker 2: It's by twenty two if you've just woken up. Its official.
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Speaker 2: Liam Lawson has been dropped by Red Bull. It was
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Speaker 2: announced overnight that Yuki Sonoda will replace him as Max
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Speaker 2: Verstappen's teammates, but Liam will still be racing in the
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Speaker 2: racing ball team Our team Both. Boss Christian Horner says
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Speaker 2: this is a purely sporting decision and there's a duty
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Speaker 2: of care to protect and develop Lawson. Formula one editor
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Speaker 2: and journalist at planetf one dot comas Thomas ma who
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Speaker 2: joins me. Now, good morning to you, Thomas, Oh, good.
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Speaker 9: Morning, how are you?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 9: Thanks for having me on.
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Speaker 2: I'm in New Zealand and obviously I'm outraged at this
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Speaker 2: decision and I get the feeling that Red Bulls running
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Speaker 2: around like chickens without a head.
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Speaker 9: It is a little bit of a chaotic situation. I
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Speaker 9: think that's developed over the last couple of weeks. From
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Speaker 9: speaking to sources on both sides of the story over
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Speaker 9: the last twenty four hours, the feeling very much is
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Speaker 9: that it was just a little bit too much too
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Speaker 9: soon for Lim in appointing him at Red Bull, and
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Speaker 9: that's the safest thing to do to protect Lim and
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Speaker 9: to look after basically his future, his mentality, his mindset,
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Speaker 9: his competitiveness for the future, is to drop him back
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Speaker 9: into the racing bull seat and give the Red Bull
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Speaker 9: seat to someone a little bit more experienced. On that
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Speaker 9: man then is Yuki Sonoda. Lim obviously struggled a little
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Speaker 9: bit for performance over the two opening weekends of the
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Speaker 9: twenty twenty five Championship in Australia and China, and it
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Speaker 9: was a little bit panic stations, I think at Red
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Speaker 9: Bull because there was nothing to suggest that that Lim
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Speaker 9: was going to be able to turn it around in
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Speaker 9: the short term. So for those reasons, as I said,
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Speaker 9: the decision has been taken to protect Lim. And from
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Speaker 9: speaking to two members of Lawson's camp, the feeling in
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Speaker 9: the camp is that this is the right move that
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Speaker 9: they're welcoming the decision and the possibility of, you know,
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Speaker 9: protecting Lawson's future and his mindset for the future.
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Speaker 2: It's a big risk by Christian Horner because of course,
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Speaker 2: if Liam gets into the racing BULLCA races at Suzuka,
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Speaker 2: at Trekking knows very very well, and then blitzes Yuki,
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Speaker 2: then finally the blame will come back not on the
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Speaker 2: driver but on the car.
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Speaker 9: Very much so. And Liam has been open about the
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Speaker 9: fact that the Red Bull OVERB twenty one has been
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Speaker 9: a very difficult car for him to drive. And I
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Speaker 9: think what we've seen over the last couple of years
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Speaker 9: is that, you know, the the car alongside Max Forstappen
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Speaker 9: has traditionally struggled for competitiveness and Lim is no different
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Speaker 9: in that regard. He's jumped in the car, he has
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Speaker 9: struggled to adjust immediately. Some of that seems to be
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Speaker 9: on his side, some of it seems to be on
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Speaker 9: the car side. And I think we're gonna get answered
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Speaker 9: very quickly on this because Yuki Sonoda is a known quantity.
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Speaker 9: Granted he hasn't got the experience with this exact car,
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Speaker 9: but Yuki is an established member of the upper midfield.
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Speaker 9: So if he suddenly jumps into the car and qualifies,
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Speaker 9: you know, eighteen twentieth, as we've seen with Lim, it
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Speaker 9: seems it would seem to be pretty definitive that the
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Speaker 9: car is the bigger issue and not so much the driver.
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Speaker 9: But if Yuki, you know, jumps in the car and
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Speaker 9: all of a sudden he is making it into Q
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Speaker 9: three and does pretty well, then that suggests it is
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Speaker 9: more driver. So it is going to be very interesting
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Speaker 9: to see what happens at Suzuka, because I don't think
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Speaker 9: there's anywhere to hide for either Red Bull or you
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Speaker 9: get Snoda.
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Speaker 2: At this point, Thomas Marra, I, thank you so much
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Speaker 2: for your time journalist at Planet f one dot com.
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Speaker 2: He seemed very diplomatic. Don't you think he does have
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Speaker 2: extensive links to Red Bull and has that colored him?
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Speaker 2: I see that. Todd reckons that Thomas sounded a little
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Speaker 2: bit like a Red BULLPR spokesperson. Another text through looking
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Speaker 2: at it from Red Bull's position, they can sell merch
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Speaker 2: in Japan with Yuki, that's true. And another text that says, hey,
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Speaker 2: Max has said the way Liam has been treated as
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Speaker 2: nothing more than bullying and there are rumors around that
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Speaker 2: Max might even walk about all of this. What a story,
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Speaker 2: What a story? News Talks FB. It is now five twenty.
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Speaker 2: News Talks HEB five twenty eight. The House was hilarious
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Speaker 2: yesterday when St. Peter's turned into a grumpy old Conservative,
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Speaker 2: a role he assumes to hoover up votes from his
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Speaker 2: constituents rather than the stately foreign minister image he shows
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Speaker 2: to the rest of the world. So what was the thing?
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Speaker 2: He complained that Ricardo Menender's march the Green MP wore
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Speaker 2: a leather jacket in the house. It was a glossy
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Speaker 2: little number. Question is is it disrespectful raising the question
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Speaker 2: about clothes in the workforce? You know, if you wear
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Speaker 2: a fifteen hundred dollar designer leather jacket, is that less
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Speaker 2: respectful than someone wearing a three hundred dollar sales suit
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Speaker 2: from laid Law and leeds from Farmers. I mean, things
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Speaker 2: have obviously loosened. Our big boss here wears a jacket,
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Speaker 2: but I've never ever seen him in a tie. Casual
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Speaker 2: Friday has become casual weekday, and I wasn't worried about
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Speaker 2: Ricardo's leather jacket. Even though it gave off boy George
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Speaker 2: vibes and he looked like he was off to a disco,
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Speaker 2: he obviously took care in his look that he turned
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Speaker 2: up well groomed, even if he did look like a clown.
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Speaker 2: And it's not good the House of Representatives for nothing.
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Speaker 2: It should be representative of all of us, including leather
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Speaker 2: jacket wearers. And I've sometimes wondered at the ensembles that
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Speaker 2: appear on our screens worn by public servants and MPs.
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Speaker 2: You know something, are very fancy. Many are obviously expensive,
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Speaker 2: purchased on wages provided by the taxpayers, flaunting your public
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Speaker 2: purse wealth at us public servants. But the biggest problem
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Speaker 2: with riccardo men ends leather jacket is that it's leather.
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Speaker 2: I thought Ricardo was a green MP, opposed to products
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Speaker 2: derived from animal cruelty. The thing about symbolism is that
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Speaker 2: it is symbolic, and Ricardo's leather jacket screamed hypocrisy.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens, All right.
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Speaker 2: You're going off about Liam, and we'll talk more about
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Speaker 2: that again later. Speaking of cars, twenty five percent tariff
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Speaker 2: on foreign cars in America, So how does Europe react
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Speaker 2: vinto Macabennis moments.
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Speaker 6: Away, Get ahead of the headlines on early edition, Andrew
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Speaker 2: Holder must be Friday because Kenzie is playing Harry Styles
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Speaker 2: and going to symphony this weekends and I'm going to
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Speaker 2: Bob Geldof tonight. I might tell you more about that later.
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Speaker 2: Oh Riccardo's jacket, Luke has written to me on the
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Speaker 2: text ninety two ninety two. Small charge there, Luke thought,
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Speaker 2: brilliant Riccardo has finally got ridden of that nasty green
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Speaker 2: jacket he has worn forever. Maybe Golras could consult on
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Speaker 2: green MP fashion. Haha, funny Heather rights, Are you sure
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Speaker 2: it was leather? And I go, well, if he was
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Speaker 2: wearing a pleathant jacket, that is certainly disrespectful. And hey,
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Speaker 2: here's the thing. Have you noticed how the Greens and
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Speaker 2: Too Party Mari seemed to be addicted to fashion labels? Absolutely?
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Speaker 2: I mean sometimes they talk about to Party Maray and
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Speaker 2: their hats and their clothes and all that, saying what
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Speaker 2: are they wearing? But at the same time, those hats
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Speaker 2: are not cheap, they pay some money. They like their labels.
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Speaker 2: Mario Packer, she's one hundred percent of walking billboard for workshop.
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Speaker 2: What is it with the Greens to party Mari and clothes.
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Speaker 2: There's a question for you now. The topic that is
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Speaker 2: born board the nation, it is fair to say, came
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Speaker 2: to its predictable end yesterday, as just like back in
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Speaker 2: twenty eleven when we had the World Cup, Orcan turned
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Speaker 2: its back on a spectacular vision and instead decided to
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Speaker 2: renovate the old faithful Eden Park. And for me, it's
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Speaker 2: like the legacy of thirty years of financial mismanagement of
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Speaker 2: all of our infrastructure. We haven't had the money to
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Speaker 2: do good stuff for a long time now, and we
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Speaker 2: know this. When this government came in, they've proclaimed that
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Speaker 2: this was the era of need to have instead of
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Speaker 2: nice to haves. So I guess the waterfront stadium was
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Speaker 2: the nice to have and Eten Parks the need to have.
19:37
Speaker 2: But you know that stands in opposition to the National
19:39
Speaker 2: Party's other mantra, which is we just need to start
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Speaker 2: saying yes instead of no. But organ still has too
19:45
Speaker 2: many stadiums, none are quite fit for purpose. But apparently
19:49
Speaker 2: that's all we can afford because that's the way we've
19:51
Speaker 2: rolled for ages now, so what happens next. Shane Henderson
19:55
Speaker 2: was in charge of that committee. He's a counselor at Or.
19:57
Speaker 2: He was in charge of that committee that had to
19:59
Speaker 2: review all the things. We'll ask him what happens next
20:03
Speaker 2: and where the money is coming from? Before six o'clock.
20:06
Speaker 2: It is now twenty one to six and around the
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Speaker 2: country we go. Caluen Productor joins us Fromdunedin. Hello morning, Andrew.
20:14
Speaker 2: A Queenstown Mansions about to set a new price record.
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Speaker 2: Yes it has.
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Speaker 10: This is the nineteen hecta estate named Chantaclair and it
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Speaker 10: has the new house price record in New Zealand, selling
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Speaker 10: for forty five and a half million dollars. It's happened
20:34
Speaker 10: two years ago in fact the sale, but at the
20:35
Speaker 10: time details of the property or exact sale price couldn't
20:40
Speaker 10: be released. One roof first reported the record breaking sale
20:43
Speaker 10: in twenty twenty three, but we didn't know the details.
20:45
Speaker 10: We do now forty five and a half million for
20:47
Speaker 10: a four bedroom home on Lower Shotover Road. It apparently
20:52
Speaker 10: emulates a French style mansion with lush gardens and it
20:56
Speaker 10: is a prime location and it beats the previous house
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Speaker 10: record of thirty eight and a half million seven twenty
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Speaker 10: thirteen for a house in Auckland's Rake. Thank you so much.
21:04
Speaker 10: How's your weather? Chance for shower today? Here partly cloudy otherwise.
21:08
Speaker 10: In nineteen and we go to chrashs Clessirewood.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning. They found a very old gecko.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, this is pretty interesting, Andrew. The world's oldest gecko
21:19
Speaker 11: in fact have been found off the coast of North Canterbury.
21:22
Speaker 11: So two of these reptiles are living on the predator
21:24
Speaker 11: free Motino Island. Are thought to be somewhere between sixty
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Speaker 11: and sixty four years old, which is significantly older than
21:31
Speaker 11: the previous record, which was fifty three. These two were
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Speaker 11: discovered in nineteen sixty seven and nineteen sixty nine by
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Speaker 11: late herpetologist Tony Whittaker. Now Department of Conservation ranger Caitlin
21:44
Speaker 11: Leeds says the gecko's being found just recently during a
21:48
Speaker 11: five yearly monitoring visit is amazing. She says they were
21:51
Speaker 11: simply blown away to find the two original lizards. The
21:55
Speaker 11: way they know that it's them is that they were
21:56
Speaker 11: individually marked with toe clips by Whittaker back in the sixties.
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Speaker 2: Well, okay, I wish I was a gecko. I think
22:04
Speaker 2: that one I actually do. Do humans have longer than well? Anyway,
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Speaker 2: how's your with her?
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Speaker 11: There's some more questions from you today, Andrew cloudy and
22:12
Speaker 11: a few morning showers about then fine. Spouse later liked
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Speaker 11: winds and the high as eighteen.
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Speaker 2: That's my job clear. Hello Max Toll from Willington, Good morning, sir.
22:21
Speaker 2: Paul keeps on making headlines.
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Speaker 12: Yeah yeah, the Green MP of pit and Wellington mornings
22:26
Speaker 12: this week and claimed to Nick Mills that someone is
22:29
Speaker 12: currently in prison for shoplifting twelve dollars worth of items.
22:34
Speaker 12: She was, of course responding to earlier claims that people
22:36
Speaker 12: don't feel safe with the beat cops around and all
22:38
Speaker 12: these cops do is harass the homeless. She also criticized
22:42
Speaker 12: the prison system and gave this a rather shocking shoplifter.
22:45
Speaker 12: For example, yesterday she was asked for more information about
22:48
Speaker 12: the case and she said she couldn't provided. Appears she
22:51
Speaker 12: was told this by an actual prisoner, took them at
22:53
Speaker 12: face value and has been citing the example in media
22:56
Speaker 12: to justify her belief that the justice system is too punitive.
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Speaker 12: Corrections Minister Mark Mitchell says it would be impossible without
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Speaker 12: that person being a serious violent crime or recidivist offender,
23:07
Speaker 12: not cited by Mitchell, but indeed a former colleague of
23:09
Speaker 12: Pools shoplifted nine thousand dollars worth of goods in avoided prison.
23:13
Speaker 12: Tory Faro appears to be supporting Tamotha Paul. She reposted
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Speaker 12: the earlier video criticizing police. We asked the mayor if
23:19
Speaker 12: she has any genuine concerns about police. She told us
23:22
Speaker 12: no comment, and her office referred us to a council
23:25
Speaker 12: document that states beat police are a vital initiative in
23:28
Speaker 12: the CBD. Okay, how's Wellington's party cloudy with isolated showers
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Speaker 12: for coming? Fine this afternoon?
23:35
Speaker 2: Okay, And we go to Aukland neave a ready man
23:37
Speaker 2: of good morning to.
23:37
Speaker 4: You Ape Friday.
23:38
Speaker 2: We've made it, Yes we have. Or how's Auckland Hospital running?
23:43
Speaker 6: Wow?
23:44
Speaker 4: Yes, now look we've got another week twist here as
23:46
Speaker 4: Auckland Hospital disestablishes hospital supporter roles. Now hospital supporter functions
23:52
Speaker 4: they include guiding visitors and patients, assisting health staff, and
23:56
Speaker 4: performing all the Edmond tasks. So Itto director met Dinner.
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Speaker 4: He's condemning this decision, saying, look this reflects the government's
24:03
Speaker 4: approach of cutting areas that things that people won't notice.
24:06
Speaker 4: He says that the health staff they're overstretched, as we
24:09
Speaker 4: will know, they can't pick up any extra workload. And
24:11
Speaker 4: Danna has says that this will result in essential work
24:14
Speaker 4: not being done in the time into the quality it
24:16
Speaker 4: needs to be. So we've approached out New Zealand for
24:19
Speaker 4: comment waiting on that one. Hawkin's weather Haarley cloudy on
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Speaker 4: shower clear and define them in the afternoon twenty three
24:24
Speaker 4: is high here in Auckland.
24:25
Speaker 2: And I thank you in it is now seventeen minutes
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Speaker 2: to six. And Mark writes on the text ninety two
24:30
Speaker 2: ninety two morning Andrew, this is about, of course, the
24:32
Speaker 2: designer clothing in the house. Andrew. It all takes you
24:35
Speaker 2: back to those days when somebody started buying designer jockey shorts.
24:38
Speaker 2: Wasn't it Enjoy your day? And this indeed it is.
24:41
Speaker 2: And again I asked a question, what is it about
24:43
Speaker 2: the Greens into party Marie and designer labels, and what
24:45
Speaker 2: is it about the Greens and shoplifting? Now Donald Trump
24:49
Speaker 2: has put a twenty five percent tariff on all important
24:52
Speaker 2: cars and car parts, and of course that's going to
24:55
Speaker 2: upset all those middle class people in America who like
24:58
Speaker 2: their Volvos. So how is you're reacting? Vincent mcavinnye is.
25:02
Speaker 1: Next International correspondence with insign Eye Insurance Peace of Mind
25:08
Speaker 1: for New Zealand Business.
25:10
Speaker 2: Jan Henderson counselor on the Auckland Stadium. Next, but first
25:14
Speaker 2: it's go to Europe and it's a good morning to
25:16
Speaker 2: Vincent megavinie.
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Speaker 13: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: So Donald Trump puts to twenty five percent tariff on
25:22
Speaker 2: all important cars and car pads. The European cars are
25:24
Speaker 2: very popular in America. So how have they reacted?
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Speaker 13: Yeah, hugely popular.
25:29
Speaker 14: You know.
25:29
Speaker 13: You see a lot of BMW's, a lot of Audi's,
25:32
Speaker 13: lot of Mercedes Benz in America when you are there.
25:36
Speaker 13: And it's been a pretty big blow, particularly for Germany,
25:38
Speaker 13: which has had a struggle over the last few years
25:40
Speaker 13: with its economy because of being cut off from cheap
25:43
Speaker 13: Russian gas. And they have said decisively that they will
25:46
Speaker 13: not give in and that Europe must respond firmly to
25:49
Speaker 13: this at tax not just on imported cars but also
25:52
Speaker 13: car parts, you know, and that some of those manufacturers
25:55
Speaker 13: do have plants in the US. But of course some
25:57
Speaker 13: of those parts are just manufactured in one site here
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Speaker 13: in Europe and then sent all the way around the world.
26:02
Speaker 13: So they're trying to build consensus across Europe, but also
26:06
Speaker 13: with Canada and Japan as well. All of the car
26:09
Speaker 13: companies from those nations have seen their stock fall General
26:14
Speaker 13: Motors as much as seven percent today because they have
26:17
Speaker 13: sort of a lot of production here in Europe as well,
26:20
Speaker 13: and it's all tied in this global chain. So there
26:22
Speaker 13: are perhaps attempts for Canada, Europe and Japan to sort
26:26
Speaker 13: of act together in sort of retaliatory tariffs, but Donald
26:30
Speaker 13: Trump has worn it, particularly Canada, of doing anything like that.
26:33
Speaker 13: So we'll see how this.
26:34
Speaker 2: Goes absolutely, and we'll see how the American public react,
26:37
Speaker 2: because they do like the European cars, in the Gypanese cars,
26:40
Speaker 2: and their freedom of choice has kind of been taken
26:43
Speaker 2: away from them exactly.
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Speaker 13: And Donald Trump doesn't seem together as well. He's sort
26:47
Speaker 13: of his defenses. You know, Europeans don't buy our cars. Well,
26:50
Speaker 13: most American cars aren't fit for European roads because they're
26:53
Speaker 13: so much smaller, and also we don't have the sort
26:56
Speaker 13: of subsidized gas prices that they do. Their fuel is
26:59
Speaker 13: much more you have to have better fuel efficiency here
27:02
Speaker 13: in Europe to make it cost effective.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so European leaders have been meeting in Paris, and
27:06
Speaker 2: Zelensky is here as well. What can you tell me?
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Speaker 13: Yeah, that's right. This is another meeting of European leaders
27:12
Speaker 13: hosted by Emmanuel Macro. Defense heads as well attending this meeting,
27:18
Speaker 13: they're saying that Putin is simply trying to play for time,
27:21
Speaker 13: that he's not engaging properly with the talks. But they
27:23
Speaker 13: are starting to sort of draw up plans for a
27:26
Speaker 13: mobilization of European forces not seen in a scale for decades,
27:31
Speaker 13: to be ready to go in as peacekeeping troops. Now,
27:34
Speaker 13: Ladimir Putin has previously said that he wouldn't want any
27:37
Speaker 13: NATO soldiers to be put into Ukraine. Now, of course,
27:41
Speaker 13: that doesn't leave really any European soldiers these days, because
27:45
Speaker 13: his illegal war in Ukraine meant that even Finland and
27:48
Speaker 13: Sweden long holdouts had joined NATO in recent years. So
27:52
Speaker 13: it is sort of more planning for the possibility of
27:55
Speaker 13: a ceasefire, but that ceasefire still seems a little bit
27:57
Speaker 13: out of reach at the moment.
27:59
Speaker 2: Finter Mecavini have yourself a great weekend and I thank
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Speaker 2: you for joining me. It's eleven to six Coundrew Diggens.
28:04
Speaker 2: So Eden Park won the predictable vote last night on
28:07
Speaker 2: the council hours of debate talking about this. The Key
28:11
Speaker 2: Park Phantom Stadium will remain in the pile of maybe
28:15
Speaker 2: one day. They're not in the clear yet though. Of
28:18
Speaker 2: course Eden Park needs one hundred million dollars worth of
28:20
Speaker 2: funding to actually build a new north stand, which is
28:23
Speaker 2: the first stage of their project. So I'm joined now
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Speaker 2: by Auckland Councilor Shane Henderson who's been across it.
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Speaker 14: Hello, Shane, got a good morning.
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Speaker 2: So this was the predictable outcome, wasn't it because we
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Speaker 2: said right from the beginning no council funding. Therefore the
28:37
Speaker 2: one that needed the least council funding gets the nod.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, and we saw with the council staff report before
28:44
Speaker 14: the meeting that Eden Park had less to do to
28:46
Speaker 14: become viable. Obviously both had their own issues, but so
28:50
Speaker 14: from that perspective, you know, it wasn't too surprising as that.
28:54
Speaker 2: Okay, so you've said no money, so therefore obviously Nick
28:58
Speaker 2: Saltner and his team must be going right now. Cap
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Speaker 2: In hand to the government, making this a national problem.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, and they can have confidence in raising money with
29:07
Speaker 14: either government or the private sector because they know that
29:09
Speaker 14: we've got the backing of the city there as they're preferred.
29:12
Speaker 2: That and weren't they included in the fast track they were.
29:17
Speaker 14: Yeah, so that's another league up there as well. Should
29:20
Speaker 14: give the public a bit more confidence too.
29:22
Speaker 2: So you think is actually going to happen.
29:25
Speaker 14: Well, yes, it seems so. I mean there's a good
29:27
Speaker 14: bid team there and I sort of dack their expertise
29:30
Speaker 14: to try and raise the cash required.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, we've got a load of stadiums in Auckland, three
29:36
Speaker 2: owned by you and one that is private. The private
29:39
Speaker 2: one is getting the big nod here, and we're still
29:41
Speaker 2: no closer to rationalizing all of us.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 14: Well, actually yesterday we passed the vote on that as well,
29:47
Speaker 14: essentially kept starting a stadium investment plan which should hopefully
29:52
Speaker 14: guide future planning and future decision making for stadiums in
29:55
Speaker 14: the city. So it was a huge day for the council.
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Speaker 2: So is this an investment plan for a future stadium
30:01
Speaker 2: or an investment plan to just knock some down and
30:04
Speaker 2: fix some up.
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Speaker 14: No, it's an investment plan for the stadiums that we
30:08
Speaker 14: already have. So we need some decision making principles to
30:12
Speaker 14: guide that future, and so we've done that yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Well the council actually build a permanent stands on the
30:18
Speaker 2: south of buncemt because frankly, looking at all that scaffolding
30:22
Speaker 2: is a bit embarrassing.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, well that'd be one of the decisions we'll have
30:25
Speaker 14: to make in the near future. So yeah, it's an
30:28
Speaker 14: exciting space. But as you say, look at really is
30:30
Speaker 14: the beginning of the conversation rather than the end.
30:35
Speaker 2: Okay, the beginning of a conversation, a conversation we've been
30:38
Speaker 2: having forever, mate. This is exactly the same conversation we
30:41
Speaker 2: had in twenty eleven during the Rugby World Cup when
30:43
Speaker 2: the government offered a half a billion dollars in all comment.
30:45
Speaker 2: Oh no, that seems like far too much work.
30:48
Speaker 14: Oh mate, We didn't have any conversation of two decades
30:50
Speaker 14: of the setting and I think a lot of people
30:52
Speaker 14: are pretty sick of it now. But I hope that
30:55
Speaker 14: this National Stadium conversation is the bit that we can
30:58
Speaker 14: put to dead as of yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Good start, all right, well done, Thank you so much.
31:02
Speaker 2: Shane Henderson for waking up early and talking to us.
31:05
Speaker 2: Well done to Nick Seutner. Can I just say that
31:06
Speaker 2: Nick Seutner, I think it turned up about seven years
31:09
Speaker 2: ago from Australia and said right, I'm going to take
31:11
Speaker 2: this bull by the horns. And he rebranded Eden Park
31:14
Speaker 2: as the National Stadium and he he got more concerts there.
31:17
Speaker 2: He bought a floor for the concerts, he fixed up
31:20
Speaker 2: the lighting, and he's made the place generally better. And
31:23
Speaker 2: his whole aim has been towards this point to actually
31:27
Speaker 2: put a new north stand on Eden Park, maybe put
31:30
Speaker 2: a roof so we don't get wet when we're watching sport,
31:32
Speaker 2: and maybe bring us into the twenty first century. I
31:36
Speaker 2: don't want to live in a country though with needs
31:38
Speaker 2: to have rather than nice to have side Anyway, New
31:42
Speaker 2: Talk said b. It is seven to six on your radio.
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31:55
Speaker 2: It's five to six on the whole Ricardiment enders March
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Speaker 2: Jack Kafuffle and the question of clothes are expensive are
32:01
Speaker 2: they then suitable for the house? Roger writes to me
32:03
Speaker 2: and says Andrew. What surprised me more on the day
32:05
Speaker 2: of the infamous hakka in the debating chamber was the
32:08
Speaker 2: fact that Rawi Titi was wearing white sand shoes in
32:11
Speaker 2: the house. Absolutely no respect from the Malu party for standards.
32:14
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Roger. But were they sand chos
32:16
Speaker 2: or were they trainers? If you spend two hundred and
32:19
Speaker 2: fifty bucks on some expensive designer trainers, are they just
32:23
Speaker 2: as respectful as some seventy dollars boots from the number
32:26
Speaker 2: one shoe wearhouse. A man who knows his tartorial elegance
32:31
Speaker 2: is Mike Hoskins.
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Speaker 15: Stephen Frye got his knighthood this week in sketches, in sketches, sketches.
32:39
Speaker 15: And so he was wearing you know.
32:42
Speaker 2: The oh sketches, the shoes, so I said.
32:44
Speaker 15: And so he was wearing the full regalia, as in,
32:47
Speaker 15: you know, fully dressed up, and he was wearing sketches.
32:51
Speaker 15: I assume it's something to do with his help. I
32:53
Speaker 15: think you only wear sketches if you've got health issues?
32:55
Speaker 15: Am I right in saying that? Or well, I wouldn't
32:57
Speaker 15: wear sketches now, I wouldn't wear sketches that you wear crocs.
33:01
Speaker 15: I got two pairs of crocs, and not only.
33:04
Speaker 2: Because they're sensible and practical and pragmatic.
33:06
Speaker 15: They they're good country shoes, is what I've decided. And
33:08
Speaker 15: so they're better than a gum boat. They're a seasonal
33:11
Speaker 15: gum boot and they allow you to get across the
33:13
Speaker 15: property in the land. Whether I'll do it in winter,
33:15
Speaker 15: I don't know because they've got holes in them. But
33:18
Speaker 15: I've got some gibbets. I got some gibbets, and so
33:22
Speaker 15: I've got a warrior's gibbet and a glass of wine
33:24
Speaker 15: gibbet and stuff like that.
33:25
Speaker 2: So you know good, you're supposed to have those fancy
33:28
Speaker 2: what are the gun boots that they wear at Glastonbury
33:30
Speaker 2: and the hunters? Hunters?
33:32
Speaker 15: Oh, we got the hunters.
33:32
Speaker 2: You got hunters, und I've got the hunter I've got
33:35
Speaker 2: them all. What are you talking about?
33:36
Speaker 15: Nichola Willis is on a couple of quick things. We've
33:38
Speaker 15: saved a fortune and consultants hundreds of millions of dollars.
33:41
Speaker 15: So their target was to say for one hundred they've
33:43
Speaker 15: done that in too. She's making an announcement this weekend
33:45
Speaker 15: on supermarkets, specific things on supermarkets, what they're going to
33:48
Speaker 15: do to bring a third player in to the markets.
33:49
Speaker 2: I'll talk to and I think you have a great weekend.
33:51
Speaker 2: Thank you to producing Kenzie. I'm off to Bob got
33:53
Speaker 2: off tonight and see you letter.
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