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Full Show Podcast: 21 August 2024 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge new
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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four on an early edition with Smith City,
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Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture beds and a player store.
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Speaker 2: News Talks B.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, it is six half to five year on
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Speaker 3: News Talks B. I'm Ryan Bridge. Coming up an AA
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Speaker 3: report into driver licensing for learners and restricted drivers. Some
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Speaker 3: interesting recommendations. We'll look at that in a second. Also
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Speaker 3: Bridget Morton on Darling Tana. Yes, she's still there. Kiwibank?
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Speaker 3: Do we care if it's partially floated? Would you buy
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Speaker 3: cheers and Kiwibank? You open to that? Would you care
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Speaker 3: if foreigners are allowed to buy shares and Keewi Bank.
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Speaker 3: We'll talk to David Tripe just before six o'clock this morning.
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Speaker 3: Welcome to your Wednesday. The Agenda the twenty first of August.
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Speaker 3: Israel says it's recovered the bodies of six hostages being
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Speaker 3: held in Gaza. It says they were held in tunnels
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Speaker 3: and carn unis, describing the recovery as a complex operation
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Speaker 3: which didn't involve any fighting.
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Speaker 4: The IDF had announced the deaths of five of them
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Speaker 4: in the months proceeding. Now they knew that some of
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Speaker 4: them had died, and they thought they had died potentially
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Speaker 4: from IDF fire, so most likely from air strikes.
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Speaker 3: Comes a day after the US Secretary of State Anthony
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Speaker 3: Blincoln met with Netanyahu. Apparently they have all agreed amongst
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Speaker 3: themselves to a proposal for a possible cease fire. They
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Speaker 3: just want Hamas to come on board. Boeing is back
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Speaker 3: in the headlines that've been forced to pause testing on
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Speaker 3: their new and long delay Triple seven X aircraft after
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Speaker 3: structural issues were found. The aircraft manufacturer said during a
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Speaker 3: test flight it identified a component that did not perform
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Speaker 3: as designed. Shares in the company drops two percent, which
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Speaker 3: I thought was not that much really, considering there are
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Speaker 3: structural designs in their new aircraft fleet, doesn't seem like much.
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Speaker 3: But then you take into account that they are already
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Speaker 3: down nearly thirty percent this year, so I guess how
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Speaker 3: low can you go. The Triple seven X was scheduled
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Speaker 3: to enter service in twenty twenty. Livestock numbers are continuing
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Speaker 3: to dwindle beef and Lamb's annual survey reckons three percent
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Speaker 3: drop in beef cattle four percent in sheep in the
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Speaker 3: year ending June issues according to the chair Kate Ackland,
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Speaker 3: week demand from China, conversion of farms to forestry and drought.
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Speaker 2: Getting rid of stock early, selling stock at lighter weights
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Speaker 2: and actually carrying less hoggots or less us.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and swith City, New
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Speaker 1: Zealand's furniture beds and a plying store News talks'd be nine.
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Speaker 3: Two is the number to text eight after five. Gavin
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Speaker 3: Gray is our UK europe correspondent. He'll be with us
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Speaker 3: at five forty four this morning. The search continues for
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Speaker 3: any survivors. I mean, obviously it's long past that isn't
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Speaker 3: it in terms of survivors. But they're having trouble even
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Speaker 3: accessing that vessel. It's fifty meters dun underwater and there's
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Speaker 3: furniture and all sorts of stuff in the way preventing
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Speaker 3: the divers from actually getting inside. So we'll get an
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Speaker 3: update from him a little later in the show. Surely
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Speaker 3: we'll talk to Clive Matthew Wilson Road Safety Campaign about
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Speaker 3: the recommended changes. Did you know that? Apparently, and this
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Speaker 3: is according to the AA report that's come out this morning.
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Speaker 3: Apparently a third of all of our fatalities on the
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Speaker 3: roads are eighteen to twenty four year olds, a third
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Speaker 3: of them and the overwhelming majority of those they are
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Speaker 3: responsible for. So do we need to do something like
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Speaker 3: this in Australia, Well, in certain states in Australia you
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Speaker 3: have to have one hundred and twenty hours of driving logged.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't have to be with a supervisor. It can
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Speaker 3: be with mum. Well I suppose mum and Dad is
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Speaker 3: the supervisor. So it's not like you have to pay
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Speaker 3: for it, but you have to actually fill in a
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Speaker 3: log book, which you don't have to do here anyway.
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Speaker 3: We'll talk about that in a minute. The Global Dairy
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Speaker 3: Trade auction held overnight good result up five point five percent,
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Speaker 3: which is very good considering that fall in July six.
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Speaker 3: On July second, I should save almost seven percent fall
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Speaker 3: and most importantly, whole milk powder up seven point two
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Speaker 3: percent in the auction overnight, which is great news. And
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Speaker 3: that's the one we really care about because it's fourteen percent.
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Speaker 3: The value of all of our exports coming out of
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Speaker 3: New Zealand. Barth up three point seven percent, mozzarella five
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Speaker 3: percent and skim milk powder four percent. It has just
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Speaker 3: gone ten after five. We're back with Clivee Matthew Wilson
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Speaker 3: a second.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines. Ryan Bridge, you for twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture,
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Speaker 1: Beds and a playing Store. News Talk zid B.
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Speaker 3: Twelve after five on news Talk zaid b. Biden had
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Speaker 3: a barn storm yesterday. I thought anyway, watching the DNC
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Speaker 3: in Chicago and have a listen to his It sounded
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Speaker 3: like he'd had a good rest, which he probably probably has.
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Speaker 3: Have a listen.
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Speaker 5: I stand before you now on this August night to
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Speaker 5: report that democracy has prevailed, Democracy, democracy has delivered, and
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Speaker 5: now democracy must be preserved.
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Speaker 3: His voice was strong, no major slip ups, which is
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Speaker 3: I mean, if that's the best, we can do it
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Speaker 3: better than he has in the last couple of months.
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Speaker 3: I have to say that about him. You know, the
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Speaker 3: performance last night was pretty good. It really it just
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Speaker 3: seemed like he had had a sleep and he had
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Speaker 3: had a rest, and you know, and he had a
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Speaker 3: bit of vigor about him, which was which was good
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Speaker 3: to see. Still five months left in the White House,
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Speaker 3: can you believe it? Thirteen after five, Ryan Bridge right.
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Speaker 3: So a third of deaths on our roads are eighteen
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Speaker 3: to twenty four year olds involved eighteen to twenty four
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Speaker 3: year olds. Of the ninety six fatal crashes in twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty two, under twenty fives were responsible for eighty two
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Speaker 3: of them. So that's much worse than in comparable countries
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Speaker 3: like Australia. And the AA has done a study into
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Speaker 3: learners and restricted systems here and compared them to overseas.
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Speaker 3: It was done by the University of Adelaide and they
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Speaker 3: reckon that we should extend the learner license period from
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Speaker 3: six months to twelve months. They reckon we should also
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Speaker 3: have mandatory supervised driving outs. Clive Matthew Wilson's the road
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Speaker 3: safety campaign. He's with me this morning. High Clive, good morning.
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Speaker 3: Tell me do you think that this supervised driving thing
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Speaker 3: as a go is a good idea up.
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Speaker 6: To a point. You've got to reread the statistics. One
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Speaker 6: of the reasons that the road toll involving young people
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Speaker 6: is so high is people from poor areas. The AA
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Speaker 6: represents the sort of last of a big group of
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Speaker 6: white middle class people in adare and it does a
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Speaker 6: very good job with those people. Everything they say makes
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Speaker 6: perfect sense. If you're dealing with white, middle class people
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Speaker 6: with organized caring families who pay for the kids to
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Speaker 6: have proper driver education, that all works. The people most
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Speaker 6: likely to have the accidents are young and poor and
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Speaker 6: coming from messy families, poor formal education, and they have
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Speaker 6: because of that poor outcomes on all levels. So you know,
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Speaker 6: and one of the problems.
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Speaker 3: So you just don't try. You just say, well, no, no, no.
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Speaker 6: No, not all. But you face reality, right. The reality
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Speaker 6: is that people, the young Mary in particular, may not
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Speaker 6: have a license at all when they crash. So the
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Speaker 6: harder that you make it to get a license, the
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Speaker 6: more likely they're are to drive without one.
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Speaker 3: Do we know how many people of these ninety six
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Speaker 3: fatal crashes, how many of them had a license? I
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Speaker 3: don't know, But wouldn't it be important if you're saying
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Speaker 3: that it's all young Malori kids without licensing.
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Speaker 6: Just bear with me for a moment, not looking at
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Speaker 6: a both o'clock in the morning, and I got up
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Speaker 6: specially for this.
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Speaker 3: No, I appreciate it, but I'm just making sure that you.
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Speaker 6: Know I bear with I do under licensed driver MARTI
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Speaker 6: drivers and fatal crashes have a forty two percent of
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Speaker 6: them have full current full driver's licenses, compared to seventy
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Speaker 6: percent of non MARDI. But among people who young people
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Speaker 6: who have fatal crashes significant percentage in every country that
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Speaker 6: at least ten percent don't have licenses to start with,
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Speaker 6: and they're very high risk drivers.
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Speaker 3: So what do you think we should do about that?
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Speaker 2: Then?
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Speaker 3: If the issue is not that the restricted or learning
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Speaker 3: system is broken, but that there are a bunch of
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Speaker 3: young people whatever you know, color that desk and might
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Speaker 3: be who don't even have a license, then what do
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Speaker 3: you do about that?
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Speaker 6: Well, the magic bullet here is formal education. But you
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Speaker 6: know what they used to call reading, writing, arithmetic. People
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Speaker 6: with a people are compared to people with college education,
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Speaker 6: and this has been noted since the nineteen fifties. People
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Speaker 6: without a formal education are about four times more likely
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Speaker 6: to die on the roads. So I would put in really,
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Speaker 6: really really big incentives for families to get education. And
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Speaker 6: I'm talking about formal education. It's also important, obviously to
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Speaker 6: learn how to drive, and hopefully to go to a
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Speaker 6: driving school and learn all the rules to get a license.
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Speaker 6: That's great, but the most important factor is basically the
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Speaker 6: whether or not you understand the world around you.
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Speaker 3: I'm not quite sure how that translates, but thank you
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Speaker 3: very much for your time, and I do appreciate you
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Speaker 3: getting nice and early for us. That's Clive Matthew Wilson,
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Speaker 3: who is a road safety campaigner. Eighteen minutes after five,
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Speaker 3: News Talk said, be on.
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Speaker 1: Your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a
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Speaker 1: playing store. On News Talk said.
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Speaker 3: Be welcome to your Wednesday morning. It's just gone twenty
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Speaker 3: after five. Former Green MP Darling Tana has responded to
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Speaker 3: the party co leader's formal request to resign, saying she
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Speaker 3: has no intention of doing so. Are we saying she
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Speaker 3: or are we saying they? From memory? Last time we
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Speaker 3: did this story, they she had said that she was
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Speaker 3: only a theay because she didn't walk alone. I don't
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Speaker 3: think it was necessarily a gender thing. And we checked
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Speaker 3: with her office or her office. We checked with her,
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Speaker 3: she didn't really have an office anymore anyway, and she
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Speaker 3: said she said that she didn't mind whether we use
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Speaker 3: they or she, So anyway, we're using she.
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Speaker 7: So.
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Speaker 3: Tana has par a lengthy letter to the Green Party
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Speaker 3: arguing why she doesn't think the Greens can reasonably invoke
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Speaker 3: the walker jumping law against her, and doing so, she
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Speaker 3: quotes Rod Donald, which gets interesting. Brojette Morton is political commentator.
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Speaker 3: She's with us good Morning, good Morning, to tell me
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Speaker 3: about the Rod Donald thing, because I think that's interesting.
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Speaker 3: She's basically leaning on his interpretation of why walker jumping
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Speaker 3: ain't good.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean absolutely, she's reminding the Greens that they
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Speaker 8: have always opposed this walker jumping legislation and they've a
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Speaker 8: posted on the basis that they think it's undemocratic that
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Speaker 8: if somebody disagrees with the party that they should not
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Speaker 8: be kicked out on that basis. So they should be
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Speaker 8: able to basically vote on their morals or their values.
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Speaker 8: I think the problem is, though, is that she is
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Speaker 8: not actually delivering on some of those that said those
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Speaker 8: principles because of the activities that her and her husband
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Speaker 8: engaged in which go completely against what the Green stands for.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, she's not taking a moral stand, and isn't she
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Speaker 3: even in bringing up Rod Donald? Is she not conceding
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Speaker 3: that there is no moral stand or or dispute that
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Speaker 3: she's got. It's just it's more of a character issue.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely. In the course she dispute that there is a
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Speaker 8: character issue, she says obviously that she's done nothing wrong
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Speaker 8: and that she's been a victim of an unfair process.
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Speaker 3: So what happens from here, Brigitte, So.
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Speaker 8: They've got that vote. I think it's about two weeks
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Speaker 8: time to the Green's membership. It's quite This puts there
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Speaker 8: on quite a collision course in quite dangerous territory for
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Speaker 8: the Green's leadership, the entire caucus. You know, Yunanos. We
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Speaker 8: agree that they should use the walker jumping legislation, and
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Speaker 8: therefore if the Green's membership does not agree with that,
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Speaker 8: that means they're going to be quite out of set
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Speaker 8: with their grassroots membersIt.
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Speaker 3: Thank you very much for that update. We will wait
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Speaker 3: and see what happens. Something tells me this is going
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Speaker 3: to Whatever happens, it's going to take a very very
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Speaker 3: long time. Bridget Morton. Our political commentation just gone twenty
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Speaker 3: three minutes after five A lot of people texting in
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Speaker 3: about the interview just after five ten with Clive Matthew Wilson.
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Speaker 3: I do think Clive for getting up early and talking
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Speaker 3: to us, it's very much appreciated. But I just think
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Speaker 3: the point being made about driver licensing and young people
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Speaker 3: was maybe a little off peace to put it mildly,
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Speaker 3: A lot of people texting and saying, this is madness.
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Speaker 3: What on earth are we talking about this for? What
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Speaker 3: does a college education or a university education have to
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Speaker 3: do with knowing how to drive a car? I suppose
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Speaker 3: in the US they do teach you that. In high school,
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Speaker 3: they teach you how to drive a car, don't They
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Speaker 3: Like you go out during school hours in some schools
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Speaker 3: and learn how to drive a car. So maybe there's
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Speaker 3: a link there. I don't know. I don't know. Anyway,
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Speaker 3: I would have thought the most important thing is that
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Speaker 3: you know how to drive a car, and probably more importantly,
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Speaker 3: that you know when you get into trouble. You know
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Speaker 3: what to do. You know whether you should swerve or
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Speaker 3: break or you know, And to be honest, I'm not
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Speaker 3: entirely sure what to do if you are in trouble
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Speaker 3: going one hundred k's an hour.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 3: I did do the defensive driving course, which I don't
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Speaker 3: believe is a requirement, but perhaps it should be. Anyway,
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Speaker 3: we'd love to know what you think. Nine two nine two.
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Speaker 3: Also a very quick update on our energy crunch or
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Speaker 3: our energy crisis, probably more accurately, our energy shortage. Transpower
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Speaker 3: is going to decide this week if the generators can
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Speaker 3: take more water from the hydro lakes. This is the
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Speaker 3: grid operator, Transpower. The levels are obviously very low at
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Speaker 3: the moment, and if they drop too low then they
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Speaker 3: breach resource consent. So the argument as well, if there's
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Speaker 3: a such a shortage, then perhaps we should actually look
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Speaker 3: at increasing the allowance. Twenty four minutes, twenty five minutes
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Speaker 3: after five the early.
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Speaker 3: News Talks at me Just Go on twenty seven after
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Speaker 3: five year on news Talk said B David's anymore. You
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Speaker 3: might have seen him on the news last night or
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Speaker 3: in the Herald yesterday basically calling Christopher Luxen and the
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Speaker 3: government undemocratic for refusing to support this Treaty Principle's bill
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Speaker 3: past the first reading when it gets to Select committee.
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Speaker 3: Have you listened to what he said on the news
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Speaker 3: last night? Well, I think its a disrespectful and antidemocratic
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Speaker 3: to tell people that, no matter what they think, you're
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Speaker 3: not open to changing your mind. Is this the issue
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Speaker 3: you want to dine and ditch over let's face that
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Speaker 3: the Treaty Principle's Bill is dead in the water anyway.
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Speaker 3: A couple of reasons for that. Number one, and most importantly,
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Speaker 3: your coalition partners have said, nah, we don't want to
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Speaker 3: support it past the first reading. And even if they
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Speaker 3: agreed to it, the debate and the media attention would
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Speaker 3: surely from a political perspective, purely political perspective, would drown
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Speaker 3: out the next two years of potentially good headlines about
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Speaker 3: economic growth and all the stuff the government, the other
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Speaker 3: stuff the government's trying to do. And even if, as
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Speaker 3: you say, it's a principal thing to do it for democracy,
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Speaker 3: to have the debate, etc. The next government will just
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Speaker 3: undo it anyway, won't they. Whoever, and whenever that government
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Speaker 3: might be, the more oxygen you give this, the sooner
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Speaker 3: that day might arrive. In reality, I don't think David
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Speaker 3: Seymour is a stupid man or a stupid politician. He's not,
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Speaker 3: and he knows this is going nowhere. It's probably more
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Speaker 3: about positioning for a plank to balance a campaign on
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Speaker 3: In twenty twenty six f and Bridge twenty eight minutes
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Speaker 3: after five lots of text coming in about the AA
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Speaker 3: and the recommendations you can imagine and the recommendations from them. Interestingly,
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Speaker 3: it's not just the extension of your learners from six
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Speaker 3: months to twelve months that they are recommending, but also
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Speaker 3: that you have supervised hours. So in New South Wales
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Speaker 3: you have one hundred and twenty hours supervised driving before
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Speaker 3: you can move on to the next stage of your license,
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Speaker 3: and that includes nighttime drive, which I actually think is
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Speaker 3: quite important because it is very hard. You know, if
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Speaker 3: you're not used to driving at nighttime. I know my
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Speaker 3: grandma has stopped driving at nighttime because it's too dark,
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Speaker 3: can't see the road anyway, that would probably be a
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Speaker 3: very helpful thing to do. Twenty nine minutes after five
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Speaker 3: News is next. We've got Gavin Gray out of the
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Speaker 3: UK and we're also talking Kiwi bank and whether you
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Speaker 3: would buy shears. Just before six.
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Speaker 1: Where news and Views you trust to start your day
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Speaker 1: is Early Edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City New
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Speaker 3: Good morning. It is twenty four minutes away from six
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Speaker 3: News Talk sa'd be Wednesday, the twenty first of August.
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Speaker 3: If you're just joining us, great to have you would
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Speaker 3: have heard in the news just then Wendy talking about
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Speaker 3: AA this report out this morning where they recommend a
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Speaker 3: bunch of things to try and improve the lot of
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Speaker 3: our young drivers who are crashing and dying on our
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Speaker 3: roads at a higher rate than our cousins across the
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Speaker 3: ditch in Australia. And one of the things they want
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Speaker 3: to that they talk about is basically clamping down or
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Speaker 3: making it harder to get a license, things like a
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Speaker 3: learner's license and a restricted license, and to keep them
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Speaker 3: things like log booking, supervised driving for young people. And
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Speaker 3: we had a guest on who was talking, well, what
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Speaker 3: was he saying? That is the question. Lots of you
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Speaker 3: have text in a lot of people supporting our guest
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Speaker 3: that we had on just before just after five o'clock Ryan.
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Speaker 3: What the guy was saying is that it is the
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Speaker 3: lesser educated people drivers that don't even bother getting a
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Speaker 3: license so they have no idea how to safely drive
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Speaker 3: a car, that are potentially involved in crashes on our roads.
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Speaker 3: He actually went a step further and said they have
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Speaker 3: bad outcomes across the board. I tend to agree, says Graham.
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Speaker 3: It is the less educated that are in court for
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Speaker 3: all sorts of offenses, including driving offenses. Regards Graham. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I think there's two issues. One is how do you
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Speaker 3: get better drivers on the roads. The other one was
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Speaker 3: that the AA was some sort of representing white, wealthy drivers.
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Speaker 3: That was the part I thought was maybe a little
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Speaker 3: off pieced anyway, It has just gone twenty two minutes
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Speaker 3: away from six Bridge. Going to our reporters around the country.
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Speaker 3: Calum Proctor is in Dunedin this morning. Calum, a former
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Speaker 3: Southland local board chair, has got concerns for the community
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Speaker 3: after he was given the boot.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, this is Colin Smith we're talking about. He's removed
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Speaker 9: as the Ariti Community Board chair at a large public
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Speaker 9: meeting on Monday. Reports of more than one hundred people
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Speaker 9: attending this meeting at the Winton Town Hall, and his
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Speaker 9: removal comes on the back of a July request from
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Speaker 9: four members to have him removed. Smith says there were
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Speaker 9: other agendas on the board after it voted against CCTV
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Speaker 9: upgrades which went against the community's wishes and a police recommendation.
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Speaker 9: He says the response to the meeting was overwhelming and
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Speaker 9: shows the community has no trust in the board going forward.
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Speaker 3: Has the weather inned today.
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Speaker 9: It's fine apart from sir Morning Cloud and rdly this
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Speaker 9: afternoon and fourteenth.
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Speaker 3: Thank you and Claire Sherwoods and christ Church this morning.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Claire. Tell us about that obviously, the cathedral.
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Speaker 3: We've spoken about this in the last couple of weeks.
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Speaker 3: Is it going to dent faith in the city do
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Speaker 3: you think?
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Speaker 10: Well belief that it won't, at least from some of
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Speaker 10: the big players down here. Ryan, the project has, if
20:59
Speaker 10: you haven't been aware, been paused indefinitely, and that's because
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Speaker 10: of an eighty five million dollar funding shortfall. Business Canterbury
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Speaker 10: Chief executively Anne Watson has spoken with our newsroom. She says, Look,
21:10
Speaker 10: it is really disappointing, but christ Church as city is buzzing.
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Speaker 10: We've got new businesses and facilities constantly popping up. She
21:17
Speaker 10: says the cathedral isn't the only thing that makes us
21:20
Speaker 10: a city and doesn't reflect the progress that has been
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Speaker 10: made post quake. Christ Church Central MP Duncan Web though,
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Speaker 10: says he would be surprised if a better alternative for
21:29
Speaker 10: the cathedral could be found.
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Speaker 3: How's your weather today, Claire.
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Speaker 10: Another frosty star northeasterlies will develop as it clears up
21:36
Speaker 10: later thirteen degrees the high with minus two overnight brilliant Thank.
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Speaker 3: You, Max. Toll is in Wellington, Max, Sir Peter Jackson
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Speaker 3: is buying up more land.
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Speaker 11: Well Yes, a good story in the Post this morning.
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Speaker 11: A massive block of land in Lyell Bay has new
21:50
Speaker 11: owners and it is believed that they are Sir Peter
21:53
Speaker 11: and Dame fran Walsh. This block of land, it was
21:57
Speaker 11: to be a new metlink busty poets next to the waterfront.
21:59
Speaker 11: It's next to the airport and it would add to
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Speaker 11: the power couple's growing portfolio of land, which also includes,
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Speaker 11: of course, the abandoned mega development on the peninsula that
22:10
Speaker 11: was shelved when they bought it from Ian Castle's. Plenty
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Speaker 11: of rumors continuing about Sopia Jackson's long proposed film museum.
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Speaker 11: Where's that going to be? As usual, he is not
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Speaker 11: answering questions.
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Speaker 3: I thought that the film museum was going to be
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Speaker 3: in Lyle Bay, right opposite the beach.
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Speaker 11: That's right, and the Post is speculating that this may
22:33
Speaker 11: now be a new option for that.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so they might be changing tech. How's it wheel
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Speaker 3: that today?
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Speaker 2: Max?
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Speaker 11: A very cold start here, but should turn out fine
22:43
Speaker 11: with Northerlees a high thirteenth Central.
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Speaker 3: Thank you. Wendy Pictree is with us in Auckland this morning.
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Speaker 3: Good morning man, good morning, good morning. Tell us about
22:50
Speaker 3: the pool, the Newmarket Olympic Pool.
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Speaker 7: Yes, so it's a little bit of a complicated one.
22:55
Speaker 7: The Auckland Local Board has refused to temporarily extend the
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Speaker 7: license of a popular central city pool, being the Olympic
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Speaker 7: Pools in Newmarket. They opened in nineteen thirty nine. Uncertainly,
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Speaker 7: uncertainty surrounds its future because it's least with the Auckland councilors,
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Speaker 7: due to expire in November. The council, though, was pawned
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Speaker 7: the decision to the White Matar Local Board, which heard
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Speaker 7: the pools director yesterday morning. However, that director says that
23:18
Speaker 7: the board voted against a six month leaks extension. So
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Speaker 7: everything is a little bit up in the air for
23:24
Speaker 7: the Olympic Pools, and of course the board, the chairman,
23:28
Speaker 7: no one knows what's going on, and they say that
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Speaker 7: the decision is very disappointing and lacks empathy for the
23:33
Speaker 7: people who depend on the pools and for the staff
23:35
Speaker 7: that work there.
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Speaker 3: Gosh, well, it sounds like they're swimming around in circles,
23:39
Speaker 3: doesn't it. It's quite Have you been to that pool.
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Speaker 7: Because it's a long time ago.
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Speaker 3: It's a fifty meter so it's quite good and quite central.
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Speaker 7: It is right in the heart of Newmarket.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so it would be a shame if it was
23:51
Speaker 3: to go.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think in a lot of recreational swimmers do
23:53
Speaker 7: use it. I've got competitive swimmers, so they don't use
23:56
Speaker 7: they don't use that pool, but I think a lot
23:57
Speaker 7: of recreational swimmers use it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all right. And weather today, Wendy.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, we look it's looking pretty good at party. Cloudy
24:04
Speaker 7: with isolated showers, but it will become fine this evening Southwesterlys.
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Speaker 7: They will ease in a high fifteen brilliant.
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Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Wendy Petrie in Auckland has just
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Speaker 3: gone eighteen minutes away from Sex Ryan Bridge. Now I've
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Speaker 3: born in nineteen oh seven, lived through two World Wars
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Speaker 3: Spanish Civil War, died peacefully in her sleep. Dear old thing.
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Speaker 3: for an update on that vessel, the super yacht that's
26:18
Speaker 3: sunk off the coast of Sicily.
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Speaker 2: Gevin, Yes, Ryan.
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Speaker 12: Just within the last couple of hours we now know
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Speaker 12: the identity of the man found dead near that coast.
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Speaker 12: It's a Canadian Antiguan chef who was working on board
26:33
Speaker 12: the boat which sank just off Sicily near the Palermo,
26:37
Speaker 12: the capitol. The name of the chef Ricaldo Thomas. This
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Speaker 12: was a yachting trip for a very very wealthy British
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Speaker 12: man called Mike Lnchy was described as the Bill Gates
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Speaker 12: of Britain by selling a software company that he built
26:53
Speaker 12: from scratch for several billion pounds, and it appears that
26:58
Speaker 12: he might have been entertaining on board some of the
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Speaker 12: lawyers that helped him in a legal case subsequent to
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Speaker 12: that when he was accused of overvaluing his company incorrectly
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Speaker 12: doing that and then the court actually ruled in his
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Speaker 12: favor and he went on this yacht it's believed to celebrate.
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Speaker 12: British investigators have now arrived on the site, so we
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Speaker 12: now believe there are six still missing, one confirmed dead
27:23
Speaker 12: and a number of those have survived. But that man
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Speaker 12: Miche Linch, the British Bill Gates as he's been described,
27:29
Speaker 12: and also the chair of Morgan Stanley Bank are still.
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Speaker 3: Missing, interestingly, and I can only imagine given what the
27:37
Speaker 3: conspiracy theorist will do with this. But the code defendant
27:40
Speaker 3: in their case, his code offendant also passed away, was
27:43
Speaker 3: hit by a car and died in the UK.
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Speaker 12: Yes, so you're quite right. Social media is an absolute
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Speaker 12: buzz with that, but there's no proof, I mean, apart
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Speaker 12: from anything. The yacht sank in a freak storm, and
27:54
Speaker 12: that was eyewitnessed from the land. But yeah, you're right,
27:58
Speaker 12: the conspirators having a wonderful time about this.
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Speaker 3: Tell us about Scotland what seems to be going on
28:04
Speaker 3: there with the overdose drugged overdose use death.
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Speaker 12: Yes, so I'm afraid to say that the number of
28:09
Speaker 12: people who died in Scotland knowing to drug misuse has
28:12
Speaker 12: risen sharply. So the latest figures that are on record,
28:16
Speaker 12: which is for the year twenty twenty three, revealed that
28:18
Speaker 12: one one hundred and seventy two people died. That's up
28:22
Speaker 12: one hundred and twenty one or a twelve percent increase.
28:25
Speaker 12: Now that actually sounds well quite a bit, doesn't it.
28:28
Speaker 12: But it's even worse when you consider that it is
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Speaker 12: the worst record in Europe. It is more than double
28:35
Speaker 12: the number of deaths seen in England and Northern Ireland,
28:39
Speaker 12: and indeed it is significantly more than the next highest
28:44
Speaker 12: within Europe. So it really is a huge leap in
28:48
Speaker 12: the Scottish authorities trying to obviously do something about this.
28:51
Speaker 12: Now it is thought cocaine was a factor in forty
28:54
Speaker 12: one percent of deaths. That's been up six percent from
28:57
Speaker 12: fifteen years ago. And the data that people living in
29:00
Speaker 12: the most deprived areas of Scotland were more than fifteen
29:03
Speaker 12: times as likely to drive to die from drug missuse
29:07
Speaker 12: has got government ministers in Scotland scratching their heads, all.
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Speaker 3: Right, Kevin, thanks for that. Gavin Gray, a UK and
29:12
Speaker 3: Europe correspondent. It is ten away from six, Ryan Bridge.
29:16
Speaker 3: She would have seen the recommendations the final report from
29:19
Speaker 3: the ComCom the Commerce Commission yesterday fourteen recommendations to make
29:23
Speaker 3: our banking sector more competitive. Among those was an idea
29:27
Speaker 3: to beef up Kiwibank, and this is something the government
29:30
Speaker 3: is looking at. Nikola Willis says she's investigating, and she
29:33
Speaker 3: was on this show last Thursday and asked her about
29:37
Speaker 3: whether she would float, potentially float partially float Keybank on
29:40
Speaker 3: the Stock Exchange and what she thought about foreign ownership.
29:44
Speaker 3: Would you rule out foreign investment in Qwibank?
29:47
Speaker 8: Well, look, I'm taking advice on what is needed to
29:51
Speaker 8: get investment into Kiwibank.
29:53
Speaker 2: Can ever say I've said, let's look at what the
29:56
Speaker 2: options are.
29:57
Speaker 3: So how could these options shake down? David Trump as
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Speaker 3: massive university banking expertise with us this morning. David, Good morning,
30:04
Speaker 3: Good morning, Ryan. How do you best help Chevy Bank
30:08
Speaker 3: raise capital? What is the what would be the smartest approach?
30:11
Speaker 2: Do you think, oh, certainly some partial sale to the
30:18
Speaker 2: New Zealand public would be one way of going ahead
30:20
Speaker 2: with that. It wouldn't It will take some time to
30:27
Speaker 2: absorb a large amount of capital, so that's probably better
30:32
Speaker 2: done as a relatively slow process. On the other hand,
30:35
Speaker 2: just giving them small and providing some more amounts of capital,
30:40
Speaker 2: it isn't going to mean that they're going to grow
30:42
Speaker 2: very rapidly, but kind of have them them to have
30:46
Speaker 2: a bank grow rapidly as usually a recipe for disaster.
30:50
Speaker 3: True, what has Kii Bank done in the past, Because
30:54
Speaker 3: when they have had access to extra capital in the past,
30:56
Speaker 3: have they used it for expandingly?
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Speaker 2: On the other hand, they got small capital August last
31:04
Speaker 2: year and they they've only partially used that so far,
31:11
Speaker 2: so that processes that process has been relatively slow. Now
31:16
Speaker 2: I've read something about how they're spending money on digitalization
31:20
Speaker 2: again that that's that's not necessarily a bad thing and
31:25
Speaker 2: that's one of the things that they would need to
31:27
Speaker 2: do if they were to expand significantly.
31:28
Speaker 3: Anyway, does in your mind, does Kiwi Bank need to
31:31
Speaker 3: be key we owned.
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Speaker 2: There's no necessity for any bank to be under any
31:38
Speaker 2: particular country's ownership. What has happened in recent years is
31:44
Speaker 2: that operating banks across borders has become has been made
31:49
Speaker 2: more challenging by international regulation. So that may that might
31:58
Speaker 2: that might limit foreigners willing stood by Kiev Bank out right,
32:03
Speaker 2: but that's a step down the road that we haven't
32:08
Speaker 2: got to yet.
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Speaker 3: All right, thanks so much for your time this morning.
32:11
Speaker 3: David Trump, Mass University banking expert talking about the ComCom recommendations,
32:15
Speaker 3: one of which is to give Kewi Bank a big
32:19
Speaker 3: boost so that they can be more of a player
32:21
Speaker 3: on the local market. Just gone seven to six.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge New for twenty twenty four on early edition
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Speaker 1: with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture Beds had a playing
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Speaker 1: store a News Talk Sidby.
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Speaker 3: He's gone five away from six on news Talk, said
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Speaker 3: b Maria Branyis, Marera is her name? What was her name?
32:41
Speaker 3: She's just died. She was one hundred and seventeen years old,
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Speaker 3: the oldest person in the world and she's now dead. Mike,
32:48
Speaker 3: good morning morning. Would you like to be one hundred and.
32:51
Speaker 13: Seventy now, Well, it depends now I've always said, and
32:53
Speaker 13: the closer you get to that age, the more you
32:56
Speaker 13: think about it. I've always said that you want to
32:59
Speaker 13: go out living life you want. As opposed to being
33:02
Speaker 13: one hundred and seventeen game jees I wish I wasn't
33:04
Speaker 13: one hundred and seventeen. See, I'd rather peg out at
33:06
Speaker 13: eighty seven. Yeah, you know, five all in a deciding
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Speaker 13: set on the tennis court and go out in one
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Speaker 13: hundred percent as opposed to being in a retirement home
33:17
Speaker 13: for would you say.
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Speaker 3: Twenty years into years?
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Speaker 2: I mean, nothing wrong with.
33:19
Speaker 3: The retirement home.
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Speaker 13: If you want to be in a retirement home for
33:21
Speaker 13: twenty fantastic, But live your life.
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Speaker 3: And she used a voice to text device in the
33:26
Speaker 3: last few years of her life because she couldn't. Well,
33:28
Speaker 3: don't we all that's got to sell.
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Speaker 13: Half the people who text my show do the voice
33:33
Speaker 13: to text in the morning at half comes. You should
33:35
Speaker 13: see it doesn't work. The technology doesn't work anyway, Joe Biden,
33:38
Speaker 13: I thought you a little bit hard on, Joe. I
33:40
Speaker 13: watched that yesterday. It was brilliant he was, and it
33:44
Speaker 13: was one of those moments you thought, where was all this?
33:45
Speaker 2: Joe?
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Speaker 3: For the last two or three years. Where was it?
33:48
Speaker 13: Because that standing ovation he got, but that was four
33:52
Speaker 13: or five minutes long. They were like, you could see
33:54
Speaker 13: why they did it on day one, because it would
33:56
Speaker 13: have if it was day three or four, just ahead
33:59
Speaker 13: of her. I started a little bit embarrassing because they
34:02
Speaker 13: were loving them.
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Speaker 3: It was brilliant. Anyway, more on that, it had a
34:07
Speaker 3: good sleep, Yes had Mike's next s to mine.
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