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Full Show Podcast: 05 December 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: early erdship with r V Supercenter explore r V successories
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Speaker 2: They'd been six after five Friday. Teachers have settled, but
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Speaker 2: why they haven't got much more out of this deal?
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Speaker 2: So what's changed? Vincent mcavinie in London for US this morning.
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Speaker 2: Simon Watt's on the climate, Kai Bosh retirement village changes
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Speaker 2: will get you across those, plus we look ahead to
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. The agenda Friday, the fifth of December.
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Speaker 2: Still no Ukraine deal, but Posins scored a handshake and
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Speaker 2: a hug from Mody and this is in daily lots
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Speaker 2: on the agenda there.
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Speaker 3: They still haven't kneeled down that India US trade deal
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Speaker 3: which remains elusive, and the long term impacts of that
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Speaker 3: is something that India would be very aware of. So
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Speaker 3: it's got to be a bit of a dyke talk
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Speaker 3: walk for India as it looks to forger head its
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Speaker 3: economic partnership with Russia.
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Speaker 2: To Salisbury and the UK. The Novachok scandal it was
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Speaker 2: back in twenty eighteen, while a UK inquiry now says
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Speaker 2: Persian was morally responsible who.
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Speaker 4: Authorized the mission up to an including as I've found
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Speaker 4: President Putin, that conduct was astonishingly reckless.
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Speaker 1: There is a direct.
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Speaker 4: Causal link between the actions of all those individuals and
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Speaker 4: Dawn Sturgis's death, and they, and only they their moral responsibility.
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Speaker 2: Moscow still denying any involvement, of course. Finally, this morning,
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Speaker 2: an English couple have decided to tie the knot in
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Speaker 2: front of two complete strangers that they found on Reddit.
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Speaker 2: Wanting a stress free day, they posted online for a
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Speaker 2: minimum of two witnesses. Their wedding day involved fish and
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Speaker 2: chips on a Paer and Cardiff, an escape room and
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Speaker 2: a theme park ride.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Brian
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Speaker 2: In one us too, each their own, I suppose, so
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Speaker 2: long as they're happy. Nine two ninety two is the
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Speaker 2: number of text on this Friday morning. Here are your
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Speaker 2: top five things to watch for twenty twenty six. Number one,
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Speaker 2: The battle over the cost of living will define the
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Speaker 2: election next year. I've seen some polling which puts the
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Speaker 2: issue way out in front top of the agenda for voters.
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Speaker 2: That's no surprise, but What's interesting about this is it
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Speaker 2: shows that nobody owns the issue, despite what the least
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Speaker 2: recent IPSOS survey has told us. It's skews national, but
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Speaker 2: it's up for grabs. Win cost of living and you
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Speaker 2: will win the race. Number Two Luxon has survived twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty five, but whether he will be the one leading
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Speaker 2: national into the election is still a live issue. Depends
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Speaker 2: not just on the interest rate cuts flowing through, but
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Speaker 2: also on whether we actually go out and start spending
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Speaker 2: the difference. That is what is going to turn the
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Speaker 2: page on twenty five and turn the page for Luxen.
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Speaker 2: If polling doesn't improve by February March, expect Daggers Luckson's
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Speaker 2: planning a November election. If he's rolled in BIS or
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Speaker 2: somebody else takes over, expect them to go harder and earlier.
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Speaker 2: Number three social media bands and fines. Nobody's in any
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Speaker 2: doubt now that constant scrolling is a net negative for kids,
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Speaker 2: probably for all of us. But we just can't stop,
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Speaker 2: can we. Trying to rain in big tech is risky
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Speaker 2: Trump the Aussies are giving it a go for under sixteen's.
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Speaker 2: We've done it in schools and the world will be
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Speaker 2: watching this closely. Regulation might finally start trying to get
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Speaker 2: the genie back in the bottle, though that is a
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Speaker 2: very tall order. Number four AI has driven a stock
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Speaker 2: market bonanza in twenty twenty five, the S and P
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Speaker 2: up fifteen percent so far, the NASDAC up a ton.
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Speaker 2: Will the so called bubble burst? Will earnings justify the
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Speaker 2: massive capital investments and the market caps That is a
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Speaker 2: big question for twenty six. Number five Finally, Auckland. Auckland's
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Speaker 2: you big, gridlocked and mostly hated by the rest of
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Speaker 2: the country city, Good morning. I think twenty twenty six
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Speaker 2: is going to be your year, going to be our year.
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Speaker 2: The world's longest lockdown has been followed by the world's
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Speaker 2: longest recession, and no, those things aren't just a coincidence.
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Speaker 2: But in twenty twenty six will be back growth, jobs,
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Speaker 2: a dash of house price inflation, maybe a little bit,
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Speaker 2: a convention center, a new CRL. I care did you
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Speaker 2: hear about that? Just picture this city sparkling as sale
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Speaker 2: GP boats take to the whites Matar in February. A
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Speaker 2: much needed and well deserved rebound is in coming, simple, easy,
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Speaker 2: and all we have to do is avoid more war.
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Speaker 2: Trade wars, natural disasters, stock market crashes and bubbles bursting.
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Speaker 1: But that won't be hard, right Ryan Bridge, you're.
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Speaker 2: On News Talks heab it is ten minutes after five
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Speaker 2: on your Friday morning. Flick me your text nine two
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Speaker 2: nine two next retirement villages. Big changes coming and it's
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Speaker 2: to do with when you sell how quickly you get
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Speaker 2: Five point thirteen. I told you that fees we're going
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Speaker 2: to start going up. I just didn't think it would
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Speaker 2: happen this quickly. If you go to Auckland and you
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Speaker 2: go to the inner city and you're a resident there,
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Speaker 2: there's a sixty percent increase in your parking permit fee.
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Speaker 2: So if you can't don't have a driveway, you need
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Speaker 2: a park on the road, and you don't want to
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Speaker 2: get a fine, you pay the fee the permit and
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Speaker 2: it's going up from seventy bucks to one hundred and fourteen.
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Speaker 2: Now this is justifiable because it's the first time they've
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Speaker 2: actually increased it in thirteen years, which is probably dumb.
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Speaker 2: They should have done it incrementally, but they say it's
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Speaker 2: cost recovery. How hard is it to issue a permit
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Speaker 2: to a resident when they've told you where they live,
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Speaker 2: and they've given you their address on a bank statement
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Speaker 2: or something. How hard is that? Apparently it costs them
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Speaker 2: one million dollars a year just for the inner City
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Speaker 2: to administer that system. To me, that's outrageous. Surely you
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Speaker 2: can get AI or someone else to do that by now.
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge, good news this morning. For the sixty three
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Speaker 2: thousand KI he's living in retirement villages, operators will have
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Speaker 2: to repay residents within a year of their moving out.
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Speaker 2: Until now, there's basically been no deadline. Michelle Palmer is
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Speaker 2: Retirement Villages Association executive director with me this morning. Michelle,
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Speaker 2: good morning.
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Speaker 5: Good morning, Ryan.
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Speaker 2: Can you not sell on sell the units quickly? What's
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Speaker 2: the hold up?
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Speaker 5: The hold ups the property market? That's it in a nutshell.
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Speaker 5: You know, if we can fix the property market, like
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Speaker 5: a few years ago when it was booming, we wouldn't
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Speaker 5: even been talking about the need for repayments at it
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Speaker 5: by a certain date.
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Speaker 2: Is there not a demand for retirement village homes. Is
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Speaker 2: the property market just the same for retirement villages.
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Speaker 5: Well, no, there's a bit more of a bit more
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Speaker 5: to it, and we've got a waiting list across the
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Speaker 5: country for people who want to move into retirement villages.
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Speaker 5: The problem is that people just can't sell their homes
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Speaker 5: quick enough to get in. So, you know, in some
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Speaker 5: areas are like christ it's booming a little bit more.
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Speaker 5: You know, people are taking between three and six months
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Speaker 5: to sell their property and are able to move into
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Speaker 5: a retirement village. In other parts of the country, like
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Speaker 5: in Auckland, the property market is a lot slower, and
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Speaker 5: particularly in rural communities, and it can take a lot
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Speaker 5: longer for someone to sell their home to be able
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Speaker 5: to buy in and come into the retirement village.
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Speaker 2: But why should that be the problem of the resident
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Speaker 2: who's moving out.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a fair question, but that's how the model works.
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Speaker 5: So the outgoing resident or their estates, they don't get
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Speaker 5: paid neither does the operator until the new resident moves in.
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Speaker 5: Just as you would if you were selling your own home,
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Speaker 5: you know, you don't get paid that money until the
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Speaker 5: sale is complete. And it's exactly the same with the
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Speaker 5: incoming resident. The payment then is made to the parties
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Speaker 5: that you know, they're both to the operator and also
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Speaker 5: to the outgoing resident.
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Speaker 2: This is not going to be And what's the longest
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Speaker 2: that you're aware of someone's had to wait?
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Speaker 5: A really isolated case, but an awful one was just
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Speaker 5: on the two year mark, and you know, a much
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Speaker 5: older village, rural location, and there just wasn't the ability
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Speaker 5: for people to sell. There was absolutely a number of
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Speaker 5: people wanting to move into that villa, but people just
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Speaker 5: couldn't sell their properties.
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Speaker 2: Is this going to bankrupt the time in villages? Is
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Speaker 2: it going to be the end of the world, Because
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Speaker 2: if you're waiting two years to sell out to get
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Speaker 2: your money back from a retirement village, that's your whole
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Speaker 2: life on hold.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. Absolute, it is for the operators too.
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Speaker 2: They don't they.
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Speaker 5: Are paying rates and insurance and maintenance. They're keeping the
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Speaker 5: power on and all those things in that in that
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Speaker 5: villa when it's empty, so everyone loses on that look,
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Speaker 5: it is an isolated case. Generally speaking, the majority are
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Speaker 5: around the sixty seven months at the moment. A year
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Speaker 5: ago it was five and a half months on average.
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Speaker 5: But it does string out across and look, it's just
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Speaker 5: one of those things that is really we're struggling with
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Speaker 5: as a sector. You know, we would love to get
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Speaker 5: those resold as fast as possible. What the government has
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Speaker 5: proposed is really hitting us with a double whammy. We
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Speaker 5: put forward to the government that there's an opportunity for
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Speaker 5: operators to pay interest on the amount payable at the
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Speaker 5: six month mark, when you know, if the unit hadn't
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Speaker 5: been resold, and the government has said they'll take that,
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Speaker 5: and they've also put on that full repayment at twelve
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Speaker 5: months one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're get in both. They've obviously gone and
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Speaker 2: sided with the elderly voters. It sounds like Michelle, appreciate
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Speaker 2: your time, Michelle Palmer, Retirement Villagers Association, Executive Director. At
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Speaker 2: seventeen minutes after five.
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Speaker 2: Five twenty on your Friday morning. Good morning, Die, Good morning, Philippa,
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Speaker 2: good morning detail. Get you to your text in just
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Speaker 2: a second. But first, the Paris Agreement, the promises we've
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Speaker 2: made are they basically in the lou government rejected every
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Speaker 2: single recommendation by the Climate Commission to strengthen our twenty
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Speaker 2: fifty targets without spending millions on overseas carbon credits. And
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Speaker 2: remember Nicola Willis says we're not going to do that.
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Speaker 2: Our chances of hitting them are slim to none. Surely,
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Speaker 2: Simon Watts, Climate Change Minister, with me this morning, Minister,
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Speaker 2: good morning.
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Speaker 6: Very good morning.
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Speaker 2: Ryan is Paris over Should we just be honest.
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Speaker 6: About this, No, it's not Ryan. We're part of the
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Speaker 6: Paris Agreement. I've just come back from Brazil. We're there
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Speaker 6: with one hundred and ninety four countries. Really important that
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Speaker 6: we are part of that global conversation and we're at
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Speaker 6: the table. One hundred ninety four countries are there and
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Speaker 6: we are as well. We've got free trade agreements and
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Speaker 6: it's important for our broader export markets. So no, we
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Speaker 6: are part of that conversation. But the targets that were
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Speaker 6: set are pretty challenging. We'll be honest about that.
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Speaker 2: So we're not going to hit them. Let's be real,
10:41
Speaker 2: but let's be real. Let's be real. Let's be real
10:44
Speaker 2: because your own you're even your own scientist. You know,
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Speaker 2: you're meet Thane guy from our university. Of Canterbury. Their saying,
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Speaker 2: just be honest about it.
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Speaker 6: Look, the reality is is that they are challenging targets
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Speaker 6: and like any targets in life, we have the intent
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Speaker 6: of hitting them and we will do our best to
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Speaker 6: do so that's what we're doing.
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Speaker 2: What happens if we don't, Look the.
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Speaker 6: Reality is if we don't have milestone's on a journey
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Speaker 6: we're heading towards twenty fifty. We have targets every five years,
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Speaker 6: and that's an important milestone.
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Speaker 2: We know that through.
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Speaker 6: But the milestone is not the destination.
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Speaker 2: Wins our next one, win's our next next time, twenty.
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Speaker 6: Thirty, twenty thirty, five, twenty forty, and basically every five
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Speaker 6: years there's a milestone as you go through.
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Speaker 2: And twenty thirty we're not going to have a twenty thirty.
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Speaker 6: At the moment. There's a significant gap.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, all right, so that's okay, and we will
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Speaker 2: hopefully make up for it later. But it's a hope
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Speaker 2: and prayer, hope and hope and pray strategy, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: I mean we don't actually have a plan.
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Speaker 6: Well, no, it's not. It's just reality that you know,
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Speaker 6: we targets are said the targets sometimes are very challenging
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Speaker 6: and difficult, but it doesn't mean that you don't do
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Speaker 6: everything you can. But weighing that up with the other
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Speaker 6: challenges and realities that we've got in New Zealand, we're
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Speaker 6: in an economic depression state in terms of what we
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Speaker 6: came into government. We've had to weigh up and trade
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Speaker 6: off and balance what we do around climate in terms
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Speaker 6: of the impact on agriculture and exports. My job is
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Speaker 6: to work through and get that balance. And you know,
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Speaker 6: that's what we have to do, to think about the
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Speaker 6: best interest in it and the.
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Speaker 2: You know, I get like, I get the argument, but
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Speaker 2: let's just be honest about it, because I mean, do
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Speaker 2: you know who can see the honesty. There's the carbon market.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's collapse. Nobody trusts you're going to do
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Speaker 2: much about the climate. You're not serious.
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Speaker 6: We are serious about the climate. We've got an emissions
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Speaker 6: reduction plan with a climate strategy, and we're doing and
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Speaker 6: we're focusing deliberately on domestic that is different from the
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Speaker 6: strategies previously around a much more broader international play. We've
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Speaker 6: decided that our focus is are going to do everything
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Speaker 6: we can on a domestic setting. And look, that's a
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Speaker 6: positive thing because we are making some good progress in
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Speaker 6: a number of it.
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Speaker 2: When you say everything you can, you're actually doing the opposite,
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Speaker 2: aren't you.
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Speaker 6: No, we're not right. And we've got a weigh up
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Speaker 6: the economic reality that New Zealand's and exportation as well.
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Speaker 2: But I don't want to.
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Speaker 6: Make decisions that are going to go against and be
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Speaker 6: bad for the agricultural sector. I get to make decisions
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Speaker 6: that are bad.
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Speaker 2: Preaching to the choir, preaching in the choir, but just
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Speaker 2: admit it. Say, in order to do this, we're having
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Speaker 2: to forget about the climate. For all.
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Speaker 6: We are within our double within our free trade agreements,
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Speaker 6: we are not able to weaken our position in regards to.
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Speaker 1: Our climate target.
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Speaker 2: We just say it so we can't.
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Speaker 6: No, I'm not saying I'm not saying that, but I'm
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Speaker 6: just sitting you know that that's what's in our agreement.
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Speaker 2: We're saying it without you're saying it without saying it.
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Speaker 6: Midday, we are committed to meeting our targets.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate your time this morning. Simon Watt's Climate Change twenty
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Speaker 2: It is five twenty five. This is my last day
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Speaker 2: the year. The good, the bad, the hilarious, the thoughtful,
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Speaker 2: the farm paddocks, the workplaces and the boardrooms of our economy.
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Speaker 2: And on that front, twenty twenty six is going to
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Speaker 2: be better. We're tip to go faster than the Aussies,
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Speaker 2: the Brits and the Americans next year and the one
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Speaker 2: after that. Thank you very much to everybody who listens
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Speaker 2: Mike to start. Thank you, and a very special thank
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Speaker 2: you to producer McKenzie who has kept this show on
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Speaker 2: night before landed us some great gets this year as well.
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Speaker 2: Thank you team. Have a merry Christmas, have a happy
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Speaker 2: New Year. I hope you will get to have a
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Speaker 2: decent break and some time off with your families. We
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Speaker 2: will see your bright heart and bushytailed for twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 2: Ry now means you're not going anywhere because we've got
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Speaker 2: another half hour of the program to get through. But
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Speaker 2: we have lots to talk about and we'll get to
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Speaker 2: the teachers. And why are they settling just before six?
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Speaker 2: Vincent mcavini's in the UK too, Ryan, Not everyone hates Auckland.
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Speaker 2: This is from Philippa. I have a cafe in our
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Speaker 2: south of Auckland, and we realize the true importance of
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Speaker 2: the city. When the lockdowns were on and people couldn't
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Speaker 2: drive south, terrible for business. So all I can say
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Speaker 2: is come on down, Philip Good point Ryan, Yes, the
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Speaker 2: world will bounce back in twenty twenty six, says DJ Good.
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Speaker 2: I'm happy you're optimistic, DJ Ryan. Don't forget the thirty percent.
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Speaker 2: This is on the retirement villages. The thirty percent they
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Speaker 2: charge off your repayment to refurbish the villa after you
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Speaker 2: move out, even if you've only been there for a
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Speaker 2: few months. Geez, that's a rut, A couple of ruts
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Speaker 2: we're learning about this morning, Ryan. The retirement village's license
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Speaker 2: holder has no control over the price. All right, more
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Speaker 2: of those next, Oh, look, we're a little early twenty
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Speaker 2: eight minutes after five. I did think you were doing
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Speaker 2: that a little too soon, Mackenzie. I think the music
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Speaker 2: we came in a little too soon. She was distracted
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Speaker 2: by kind words.
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Speaker 1: Oh.
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Speaker 2: I know what I can tell you about is the billionaires.
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Speaker 2: Everybody loves a billionaire, especially the Dells because they're handing
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Speaker 2: out money to young kids in America. But we have
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Speaker 2: new numbers on billionaires this morning. So we've got an
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Speaker 2: extra three hundred this year. Yay. Everybody clapped for the billionaires.
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Speaker 2: So two thousand, nine hundred billionaires, up from twenty seven
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Speaker 2: hundred last year. Their collective wealth fifteen point eight trillion
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Speaker 2: dollars up from fourteen last year. That number is so
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Speaker 2: big it means nothing to me. Anyway. I'll tell you
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Speaker 2: Twenty four. Away from Sex News Talks AB on Friday morning,
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Speaker 2: we'll get to our reporters and just a sick we'll
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Speaker 2: get to the teachers settling on the strikes just before
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Speaker 2: Sex Mince and mcavinie in the UK for us to
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Speaker 2: Harry's edited again and he's gone on Stephen Colbert in
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Speaker 2: the UK, sorry, in the US to talk about being
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Speaker 2: royal and talk about holiday films and stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: And during this little bit that they were doing, he
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Speaker 2: takes a dig at Trump.
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Speaker 7: Have a listen, your Americans are obsessed with Christmas movies
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Speaker 7: and you're truly obsessed with royalty, so why not.
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Speaker 1: Hold on?
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Speaker 8: Hold on?
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Speaker 3: Look, look, I wouldn't say we're obsessed with royalty.
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Speaker 7: Really, I heard you. I heard you elected a king.
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Speaker 2: That's a fair pine.
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Speaker 9: No, he's got a point.
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Speaker 2: Just stop it, Just leave it alone. Harry twenty three
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Speaker 2: away from Sex now Ryan bred Way to Colum Proctor
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Speaker 2: and Dneedan Callum, good morning. Right now Queenstown's Franktin Road
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Speaker 2: worthy of being included in the National Infrastructure Plan.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, look a lot of reliefs I think around the
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Speaker 10: Queenston area that this is the case. It's one of
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Speaker 10: the country's busiest single carriage routes. It's top ten million
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Speaker 10: vehicle trips for the first time this year. Frankton Road
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Speaker 10: and anyone who's driven into Queenstown knows the pain of
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Speaker 10: that drive. CEO of Southern Infrastructures ross Copland. He's told
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Speaker 10: us in the past decade the last sliver of capacity
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Speaker 10: in Queenstown's roads, pipes and power lines has been used
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Speaker 10: up with little new capacity added. So, he says, the
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Speaker 10: Infrastructure Commission recognizing Queenstown's transport network as a national priority
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Speaker 10: is a logical and urgent next step.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather.
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Speaker 10: I've got a strong win watch here in the south.
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Speaker 10: Mainly fine though afternoon showers. Those gale northwest is the
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Speaker 10: high today for duneed in twenty eight that's one.
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Speaker 2: Thanks Calormen and thanks for this year. I will see
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Speaker 2: you in twenty twenty six. Mate, clear and good morning
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Speaker 2: to you. Good morning now the battle over youth crime
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Speaker 2: taking to the year. That's right.
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Speaker 11: We've got an Eagle helicopter temporarily in christ Church guys
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Speaker 11: from today. They'll be here for two months as part
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Speaker 11: of this operation to target youth related offending. Police tell
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Speaker 11: us that the youth crime wave here has peaked in
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Speaker 11: the last two weeks. We know from our reporting there
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Speaker 11: have been ram raids, robberies, there's been this really violent one,
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Speaker 11: this week in or Power. We already spoke about the
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Speaker 11: dairy owner being stabbed during a violent robbery at seven
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Speaker 11: am I think it was Tuesday morning. Since then, we
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Speaker 11: can update you that a fourteen year old and a
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Speaker 11: seventeen year old have been arrested in relation to that. Interestingly,
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Speaker 11: when we spoke to District Commander Tony Hill yesterday, he says,
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Speaker 11: while the number of crimes or offenses has not increased greatly,
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Speaker 11: it's the seriousness and violence of them that is of concern.
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Speaker 11: Police say this use of this helicopter will be a
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Speaker 11: key tool in enhancing capabilities to tackle this. Of course,
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Speaker 11: it's welcome news to many, but particularly for retail Dead
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Speaker 11: CEO Carolyn Young, who says christ Church is a hot spot.
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Speaker 11: Retailers here are feeling worried and frustrated about this wave
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Speaker 11: of crime. She says, they really just want to focus
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Speaker 11: on serving customers this Christmas without fear hanging over.
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Speaker 2: The bit tooy. How's the weather?
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Speaker 11: Cloudy periods today in gusty northwesterlies, but it will be
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Speaker 11: hot thirty degrees.
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Speaker 2: Thanks Claire. Now max Is and Wellington, Hay Max good
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Speaker 2: morning now is hey okay?
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Speaker 12: Well, that's been the divisive question in our newsroom the
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Speaker 12: past twenty four hours. So there's a Weddington universe. A
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Speaker 12: Victoria University professor who has posted on social media a
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Speaker 12: screenshot of an email from one of her students that
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Speaker 12: starts with the word hey. She says she really hates
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Speaker 12: emails that start that way, and she and some of
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Speaker 12: her colleagues typically won't even read or reply at all
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Speaker 12: if an email starts with hay. She considers it rude,
21:52
Speaker 12: A rude way to start a note to a professor.
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Speaker 12: This is doctor sor he Ashley Park. She's a lecturer
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Speaker 12: in the the History, philosophy, Political science, or International Relations school.
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Speaker 12: She says, maybe it's just a culture thing. She comes
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Speaker 12: from Japan. But Victoria University itself doesn't agree. It says
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Speaker 12: it's addressed the issue with Park. Another professor at Vicker's
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Speaker 12: spoken up. They believe that formal greetings are becoming a
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Speaker 12: thing of the past. The Students Association obviously thinks that
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Speaker 12: lecturers should be meeting students on their level.
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Speaker 2: Is this a business thing as well?
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Speaker 12: Perhaps you would or wouldn't email your boss Hey.
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Speaker 2: I can tell you personally, I've.
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Speaker 12: Probably said a lot worse.
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Speaker 2: And yet you're still here exactly. I had a look
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Speaker 2: at her comments, Max, and I thought she should have
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Speaker 2: you know, you don't reject emails on the basis of
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Speaker 2: the greeting. But also I think she had a point
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Speaker 2: that it's about being formal and there will be certain
22:45
Speaker 2: situations where you will have to show a bit of formality.
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Speaker 2: So I don't know, I'm kind of with her, but
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Speaker 2: you have to reply. How's the weather in Wellington today.
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Speaker 12: Some early cloud clearing, strong norwesterlys twenty today's Hey.
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Speaker 2: Cheers, Max, and happy new Merry Christmas to you, mate.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Neve of a morning Neva, good morning,
23:03
Speaker 2: Good morning. Now Brian Tommock, he's not going to be
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Speaker 2: happy with this, about the ruling about the Auckland Harbour Bridge.
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Speaker 13: I know he'll be crying. Why he's been denied permission
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Speaker 13: to lead this protest over the Auckland Harbor Bridge for
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Speaker 13: a second time. Now his traffic management plan, Now, this
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Speaker 13: was planned for January thirty first, this protest and it
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Speaker 13: did not did not did not meet the strict NZTA criteria.
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Speaker 13: So he's come back and he said, look, he's going
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Speaker 13: to continue as he would to plan a March in
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Speaker 13: hopees thousands will take part.
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Speaker 2: Just do it anyway.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's what he does.
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Speaker 13: And police are saying, look, they will not support an
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Speaker 13: unauthorized march whatsoever.
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Speaker 2: So we'll have arrests on the Harbor Bridge potentially. It's
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Speaker 2: it's kind of exciting.
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Speaker 4: I know.
23:46
Speaker 2: How's that weather today, Well.
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Speaker 13: It's cloudy. We've got isolated chils. Now they will clear
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Speaker 13: this morning. Today's high twenty two, not as high as
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Speaker 13: around the rest of the country.
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Speaker 2: Eight my goodness, greateous me neva. That's this is my
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Speaker 2: last over the year, so just want to say thank
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Speaker 2: you very much. Going to do drive for a couple
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Speaker 2: of weeks and then I'm off. You bring me untold
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Speaker 2: Joy in the morning. Thank you. And our listeners as well,
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Speaker 2: they love you.
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Speaker 13: You bring me untold Joy. Who am I going to
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Speaker 13: bend it with now I'll have to talk to myself.
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Speaker 2: Try Mike.
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Speaker 1: Oh.
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Speaker 2: According to six they had the Deloite two hundred awards
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Speaker 2: in Auckland last night. Rocket Labb the big winner company
24:25
Speaker 2: of the year. They got the awards. Share prices doubled
24:28
Speaker 2: over the past year. Market cap now twenty one billion
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Speaker 2: US dollars. That's thirty six billion New Zealand dollars and
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Speaker 2: they got a solid book of warders on the books
24:38
Speaker 2: as well. Chief executive of Sky Sophie Maloney. She took
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Speaker 2: out chief Executive of the year. Of course, they bought
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Speaker 2: three and three Now from Warner Brothers for a buck
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Speaker 2: five year Rugby rights. Steel signed Olympic broadcasting rights. Steal
24:50
Speaker 2: signed share price five year high and for a media
24:53
Speaker 2: company at a time like this, that is pretty excellent.
24:57
Speaker 1: International correspondence with insurance peace of mind for New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: Business been to mecavini Are UK europe correspondent with US Vincent.
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Speaker 2: This inquiry into the death of Dawn sturges. This is
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Speaker 2: the Novachok incident in Salisbury. We hear a result.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right. You might remember back in twenty eighteen
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Speaker 8: the Scripples, the father and daughter. He was a Russian
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Speaker 8: dissident living here in the UK. They were poisoned but
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Speaker 8: they survived. Then a few weeks later Dawn Sturgis was
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Speaker 8: the recipient of a perfume bottle and it was actually
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Speaker 8: the Novechok spray used by the Russians. She used it
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Speaker 8: on herself and tragically died from that chemical. While there
25:38
Speaker 8: has now been a lengthy investigation into exactly what happened,
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Speaker 8: and the British now believe that Vladimir Putin himself was
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Speaker 8: morally responsible for the death, that the order to kill
25:48
Speaker 8: the Tritus, kill the Scrippoles came from the very top
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Speaker 8: of the Russian state, and that there was sadly nothing
25:54
Speaker 8: that could have been done given the high dosage that
25:57
Speaker 8: she took to survive what happened. So her family have
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Speaker 8: long campaigned for full answers on this, and this is
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Speaker 8: a pretty detailed report, very much pointing the finger at
26:07
Speaker 8: the highest levels of the Russian government for this death.
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Speaker 2: Are they, because I knowe they say that he's potent
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Speaker 2: as morally responsible. Are they saying that he gave the order?
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Speaker 2: Is it go that far?
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Speaker 8: Well, essentially he seems to have given the order to
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Speaker 8: take out the Scripples here in the UK. The Scripples,
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Speaker 8: of course survives. We know they're living somewhere quietly in
26:28
Speaker 8: under new identities now somewhere else in the world. But
26:31
Speaker 8: the knock on effect of that was that he allowed
26:35
Speaker 8: a chemical which his two agents, these two gru agents,
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Speaker 8: simply disposed of in the city. They didn't get rid
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Speaker 8: of it themselves and it had enough of the poison
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Speaker 8: inside it to kill as many as potentially a thousand people.
26:46
Speaker 8: And so it was their negligence whilst carrying out his
26:49
Speaker 8: orders that meant that Dawnstair just died. So that is
26:51
Speaker 8: why it's come in as being saying he is morally
26:54
Speaker 8: responsible for this.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for the uplaate, Vincent appreciated, Vincent meca any Are,
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Speaker 2: UK europe correspondent. It is twelve to six Bryan Bread.
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Speaker 2: Finally we have an outcome of the secondary school teachers.
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Speaker 2: They've settle on a pay agreement with the government that
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Speaker 2: we'll see teachers get four point six percent over two years.
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Speaker 2: Remember the government started with one percent a year. Pip
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Speaker 2: Tinning is deputy principal at a secondary school in the
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Speaker 2: Bay of Plenty, joins us this morning. Pip, good morning morning.
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Speaker 2: Did you vote know last time and then yes this time?
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Speaker 14: Oh yes, that's actually great. Yeah it was right on
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Speaker 14: the nose, wasn't it.
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Speaker 8: Yes? Yeah? Dad?
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Speaker 2: Actually what's changed for you or is it the vibes
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Speaker 2: that have changed? You know? Time to move on that
27:32
Speaker 2: sort of thing.
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Speaker 14: I think what actually swayed me was I didn't think
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Speaker 14: anything more attractive was going to come with any other offer.
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Speaker 14: I thought that was as good as it was going
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Speaker 14: to get. And I just really believe that it's just
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Speaker 14: one of those things where, yeah, I just needed to
27:51
Speaker 14: vote yes just to get things shifting. We've got a
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Speaker 14: lot of stuff coming up, and yeah, it was just
27:58
Speaker 14: it just felt right to just.
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Speaker 2: Trying to move on. Did the union because I've had
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Speaker 2: teachers texting this morning and messaging me saying that the
28:06
Speaker 2: union didn't recommend. Normally they will say recommend don't vote
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Speaker 2: for this offer, or do vote for this offer, and
28:12
Speaker 2: this time it was a neutral offer. Do you think
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Speaker 2: that makes a difference for people.
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Speaker 14: I think it allows people to make their own minds up.
28:23
Speaker 14: I think if you've got the union telling you no,
28:26
Speaker 14: then you know full well that actually it is a
28:29
Speaker 14: poor offer. And if they're telling you yes, then yeah,
28:33
Speaker 14: it definitely has a sway. I think this time people
28:36
Speaker 14: were really pragmatic around their vote.
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Speaker 2: Do you, if you're being honest, Pip does sometimes does
28:43
Speaker 2: the union negativity in all you?
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Speaker 5: No?
28:46
Speaker 2: Okay? Do you think the public is angry at teachers
28:50
Speaker 2: about results? We'll not teachers, but they're angry upset about
28:53
Speaker 2: the results that we've been seeing slipping.
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Speaker 14: I think teachers are doing a fantastic job. I think
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Speaker 14: the rhetoric around what teachers do or don't do is
29:04
Speaker 14: really damaging. It's been increasing. I've noticed it's been really
29:09
Speaker 14: increasing in the media, attacks on teachers, attacks on principles
29:14
Speaker 14: in our schools, and that's that's really concerning. We work
29:18
Speaker 14: really hard, We work really hard for your kids. We
29:23
Speaker 14: love teaching. You know. We don't get into this because
29:26
Speaker 14: it's like there's nothing else to do. We get into
29:28
Speaker 14: this because it's a deliberate choice. So you know where it's.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but can you understand why people get frustrated with
29:36
Speaker 2: the results, the fact that they have been going backwards.
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Speaker 14: They've been going backwards globally. It's not just New Zealand,
29:42
Speaker 14: it's a global slip. So potentially we all need to
29:46
Speaker 14: be looking at what's happening within our education sector and
29:49
Speaker 14: what's happening for our young people.
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Speaker 2: All right, but appreciate your time this morning. Thank you,
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Speaker 2: Pip Tinning, Thank you deputy principal at a secondary school
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Speaker 2: in the Bay of Plenty. We can't tell you which one.
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Speaker 2: Nine minutes away from six News Talks at BES.
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Speaker 2: News Talks AB seven to six. The social media band
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Speaker 2: that we were talking about earlier, The Australians are doing
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Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty thousand Facebook users of that age group,
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Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty thousand on Instagram. The fine if
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Speaker 2: you don't take reasonable steps these big companies to do
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Speaker 2: this is fifty million Australian dollars. And if you're a
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Speaker 2: teenager and you want to complain about this, you have
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Speaker 2: driver's license or a government issued ID. Great, go and
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Speaker 2: give you more details to big tech. That sounds like
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Speaker 2: a great idea. I would have thought the real action
30:57
Speaker 2: is actually on TikTok anyway, not Facebook and Instagram anyway.
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Speaker 2: That'll be Bridge six to six, Mike, good morning, good
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Speaker 2: to see you, Rye, good to see you. Our final
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Speaker 2: chap for the year. You're off, Well, you're off, aren't you.
31:11
Speaker 2: Well I'm going to drive. Oh yes, excited. This is
31:15
Speaker 2: my last morning on.
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Speaker 9: Better on drive than you are here. Do you think
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Speaker 9: you improve.
31:19
Speaker 2: About the same? Aren't saying?
31:20
Speaker 9: Because I was listening to the guy who is the
31:22
Speaker 9: guy yelling at before on the show just you were
31:26
Speaker 9: just app Simon Watts absolutely hoing into him. And to
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Speaker 9: be fair, I agree with you one hundred percent honest
31:33
Speaker 9: about it must be just difficult, doesn't it to be?
31:35
Speaker 9: As why I'm never going to be a politician. You've
31:37
Speaker 9: got to What you want to say is I mean,
31:39
Speaker 9: let's be frank, the climate were the tide's gone out,
31:43
Speaker 9: but we can't afford it. It's not happening. Don't worry
31:46
Speaker 9: about this. What you want to say, isn't it? But
31:48
Speaker 9: you can't exactly politically. And also trade agreement so many
31:52
Speaker 9: years ago signed you up to a trade deal that
31:54
Speaker 9: you got to suck up to.
31:55
Speaker 2: But he's as close to saying that without saying it.
31:59
Speaker 2: I guess, I guess would you got to settle for?
32:01
Speaker 2: What are you doing? Am I Ryan saying? You're doing
32:03
Speaker 2: half an hour with lux and today?
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Speaker 9: Well it depends how it goes.
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Speaker 2: The whole half an hour.
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Speaker 9: It won't be a whole What do you mean? What
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Speaker 9: do you mean?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
32:15
Speaker 9: There's a lot to talk about. What we do, what
32:17
Speaker 9: we do rhyme as we exchange gifts. Oh, yes, now,
32:20
Speaker 9: now here's the thing. I'll just give you this preview
32:23
Speaker 9: I other years. I'm actually quite good at this, as
32:26
Speaker 9: it turns out. I didn't think I would be, but
32:29
Speaker 9: with ad and we gave her some quite good gifts.
32:32
Speaker 9: In fact, our gifts were better than the gifts she
32:34
Speaker 9: gave us. Yes, probably because she hated me.
32:36
Speaker 2: But she gave me a mug one year at the end.
32:39
Speaker 2: Did she give you that mug that she drew? She
32:41
Speaker 2: drew a self portrait on a mug.
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Speaker 9: Now she gave me a photo which was nice. Well
32:47
Speaker 9: it was me and her.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, where is that now?
32:51
Speaker 9: It's on the desk gathering dust.
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Speaker 2: Not in the bathroom. All right, So what have you
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Speaker 2: got on them?
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Speaker 9: You can't well obviously I can't.
32:59
Speaker 2: He Actually I'm on the news last night. He's got
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Speaker 2: you something from my care Yes. See that worries me
33:03
Speaker 2: because it was something you have to make to do yourself.
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Speaker 9: No, here's the here's the thing he told me previously.
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Speaker 9: It was really good. There were a number of them,
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Speaker 9: and I was going to be blown away. So then
33:15
Speaker 9: I saw last night you. You obviously went to my
33:17
Speaker 9: care yesterday and you brought some piece of chip crap?
33:20
Speaker 9: Now that so was he lying the other day when
33:23
Speaker 9: he said he had already done it? Or is he
33:25
Speaker 9: just adding to the pile of.
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Speaker 2: These are the important questions that you will put over
33:29
Speaker 2: the space at half an hour.
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Speaker 9: Just how the whole thing's going to last for half
33:32
Speaker 9: an hour. I've got a few preparatory questions, you know,
33:35
Speaker 9: coming around the economy and the election and stuff like that.
33:37
Speaker 9: But you know it'll be swapsy time.
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Speaker 2: He great. Great to be talking to you this year,
33:41
Speaker 2: is always Mike very much. I do enjoy our chats.
33:45
Speaker 9: Good on you.
33:46
Speaker 2: I think our best work was actually your facial beauty
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Speaker 2: regimen we got to on Wednesday.
33:51
Speaker 9: That was good stuff. That was the highlight. That's probably
33:53
Speaker 9: gone viral. Now you have a great, great, great Christmas.
33:56
Speaker 9: Are you still employee next year?
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Speaker 8: Yes?
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Speaker 2: I am. Oh good gamefully, Merry Christmas. Everyone, see you
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Speaker 2: next year.
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