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Full Show Podcast: 23 October 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 2: Be Bursday morning. Great to have your company, Thanks for
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Speaker 2: being with me. We'll look at the strife before six
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Speaker 2: o'clock this morning. Mitch McCann's in the US for US
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Speaker 2: Trump suing his own Department of Justice with the gaming
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Speaker 2: subsidies we spoke about yesterday. Are they working? Are they not?
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Speaker 2: Karen Ture on these stats she put out. People say
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Speaker 2: she's cherry picking her numbers. We'll ask her. And I've
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Speaker 2: got a little Sarkozy prison update for you this morning too.
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Speaker 1: The agenda birthday.
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Speaker 2: The twenty third of October. Still having caught those robbers,
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Speaker 2: no sign of the Crown jewels. This is in Paris,
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Speaker 2: the museum's directors feeling the heat.
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Speaker 3: Robley happened three days ago. Since then, I saw my
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Speaker 3: name really thrown in the gutter and lots of misinformation.
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Speaker 3: Will some days attack really is obtained. For reminder that
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Speaker 3: criminals do not stop at the loop. No one, no
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Speaker 3: one is protected from these brittle criminals.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: J D.
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Speaker 2: Bounce has been in Israel as we know he's all
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Speaker 2: happy and cheery after his meeting with Nat and Yahoo.
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Speaker 5: We're very excited to sit down and work together on
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Speaker 5: the Gaza peace Plan. We have a very very tough
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Speaker 5: task ahead of us, which is to disarm the moss
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Speaker 5: but rebuild Gaza, to make life better for the people
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Speaker 5: in Gaza, but also to ensure that a mass is
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Speaker 5: no longer threat to our friends in Israel. That's not easy.
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Speaker 5: I think the Prime Minister knows that as well as anybody.
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Speaker 5: But it's something that we're committed to in the Trump administration,
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Speaker 5: and I think that we've even in the past twenty
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Speaker 5: four hours, had a lot of good conversations with our
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Speaker 5: friends in the Israeli government.
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Speaker 2: You cry, nothing slowing down there. The Russians have killed
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Speaker 2: seven people overnight, including two children, and Trump's canceled that meeting,
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Speaker 2: and Botapest with Poten has said, go to.
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Speaker 6: The line, go to the line of battle, on the
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Speaker 6: battlefield lines, and you pull back and you go home.
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Speaker 6: And everybody takes some time off because you have two
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Speaker 6: countries that are killing each other, two countries using five
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Speaker 6: to seven thousand sages a week. So we'll see what happens.
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Speaker 6: Since we haven't managed his.
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Speaker 2: SHOWMNU year right. Finally, this morning, pop Mark, this is
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Speaker 2: the maker of the hugely popular Leboo Boo dolls, has
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Speaker 2: seen global revenues saw two hundred and fifty percent in
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Speaker 2: three months. This is the three months to September this
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Speaker 2: after they released mini versions. Have you seen these dolls?
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Speaker 2: My niece loves them. Sales outside China we're up twelve
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Speaker 2: hundred percent in America, seven hundred percent in Europe and
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Speaker 2: Hong Kong, where the shares of Hell jump five point
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Speaker 2: five percent, giving the company evaluation now of wait for it,
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Speaker 2: forty five point five billion dollars.
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Speaker 2: Two ninety two is the number to text, give me
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Speaker 2: how's the weather at your place? And I don't think
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Speaker 2: it's meant to be that bad just yet? Now, how
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Speaker 2: is it that these official trips cost so much? Just
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Speaker 2: when we were on jd Vance, You remember jd Vance
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Speaker 2: went to the UK went fishing and got in trouble
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Speaker 2: because they didn't have their right permits for fishing. And
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Speaker 2: that's how we knew he was there anyway, Trump went
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Speaker 2: there as well, to Scotland to go to his golf
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Speaker 2: course and have a little visit. Now the Scottish Parliament
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Speaker 2: is requesting reimbursement from the UK government for these two trips.
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Speaker 2: One was five days, one was four days. Guess how
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Speaker 2: much they want. Twenty four point five million pounds sixty
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Speaker 2: million New Zealand dollars they reckon, that's how much it
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Speaker 2: costs to have these two dignitaries in the country for
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Speaker 2: nine days. Total policing the presidential visit alone was twenty
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Speaker 2: one million pounds for five days. How is this possible?
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Speaker 2: Apparently they had to at peak deploy more than four
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Speaker 2: thousand police officers and the cost for JD vance was
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Speaker 2: two million pounds. Just unbelievable anyway, though apparently the British
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Speaker 2: government saying, Nat, we're not paying you anything because it
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Speaker 2: was basically a holiday for them. They were private visits,
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Speaker 2: even though Starma went to meet them now here at home.
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Speaker 2: We had more rent numbers yesterday, so basically we've got
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Speaker 2: a Cotality property report out this morning says, as you
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Speaker 2: would expect, things are stable, listing slightly up, but rents
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Speaker 2: I had a friend whose rent was knocked down fifty bucks.
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Speaker 2: He was renegotiating the place that he's living in. Knock
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Speaker 2: down fifty bucks and trade me. Yesterday had this report out.
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Speaker 2: Listings are up and rents are going down. Especially if
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Speaker 2: you were in Wellington and you're not getting cheaper rent
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Speaker 2: right now, go and ask for it because it'll probably happen.
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Speaker 2: Nine minutes are sorry, eleven minutes after five. Bridge coming
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Speaker 2: up next, we're going to talk to Karen Shaw. This
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Speaker 2: is Children's minister. She put these numbers out yesterday and
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Speaker 2: said things are getting better in terms of abuse in
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Speaker 2: state care, and a whole bunch of people have come
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Speaker 2: out and said no, she's cherry at figures. She's with
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Speaker 2: us on Newstalk seed B, on your.
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Speaker 2: B five point thirteen on News Talks. Heb this textasays Ryan,
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Speaker 2: let's hope that Trump never comes to New Zealand. I
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Speaker 2: tend to agree with that if it's going to cost
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Speaker 2: us millions and squillions of dollars for a five day visit.
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Speaker 2: Then no, thank you, we can't afford that. I mean,
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Speaker 2: you could buy the Americas. You could pay for the
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Speaker 2: America's Cup and fund the America's Cup to to challenge
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Speaker 2: here for the price of getting a Trump visit now,
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Speaker 2: and I know what, most people would probably prefer watching
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Speaker 2: Karen traw with us in just a second, but very quickly,
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Speaker 2: this is Psychosey. We've been talking about him for a
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Speaker 2: couple of days now. So he's in this consolitary confinement
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Speaker 2: cell in a prison in Paris, and this is all
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Speaker 2: over the campaign funding conviction. Now he's going to have
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Speaker 2: in the two cells next door to him, he's going
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Speaker 2: to have his DPS as Diplomatic protect Squad or the
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Speaker 2: equivalent of for a former president. So the whole time
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Speaker 2: he's meant to be there five years, the people of
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Speaker 2: France are paying for two bodyguards in jail. Right five
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Speaker 2: fourteen Children's Commissioner and Independent Children's Monitor calling out Karen
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Speaker 2: Chaw for cherry picking stats. This morning they reckon the
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Speaker 2: abuse in state care is getting worse, and the Minister
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Speaker 2: put out a press release saying recorded harm was going
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Speaker 2: down a fourteen percent reduction and recorded harm across the
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Speaker 2: cure residences since twenty twenty four. Ordering a Tamindiqui's annual
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Speaker 2: report says five hundred and thirty children in care were
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Speaker 2: experienced harm in the year to March twenty three, more
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Speaker 2: than the previous year. So what gives Karen Chaws with
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Speaker 2: me now, Minister, good morning.
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Speaker 7: Good morning?
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Speaker 2: Are you cherry picking here? What's going on?
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Speaker 7: So the harm that you're speaking to around that could
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Speaker 7: be anything so low level. High level harm that I'm
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Speaker 7: talking about in the decrease in residence is serious harm
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Speaker 7: where a child or young person has an injury that
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Speaker 7: is serious. So there's been a massive reduction in harm
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Speaker 7: and residence and it's the first time ever we're seeing
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Speaker 7: a reduction and harm and residence in New Zealand. And
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Speaker 7: this is really important to me because I actually set
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Speaker 7: this as a real priority when I first came into
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Speaker 7: Parliament because children deserve to be safe no matter where
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Speaker 7: they live and within a residence. These young people deserve
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Speaker 7: to have the best protection they possibly can and be
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Speaker 7: able to have a chance to turn their lives around,
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Speaker 7: and they're not going to do that if they're not
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Speaker 7: really safe where they live. So what I announced yesterday
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Speaker 7: is around a program that we have put in place
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Speaker 7: to make sure that our staff have better training, better oversight,
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Speaker 7: We have better recruitment and strengthened leadership to make sure
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Speaker 7: that these kids say right, I understand where the where
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Speaker 7: the Children's Commissioner is coming from. Any harm is not okay,
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Speaker 7: and we have to make sure that we're clearly focused
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Speaker 7: on that.
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Speaker 2: Minister. What is serious harm or what's minor harm that
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Speaker 2: we shouldn't be worried about that's been going up.
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Speaker 7: I guess it's recordings like within the MSA when we
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Speaker 7: had two recordings of harm and one with a cut
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Speaker 7: finger and one with some boom sometimes.
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Speaker 2: So it's not, it's not, it's not. We're not talking
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Speaker 2: here about physical abuse. You know, either caregiver on young
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Speaker 2: person abuse or a young person on young person abuse.
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Speaker 2: It could be anything tripping and falling, stubbing a toe.
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Speaker 7: This fourteen percent reduction of finding of harm is based
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Speaker 7: on it could be physical abuse where a child. This
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Speaker 7: is what I'm speaking to today, is physical abuse where
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Speaker 7: a child or a young person has injury or it
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Speaker 7: was at risk of injury. Sexual abuse or including exposure
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Speaker 7: to sexual activity and sexual imagery and grooming behaviors, neglect
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Speaker 7: where the basic needs of a child young person has
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Speaker 7: not been met, emotional abuse with mental health and social
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Speaker 7: or emotional functioning and development. So what I would also say.
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Speaker 2: What's the number? What's the number to the five hundreds,
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Speaker 2: because this is what they're coming at you with, right,
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Speaker 2: So that the five hundred and thirty children in here
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Speaker 2: have experienced harm in the last year, up from five
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Speaker 2: hundred and seven the year before.
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Speaker 7: So the number I'm reporting to is in twenty twenty
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Speaker 7: four to twenty twenty five, there was around one hundred
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Speaker 7: and ninety five findings of harm and for one hundred
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Speaker 7: and for one hundred and fifteen children and young people
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Speaker 7: and residential placements. In the previous year there were two
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Speaker 7: hundred and twenty eight findings of harm for one hundred
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Speaker 7: and eighteen children. What I would also say is eighty
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Speaker 7: three percent of the harm experience that was caused by
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Speaker 7: other children in placement and twelve percent was by staff.
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Speaker 7: So we're really breaking this down so we've got a
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Speaker 7: good understanding.
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Speaker 8: Of what's happening, Minister.
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Speaker 2: Given that most of the harm is between the young people,
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Speaker 2: do you need to separate them out of it more?
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Speaker 7: This is why we've put legislation change through Parliament even
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Speaker 7: recently in response to not only needing the necessity of
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Speaker 7: making sure young people are safe, but in response to
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Speaker 7: the Abuse and Care inquiry Where residence is we're a
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Speaker 7: big part of the story that was told from survivors
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Speaker 7: in care, so we need to make sure that we're
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Speaker 7: keeping these young people safe. Some of the routines we've
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Speaker 7: done with staff is that they have clear bags now
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Speaker 7: when they're coming within residents, so we can see what
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Speaker 7: they're bringing into residents and contraband is lower.
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Speaker 2: Sounds It sounds like you're making moves on all the
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Speaker 2: right places, Minister, but obviously some disagreement about exactly how
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Speaker 2: safe the young people there are. Care and appreciate your
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Speaker 2: time this morning, Care and Shaw Children's Minister. It is
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Speaker 2: nineteen after five News Talks, CB.
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Speaker 2: S a lot of love for Karen Shaw this morning
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Speaker 2: at five twenty one. There always is, actually whenever we
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Speaker 2: speak to her, even if the numbers that she's talking
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Speaker 2: about may be a little whiffy, but this one says Ryan,
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Speaker 2: we would not need the state residences or the state
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Speaker 2: here if we didn't have the worst family violence stats
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Speaker 2: in the developed world. Let's look inside our homes before
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Speaker 2: we get outraged and all fluffed up about Karen Chaw.
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Speaker 2: Twenty two minutes after five, Now, Labour's keeping this policy,
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Speaker 2: the policy train rolling, I should say this time it's
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Speaker 2: all about video games. If elected, they plan to expand
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Speaker 2: the game Development Rebate, which gives KIWI studios access to
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Speaker 2: forty million bucks a year to grow the industry. Joe
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Speaker 2: Joey rather Keen is executive director of the Game Developers Association.
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Speaker 2: With me this morning, Joy, good morning, good morning, very well,
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Speaker 2: thank you. How many studios use the current subsidy.
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Speaker 9: At the moment we have forty one studios accessing the subsidy.
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Speaker 2: And is all the money, because I think it's up
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Speaker 2: to forty million a year, is all the money that's
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Speaker 2: currently on the table being taken up being used?
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Speaker 9: No, not at all. So this particular well the twenty
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Speaker 9: twenty five financial year we had twenty four million used
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Speaker 9: out of that forty million allocation.
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Speaker 2: Right, And is that because people there aren't enough companies
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Speaker 2: out there to actually take it, or people don't know
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Speaker 2: about it.
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Speaker 9: It's definitely more and not enough people qualify for it.
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Speaker 9: So we have a lot of developers that are small,
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Speaker 9: maybe one to three staff, that are turning over less
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Speaker 9: than two hundred thousand dollars and so they weren't able
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Speaker 9: to access the rebate based on that entry qualification.
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Speaker 2: Right and they will now be yet well, assuming labor
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Speaker 2: gets into how then they would be eligible for it.
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Speaker 2: What constitutes gaming? What do you actually have to be doing?
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Speaker 9: So it's actually game development, so it's the creation of
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Speaker 9: video games essentially, and it's an industry. It's very interesting. Actually,
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Speaker 9: when you're making a video game, you don't normally have
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Speaker 9: any income at all, so it's very hard to make
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Speaker 9: a video game without money. And then once your game
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Speaker 9: is made and you release it to the world, then
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Speaker 9: you might make money. So what the rebate actually does
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Speaker 9: is it just helps give the studios a bit more
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Speaker 9: resource to be able to go off and make these
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Speaker 9: games and get them out there. We have a fabulous,
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Speaker 9: fabulous development agency called Code who helps the smaller studios
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Speaker 9: get ready for launching games and to ensure that they
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Speaker 9: are successful games.
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Speaker 2: Very quickly. How many businesses have used it have been successful?
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Speaker 2: Do we know?
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Speaker 9: Oh, actually most of them. So we have companies like
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Speaker 9: pick Park who are award winning developers, Dinosaur Polo Club,
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Speaker 9: Grindy Gear Games and they pass of Excel too, which
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Speaker 9: is New Zealand's most successful game at the moment. But
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Speaker 9: every game that comes out just really seems to resonate
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Speaker 9: and the world curr't good enough of New Zealand developed games.
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Speaker 2: Droy, appreciate your time this morning. Thanks for being with me,
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Speaker 2: Joy Keen, New Zealand Game Developers Association. Time is twenty
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Speaker 2: four minutes after five News Talk said B the early.
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Speaker 2: Five twenty six News Talks a B. Massive University gives
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Speaker 2: you these numbers every year and they're quite interesting. This
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Speaker 2: tells you how much you might need in retirement. And
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Speaker 2: if you're living in a city, you've got two people
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Speaker 2: at home and you want to live comfortably in your retirement,
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Speaker 2: you're going to need a million bucks. That's what they're
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Speaker 2: telling you. If you're in the provinces half that now
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Speaker 2: you can start working backwards and you're probably doing it
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Speaker 2: in your head right now in terms of your net
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Speaker 2: worth depending on your aid, which you may also need
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Speaker 2: to think about the fact you can't rely on the pension.
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Speaker 2: You know, some government eventually will means test it, they'll
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Speaker 2: change the age, they'll cut it back. It's inevitable that
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Speaker 2: that will happen. So there's a shortfall you're probably going
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Speaker 2: to have to fill. And you're thinking about this now,
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Speaker 2: can we say the contributions they're going to need to
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Speaker 2: go up? They are slightly from three to four percent,
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Speaker 2: but realistically we'll need to bump them up to probably ten.
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Speaker 2: I think the Aussies are eleven or twelve by now,
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Speaker 2: and I know people are doing this. I've got friends
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Speaker 2: who are in their thirties who are planning, meticulously, planning
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Speaker 2: already for their retirement, saving, investing all of that good stuff.
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Speaker 2: People are working, slogging their guts out and working hard,
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Speaker 2: just being responsible, making sure they can take care of
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Speaker 2: themselves and their families when they get to age of retirement.
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Speaker 2: Which is why to me it's smacks of entitlement that
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Speaker 2: politicians live in a different world to us on superannuation,
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Speaker 2: totally different world. They get a super subsidy two and
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Speaker 2: a half times the percent they contribute up to a
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Speaker 2: maximum of twenty percent a backbencher. They're one hundred and
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Speaker 2: seventy k twenty percent of that could be about thirty
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Speaker 2: four thousand dollars a year. Nice, right, we get dollar
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Speaker 2: for dollar from our employers up to what three percent.
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Speaker 2: The argument is their jobs aren't secure, so they need
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Speaker 2: more security. You know, you have an election that comes
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Speaker 2: every three years and there's a chance that they'll be
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Speaker 2: turfed out, So this is some security for them. Well,
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Speaker 2: they aren't the only ones in that situation, are they?
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Speaker 2: But they are the only ones I know of who
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Speaker 2: get a retirement istignt egg quite that big and pretty
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Speaker 2: am my twenty eight On news talks, there'd be nine
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Speaker 2: two ninety two the number to text, Hey, Netflix had
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Speaker 2: a result overnight, which sounds great, but actually shars dropped.
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Speaker 2: So here are the numbers for you. Shears fell five percent.
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Speaker 2: This is an extended trading. After the numbers came out,
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Speaker 2: they earned despite going the shears going the earnings going up,
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Speaker 2: the shears came down. So two and a half million
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Speaker 2: dollars five dollars eighty seven per share. This is for
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Speaker 2: the September quarter. That's an eight percent increase revenue up
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Speaker 2: seventeen percent from the year before, but it's all been
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Speaker 2: affected by a massive six hundred million dollar Brazilian tax dispute.
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Speaker 2: That's how they're explaining this one away. This morning, we're
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Speaker 2: a stateside with Mitch mcan next on News Talks.
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Speaker 2: Away from six Yer on News Talks, it'd be great
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Speaker 2: to have your company This Thursday morning, we'll get to
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Speaker 2: Mitch McCanns stateside in the moment before six will talk
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Speaker 2: strikes over in the UK. You know the labor one
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Speaker 2: in one out deal that they did with France. This
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Speaker 2: is on migration. The whole thing's turn into a bit
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Speaker 2: of a fast because there's a guy that they deported.
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Speaker 2: So it's when one comes in, then one goes out, right.
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Speaker 2: So guy comes to Britain on one of the small boats.
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Speaker 2: He's Iranian guy August this happens. He's then removed from
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Speaker 2: Britain on September nineteen, sent back to France. Then he
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Speaker 2: skips out of his migrant shelter in Paris and jumps
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Speaker 2: on another small boat, goes back across the channel back
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Speaker 2: in England and arrives there on Saturday, less than a
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Speaker 2: month after it was kicked out. So it's like one in,
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Speaker 2: one out, one back in. You can imagine what the
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Speaker 2: British press is doing with this this morning. Anyway, a
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Speaker 2: couple of milestones have been reached by the Labor government,
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Speaker 2: which again the press is highlighting. One hundred new small
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Speaker 2: boat migrants reached Britain today. One hundred people in one day.
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Speaker 2: That's a new milestone. Also, the total number that have
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Speaker 2: arrived since Labour came to powers now sawed past sixty thousand,
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Speaker 2: and last year they had thirty six thousand, eight hundred
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Speaker 2: small boat migrants crossing the Channel and heading to Britain.
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Speaker 2: Bryan Bridge, twenty three minutes away from Sexy. On news
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Speaker 2: talks heb Cullum, Procter and denedin for us this morning. Culum,
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Speaker 2: good morning morning, right. So you've got this principal leaving
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Speaker 2: the job. This is after a bit of a standdown
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Speaker 2: period here.
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Speaker 10: This is Carissa Nicol here Ryan. She was principal of
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Speaker 10: the State Integrated Columbus College here in Dunedin. She started
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Speaker 10: the job in twenty twenty three, but has been away
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Speaker 10: from work since.
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Speaker 2: The middle of this year.
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Speaker 10: Now that absence has gone unexplained by the school and
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Speaker 10: its board, and that's naturally led to much speculation. The
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Speaker 10: ODT reporting today the school has now emailed staff and
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Speaker 10: parents to say that Nicol won't be returning. Acting Principal
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Speaker 10: Aaron Everett says this news may be unsettling for students
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Speaker 10: and is urging them to talk to parents or teachers
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Speaker 10: with any concerns.
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Speaker 2: Okay, how's your weather.
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Speaker 10: We've got that orange wind warning here Gail Norwester's gust
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Speaker 10: of one hundred and ten ks today, scattered rain the
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Speaker 10: high twenty four.
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Speaker 2: Thank Callum players and Christchur's clear. A lot of weather
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Speaker 2: happening today for you too.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, we have a lot of weather. Indeed, we're under
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Speaker 11: a local state of emergency here in Canterbury, while the
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Speaker 11: National Emergency Management Agencies activated a National Coordination Center for today.
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Speaker 11: This of course comes after the rare red wind warnings
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Speaker 11: that have been issued for Canterbury, but also as far
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Speaker 11: north as Wellington and Southern Wide and Upper also Cai,
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Speaker 11: Coda and Southern Marlboro impacted We're told gusts could reach
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Speaker 11: up to one hundred and fifty kilometers an hour. Civil
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Speaker 11: Defense Controller James Thompson says the impact of the high
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Speaker 11: winds and rain was seen Tuesday, but today is more
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Speaker 11: about these higher winds and higher temperatures. Kaikoda's mayor is
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Speaker 11: also urging vigilance. They're worried that these winds could flare
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Speaker 11: up those big fires. We know that five homes and
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Speaker 11: nine other structures were destroyed by the blazers on Tuesday.
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Speaker 11: Craig mackel says these winds do pose a danger in
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Speaker 11: the already burnt areas. He says if first responders tell
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Speaker 11: residents to evacuate, very simple, they need to do so
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Speaker 11: before things turn to custard.
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Speaker 2: Thank you clear and to Wellington. We go now with
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Speaker 2: mes a lot of weather for you today, to a
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Speaker 2: lot of closures to mix.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 12: I think everyone here is erring on the side of
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Speaker 12: caution today after how narly had got on Tuesday. A
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Speaker 12: lot of businesses telling staff to work from home. Those
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Speaker 12: who are not on strike anyway, those on strike are
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Speaker 12: staying home anyway. We don't have any public demonstrations going
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Speaker 12: ahead now. Seeing a lot of bars restaurants right around
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Speaker 12: the region shutting today as well. The council's swimming pools, libraries,
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Speaker 12: recreation centers, community centers. They're all closed today. A strong
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Speaker 12: warning to stay away from many parks or reserves anywhere
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Speaker 12: with trees, basically after Tuesday's tragedy a man hit by
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Speaker 12: a fallen branch, killing him. Don't put your rubbish out
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Speaker 12: unless you need to. The university is closed today as well.
21:48
Speaker 12: Victoria Online exams are proceeding as normal, but on campus
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Speaker 12: ones are postponed.
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Speaker 8: Looking at the.
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Speaker 12: Forecast, it is still going to be very, very windy,
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Speaker 12: but from what I'm seeing the forecast perhaps as you'd
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Speaker 12: imagine on a very typically windy Wellington day with some
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Speaker 12: steady rain. Nevertheless, heed those warnings, take care, take nothing
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Speaker 12: for granted.
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Speaker 2: All right, Max, thank you very much for that up date.
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Speaker 2: Neva and Aukland, Neva, good morning, Good morning. Hey, we've
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Speaker 2: had lots of texts on this. People are really interested
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Speaker 2: in this electric bus VI car collision and Parnell.
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Speaker 4: Yes, now this happened last night, so people will be
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Speaker 4: waking up to this story because it happened about nine
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Speaker 4: p thirty. What we do know is that multiple people
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Speaker 4: were taken to hospital last night. Now this was you're
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Speaker 4: quite right. Electric bus and a car collided in Parnell.
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Speaker 4: All the emergency services so this happened, you know, they
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Speaker 4: were called to Tamaki Drive which is a busy area
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Speaker 4: where the bus was on fire. Police say, yes, it
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Speaker 4: was an Auckland Transport electric bus, making it prone as
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Speaker 4: we know, to reigniting people nearby. Social media was just
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Speaker 4: going off, people saying, you know, they saw intense flames
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Speaker 4: areca burning rubber people. You know, obviously we're on the
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Speaker 4: bus and that So the road along Tamakie Drive will
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Speaker 4: remain closed likely until well daylight probably, but an update
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Speaker 4: for the road uses you know, that should be coming
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Speaker 4: and more details, you know, like this morning, because there's
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Speaker 4: a little, very very little. But like as you say,
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Speaker 4: this bus fire, this comes just after the crash remember
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Speaker 4: in that busy west Aalkand transit station, which was only
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Speaker 4: like a week a couple of weeks ago, and that
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Speaker 4: left the electric bus smoldering.
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Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, so does that one. This is so
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Speaker 2: they're more prone to it because they've got the batter reasons.
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Speaker 4: That's right, they're more prone to it.
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Speaker 2: It was massive flames I saw the photos exactly. Shoot,
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Speaker 2: all right, how's our weather?
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Speaker 4: Okay, so yeah, mixed bag, morning drizzle, afternoon chowers turning
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Speaker 4: too heavy, rain, possibly thundery, strong northwesteries, very warm. Twenty
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Speaker 4: three the high here and all thank.
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Speaker 2: You never eighteen minutes away from six Give this man
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Speaker 2: a metal. Foreign Minister Winston Peter's guests where he is today?
23:48
Speaker 2: Of all of the countries in the world, Iceland, the
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Speaker 2: guy just does not stop, does he. He's over there,
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Speaker 2: other end of the planet. He's looking at a geo
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Speaker 2: thermal power station. There he's meeting with the prime minister.
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Speaker 2: Series meeting with the energy minister, you name it. It's
24:04
Speaker 2: part of a Nordic tour. Is also going Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland.
24:07
Speaker 2: We're in the US. Next news Talk seb. According to
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Speaker 2: six on news Talks Hebb, we were talking earlier about
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Speaker 2: the cost of how much it will cost you to
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Speaker 2: retire comfortably and Massi University. Yes, they said it was
24:19
Speaker 2: basically a million bucks for two people, a million bucks
24:21
Speaker 2: in a city area and half that if you're in
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Speaker 2: the provinces. Loads of texts on this this morning, Ryan,
24:27
Speaker 2: absolute rubbish. My husband and myself both retired on a
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Speaker 2: pension on less than a quarter of the amount that
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Speaker 2: you're quoting. Where do people get these figures? Do they
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Speaker 2: pull them out of the ear. It does depend on
24:37
Speaker 2: your lifestyle, dear Texter, and the choice'es lifestyle that that
24:42
Speaker 2: refers to gives you treats. It gives you meals out,
24:45
Speaker 2: you know, going out for dinner with friends, it gives
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Speaker 2: you holidays. It's actually quite a comfortable one designed to
24:51
Speaker 2: basically match what lifestyle you might have during your working
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Speaker 2: life to one you want in retirement. Just gone fourteen
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Speaker 2: to six International correspondence.
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Speaker 1: So with ends in Eye Insurance, Peace of mind for
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Speaker 1: New Zealand Business Cisco.
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Speaker 2: State cyber is Mitch mccannon, Mitch, good morning, welcome to
25:07
Speaker 2: the show. Good to have you here as always. Now, Hi, Ran,
25:10
Speaker 2: how are you doing good? Thank you. So Trump's suing
25:13
Speaker 2: the Department of Justice, but he is saying he'll give
25:16
Speaker 2: the money to charity, right.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, that's right. But Democrats aren't worried about that. They
25:20
Speaker 13: are in a state of outrage, as you might expect, Ryan,
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Speaker 13: it's been reported Donald Trump, and he's pretty much confirmed
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Speaker 13: it yesterday. He's seeking a large payment from his own
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Speaker 13: Justice Department for the prosecutions he was put through in
25:33
Speaker 13: the years while he was running for president. It's reported
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Speaker 13: that Donald Trump wants a payment that could total two
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Speaker 13: hundred and thirty million U S dollars or four hundred
25:41
Speaker 13: million New Zealand dollars. Now he's submitted two claims here.
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Speaker 13: The first is that his rights were violated during the
25:47
Speaker 13: investigation around Russian collusion, and the second one is he's
25:52
Speaker 13: his privacy was invaded when they went through mar A
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Speaker 13: Lago looking for sensitive documents while he was running for president.
25:59
Speaker 13: And it raises some various ethics questions because it's his
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Speaker 13: own Justice Department that would have to sign this off.
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Speaker 2: What about the shutdown thing, how's that going. It's still
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Speaker 2: in shutdown at the moment, and there's obviously calls for
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Speaker 2: it to end. But is it going to Oh, it
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Speaker 2: doesn't look like it at this stage.
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Speaker 13: There's going to be another vote today on this, but
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Speaker 13: the Republicans and Democrats aren't budging. But one of the
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Speaker 13: problems here is that the Democrats are complaining Donald Trump
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Speaker 13: won't even have a discussion with them about it, and
26:26
Speaker 13: he's about to take off on a tour of Asia
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Speaker 13: for a number of days. Meanwhile, seven hundred and fifty
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Speaker 13: thousand people still aren't being paid in the federal governments.
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Speaker 13: So twenty two days into the shutdown, no closer to
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Speaker 13: a solution.
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Speaker 2: Mitch, thank you for that much. Mccannon State signed thirteen
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Speaker 2: away from six joh on News Talk CB. So they
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Speaker 2: reckon one hundred thousand teachers, nurses, dentists, medical staff, you
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Speaker 2: name it, walking off the job today nationwide, this is
26:49
Speaker 2: the mega strike. Unions have called off the rallies in Wellington,
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Speaker 2: christ Church into Needen. This is because of the weather.
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Speaker 2: Chris Abercrombie's pptare president with me this morning. Good morning,
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Speaker 2: good morning. Is this one hundred thousand number accurate?
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Speaker 8: As accurate as it can be? You know, we think
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Speaker 8: that's about right.
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Speaker 2: Have you heard from the government or the Public Service
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Speaker 2: Commission lately?
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Speaker 8: No, we haven't known.
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Speaker 2: Have you tried to reach out to them.
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Speaker 8: We've made it very clear that we're more than happy
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Speaker 8: to talk about anything they want to talk about.
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Speaker 2: Have you messaged them, have you called them? Anything like that?
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Speaker 8: There's been some communication between our bargaining teams.
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Speaker 2: When is that?
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Speaker 8: Oh, there's some various emails have gone back and forth
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Speaker 8: over the last few days.
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Speaker 2: Okay, but nothing's you're not. No one's sitting down.
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Speaker 8: No, no one's sitting down.
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Speaker 2: Note, and you didn't present the latest offer the teachers.
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Speaker 8: Well, the teachers did yet to see it, and they
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Speaker 8: gave very good feedback on it and basically was out.
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Speaker 8: The biggest feedback was they felt disrespected by it.
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Speaker 2: So you did present the offer formerly to teachers.
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Speaker 8: Not formally, but they did, they did get the offer,
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Speaker 8: they did see it, and they did give feedback. Thousands
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Speaker 8: of thousands of teacher to feedback on it.
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Speaker 2: So you've got how many members.
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Speaker 8: You got, twenty one thousand.
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Speaker 2: And how many gave feedback.
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Speaker 8: Of six seven thousand I think?
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Speaker 2: Okay, So I mean not not a huge amount, is it?
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Speaker 8: No, But but it very clear that we're people fout
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Speaker 8: on it.
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Speaker 2: You guys are part of the CTU. The CTU is
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Speaker 2: in bed with labor. They've got voting powers and we're not.
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Speaker 8: We're not doing this, do you Well?
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Speaker 2: No, No, I'm asking the question. Do you think you
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Speaker 2: are a political organization?
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Speaker 3: Are you?
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Speaker 8: Are you asking of unions that are political organizations? Yes, yes,
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Speaker 8: unions are political organizations, just like Federated Farmers as a
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Speaker 8: political organization, but.
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Speaker 2: Not formally tied to the National Party.
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Speaker 8: I'm not formally tied to the Labor Party. PvdA is
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Speaker 8: not formally tied.
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Speaker 2: No, but you're part of the CEAT you know, yes, okay,
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Speaker 2: So does that not make you buy association type or
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Speaker 2: is this.
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Speaker 8: Well, wouldn't that make Federated farmers we association ties?
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Speaker 2: Well, they don't have it. They don't decide on who's
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Speaker 2: going to be the next national leader, you know what
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Speaker 2: I mean.
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Speaker 8: Well, that's a stretch.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's not. I mean, that's part of the labor rules,
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Speaker 2: isn't it. Can you see why? I guess can you
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Speaker 2: see why? There's an argument that you would be called
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Speaker 2: that these strikes would be called politically politically motivated.
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Speaker 8: Well, the employers, the governments, of course it would be
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Speaker 8: politically motivated. They make up the curriculum, they make up INCA,
29:29
Speaker 8: they make up their pay rates, they do everything the
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Speaker 8: government that affects teachers, So of course it's political.
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Speaker 2: Have you had, Chris, if you guys had any correspondence
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Speaker 2: with any parties, you know, in organizing the strike or
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Speaker 2: anything like that.
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Speaker 8: No, not that I'm aware of.
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Speaker 2: Okay, And is when's the next meeting that you know
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Speaker 2: of as scheduled for and will this be the last
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Speaker 2: strike of the year. I know you've got another couple
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Speaker 2: sort of smaller ones happening, but is this the last
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Speaker 2: action for the year or what our.
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Speaker 8: Next formal meetings? So the dates are locked in as
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Speaker 8: November the eleventh, that's the date the ministry has agreed to,
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Speaker 8: and hopefully we will have more before that that. We
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Speaker 8: do have a half day strike on November the fifth,
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Speaker 8: but we've loved about to call that off if we
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Speaker 8: don't need it.
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Speaker 2: All right, Chris, appreciate your time this morning. Thank you
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Speaker 2: for being with me. That is Chris Abercrombie, who's the
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Speaker 2: PPHA president. The next meeting there November the eleventh, nine
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Speaker 2: to six.
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Speaker 2: News Talk said be seven minutes away from six News
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Speaker 2: Talk said be Ryan. They won't strike when they are
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Speaker 2: on holiday. We need to hurry up and get rid
30:44
Speaker 2: of them. Ryan a teacher. I'm a teacher, not part
30:48
Speaker 2: of the union. I know many teachers who are in
30:50
Speaker 2: a furious that they lose a day's pay because of
30:52
Speaker 2: the union muppets. I mean, I'm sure there are some
30:54
Speaker 2: people that feel like that. But you'd have to say,
30:56
Speaker 2: if what Erica Stamford says is true, that there are
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Speaker 2: a whole bunch of tea which is out there who
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Speaker 2: hate the don't look like where the union is going
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Speaker 2: on this and would prefer to be at work, that
31:05
Speaker 2: we would have heard more from them. Maybe six away
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Speaker 2: from six ran Mike's in the studio, Mike, good morning.
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Speaker 14: Oh Ryan, we're not doing this. We're not doing this,
31:14
Speaker 14: Ryan doing what? Oh you're upsetting the unionists. Why do
31:17
Speaker 14: you get unionists on your program and upset them? For goodness,
31:20
Speaker 14: We're not here to upset unionists.
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Speaker 2: This is their big day.
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Speaker 14: All the rest of the media is right behind it.
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Speaker 14: It'll be a fabulous day. I just say, what about
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Speaker 14: the weather. What do you do in the weather?
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Speaker 2: I mean, you don't go weather, you don't rally in
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Speaker 2: and weather like.
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Speaker 14: Well, how are they going to hold the funeral for Jimboltia?
31:37
Speaker 2: Well? Quite right, And actually they've put out did you
31:39
Speaker 2: see the Ministry for Culture and Heritage is put out
31:41
Speaker 2: a statement this morning warning about flying flags at half
31:45
Speaker 2: mass and the health and safety protocols that will go
31:47
Speaker 2: around that with the red widness.
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Speaker 14: For goodness, So we got Don McKinnon on this morning.
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Speaker 14: I'm going to ask them about the weather and stuff.
31:52
Speaker 14: It's interesting how some things can go ahead and some
31:54
Speaker 14: things can't go ahead, just depending on your view of
31:57
Speaker 14: the world, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Somebody said that the whole weather thing is in an
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Speaker 2: invention of the Auckland media bubble.
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Speaker 14: You do remember that one of those that you're getting
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Speaker 14: me wound up here, the red warning. What you get
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Speaker 14: in the media these days is they've issued a very
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Speaker 14: rare red warning.
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Speaker 9: Now.
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Speaker 14: The reason it's rare is because they only invented it
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Speaker 14: two years ago. My entire life, they've never had these
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Speaker 14: sort of warnings. So they just say it's going to
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Speaker 14: be hey, listen, it's going to be really windy today.
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Speaker 14: They don't go red warning, orange warning. Everything about the
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Speaker 14: modern world is, you know, seventy k's on the Auckland
32:27
Speaker 14: Harbor Bridge suddenly has become a thing. Why seventy K
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Speaker 14: Suddenly you think.
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Speaker 2: Because we had invented it, We had that truck.
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Speaker 14: That ten years ago, and you know the next thing,
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Speaker 14: you know, we've got to red warning and flying trample.
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Speaker 2: The one thing we do need is really good rain
32:41
Speaker 2: radar assistance because the farmers checked them themselves and they
32:44
Speaker 2: know to move the livestock. But you've got to have
32:46
Speaker 2: that technology and all the right place.
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Speaker 14: Well, my mother, I was doing to my mother last night,
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Speaker 14: who's in the heart of the red zone, And I said,
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Speaker 14: I said, God bless you, and go, you know, go
32:54
Speaker 14: well with the red zone.
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Speaker 9: She go.
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Speaker 14: All she's upset about is the lack of range. She goes,
32:57
Speaker 14: I'm watching a garden die. What I want is some range, chick.
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Speaker 2: And hey, the Prime Minister this morning's in the Herald,
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Speaker 2: and I know you love the story, Mike, so I'll
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Speaker 2: share it with everybody else. So Christopher Luxon and Amanda
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Speaker 2: Luxeon's private holiday home this is on Wahiki Island at
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Speaker 2: Natangy Beach.
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Speaker 14: As opposed to what the public holiday home.
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Speaker 2: Wait, good point, Okay, this is salacious from the Herald
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Speaker 2: this morning. Valued at first valued at ten million dollars
33:23
Speaker 2: via the council. And they went, I didn't realize you
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Speaker 2: could challenge the valuation.
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Speaker 14: It's actually quite common.
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Speaker 2: They're saving eight thousand dollars a year after twenty five
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Speaker 2: thousand dollars a year rate spill because they were revalued.
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Speaker 14: And the reason the Council gave them the number is
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Speaker 14: because it's an algorithm. It's important to point out that
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Speaker 14: no one from the Council comes around, looks at your
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Speaker 14: kitchen and your coubds and goes, oh, it was a
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Speaker 14: nice place. They just pick a number and if you
33:44
Speaker 14: don't like it, you go and challenge it. So anyway,
33:46
Speaker 14: stop picking on unions and stop picking on the Prime Minister.
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