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Full Show Podcast: 28 November 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 2: To be a great Friday, just gone six after five
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Speaker 2: and great to have your company. We'll look at the
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Speaker 2: Tom Phillips inquiry before six vincent of the UK for
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Speaker 2: US migrations down there. It's Black Friday. Government wants the
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Speaker 2: scooters to ride in bike planes. Plus we've got more
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Speaker 2: good news on the economy front the agenda. It is Friday,
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Speaker 2: the twenty eighth of November. These two National Guard soldiers
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Speaker 2: that were shot still in a critical condition in DC.
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Speaker 2: He has judged an en for you.
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Speaker 3: My message to the individual who committed these acts is
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Speaker 3: you picked the wrong target, the wrong city and the
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Speaker 3: wrong country, and you'll be sorry for the violence and
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Speaker 3: the evil that you perpetrated in our nation's capital.
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Speaker 2: Turns out the guy she's talking about, the guy who's
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Speaker 2: alleged have done all of this, did some military work
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Speaker 2: and affteris done.
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Speaker 4: I also spoke to Director of the CIA John Ratcliffe
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Speaker 4: last night and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. There is
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Speaker 4: confirmation now that the subject had a relationship in Afghanistan
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Speaker 4: with partner forces. We are fully investigating that aspect of
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Speaker 4: his background as well to include any known associates that
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Speaker 4: are either overseas or here in the United States of America.
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Speaker 2: Now the Wall Street Journal is also reporting this morning
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Speaker 2: that he had a relationship with the CIA, So we'll
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Speaker 2: talk about that shortly. Hong Kong, that fire seventy five
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Speaker 2: did three hundred still missing, very grim. My block is
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Speaker 2: still on fire now.
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Speaker 5: My daughter and my husband are still not out. The
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Speaker 5: husband of my neighbor has already died.
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Speaker 2: More on the charges those guys are facing later. Finally,
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Speaker 2: this morning, the fifth and final season of Stranger Things
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Speaker 2: has dropped on Netflix.
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Speaker 6: We have a plan.
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Speaker 7: It's a bit insane.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we could go wrong, no idea, but I think
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Speaker 3: we should find.
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Speaker 8: Out everyone in.
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Speaker 6: I want to see that actor's horrent look.
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Speaker 2: Now, this is underwhelming for two reasons. Firstly, their whole
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Speaker 2: thing crashed worldwide. The platform crashed worldwide as everyone tries
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Speaker 2: to log in it at the same time. The second thing,
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Speaker 2: so they've got four episodes up so far. Reviews are
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Speaker 2: quite mixed. Apparently the show ceasils between thrilling and annoying.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day Early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and r V Supercenter explore r
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Speaker 2: Never really watched it. I watched a couple of episodes,
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Speaker 2: never really got into it, but too ironically, a little
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Speaker 2: too strange for me. Just gone eight minutes after five
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Speaker 2: nine two nine two is the number to text this morning.
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Speaker 2: Spent half my day yesterday driving around looking for a
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Speaker 2: car park. How annoying is that couldn't find one? I
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Speaker 2: did that trick you know where you go. Hail Mary,
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Speaker 2: full of grace, please find me a parking space. Didn't work.
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Speaker 2: Usually it works. Not that I'm religious, pay park free, park,
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Speaker 2: I don't care. I just needed to park. Actually, this
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Speaker 2: is a good thing, and this is how I calmed
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Speaker 2: myself down yesterday. So this is a good thing. It
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Speaker 2: means that people are out shopping and they're outspending. A
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Speaker 2: full street is a healthy street. But we need more
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Speaker 2: car parks, don't we We need more car I don't
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Speaker 2: care where you live in New Zealand, you need more
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Speaker 2: car parks. The city in Auckland, the CRL doesn't take
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Speaker 2: you everywhere. Won't take you everywhere it finally opens, it's
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Speaker 2: not going to take you quickly either. I was chatting
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Speaker 2: to Nick Saunty yesterday from Eden Park and he wants
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Speaker 2: to build fifteen hundred car parks at eden Park. Have
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Speaker 2: a listen.
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Speaker 9: We could easily get fifteen hundred car parks on the
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Speaker 9: outer oval. That would enable then a footbridge into Kingsland,
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Speaker 9: a master plan for the stadium, and we have that master.
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Speaker 2: Plan and massive profits for Eden Park.
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Speaker 10: That's exactly right.
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Speaker 2: So they are massive profits. So the stadium he worked
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Speaker 2: at in Melbourne, the car park was their single largest
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Speaker 2: source of revenue more than anything else. No, the concerts,
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Speaker 2: the rugby, whatever it was, they go gangbusters, they go nuts.
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Speaker 2: Good luck to them. Note yesterday you know he wants
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Speaker 2: more concerts. The local board voted against giving him more concerts.
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Speaker 2: I mean, what a bunch of muppets. Anyway, I had
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Speaker 2: to look at the airports this morning because it's the
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Speaker 2: Similars thing with to Stadia. You drive somewhere, you leave
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Speaker 2: your car for a while, and you go and do
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Speaker 2: something fun. In this case, it'd be a holiday. Sydney,
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Speaker 2: Brisbane and Melbourne car parking is between seven and fifteen
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Speaker 2: percent of their total revenue. Isn't that fascinating? A few
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Speaker 2: years back they made a loss on everything else except
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Speaker 2: car parking for airports, like the profit margins for these
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Speaker 2: airports to a pretty incredible forty percent at Melbourne, fifty
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Speaker 2: eight percent in Brisbane and in Perth. So why are
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Speaker 2: more of them being built? Maybe they are and I
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Speaker 2: just haven't seen them. I'm seeing parks being taken away,
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Speaker 2: but where are the new ones that are there to
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Speaker 2: replace thement? And I don't care if we're paying loads
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Speaker 2: for them? Where are they? No point having an economic
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Speaker 2: recovery on and shops ready for business when people can't
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Speaker 2: get there in the first place. Ryan Bridge five eleven
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Speaker 2: on News Talk SETB. You know the East scooters, the
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Speaker 2: line scooters that you see driving around. Apparently they're not
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Speaker 2: allowed to use the bike planes, which I've seen them
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Speaker 2: in the bike lane, so they must be breaking the rules. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: government wants to change those rules. We'll talk about that
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Speaker 2: next News Talk Set B on your.
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Speaker 1: Radio and online on iheard radio of early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and are the Supercenter explore? Are these accessories
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Speaker 2: News Talk set B News Talk SEB. It is five
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Speaker 2: point thirteen on your Friday morning ride and needing counselor
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Speaker 2: is busy removing car parking in favor of cycle lanes
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Speaker 2: and taxi ranks, and that is annoying. The thing is,
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Speaker 2: you've got to have everything right. The CRL people if
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Speaker 2: they want to go to Eden Park and they want
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Speaker 2: to go on a train, they can go on the CRL.
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Speaker 2: If they want to go on a bus, you can
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Speaker 2: go on a bus. But some people will want to drive,
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Speaker 2: and so they should have a car park. They're available
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Speaker 2: for them, so let them build the fifteen hundred parks.
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Speaker 2: I say. Now, let's get to the retail trade numbers
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Speaker 2: out yesterday, because they were rather good. This is for
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Speaker 2: September from stats in Z. Retail activity increase one point
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Speaker 2: nine percent, moving up motor vehicle parts retailing up seven
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Speaker 2: point two Electronic and electrical goods up nine point eight percent.
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Speaker 2: Supermarket grocery stores down one point four that's hopefully a
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Speaker 2: good thing. Food and beverage services up one point six Hardware,
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Speaker 2: building and garden supplies up one point seven percent. This
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Speaker 2: is great, the largest increase by the way since the
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Speaker 2: December quarter of twenty twenty one for retail activity. It's great.
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Speaker 2: It's a good sign because it means that for quarter
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Speaker 2: three GDP should be looking all right. It is fourteen
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Speaker 2: after five Grand Bridge Auctually. Adding to all of this
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Speaker 2: is retailers getting a boost from Black Friday, which is
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Speaker 2: today now outpacing Boxing Day sales. Thirty nine percent of
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Speaker 2: us say we do most of our gift shopping on
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Speaker 2: days just like this one. Jennifer Andrews is Oyster Property
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Speaker 2: Group and manages Dress Smart Shopping sent Jennifer, good morning,
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Speaker 2: Good morning, so what's the plan today.
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Speaker 11: We're expecting a really great Black Friday. Back Over the
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Speaker 11: last few months, it's been a difficult retail time in
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Speaker 11: New Zealand, but obviously statistics are showing that things are improving.
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Speaker 11: So we're preparing for a very busy day today. We
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Speaker 11: have discounts all through the weekend, but particularly Black Friday
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Speaker 11: is when most people like to come out to find
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Speaker 11: the discounts. Consuming New Zealand recently warned that not all
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Speaker 11: Black Friday deals are what they've seen at Dressmart. Our
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Speaker 11: promise is to is consistent and we deliver all year
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Speaker 11: round savings of thirty to seventy percent, and we're a
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Speaker 11: true outlet center in terms of that daily discount. But
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Speaker 11: on Black Friday, retailers office savings that get better than that.
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Speaker 11: So we really do see it as a very popular
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Speaker 11: day to come out shopping.
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Speaker 2: All right, Jennifer, what's your best deal today? Because it's
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Speaker 2: thirty to seventy percent off? I mean, can I get
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Speaker 2: something for ninety percent off today?
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Speaker 11: Potentially there are stores that have discounts on top of
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Speaker 11: that feed for example, which is Women's Where and Children's Where,
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Speaker 11: they will have a discount on top of their regular discount.
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Speaker 11: But all of the stores are offering great offers. I
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Speaker 11: was there yesterday walking through them, and there's just so
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Speaker 11: many options. I think our retailers are telling us that
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Speaker 11: in particular, customers are after luxury guesting brands like Coach
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Speaker 11: we have, which is a high end brand, but they
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Speaker 11: have huge discounts on all of their accessories today. And
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Speaker 11: then summer essentials are really popular at this time of year.
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Speaker 11: Beach where holiday clothing, get your jail opened.
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Speaker 2: Get your geneals, get your beach balls. Jennifer, have you
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Speaker 2: got enough car parks?
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Speaker 11: We'd have plenty of car parks. Have you gone over
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Speaker 11: seven hundred car park.
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Speaker 2: Okay, does it get full?
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Speaker 11: I think if you come out before say three pm,
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Speaker 11: the morning's always best. But we manage it really carefully.
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Speaker 11: We have people walking through making sure that the cars
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Speaker 11: circulate really well.
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Speaker 6: All right.
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Speaker 11: So yeah, and you've got the whole weekend. The retailers
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Speaker 11: keep their discounts going all weekend.
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Speaker 2: Jennifer looking forward to it, getting out there and spending
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Speaker 2: some money. Jennifer Andrews with us from Oyster Property Group.
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Speaker 2: They manage dress Smart shopping center that's in Auckland. Seventeen
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Speaker 2: minutes after five, we'll be back with cycling next.
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Speaker 1: News and views you trust to start your day.
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Speaker 6: It's earlier. This ship with Ryan Bridge and r.
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Speaker 6: Fall than one news talks that'd.
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Speaker 2: Be five twenty. This fire in Hong Kong terrible thing
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Speaker 2: to see and it's bamboo scaffolding around it. That's a
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Speaker 2: big problem. They also apparently used styrofoam to seal the
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Speaker 2: windows on all of the floors and that it just
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Speaker 2: took off. That's what happened. They've arrested three guys. Now,
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Speaker 2: there was a maintenance firm that was responsible for the building.
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Speaker 2: They've been arrested on manslaughter. Two of them are directors
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Speaker 2: and one of them is an engineering consultant, so they've
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Speaker 2: been locked up already. They're going to face some kind
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Speaker 2: of charges, potentially manslaughter charges. And the residents who were
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Speaker 2: inside looking out their windows at the workers on this
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Speaker 2: bamboo scaffolding said that they were smoking cigarettes.
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Speaker 6: Rayham Bridge, you're on news.
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Speaker 2: Talk, said b The government's considering thinking about moving East
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Speaker 2: scooters into cycle lanes as injury costs go through the
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Speaker 2: roof es scooter industries cost ACC nearly fourteen million alone
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Speaker 2: this year. Patrick Morgan is Cycle Action spokesperson with me
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Speaker 2: this morning. Good morning, Patrick, Good morning Mayne. Are you
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Speaker 2: happy to share a lane with a limescooter? Yeah?
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Speaker 12: This is long overdue. It makes sense for this to happen.
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Speaker 12: Pedestrians really don't want es scooters on the footpath and
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Speaker 12: off on our streets can be quite hostile for people,
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Speaker 12: so it makes sense to put estcooters on bike lanes.
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Speaker 12: But we're going to need a lot more bike planes,
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Speaker 12: aren't we.
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Speaker 2: You just had to do it, didn't you. You had
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Speaker 2: to go there, Patrick? How many more bike planes do
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Speaker 2: we need?
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Speaker 12: Look, modern cities give people choices about how they get around,
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Speaker 12: whether you walk, bike, take the car, the bus, whatever.
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Speaker 12: Eastcooter is a part of modern cities. They're here to stay,
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Speaker 12: but they need to be managed properly. And that's why
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Speaker 12: it's good news that the government is at last updating
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Speaker 12: the law to permit them in bike lanes.
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Speaker 2: No get that, but how many more bike lanes do
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Speaker 2: you reckon? We need?
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Speaker 12: We don't need a bikeplane on every street, No one's
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Speaker 12: asking for that. What we need is bike planes on
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Speaker 12: busy streets where people want to go, so to get
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Speaker 12: people to our schools, workplaces, shops. There's a trend in
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Speaker 12: modern cities for people to get around by bike. You
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Speaker 12: by conscuter. So I think councilors and the government need
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Speaker 12: to restart building bike planes to meet public demand.
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Speaker 2: Right. And is that demand there? Because last time I
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Speaker 2: we spent hundreds and millions of dollars probably over billions
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Speaker 2: now on cycle ways across the country and cycle networks
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Speaker 2: across the country, and yet there's still only two percent
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Speaker 2: of us commuting to work on them according to the census.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, you've got to be aware of that.
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Speaker 12: We haven't spent nearly that much. Bikelanes are the best
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Speaker 12: bang for bucket and transport. They're cheap to do, you
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Speaker 12: can roll them out quickly. There's huge public demand.
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Speaker 2: We can see that, and some of them, some of
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Speaker 2: them are cost tens and millions of dollars for a
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Speaker 2: little tiny one.
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Speaker 12: It just doesn't add up to the number you said.
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Speaker 12: What we've got is do you know how much we
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Speaker 12: had Wellington? It's well under that. But they are great
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Speaker 12: dolly for money because they reduce congestion, they get people
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Speaker 12: where they're going, and they also give people the choices
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Speaker 12: to get around the modern city. So for example, in
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Speaker 12: Wellington we have added thirty two kilometers of bike lanes
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Speaker 12: in just about four years. On some of them. The
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Speaker 12: numbers have doubles in just over a year's time. That's
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Speaker 12: what success looks like.
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Speaker 2: Doubled from what to what.
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Speaker 12: I think the numbers and went around four not around
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Speaker 12: four thousand people get around by bike every single day
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Speaker 12: in the numbers even hard it's not imagine all those
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Speaker 12: people on the bass.
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Speaker 2: You know, do you know? Because the number who are
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Speaker 2: commuting to work is an interesting one, isn't it? And
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Speaker 2: that hasn't changed really in the sensus the two most
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Speaker 2: recent A.
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Speaker 12: No, that's not true at all. It's been going up
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Speaker 12: in Wellington for over a Decade's familiar with also in
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Speaker 12: christ Church. When you're built a good network, people use it.
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Speaker 2: But are they? I mean are they? It's like two percent.
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Speaker 12: The sensus only measures the journey to work. The trouble
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Speaker 12: without is that it doesn't count the journeys that many
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Speaker 12: people make, for example, people make in their local communities,
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Speaker 12: that children make to school children under fifteen, So we
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Speaker 12: know that the numbers are much higher than that. We
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Speaker 12: also know that people deserve to be safe and by
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Speaker 12: planes keep people safe. How can you put a price
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Speaker 12: on that?
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Speaker 2: All right, Patrick, appreciate your time this morning. Thanks for
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Speaker 2: being with me. Patrick Morgan's Cycling Action spokesperson. It is
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Speaker 2: twenty four minutes after five News TALKSVB. We'll look at
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Speaker 2: some on some fallout from that RB and Z report
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Speaker 2: yesterday the.
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Speaker 1: Early edition full the show podcast on iHeartRadio, how It
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Speaker 2: Talks B, News TALKSB. It is five twenty six. This
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Speaker 2: rbn Z update this week made the point that yes
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Speaker 2: we are and bounce back mode. It's back on everybody.
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Speaker 2: We will grow two and a half percent next year,
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Speaker 2: they reckon, But this country needs more than that, and
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Speaker 2: it deserves more than that. The problem for us is,
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Speaker 2: and how has been for many years, in fact, probably
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Speaker 2: thirty years now, productivity, how much we get out for
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Speaker 2: what we put in. We went sideways, and just recently
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Speaker 2: it's been falling. As you know, this is a bad thing.
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Speaker 2: It's taking us more people, more resources to make less stuff.
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Speaker 2: It puts a ceiling on our success. It's a wealth killer.
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Speaker 2: Some reckon. It's the canary in the coal mine, the
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Speaker 2: thing we should care about most because we're basically sleepwalking
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Speaker 2: into third world status, which sounds a bit dramatic, like
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Speaker 2: falling asleep on a plane and waking up in a
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Speaker 2: different country. One day, we will wake up outside of
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Speaker 2: the OECD. Wouldn't that feel a bit gutting? The solution
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Speaker 2: in part is AI. The World Economic Forum has put
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Speaker 2: some numbers on this. They show it can boost labour
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Speaker 2: productivity and developed countries by up to forty percent over
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Speaker 2: fifteen years. Imagine if we achieved something even close to that. Here.
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Speaker 2: The richer your country, the more you gain, which stands
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Speaker 2: to reason because higher labor costs incentivize switching to AI
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Speaker 2: to save on your wage bills. Right, the economic upswing
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Speaker 2: that we're seeing right now is a business cycle uplift.
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Speaker 2: They go up, they go down. But if you're talking
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Speaker 2: about making this country a serious economic contender on the
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Speaker 2: world stage as we once were, then you need a plan,
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Speaker 2: you need a strategy, you need electricity and a shrake
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Speaker 2: ton of it, and you need to get rid of
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Speaker 2: a whole bunch of regulations. Do we have those things
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Speaker 2: right now? No, but we need to. I'm hoping that
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Speaker 2: next year at the election, more than a tax cut
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Speaker 2: here or a medicard there, somebody from some parties somewhere
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Speaker 2: I don't even care, which paints us a credible path
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Speaker 2: towards prosperity and wealth again, because Lord knows we need it.
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Speaker 2: Pry and Bridge News TALKSB twenty nine minutes Our five.
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Speaker 2: A couple of techs for you this morning, morning, Ryan.
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Speaker 2: We needed a new washing machine, and we did our research,
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Speaker 2: decided on a brand and a model. It was acquired
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Speaker 2: in the Black Friday Sale for eight hundred and eighty
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Speaker 2: two dollars, but retail price was one thy fifty five,
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Speaker 2: a huge saving of one hundred and seventy three dollars.
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Speaker 2: That's just a normal sale price, says Michael. Nothing spectacular.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that's that seems quite good to me.
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Speaker 2: Ryan's cycle lanes have created congestion because they take away
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Speaker 2: the car parks. Ryan, I work in South Auckland. Never
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Speaker 2: seen a person on a bike in the bike plane,
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Speaker 2: says Mark. Someone else wants East scooters to have a
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Speaker 2: speed limit on them. I think they do in some
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Speaker 2: areas if you're around a congested area. We're in the UK.
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Speaker 2: Next then the Tom Phillips Inquiry, News Talks vb.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on Early Edition with r V Supercenter explore
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Speaker 2: Twenty four away from six year on news Talks ZIRB
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Speaker 2: on your Friday morning, coming up to look at the
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Speaker 2: Tom Phillips Inquiry. Vincent's in the UK for US, the
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Speaker 2: migration numbers are down there. They're quite happy about, thank
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Speaker 2: you very much. A funny story out of Australia. They
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Speaker 2: are absolutely ropeable, especially the farmers over there about their
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Speaker 2: new Bureau of Meterology Forecaster. They've done a revamp of
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Speaker 2: their website and be like met Service here. If they
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Speaker 2: revamp the website and one morning you log in to
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Speaker 2: check you whether and the whole thing is just upside down.
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Speaker 2: That's what's happened, by the way, in New South Wales outback,
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Speaker 2: New South Wales forty four point eight degrees yesterday, quite hot.
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Speaker 2: We thought twenty six was bad in Auckland anyway. So
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Speaker 2: they call it the bomb, the Bureau of Meteorology. So
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Speaker 2: the Bomb changes its website. Been planning the change for years.
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Speaker 2: It's now a disaster. The hashtag that's trending is change
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Speaker 2: it back. That's gone viral. They did a new color
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Speaker 2: scheme for the rain radar. No one can understand it.
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Speaker 2: The farmers are furious. The fishermen are furious because they
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Speaker 2: can no longer put in their GPS coordinates of where
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Speaker 2: they are in Australia and then it will give them
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Speaker 2: a specific forecast, and they just absolutely outraged. This gets worse.
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Speaker 2: So they're hot under the collar already right because of
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Speaker 2: the temperature and of the new layout, and then they
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Speaker 2: get the news drops on them like a big bike
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Speaker 2: a bomb. The cost for the revamp of the website
19:17
Speaker 2: was supposed to be four million dollars. The total cost
19:21
Speaker 2: of the redesign ninety six point five million dollars. Bryan Bridge,
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Speaker 2: I know twenty two away from Sex. Let's get to
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Speaker 2: our reporters around the country. Colum in Toned and Colum
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Speaker 2: good morning morning, right, big power cut there today?
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Speaker 13: Yeah, a lot of people waking up here to know
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Speaker 13: power this morning. More than two thousand seven hundreds of
19:43
Speaker 13: eating households and facts are currently without power, with the
19:47
Speaker 13: crews still working around to try and pinpoint the.
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Speaker 2: Cause of this major outage.
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Speaker 13: Aurora Energy says electricity was cut initially to about six
19:55
Speaker 13: and a half thousand customers at around three point thirty
19:58
Speaker 13: this morning. The suburbs affected it from Port Chalmers to
20:02
Speaker 13: Northeast Valley and teams are still investigating what triggered this
20:06
Speaker 13: mass loss of supply.
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Speaker 2: Do they know when the power will be back on?
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Speaker 6: At the stage?
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Speaker 13: No word at the stage.
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Speaker 2: Ok. How's your weather?
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Speaker 13: Our showers possible for our Friday today? A north easterly
20:16
Speaker 13: and nineteen the high cheers.
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Speaker 2: Callum clear, good morning, good morning. So christ Church will
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Speaker 2: be the new site for this arebus Memorial?
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Speaker 14: Yes, that's right of course. Today Mark's forty six years
20:27
Speaker 14: since two hundred and fifty seven people died when that
20:29
Speaker 14: Air New Zealand flight slammed into the mountain in Antarctica
20:33
Speaker 14: in nineteen seventy nine. We knew already that two christ
20:37
Speaker 14: Church sites had been formally offered by our council. We
20:40
Speaker 14: had Craycroft Reserve, which is in Cashmere, effectively in the Porthills,
20:44
Speaker 14: and also a spot on the Avon River, of course,
20:47
Speaker 14: after a plan to build one in Auckland was aborted.
20:50
Speaker 14: The Airline Pilots Association president Andrew McKean says christ Church
20:54
Speaker 14: is New Zealand's gateway to Antarctica, so it makes sense
20:58
Speaker 14: to have a memorial here, given the flight was intended
21:00
Speaker 14: to stop over before returning to Auckland. But christ Churge
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Speaker 14: mayor Film Major, says he welcomes those impacted by the
21:06
Speaker 14: tragedy to the city to remember their loved ones and
21:09
Speaker 14: what he calls a tranquil spot of the porthills. He
21:12
Speaker 14: says the city holds a place in the tragedy. As
21:15
Speaker 14: the plane was due to land here.
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Speaker 2: It certainly was how's your weather?
21:18
Speaker 14: High cloud clearing to find this morning westerly is developing
21:22
Speaker 14: before turning easterly. The high will be twenty six excellent.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Claire Max and Wellington Max, good morning morning.
21:29
Speaker 2: Oh you've got a story about parking, paid parking being
21:32
Speaker 2: put on ice. Yeah.
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Speaker 15: This is in Petoni, the Lower Hut Harbour side suburb,
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Speaker 15: but lovely area I visit quite often. I can tell
21:39
Speaker 15: you about a year ago the Hut City Council for
21:41
Speaker 15: the first time introduced paid parking along the high street
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Speaker 15: Jackson Street. To say it was controversial, wo'd probably be
21:47
Speaker 15: a bit of an understatement. I've tried to dodge it
21:50
Speaker 15: myself a few times and never been picked up. But
21:53
Speaker 15: one business owner told me it certainly is well enforced.
21:56
Speaker 15: People are pinged all the time. Hut City has a
21:59
Speaker 15: new man, now well known, Ken Laban. He's probably been
22:02
Speaker 15: hearing an earful from locals on the campaign trail and
22:05
Speaker 15: so over the Christmas and New Year period. The hud
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Speaker 15: City Council has announced it's very graciously suspending the enforcement
22:12
Speaker 15: of paid parking on Jackson Street and on another nearby
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Speaker 15: large car park. Apparently time limits will still remain. I'm
22:19
Speaker 15: not sure how strict that will be, but good good
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Speaker 15: Ken Laban says it marks the start of a longer
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Speaker 15: conversation around parking in the area. Business is down for
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Speaker 15: what's a wonderful street. Perhaps this bit of bureaucratic greed
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Speaker 15: may eventually be reversed for good.
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Speaker 2: Sounds like your popular mere already. How's your weather?
22:39
Speaker 15: Yes, periods of rain this morning, clearing later strong wind
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Speaker 15: twenty one nice one, Thank you.
22:44
Speaker 2: Neiva in Auckland, Good morning, theres Auckland Transport's got a
22:48
Speaker 2: bus thing going on. What's going on?
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Speaker 15: Yeah?
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Speaker 10: So look what's happened is it? Dozens of bus stops
22:53
Speaker 10: in Auckland. They've been lived without benches, you know, the benches,
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Speaker 10: the seats and apparently they've been stolen, likely for metal
23:00
Speaker 10: so ats. Notified police and what we know so far
23:04
Speaker 10: is it's sixty five of its three thousand bus shelters
23:07
Speaker 10: have been left with no seats. Rebecca Tempoole, she's the spokesperson.
23:11
Speaker 10: She says that it uses this is hilarious anti theft
23:15
Speaker 10: bolting on the seats, right, yeah, but unfortunately these bolts
23:18
Speaker 10: haven't been enough to stop the thefts.
23:20
Speaker 2: What are people doing with the seats to putting them
23:23
Speaker 2: in their gardens?
23:24
Speaker 10: No, well they're just taking them in, you know, like
23:26
Speaker 10: stolen for scrap metal. Because I think it's in the
23:29
Speaker 10: middle of the night I think, you know, people go
23:31
Speaker 10: running around and they steal a lot of the it's
23:33
Speaker 10: even like plugs at cemeteries and things like that.
23:36
Speaker 2: Most awful. If they had buses, like if we had
23:38
Speaker 2: public transport that came more often. You don't need to
23:41
Speaker 2: sit down, like when you know, when you're in London
23:42
Speaker 2: on the underground, no one's sitting waiting out under standing
23:45
Speaker 2: because it's three minutes to your next train.
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Speaker 10: But you do need to sit down In Auckland, could
23:50
Speaker 10: they should give you a bed? And I feel sorry
23:53
Speaker 10: for older people as well, because you know what not
23:55
Speaker 10: that I take public dreads. Well, when I'm driving past
23:58
Speaker 10: and everyone's standing, I went, oh, but you know, if
24:00
Speaker 10: you've got older people, yeah, yeah, and encouraging, you need
24:03
Speaker 10: to sit down.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a need bus stop, hotels, that's the really.
24:10
Speaker 10: Because in Mount Eden apparently Mount Eden Road is one
24:13
Speaker 10: of the worst and they've you know, like aight's gone
24:16
Speaker 10: down there and there's been like five or six of
24:18
Speaker 10: those bus stops been hit.
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Speaker 14: Terrible.
24:21
Speaker 2: How's our weather?
24:22
Speaker 10: Clowny? Few showers, possibly heavy and thundery from afternoon twenty
24:25
Speaker 10: five is the high and other hot one?
24:27
Speaker 2: Thank you never seventeen away from six a couple of
24:30
Speaker 2: quick things. We've had loads of text on the cycle ways,
24:33
Speaker 2: as you can imagine. And we spoke to Patrick Morgan
24:35
Speaker 2: from the Cycle Action Network earlier in the program and
24:38
Speaker 2: I said, oh, there's hundreds of millions a dollar to
24:40
Speaker 2: spend on these cycle ways and I was like, maybe
24:43
Speaker 2: it's a billion by now. Well I had a little
24:45
Speaker 2: look because he said it's nothing like that. So on
24:48
Speaker 2: the urban cycle program, this is partly funded by councils,
24:52
Speaker 2: partly funded by government. Between twenty fifteen and twenty eighteen
24:57
Speaker 2: there was an investment of two hundred million dollars cycling
25:01
Speaker 2: as part of that one particular program. So it is
25:04
Speaker 2: hundreds of millions, isn't it. And then that's for a
25:07
Speaker 2: couple of years. How much has it been since then?
25:10
Speaker 2: And then how much more cycling is actually being done?
25:14
Speaker 2: I mean, they're just basic questions about whether it's worth
25:18
Speaker 2: the investment. Because you also do, as everyone's pointing out,
25:21
Speaker 2: takeaway cycle ways too. Now productivity. I was kind of
25:25
Speaker 2: bagging our productivity earlier, and it deserves a punch in
25:28
Speaker 2: the guts, except if you're a cow. Cow productivity is
25:32
Speaker 2: up massively. Dairy farmers achieving more with fewer cows. This
25:36
Speaker 2: has shown through your record milk production per cow. Average
25:40
Speaker 2: cow producing four hundred and fourteen kilograms of milk solids.
25:43
Speaker 2: That is up fourteen kilograms from last season. How are
25:47
Speaker 2: they doing it? Well, they're using different feeds, they're using science,
25:51
Speaker 2: they're using technology. They've been smart about it. Sixteen to
25:55
Speaker 2: six News Talk.
25:56
Speaker 1: SEBB International Correspondence with ends it insurance, peace of mind
26:01
Speaker 1: for New Zealand business sit in.
26:03
Speaker 2: The do Talk ZB. So let's go to the UK
26:06
Speaker 2: where I've had their budget is today we told you
26:08
Speaker 2: about that now. NIT migration is down quite drastically. Vincent
26:11
Speaker 2: McAvennie are UK europe correspondent, Vincent, good morning, good morning.
26:16
Speaker 2: So well what's the number.
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Speaker 8: Well, this is a huge drop. It's down to two
26:21
Speaker 8: hundred and four thousand from six hundred and forty nine
26:26
Speaker 8: last year. It's driven by fewer arrivals for work and
26:30
Speaker 8: study reasons. And this is a huge drop from the
26:34
Speaker 8: last five years when it speak sort of rose in
26:37
Speaker 8: Boris Johnson's time to almost a million in terms of
26:40
Speaker 8: net migration, and this is something that labor will want
26:44
Speaker 8: to celebrate. However, within those figures, around one hundred and
26:48
Speaker 8: thirty three thousand are people who have claimed asylum. So
26:52
Speaker 8: critics will be saying that whilst the migration figures show
26:56
Speaker 8: we've got fewer people coming in on the sort of
26:58
Speaker 8: traditional routes of a playing to come for working and studying,
27:02
Speaker 8: you still have a big number of people arriving here
27:05
Speaker 8: for asylum and that means that you're sort of not
27:07
Speaker 8: controlling as much as some people might like who is
27:10
Speaker 8: coming in and out of the country.
27:11
Speaker 2: Now, the limited form of military service that's going into
27:15
Speaker 2: France that have released the details.
27:18
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right. France is following a number of European
27:21
Speaker 8: countries which are bringing back forms of national service. Now
27:24
Speaker 8: this is a voluntary form, but they're looking to get
27:27
Speaker 8: around fifty thousand young French men and women involved in
27:31
Speaker 8: this in the next five or so years. They're wanting
27:36
Speaker 8: this to sort of be ready to sort of support
27:39
Speaker 8: the nation in any kind of emergency. And this is
27:41
Speaker 8: with the renewed threat of Russia from Europe. And as
27:44
Speaker 8: I said, the latest country that's following it, Belgium, has
27:47
Speaker 8: also done this. The Netherlands, they have introduced schemes and
27:50
Speaker 8: some countries like Lithuania, Latvia, they never really got rid
27:54
Speaker 8: of theirs. So it's something that European countries are considering.
27:58
Speaker 8: But whether or not young people want to do it
28:00
Speaker 8: means to be seen.
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Speaker 2: Vincent mcaviney are UK europe correspondent, to appreciate your time.
28:04
Speaker 2: Just to the US very quickly. You know, these two
28:07
Speaker 2: guards that were shot, to National Guard members who were shot,
28:10
Speaker 2: they're still in a critical condition. Turns out the guy
28:14
Speaker 2: who's accused of doing it, who also was shot by them.
28:17
Speaker 2: Trump's calling it an active terror. But this guy worked
28:21
Speaker 2: with the CIA in Kandahar. He was actually withdrawn from
28:25
Speaker 2: Afghanistan September twenty twenty one. That's when he entered the States,
28:30
Speaker 2: so used to work. There was some CIA backed military
28:33
Speaker 2: units that he was operating with. So yes, he's a
28:37
Speaker 2: very bad person, but also at some point worked with
28:40
Speaker 2: the US government. It's eleven away from six Ryan bridsch
28:44
Speaker 2: So we're getting a public inquiry into the Tom Phillips case.
28:46
Speaker 2: Justice Simon Moore case will run it. It's behind closed doors.
28:50
Speaker 2: They're going to look at agencies, including the police, did
28:53
Speaker 2: they do everything they could to protect those children. Jane
28:56
Speaker 2: Cearle Child Matters Chief executive with me this morning, Jane,
28:59
Speaker 2: Good morning.
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Speaker 12: Good morning Ryan.
29:01
Speaker 2: Now, the fact that it's private, you know that it's
29:04
Speaker 2: behind closed doors, good thing.
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Speaker 5: It is a good thing. I think it's entirely appropriate
29:09
Speaker 5: that we have this review. It's quite wide reaching, it's
29:11
Speaker 5: got a practical focus, but most importantly, it has been
29:14
Speaker 5: done to protect the rights of those involved. So I'm
29:17
Speaker 5: hopeful it's going to be a constructive process.
29:19
Speaker 2: Is what are we actually hoping to change here or achieve?
29:23
Speaker 5: Well, you know, the tragedy of this case doesn't hide
29:26
Speaker 5: the fact that we still have learnings to get from it,
29:29
Speaker 5: and if we can improve the system. Whatever recommendations come
29:32
Speaker 5: out of this is not as important as if they
29:35
Speaker 5: are actually implemented, because there's many recommendations from reviews that
29:38
Speaker 5: are never implemented. So what we want is strengthening the
29:41
Speaker 5: system that we can learn from it.
29:43
Speaker 2: This is such for audoing a Tamadikian agencies like that.
29:46
Speaker 2: It's between a rock and a hard place, aren't they.
29:48
Speaker 2: Because you go in and you take children away and
29:51
Speaker 2: people say, oh, you're taking you know, you count steal
29:53
Speaker 2: children from from families, and then you don't, and then
29:57
Speaker 2: you're criticized if you don't. It's a hard place to
30:00
Speaker 2: isn't it.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, and it's very easy for the public and media
30:05
Speaker 5: to judge without having all the facts. I'm very pleased
30:07
Speaker 5: to see that this review has a practical focus and
30:10
Speaker 5: that word was used because I think it's important to
30:12
Speaker 5: understand that people make decisions and those agencies on the
30:16
Speaker 5: information they have at the time.
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Speaker 2: Jane, appreciate your time this morning. Thank you. Jane Selchild
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Speaker 2: One News Talks at B Welcome back. It is seven
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Speaker 2: minutes away from six. You know, the UK had their
30:41
Speaker 2: budget yesterday, the Labor Party had their budgetes day. Nigel
30:44
Speaker 2: Faras has been waiting with this video to go and
30:47
Speaker 2: I think it looks like it's AI generated anyway, It's
30:49
Speaker 2: very dramatic. He's sitting there at a desk with a
30:51
Speaker 2: pen and a paper, penning a letter to Britain.
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Speaker 7: These cleuarless politicians have never run a business, have no
30:58
Speaker 7: idea how.
30:58
Speaker 6: The real world works.
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Speaker 7: Thanks to them, I would not be surprised if a
31:02
Speaker 7: financial crisis causes an early general election. When that election comes,
31:08
Speaker 7: Reformer UK will be ready. We will proudly be the
31:12
Speaker 7: party of Alarm Clock Britain, defending the hard working tax
31:15
Speaker 7: players who keep this country running well.
31:17
Speaker 2: Labour's pulling forth at the moment, as we told you
31:20
Speaker 2: in the other week, Reform number one, then Conservatives, then
31:22
Speaker 2: the Greens, then labor on fifteen worst result for them
31:26
Speaker 2: if they had an election tomorrow, which they're not. By
31:28
Speaker 2: the way, it's a long way off. Fifteen percent, worse
31:30
Speaker 2: than a century.
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Speaker 6: Bryan Bridge six' two.
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Speaker 2: And mike's here on A friday morning, Morning Mike Beth
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Speaker 2: Rigby morning And Beth rigby who works For sky In.
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Speaker 9: BRITAIN i thought she summed it up really. Well she,
31:41
Speaker 9: said it's a budget for the, party not the. Country
31:45
Speaker 9: and because the election is so far, off they need
31:47
Speaker 9: to sure up the lack of support within their caucus
31:50
Speaker 9: because their caucus is, massive of, course because they won
31:52
Speaker 9: very well and they don't know what to do with
31:54
Speaker 9: it and it's a disaster.
31:55
Speaker 2: And they've got those hard lefties and there away it.
31:58
Speaker 2: Is it's a very good it's very good.
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Speaker 9: Insight if you want to think about the election here next,
32:02
Speaker 9: year what what labor governments if you look at the
32:04
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32:07
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32:08
Speaker 2: And canada And. Canada Canada's nune with its debt and the.
32:11
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32:13
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32:16
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32:18
Speaker 2: That's true true for them than it is for us
32:21
Speaker 2: because they have more domestic. Demand we're reliant on trade
32:24
Speaker 2: that can go tits up. Tomorrow and you actually need
32:27
Speaker 2: to have some. Headroom yes you.
32:29
Speaker 9: Do it's it's it's it's it's they should run the
32:31
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32:48
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