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Full Show Podcast: 22 April 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: early editions with Spark for business technology that keeps business moving,
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Speaker 1: News talks.
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Speaker 2: They'd be good.
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Speaker 3: Morning, Welcome to Wednesday, six half to five before six o'clock.
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Speaker 3: Luxon is at war with the media, will talk about that.
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Speaker 3: We'll go to Gavin in the UK where the media
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Speaker 3: is at war with Starmer, the RB and Z money
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Speaker 3: to go to war with inflation, and we've got updates
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Speaker 3: on the actual war in the Middle East. The agenda
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Speaker 3: wouldn't say the twenty second of eight til Trump says
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Speaker 3: he expects to be bombing if no progress is made
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Speaker 3: toward peace talks. He says they will go to them,
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Speaker 3: but he's not happy to extend the cease. Fine, well,
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Speaker 3: I don't want to do that.
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Speaker 4: We don't have that much time because by the time
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Speaker 4: both parties get theirs, you know, they just got the
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Speaker 4: okay to go forward to which I do they were
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Speaker 4: going to do anyway. I mean, I don't think that enjoys.
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Speaker 4: They have to negotiate, and you know, the one thing
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Speaker 4: I'll say is that Iran can get themselves at a
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Speaker 4: very good footing if they make a deal.
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Speaker 3: Well, what they're talking about This is the speaker of
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Speaker 3: the Iranian Parliament preparing to show you some new cards
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Speaker 3: on the battle for Officials.
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Speaker 2: Tell us they want the talks with the United States
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Speaker 2: to continue, but in public, officials are saying that no
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Speaker 2: decision has been made yet about whether to go to
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Speaker 2: Islamabad this week. There is deep distrust of this process here.
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Speaker 3: Kevin Worse this is in the US. Trump's pick to
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Speaker 3: be the next bed chair has been facing questions from senators.
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Speaker 5: Are you gonna be the President's human sock puppet?
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Speaker 4: Senator?
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Speaker 6: Absolutely not?
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Speaker 5: Are you going to be anybody's human sock pupp.
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Speaker 7: Uh No, I'm honored the president nominal made for the position,
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Speaker 7: and I'll be an independent actor if confirmed as chairman
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Speaker 7: of the thunder Reserve.
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Speaker 3: You're gonna be a sock puppet. Let's go to the UK.
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Speaker 3: An emergency Commons debate underway over Mandelssohn the appointment so
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Speaker 3: former top official at the Foreign Office, Olli Robbins is
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Speaker 3: his name. He says Downing Street was dismissive on the vetting,
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Speaker 3: and then he gets the sack for not flagging that
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Speaker 3: Mandelsson didn't pass the vetting.
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Speaker 7: I do reflect honestly on my wonderful colleagues who are
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Speaker 7: sat in the British Empsy in Moscow call the British
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Speaker 7: Empsy in Beijing and are subjected to incredible pressure and
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Speaker 7: the way I try to leave them and support them
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Speaker 7: during my time as PUS, and of course I find
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Speaker 7: myself wondering who this helps.
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Speaker 3: Finally, this morning, Madonna is offering a reward after her
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Speaker 3: coach Hella outfit went missing. Several vintage pieces disappeared after
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Speaker 3: she made a surprise appearance during Sabrina Carpenter's set. So
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Speaker 3: if you know where Madonna's clothes and gone, then please
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Speaker 3: let her know.
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Speaker 1: News and views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for business technology
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Speaker 3: News talks. It'd be it is nine minutes after five nine,
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Speaker 3: the number of text She doesn't wear much, so I
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Speaker 3: imagine they'd be hard to find. You know what I
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Speaker 3: mean if you if you miss an outfit, if you're
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Speaker 3: missing an outfit and your Madonna, I mean it could
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Speaker 3: be anywhere, tiny little things she wears. Hey, a couple
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Speaker 3: of things to update you on on fuel. I mean
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Speaker 3: we will talk about luxon Do you want to talk
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Speaker 3: about luxon. Do we do that later. We'll do that later, okay,
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Speaker 3: Because he says he wants to talk about the economy.
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Speaker 3: I'm here to talk about the economy. So a couple
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Speaker 3: of things to update you on. Kuwait has notified customers,
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Speaker 3: and the problem for us is that their customers are
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Speaker 3: South Korea, China, and Singapore. South Korea and Singapore obviously
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Speaker 3: very important for us. Remember about a third of refined
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Speaker 3: fuel imports come from Singapore and half from South Korea.
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Speaker 3: So we are relying. We're downstream from those refineries, and
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Speaker 3: the refineries are downstream from Kuwait, and Kuwait has basically
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Speaker 3: invoked force majeur, which is where they say hold up.
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Speaker 3: I know, we said we were going to deliver these
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Speaker 3: barrels of oil to you. We're not sure that we can.
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Speaker 3: We're basically going to have to crouch and hold for
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Speaker 3: a second. So deliveries of crewe fude oil and refined
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Speaker 3: petroleum products will be disrupted from Qait. This is because
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Speaker 3: of what's happening in the straight up hoorll moos. So
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Speaker 3: they are a top supplier for Singapore. In particular, they
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Speaker 3: have a lot of heavy and light oil. Now heavy
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Speaker 3: oil the world is very much after at the moment
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Speaker 3: because that SHE diesel, that SHE jet fuel supply is
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Speaker 3: very tight. So very interesting development and one that could
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Speaker 3: affect us, though not immediately obviously. The other thing is
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Speaker 3: just having a look at the big boys, Mobile, Chevron,
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Speaker 3: other energy companies around the world. They are speeding and
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Speaker 3: this is actually could be to our benefit. They're speeding
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Speaker 3: up the global search for new oil and gas prospects
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Speaker 3: and you think, oh your airs peak. We now have
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Speaker 3: got rid of our ban on offshore oil and gas
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Speaker 3: exploration tech. We have prospects out there tech we know
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Speaker 3: because a bunch of them have been found, discovered and
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Speaker 3: then ditched after the band came into force. So Exon
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Speaker 3: is planning to pump twenty four billion bucks into Nigeria
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Speaker 3: to some deep water oil fells. Chevron is doing some
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Speaker 3: in Venezuela, BP doing a bunch of blocks off the
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Speaker 3: coast of Namibia. So why And they've all got all
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Speaker 3: this money flowing in from the windfall from the price
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Speaker 3: of oil at the moment, So why not New Zealand?
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Speaker 3: And do you know who's onto this? You won't be
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Speaker 3: surprised to hear Martua Shane Jones he's onto it, so
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Speaker 3: he's asked some officials to get in there and look
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Speaker 3: at doing a delegation to Japan. He wants them to
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Speaker 3: come there with come in with their big oil money
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Speaker 3: and do some prospecting. Further prospecting of a site off
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Speaker 3: the coast of Amadou, about sixty k's off the coast.
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Speaker 3: They reckon there could be billions of dollars under their
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Speaker 3: oil and gas construction, thirty seven thousand jobs inshore, on
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Speaker 3: and offshore, and getting advice on whether taking our delegation
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Speaker 3: to Japan would be a good idea, because he says,
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Speaker 3: in order to get that stuff out of the ground,
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Speaker 3: we need friends.
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Speaker 7: Ryan Breds five.
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Speaker 3: Twelve News Talks There b Nick touughly a be next
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Speaker 3: on inflation.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on early edition with spark for business technology
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Speaker 1: that keeps business moving newstalksb.
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Speaker 3: By fourteen News Talks. The'b daies dipped again. The global
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Speaker 3: dairy trade auction overnight down two point seven percent. It's
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Speaker 3: not as bad for your skim milk powder. That's sort
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Speaker 3: of one half of the equation for the most bought
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Speaker 3: for US skim milk powder up three point two percent.
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Speaker 3: Whole milk powder down point six. This is the second
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Speaker 3: time in a fortnight because the auctions fortnightly that we've
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Speaker 3: gone backwards. However, remember we have gone forwards all of
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Speaker 3: this year after a slump at the end of last
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Speaker 3: tractors for farmers listening this morning, you're buying more tractors.
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Speaker 3: Confidence looks like it has been returning. More than two
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Speaker 3: hundred new tractors were sold and registered in March. That
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Speaker 3: is the highest number since twenty twenty two. Ryan Bridge,
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Speaker 3: Inflation's coming hotter than expected three point one percent for
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Speaker 3: quarter one. Electricity big driver up twelve and a half percent.
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Speaker 3: Business confidence at the same time for quarter one has
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Speaker 3: been hit by the war. Nick Tuffley, ASBTF economist, joins
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Speaker 3: me this morning to day, Nick, good morning, So what
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Speaker 3: does the reserve being have to How high do they
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Speaker 3: have to go and buy? Wendy Reckon.
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Speaker 6: We think it's increasingly likely that the reserve bank will
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Speaker 6: start lifting around July. We still think they'll end up
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Speaker 6: somewhere around about three and a quarter percent, and we
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Speaker 6: think that's the more neutral level for the official cash rate.
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Speaker 6: So this is about starting from a point where you've
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Speaker 6: still got your foot on the gas pedal, or that
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Speaker 6: we have much gas these days to burn and getting
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Speaker 6: back to a more middle of the road level quicker
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Speaker 6: than what we would have thought before the war.
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Speaker 3: Those who say, oh, well, if you're going to do it,
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Speaker 3: you might as well do it early and get the
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Speaker 3: thing over and done with. What are they waiting for?
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Speaker 3: Is it to see how bad demand takes the hat?
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Speaker 6: Well, there's always the argument for going hard. I think
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Speaker 6: at the moment we still have a lot of uncertainty
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Speaker 6: of exactly how the initial impacts will hit. Even by July,
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Speaker 6: you're still missing some of the key evidence. But if
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Speaker 6: you go next month, look, we're still missing a chuin
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Speaker 6: of key data. We don't even know how well the
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Speaker 6: economy performed in the first quarter of the year, for example,
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Speaker 6: but you would have information such as for the employment
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Speaker 6: and unemployment data for the first quarter at that point.
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Speaker 6: But it's just not many pictures of pieces in the puzzle.
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Speaker 3: In May, people normally talk about three percent being the
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Speaker 3: neutral rate, and the RBNZ sort of won't give a
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Speaker 3: specific number, but just to range, you've said three and
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Speaker 3: a quarter percent. Why is that?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, that's where ostimate has been for a while.
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Speaker 6: But look, of these these are fairly loose. That sort
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Speaker 6: of three three and a half is where you've got
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Speaker 6: varying estimates from from people. So it's a rough guys.
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Speaker 6: You know, you're trying to observe something that's unobservable, but
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Speaker 6: generally speaking, that's where most people are estimating. That sort
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Speaker 6: of goldilocks interest rates is sitting.
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Speaker 3: In terms of the economy and the recovery, because they're
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Speaker 3: different things, aren't they. Inflation been up over three percent,
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Speaker 3: maybe at four maybe four and a half coming back
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Speaker 3: to three by Christmas. That's a different thing to our
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Speaker 3: economic recovery. To pe people need to freak out that
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Speaker 3: that is all at risk or has Trump sort of
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Speaker 3: shut up enough and doing enough on the peace talk
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Speaker 3: front to allay your fears of some kind of catastrophic
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Speaker 3: end to our recovery.
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Speaker 6: Well, we think we're still going to have a recovery.
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Speaker 6: That it's really slowed down this year. We were expecting
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Speaker 6: growth would reach somewhere close to three percent. Now we're
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Speaker 6: looking at something around one to one and a half.
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Speaker 6: So look, it is taking a bite out of our
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Speaker 6: growth through the middle parts of this year, and we
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Speaker 6: may initially have a slight contraction in the initial stages
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Speaker 6: of this hitting. Look, there's still good seeds in there.
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Speaker 6: You were just talking about dairy prices, where that's one
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Speaker 6: area as an example of where the economy is going well.
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Speaker 6: So it's not the sight of those totally as well.
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Speaker 6: But we're facing inflation where it could be getting close
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Speaker 6: to five percent this year, it's likely to finish the
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Speaker 6: year out or above four percent. So it's a really
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Speaker 6: tough situation for the Reserve Bank.
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Speaker 3: Nick, appreciate your trying this morning, Nick Touughley, who is
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Speaker 3: asbo's chief economist. Time is eighteen minutes after five. Also,
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Speaker 3: you look at the rates, you look at the insurance,
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Speaker 3: all those things that you hate, electricity, Yeah, those are
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Speaker 3: the driving the inflation at the moment, isn't it on
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Speaker 3: an annual basis anyway? Eighteen minutes after five, News Talks MB.
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Speaker 3: If you want a job at the moment, you could
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Speaker 3: do worse than the health set there, and we've got
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Speaker 3: new numbers on that.
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Speaker 3: News TALKSB TALKSB. It is twenty after five we'll head
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Speaker 3: to the UK back quarter two and we will speak
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Speaker 3: to Chris fin Lason, former National Minister on luxon and
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Speaker 3: his leadership. But if you had a listen yesterday to
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Speaker 3: Nikola Willis, and this is courtesy of Mackenzie, who you
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Speaker 3: all know loves a Disney movie, but just picked up
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Speaker 3: on a little turn of phrase from our Finance minister yesterday.
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Speaker 8: One for all, all for one, and when the caucus
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Speaker 8: by majority have confidence in the leader and we all
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Speaker 8: stand together.
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Speaker 3: Now, if you are familiar with Disney movies, you'll know
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Speaker 3: that that was probably a plagiarized line from this needs
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Speaker 3: here at one more time together now, all for one,
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Speaker 3: and in the course of final class on the LA
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Speaker 3: then we all stand together. Kristin Layson on that before
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Speaker 3: six this morning recalled a number of kiwis deciding to
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Speaker 3: go into the health workforce. At the moment, fifty thousand
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Speaker 3: people are currently studying some form of healthcare at university.
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Speaker 3: This is the highest since records began in twenty sixteen.
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Speaker 3: Nursing enrollments up fourteen percent since then, dendustry students up
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Speaker 3: forty one percent since then. Warwick bag Auckland University Dean
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Speaker 3: of Medical and Health Science is joining me live Warwick.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Good morning, Ryan, how are you yeah? Very well?
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Speaker 3: What do you thinks driving that.
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Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 9: I think we have to say it in the context
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Speaker 9: of the broader increasing students across all sectors of the university.
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Speaker 9: Last year in twenty twenty five, we grew by about
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Speaker 9: seven percent and a further three percent this year, so
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Speaker 9: that's certainly part of it is a border increase in
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Speaker 9: tertiary education. I also think it's an enormous opportunity for
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Speaker 9: students to join the health workforce. They've heard about the need,
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Speaker 9: there's a great interest. Health is the largest employer across
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Speaker 9: the country and so I think there's great opportunities for
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Speaker 9: students in diverse roles to contribute to our health workforce.
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Speaker 3: Ll Do you think people are joining because they really
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Speaker 3: want to do work in health or because, as you say,
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Speaker 3: it is a safe career, Like you know, we're always
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Speaker 3: going to need a nurse no matter what the economy
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Speaker 3: is looking like.
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Speaker 9: I think there's a bit of both of that, Ryan.
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Speaker 9: I mean, it's a privilege to be able to deliver
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Speaker 9: healthcare in New Zealand, and I think lots of people
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Speaker 9: are highly motivated to be I want to be a
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Speaker 9: part of that system. There's no doubt that professions that
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Speaker 9: require that human to human interaction are those professions which
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Speaker 9: are going to be attractive for the long term. And
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Speaker 9: so I think that's certainly an element of it. But
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Speaker 9: there'll be people on the way to work listening to
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Speaker 9: your radio station this morning who are heading into an
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Speaker 9: early start, and you know, that's what drives their passion
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Speaker 9: is to look after people. I'll be in clinicalless after then,
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Speaker 9: meeting with patients, looking after people. That's what drives our
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Speaker 9: passion to be in this profession.
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Speaker 3: And you're actually doing something practical. That's what I always
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Speaker 3: liked about health and appreciated about health. Does it people
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Speaker 3: go to university, study all this nonsense and then go
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Speaker 3: and do a job that no one really understands what
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Speaker 3: it does. Health practitioners are actually doing something.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, again, Ran, It's an enormous privilege to be able
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Speaker 9: to sit down with a person, work through what their
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Speaker 9: particular concern is and come up with a solution. And
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Speaker 9: you know, for all of the challenging stories we hear
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Speaker 9: about our health system, we actually have a really fantastic
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Speaker 9: health system that provides excellent outcomes. I mean, if you
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Speaker 9: are really unwell today, there's only one place you want
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Speaker 9: to be. It's within our public health system.
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Speaker 3: You will get.
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Speaker 9: Great care and it's an enormous privilege to be able
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Speaker 9: to educate folks for working in that system and to
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Speaker 9: be a part of working in that system.
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Speaker 3: Will appreciate your time this morning, Warwick bag Auclin University,
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Speaker 3: Dean of Medical and Health Sciences. Time is twenty four
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Speaker 3: minutes after five. Brian Bridge, Bob, good morning to you.
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Speaker 3: I should have majored in economics. Ryan never met an
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Speaker 3: economist who knew or contributed anything. It's all guesswork, it's
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Speaker 3: all hypothesizing, it's all less doimation. They're never write and
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Speaker 3: they change their tune every three months like weather forecasters.
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Speaker 3: All the same, aren't they. Twenty four after five.
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Speaker 3: News talksb It is twenty six minutes after five and
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Speaker 3: Wednesday morning, great to have your company. We are going
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Speaker 3: to talk about luxon before six o'clock, but let's do
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Speaker 3: it now too. People hate the media, so hating on
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Speaker 3: the media is not a bad strategy. It's worked for
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Speaker 3: Winston for many decades, as we all know. Although the
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Speaker 3: bloke clonly it needs about ten percent of people to
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Speaker 3: like his style, most find it a little abrasive. As
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Speaker 3: I've said previously, ministers are the de facto leaders of caucus.
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Speaker 3: When all the ministers line up behind their man, no
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Speaker 3: voters going to topple him. The backbench has just fall
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Speaker 3: into line. It's what they do, it's what they've always done.
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Speaker 3: The group calling for a coup starts to look a
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Speaker 3: bit shambolic, like a bunch of disgruntled employees Andrew Baileys
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Speaker 3: and your Tim Vander Molins. That's what has been reported.
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Speaker 3: The only real threat to Luxon is if Poland gets
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Speaker 3: so bad his cabinet comes under threat. You need a
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Speaker 3: trend to prove that, not one pole. As we talked
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Speaker 3: about on Monday, If a trend emerges where the left
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Speaker 3: block can govern his toast and he'd probably fall on
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Speaker 3: his sword at that point. Anyway, if you're leading a
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Speaker 3: party that doesn't get back into government, what's the point.
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Speaker 3: I had loads of text yesterday from people on the
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Speaker 3: right raving about Luxon finally standing up for himself and
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Speaker 3: doing something anything to look decisive. So he performed to
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Speaker 3: the bas yesterday, but you need more than the base
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Speaker 3: to win an election and former government, of course, And
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Speaker 3: from here the next move is crucial. You need to
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Speaker 3: flood the market with some bold economic initiatives and some
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Speaker 3: policy ideas. He wants to talk about the economy, get
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Speaker 3: out there and do it. Do the big stuff, do
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Speaker 3: the hard stuff, make the case for why Luxon officially
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Speaker 3: has everyone's attention. How he uses it will determine how
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Speaker 3: long he keeps his job. Brian Bridge, I was twenty
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Speaker 3: eight minutes after five, so a bit of a come
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Speaker 3: to Jesus moment for Tucker Carlson yesterday. I don't know
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Speaker 3: whether you caught this, but obviously he came out and
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Speaker 3: supported Trump before the last election and rooted for him,
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Speaker 3: in fact, hosted some of his events. Now not so friendly.
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Speaker 10: But in real ways, you and me and millions of
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Speaker 10: people like us for the reason this is happening right now. Yes,
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Speaker 10: so I do think it's like a moment to wrestle
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Speaker 10: with our own consciences. Uh, you know, we'll be torming
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Speaker 10: the by it for a long time.
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Speaker 3: I will be, And I want to.
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Speaker 10: Say I'm sorry for misleading people and it was not intentional.
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Speaker 3: Interesting, isn't it. I mean they're all having a come
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Speaker 3: to Jesus moment over the war in Iran. He was
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Speaker 3: doing that podcast by the way with Buckley Carlson, who's
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Speaker 3: his brother and also used to write speeches for Donald Trump.
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Speaker 3: Twenty nine minutes after five, you're on News Talks. He'd
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Speaker 3: be chrisphin Layson before top of the hour and we'll
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Speaker 3: head to the UK with Gavin Gray.
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Speaker 3: News Talks, it'd be twenty four minutes away from six
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Speaker 3: News Talks. They'd be coming up before sex find Layson
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Speaker 3: on Luxey. We'll get to Gavin Graham the UK. The
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Speaker 3: Mandelson thing. We got more on that this morning. Also
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Speaker 3: we have an update. This has just come in from
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Speaker 3: New York Times. They're reporting that jdie Vance is delaying
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Speaker 3: his departure to go to Islama. Bard's talk to the
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Speaker 3: Iranians about extending the seas file or getting some kind
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Speaker 3: of peace to you. Remember the seats fire ends in
18:18
Speaker 3: about twenty four hours and the Iranians are playing hard
18:20
Speaker 3: to get. Haven't confirmed publicly whether they would actually go
18:23
Speaker 3: to the talks, and clearly they haven't done that privately
18:26
Speaker 3: either because Jadie Vance is now delaying his departure attending
18:28
Speaker 3: more meetings in Washington. Rayan Bridge, you're on news talks.
18:32
Speaker 3: He'd be Calum procdor and Toned and Colum. Good morning morning, Ryan.
18:35
Speaker 3: What's the good news for the Southern Dottril.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, well, it was the blue penguin numbers bouncing back
18:40
Speaker 12: yesterday Today it's the same celebrations for the dottrill. A
18:44
Speaker 12: predator control operations proven to be a success and the
18:47
Speaker 12: annual flock counts at South and Beaches. Last week, Ryan
18:51
Speaker 12: revealed the burd's populations growing from one hundred and five
18:54
Speaker 12: in April last year to about one hundred and sixty
18:56
Speaker 12: this year, so a fifty two percent rise. Doc says
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Speaker 12: it's the biggest and you'll increase for the Southern Dotrial
19:01
Speaker 12: since recovery efforts for the bird began thirty years ago.
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Speaker 3: They say ten eighty was vital.
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Speaker 12: In the feral cat control operation alongside traps and bait stations,
19:13
Speaker 12: and that is significant. It's up to fifty of those
19:15
Speaker 12: adult birds have been lost to feral cats in recent years.
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Speaker 12: All right, how's your weather right around the south today?
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Speaker 12: Clearing to mainly fine and for cargol to and eating
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Speaker 12: both with highs of twelve today.
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Speaker 3: All right, thanks for that, mate, Clear than christ Church morning.
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Speaker 5: Clear, good morning.
19:29
Speaker 3: What's the story with neurodivergent children in christ Church?
19:32
Speaker 8: Yeah, Well, this is a cool new initiative by Emirates
19:35
Speaker 8: so effectively it's a global program, but it's now being
19:38
Speaker 8: brought here to christ Church to help but children with
19:40
Speaker 8: autars and practice air travel through a simulation experience. So
19:45
Speaker 8: they've already run more than forty travel rehearsals across six
19:48
Speaker 8: continents in the last year. The whole idea is it
19:50
Speaker 8: reduces anxiety for neurodivergent travelers and their families. It guides
19:54
Speaker 8: these kids through a simulated airport journey right from check in,
19:58
Speaker 8: through security and to boarding. Helps them become more familiar
20:02
Speaker 8: with the environment before they have to actually take a
20:04
Speaker 8: real flight. So far, more than two hundred and fifty
20:06
Speaker 8: families have taken part. There are more than thirty five
20:09
Speaker 8: thousand Emirates employees trained to support customers with autism. This
20:14
Speaker 8: is the core part though Christ Jorge's Allenvale School Deputy
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Speaker 8: Principal Jenny Gosney has described this session as being one
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Speaker 8: of the best experiences in more than twenty years of
20:23
Speaker 8: teaching students with special needs. Emirates now plans to expand
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Speaker 8: the program a bit further.
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Speaker 3: That's pretty cool from them. How's your weather?
20:30
Speaker 8: Cloudly with some more showers today, will become confined to
20:32
Speaker 8: Banks Peninsula. Later southerly's easing and a high eleven degrees.
20:37
Speaker 3: Thank you, Clear Max and Wellington Morning Max cleanup continues
20:39
Speaker 3: for you guys.
20:40
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's still very windy here and the showers are continuing,
20:44
Speaker 13: but after about seven this morning it should rather be
20:46
Speaker 13: a bit more overcast today, graciously. The conversation is of
20:50
Speaker 13: course turning to helping those affected by the flooding. There
20:53
Speaker 13: is an emergency government fund for people affected by severe
20:56
Speaker 13: whether work and income can make civil offense payments of people.
21:00
Speaker 13: That happens once a civil a Wellington based civil defense
21:04
Speaker 13: official makes that request, which hasn't happened yet, but it
21:07
Speaker 13: really does need to be done. The messages that we're
21:09
Speaker 13: still in emergency mode. But what this clearly was and
21:12
Speaker 13: what will be remembered for, is one very sudden, unprecedented
21:16
Speaker 13: hour long burst of rain. No new real damage yesterday,
21:20
Speaker 13: certainly nothing to be afraid of today with the exception
21:23
Speaker 13: of a heightened risk of landslips. Got to get Remattaker
21:26
Speaker 13: Hill reopen this morning as well. There's a very flood
21:29
Speaker 13: prone bridge on that route. On that route and the
21:33
Speaker 13: situation unfortunately for that missing Corori man Philip Sutton, certainly
21:37
Speaker 13: seems very dire as well, but efforts will continue today.
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Speaker 3: All right, good to know. How's the weather for the
21:42
Speaker 3: forecast for the rest of today.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, mostly cloudy with the odd shower more strong southerly.
21:47
Speaker 13: Is still very cool, the high of eleven central.
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Speaker 3: Thank you Max Neiva and Auckland morning Neiva, good morning.
21:52
Speaker 3: What's going on Walklan the airport and the cargo precinct.
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Speaker 14: Yes, that's actually quite a good story. This one key milestone.
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Speaker 14: Auckland Airport with a global aviation service partner. Now they
22:01
Speaker 14: are opening a dedicated airside terminal, so it's mensi's aviation site.
22:08
Speaker 3: Now.
22:08
Speaker 14: This will serve eighteen airline cargo partners. This is under
22:11
Speaker 14: a fifteen year agreement and it will become New Zealand's
22:14
Speaker 14: main mensi's cargo gateway. So this new terminal, it's going
22:19
Speaker 14: to specialize in handling time and temperature sensitive shipments, so
22:22
Speaker 14: this will include things like pharmaceuticals, also supporting general cargo
22:27
Speaker 14: flows and Auckland the airport's very excited. It says it's
22:29
Speaker 14: coming at a great time of strong export growth. Also,
22:33
Speaker 14: you know, like the fresh produce air freight over summer
22:35
Speaker 14: was up a third on last summer.
22:37
Speaker 3: Fantastic. How's our weather today?
22:39
Speaker 14: Hardly cloudy, southerlyast fresh fresh and chili.
22:42
Speaker 3: Gotten the car this morning. Actually turned the heating on.
22:45
Speaker 14: Brief stopper right now now, I know because it's currently
22:48
Speaker 14: about ten degrees the south side will be going. Oh
22:51
Speaker 14: heart at app Aukland.
22:56
Speaker 3: Sixteen today, thank you very much. It is just nineteen
22:59
Speaker 3: minutes away from six Ryan. So you know, Trump's going
23:03
Speaker 3: to see she in Beijing next month. So he's been
23:06
Speaker 3: speaking to c NBC and saying kind of hinting, kind
23:09
Speaker 3: of not hinting, kind of saying explicitly, the Chinese are
23:12
Speaker 3: doing something dodgy with giving a round weapons or some
23:16
Speaker 3: materials for weapons.
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Speaker 4: Can We caught a ship yesterday that had some things
23:20
Speaker 4: on it which wasn't very nice. A gift from China perhaps,
23:24
Speaker 4: I don't know, but I was sort of a surprised,
23:26
Speaker 4: but because I have a very good relationship and I
23:29
Speaker 4: thought I had an understanding with President She But that's
23:31
Speaker 4: all right, that's the way war goes.
23:33
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, So was it a gift? Was it not
23:35
Speaker 3: a gift? Was it weapons? Was it not weapons? Let's
23:38
Speaker 3: keep it vague. The meeting's still at this stage. Going ahead,
23:41
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Speaker 3: You're on news talksibbit, it's called to sex this Texas
25:03
Speaker 3: is Ryan Helling. Clark's did down Caucus when they wanted
25:06
Speaker 3: to roll her with Cullen. But how many in the
25:08
Speaker 3: media even remember that she ended up with nine years.
25:11
Speaker 3: It's a very good point trash. We'll get to Chrisphin
25:13
Speaker 3: Lason and a second. First we're going to Gavin Ground
25:16
Speaker 3: the UK. Gevin, nice to have you on the program.
25:18
Speaker 3: What's the latest with Mandelssohn?
25:21
Speaker 11: Well, good morning to you, Ryan. Yes, so yesterday, of
25:24
Speaker 11: course our Prime Minister was facing questions. Today he was
25:27
Speaker 11: far from out of the woods with the appearance before
25:30
Speaker 11: members of Parliament of Sir Oli Robbins. This is a
25:32
Speaker 11: man who has often really pretty much been gone in
25:35
Speaker 11: the background and not known, but he effectively was a
25:39
Speaker 11: former civil servant, very very high up, the top civil
25:42
Speaker 11: servant in the Foreign Office. And it emerged, of course
25:45
Speaker 11: that the Foreign Office and the betting Clearings people had
25:49
Speaker 11: effectively said Lord Mandleson was not really perhaps suitable for
25:53
Speaker 11: a job as being the top diplomat in the service
25:58
Speaker 11: by being the UK diplomat to the US. Now, Sir
26:01
Speaker 11: Rolli Robbins face questions today and he said, well, look,
26:05
Speaker 11: we were effectively told there was a very dismissive attitude
26:08
Speaker 11: towards these checks, basically ten Downing Street, the Office of
26:12
Speaker 11: Secure Starmer saying look, just get it done. He said,
26:14
Speaker 11: there was constant pressure on us with a strong expectation
26:17
Speaker 11: that the former Cabinet Minister Mandelson needed to be quote
26:20
Speaker 11: in post and in America as quick as humanly possible.
26:23
Speaker 11: He said that his predecessor, because it had only just
26:26
Speaker 11: arrived him post when all this blew up. His predecessor
26:29
Speaker 11: said that Downing Street felt the vetting might be unnecessary,
26:32
Speaker 11: quite extraordinary, said. In the end, the Department insisted and
26:35
Speaker 11: put its foot down, and that's when it looks like
26:38
Speaker 11: there was a sort of not a very good mark
26:40
Speaker 11: against Mandelson's. Then, incidentally, another amazing piece of evidence came
26:43
Speaker 11: out that they said that the Foreign Office had been
26:46
Speaker 11: asked by number ten Downing Street to potentially find a
26:49
Speaker 11: job as an ambassador for a man called Matthew Doyle.
26:52
Speaker 11: Doyle was the Prime Minister's director of Communications and he
26:56
Speaker 11: was subsequently given a peerage. He was suspended from the
26:59
Speaker 11: Labor Party over his links to a convicted sex offen.
27:02
Speaker 11: In other words, although he's apologized for that. In other words,
27:05
Speaker 11: it sounds like jobs for the boys, and that has
27:07
Speaker 11: not gone down well among any of the mbs.
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Speaker 3: Kevin is Starmer at risk of losing his job here
27:13
Speaker 3: or having to resign.
27:15
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, yep, there is every possibility yep.
27:19
Speaker 3: Appreciate your time. Gavin Gray are UK europe correspondent. It
27:21
Speaker 3: is twelve minutes away from six Bryan Bridge. You're on
27:25
Speaker 3: News Talk ZB so likes and survived the confidence vote yesterday.
27:28
Speaker 9: Caucus has answered clearly and decisively.
27:30
Speaker 6: It has backed my leadership and that matter is now closed.
27:33
Speaker 7: And I won't be commenting further on.
27:35
Speaker 3: To our texter's point about Helen Clark, this is the
27:38
Speaker 3: first time that a sitting prime minister has called one
27:41
Speaker 3: on themselves. Chris fin Lason, former senior National Party minister,
27:44
Speaker 3: with us this morning. Good morning, good morning smart move
27:48
Speaker 3: from him.
27:49
Speaker 15: Oh look a line's been drawn on it, whether it's
27:52
Speaker 15: smart or or not smart, and there are curious commentatious
27:57
Speaker 15: commenting on that. Time to move on draw a line.
28:00
Speaker 15: It's the business of governing the country and preparing for
28:03
Speaker 15: a general election.
28:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, does he need to what does he need to
28:06
Speaker 3: do to win it?
28:09
Speaker 15: Well, I've said to a number of people. They need
28:13
Speaker 15: a good budget, they need to get the RMA reforms through,
28:17
Speaker 15: they need to get the Indian FDA signed up, they
28:21
Speaker 15: need to speak highly of one another, and they need
28:24
Speaker 15: campaign in a unified way and go for that party vote.
28:29
Speaker 3: There's lots of reform that's going on behind the seas
28:32
Speaker 3: and as you say, RMA doesn't get a lot of
28:33
Speaker 3: attention that kind of stuff. But do they just need
28:36
Speaker 3: to paint themselves as a as a sound manager because
28:39
Speaker 3: we know what New Zealand First stands for, we kind
28:41
Speaker 3: of know what ACT is going for. Does it do
28:44
Speaker 3: they need to paint themselves as anything other than a
28:47
Speaker 3: middle manager of the three parties.
28:51
Speaker 15: They have to paint themselves as good economics stewards. They
28:56
Speaker 15: need to say this has been an extraordinary period with
28:59
Speaker 15: a three party coalition. It hasn't been easy. We've provided
29:04
Speaker 15: stable government, We've got a whole lot of stuff done.
29:08
Speaker 15: It hasn't been easy.
29:09
Speaker 6: But give us your vote.
29:11
Speaker 2: You know.
29:11
Speaker 3: The Stuart Smith thing, I mean very odd. Do you
29:14
Speaker 3: believe Do you buy the statement they issued?
29:19
Speaker 15: I take it for what it's worth. I know Stewart
29:21
Speaker 15: is a good guy. Kai Kura is a great seat
29:24
Speaker 15: and he's been a good electoral MP. There's probably a
29:28
Speaker 15: bit more to it, but I'm not particularly interested. I
29:32
Speaker 15: really want to look forward.
29:33
Speaker 3: Do you think people hate the media so much that
29:37
Speaker 3: bagging the media is a good strategy? I mean, it's
29:39
Speaker 3: worked for Winston for a long time, isn't it?
29:42
Speaker 5: Well, I don't think there's something.
29:44
Speaker 15: The media are doing their job and if people pass
29:47
Speaker 15: on rumors to them, they're not sort of judges who
29:52
Speaker 15: weigh the evidence in a very careful way. Basically, they
29:57
Speaker 15: have to be bloodhounds and chase after the story. So
30:00
Speaker 15: bagging the media, I think is pretty pointless.
30:03
Speaker 3: Chris fin Lawson, former senior National Party minister, appreciate your analysis.
30:06
Speaker 3: This morning, it's ten to six. You know, the loose lips,
30:10
Speaker 3: shrinks sink ships. That's a hard one to say quickly
30:13
Speaker 3: at five to six in the morning. But I tell you,
30:16
Speaker 3: what's happening in South Korea is very interesting. So they
30:19
Speaker 3: share the US has a lot of intelligence with the
30:21
Speaker 3: South Koreans, and there's a minister over there who has
30:25
Speaker 3: identified gone out there and publicly identified a suspected North
30:28
Speaker 3: Korean nuclear site. This is in Kersong and it's a
30:33
Speaker 3: uranium and Richmond facility facility according to this particular minister.
30:37
Speaker 3: Problem is no one knew that publicly before, and so
30:41
Speaker 3: apparently what's happening now is the US is restricting the
30:45
Speaker 3: intelligence and the satellite data that they're sharing with the
30:49
Speaker 3: South Koreans all over this one, Minister. You don't tell
30:53
Speaker 3: the town crier where your enemy's nuclear sites? Do you?
30:57
Speaker 2: Not?
30:58
Speaker 3: A great idea? News talk said it is nine to six.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iheard radio early edition
31:07
Speaker 1: with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology, the Kief's
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Speaker 1: Business Moving news talks.
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Speaker 3: The'd be news talks. There'd be loads of texts we
31:15
Speaker 3: didn't get to this morning. Six away from six morning, Ryan.
31:18
Speaker 3: If the Reserve Bank is holding off because they don't
31:20
Speaker 3: have a full and current view of the economies, is Barbara,
31:23
Speaker 3: then surely we need to addrest the frequency of our data. Ryan.
31:27
Speaker 3: Why would you invest this is on the oil and
31:29
Speaker 3: gas and the exploration off the coast of Wamadou. Why
31:31
Speaker 3: invest in New Zealand when you have a political terrorist
31:34
Speaker 3: party like the Greens and Labor that'll cancel mining and
31:37
Speaker 3: drilling if they get into power, Ryan Bridge, Morning.
31:40
Speaker 5: Mike, fabulous to see you, Ryan, as always as all.
31:44
Speaker 3: See the story about NASA. I'm up on you know,
31:48
Speaker 3: because they've got the rover up on Mars. Yes, they've
31:50
Speaker 3: found some sort of material organic molecules on Mars. What
31:55
Speaker 3: are you going to do with it? Well, I don't
31:56
Speaker 3: know one day determine whether there was life on Mars.
31:59
Speaker 3: I couldn't. They've got Well that would make you care, because.
32:04
Speaker 5: Well, we'd sort the world out first, stop the boys,
32:07
Speaker 5: stop killing each other and bombing each other.
32:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, but if we had somewhere else to go we
32:11
Speaker 3: would need to worry about we'd wreck it. We wouldn't
32:14
Speaker 3: need to worry about this world.
32:15
Speaker 5: No, we'd ruin.
32:15
Speaker 3: Just move on.
32:16
Speaker 5: We'd go over to the Moon or closed, we'd wreck it.
32:19
Speaker 7: Who wore?
32:20
Speaker 5: What do you honestly believe? Back on the moon and
32:24
Speaker 5: by the by twenty thirty.
32:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually think we're going to be doing six
32:27
Speaker 3: monthly stops on the moon by twenty thirty two. That's necessary.
32:31
Speaker 5: Are you sure to sleep this morning or something? Are
32:33
Speaker 5: you on drugs? No, I'm hearing a alert and away?
32:36
Speaker 5: Are you ready to go?
32:37
Speaker 6: Ok?
32:38
Speaker 5: Just just random.
32:39
Speaker 3: Have you read NASA's plan.
32:41
Speaker 5: No, I haven't read. What I am more worried about
32:43
Speaker 5: the disappearing scientists.
32:45
Speaker 3: Oh, the seven hundred jobs.
32:46
Speaker 5: No, no, no, not seven hundred jobs. The ten Who
32:49
Speaker 5: are the ones who probably did or are missing? That's
32:53
Speaker 5: what I'm genuinely worried about.
32:55
Speaker 3: Maybe they're on mars. No, they're not.
32:57
Speaker 5: What do you want to talk about, Nikola Willis, Yeah,
32:59
Speaker 5: go on, she's on.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
33:01
Speaker 5: Well have you read Tony Alexander's piece this morning? They did, Yeah,
33:04
Speaker 5: And I think that's that's of deep concerned people should
33:07
Speaker 5: read that because it appears the Reserve Bank. I don't
33:09
Speaker 5: know whether we blame the new woman because he goes
33:12
Speaker 5: back to the latter part of last year when she
33:14
Speaker 5: wasn't actually in the job. So maybe things improved Nowtive.
33:17
Speaker 3: Banks are like weather forecasters. Damned if they do, damn
33:20
Speaker 3: if they don't.
33:21
Speaker 5: That's the problem, isn't it. I mean he's placing that
33:23
Speaker 5: amount of weight. Basically, he says, the useless and they've
33:26
Speaker 5: got us in this. They have no idea what's going on.
33:28
Speaker 5: And therefore, because they don't know what's going on, how
33:30
Speaker 5: can we know what's going on? Therefore, where we're adrift
33:33
Speaker 5: at sea?
33:33
Speaker 3: Business problem? But the thing is no one knows what's
33:36
Speaker 3: going on, and that's half half Trump half just the.
33:39
Speaker 5: World is a little bit of that, doesn't there anyway
33:41
Speaker 5: We'll talk to Nicola Willis about this. In the Crossley's case,
33:44
Speaker 5: this has been in court and this is fascinating this
33:46
Speaker 5: is great. So this a means and sets a precedent
33:50
Speaker 5: I think if you're involved in Cross Lee's land. It
33:52
Speaker 5: was it was a couple of people, they were neighbors,
33:54
Speaker 5: house at the front, wanted to do some Reno's move
33:56
Speaker 5: the house all in the middle, ticket pull and et cetera.
33:58
Speaker 5: And the other guys objected. Now that the ruling sort
34:02
Speaker 5: of change. You can't go round objecting for the sake
34:04
Speaker 5: of objecting.
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Speaker 3: So moral destroyed. Don't buy a cross Leaves.
34:07
Speaker 5: Big implications for cross Leaves land. So we'll do that.
34:11
Speaker 5: And Gilbert and OCAs back, so you should be thrilled
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Speaker 5: about that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
34:14
Speaker 5: So anyway, he was on.
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Speaker 3: The PROG fantastic. All right, have a great day of run.
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Speaker 3: See tomorrow News Talk Said.
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