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Full Show Podcast: 03 August 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 2: They'd be good morning, six after five, great to have
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Speaker 2: your company. This Monday we will look at Winston's cash
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Speaker 2: for babies policy announced at the weekend. Givens in the
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Speaker 2: UK for US Vicky does the business and should teachers
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Speaker 2: be man handling students.
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Speaker 1: The agenda Monday, the third of August.
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Speaker 2: Trump's he is called off the strikes. This is the
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Speaker 2: latest round.
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Speaker 3: This is not the first time that President Trump has
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Speaker 3: threatened Iran with massive bombardment. Bombing Iran into the Stone
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Speaker 3: agers still is something that people in Tehran talk about
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Speaker 3: and indeed laugh at. And so this is becoming somewhat
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Speaker 3: of a pattern.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this was a tweet from Trump yesterday. Israel at
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Speaker 2: the same time preparing new strikes. So how true is it.
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Speaker 2: I'll talk about this in just a second. Meanwhile, it's
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Speaker 2: got to Europe that Wildfire's two firefighting choppers have collided, their.
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Speaker 4: Actions difficult and ball grows on the ground and through
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Speaker 4: the experience all these difficulty in containing this large event.
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Speaker 2: Finally, this morning, Andy Burnham in the UK says he'll
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Speaker 2: be quote relentless on small boat crossings, even though there's
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Speaker 2: been a whole bunch of them since he got and
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Speaker 2: he says he's going after the smuggling gang.
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Speaker 5: So on every level we've got to comme at this,
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Speaker 5: but crucially increasing the enforcement activity. We are not complacent.
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Speaker 2: Much more needs to be done.
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Speaker 1: Heurrett first Ryan Bridge on early edition with Spark for
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Speaker 2: Seven after five nine ninety two is the number to text.
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Speaker 2: I believe that when I see it, because the English
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Speaker 2: are paying some French police officers to basically guard the
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Speaker 2: coast on the other side, and it's not really working.
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Speaker 2: In fact, I was watching a piece yesterday where the
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Speaker 2: so you've got a stretch of beach that is patrolled
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Speaker 2: basically at the expense of the English taxpayer, but performed
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Speaker 2: by some French cops and patrolling that section of the beach.
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Speaker 2: That's all fine, But then all the people smugglers are
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Speaker 2: just going further north and further south on the coast
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Speaker 2: and getting in that way. So is anything really changing.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of an impossible situation, isn't it. Now let's
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Speaker 2: go to Trump. So this tweet on Sunday calling off
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Speaker 2: the strikes. Sometimes it seems random and you go, why now,
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Speaker 2: why is this happening? So the Gulf States have apparently
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Speaker 2: put quite a bit of pressure on over the weekend.
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Speaker 2: The Saudi has got in touch with him and said
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Speaker 2: because they got involved in the bombing last week of
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Speaker 2: course in Iraq, but they got in touch with them
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Speaker 2: and said he spoke to Bin Saman of Saudi Arabia,
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Speaker 2: the crown Prince, just hours before the tweet, and the
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Speaker 2: Crown Prince said, hey, bro, what's the strategy with the bombing?
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Speaker 2: Do we have a strategy here? And maybe let's try
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Speaker 2: talking anyway. Hours later he tweets that it's all off.
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Speaker 2: So that looks to be at least some of the
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Speaker 2: reason for the change intact. And of course, on Friday,
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Speaker 2: I don't know if anyone saw this. On Friday, the
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Speaker 2: Rainian's actually bombed fired at some ships, cargo ships that
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Speaker 2: were under US Navy escort, which is actually quite an
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Speaker 2: intense thing to do. So despite that, Trump has now
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Speaker 2: sort of called his jets a little bit. We'll see
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Speaker 2: how long that one lasts, shall we And to the
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Speaker 2: silver ferns, can I just say congratulations, first gold in
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Speaker 2: sixteen years, third ever. They were jumping up and down,
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Speaker 2: there were tears, they were celebrating. I think fantastic result
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Speaker 2: for them. Didn't lose a game the whole competition and
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Speaker 2: have now got gold. Congrats to Dame Knowles doing all
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Speaker 2: of this under pressure as well. I think it's you know,
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Speaker 2: they've had the coaching scandal, they've had the board clear out,
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Speaker 2: they've had the management clear out at New Zealand Netball,
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Speaker 2: the am Z competition currently up in the air, and
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Speaker 2: these women go out there and just block out the
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Speaker 2: noise and perform. So good on them, well done. Ten
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Speaker 2: up to five Bridge, Well look at axe new policy.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you caught what Paul Henry said yesterday,
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Speaker 2: but the little shits in the classrooms discuss that.
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Speaker 2: Five, We'll see how long Infantino keeps his job, shall we?
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Speaker 2: This is the FIFA boss. I is he in his
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Speaker 2: dying days in the job? He has now faced revolts
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Speaker 2: from two different facts that Europeans aren't happy. You aren't
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Speaker 2: happy with his proposal. This is to further commercialize the
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Speaker 2: World Cup North America. They're not happy with it. In fact,
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Speaker 2: most of the football associations are just saying bugger off.
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Speaker 2: Plan is now being pulled. So football's governing body has
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Speaker 2: scrapped a plan that he devised. So his plans gone?
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Speaker 2: Is his job gone? That's the next question, Ryan Bridge,
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Speaker 2: what is reasonable force? At wants to give more teachers
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Speaker 2: or teachers I should say, more rights to deal with
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Speaker 2: trouble makers or as Paul Henry calls them.
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Speaker 6: Let's be honest, there are a lot of little shits
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Speaker 6: in classrooms and we need to address that.
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Speaker 1: If we're going to lift education standards.
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Speaker 2: Right, parents who don't turn up to mandatory school meetings
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Speaker 2: could be hit with a fine three hundred bucks rising
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Speaker 2: to three grand. Steve McCracken Secondary Principles chair with me
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Speaker 2: this morning. Steve, Good morning, Good morning, Ryan.
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Speaker 4: How are you go?
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Speaker 2: Thank you? Is he right of there are lots of
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Speaker 2: little shits and classrooms?
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Speaker 4: Oh that's far from the Ryan. I think that's a
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Speaker 4: there's a level of disruption that has been caused in
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Speaker 4: terms of young people and their access to the curriculum
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Speaker 4: in that But it's not because of how he describes it.
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Speaker 4: I think it's actually because of the resourcing and availability
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Speaker 4: of access to curriculum fundamentally. So instead of having a
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Speaker 4: policy like this out out, it's how about we actually
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Speaker 4: think about the fundamentals of education and what it actually is.
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Speaker 2: So he's wrong, then how did we get to the
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Speaker 2: bottom of the feeling safe at school in the OECD?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that there's a recD report actually says,
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Speaker 4: you know, New Zealand's one of the worst performing countries.
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Speaker 4: I think it is frying from my recollection of it.
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Speaker 4: So has that to do with that? We got that right?
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Speaker 2: Is that to do with the curriculum? No, it's not.
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Speaker 2: It's got to do with behavior, do isn't it?
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Speaker 4: No, have to do with the curriculum and how we
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Speaker 4: actually access it and how young people are actually achieving
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Speaker 4: and engaging in lessons and how they can't engage they
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Speaker 4: can't actually access the curriculum.
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Speaker 2: But hang on, hanging on, hang on, how Steve has
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Speaker 2: access to a curriculum got anything to do with how
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Speaker 2: disruptive or abusive students are in class.
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Speaker 4: If young people can't access the curriculum, if they can't
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Speaker 4: sit in class, they can't actually understand what's going on.
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Speaker 4: You're going to switch off, You're going to actually not
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Speaker 4: be able to sit in a classroom. Okay.
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Speaker 2: So, as told is that teachers aren't engaging their students enough.
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Speaker 2: So therefore they're not teaching well enough, and that's why
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Speaker 2: the kids are lashing out.
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Speaker 4: It's a systemic issue, Brian, in terms of how teachers
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Speaker 4: doing an amazing job, and.
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Speaker 2: So what is the issue? I'm trying to get to
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Speaker 2: the point. What is specifically is the problem. The teachers
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Speaker 2: are doing a great job, no issue there. The students
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Speaker 2: are lashing out because they're not being taught well enough.
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Speaker 2: What part aren't they being taught?
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Speaker 4: Their ability to actually access the curriculum because of socioeconomical needs,
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Speaker 4: access to the support that they need. That's fundumental of this.
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Speaker 2: What do you mean access to the curriculum. The teacher
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Speaker 2: is at the front of the class teaching it. If
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Speaker 2: they would listen, they would get it known.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, but their ability to actually sit and listen
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Speaker 4: is limited. Right. So, a young person growing up in
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Speaker 4: New Zealand these days has potentially some some of the
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Speaker 4: people that they're possibly referring to have the lack of
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Speaker 4: skills or lack of ability to actually access it, and
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Speaker 4: that's through systemic issues around learning support needs, anything they
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Speaker 4: need to actually intervene and get them down to what
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Speaker 4: they need. So, I mean, this policy is okay, fundamentally
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Speaker 4: from gaslight right okay.
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Speaker 2: And so you're saying, what about the situation where a
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Speaker 2: kid throws a punch at a teacher, should the teacher
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Speaker 2: restrain the child?
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Speaker 4: And that's already in place in terms of that, in
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Speaker 4: terms of the rules.
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Speaker 2: He as a last result, though, isn't it?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? It is, And that's absolutely fine from our From
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Speaker 4: my perspective, a young person should not be able to
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Speaker 4: lash out at anybody, whether it's a teacher or another
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Speaker 4: student or even themselves.
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Speaker 2: Do you know what the problem is, Steve, that we've
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Speaker 2: got is that we're now at the point where we're
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Speaker 2: talking about manhandling students because we're the most unsafe place
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Speaker 2: in the OECD. There doesn't seem to When I ask
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Speaker 2: you what the problem is, you say systemic issues. I
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Speaker 2: mean that is so catural and vague and means nothing
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Speaker 2: that here we are with a policy like this.
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Speaker 4: I don't think that means nothing at all, right, and
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Speaker 4: I think that it's actually the truth in terms of
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Speaker 4: how we do things in education, and I think that
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Speaker 4: there's a real need for some interventions to support those
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Speaker 4: people who can't exist the curriculum. But doing this is
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Speaker 4: not the way in terms of how education and USA
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Speaker 4: should be seen in the future.
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Speaker 2: All right, Steve Good to be on the show. Steve mcracken,
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Speaker 2: Secondary Principles Council Chair at seventeen after five nine two
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Speaker 2: ran Bridge nine ninety two is the number to text.
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Speaker 2: By the way, we spoke about the FED, well, the
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Speaker 2: FED decision last week. If you actually go and look
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Speaker 2: at the this is a piece in the Wall Street
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Speaker 2: Journal this morning. So the FED held the rates last week,
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Speaker 2: but still the US benchmark rates are going higher and
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Speaker 2: higher anyway, and have been for the past two weeks
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Speaker 2: and haven't abated even though they held. So if you
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Speaker 2: look at the US Treasury ten year, that's up twenty
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Speaker 2: seven basis points. Same goes for the thirty year. That'll
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Speaker 2: have an effect on homeowners over there. Eighteen after five
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Speaker 2: The early.
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Speaker 2: It be a lot of feedback coming into the interview
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Speaker 2: we just did on education after ex policy announcement. This
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Speaker 2: is from a teacher of thirty seven years Janet. Good morning, Janet.
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Speaker 2: Ryan McCracken is very out of touch with the reality
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Speaker 2: of the classroom. What a croc. He is part of
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Speaker 2: our front frontline problem and is a dreamer. And Bridge
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Speaker 2: Rich just showed a Vicky Price, our business correspondent. Vicky.
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Speaker 2: Nice to have you on the show. The wildfires, We've
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Speaker 2: all been watching them. Are they starting to hit? What's
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Speaker 2: happening with tourism?
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Speaker 7: Well, I'm afraid though now those wildfires are very close
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Speaker 7: to Athens as well, and that is of course a problem,
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Speaker 7: not just in the need to evacuate lots of people,
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Speaker 7: but also what he will mean for the future. I mean,
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Speaker 7: the holiday season is happening right now, but of course
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Speaker 7: lots of people haven't necessarily booked their flights. So if
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Speaker 7: we see what's going on of course in France and
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Speaker 7: in Spain, that all adds to the uncertainty in relation
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Speaker 7: to you know, where where does one go? Does one
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Speaker 7: go anywhere? Or even in the UK we now have
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Speaker 7: wildfires happening as well.
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Speaker 2: Now let's go to inflation, the other wildfire, although that
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Speaker 2: is coming up. However, the Bank of England, I notice
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Speaker 2: last week it writes on hold, as did the FED
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Speaker 2: in the United States. We've just been talking about that.
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Speaker 2: But you reckon write hikes from September.
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Speaker 7: Well, yes, I mean, what's going on in Europe. We've
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Speaker 7: actually seen inflation go up. We had the latest data
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Speaker 7: which came out a little bit higher. From June it
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Speaker 7: was two point eight now it's two point nine. The
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Speaker 7: expectation is that it will go higher because of the
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Speaker 7: energy costs, and if you look at some of the
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Speaker 7: details actually of what is going on in Europe, you
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Speaker 7: see that it is all energy. When you look at food,
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Speaker 7: for example, and when you look at industrial production prices,
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Speaker 7: you know, industrial goods, they've all been rising very very slowly.
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Speaker 7: So I'm afraid it's the uncertainty about what's going on
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Speaker 7: in the Gulf and the concerns that of course inflation
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Speaker 7: is going to if you like, filter through from the
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Speaker 7: energy side to lots and lots of other goods as well,
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Speaker 7: and that's the real concern that there is right now.
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Speaker 7: So the expectation is that yes, Europe will raise rates
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Speaker 7: in September. Whether that's actually going to happen in the
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Speaker 7: US and in fact the UK as well is much
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Speaker 7: more doubtful because there's a lot of concern about growth
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Speaker 7: as well. So yes, I mean we are in a
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Speaker 7: situation where there's uncertainty. Bond markets have reacted negativity all this.
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Speaker 7: They think inflation will be going up, so they're pushing
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Speaker 7: yields up. So I'm afraid the cost of borrowing is
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Speaker 7: continuing to go up. But that's a serious, serious concern
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Speaker 7: for everyone, including of course the new Prime Minister in
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Speaker 7: the UK, Anti Burnham, who wants to keep within the
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Speaker 7: fiscal rules. But the markets are not very happy with
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Speaker 7: what they're seeing.
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Speaker 2: They're making it life very very hard from that. Good
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Speaker 2: to be on the show, as Vicky Vicky Price, our
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Speaker 2: business correspondent. It is twenty three minutes after five, Ryan Bridge,
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Speaker 2: This ticks still coming in on the education thing. Ryan.
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Speaker 2: The only thing gas lighting here is this person that
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Speaker 2: thinks there is a curriculum issue and not a teacher
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Speaker 2: issue or a student behavior issue. Says Nathan. This is
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Speaker 2: to Queenstown in the weekend, and anyone who's been to
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Speaker 2: Queenstown you will know. You get off the plane and
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Speaker 2: then you get in a car and you're stuck in
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Speaker 2: traffic trying to get into the thing. They have such
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Speaker 2: a traffic problem that the mayor there Queenstown likes, Mayor
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Speaker 2: John Glover is calling a mayoral task force about it.
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Speaker 2: The problem is so bad so because it can take
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Speaker 2: you longer like a ten minute drive, he reckons can
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Speaker 2: take you ninety minutes at the peak times. You know,
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Speaker 2: getting in a car and getting into town can take
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Speaker 2: you longer than the flight did to actually get there.
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Speaker 2: And that's one from Auckland. So flying the length of
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Speaker 2: the country will take you longer than there's sort of
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Speaker 2: ten minutes that should take you to get into town.
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Speaker 2: So traffic problem. One of the solutions. He's basically asking
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Speaker 2: anyone in Queenstown got any ideas, text me too if
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Speaker 2: you've got here. But one of the things he's raising
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Speaker 2: is a traffic marshal, So having actual human beings with
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Speaker 2: a whistle and a high visvest on marshaling traffic one
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Speaker 2: of the issues they have is the new housing developments
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Speaker 2: that have been built. The cars just can't get out
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Speaker 2: onto the State Highway. There's too much traffic, so arterial
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Speaker 2: routes are all backed up. Maybe someone with a whistle
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Speaker 2: can sort it out. News Talk said, B it is
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Speaker 2: twenty four after five. We'll talk about Luxen and his
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Speaker 2: little comments to rot Todua business leaders Friday next five
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Speaker 2: twenty six, News Talk said, B. Did you see the
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Speaker 2: news the Prime minister's little pep talk on Friday to
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Speaker 2: business leaders. The business Chamber boss said Rottuer had the
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Speaker 2: sharpest fall in business confidence in a decade. Businesses are
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Speaker 2: wondering how long they can actually stay in business and
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Speaker 2: hold on. Luxon's reply is what got people talking. A
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Speaker 2: friend sent the link to the article to me. Sent
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Speaker 2: it to me, as said David Brent strikes again. You
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Speaker 2: know the guy from the office in the UK.
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Speaker 5: They got to trust me. I'm taking these guys into
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Speaker 5: battle and I'm doing my own Staplen.
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Speaker 3: A sergeant major spends all his time training his men
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Speaker 3: to be killers.
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Speaker 5: He doesn't polish his own boots.
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Speaker 2: Now, this is what Luxon said, according to the transcript,
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Speaker 2: in part I think that's a negative view, to be honest, Like,
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Speaker 2: we're entrepreneurs and business people, and I get it. You know,
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Speaker 2: if you're not retooling and radically disrupting your business, you
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Speaker 2: ain't doing the job. You know, you have to disrupt
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Speaker 2: yourself aggressively before you get disrupted by global events. He
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Speaker 2: then goes on to talk about his time running Unilever
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Speaker 2: in Canada. I sat in Illinois for six years in Chicago,
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Speaker 2: and the last person I ever wanted to talk to
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Speaker 2: as a CEO was the government. Can I get some
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Speaker 2: grant money to do something?
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Speaker 7: No?
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Speaker 2: No, I'm a business person. I'm building a kick ass
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Speaker 2: company that actually has commercially superior returns, great customer experience,
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Speaker 2: and awesome internal culture. That is the job of what
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Speaker 2: makes a great company, not a good one, a great one. Now,
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Speaker 2: the problem here is not what he's saying. What he's
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Speaker 2: saying has a lot of truth in it. You shouldn't,
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Speaker 2: as a business leader be sitting there waiting for a
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Speaker 2: handout from the government, and most don't. Any entrepreneur will
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Speaker 2: tell you that most of what happens is off their
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Speaker 2: own back. It's the way he's saying it, his tone,
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Speaker 2: It's a bit off. It's a bit off putting. Trump
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Speaker 2: does these sorts of things and does these bits quite
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Speaker 2: well because he's funny. He's so outrageous it's almost entertaining.
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Speaker 2: You know, I am the greatest leader of all time
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Speaker 2: in the world, in the history of the world. It's like, okay,
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Speaker 2: we get it. This is like some sort of David
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Speaker 2: Brent slash Tony Robbins mash up. And I just don't
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Speaker 2: think it's quite working. Bryan bridgeb twenty eight after five. Hey,
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Speaker 2: speaking of the Americans, the Democrats are having a real
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Speaker 2: problem with fundraising. The Republicans are way out ahead. And
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Speaker 2: there's a couple of reasons for it. One that even
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Speaker 2: though I think they'll take the hand, they have a
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Speaker 2: problem that in the last election, remember Kamala Harris, she
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Speaker 2: was selected through a it was a rushed process. She
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Speaker 2: raised a billion dollars. So you get a billion dollars
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Speaker 2: and you still lose. That's not a great track record.
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Speaker 2: But their numbers are down. So George Soris and his
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Speaker 2: son normally donate up about a million bucks for the
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Speaker 2: midterms for the Dems. So far, and remember they're coming
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Speaker 2: up November seventh, so far, not a single dollar so
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Speaker 2: they've got a money problem. You're on News Talk ZBB,
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Speaker 2: Gavin Gray out of the UK.
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Speaker 2: Pretty far away from the sixth and welcome to your
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Speaker 2: Monday morning. We will look at Winston's cash for babies
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Speaker 2: policy announced at the weekend, forty five grand for three
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Speaker 2: kids over three years. One parent has to be in work.
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Speaker 2: That's coming up in about fifteen minutes before that, Gavin
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Speaker 2: is in the UK for US a big meeting happening tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Maloney literaly not happy with Spain giving Spain a real
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Speaker 2: spank over the migrant crisis. You saw all the pictures
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Speaker 2: of those migrants flooding in This is on the African
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Speaker 2: side of the Strait of Gibraltar, but still they can
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Speaker 2: access Spain from there and they have been in great numbers,
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Speaker 2: fifty thousand of them. Anyway, the reason that Maloney's calling
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Speaker 2: this meeting two dozen EU head to stay actually agreed
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Speaker 2: with her. Something needs to be done here because Spain
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Speaker 2: is the weak link they have allowed onund There was
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Speaker 2: a Supreme Court ruling that said if you're in the
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Speaker 2: water swimming on the way, then you will be counted.
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Speaker 2: You can apply for asylum once you land, and so
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Speaker 2: of course people who are wanting to seek asyl and going, well,
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Speaker 2: I'll just jump in the water and then I'm halfway done.
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Speaker 2: They have also allowed hundreds of thousands of these guys
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Speaker 2: undocumented migrants to apply for residents and work permits to
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Speaker 2: quote regularize their status. This is what Maloney and others
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Speaker 2: are really irked about. And the reason that Spain's done
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Speaker 2: this is basically because they have an aging population, they
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Speaker 2: have a worker crisis, and they just go, well, this
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Speaker 2: will help us, certainly, not helping the neighbors. In fact,
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Speaker 2: the French I noticed over the weekend put up a
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Speaker 2: toughened up their border checks into Spain. It is twenty
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Speaker 2: three minutes away from six ray and Bridge, Colum, Proctor
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Speaker 2: and Dunedin for US Colum, good morning morning. Right, we've
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Speaker 2: got comments off on the local Facebook page for the
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Speaker 2: council year the city Council.
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Speaker 9: I've switched off for comments blaming arise in, toxic activity
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Speaker 9: and misinformation the council here so they've spent years moderating
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Speaker 9: these nasty comments, also profanities and blocking fake accounts, but
19:59
Speaker 9: it's filters get regularly bypassed, so they switch comments off altogether.
20:05
Speaker 9: They say, while many comments are neutral or irrelevance, the
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Speaker 9: abuse of minority does take a toll, especially when threas
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Speaker 9: become personal, so allowing these comments contradicts the council's values.
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Speaker 9: Says that Facebook will remain a way for people to
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Speaker 9: engage with them though through reactions, shares.
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Speaker 2: And direct messaging. All right, how's your weather?
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Speaker 9: Late morning rain, then evening showers, snow the two hundred
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Speaker 9: meters tonight, so I rode snowfall warning for our northern
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Speaker 9: motorway Tonight's the high today?
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Speaker 2: Just twelve? Nice one, Thank you Clais and christ this
20:35
Speaker 2: morning clear, good morning. So what do people want to
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Speaker 2: do with the stadium or the former stadium Apollo projects
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Speaker 2: in Addington?
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Speaker 10: Yeah, residents have gathered to discuss exactly that. This is
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Speaker 10: after City Council remember decided to ask RMA reform Minister
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Speaker 10: Chris Bishop to fast track rezoning that site that would
20:53
Speaker 10: open the door to a wider mix of uses, including
20:55
Speaker 10: the potential for retail warehousing, even car park, green space
20:59
Speaker 10: and of course the inevitable housing. Now Counselor Melanie Cocher
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Speaker 10: is who facilitated a meeting yesterday where the community could
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Speaker 10: basically throw around some ideas and discuss what they wanted
21:09
Speaker 10: to see there. She says affordable housing emerged as the
21:12
Speaker 10: front runner by quite some distance, as well as a
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Speaker 10: hope for some green space for the likes of markets
21:18
Speaker 10: as well as parks and local events. We know the
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Speaker 10: site was formerly known as Rugby League Park. There was
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Speaker 10: one person who suggested a memorial at the site for
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Speaker 10: the history of rugby league, which they say would also
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Speaker 10: honor Addington's role in getting christ Church through the earthquakes.
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Speaker 2: And until now that's nice. Did anyone agree with them?
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Speaker 2: Not just the one guy, just the one go? How's
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Speaker 2: your weather?
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Speaker 10: Frosty to start? Should clear to her, fine, but a
21:43
Speaker 10: bit of cloud increasing about midday and showers possible. The
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Speaker 10: high will be seventeen.
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Speaker 2: Have a good day, clear Max and Wellington Haymax, good morning.
21:49
Speaker 2: You love a bit of chocolate. You'll be into a
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Speaker 2: new factory.
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Speaker 5: Personally, I don't eat chocolate, but apparently enough people do
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Speaker 5: that this company. Baron Hasselhoff's is launching a pledge me
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Speaker 5: campaign seeking after six hundred thousand dollars to yeah, build
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Speaker 5: a new chocolate factory in Wellington, CBD at the old
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Speaker 5: Red Square Bar building just off Courtney Place. Pledged me
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Speaker 5: being crowd lending. You give a bit of money, you
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Speaker 5: get some equity. Founded in twenty sixteen. Yeah, they think
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Speaker 5: there's the market for this in the capitol and excuse
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Speaker 5: the crappy joke. I suppose the next step would be
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Speaker 5: finding the umper lumpas to staff the factory.
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Speaker 2: Hey, why don't you eat chocolate?
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Speaker 5: I you know, I used to eat so much chocolate
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Speaker 5: and sweets when I was a teenager. I got into
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Speaker 5: my twenties and I just thought my teeth are going
22:37
Speaker 5: to fall out by the time I'm thirty. So I
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Speaker 5: went cold turkey. And now I don't do any sweet stuff.
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Speaker 2: Huh what not at all? Like nothing sugar? Are you
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Speaker 2: sugar fl Not?
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Speaker 4: Really? Wow? No?
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Speaker 2: Okay, how's your with them?
22:49
Speaker 5: I should be fine today? With Northwesterly, he's a higher fifteen.
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Speaker 2: That's one. Thank you, Good morning, Neva.
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Speaker 6: He's an example to us.
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Speaker 11: Or doesn't go shut where he's got great skin, though.
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Speaker 2: Does he? I was just trying to pay you think
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Speaker 2: of it, it's clearly not fat sugar you were on
23:06
Speaker 2: sometimes found We're like, what's quite shocking, Yes, I mean
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Speaker 2: he's not old.
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Speaker 11: So you know we can't work here in the Auckland
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Speaker 11: news room because you walk past everyone's desk and there's
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Speaker 11: cakes and.
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Speaker 2: Muffins, cheesecake terrible. We're all massive up here. We've got
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Speaker 2: two new train stations officially opening today Neva.
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Speaker 11: Yes Now, yesterday was the ribbon cutting, but today officially starting.
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Speaker 11: So these are the train stations open on the southern line,
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Speaker 11: Jury and Paidatta running from Whitea Matar station in central
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Speaker 11: Auckland to Pooka Koe. So both will have three hundred
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Speaker 11: and fifty car parks the ability to go to five
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Speaker 11: hundred in the future. Ellen Cole, who is the Franklin
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Speaker 11: Local board chairs, says, look, this is going to be great.
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Speaker 11: More people will be able to park and ride and
23:51
Speaker 11: good to see these rural communities without bus access considered.
23:55
Speaker 11: And of course you all know that this is part
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Speaker 11: of that four hundred and fifty million dollar government investment
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Speaker 11: to improve the public train sport in that area.
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Speaker 6: Pretty cool.
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Speaker 2: How's our weather?
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Speaker 1: Cloudy?
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Speaker 11: Isolated showers sixteen of the high here at Auckliff.
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Speaker 2: Nice one, good to see you never eighteen away from
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Speaker 2: six Ryan Bridge. This is on Queenstown. Ryan and Queenstown
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Speaker 2: are here. This is a no name, good morning, no name. Yes,
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Speaker 2: a whistle human because the council there, the mayor is
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Speaker 2: starting a task the traffic is so bad, starting a
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Speaker 2: task force try and sort it out, and wants people's ideas.
24:24
Speaker 2: And one of the ideas that mea raised was actually
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Speaker 2: getting one of those human, a human being to stand
24:29
Speaker 2: at the intersections with a whistle like a marshal. Ryan. Yes,
24:33
Speaker 2: a whistle human could help. So with a council that
24:35
Speaker 2: doesn't close roads during the peak of ski season for
24:38
Speaker 2: roadworks that go months and months over a proposed time,
24:42
Speaker 2: and a council that doesn't put on badly phased traffic lights.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Ryan. This is from Simon. They
24:47
Speaker 2: built Queenstown in the wrong place one hundred and sixty
24:49
Speaker 2: years ago south facing one small road in and out
24:52
Speaker 2: should have been built in Calvin Heights. Seventeen away from
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Speaker 2: six News Talks B. We're in the UK next talks INB.
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Speaker 2: It is called a Ryan. This is from Wendy does
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Speaker 2: under Winston's latest policy. Does it apply to a single
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Speaker 2: mother if they are not working? The answers No. This
25:08
Speaker 2: is the cash for Babies plan that Winston Peter's in
25:10
Speaker 2: New Zealand first to put out at the weekend. Basically,
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Speaker 2: one parent has to be in paid work and one
25:16
Speaker 2: of the parents has to be a citizen. So if
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Speaker 2: there's one parent in the family, presumably that person must
25:22
Speaker 2: be working and a citizens. We'll talk about that in
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Speaker 2: just a few minutes fourteen away from.
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Speaker 1: Six International correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance Peace of
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Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand Business.
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Speaker 2: Devin Gray are UK. You're a correspondent with US. Kevin,
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Speaker 2: nice to have you on the show as always. Hither
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Speaker 2: we've had so I know the firefighting has been going
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Speaker 2: on for weeks now, but we've had a pretty bad
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Speaker 2: crash between two helicopters who are tackling the blaze.
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Speaker 6: Yes, these are fire fighting helicopters and they collided while
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Speaker 6: tackling a fire just west of Athens. Now, of the
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Speaker 6: four people believed to be involved, to a board each
25:58
Speaker 6: helicopter been found. One was a British pilot and a
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Speaker 6: Greek Fire Service liaison officer. They were rescued and taken
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Speaker 6: to a general hospital in Athens for treatment. However, the
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Speaker 6: other two have now been confirmed as being killed. They
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Speaker 6: were a Danish pilot and a Greek fire liaison officer.
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Speaker 6: Now might be wondering why there's a British pilot there
26:22
Speaker 6: was a Danish pilot. There is because so much of
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Speaker 6: Europe is trying to help one another fight these terrible
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Speaker 6: wildfires that are striking the area. And indeed it is
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Speaker 6: reported as well that there are some French and Roumanian
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Speaker 6: personnel among those assisting their Greek counterparts in fighting these wildfires.
26:41
Speaker 6: Now an investigation, as you would expect, is underway why
26:44
Speaker 6: the helicopters were flying so close that they then touched
26:47
Speaker 6: and hit one another. But at least two have been saved,
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Speaker 6: is the good news. The Greek Prime Minister Kiriokos mits
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Speaker 6: Attackers said that it was his deepest sorry for the
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Speaker 6: tragic accident. As a post on X and these wildfires,
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Speaker 6: I'm afraid show no signs of abathing. It is the
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Speaker 6: strong winds that are found in the flames and as
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Speaker 6: we know, has been close to reaching Bordeaux in France,
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Speaker 6: Madrid in Spain, and around Athens. As well. The fires
27:14
Speaker 6: are pretty severe.
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Speaker 2: The migrants are swimming from Morocco to Spain, fifty sixty
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Speaker 2: thousand of them. I know half of them have been
27:20
Speaker 2: turned back now. But do you think this could see
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Speaker 2: the closure or exclusion of Spain from the open borders.
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Speaker 6: I can see it kicking a large splinter into the
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Speaker 6: and a wedge into the relationships between Spain and some
27:37
Speaker 6: of the others. So, as you said, it was estimated
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Speaker 6: sixty thousand migrants entered the Spanish enclave called Sueta, and
27:47
Speaker 6: it's literally part of North Africa, but it's a little
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Speaker 6: enclave belongs to Spain. They're poor, part of the European Union,
27:53
Speaker 6: and it's right next door to Morocco. And what the
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Speaker 6: numbers doing, I mean it was just swarming around, using
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Speaker 6: swimming or some sort of buoyancy aid to swim around
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Speaker 6: the fence in the sea and then get back in
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Speaker 6: as it were on land, but this time in Spain,
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Speaker 6: part of the EU. Well, such was the fear. Sixty
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Speaker 6: seven tragically died, but such was the fear among others
28:16
Speaker 6: of the EU partnership. And of course, once in the
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Speaker 6: EU you are allowed to go from country to country
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Speaker 6: without showing your passport. The leaders of the Netherlands, Finland
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Speaker 6: and Belgium, along with very angry words from Italy saying, look,
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Speaker 6: we need to we need to close the borders to
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Speaker 6: Spain effectively and stop this free movement of people. And
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Speaker 6: indeed Italy went as far as doing that, but Spain
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Speaker 6: hit back and just said this is selfish, polarizing and unlawful,
28:45
Speaker 6: saying you can't just shut the border free sheng and
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Speaker 6: arrangement zone with Spain. So there's been a lot of
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Speaker 6: pushback on this and this big meeting. Really, I think
28:53
Speaker 6: to look at now what happens. You know, it's rather
28:56
Speaker 6: amusing to us here in the UK Ryan that Spain
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Speaker 6: always going on about with the you know, we shouldn't
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Speaker 6: have Gibraltar because that's on the edge of Spain, and
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Speaker 6: here are the Spanish getting in trouble perasing something in
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Speaker 6: North Africa and this problem would seem set, I think,
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Speaker 6: to only get worse as the EU you look to
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Speaker 6: protect his border.
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Speaker 2: Devin a good update, thank you. That's Kevin Gray, are
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Speaker 2: UK europe correspondent. That meeting, by the way, that Maloney
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Speaker 2: has called with the EU leader's happening tomorrow night our time.
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Speaker 2: It's ten away from six Bridge Winston. He's in on
29:25
Speaker 2: first cash for Baby's policy, so it's going to cost
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Speaker 2: four hundred million bucks a year. That's one that's fully
29:30
Speaker 2: up and running, comes from the operating allowance. It's universal,
29:33
Speaker 2: which means everyone would get it.
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Speaker 4: Well.
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Speaker 2: To get it, you've got to have three up to
29:37
Speaker 2: three babies and you would get up to five thousand
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Speaker 2: dollars each year for each baby. Total forty five. Nathan Wallace,
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Speaker 2: parenting expert with us this morning morning. Nathan got right?
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Speaker 4: How doing that?
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Speaker 10: Good?
29:48
Speaker 2: Thank you? Do you think that is what is stopping people?
29:51
Speaker 2: Is just the cost?
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Speaker 8: No, it's probably way more complicated than that, but certainly
29:57
Speaker 8: cost of effector is you've got to have some sort
30:01
Speaker 8: of policy like that, especially for anti immigration, you know,
30:04
Speaker 8: like underpopulation is a real issue that the whole world's
30:06
Speaker 8: talking about and facing.
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Speaker 2: So how what do you what else could you do?
30:12
Speaker 8: What do you mean what else could you do well
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Speaker 8: to help.
30:14
Speaker 2: To encourage people to have more babies? Like if money
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Speaker 2: is one thing, what other things stop people from doing it?
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Speaker 8: I think I'm a lack of ability to be able
30:24
Speaker 8: to stay at home, so like you know, paid maternal
30:26
Speaker 8: to leave. I mean, money is one factor. Obviously people
30:30
Speaker 8: need money in order to have kids, but it's a
30:32
Speaker 8: lot more complicated than just having children. You've got to
30:34
Speaker 8: have community support, you've got to have all the right
30:36
Speaker 8: stuff in place. You know, only a twenty percent of
30:39
Speaker 8: us live in the same community as our extended family.
30:42
Speaker 8: All of those sort of factors that buy into people
30:44
Speaker 8: having more children.
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Speaker 2: Friend of mine she's looking at having a third but
30:48
Speaker 2: she said that in her friend group, they say a
30:51
Speaker 2: third child is the new Burken you know, those really
30:53
Speaker 2: expensive handbags.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well you could say the first child's
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Speaker 8: a Burken. You know, there's an expense having children.
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Speaker 2: And then and it's not just I mean, this is
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Speaker 2: for the first three years. But they don't stop costing
31:05
Speaker 2: money after three years, do they.
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Speaker 8: No, they don't. But I mean the first three years
31:10
Speaker 8: that is consistent with the research. That's when you're really
31:13
Speaker 8: we can product so many of your outcomes as an
31:15
Speaker 8: adult just based on the data from when you're three.
31:17
Speaker 8: So the first three years is definitely vital.
31:21
Speaker 2: Good to have you on Nathan Wallace, parenting expert with
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Speaker 2: us this morning. It is eight away from six nine
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Speaker 2: to nine two, the number to text oh by the
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Speaker 2: way we looked at last week the particut you know,
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Speaker 2: Microsoft was reporting. If you look overall at quarter two
31:34
Speaker 2: earnings for the S and P five hundred, because they've
31:36
Speaker 2: now finished, eighty six percent of them had earnings per
31:40
Speaker 2: year surprises on the upside, which is good. Seventy seven
31:44
Speaker 2: percent of them had positive revenue. So basically they're doing well.
31:49
Speaker 2: News talks, they'd be right next.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for business
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Speaker 1: technology that keeps business moving.
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Speaker 2: News talks it be. It is six to six news
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Speaker 2: talks the b I said John Howard over in Australia's
32:06
Speaker 2: come out with a way that the Liberals can tackle
32:08
Speaker 2: the immigration issue and take on Pauline Hanson because she's
32:11
Speaker 2: stealing their votes, cutting their lunch. He's this is, of
32:15
Speaker 2: course the guy who did the exclusion zones, did the
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Speaker 2: offshore detention. He says, border controllers. Key. Multiculturalism is fine
32:22
Speaker 2: as long as we decide who comes when and how.
32:27
Speaker 2: They must embrace democracy and you just need a steady
32:30
Speaker 2: stream of migration as opposed to an influxaw a flood.
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Speaker 2: It is five two Ray and Bridge, Good morning, Mike.
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Speaker 12: Coalition's up four points in this morning's poll.
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Speaker 2: Is that right?
32:40
Speaker 12: And Hanson's back lipfrogging labor number one?
32:44
Speaker 2: And I saw that last week she was leap frogging labor.
32:47
Speaker 12: Get that chocolate thing with Max, Yeah, a moment ago.
32:50
Speaker 12: So Baron Hasselhoff, we happen to end up with some
32:53
Speaker 12: of that stuff at our place. I'll do you now
32:54
Speaker 12: and he makes avera. Well they make a very good
32:56
Speaker 12: chocolate now. So I go straight online there and look
32:59
Speaker 12: at that.
32:59
Speaker 2: How many peop people have given money?
33:01
Speaker 12: Well, you see, I can't. It's the weirdest thing. It's
33:03
Speaker 12: a Facebook this pledged me fund me, go fund me.
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Speaker 12: I've never understood this is This is idiots and how
33:09
Speaker 12: to lose the money. Which is not to say that
33:10
Speaker 12: Baron Hesselhoff isn't going to be one of the great
33:12
Speaker 12: investments of all time. But when you invest in a company,
33:15
Speaker 12: what are you investing in it? You investing for fundsi.
33:18
Speaker 12: Literally it's on the Facebook page say help us raise money.
33:20
Speaker 12: Their targets aroundred sixty thousand dollars. Right, So you investing
33:24
Speaker 12: money because you think there's a growth path there and
33:26
Speaker 12: you'll get a return on your money because nothing there
33:28
Speaker 12: that tells you what they're going to do, how they're
33:29
Speaker 12: going to do it. There's no d D is what
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Speaker 12: I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: No, well, I don't imagine that if your fund if
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Speaker 2: you're doing investments via pledge me that you're doing it.
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Speaker 12: That's what I'm saying for a return, Why are you
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Speaker 12: giving the money just for FUNDSI? I think people like
33:41
Speaker 12: to support a local business vibe really well, it's like
33:46
Speaker 12: the donation websites, you know, when you donate for your
33:48
Speaker 12: local person who's doing a run tends to be a
33:50
Speaker 12: charity does But this is what is says, there's a business,
33:54
Speaker 12: somebody's guy Owens is going to make some money out
33:56
Speaker 12: of the port and you want a piece of that action.
33:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think those websites are more of our
34:01
Speaker 2: veritable business donation. Yeah, okay.
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Speaker 12: Are you sick of the policies that are going nowhere
34:06
Speaker 12: in the election campaign so far? Like having more children
34:08
Speaker 12: for more money and money that's literally going nowhere. So
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Speaker 12: it's changing. Nothing going nowhere? I mean, want to waste
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Speaker 12: the time anyway.
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Speaker 2: Don't know. Lean By the way, it's got to have some.
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Speaker 12: Winners on the chef.
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