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Carolyn Young: Retail NZ Chief Executive on why she quit the Ministerial Advisory Group for victims of retail crime · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The Board of the Ministerial Advisory Group into Retail Crime
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  Speaker 1: is falling apart at the scenes. It seems three out
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  Speaker 1: of the five members of the board resigned since twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four when it was created. CEO of Retailing ZED
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  Speaker 1: Carolyn Young is the latest. She blames board chairs Sonny Kshelle.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Carolyn, What an Ryan? What exactly can you
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  Speaker 1: give us an example of what he did, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to really irk you or to make you quit.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I think it's been a series of challenges that
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  Speaker 2: have gone on from a very long time. Especially I
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  Speaker 2: think it started back when the Dairy Owners Association to
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  Speaker 2: put out a press relief personally attacking me and my professionalism,
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  Speaker 2: and Sonny was unprepared to do anything about another member
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  Speaker 2: on the NAG attacking another member, so you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: really unprofessional. And yeah, he just laughed about it and said, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, these things have happened. And one of the
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  Speaker 2: other members who was pooring me on the mag you know,
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  Speaker 2: he raised it with the chair and said it was
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  Speaker 2: inappropriate for that sort of thing that happened in the media.
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  Speaker 1: What did when you say attacking, what what was the attack?
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  Speaker 2: They put out a met press release which in March
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  Speaker 2: last year, which effectively attacked me personally and my professionalism,
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  Speaker 2: made up information and just put it out in the press.
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  Speaker 2: So it was really uncaud for because they were unhappy
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  Speaker 2: that the members that I represent, so the members of Italians,
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  Speaker 2: didn't support Sitizan's arrest and therefore we spoke out about
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  Speaker 2: that and that was a very that was kind of
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  Speaker 2: like the catalyst of where everything you know, went from there.
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  Speaker 1: So you're just doing your job, Carolyn, what is it?
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think Goldsmith's holding on to Sonny?
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  Speaker 2: Look, you have to really speak to the minister about that,
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  Speaker 2: you know. I think that Sonny has has some perspectives
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  Speaker 2: that inter lined with a lot of other retailers, but
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  Speaker 2: they still represent some portion of retail within New Zealand.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I think his voice is useful to
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  Speaker 2: be heard, but I don't think it's the only voice,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't think it's the leading voice.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think it should be gone as chair? Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's still on the board, but gone as chair? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: would you come back that had changed?
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  Speaker 2: Look, I think there's a few things that had to
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  Speaker 2: change on it. I mean, it's a pretty untenable position.
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  Speaker 2: But my members are really keen for me to stay
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  Speaker 2: on the mag because it's really important to be involved
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  Speaker 2: and be able to put forward, you know what a
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  Speaker 2: big portion of retail crime as it's being experienced in
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand and to support them and their work, that's
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  Speaker 2: my job. So you know, I guess that's the key
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  Speaker 2: thing that kept me there for so long. And we
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  Speaker 2: had a lot of conversations at board level around what
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  Speaker 2: was the right thing for us to do and was
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  Speaker 2: it right for retail and the had to be involved
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  Speaker 2: an minister advisory when we're going to agreeing with the
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  Speaker 2: positions that were being taken.
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  Speaker 1: Carolyn, appreciate your time this morning. Carolyn Young Retailing is
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  Speaker 1: the chief executive and no longer on the mag, which
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  Speaker 1: by the way stands for Ministerial Advisory Group. If you
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  Speaker 1: didn't pick that up.
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