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Full Show Podcast: 26 May 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: early edition with one roof make your property search simple,
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Speaker 1: us dogs.
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Speaker 2: That'd be good morning, Welcome to your Monday, the twenty fifth,
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Speaker 2: twenty sixth of May. Where are we, fellow Riley? We're
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Speaker 2: going to have him on the new benefits sanctions that
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Speaker 2: are kicking in today. Are they actually working? If you
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Speaker 2: look at the numbers of people who are going onto benefits,
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Speaker 2: onto job seeker in particular, the answer would seem to
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Speaker 2: be no. Is it more about the state of the economy?
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Speaker 2: So Norris is one, This is f one, Liam Lawson
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Speaker 2: finishing eighth, Andrew Orison on that, plus the warriors and
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Speaker 2: all the rest of the weekend sport Gavin Gray in
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Speaker 2: the UK for US this morning, Trump's back at it
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Speaker 2: with the EU another trades spat. You thought you had
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Speaker 2: ninety days to sort of Gail actually Trump saying you
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Speaker 2: don't right. It is seven minutes after five the agenda.
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Speaker 2: The Russia and Ukraine had the biggest prisoner of war
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Speaker 2: exchange so far over the weekend, with more than three
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Speaker 2: hundred servicemen returned on each side, but then Russia ramps
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Speaker 2: up at strikes on Ukraine the highest number of drones
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Speaker 2: and missiles launched and a single night, yet.
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Speaker 3: The sirens whents at midnight and there were explosions right
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Speaker 3: all the way through until sunrise. I mean, the skies
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Speaker 3: were lit up with search lights and you could hear
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Speaker 3: air defenses going off. You could see the occasional drone interceptor,
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Speaker 3: you could hear their motors.
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Speaker 2: In Gaza thirty eight Dad and the latest strikes, and
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Speaker 2: this terrible story from the weekend, the doctor, his wife,
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Speaker 2: and then nine of the ten children killed.
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Speaker 4: The father was quite seriously injured. We do know that
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Speaker 4: the sun has been operated on by a British surgeon
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Speaker 4: who is at the NASA hospital, and he has said
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Speaker 4: that the arm of the little boy, who was eleven
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Speaker 4: years old, his name is Adam, was nearly severed, but
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Speaker 4: he was able to save the arm.
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Speaker 2: So Trump wants to ben foreign student from enrolling at Harvard,
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Speaker 2: and a federal judges come out and said, Tyjoe, hold up,
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Speaker 2: it's the same judge considering the lawsuits on the frieze
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Speaker 2: of federal funding for Harvard.
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Speaker 5: The government's action is unlawful. Harvard says, we are fully
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Speaker 5: committed to maintaining Harvard's ability to host international students and
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Speaker 5: scholars who held for more than one hundred and forty
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Speaker 5: countries and enrich the university and this nation immeasurably.
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Speaker 2: And finally to the Monaco Grand Prix Illium, Lawson secured
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Speaker 2: the best finish of his Formula One career to date.
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Speaker 2: He drove purposely slow, backing up the cars behind him
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Speaker 2: so that he could let his teammate in. Lawson came
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Speaker 2: in eighth, a place ahead of where he started, and
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Speaker 2: his teammate sixth, a place back from where he started.
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Speaker 6: It's not often you have a plan, especially on a
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Speaker 6: race lay this where we have the opportunity to completely
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Speaker 6: control the race. Kinnah works out perfectly. So from our side,
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Speaker 6: there was obviously doubts because when you're dropping back pase
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Speaker 6: like that, you're only three from guys behind, but said
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Speaker 6: both guys and the says, it's.
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Speaker 2: Very regod And that's your agenda for Monday morning.
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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 one roof Make
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Speaker 1: Your Property Search Simple News Talk.
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Speaker 2: Said be yeah, so we're going to talk about the
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Speaker 2: sanctions and I'd love to know your thoughts. Nine two
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Speaker 2: nine to two talk about the sanctions just before six
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Speaker 2: o'clock with Philloiley. But just so that we're clear, I mean,
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Speaker 2: one of the sanctions is that you get half of
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Speaker 2: the money, half of your benefit put on a card
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Speaker 2: for four weeks. So it's not like you actually lose money.
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Speaker 2: You just have to spend half of it on a
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Speaker 2: card in which you can't buy certain things. You know anyway,
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Speaker 2: but here are the obligations. This is what you have
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Speaker 2: to do in order to actually get sanctioned. So your
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Speaker 2: obligations you look for full time work, full time employment.
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Speaker 2: I mean, if you're on a job seeker benefit. I
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Speaker 2: would have thought that would be a prerequisite. Turns out
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Speaker 2: it is. So you've got to attend and take part
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Speaker 2: in any suitable job interviews that we ask you to reasonable.
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Speaker 2: Attend and take part in interviews with working in come
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Speaker 2: as required reasonable. They're giving you the money, take part
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Speaker 2: in any other activities we require require, including job training courses.
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Speaker 2: That's not only is that good for you, it's good
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Speaker 2: for us. They might ask you to do work experience
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Speaker 2: whip do you do so? Basically, if you don't do
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Speaker 2: these things, there's a traffic. First of all, there's a
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Speaker 2: traffic light system with you know, green, yellow, red, and
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Speaker 2: you only then lose half of your money. You didn't
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Speaker 2: even lose it goes on a card. So I don't
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Speaker 2: know what is the big deal. The question I guess
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Speaker 2: is whether this is actually having any effect on a beneficiaries,
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Speaker 2: on the number of beneficiaries, because they're going up, and
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Speaker 2: that's more to do with the economy. Fillow Raleigh on
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Speaker 2: that later on the show leven after five. It is
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Speaker 2: ocr week this week and Wednesday. We'll get it good.
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Speaker 2: We should get a cut. Great if we've got a
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Speaker 2: mortgage I do. I would like the OCA to just
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Speaker 2: fall through the floor, thank you very much. So we'll
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Speaker 2: get to three and a half percent. It'll sorry, we're
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Speaker 2: at three and a half percent. We'll get down to
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Speaker 2: three point twenty five. What happens after that is the question.
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Speaker 2: Because you've got hawksby who's your caretaker in charge, all
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Speaker 2: said it would come down further to three by Christmas.
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Speaker 2: You got some people saying two and a half by Christmas.
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Speaker 2: You've got the market pricing in a sixty percent chance
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Speaker 2: of two point seven to five by Christmas. We will
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Speaker 2: find out more Wednesday because we'll get the monetary policy
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Speaker 2: statement on that as well. Right coming up next, it's
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Speaker 2: your teeth and yeah, your kid's teeth. How many are
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Speaker 2: waiting for on the surgery wait list for a dental operation?
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Speaker 2: And why are there so many kids on there? Is
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Speaker 2: it because their teeth are getting worse or their behavior?
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and one roof Make Your Property Search Simple News
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Speaker 1: Talks be good morning.
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Speaker 2: Nice to have your company retail sales data. This is
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Speaker 2: from Friday, but I thought i'd share it with you
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Speaker 2: in case you hadn't caught it. It was surprising, like
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Speaker 2: in a good way. Good surprising. Retail activity was up
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Speaker 2: for the March quarter. This is from stats n Z.
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Speaker 2: So the sales volume was upo point eight percent on December.
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Speaker 2: Sales value also up one point five percent to thirty
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Speaker 2: one billion dollars. The value up one point four percent
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Speaker 2: compared to March twenty twenty four, so up on a
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Speaker 2: year earlier as well. This is surprising. They were expecting.
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Speaker 2: The pundits, the economists were expecting, and we've had many
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Speaker 2: on this show. I pick up later in the year.
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Speaker 2: So is this recovery being brought forward? We're out spending
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Speaker 2: our money more so than we were in quarter four
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Speaker 2: last year and quarter one the year prior. It is
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Speaker 2: quarter past five, Brian Briefly, over half of children on
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Speaker 2: the dental surgery weight list have been waiting more than
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Speaker 2: four months. That's three thousand kids waiting more than one
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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty days health en zed data. They are
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Speaker 2: apparently in pain some of them. There's some complex issues.
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Speaker 2: Samuel Carrington, Faculty of Dentistry at Otago, Unied, Good morning,
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Ryan, how are you good? Thank you? What
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Speaker 2: are you going to do to get on the list.
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Speaker 7: Right? Well?
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Speaker 8: By the time timebody, if you reach hospital care, they're
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Speaker 8: usually are quote in a lot of significant pain and
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Speaker 8: have multiple insected or edssteth So many of these sorry
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Speaker 8: men need several extractions and in some cases for dental
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Speaker 8: clearances under general. So the level of disease is not
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Speaker 8: about poor oral hygien alone. It's actually about deffer issues
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Speaker 8: like poverty and nutrition, lack of early access to the
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Speaker 8: community ooral health service. And if we had a system
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Speaker 8: that primarily focus on prevention, these children would be treated
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Speaker 8: much earlier with simpler and less traumatic procedures. But right
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Speaker 8: now their hospital dental surgery is often the end result
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Speaker 8: of a systemic failure.
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Speaker 2: So just stop feeding them coca cola.
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Speaker 8: Well, that's one part of it. But yeah, like I said,
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Speaker 8: it's a systemic issue. Unfortunately, our community ooralth service is
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Speaker 8: under resourced, understaff and this all leads to children waiting
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Speaker 8: on the list and leading hospital level care.
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Speaker 2: So when they're on the list, are they guaranteed to
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Speaker 2: be in pain? For those who are waiting four months,
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Speaker 2: presumably you would get the extreme cases out of the
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Speaker 2: way first. So those who are waiting more than form
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Speaker 2: I mean, are their kids out there literally every day
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Speaker 2: in pain waiting for a dental surgery more than four months?
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Speaker 8: Unfortunately there are and if you think about the wider issues,
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Speaker 8: So children in pain, you know, they can't do things
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Speaker 8: like concentrating school, They struggle to eat, they lose a
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Speaker 8: lot of sleep. They often go through multiple appointments to
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Speaker 8: the community or health service and even to private practices
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Speaker 8: in order to get antibiotics to kind of alleviate that pain.
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Speaker 8: But what happens is it affects their development and their
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Speaker 8: ability to thrive. And it also it's not impacting the child,
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Speaker 8: it's also impacting on the family. So that family carries
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Speaker 8: a huge emotional and financial burdens to take time off work,
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Speaker 8: to trope travel to appointments.
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Speaker 2: It's terrible. Nobody wants that. So what this backlog was
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Speaker 2: caused by the lockdowns? Was it? So we locked down,
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Speaker 2: then we had couldn't do any of the surge. Reason
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Speaker 2: then that the backlog we haven't caught up.
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Speaker 8: That's correct, Yeah, but it's also an outcome of the
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Speaker 8: system itself. So children were being pushed back for their exams,
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Speaker 8: their dentaliti gay got worse, the list got bigger, and
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Speaker 8: then factor adam with the fact that we were having
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Speaker 8: staff shortages. People were leaving, they were retiring. We were
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Speaker 8: having new graduates graduate from both universities Otago and aut
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Speaker 8: and a lot of them were going to Australia.
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Speaker 2: Are they still going there?
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Speaker 8: Absolutely? I also worked at the dental school and I
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Speaker 8: think about our graduating class last year, I'd say about
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Speaker 8: a quarter of them went over to Australia. What would
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Speaker 8: it normally be, Well, the public system actually cries out
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Speaker 8: for a lot of our graduates. We had around about
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Speaker 8: one hundred and forty oral health therapists graduating every year,
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Speaker 8: but last year was the first time in my ten
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Speaker 8: years of working at the university that I've seen a
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Speaker 8: big chunk of our graduates actually go to Australia because
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Speaker 8: they couldn't find jobs here.
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Speaker 2: Sam, appreciate your time, Sam Carrington, a senior lecture of
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Speaker 2: Faculty Dentistry at the Unusity of Otago. I mean joined
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Speaker 2: the Q who isn't leaving? I suppose it has just
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Speaker 2: gone eighteen after five news talks.
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Speaker 1: He'd be on your radio and online on iHeartRadio earlier
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Speaker 1: this year with Ryan Bridge and One Roof to make
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Speaker 2: It's five twenty, Good morning, Ryan. Why do the parents
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Speaker 2: never get a mention? We did mention the parents. This
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Speaker 2: is on dentistry. There are how many kids, three thousand
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Speaker 2: New Zealand kids waiting for dental surgery and they've been
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Speaker 2: waiting more than four months and a lot of them
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Speaker 2: are in pain. We imagine I've been four months in
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Speaker 2: pain and a child not good for their education, I
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Speaker 2: mean not good for anything. Ryan. If kids weren't being
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Speaker 2: given fizzy drinks and juice constantly, their teeth would be fine.
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Speaker 2: Give them water in milk and healthy choices. I completely
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Speaker 2: agree with you, but The question is from a dentistry
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Speaker 2: point of view, is do you couts all very well,
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Speaker 2: you can say the dentists can say, hey, stop giving
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Speaker 2: a kid fizzy drink, and then they don't, and then
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Speaker 2: they end up back there and what do you do?
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Speaker 2: Just not treat them? You know? The number six twenty
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Speaker 2: one minutes after five. Let's get to Andrew Ortison's sport
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Speaker 2: good morning.
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Speaker 9: Greeting's Ryan big morning, busy morning, this morning. If we
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Speaker 9: start with Lian Lawson, if there's one more of the year,
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Speaker 9: it's the busiest. It's this one Monday morning, which is great.
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Speaker 9: So yeah, Lea Lawson let's start their eighth place at
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Speaker 9: Monico gets himself four points, Leder Norris winning the race
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Speaker 9: and in the principality on the streets in Monte Carlo.
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Speaker 9: It's it's quite the scene, amazing to watch.
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Speaker 2: And he's basically that gives what does one for the team,
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Speaker 2: doesn't he? Yeah, yeah, let's us mate come past.
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Speaker 9: Yes, Isaac Hadget is sixth, so he's in points as well,
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Speaker 9: So good day for racing bulls and well great day
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Speaker 9: from McLaren too. Oscar Piastrian third, so two places on
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Speaker 9: the podium, but Norris now within three of Pastree at
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Speaker 9: the top of the driver's standings. Not much space in
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Speaker 9: Monico though, right, well, he happens and various pieces like that.
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Speaker 9: But great to watch down there on the waterfront.
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Speaker 2: And the Warrior has got a bit raided.
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Speaker 9: They did, indeed, yeah sixteen ten, I see you did there,
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Speaker 9: you know at home too that yeah, yeah, I mean
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Speaker 9: they had this five run winning streak. But it's come
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Speaker 9: to an end. And Andrew Webster's talking about two sinbonings,
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Speaker 9: one to the Raiders in the first half, and they
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Speaker 9: still the Warriors still try as a result of that,
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Speaker 9: and then lead to try on the sixty fourth minute,
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Speaker 9: which effectively decided the game. Jabal Foggery coming across to score.
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Speaker 9: So your disappointment for the Warriors, I suppose it's a
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Speaker 9: it's all good round because numbers are depleted because of
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Speaker 9: the state of origin. Of course, the Warriors missing a
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Speaker 9: couple of key players as well as a result. And yeah,
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Speaker 9: they're still I think it's third now they're equal with
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Speaker 9: the Raiders on eighteen points, but they're third on points differential.
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Speaker 9: So the Warrior is still very much part of the
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Speaker 9: wrecking Bulldogs losing. But they're on twenty still the top.
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Speaker 2: It's what we'd like to hear. Now, Alan, they say
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Speaker 2: the hot water, What did you think of it?
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Speaker 9: I think is the rule off it goes out of play.
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Speaker 9: I mean, I think the linesman is in a decent
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Speaker 9: position there and therefore they have to copy it. But
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Speaker 9: you can understand, given the circumstances and what's on the line,
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Speaker 9: how tension would be high in that instance. And they've
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Speaker 9: done so well what gaes youmo may crossing and Rogerson
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Speaker 9: putting it in, but you know, and that would have leveled.
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Speaker 9: That would have made things pretty exciting in terms of
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Speaker 9: I suppose the way goals, home goals, et cetera, and
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Speaker 9: they would hit it towards extra time, penalty showed out.
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Speaker 9: Potentially all that sort of stuff would be high drama
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Speaker 9: at Mounts Smart but not to be. And the victory
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Speaker 9: of gone ahead and played in the circumstances I thought,
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Speaker 9: just from what I saw of it, maybe that the
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Speaker 9: Aucle left Sea were a bit flat and maybe the
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Speaker 9: occasion got to them. But you know, nonetheless, outstanding season,
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Speaker 9: first season to actually take the well to win the
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Speaker 9: regulation table anyway, but just not able to take it
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Speaker 9: to the final.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. I'm actually talking to Steve on the on the
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Speaker 2: on the Herald program later on.
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Speaker 9: Oh yes, yes, good luck with that today. By the way,
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Speaker 9: thank you.
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Speaker 2: It's I mean, it's sport, isn't it. It's refs calls
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Speaker 2: go your way or sometimes they don't.
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Speaker 9: Just got it and come back next season do better,
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Speaker 9: I suppose, but you know, hard to argue with their difference.
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Speaker 2: Out Andrew, Thank you.
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Speaker 9: Go to the desk. Busy, busy are enty five hundred
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Speaker 9: way as well.
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Speaker 2: You've got a lot on this morning, Andrew Ordison the sport.
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Speaker 2: It is twenty four minutes after five. You're on News TALKSVB,
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Speaker 2: Talks EB five twenty six News Talks B. Can We
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Speaker 2: Save It? I was thinking about this over the weekend.
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Speaker 2: I get why. I get why the government is doing
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Speaker 2: the old switcheroo. You know, I get it means tests
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Speaker 2: the government sweetener, have it for everyone else, save yourself
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Speaker 2: a bunch of money. Then we workers and our employers
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Speaker 2: will slowly put more into the scheme over the time,
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Speaker 2: and you build up to that so that when it
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Speaker 2: all comes out in the wash, we're at least no
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Speaker 2: worse off than before budget day. All right, I get it,
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Speaker 2: except that we will be worse off because it's us
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Speaker 2: and our employers paying for it. Right, We pay more upfront,
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Speaker 2: Our employers pay more upfront. That's added cost. Businesses recover
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Speaker 2: cost by putting up p which we end up paying,
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Speaker 2: or by lowering costs like wages, which is how most
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Speaker 2: of us make a living. Right, So the net effect
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Speaker 2: is worse for us and better for the government. Now again,
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Speaker 2: I get why they need to slash spending, but the
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Speaker 2: problem with tinkering with Kiwi Saver is this, for your
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Speaker 2: average working, hard saving planning for retirement, that's what we're
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Speaker 2: told to do. These changes throw all your calculations out
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Speaker 2: of whack. You plan on a long term, predictable set
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Speaker 2: of circumstances. When they're changed without warning and at random,
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Speaker 2: it punishes the very people who are trying to do
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Speaker 2: the right thing. We need more of a heads up
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Speaker 2: on changes to KIW Saver, thank you very much, and
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Speaker 2: more importantly on NZ super. It's not a matter of if,
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Speaker 2: but when. That also gets a means test, even if
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Speaker 2: the when is post Winston Peters Nikola Willis says she's
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Speaker 2: been giving this some thought. The future of superannuation I
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Speaker 2: would like to know, and other hard working key we
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Speaker 2: savers I'm sure would also like to know sooner rather
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Speaker 2: than later, what those thoughts are. Brian Bridge eight minutes
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Speaker 2: after five year on newstalksb our Funniest news from the weekend.
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Speaker 2: Remember I told you Kamala Harris was going to go
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Speaker 2: talk at a real estate conference in Brisbane, because they
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Speaker 2: must have. I don't know what her fee is, but anyway,
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Speaker 2: she ends up at a real estate conference in Brisbane.
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Speaker 2: Have a listen about you.
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Speaker 10: You're invested in it.
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Speaker 2: You're invested in doing the well.
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Speaker 11: More than four thousand agents paying upwards of one thousand dollars.
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Speaker 11: Harris covering her upbringing Korea and advice.
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Speaker 2: She also gave them advice on the Australian property market,
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Speaker 2: because that's her area of expertise. Apparently. Twenty nine after
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Speaker 2: five you're on Newstalk ZB. We'll get to Gavin Gray
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Speaker 2: are UK europe correspondent next. The Germans quite freaked out
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Speaker 2: about the latest spat between Trump and the EU. You're
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Speaker 2: on News Talks FB. No, sorry, tell me what acome.
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Speaker 12: Cckle Comackle.
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Speaker 1: News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 2: Good morning, it is Monday, the twenty sixth of May.
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Speaker 2: It is twenty five minutes away from six and you're
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Speaker 2: listening to News Talk SB. We're going to get to
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Speaker 2: Gavin Gray out of the UK shortly. More on the spats. Yes,
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Speaker 2: it's reignited between Trump and the EU on trade and terrorists.
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Speaker 2: Phill O'Reilly who was on the work of the Welfare
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Speaker 2: Working Group. He's on the program just before six o'clock.
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Speaker 2: Benefit sanctions kicking in today. So if you are listening
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Speaker 2: to this and you're on a benefit, go and do something.
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Speaker 2: That's the message basically, isn't it. Philo Rileigh will explain
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Speaker 2: actually why they're not a big deal. But if they're
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Speaker 2: not that big of a deal, will they change anything?
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Speaker 2: That's the question this morning, and Tim has checked the
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Speaker 2: program just in the last couple of seconds. Ryan. If
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Speaker 2: National can play with Kiwisaver, then so can labor and
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Speaker 2: this plays with people's confidence in the kiwisaver system overall, Tim,
18:26
Speaker 2: I agree with you. I completely agree with you, And
18:28
Speaker 2: I think if you're going to mess with keysaver, if
18:31
Speaker 2: you're going to make changes in the same way that
18:33
Speaker 2: you know with superannuation, they should be very well signaled
18:37
Speaker 2: ahead of time because good, fastidious people like you tim
18:42
Speaker 2: plan in advance, and when plans change, you need to
18:46
Speaker 2: know about it so you can factor that in. But
18:49
Speaker 2: trying to explain this to a politician to get them
18:52
Speaker 2: to all sing kumbai r on superannuation or kiwisaver is
18:55
Speaker 2: like trying to end the war in Gaza, isn't it?
18:59
Speaker 2: Twenty two away from six Ray and Bridge, Color Practice
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Speaker 2: and deneed for us this morning, Color, Good morning to you.
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Speaker 2: How's the hospital coming together? Yeah, look it's coming along here.
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Speaker 12: Health New Zealand and the City Council Ryan issuing a
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Speaker 12: joint media really mediate release on this one point eight
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Speaker 12: eight billion dollar projects, saying excited about the progress, et cetera,
19:19
Speaker 12: et cetera, but also detailing the numbers of beds that
19:22
Speaker 12: will be available in this new and patient building. The
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Speaker 12: ODT here reporting over the weekend cuts across the board
19:28
Speaker 12: for all categories of beds, most significantly the number of
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Speaker 12: overnight beds cut by forty nine from what was originally promised.
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Speaker 12: But Health and z though say forty three beds actually
19:37
Speaker 12: will be reserved for future upgrades and the sixth floor
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Speaker 12: of this build will be space for further expansion over time.
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Speaker 12: The Health Minister Simeon Brown saying the government is delivering
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Speaker 12: on its promise, and our Mayor Jules Raddick says this
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Speaker 12: new hospital will be transformative and he's pleased. Now the
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Speaker 12: southern community has been heard. How's your weather rain clearing
19:58
Speaker 12: this morning? Chances of showers the saft though and a
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Speaker 12: high of eighteen.
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Speaker 2: Nice one and clears and christ clear. Good morning, Good morning.
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Speaker 2: Now what's going on with the new Metro Sports Center?
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Speaker 13: Wow, We've been watching this for some years now, Ryan,
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Speaker 13: and we can now reveal that its cost effectively has
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Speaker 13: blown out big time. This is the Paddokyode Recreation and
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Speaker 13: Sports Center. It's located in town on Morehouse Save just
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Speaker 13: near the hospital. Really, we know that it's ninety percent complete.
20:23
Speaker 13: It very much looks ready to open, but we now
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Speaker 13: know the cost has doubled to half a billion dollars
20:30
Speaker 13: before its scheduled opening. There are eleven pools and spas,
20:33
Speaker 13: there hydroslides, some sports courts for netball and the like.
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Speaker 13: The complex was meant to open a few years ago,
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Speaker 13: but was delayed because of a legal dispute between the
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Speaker 13: government delivery agency and the contractor. Sports Canterbury CEO Julian
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Speaker 13: Falloone says this massive cost blowout doesn't come as a
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Speaker 13: shock to them. He says, because of the time frame
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Speaker 13: basically how long it's taken and the complexity of the site,
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Speaker 13: there's no surprises that the build project was going to
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Speaker 13: end up costing more.
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Speaker 2: And we're the cleip mainly fine.
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Speaker 13: A bit of patchy rain early today then northeries.
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Speaker 2: At a high of nineteen Hey, good one mix in
21:05
Speaker 2: Wellington MAXs good morning morning. Now Wellington Water is main
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Speaker 2: a shambles, but you've got a new model coming in
21:13
Speaker 2: an update on this. Yeah.
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Speaker 14: So we interviewed the mayor on Friday. Her claim is
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Speaker 14: that Wellington's ahead of the game now by agreeing to
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Speaker 14: form this new joint regional entity, as you say, in
21:23
Speaker 14: lieu of the disastrous Wellington Water. While the council here
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Speaker 14: is pledging one point eight billion dollars over the next decade,
21:30
Speaker 14: that spending has got to be looked at again anyway.
21:32
Speaker 14: By all these councils when they do come together. But
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Speaker 14: look good. Story in the post this morning highlighting that
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Speaker 14: these rusty old pipes that keep breaking are actually costing
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Speaker 14: residents in different parts of the region vastly different amounts
21:44
Speaker 14: per capita of rate payer money. Six hundred and eighty
21:48
Speaker 14: six dollars per capita last year spent by Pottydoer's Council
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Speaker 14: three hundred and ninety one per person in Lower had
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Speaker 14: one hundred and seventy nine in Wellington City, So that's
21:57
Speaker 14: quite incredible. If you're in Pottidoa, I'd be furious that
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Speaker 14: this change can't come soon enough. Roughly the same total
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Speaker 14: length of pipe was fixed in Podidor last year as Wellington,
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Speaker 14: but it cost them four times as much. The main
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Speaker 14: issue remains there's just no transparency as to where rate
22:13
Speaker 14: payer money is going.
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Speaker 2: And competition. Yeah, and as you say, someone going over
22:17
Speaker 2: the numbers with a fine tooth comb.
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Speaker 14: How's your with the max not good morning showers turning
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Speaker 14: to heavy rain and very strong wind, particularly this morning
22:26
Speaker 14: as well seventeen the high Central.
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Speaker 2: All right, take here, neither good morning till good morning.
22:30
Speaker 2: Now we're going to be able to put our foot
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Speaker 2: down and go north.
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Speaker 11: Put our foot down, but only for five point five kilometers.
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Speaker 11: So what's happening is that from today the speed limit
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Speaker 11: has been raised to one hundred and ten kilometers per hour.
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Speaker 11: This is on the Northern Gateway toll road from north
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Speaker 11: of Audio Work to south of the Johnston's Hill Tunnel
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Speaker 11: Johnstone's Hill Tunnels. So that's a distance of yeah five
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Speaker 11: point five k Joe Carr, he's the Northern Council Regional
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Speaker 11: Transport Committee, cheersies. This is great news, important steep to
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Speaker 11: improving connectivity with Auckland. I was on that road. I
23:03
Speaker 11: went to Metakana Markets for the first time on Saturday before.
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Speaker 2: But you do you do notice because once you get
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Speaker 2: onto the new expressway on the other side, you just
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Speaker 2: go for it. You do powerful weather. But before that
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Speaker 2: it does feel slow.
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Speaker 11: It does feel slow, right, so you've got to remember, yeah,
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Speaker 11: put your foot down and then ease it off againner
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Speaker 11: for that five point because I'm quite a slow driver actually,
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Speaker 11: so yes, I felt like I.
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Speaker 7: Was to that.
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Speaker 2: If you're going a hunt, and we know what one
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Speaker 2: hundred and ten means, don't we one hundred and fifteen
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Speaker 2: that's right, that's what people do.
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Speaker 11: That's what people do.
23:37
Speaker 2: How's our weather?
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Speaker 11: Few shells from afternoon, periods of rain from tonight, still
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Speaker 11: warm twenty the high here in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Have a good one. Never it's neither. For Auckland News.
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Speaker 2: It's eighteen minutes away from six year on news talks,
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Speaker 2: you'll be we'll get to Gavin Gray out of the
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Speaker 2: UK Europe of course, this big back and forth between
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Speaker 2: Trump and the EU. Plus there's been a terrible outcome
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Speaker 2: to a rescue in Switzerland on a luxury ski resort.
23:59
Speaker 2: We'll get to that as well. And Phil O'Riley before
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Speaker 2: six on the benefit sanctions kicking in today news talks.
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Speaker 1: It'd be international correspondence with ins and eye insurance, peace
24:11
Speaker 1: of mind for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 2: You're only talks to a big quarter to sex will
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Speaker 2: get you across the benefit sanctions coming in today in
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Speaker 2: just a second. Right now at Devin Gray are UK
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Speaker 2: europe correspondent. Given this terrible story about the snow resort
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Speaker 2: in Switzerland. What's going on?
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Speaker 10: Yeah, so the bodies of five skiers have been discovered
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Speaker 10: there and Ryan this is all at the very exclusive
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Speaker 10: luxury zoomat resort. But high up from where normally skiers
24:39
Speaker 10: would venture. The five bodies were discovered a day after
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Speaker 10: emergency services were alerted by a group of climbers ascending
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Speaker 10: what's called the Rivshish on a four two hundred meter
24:51
Speaker 10: peak in the Valet Alps. They had discovered several pairs
24:54
Speaker 10: of skis left unattended near the summit, and then using
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Speaker 10: air and ground searches, they on the bodies. The victims
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Speaker 10: were at varying altitudes on avalanche debris in high altitude
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Speaker 10: areas near the Swiss Italian border. Obviously, at the moment
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Speaker 10: we don't yet know the names the identities of those,
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Speaker 10: but as I said, this is a luxury resort, very
25:16
Speaker 10: popular with British and other European skiers, and there's been
25:19
Speaker 10: some unusual weather there. Actually, in a separate incident on
25:22
Speaker 10: Friday night, they were involved in a challenging mountain rescue,
25:26
Speaker 10: rescuing four who were stranded amid fog and high winds,
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Speaker 10: but they thankfully were all brought to safety.
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Speaker 2: And the European Union Trump going at it again, well,
25:37
Speaker 2: Trump going at the European Union over the terriffs. Turns
25:40
Speaker 2: out the ninety day pause could just be ripped up
25:42
Speaker 2: next week.
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Speaker 10: Yes, all eyes I think really focused on America when
25:47
Speaker 10: it wakes up on Monday and what Donald Trump has
25:50
Speaker 10: to say. He's now threatening to slap a fifty percent
25:54
Speaker 10: tariff on all goods sent to the US from the
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Speaker 10: European Union in response, had a pretty robust response from
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Speaker 10: the EU Trade Commissioner Maras Sefkovich. He's saying the EU
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Speaker 10: US trade must be guided by mutual respect and not threats,
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Speaker 10: and that we stand ready to defend our interests. But
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Speaker 10: this will really concern the EU because it is one
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Speaker 10: of Washington's largest trading partners, sending roughly eight hundred and
26:24
Speaker 10: ninety billion New Zealand dollars worth in goods last year
26:28
Speaker 10: and buying though just sort of eight hundred billion New
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Speaker 10: Zealand dollars worth, So a big, big difference in the discrepancy,
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Speaker 10: and that is something that Donald Trump is obviously very
26:40
Speaker 10: very angry about it, and.
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Speaker 2: I can see the Germans are getting a quite exercise
26:43
Speaker 2: about it this morning as well. Thank you so much
26:45
Speaker 2: for that, Kevin Gray, are UK euro correspondent. It's twelve
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Speaker 2: minutes to six brand new benefit sanctions coming to force
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Speaker 2: from today. They're non financial, so half of your benefit
26:54
Speaker 2: will be put on a payment card for four weeks.
26:57
Speaker 2: You can only buy essential stuff. You can't buy things
26:59
Speaker 2: like alcohol and tobacco. You can also be made to
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Speaker 2: do up to five hours of community work experience, but
27:06
Speaker 2: it's only if you breach your obligations. Right. Philo Riley
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Speaker 2: is the former Welfare Expert Advisory Group member with US
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Speaker 2: This Morning fel Good morning money. Right does this actually work?
27:16
Speaker 2: This stuff?
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Speaker 7: Certainly, sanctions do work. Exactly how well they work has
27:22
Speaker 7: always open to debate. They work for two reasons. One
27:25
Speaker 7: is they encourage people to get off the benefit. But secondly,
27:28
Speaker 7: very importantly for people like you and me who are
27:31
Speaker 7: paying tax in order to give persons a benefit, they
27:34
Speaker 7: keep our face in the system too, that if you're
27:36
Speaker 7: going to be you know, if you're not going to
27:37
Speaker 7: play by the rules, there's going to be a bit
27:39
Speaker 7: of a sanction on you. So they do actually work
27:41
Speaker 7: in mostly context here and.
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Speaker 2: If you read the news you would get the impression
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Speaker 2: that everybody is going to be put on a payment
27:46
Speaker 2: card tomorrow. In fact, only ninety eight wealth ninety eight
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Speaker 2: percent of beneficiaries are actually fine. Only two percent tend
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Speaker 2: to breach their obligations.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right. I mean most people. What we found
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Speaker 7: in the Welfare Expert advisor we work a few years
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Speaker 7: ago was most people actually do try and get a job,
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Speaker 7: and of course right now it's harder to get a job,
28:02
Speaker 7: so it's finning up to interviews and so on, and
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Speaker 7: so I think you know that this is quite a
28:06
Speaker 7: small minority, very small minority, as matter of fact, and
28:08
Speaker 7: it's only one part of the sanction regime. And what
28:12
Speaker 7: I like about the card issue, Ryan in particular, is
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Speaker 7: in the past, taking money off of beneficiary often means
28:20
Speaker 7: you're actually taking it off the kid of the beneficiary,
28:22
Speaker 7: the child or the wife or the husband of the
28:23
Speaker 7: beneficiary of the partner. This way, you're not taking any
28:26
Speaker 7: money away, you're simply sort of proscribing how it might
28:29
Speaker 7: be spent. And I think that's actually a very sensible
28:31
Speaker 7: way of doing it, because the worriesome thing about taking
28:34
Speaker 7: money off dealers it might as she hurt kids, and
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Speaker 7: that's always problematic. The work obligation piece is a little
28:39
Speaker 7: bit more interesting in the sense that in order to work,
28:42
Speaker 7: obligation to work, you've got an employer who wants to
28:44
Speaker 7: employ you. And if you're forced to go to work
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Speaker 7: for a community organization. That might be a little more problematic,
28:49
Speaker 7: I think, But certainly those two things alone, used expeditiously
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Speaker 7: and new sensibly, I think we'll have an impact.
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Speaker 2: Job's thinking numbers have gone up, of course, twenty one
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Speaker 2: eleven point six percent in March on the same time
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Speaker 2: last year. Looking at the budget unemployment data that they're projecting,
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Speaker 2: it's I mean, it's going it's coming down, but it's
29:05
Speaker 2: taking its time, right, So we will rightly see more
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Speaker 2: on the job seeker benefit or no massive increase for
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Speaker 2: a while.
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Speaker 7: That's correct, And that's the whole point about the unemployment
29:17
Speaker 7: benefit system. More generally, it's a shopping zorber in the economy.
29:19
Speaker 7: As you get the economy slowing down, as you get
29:22
Speaker 7: more people out of work, of course we should all
29:25
Speaker 7: support those people and make sure that they're not left
29:27
Speaker 7: on the street and all the rest of it. And
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Speaker 7: so that's really what's happening with the job seeker benefit.
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Speaker 7: It's simply an indication that the jobs in the economy
29:34
Speaker 7: are hard to come by. What should hope is that
29:36
Speaker 7: as we see interest rates reductions, as we see changes
29:40
Speaker 7: to that, capital gains, So the capital tax issue coming through.
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Speaker 7: Over the next few months, hopefully we'll see the economy
29:47
Speaker 7: start to pick up. And that's exactly when you get
29:49
Speaker 7: those job numbers coming down. Nothing much you can do about.
29:51
Speaker 7: It's just the nature of the economy.
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Speaker 2: There was a faux pat don't say capital gains tax.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for betting with us this morning, former Welfare
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Speaker 2: Expert Advisory Group member. It is eleven minutes away from
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Speaker 2: six News Talk ZB.
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Speaker 1: Bryan Bridge on early edition with one roof Make your
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Speaker 2: You're on News TALKSB seven minutes away from six. The
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Speaker 2: ski field in Switzerland where five skiers have lost their
30:20
Speaker 2: lives overnight. There's been a rescue. Well, it's now a
30:22
Speaker 2: recovery of bodies. And Neil says he's skied this particular
30:26
Speaker 2: ski field before. The altitude is so high that some
30:28
Speaker 2: skiers you just watch them collapse on the lift on
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Speaker 2: the way up. Neil said, yeah, I had to ski
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Speaker 2: down about one hundred meters before I could steady my
30:36
Speaker 2: feet and actually stand up again. Sounds dangerous, Neil. Six,
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Speaker 2: And turns out it it's six way away from.
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Speaker 1: Six Bryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Now, Mike, good morning.
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Speaker 15: Sounds like the pomber at Porter heightsn't about that.
30:48
Speaker 2: Hey, do you ski much?
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Speaker 15: I used to ski when I was in christ Juch.
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Speaker 15: Love when you live, when you live close to a
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Speaker 15: ski field like it's in christ Urge like an hour
30:59
Speaker 15: our hour bit if you're lucky. And then when you
31:01
Speaker 15: move to the North Island, you got to spend three
31:03
Speaker 15: or four hours on the road and share it with
31:04
Speaker 15: the entire island. Why would you bother the same?
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Speaker 2: That was the appeal. It's four and a half hours
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Speaker 2: and I was actually looking on the weekend because we
31:10
Speaker 2: were thinking of going this winter.
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Speaker 15: It's a long way to get it's a long way
31:12
Speaker 15: to go so far to Goo, it's four and a
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Speaker 15: half there, it's four and a half back issues.
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Speaker 2: And you're also not guaranteed to ski because why not
31:18
Speaker 2: the weather.
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Speaker 15: If you book it an advance, you one hundred cent.
31:21
Speaker 15: We used to go made of Mine. Used to go
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Speaker 15: to Mount Cheeseman, which is a beautiful feeling. It's a club.
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Speaker 15: They're all in the same sort of beer. In Mount Hart,
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Speaker 15: Porter Heights. Mount Cheeseman Cheeseman was a club. They had
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Speaker 15: a couple of toes. There's no one there. You drive
31:32
Speaker 15: up Chess Fantesta. Absolutely, Brian, best skiing I ever did.
31:35
Speaker 15: Thanks for asking, right? Is I got flown up onto
31:38
Speaker 15: the Tasman Glacier. Hell, and so you leave, you leave
31:42
Speaker 15: from Mount Cook and you get flown up onto the
31:45
Speaker 15: glacier and I thought, oh my god, I'm not good
31:49
Speaker 15: enough to do this.
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Speaker 2: You got down?
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Speaker 15: No, well, of course I got down. I'm sitting here
31:52
Speaker 15: telling you the story now. But what you don't realize
31:54
Speaker 15: when you ski up on the Tasman Glacier is it's
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Speaker 15: like knee deep powder and so in fact, as you ski,
32:02
Speaker 15: you're not actually ever going that fast. It's not like
32:04
Speaker 15: being on a ski field where it's all sort of
32:06
Speaker 15: slider and icy. It's like literally you're up to your
32:08
Speaker 15: knees and powder, just going.
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Speaker 2: Can I just brag about skiing in the Andes? Sure
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Speaker 2: you can't.
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Speaker 15: Is that power in the Andes?
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Speaker 2: No? It wasn't. Actually it was. It was quite slippery.
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Speaker 2: I wasn't. Well, it wasn't the best skin. Did you
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Speaker 2: pull over? And what do you get up on my ass?
32:26
Speaker 2: Did you?
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Speaker 15: Did you get it off the rope?
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Speaker 2: Toe? The little least I got off the rope?
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Speaker 15: Did you get past the pomer?
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Speaker 12: Yes?
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Speaker 15: I got past the pomer So you got onto a
32:33
Speaker 15: chair lift, yes, got it on you did you freak
32:36
Speaker 15: out with the lack of oxygen?
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Speaker 2: You sound like? Although what they do over there is
32:40
Speaker 2: you chew coca leaves and alkaline. Yeah. So when you
32:44
Speaker 2: get to the to the you know, the altitude, when
32:47
Speaker 2: you start to feel a bit sick, they give it
32:49
Speaker 2: to you and you chew the.
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Speaker 15: Are you sure you're actually on a ski field or
32:53
Speaker 15: were you just chewing coca?
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Speaker 10: No?
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Speaker 2: No, no, this is this is This is in the
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Speaker 2: Andes and generally in general they do it all the
32:59
Speaker 2: time there. It's a it's a it's like an anti climate,
33:03
Speaker 2: you know, altitude sickness, medicine, a natural one at that
33:07
Speaker 2: you'd like natural things? I reckon good? What do you
33:10
Speaker 2: got today?
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Speaker 15: Well, none of that now the Prime minister. Now listen
33:16
Speaker 15: to this. The Prime Minister is not on this morning.
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Speaker 15: You're sick because you know they said he's got a cold.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, is that exceptable?
33:22
Speaker 15: That's not sick?
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Speaker 11: I'm cold?
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Speaker 2: What's that about? Anyway? Nicola Willis is doing the business
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Speaker 2: all right, Mike's here next. Have a great morning, everybody.
33:31
Speaker 2: See tomorrow
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