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Jamie Mackay: The Country host on Minister Shane Jones wanting to bring back live animal exports · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Jamie mckaie, hosts of the Countries of that evening, Jamie,
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  Speaker 2: can I hear that? So Shane Jones was on the
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  Speaker 2: show and he was just having a crack.
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  Speaker 3: Was he, oh, just having a crack? Racking up the Greenies?
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  Speaker 3: You name it. Look, we were going to talk He
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  Speaker 3: was filling in for Winston Peters on yesterday's show, and
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  Speaker 3: we were going to talk about live animal export, which were.
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  Speaker 2: Jamie, are you there? The Greenies have cut his line?
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  Speaker 2: They have We're going to talk about the live animal export.
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  Speaker 2: Greenies have cut the line, hey while I'm actually speaking
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  Speaker 2: of which this is actually important. So we'll see if
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  Speaker 2: we can get Jamie up. I just got to tell
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  Speaker 2: you quickly, Transpower is asking households north of Walkworth who
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  Speaker 2: do not have power to please reduce the power outage.
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  Speaker 2: know when the power is going to be back on
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  Speaker 2: for everyone, but it's going to take at least until
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  Speaker 2: late tomorrow at the earliest. So you're in for the
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  Speaker 2: Longhaun Northland people with power are being told to use less,
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  Speaker 2: for example, turn off the heaters, turn off the lights
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  Speaker 2: and Jamie McKay's back.
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  Speaker 3: Could they say, Jamie, well, someone turned the power out
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  Speaker 3: into needing apologies for that, Heather. So anyhow, he tees
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  Speaker 3: off against Jill just Senda's new political program about leading
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  Speaker 3: with kindness and empathy. And I suggested to him that
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  Speaker 3: there's probably a few frogs and lizards around the country
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  Speaker 3: who reckon he should sign up for this program. But anyhow,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just quoting him here. He said, Martua Shane Jones
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  Speaker 3: are from Kaitaia. Always speaks about himself. I'm the third person.
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  Speaker 3: It's not going to tolerate ever any of that dewey
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  Speaker 3: eyed naivete. It'll be a long day in hell. Before
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  Speaker 3: I joined that pearl clutching group, and then I suggested
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  Speaker 3: to him that perhaps he could learn to speak to
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  Speaker 3: people with hope and optimism rather than fear or blame,
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  Speaker 3: to unite rather than divide and away he went again.
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  Speaker 3: He said, Jacinda's over there emotionally colonizing another part of
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  Speaker 3: the world, and the less I encounter of it the better.
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  Speaker 3: And then we got to live animal export, and this
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  Speaker 3: is where he really took off. He said, I think
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  Speaker 3: we should go ahead sooner rather than later with exporting animals.
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  Speaker 3: And if a few rams die on the way, well,
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  Speaker 3: that's just part of life. We can't preserve every single
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  Speaker 3: creature in the pursuit of fiscal solvency. Get real. So
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  Speaker 3: that's but to have changed.
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  Speaker 2: You've been wavering on this. You haven't been sure we
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  Speaker 2: sit on the live animally exports. Has he changed your mind?
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  Speaker 2: Has he firmed you up?
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  Speaker 3: Look, honestly, it's a very divisive. It's a divisive issue.
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  Speaker 3: And I think I've said to you to this to
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  Speaker 3: you before, Heather. I think New Zealand farming has split
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  Speaker 3: down the middle on this one. Yes, it's a half
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  Speaker 3: billion dollar income earner, but there are some negatives with
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  Speaker 3: it as well. But I will say, you know, like
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  Speaker 3: the animal wealthy standards on these live exports ships is
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  Speaker 3: vastly different to what we had in the past.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, what's the problem with the medium barriers?
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  Speaker 3: Ah, well, the median barriers. Let me have a look
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  Speaker 3: at that one. I thought we were talking about the
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  Speaker 3: ravo farmer comfort.
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  Speaker 2: I'm fascinated by the median barriers.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well, go with the median barriers, so you
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  Speaker 3: don't even start me on the orange cones here that
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  Speaker 3: we'll just go with the median barriers at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: So the rural contractors say the median barriers and barriers
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  Speaker 3: are making roads unsafe and causing them stress for those
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  Speaker 3: driving tractors with lines of cars behind them. These are
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  Speaker 3: the tractors with the mowers or the silence makers or
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  Speaker 3: whatever as they're making the way down. Obviously the cars
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  Speaker 3: can't get passed if there's a median barrier in the
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  Speaker 3: middle of the road. So therese contractors driving tractors on
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  Speaker 3: long stretches a road are being faced with abuse and
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  Speaker 3: being clipped by other drivers who can't pass them because
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  Speaker 3: of those barriers. The guy who's running the rural Contractors
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  Speaker 3: group a chat by the name of Andrew Olsen said, Look,
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  Speaker 3: our members are telling us it's becoming quite stressful because
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  Speaker 3: they're traveling down the road and they're tractors or machinery
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  Speaker 3: which they're entired to do, and then they end up
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  Speaker 3: with dozens of cars with impatient drivers like me behind them.
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  Speaker 3: He said. It can be easily fixed by just putting
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  Speaker 3: passing base or areas where contractors could easily and safely
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  Speaker 3: pollol and let the others pass, and actually Campa van
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  Speaker 3: drivers could follow that leader as well.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually not a bad piece. It's not a bad
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  Speaker 2: idea at all, Jamie. Thank you so much. As always,
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  Speaker 2: Jamie McKay, hosts of the Country.
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