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Full Show Podcast: 29 April 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: early edition with Spunk for business Technology that keeps business moving.
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Speaker 1: News talks.
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Speaker 2: They'd be Wednesday, good morning, six half to five. We've
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Speaker 2: got a fuel company boss on the Z deal. Gavin
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Speaker 2: is in the UK for us this morning. Power bills
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Speaker 2: are going up, the regulators standing out warning letters, but
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Speaker 2: little else at this point. Flying is getting more expensive,
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Speaker 2: and we've got a CIA overhaul coming your way.
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Speaker 3: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, the twenty nine to eightful hump Day,
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Speaker 2: or if Trump likes to call it short.
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Speaker 4: A beautiful British Day.
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Speaker 2: This is He's been welcoming the King Queen at the
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Speaker 2: White House.
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Speaker 4: Americans have had no closer friends than the British. We
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Speaker 4: share that same route, we speak the same language, we
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Speaker 4: hold the same values, and together our warriors have defended
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Speaker 4: the same extraordinary civilization under twin owners of Red, White
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Speaker 4: and Blue.
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Speaker 2: He's of course speaking there about well, he's kind of
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Speaker 2: contradicting what he said a few months ago, isn't He
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Speaker 2: depends whether he's talking to the King or talking to
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Speaker 2: Starma King Charles. But his part will be speaking on capital.
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Speaker 2: He'll expected to call for reconciliation between the US and
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Speaker 2: the UK over the Iran War. Meanwhile, Starmer himself facing
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Speaker 2: more of his own drama. MP's debating if he should
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Speaker 2: face an inquiry into whether he misled the House over Mandelssohn.
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Speaker 5: I would say, very gently, in fact kindly, I would say,
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Speaker 5: kindly to labor m Puss I've been asked to you
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Speaker 5: did if they vote against this motion today, they are
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Speaker 5: admitting that labor has lower standards and should be held
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Speaker 5: to a lower standard than everyone else.
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Speaker 2: What about the moment that Morgan McSweeney, this is Starma's
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Speaker 2: former chief of staff, the moment that he discovered the
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Speaker 2: Epstein Mandelssohn friendship.
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Speaker 6: I have to say it was like a knife too
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Speaker 6: much soul.
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Speaker 7: I did not expect that level of connection that he
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Speaker 7: was talking about there.
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Speaker 2: Really. Finally, this morning, Jimmy Kimmel is defending the joke
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Speaker 2: where he called Milania Trump an expectant widow. This was
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Speaker 2: before the shooting at the weekend. He says it was
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Speaker 2: supposed to be a light roast about her and Trump's
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Speaker 2: twenty three year age gap, and it was not, by any.
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Speaker 8: Stretch of the definition, a call to assassination. But I
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Speaker 8: understand that the first lady had a stressful experience over
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Speaker 8: the weekend, and probably every weekend is pretty stress ledge
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Speaker 8: in that house. And also I agree that hateful and
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Speaker 8: violent rhetoric is something we should recheck. I do, and
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Speaker 8: I think a great place start to dial that back
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Speaker 8: would be to have a conversation with your husband.
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Speaker 1: News and Views you Trust to start your day. Its
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Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for business Technology
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Speaker 1: that keeps business.
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Speaker 2: Moving, News Talks It nine nine nine minutes after five.
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Speaker 2: Was reading a New York Times article this morning that
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Speaker 2: was just talking about how mundane political assassination attempts are
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Speaker 2: these days. Because there're a Diamond dozen Air New Zealand
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Speaker 2: a couple of things to update you on. First up
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Speaker 2: this morning, Air new Zealand's outlook has been downgraded by Moody's.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's getting a Moody's or a Fitch downgrade, aren't they.
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Speaker 2: It's like whack a mole, so Moody's affirmed in New
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Speaker 2: Zealand's BA one rating. But the outlook's being downgraded not
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Speaker 2: a surprise given the current price of jet fuel. A
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Speaker 2: New Zealand not yet at a stage where this is
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Speaker 2: according to Jarden where it will have to raise more equity,
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Speaker 2: but there is a reasonable chance of that. They have
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Speaker 2: said they may also look at deferring some of their
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Speaker 2: capital expenditure. They've got apparently three point four billion bucks
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Speaker 2: of spending aeronautical spending on the books for the next
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Speaker 2: four or five years. So not a great day waking
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Speaker 2: up is in New Zealand. Also on the fuel, so
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Speaker 2: this is the deal that the government has done with
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Speaker 2: Z Energy to get an extra ninety million liters of
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Speaker 2: fuel in a stockpile separate to what the fuel companies
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Speaker 2: have to hold currently. So this is how it works.
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Speaker 2: Z buys the fuel, we don't buy the fuel. ZED
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Speaker 2: buys the fuel, and then the government can pull a
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Speaker 2: lever and say sell it now, and when they sell
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Speaker 2: it if they are selling it for less than they
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Speaker 2: bought it for, and there's a reasonable chance of that happening,
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Speaker 2: because if you're buying now, you're buying high. When you're
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Speaker 2: selling you're probably selling lower. Hopefully, God willing, we're selling
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Speaker 2: lower in a few months time before December. Then the
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Speaker 2: difference is what the tax payer will foot the bill
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Speaker 2: for the difference between what you paid which would be higher,
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Speaker 2: and what you sell, which would be lower. That's what
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Speaker 2: we're on the hook for. And they won't tell us
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Speaker 2: how much phil jobs. This is some more good news
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Speaker 2: from before the war began. So is it good news
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Speaker 2: or not so relevant? But the phield jobs were up
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Speaker 2: zero point three percent for March, strongest gains in recent
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Speaker 2: times linked to public sector public administration. Healthcare was up.
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Speaker 2: There also tourism doing well, the South Island doing well.
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Speaker 2: Manufacturing jobs were lower, but the pace of reduction is slowing,
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Speaker 2: so that's something construction, professional services. Those are the two
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Speaker 2: big week points over the last week, while they appeared
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Speaker 2: to have stabilized again, this is pre war. Let's look
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Speaker 2: out for April May. Bryan Bridge News Talk said b
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Speaker 2: eleven minutes after five, We took Simon Wallace from the
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Speaker 2: Aviation Industry Association about well, the new change is coming
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Speaker 2: for the CIA. But we'll also ask him about jet fuel.
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Speaker 2: That's the other warrior. Sure we might be sorting diesel,
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Speaker 2: but what about jet fuel and we'll talk about our
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Speaker 2: stockpiles there.
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Speaker 3: News Talk SIBB the news you need this morning and
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Speaker 3: the in depth analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and
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Speaker 3: Spark for Business Technology that keeps business moving News Talk ZB.
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Speaker 2: Five thirteen News Talk zib Ryan, the New Zealand downgrade
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Speaker 2: is not just because of the fuel price. Badly managed
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Speaker 2: and poorly run. Have you flown with them lately? Well,
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Speaker 2: actually I haven't it and we while just as it happens,
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Speaker 2: Jetstar has been getting my money, Paul says Ryan. Not
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Speaker 2: everyone is getting a downgrade, it's just in New Zealand
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Speaker 2: and New Zealand too badly run enterprises. Hard to argue
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Speaker 2: with that. Hey, here's a little spot, a little bright spot.
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Speaker 2: More of us are paying down our mortgages faster than
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Speaker 2: we actually need to, despite what's going on in the
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Speaker 2: rest of the world, and despite the tough times we've
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Speaker 2: had over the last year. This is New Zealand Banking
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Speaker 2: Association data. Latest figures show forty two point nine percent
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Speaker 2: of home loan customers paying more than the minimum loan
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Speaker 2: repayment in the last six months of twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 2: That compares with forty point three percent in the first
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Speaker 2: half of the year. So when the times get tough,
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Speaker 2: we squirrel away our money and put it on the mortgage,
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Speaker 2: which should mean when we come out the other side
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Speaker 2: of all of this, we will all be well again
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Speaker 2: God willing all be in a better position than when
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Speaker 2: we went in. It is called a past five.
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Speaker 3: Spray and bridge.
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Speaker 2: So government's making a bunch of changes be of a
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Speaker 2: shakeup to aviation. The Civil Aviation Authority in for a overhaul.
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Speaker 2: Adjustments including modernizing pilot training, cutting red tape, updating safety rules.
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Speaker 2: Twenty three projects on the table. Simon Wallace, Aviation Industry
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Speaker 2: Association CEO with me this morning. Simon, Good morning, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: good to have you on the show. All of this stuff,
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Speaker 2: we've spoken about some of it before, but all of
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Speaker 2: it need to happen quickly.
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Speaker 5: Yep.
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Speaker 9: The Minister has given the CIA and the industry a
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Speaker 9: challenge actually to get this rules what's called the Rules
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Speaker 9: Update Program done in two years, and we're certainly up
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Speaker 9: for that. As an industry. There are some rules that
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Speaker 9: are very old. They have been updated for twenty years.
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Speaker 9: So we're going to get going with us. I guess
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Speaker 9: one of our big concerns is that historically the Civil
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Speaker 9: Aviation Authority hasn't moved at pace and look, unless it's
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Speaker 9: got the necessary resources, it's going to be challenged to
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Speaker 9: meet the time.
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Speaker 2: Frame getting better ordering, getting better ordering, the Civil Aviation
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Speaker 2: authority needs to get better ordering.
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Speaker 9: Do you think, oh, look, I think they need to
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Speaker 9: need to improve in this whole area. Ryan. You know,
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Speaker 9: as an industry, we've seen slowness and certifications and approvals
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Speaker 9: and those are at a cost to business. Sure, safety
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Speaker 9: absolutely paramount, it's front and center of everything we do.
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Speaker 9: But things can be done more quickly, and that's what
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Speaker 9: this rules update program is all about. And there's actually
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Speaker 9: some really really positive things in here that we're going
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Speaker 9: to get to work.
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Speaker 2: On, like what needs to be done more quickly.
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Speaker 9: Well, you mentioned in your intro about pilot training, and
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Speaker 9: there is some work that's been identified around modernizing the
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Speaker 9: pilot training and looking at the licensing process. So that's
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Speaker 9: an area that we've been really focused on over the
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Speaker 9: last over the last couple of years. So we're really
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Speaker 9: keen on getting work going on that one. And then
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Speaker 9: there's the area of agricultural drones. So you know, in
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Speaker 9: agricultural drones, we've seen it's probably the fastest growing area
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Speaker 9: of our of our membership, and with the fuel crisis,
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Speaker 9: we've seen farmers showing much greater interest in this area.
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Speaker 9: But but as an industry, we're saying that there has
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Speaker 9: to be some rules around the COT competency for training
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Speaker 9: agricultural drone operators. So there are some really really good
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Speaker 9: areas in here that can unlock some economic potential as well,
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Speaker 9: and again safety will always be paramount.
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Speaker 2: Does this mean it could actually be more difficult for
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Speaker 2: farmers to use drones on farm because they will have
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Speaker 2: to qualify somehow.
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Speaker 9: Well, I think there's two areas there. We've got those
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Speaker 9: those operators that are already very very competent, but we've
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Speaker 9: got this new group that I've that I've just mentioned,
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Speaker 9: and we've we've also got new technology. It's it's changing
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Speaker 9: and evolving quickly as we've seen from overseas, and we've
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Speaker 9: got five hundred kg drones that are starting to come
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Speaker 9: into the country and it's really important that unless there
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Speaker 9: is competent training for the for the users of those,
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Speaker 9: you know, we have to be really rare, really careful
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Speaker 9: because there are environmental safety impacts if they're not used properly.
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Speaker 2: What about an New Zealand's downgrade to their outlock Could
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Speaker 2: you see that from Moody's Sports. Yeah.
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Speaker 9: Look, I think in New Zealand is really really challenged
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Speaker 9: and there's probably actually some things in this rules program
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Speaker 9: that that can help be New Zealand cutting red tape
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Speaker 9: in terms of the area around aircraft maintenance. That should
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Speaker 9: reduce cost and time for airlines. So there are some
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Speaker 9: things in here that would help be in New Zealand,
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Speaker 9: particularly in the security area, the airports area that and
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Speaker 9: that may may involve reductions and costs. So a New
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Speaker 9: Zealand's very much involved in this program as well.
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Speaker 2: How are you feeling about the fact that the government's
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Speaker 2: doing a deal with that over diesel but not jet fuel.
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Speaker 9: Look, we use diesel on the farms, I mean diesels.
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Speaker 9: Are diesels really important for all our farm vehicles in
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Speaker 9: agricultural aviation. Diesel is important for all our all our
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Speaker 9: tourist boats, and we bring a lot of tourists into
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Speaker 9: New Zealand on aircraft, so you know we're a big
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Speaker 9: user of diesel as well. So that's great. But sure, Ryan,
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Speaker 9: I think probably we're concerned about the cost. We've seen
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Speaker 9: one hundred percent increase in jet fire and ad gas actually,
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Speaker 9: so it's the cost that is really hitting operators at
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Speaker 9: the moment.
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Speaker 2: Simon Wallace, Aviation Industry Association Chief Executive, Good to have
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Speaker 2: you on the show. Simon. It is nineteen after five
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Speaker 2: year on News Talks Hebb.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day Early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology that
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Speaker 2: Five twenty two News Talks Hebb. The UAE has pulled
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Speaker 2: out of OPEK. I'll tell you more details in a second. First,
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Speaker 2: the Electricity Authority here is firing another shot at the
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Speaker 2: gen Taylor's anyone with more than one percent of market
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Speaker 2: now has to explain why prices are so high. If
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Speaker 2: you're a household listening to this, you're facing an average
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Speaker 2: eight percent increase to your winter bills. That's after an
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Speaker 2: eight percent increase last year. Karen Boy's, Major Electricity Users
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Speaker 2: Group executive director joins us this morning. Karen, good morning,
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Speaker 2: Good morning. What do you want them to do about this?
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Speaker 10: It's yeah, scrutinize it. Scrutinize it, I said. Right now,
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Speaker 10: consumers are just seeing the market seeing prices go up
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Speaker 10: every year, and we need to start digging into the
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Speaker 10: prices to understand what's causing it. The Authority has been
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Speaker 10: clear that distribution and transmission are definitely increasing, which is correct.
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Speaker 10: They need to scrutinize how much of that bill that
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Speaker 10: you related to that and what is related to generations,
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Speaker 10: so we can actually get sim clarity about what is
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Speaker 10: causing these drivers.
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Speaker 2: What about what about your base the major users. I've
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Speaker 2: got a friend who is probably considered one of those,
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Speaker 2: says that's coming up for renewal contract negotiations and it's eyewatering.
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Speaker 10: It's it's yeah, it's really bad out there. So if
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Speaker 10: you're coming off contracts a lot of our members have
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Speaker 10: sort of three to five your contracts or longer, they're
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Speaker 10: seeing ten fifteen twenty percent, So it's really concerning. And
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Speaker 10: if you're also having to renew you gas contract, it's
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Speaker 10: even worse. So one of the things we've been talking
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Speaker 10: to the authority is while this data request does cover households,
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Speaker 10: which is really important to make sure we have a
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Speaker 10: scrutiny over, we need to make sure businesses well they're
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Speaker 10: discrutinizing the taiff that they get, because it's definitely concerning
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Speaker 10: out there.
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Speaker 2: If you what are your members telling you about that?
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Speaker 2: If you're getting a ten fifteen twenty percent increase and
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Speaker 2: then you're starting to think about gas, what are they
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Speaker 2: doing to their.
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Speaker 10: Businesses, you're looking at efficiency, how efficient can you be?
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Speaker 10: But one of the positive things that we're seeing is
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Speaker 10: businesses are looking at power purchase agreements. They're looking can
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Speaker 10: they buy directly from generators so you can get the
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Speaker 10: renewable energy encouraging in.
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Speaker 9: Some new projects.
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Speaker 10: So it's definitely one aspect. But when it comes to
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Speaker 10: transmission and the distribution charges, is not much that the
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Speaker 10: can do. They're connected to the network they need to be.
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Speaker 10: They can have their own generation on site, but the
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Speaker 10: most large businesses it's not enough to power them twenty
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Speaker 10: seven loads. So it's really difficult out there. Eartypically if
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Speaker 10: those lines charges because there's more much they can do.
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Speaker 2: Karen, thank you for that. Karen Boys, Major Electricity Users
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Speaker 2: Group executive director. You're on news Talk se B twenty
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Speaker 2: four after five rain Bridge. So I said I would
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Speaker 2: tell you about the UAE. They are pulling out of OPEK.
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Speaker 2: They're actually pulling out of OPEQ plus as well, which
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Speaker 2: includes Russia. The UA is the third biggest producer inside
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Speaker 2: the group. This is the cartel that you know, set
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Speaker 2: their price and release the barrels will despite producing up
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Speaker 2: to four out of every ten barrels of oil that
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Speaker 2: they pump around the world. They've basically been stemy by disunity.
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Speaker 2: They've been having fights amongst themselves. Plus America oil output
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Speaker 2: up that's causing them problems too. So the strait's been
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Speaker 2: closed and it's been impossible for them to do an
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Speaker 2: thing about the market during the supply shop because they
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Speaker 2: have a limited capacity. When the straders closed and now
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Speaker 2: take away the UAE, that takes away thirteen percent of
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Speaker 2: their production capacity, so mates the group and it's plus
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Speaker 2: even weaker. News Talk said B twenty five after five. Next,
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Speaker 2: where are the cops when the burglars come for your stuff?
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Speaker 1: The early edition full the show podcast on iHeartRadio Power
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Speaker 1: by NEWSTALKSB News.
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Speaker 2: Talk saib it is twenty seven minutes after five. Did
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Speaker 2: you hear the story about these young females, the flatmates
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Speaker 2: who had to hunt down their own burglars, bust them
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Speaker 2: and take back their own stuff. Sarah Anna and Charlotte,
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Speaker 2: all in their twenties, got home from work in christ
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Speaker 2: Church and some mug or mugs had broken in and
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Speaker 2: stolen all their stuff. Rooms were ransacked, stolen items, cameras, laptops, jewelry,
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Speaker 2: also missing clothes. Bit gross but undies and froze and
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Speaker 2: curry from the freezer. I know Shane won't be happy
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Speaker 2: about the butter chicken, but there was one thing that
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Speaker 2: they took these mugs that they needed back urgently and
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Speaker 2: sparked an amateur detective story for the ages a stolen passport.
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Speaker 2: One of them needed to travel overseas, so let's get
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Speaker 2: them back. They asked the neighbors what police would call
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Speaker 2: in a press release, canvassing the area. The neighbors told
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Speaker 2: them which way the robbers went, what police would call
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Speaker 2: positive lines of inquiry. No doubt, they followed the leads
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Speaker 2: or made a breakthrough in the case, found the house
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Speaker 2: the thieves were there. They turned up, opened the door,
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Speaker 2: caught the culprits red handed, wearing their stuff. Some guy
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Speaker 2: was staring at their undies, and they quietly and calmly
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Speaker 2: took back what was theirs good on them? Great stuff
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Speaker 2: the problem. The police were called attended the scene, and
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Speaker 2: according to the girls, they told the police where to
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Speaker 2: go after getting a clue from the neighbors, but the
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Speaker 2: police didn't go there. Why are these women having to
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Speaker 2: do the cops job for them? They were told to
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Speaker 2: file an online complaint. Oh God help me, but thieves
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Speaker 2: are just down the road. Let's not forget about ninety
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Speaker 2: percent of burglaries go unresolved in New Zealand. No wonder
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Speaker 2: people are taking the law into their own hands. When
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Speaker 2: you get stories like that, you're on News Talks EDB.
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Speaker 2: We're heading over to the UK with Gavin after News
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Speaker 2: a little treat from Trump.
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Speaker 11: News Talks get ahead of the headlines on early edition
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Speaker 11: with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology that keeps
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Speaker 11: business moving.
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Speaker 2: News talk EDB got twenty four away from six year
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Speaker 2: on News Talks HEIBB at King Charles and Queen Kimiller
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Speaker 2: are arriving at Capitol Hill as we speak. We'll get
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Speaker 2: to what Trump has had to say about Charles and
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Speaker 2: Trump's mother in just a few seconds. Also, we'll get
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Speaker 2: to a fuel boss on the Z deal before six
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Speaker 2: Gavins in the UK for us on the Starma vote.
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Speaker 2: Lots of people texting in about this situation with Mikey
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Speaker 2: Sherman from TV and Z using the F word and
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Speaker 2: not that one, the other one to do with homosexuality,
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Speaker 2: that one using that word to a fellow reporter, and
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Speaker 2: people saying, why an't you talking about it? Well, what
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Speaker 2: am I mean to say? I mean, I wasn't there.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on. Does it look messy? Absolutely?
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Speaker 2: Does the press pack in Wellington look a little self
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Speaker 2: obsessed and self involved and a little entitled at the moment. Yes.
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Speaker 2: Does the Prime Minister look probably on balance like the
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Speaker 2: smart guy in the room for avoiding the whole thing
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Speaker 2: in the first place. Yes. Has this played to his advantage? Yes?
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Speaker 2: So I don't know what else they can stay apart
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Speaker 2: from that all messy. Twenty three minutes away from six,
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Speaker 2: you're on News Talk seb Ryan, we'll go to Jnedin
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Speaker 2: with Callum Callum. Good morning morning Ryan. The Otago Regional
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Speaker 2: Council's got a new home, have they? Yes, it's pretty
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Speaker 2: flash too.
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Speaker 12: Who This is the oarc's new multimillion dollar offices. They
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Speaker 12: really officially open for business from today. The Dunedin based
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Speaker 12: team settling into this new home after several years of
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Speaker 12: accommodation issues.
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Speaker 2: So up until now they've worked.
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Speaker 12: From two city offices here, but they're coming together now
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Speaker 12: in this new NUI building in High Street, Dunedin. Construction
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Speaker 12: of these offices reported to have cost fifty six million dollars.
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Speaker 12: Chief executive Richard Saunders says having the team in one
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Speaker 12: place will streamline their work and provide a central hub
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Speaker 12: for people needing to access their services, and he says
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Speaker 12: the move addresses their long standing accommodation problems.
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Speaker 2: All Right, how's your weather.
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Speaker 12: It's a good day to day fine most of the
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Speaker 12: day sun, rain later Tonight's northwest is twenty one the
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Speaker 12: height nice one.
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Speaker 2: Thanks Callum clear asan christ which morning, Clear morning, You've
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Speaker 2: got an update on the Selwyn population going up. Worried
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Speaker 2: about the.
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Speaker 13: Health there, Yeah, really worried about it. We know that
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Speaker 13: it is the nation's fastest growing region. There was twenty
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Speaker 13: nine percent population growth between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty
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Speaker 13: three and that's still growing. Darfield's medical center is the
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Speaker 13: latest to not be taking new patients. In fact, twenty
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Speaker 13: seven percent of Canterbury gps are not enrolling any patients
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Speaker 13: at the moment. Health Indeed says that number is actually improving,
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Speaker 13: but locals in Darfield are really worried about the impact.
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Speaker 13: The pharmacist there, Aaron Ordungy, says people are increasingly relying
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Speaker 13: on doctors outside the district, even staying with Auckland GPS,
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Speaker 13: for example, for their healthcare. He says it's happening on
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Speaker 13: the West Coast years ago and now it's everywhere across
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Speaker 13: christ Church. He says he's feeling and other pharmacists are
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Speaker 13: feeling more pressure to diagnose people with conditions because they
20:39
Speaker 13: can't be seen by a doctor. Health New Zealand is
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Speaker 13: acknowledging it and says it's holding a series of community
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Speaker 13: meetings and feedback is being used to plan for the future.
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Speaker 14: Though that doesn't help a whole.
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Speaker 7: Lot right now.
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Speaker 2: How's your wear?
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Speaker 13: The clear fine for most of the day. There will
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Speaker 13: be a few showers tonight at northwesterlies changing to dusty
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Speaker 13: southwesterlies and a high twenty three.
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Speaker 2: Bit of breaking news for you this morning. Over in
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Speaker 2: the UK, Hey, they voted this is the Starmer vote
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Speaker 2: over whether he misled parliament over Mandalsson and his appointment
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Speaker 2: to do with Epstein. They have voted down the chance
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Speaker 2: of an inquiry for Starma, which is no surprise because
21:11
Speaker 2: remember the Labor was getting the whips to go around
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Speaker 2: and tell the MP's how to vote. They weren't exactly
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Speaker 2: going to vote send their leader to court, were they?
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Speaker 2: So that has happened, maxis and Wellington Morning Max, Good morning, Hey,
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Speaker 2: speaking of vote, I was talking to Callum about officers
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Speaker 2: new officers. So the Wellington Council's got theirs and the
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Speaker 2: penthouse has been taken by an unlikely suspect.
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Speaker 6: Yes, and lots of people recall this story from about
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Speaker 6: a month ago. But the council moved into the new
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Speaker 6: headquarters about a month ago near the waterfront, and there
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Speaker 6: are still some councilors the mayor perhaps still unhappy with
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Speaker 6: their allocated office. Andrew Little's view is apparently of a
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Speaker 6: concrete wall rather than this beautiful sweeping harbor view you
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Speaker 6: get on the top floor offices. They've been reserved for
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Speaker 6: council offices. The top council office. Little told us it
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Speaker 6: was interesting just seeing the panoramic view of the next
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Speaker 6: door neighbour's concrete wall. That was his rather cryptic comment.
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Speaker 6: He obviously hosts dignitaries and VIPs in his office. His
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Speaker 6: office is smaller. There's no sense it's in the middle
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Speaker 6: of the city. At this disconnect between elected members and
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Speaker 6: the very well paid officers at the top of the
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Speaker 6: food chain. It is an issue that's been around at
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Speaker 6: Wellington council for some time. The Deputy mayor posted an
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Speaker 6: image of his new office on social media and it
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Speaker 6: does look something akin to a prison cell or arctic gulag.
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Speaker 6: Green Councilor Jordie Rodgers says, those complaining have weird priorities.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I want them all to be an arctic googlegs.
22:39
Speaker 2: Think very much as you're with them.
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Speaker 6: Mat a little cloud clearing, strong nor westerly seventeen, thank.
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Speaker 2: You never and Auckland morning never, good morning now. Local
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Speaker 2: Board for Auckland CBD may soon review the noisiness of
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Speaker 2: the city.
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Speaker 14: Yes, the noisiness go figure. So look, it's considering establishing
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Speaker 14: dedicated entitay precincts to minimize noise disruption. So Wi tomint
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Speaker 14: Our local board is considering this, hoping to maintain the buzz.
23:08
Speaker 14: But also it's all about the residents who are living
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Speaker 14: in those areas. Give them some peace, cheer Alex Bonham.
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Speaker 14: She's floated the idea of entertainment precincts. This is around
23:17
Speaker 14: places like k Road, the Olti Arts Quarter and also
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Speaker 14: around the waterfront, the busiest noisiest places, and Alex Bonham says, look,
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Speaker 14: this will mean that the city's still fun. It'll be
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Speaker 14: music friendly, but some parts will be quieter from eleven
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Speaker 14: pm onwards.
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Speaker 2: Okay, places we wouldn't go neither, that's right. How's our weather?
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Speaker 14: Maybe fine, chance of an afternoon shower, But man, has
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Speaker 14: it been lovely? A high twenty is going to be fine, fine,
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Speaker 14: fine for Auckland for the rest of the week.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful, funny, love that news eighteen away from six Bryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: So many people texting in about police not following up
23:52
Speaker 2: on burglary complaints. Ryan, I've witnessed this. I've told police
23:55
Speaker 2: where a group of rampant shoplifters steal from at Woolwors
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Speaker 2: and three Kings. They've done nothing, Ryan, I've witnessed this too.
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Speaker 2: I at the cops story was absolutely gold. Sadly, it's
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Speaker 2: one hundred percent believable, Ryan, the citizen detectives and the
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Speaker 2: disinterested cops. My stepdaughter had the same experience. She traced
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Speaker 2: burglars via second hand dealers and tracking devices. To my mind,
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Speaker 2: the cops are politicized now, enforcing adurn era laws and
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Speaker 2: protecting bent cops like Mcskimming, says Mark and reefton. Mark,
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Speaker 2: thank you for your message. Think if you everybody for
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Speaker 2: your messages. There's been a lot on this. I don't
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Speaker 2: think the cops are doing this because they are politicized.
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Speaker 2: I just think they're obviously told that there's just no time.
24:41
Speaker 2: There are too many burglaries to actually go out and
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Speaker 2: solve them all. So when you turn up at a
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Speaker 2: house and they say, hey, the robbers went that way
24:48
Speaker 2: about an hour ago, they just go okay, I'll put
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Speaker 2: it to file an online form. I mean, what do
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Speaker 2: we need to do to make the cops do their jobs?
24:58
Speaker 2: Are they too busy solving murders? I don't know, They're
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Speaker 2: not that many. I mean there's a lot of murders,
25:02
Speaker 2: but not that many murders. You look at historical trends,
25:06
Speaker 2: so what are they doing? Serious? Question? Nine two nine
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Speaker 2: two the number to text. We're live to the UK
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Speaker 2: next welcome back here on news talks. Heb it is
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Speaker 2: fourteen minutes away from six.
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Speaker 1: And we don't international correspondence with ends Inn Eye Insurance,
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Speaker 2: We're going to Gavin Gray are UK. You're a correspondent
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Speaker 2: for a very important reason. They's just been a vote
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Speaker 2: on whether the starmer should face an inquiry on whether
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Speaker 2: we mislead the House on Mendelssohn. This is all re
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Speaker 2: Epstein and we've got a result this morning, Gavin, Yeah.
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Speaker 15: We had just about a quarter of an hour ago though, Ryan,
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Speaker 15: Actually the MPs have voted in basically in support of
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Speaker 15: Kir Starmer and not going ahead with this inquiry. The
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Speaker 15: vote itself was three hundred and thirty five against the referral,
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Speaker 15: so three hundred and thirty five effectively supporting Kiir Starmer
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Speaker 15: two hundred and twenty twenty three voting four, so a
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Speaker 15: substantial majority. However, that was expected and as I said,
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Speaker 15: three hundred and thirty five voting for the Prime Minister.
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Speaker 15: Labor currently has four hundred and three politicians, so the
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Speaker 15: hunt is on for the sixty eight who didn't vote
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Speaker 15: for him. Why And also a pretty solid vote turning
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Speaker 15: out around those opposition parties that do attend Parliament solid
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Speaker 15: in support of holding this inquiry. It's one of the
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Speaker 15: few issues in which all the opposition leaders have got
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Speaker 15: together saying they believe he has misled Parliament and therefore
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Speaker 15: must answer to this. But you know, Ryan, you might think, oh,
26:37
Speaker 15: well the Prime Minister would be relieved. It's all over,
26:39
Speaker 15: not a bit of it. There is less than a
26:41
Speaker 15: week to go now before we have the local council elections,
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Speaker 15: and all the predictions are that the Labor Party going
26:49
Speaker 15: to be having a nightmare day for that, and at
26:52
Speaker 15: that point I think we may well see some moves
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Speaker 15: against the Keir Starmer remaining as Prime Minister.
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Speaker 2: Kevin Gray, are you europe correspondent? Always good of your update?
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Speaker 2: By the way, King Charles Queen Camilla about to well.
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Speaker 2: Charles is going to address a lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
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Speaker 2: And a little while ago Trump said this about Trump's
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Speaker 2: own mother and the King.
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Speaker 4: My wonderful mother, Mary McLeod, Mary McLeod, she.
27:17
Speaker 2: Loved the Queen.
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Speaker 4: I also remember her saying, Charles, look young, Charles, He's
27:25
Speaker 4: so cute.
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Speaker 2: That's my mother.
27:29
Speaker 4: My mother had a crush on Charles.
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Speaker 2: Can you believe it? Can you believe? And imagine King
27:35
Speaker 2: Charles and Queen Camilla are sitting there listening to that
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Speaker 2: you're on News Talk ZB and you would have heard
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Speaker 2: yesterday we've spoken about this this morning, ninety million liters
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Speaker 2: of diesel the government is doing a deal with Z.
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Speaker 13: The Z proposal provided the strongest value for money and
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Speaker 13: the most flexibility about when and how the fuel could
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Speaker 13: be used.
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Speaker 2: Simon param Wy tour More Group CEOs with us this morning. Simon,
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Speaker 2: nice to have you on the show. Good Morning Money, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: A sensible thing to.
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Speaker 7: Do, Yeah, I think it's a good thing. It's sort
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Speaker 7: of not only is it a buffet, but it's some
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Speaker 7: flex in the system that they use if there's any
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Speaker 7: delays in any cargoes. But I think it's also a
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Speaker 7: good message to the general public and that there is
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Speaker 7: that buffet, but also there is supply out there that
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Speaker 7: you can buy, and it shows that the system is
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Speaker 7: rebalancing and the market solving for itself across the AGA
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Speaker 7: Pac region.
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Speaker 2: What do you reckon the text pack would be on
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Speaker 2: the hook for I mean, depends on how to load.
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Speaker 7: The price goes right, yeah, and I you know, i'd
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Speaker 7: love to know what the price is going to be
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Speaker 7: what they buy, So obviously I'm not privy to that,
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Speaker 7: but I would assume that there's a series of hedging
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Speaker 7: instruments that they're using and through the process to keep
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Speaker 7: the diesel pressure is going to be replacement in replenishment,
29:37
Speaker 7: So you know, it's almost going to be a little
29:39
Speaker 7: and often approach as the market moves down, because there
29:42
Speaker 7: is definitely bagradation in the market, it's going to be,
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Speaker 7: you know, looking at the future's curves, it's going to
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Speaker 7: be cheaper in December than it is today. So I'm
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Speaker 7: sure that there's some heading in there to reduce the
29:52
Speaker 7: impact on the tax path.
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Speaker 2: The question I had is why not just and you
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Speaker 2: probably won't like this, but why not just force the
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Speaker 2: fuel companies to increase them in a stockholdings themselves rather
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Speaker 2: than the taxpayer having to get involved.
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Speaker 7: Well, I think it's a prudent thing for the government
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Speaker 7: to do, because I think the stockholdings show that there
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Speaker 7: has been a steady supply coming into the country, and
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Speaker 7: also chips on the water there are plans to move
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Speaker 7: these to twenty eight days in the coming twelve months,
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Speaker 7: So I think this is sort of just jumping ahead
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Speaker 7: of that and making sure that through this volatile time
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Speaker 7: and on certain time that there is product available should
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Speaker 7: we need it, will we.
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Speaker 2: Need it, will there be product unavailable, or will prices
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Speaker 2: be so prohibitive that people you know that that truckees
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Speaker 2: won't be able to get around. Do you think that
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Speaker 2: we are still facing that possibility.
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Speaker 7: No, I don't think we're facing that possibility at all.
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Speaker 7: I think, you know, price is definitely doing it's work
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Speaker 7: that price does when it's high, it destroys a bit
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Speaker 7: of demand. But across the refineries in the Asia Pacific,
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Speaker 7: you know, Singapore is getting crude now out of the
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Speaker 7: US and West Africa. In the last three weeks South Korea,
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Speaker 7: they purchased crude from seventeen different countries than what they're
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Speaker 7: traditionally you know, purchased from. So you know, it shows
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Speaker 7: the market is solving for itself because there's incentives to
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Speaker 7: do it.
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Speaker 2: Simon Parham by Tomogod TV on the show is always
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Speaker 2: eight minutes away from six. Oil prices, by the way,
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Speaker 2: up above one hundred and ten bucks for the first
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Speaker 2: time in three weeks. The negotiations over the straight continue.
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Speaker 2: Brent crude reached one hundred and eleven bucks a barrel overnight.
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Speaker 2: West Texas Intermediate up to around one hundred. News Talks
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Speaker 2: heb Marc Next, it's six to six.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on Iheard Radio Belly Edition
31:37
Speaker 1: with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology that keeps
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Speaker 1: business moving News Talks EDB six.
31:43
Speaker 2: To six on News Talks b byd is China's the
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Speaker 2: biggest electric car maker and their annual net profit five
31:49
Speaker 2: hundred and ninety million dollars. That's down fifty percent from
31:52
Speaker 2: the previous year. And you might think, well, why because
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Speaker 2: everyone's going out and buying an EV, but they are
31:56
Speaker 2: getting loads more competition from all the other EV companies
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Speaker 2: that are popping up in China, and that's where their
32:02
Speaker 2: competition is really heading up and getting fair. So as
32:05
Speaker 2: a result of that, they have been cutting their prices
32:08
Speaker 2: to stay competitive, and they've been doing ultra fast charging
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Speaker 2: technology that costs them money. That's reducing their profit margins,
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Speaker 2: hence the result that they've delivered. It's five to six.
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge, Good morning, Mike.
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Speaker 16: I read a very good and very good piece in
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Speaker 16: Australian media over the weekend. All the and I don't
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Speaker 16: know if anyone's thought about this during the petrol crisis,
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Speaker 16: is all the Chinese vehicles listen to you and it's
32:29
Speaker 16: all fed right back to Beijing, which it should not
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Speaker 16: be a surprised because of course your phones are the
32:34
Speaker 16: same thing. So your car is just a phone these days. Yeah,
32:36
Speaker 16: but did you think about that when you brought your
32:38
Speaker 16: b y d Well? I didn't buy a byd No.
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Speaker 2: But you know, but I know what you're saying because
32:42
Speaker 2: they talk about now it's a relationship that you have
32:44
Speaker 2: with your vehicle where you say you jump in and
32:46
Speaker 2: you say, oh where am I going? Where's money's meeting?
32:49
Speaker 2: Can you rebook?
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Speaker 16: There's still being tracked, all the phone calls, the whole thing,
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Speaker 16: and so where do you into whether it bothers.
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Speaker 2: You or not?
32:56
Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean I think I couldn't care less, But.
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Speaker 2: You have always been like that. You don't care if
32:59
Speaker 2: they your health data.
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Speaker 16: Remember that I couldn't. I couldn't kill this in you.
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Speaker 16: I couldn't get none of None of that bothers me
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Speaker 16: in any way shape.
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Speaker 2: With the Chinese will know where your moles are. That's
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Speaker 2: exactly right.
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Speaker 16: But did you think about that when you're lepped into
33:12
Speaker 16: your EV purchase as a result of your petrol.
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Speaker 2: I mean no, I mean it wouldn't. Can't you just
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Speaker 2: turn it off?
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Speaker 16: That would be Michael, Well, how do you know where
33:19
Speaker 16: it is? Well, just turn the whole thing off. Entire thing,
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Speaker 16: you turn your dash down, not tracked by the Chinese.
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Speaker 16: It's never been a major concern of mine. But where
33:30
Speaker 16: do you go to have a private conversation these days,
33:32
Speaker 16: that's the question. Or we have them in here all
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Speaker 16: the time with the Microsoft, don't we hey some of
33:36
Speaker 16: the stuff if we say behind the scenes exactly by
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Speaker 16: the way we've talked about this fuel deal this weeking.
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Speaker 16: The thing I'm interested with with Shane Jones is we
33:45
Speaker 16: had Nicola Ravishankra on the other day.
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Speaker 2: He said jet fuel is not a problem.
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Speaker 16: It is not a problem yet Shane was saying yesterday
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Speaker 16: we might have to do a deal with the jet fuel.
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Speaker 16: So is it a problem or.
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Speaker 2: Is it not a problem? Does that price problem? And
33:56
Speaker 2: what's price problem? It supplies the key anyway, Mike next,
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Speaker 2: A great day.
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