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Barry Soper: Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent on Nicola Willis urging Kiwis not to panic over fuel shortages · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Very Soper, Senior Political Correspondence. Here, Hi, Barry, good afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: Hither we don't have time to talk about it. But
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  Speaker 3: I don't agree with what you said about luxon which
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  Speaker 3: part that he would be gone before the election?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well how much.
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  Speaker 4: Of what I don't know? Nice bottle of whiskey would do.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, good bottle of whiskey. On that, I say he's
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  Speaker 5: gone before the election, and you say he's not. Answer,
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  Speaker 5: you're writing that down for me because I always forget
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  Speaker 5: my bits and then I forget.
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  Speaker 2: To pay all you do blame more likely in this case.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Ace.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So what did you make of Willis's press conference?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's interesting, isn't it that Chris Luxen's
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  Speaker 3: overseas at the moment in some more and Nikola Willis
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  Speaker 3: held a news conference at one o'clock reminded me of
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  Speaker 3: the COVID days. Although the last words she uttered at
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  Speaker 3: the news conference that she wasn't speaking from the not
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  Speaker 3: the pulpit I always called at the pole, which she
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  Speaker 3: said the podium of truth.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we'll get regular updates.
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  Speaker 3: She's doing another one on Wednesday. But what she's saying
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  Speaker 3: essentially is don't panic. And you remember the head of
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  Speaker 3: the New Zealand Rabishanka. He said don't panic, but panic slowly.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, it's not a great situation at the
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  Speaker 3: moment because the longer this goes on in the Middle East,
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  Speaker 3: the longer, the harder it's going to be for the
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  Speaker 3: New Zealand economy. I don't think anybody doubts that with
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  Speaker 3: the Prime Minister being in Samoa, I will have held
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  Speaker 3: that news conference and had a message aimed at soothing
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  Speaker 3: those of us who are worried about what she says.
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  Speaker 3: The government is doing on our.
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  Speaker 6: Behalf, mitigating the impact on the New Zealand economy, including
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  Speaker 6: what could potentially be acute cost of living pressures for
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  Speaker 6: some households. I've spoken to each of the chief executives
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  Speaker 6: of the major commissioner banks and they have assured me
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  Speaker 6: that in the first instance, they will be providing an
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  Speaker 6: umbrella to businesses that they already work with to ensure
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  Speaker 6: that they can take them through this challenging time. From
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  Speaker 6: the government's point of view, we need to ensure that
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  Speaker 6: any support we provide to households is temporary, is targeted,
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  Speaker 6: and is timely. Officials have advised us explicitly that reducing
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  Speaker 6: fuel excize would send the wrong signal at this time
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  Speaker 6: and it would not be sufficiently targeted.
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  Speaker 4: There you go, So nothing to worry about.
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  Speaker 2: Have you been speaking to Chris Hopkins's ex wife today.
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  Speaker 3: I've been in a text conversation with her years she's
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  Speaker 3: in Fiji at the moment with their two children. And
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  Speaker 3: what she said to me simply was that she stood
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  Speaker 3: by everything she said in her Facebook post. And what
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  Speaker 3: she said in the Facebook post, of course, is for
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  Speaker 3: Chris Hopkins is not complementary, to say the.
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  Speaker 4: Very least at all.
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  Speaker 3: And I see you posing the question is what should
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  Speaker 3: he do? Well, you know, the great difficulty is you'll remember.
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  Speaker 3: It reminds me a bit of the David Longie Naomi
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  Speaker 3: Longie fallout that a mate of mine was sitting at
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  Speaker 3: a desk and the Sunday Star Times and the phone
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  Speaker 3: went and it was Naomi on the phone. This is
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  Speaker 3: after he had stepped down and she said he was
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  Speaker 3: having an affair and suddenly all hell broke loose. Not
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  Speaker 3: that he had to worry about it because he was
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  Speaker 3: no longer the Prime Minister, but he essentially did nothing.
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  Speaker 3: And I think you know, when you have issues like this,
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  Speaker 3: they are damning. Many of the public will know, and
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  Speaker 3: the gossip machine will be working overtime. Who knows what
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  Speaker 3: social media will do with it. But I think he's
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  Speaker 3: probably right to keep storm about the whole.
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  Speaker 2: Thing, is he because he's considering legal action? Should he
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  Speaker 2: take it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, if what his former wife Jade Paul said, and
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  Speaker 3: she says it's true, you can imagine the dirty linen
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  Speaker 3: that would come out. I know Jade Paul, she used
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  Speaker 3: to work around Parliament, a very nice young woman.
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  Speaker 4: I mean their marriage.
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  Speaker 3: Lasted a very short time. They had two children in
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  Speaker 3: it and was only a couple of years, and they
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  Speaker 3: got married at Premiere House in twenty twenty when, of
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  Speaker 3: course Jasin Dardun was the Prime Minister's she was there
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  Speaker 3: and Grant Robertson was Chippy's best man. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's one of those ghastly things because you know a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people and I heard your scenario about when
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  Speaker 3: people do split up. This terrible things about said on
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  Speaker 3: either side, and that certainly does happen.
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  Speaker 4: I've known it over the years, but yeah, if I was.
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  Speaker 3: Him, there's no point in him because coming out, because
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  Speaker 3: he'll simply fuel it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he will.
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  Speaker 5: Although a good bit of legal action sometimes also does
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  Speaker 5: indicate that you or if you're feeling confident.
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  Speaker 4: That it's not true.
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  Speaker 5: Barry, thanks very much, appreciate a very sober senior political correspondent.
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