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Ryan Bridge: We need less fighting, more long term thinking in Wellington · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: There's no reason parties on left and right in New
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  Speaker 1: Zealand politics can't work together to get stuff done. We've
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  Speaker 1: seen it this week with the India FTA. It is
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  Speaker 1: essentially just deal making. It'll pass because a party not
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  Speaker 1: in government joined forces with two in government to make
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  Speaker 1: it happen. Excellent. We've seen it with a member's bill
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  Speaker 1: this week. This is Labour's Ardina Williams on international money transfers.
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  Speaker 1: When you transfer money to somebody overseas, the banks and
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  Speaker 1: the transfer companies can basically say what they like about
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  Speaker 1: fees and commissions and then charge you what they like.
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  Speaker 1: They don't have to be upfront about it, and the
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  Speaker 1: bill would force them to tell you what they are
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  Speaker 1: going to charge you before you've charged it, rather than
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  Speaker 1: find out once the money's left your account. Seems like
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  Speaker 1: pretty sensible lawmaking to me. Past its first reading excellent
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  Speaker 1: a Labor MP's bill. National didn't support it, but that
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  Speaker 1: didn't matter because every other party in the House, including
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  Speaker 1: Act and New Zealand First did. The Modern Slavery Bill
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  Speaker 1: had a similar bipartisan feel to it. Imagine if we
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  Speaker 1: could get the same sort of of lovin in Parliament
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  Speaker 1: on Energy and infrastructure. Just imagine what sort of country
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  Speaker 1: we could be. The fact our politicians are trained like
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  Speaker 1: pitbulls to attack each other. The opposition is literally called
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  Speaker 1: the opposition is an advantage to a single party's state
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  Speaker 1: like China. Don't get me wrong, we don't want to
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  Speaker 1: go down the dictatorship route. But where the Chinese and
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  Speaker 1: others who don't have to worry about that pesky we
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  Speaker 1: thing we call democracy is that they have one plan,
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  Speaker 1: one team, one dream. They build roads and trading routes
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  Speaker 1: with the next fifty to one hundred years in mind
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  Speaker 1: rather than the next three. Business and industry and therefore
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  Speaker 1: jobs in this country depend on and plan around things
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  Speaker 1: that they know to be true. Getting Beijing style plans
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  Speaker 1: without resorting to dictatorship would require, sadly, a few grown ups,
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  Speaker 1: a little less mongrel, and a little more long term
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  Speaker 1: thinking in Wellington. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,
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