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Full Show Podcast: 30 January 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues is the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickens
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Speaker 1: on early edition with one roof make your property search
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Speaker 1: simple used talks, it'd be.
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Speaker 2: Well, good morning to you. Thank you so much for
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Speaker 2: choosing us. We're here till six. Coming up over the
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Speaker 2: next hour, Shane Jones hits out at Woke Banks. That's
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Speaker 2: today's headline. Richard Jones from Flap Farmers on this topic
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Speaker 2: in five minutes later on how can we stop this
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Speaker 2: epidemic of fires in orcan rubbish drucks? Who knew? And
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Speaker 2: just before six, how are we going with changing all
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Speaker 2: the speed signs on our state highways? How much is
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Speaker 2: this going to or cost? Will it make a difference?
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Speaker 2: We've got an expert for you. Just before six. We'll
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Speaker 2: have correspondence from around New Zealand and around the world.
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Speaker 2: Newstalk stb dot co dot nz. It is seven a
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Speaker 2: half to five.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It is Thursday. It is the thirtieth of January and
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Speaker 2: at least thirty people have died in a crowd crush
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Speaker 2: at India's Kumila religious festival. Millions were expected to take
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Speaker 2: a dip in the river.
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Speaker 3: We have seen little children being brought who have been
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Speaker 3: separated from their parents. The elderly women who are crying
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Speaker 3: We've gotten separated from their family. Some of them are
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Speaker 3: talking about seeing people fall and getting severely injured. It's
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Speaker 3: absolutely chaotic scenes in the Last and Found Center.
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Speaker 2: This, by the way, is the world's largest religious celebration.
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Speaker 2: They're expecting one hundred million people to flock to this
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Speaker 2: river bank. Incredible.
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Speaker 4: So.
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Speaker 2: An Australian man who was feared dead while fighting for
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Speaker 2: Ukraine is in its war with Russia. Apparently he's alive,
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Speaker 2: according to Russian authorities. Thirty two year old teacher Oscar
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Speaker 2: Jenkins was captured last year in Ukraine. Australia's Foreign minister
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Speaker 2: says the government has received confirmation that Oscar is alive
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Speaker 2: and he is currently in Russian custody. To the United
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Speaker 2: Kingdom and the government there has backed the construction of
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Speaker 2: a third runway at Heathrow Airport. This is all part
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Speaker 2: of its economic growth plan.
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Speaker 5: I have always been clear that the third runway at
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Speaker 5: Heathrow would unlock further growth, boost investments, increase exports and
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Speaker 5: make the UK more open and more connected.
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Speaker 2: So that's the chance of Rachel Reeves. She says she
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Speaker 2: wants proposals for the expansion by the middle of the year.
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Speaker 2: She says the expansion alone could create one hundred thousand
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Speaker 2: jobs and back to the US and a federal judge
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Speaker 2: in the States has blocked President Donald Trump's freeze on
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Speaker 2: federal grants and loans, and the spending, which is approved
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Speaker 2: by Congress goes to both public and private organizations and
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Speaker 2: states and schools. Individual funding isn't impacted by the paws,
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Speaker 2: and the White House says it's needed to ensure spending
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Speaker 2: is in line with Donald Trump's agenda. It is nine
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Speaker 2: after five the first.
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Speaker 1: Word on the Use of the Day in early edition
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Speaker 1: with Andrew Dickins and One Room to Make Your Property
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Speaker 1: Search and Simple.
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Speaker 2: You talk sipy okay, They say Christopher Luxin is struggling,
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Speaker 2: but frankly, Chris Hipkins is also struggling. Today in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty five, the leader of the opposition has fallen for
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Speaker 2: the trap of just being against stuff. Instead of for stuff.
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Speaker 2: So the fundamental problem with our economy is that the
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Speaker 2: government doesn't make enough money to pay our bills. That's
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Speaker 2: why we run deficits. We've been running deficits for far
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Speaker 2: too long, far too often. Now the answer to that
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Speaker 2: is either to tax you more, or for New Zealand
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Speaker 2: to earn more, so more taxes are paid so the
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Speaker 2: government has more money. So the other day Chris Hipkins
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Speaker 2: is railing against the government's handling of the economy without
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Speaker 2: saying how his mob could do any better. You know what,
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Speaker 2: that's not actually good enough, especially since there's only been
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Speaker 2: a year since we last saw you running things rather badly.
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Speaker 2: What would you actually do anyway? This is what he said.
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Speaker 2: He said the National Act government wants to entrench two
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Speaker 2: standards of citizenship, one standard for those who have wealth
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Speaker 2: and all lower standard for those that don't. Now that
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Speaker 2: might be so, but you know, in that statement alone,
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Speaker 2: he just hacked off a whole bunch of folks. It
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Speaker 2: is a bit rich to complain of two tiers of citizenship,
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Speaker 2: because is he blithely unaware or deliberately ignorant of the
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Speaker 2: two tiers of citizenship? Labor promoted in treating principles. It
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Speaker 2: was Maori and non Maori. And when he was Health Minister,
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Speaker 2: it was vaxed and unvaxed. You know, when people say
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Speaker 2: times a divisive, I'd argue that the times have been
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Speaker 2: divisive for quite some time already, and both sides are guilty.
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Speaker 2: And I'll tell you something else. I watched John Minto
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Speaker 2: on the TV last night and I saw a hint
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Speaker 2: of glee in his face and his determination to hunt
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Speaker 2: Jews down, because that's what this Palestine hotline thing is
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Speaker 2: is asking people to snitch on Jews, tell a quasi
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Speaker 2: militia ware the Jews are, and then John and his
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Speaker 2: mates are going to go around and re educate them.
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Speaker 2: Now what does that sound like to you? You know,
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Speaker 2: if it walks like a pogram and it talks like
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Speaker 2: a pogram, then it's probably pretty distasteful. John, and you
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Speaker 2: seem to enjoy it. And it amazes me how people
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Speaker 2: who fight against oppression so easily adopt the tactics of oppressors.
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Speaker 2: And I'm sure mister Minto and his supporters believe they
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Speaker 2: have the high moral ground. You don't. And the other
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Speaker 2: thing that freaks me out is that John Minto looks
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Speaker 2: pretty much the same as when we first saw him
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Speaker 2: on TV barking at people through a megathone. Has he
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Speaker 2: signed some deal with the devil? Is there a portrait
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Speaker 2: of him rotting in a basement in Gray? Then? I
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Speaker 2: find it all rather unnerving. It's twelve after five. Shane
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Speaker 2: Jones has hit out at the white banks that do
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Speaker 2: not fund people that fund fossil fuels. So what is
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Speaker 2: fair farmacin about that? That's next.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with
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Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens and one roof Make your property search simple
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Speaker 1: if you talk said be So.
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Speaker 2: It's fourteen after five and Shane Jones has gone off
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Speaker 2: at the banks. It has understood that New Zealand First
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Speaker 2: could be looking at a member's bill that could force
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Speaker 2: the big banks to lend to any businesses that deal
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Speaker 2: in fossil fuel. Shane Jones says the Australian banks, who
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Speaker 2: dominate the New Zealerd market need to stop being an
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Speaker 2: I quote driven by unelected, unorientated climate apostles. Australia's opposition
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Speaker 2: party is looking at a similar bill to ensure critical
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Speaker 2: businesses like farming and mining are able to access bank
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Speaker 2: lending and services despite how the banks view their businesses.
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Speaker 2: So Richard McIntyre as the banking spokesperson for Federated Farmers
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Speaker 2: and joins me. Now, good morning to you, Richard, Good
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Speaker 2: morning Andrew. Do you agree with mister Jones.
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Speaker 6: Look, I think this is a really interesting discussion we
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Speaker 6: have to have as a country. Yet, do we want
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Speaker 6: to have our elited government city laws and deciding what
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Speaker 6: society can and can't do, or do we want other
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Speaker 6: elited banks being able to do that? You know, typically,
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Speaker 6: you know, we are quite comfortable for businesses to decide
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Speaker 6: who they do business with or not. But when we're
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Speaker 6: when we have have a sector that plays such a
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Speaker 6: huge role in society like banks to and they've got
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Speaker 6: quite a bit of scale, and they're also making rule
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Speaker 6: making agreements on then ary banking lots to act in
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Speaker 6: very similar manners, then you know, we've really got a
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Speaker 6: question where it's very reasonable for them for them to
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Speaker 6: be doing that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's there money, and they're the banks, and
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Speaker 2: there's their choice, and that's their freedom of choice. But
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Speaker 2: I understand what you say. Have you heard of farmers
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Speaker 2: here having issues accessing lending and other banking services? Because
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Speaker 2: of their climate practices.
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Speaker 6: So we've got farmers who are being asked for all
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Speaker 6: their emissions profiles and that sort of thing. We've got
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Speaker 6: the banks who the vast majority of them so far
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Speaker 6: have set the missions reduction targets for their farmers or
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Speaker 6: for the AC sector, and so that's the real concern.
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Speaker 6: You know what happens after that. We've seen what is
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Speaker 6: happening with in Zen and the petrol stations where you know,
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Speaker 6: individually owned petrol stations to local petrol stations are being
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Speaker 6: told that they have to pay back all of the
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Speaker 6: debt that they own that they own sorry by twenty
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Speaker 6: thirty and after that they can have no more debt
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Speaker 6: but a transactional account, and that than nothing more. So
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Speaker 6: there's a real question of you know, where is this
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Speaker 6: going to go for farmers if they can't meet whatever
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Speaker 6: targets the banks do set, because you know, what begin
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Speaker 6: Zen in particular are doing to these petrol stations seems
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Speaker 6: completely unreasonable.
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Speaker 2: So what changes would you like to see a new legislation?
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Speaker 6: I guess if new legislation camp forwards, I would like
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Speaker 6: to see in all reality, either far far greater competition
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Speaker 6: in the banking space, so that if banks would decided
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Speaker 6: that individually they want it to be the moral police
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Speaker 6: of the country, then there'd be enough competitions so that
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Speaker 6: whatever businesses they were declined into fund could actually get
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Speaker 6: lending elsewhere. But I think as a society we just
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Speaker 6: really need to have a really good discussion. And so
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Speaker 6: are we a democratic, critically elected Are we a democracy?
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Speaker 6: Do we have a democratical really to government that decides
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Speaker 6: what we can and can't do? Or are we happy
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Speaker 6: to leave it up to these big corporates, you know,
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Speaker 6: making decisions overseas about what we can and can't do,
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Speaker 6: what industries they will fund or won't fund. You know,
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Speaker 6: there's an issue there that really deserves some discussion.
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Speaker 2: Richard, I thank you for your time today. Richard McIntyre
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Speaker 2: is from Federative Farmers. They're banking spokesperson. Now, who knew
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Speaker 2: we had rubbish trucks blowing up all over our biggest
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Speaker 2: city twenty twenty five has had a very fiery start
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Speaker 2: or can wate trucks? Five rubbish and recycling truck fires
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Speaker 2: in just the first two weeks of January. So imagine it.
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Speaker 2: You're just a bloke and you running around trying to
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Speaker 2: pick up some rubbish and suddenly your truck blows up.
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Speaker 2: So what's happening and how can we stop it? We're
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Speaker 2: going to talk to the council in just a few
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Speaker 2: months time. It is eighteen after five.
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Speaker 1: News and Views You Trust to start your day is
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Speaker 2: You talk with me right It is now five twenty. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: rubbish tracks are blowing up. Well, blowing up might be
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Speaker 2: an exaggeration, but there have been loads of fires and
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Speaker 2: rubbish and recycling trucks nine over the past little while.
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Speaker 2: On top of that at Ukhan's recycling facility that has
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Speaker 2: one or two small fires every single week. So Auckland
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Speaker 2: Council Deputy Director of Resilience and Infrastructure Paru Sued joins
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Speaker 2: me right.
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Speaker 7: Now, hello, Pero, good morning Andrew.
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Speaker 2: What's blowing up?
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Speaker 7: Oh my god? It's all the wrong items that people
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Speaker 7: are putting into those trucks and they are predominantly lithemine
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Speaker 7: batteries that we've got so many of them in our
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Speaker 7: devices that.
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Speaker 4: Are blowing up.
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Speaker 2: Yes, so it give us a list. What's blown up?
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Speaker 2: What's the stuff we shouldn't be putting in the in
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Speaker 2: the rubbish truck.
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Speaker 7: So one thing to clearly remember is what you should
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Speaker 7: be putting into your recycling bins. It is meant for
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Speaker 7: packaging only that comes out of your kitchen, laundry and
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Speaker 7: your bathrooms, and of course paper that you might have,
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Speaker 7: and actually nothing else. What people are doing or I
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Speaker 7: guess they're doing it by mistake or some of them
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Speaker 7: are thinking, is wish cycling. They're actually putting in things
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Speaker 7: like batteries. They're also putting in canisters that might have
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Speaker 7: got some gas in it, or LPT bottles or even
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Speaker 7: being found in it that can very easily once damished
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Speaker 7: cash fire.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so where should we put them? Like in December alone,
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Speaker 2: nearly six hundred laptops and over three hundred and twelve
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Speaker 2: batteries found their way into our recycling re facility, which
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Speaker 2: you just know that bad. So where should those people
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Speaker 2: that put the laptops and batteries.
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Speaker 7: That's right, And if you think of just you know,
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Speaker 7: visit Council's website. There is a whole list of places
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Speaker 7: where you can take them, and it's an easy search
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Speaker 7: that you can find them. But there are also retailers
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Speaker 7: that actually offer you can take them to those retailers
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Speaker 7: and they'll take it back for free. So might it
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Speaker 7: Ten and Bunnings, for example, have battery dropouts. There are
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Speaker 7: a lot of organizations that do e waste collections and
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Speaker 7: take back as well. We also have some community recycling
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Speaker 7: centers that take ewate back. So I guess just a
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Speaker 7: little bit of research on where you can take it
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Speaker 7: near your house is what you need to do to
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Speaker 7: be able to get these materials to the right place
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Speaker 7: and this post of correctly.
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Speaker 2: So is there anything you can actually do to crack
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Speaker 2: down on the people who are either lazy or ignorant
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Speaker 2: to put this down? Or do you just have to
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Speaker 2: rely on community responsibility?
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Speaker 7: Hey, I think it's community responsibility is all on us
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Speaker 7: to actually do the right thing. We can look through
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Speaker 7: footage to see where it's come from. It's quite hard
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Speaker 7: to do that, but I think if we all just
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Speaker 7: think a little bit before we put that material in
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Speaker 7: the bin, I think that's the best way to go
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Speaker 7: because that's then preventing it from entering into the win
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Speaker 7: and we're not spending time wondering and policing it.
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Speaker 2: Peral, Thank you so much. For your time today produceud
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Speaker 2: from the organ Council and it is now five twenty three.
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Speaker 2: Number of people are actually criticizing me for my comments
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Speaker 2: at the top of the program. They're saying that this
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Speaker 2: Palestine hotline targets Idea soldiers, only that those guys have
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Speaker 2: committed war crimes. Someone else informs me about how many
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Speaker 2: Gazans have died as if I have had my head
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Speaker 2: in a sand. I know all this, but at the
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Speaker 2: same time, if you're fighting the bad guys, you don't
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Speaker 2: actually use the bad guys tactics. And I find the
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Speaker 2: tactics being used by John Minto and his mates to
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Speaker 2: be bad guy tactics snitching, hunting down, re education. It's
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Speaker 2: five twenty three.
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Speaker 1: The early edition Full the Show podcast on iHeartRadio powered
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Speaker 1: by News Talks It be new.
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Speaker 2: Talks it B. It is five twenty six. Good morning,
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Speaker 2: I'm Andrew Dickens. Thank you for joining me. It beggars
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Speaker 2: belief these days when we report that it's hard to
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Speaker 2: make money if you're a doctor, it's hard to make
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Speaker 2: money if you have got a GP practice. It beggars
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Speaker 2: belief that we don't have enough doctors in this country.
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Speaker 2: Primary medical care is the most important care we can have.
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Speaker 2: Forget your fancy specialists, forget your rock star surgeons. If
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Speaker 2: a GP can spot and fix a problem as it begins,
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Speaker 2: then you can save your life and you can save
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Speaker 2: the nation a ton on costs down the line. So
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Speaker 2: the health of our primary health sector should be of
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Speaker 2: primary importance, but it hasn't been. We've added a million
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Speaker 2: people through immigration over the past ten years, and we've
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Speaker 2: also been creating new New Zealanders ourselves, while our numbers
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Speaker 2: of doctors per head of population is plummeted. There's two
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Speaker 2: ways to get new doctors right. One way is to
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Speaker 2: find them and import them from overseas, but that is
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Speaker 2: necessarily difficult because not every Tom Dick and Harry who
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Speaker 2: say their doctors are in fact doctors. We've seen stories
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Speaker 2: about that. The other way is to train them ourselves,
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Speaker 2: and in that area, I believe we've been waefully short
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Speaker 2: on the numbers. I do not know why. You'd think
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Speaker 2: our doctor training would increase in line of population, but
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Speaker 2: it hasn't for decades. And what about this University of
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Speaker 2: Wyicado new Medical School, which was an election policy. Remember
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Speaker 2: it was built on top of a report completed by
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Speaker 2: Steven Joyce's consultancy firm, which is basically Stephen in some researches,
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Speaker 2: a consultant report that was not cheap. It was pushed
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Speaker 2: by the University of Wycato, it got supported by the
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Speaker 2: people who became the government. We're supposed to have a
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Speaker 2: new medical school in the way Kado in Hamilton. Well
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Speaker 2: we are a year into the new administration and where
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Speaker 2: are we at. We've got nothing. The medical unions are
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Speaker 2: already coming out saying this is taking too long. The
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Speaker 2: Prime Minister's only comment on it is that work is
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Speaker 2: continuing on the business case and it will go to
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Speaker 2: Cabinet in the future. So where the hell does that mean?
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Speaker 2: That is But unofficially it is understood that the project
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Speaker 2: has been dogged with problems and is increasingly seen as unnecessary, costly,
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Speaker 2: and worst of all, a bad idea. I'm sorry, a
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Speaker 2: bad idea from Stephen Joyce, from a well paid consultant
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Speaker 2: who knew Stephen Joyce has many good ideas, but maybe
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Speaker 2: this one isn't so. But still, if we're wanting to
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Speaker 2: train new doctors and we want to train them in
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Speaker 2: a school, we were going to build a new one
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Speaker 2: but when not building a new one, So what about
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Speaker 2: raising the money the numbers? Elsewhere? Things are just not happening,
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Speaker 2: And it's not nice when things just don't happen, because, frankly,
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Speaker 2: I'd like to go to a doctor, and when I
16:12
Speaker 2: do go to a doctor, I don't want to be
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Speaker 2: told that you've only got fifteen minutes. But in fact,
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Speaker 2: let's make that ten because I'm running late. Andrew Dickens,
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Speaker 2: it is five twenty eight. You want some entertainment, it's
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Speaker 2: happening right now, Yes, this radio show, or you could
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Speaker 2: stick on the TV and see the Senate confirmation hearing
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Speaker 2: for the Health Secretary pick in the United States of America,
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Speaker 2: which is a man by the name of Robert F.
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Speaker 2: Kennedy Junior. So there's a lot of finger waggling, there's
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Speaker 2: a lot of finger pointing from all the people asking
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Speaker 2: him questions, and there's a lot of one ma ma
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Speaker 2: from RFK himself. I mean, I don't know if you've
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Speaker 2: known about all this. His cousin, Caroline Kennedy, one of
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Speaker 2: the Kennedys, has gone a bit viral because she's actually said, yeah, well,
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Speaker 2: cousin Bob, he's a bit of a predator. He likes
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Speaker 2: to mince birds and then feed them to snakes, and
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Speaker 2: he's a bit strange. I'm not sure you want him
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Speaker 2: for a health secretary. So anyway, Mitch McCann is coming
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Speaker 2: to us from the United States of America to tell
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Speaker 2: us more about these confirmation hearings. They're very entertaining. And
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Speaker 2: also I went for a walk on the beach and
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Speaker 2: it's stank, and I'll tell you that story in five.
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Speaker 2: Here are news talks hipb.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens on early edition with one roof make your
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Speaker 1: Property search simple, youth talk zippy.
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Speaker 2: Yes, good morning to you, Welcome to your Thank you
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Speaker 2: so much for choosing our program. We were talking earlier
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Speaker 2: about Shane Jones. He's running an off banks who won't
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Speaker 2: lend to fossil fuel industries or those people who actually
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Speaker 2: or basically farmers. That's what he's saying. Wonderful text here.
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Speaker 2: Maybe these banks who don't lend to the farmers should
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Speaker 2: seesaw business with the rich that fly private jets or
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Speaker 2: I don't think they will, or maybe those that drive
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Speaker 2: devil diesel utes, I don't think they would. Where does
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Speaker 2: this all end? Good point? Now, look, I went for
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Speaker 2: a walk at the beach yesterday afternoon. It was lovely.
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Speaker 2: It was warm. That's one of the benefits of doing
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Speaker 2: these early shows, you get some time in the afternoon. Yes,
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Speaker 2: it was gorgeous, but at the southern end of the beach,
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Speaker 2: stretching for about two hundred meters, was a pungent carpet
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Speaker 2: created by the tides of the sea over the winter.
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Speaker 2: And you know the stuff. It was old kelp and puriade,
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Speaker 2: seaweed and perhuda, caw wire, leaf fall and all sorts
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Speaker 2: of other guns that ended out in the harbor and
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Speaker 2: then gets washed up onto a beach. And the thing
18:58
Speaker 2: about it, it's been there for a while. It's been
18:59
Speaker 2: a hig it's rotting and smelling real bad. So I
19:04
Speaker 2: phoned the council. The council said, we'll go and look
19:09
Speaker 2: at the Safe Swim website, which gives real time assessments
19:12
Speaker 2: of beach quality. So I went to Safe Swim and
19:17
Speaker 2: it said the beach is safe swimming quality. Good. Yes,
19:20
Speaker 2: thank you for that. I know it is safe to
19:22
Speaker 2: swim at. It's just dangerous to sit down wind of
19:25
Speaker 2: the decomposing and rotting an ugly six inch carpet of
19:29
Speaker 2: composts that stretches for two hundred meters and stinks to
19:32
Speaker 2: high heaven. And I ask you, because I could phone
19:36
Speaker 2: the council once again to complain, I ask you, is
19:39
Speaker 2: it too much to ask the council to come along
19:42
Speaker 2: and hoover it all up. In Sydney they clean the
19:44
Speaker 2: beaches every week. We don't ever clean our beaches and
19:48
Speaker 2: they sit there stinking. And here's the thing. I pay
19:50
Speaker 2: rates and it's a cost of living crisis, and going
19:54
Speaker 2: to the beach is free. And if the council liked
19:56
Speaker 2: us hoover up the junk dis it's twenty one minutes
20:01
Speaker 2: to excess. Go right around New Zealand and we're going
20:04
Speaker 2: to Dunedin first. Callum Proctor. Good morning to you, morning Andrew.
20:07
Speaker 2: I've just been banging on about training more doctors. It
20:10
Speaker 2: looks like Otaga University is up for it.
20:13
Speaker 8: Yes, they are very much so. And this would help,
20:17
Speaker 8: of course, the big GP shortage that we have across
20:20
Speaker 8: New Zealand. We've just heard thirty six percent of general
20:23
Speaker 8: practices we're not enrolling any new patients in twenty twenty four,
20:28
Speaker 8: many turning them away, or you are added to a
20:31
Speaker 8: lengthy wait list. Well, the Medical School here says they
20:34
Speaker 8: could fix that. It says that it could increase its
20:36
Speaker 8: capacity as soon as next year if this is needed.
20:40
Speaker 8: The acting dean is Tim Wilkinson. He says research shows
20:43
Speaker 8: medical students' interest in general practices actually grows during their
20:47
Speaker 8: training here at Otaga. And he says a lot of
20:50
Speaker 8: students don't make their minds up until after they graduate.
20:53
Speaker 8: And how's your weather today, Callum drizzle clears this afternoon
20:56
Speaker 8: and nineteen Emily Ansel from Christyage, good morning to you.
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Speaker 9: Good morning Andrew.
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Speaker 2: So we get these speed limit reversals. That's happening in
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Speaker 2: your area on State Highway seventy five. What's people saying
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Speaker 2: about it?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, Well, Salwin's mayor has a few good things to say.
21:10
Speaker 9: It's one of thirty eight stretches of road going back
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Speaker 9: to what it previously was. By July, the road will
21:15
Speaker 9: increase from eighty kilometers an hour to one hundred from
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Speaker 9: Harswell to Little River. It was dropped in twenty twenty
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Speaker 9: two after NZTA found most serious crashes on the road
21:25
Speaker 9: occurred at highest speeds. Sam brought in the maryor mentioned
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Speaker 9: says there was little consultation by the Labor government when
21:31
Speaker 9: it made the decision. He says, it's pleasing this government
21:34
Speaker 9: has gone through that process before announcing the changes.
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Speaker 2: How's your weather fine.
21:39
Speaker 9: Apart from areas of morning and evening cloud northeasterlys developing
21:43
Speaker 9: in the morning, picking up in the afternoon with a
21:45
Speaker 9: high of twenty.
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Speaker 2: Emily answel thank you so very much, and good morning
21:48
Speaker 2: to Max Toll from Wellington. Hello, Max, good morning. So
21:52
Speaker 2: your council there now has a Crown observer because of
21:55
Speaker 2: course they've operated so fantastically so far, and the Crown
21:59
Speaker 2: observed has been making some observations.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, that's right. His first report has been made public.
22:06
Speaker 10: One could argue that since his appointment, city Council meetings
22:09
Speaker 10: have probably been a bit more cordial, a little less dysfunctional.
22:13
Speaker 10: The long term plan, for instance, did eventually get over
22:16
Speaker 10: the line. Yet Lindsay McKenzie still points out all of
22:20
Speaker 10: the usual stuff, political positioning, ideologies, the media spotlight or
22:25
Speaker 10: still unsurprisingly still holding the city back. We've got a
22:28
Speaker 10: predominantly a left wing Green heavy council. It's always going
22:32
Speaker 10: to be a challenge for some of these people to
22:34
Speaker 10: stomach working with the government. Yet there's a concern about
22:38
Speaker 10: leaks to the media, relationships biases in the reports of
22:43
Speaker 10: council officers. That's one complaint from some councilors. Unfortunately, you
22:48
Speaker 10: have to say a lot of these things aren't going
22:49
Speaker 10: to get better as a councilor's try to get re
22:52
Speaker 10: elected later this year and some start fancying a crack
22:55
Speaker 10: at dethroning Tory Faro at the head of the table.
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Speaker 2: You know you can psych this dial all those observations
23:01
Speaker 2: and said that probably to every single council in New Zealand.
23:03
Speaker 2: How's your weather?
23:05
Speaker 10: Occasional rain Southerley's twenty the high central and.
23:08
Speaker 2: Never ret A man who now joins me in Orklandallo
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Speaker 2: neither hello, greetings.
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Speaker 11: I thought you're going to say hello, rever.
23:13
Speaker 2: You look like you're going to put an R in there.
23:15
Speaker 2: Would you like me to no? Okay. So there's problems
23:19
Speaker 2: at the hospital.
23:19
Speaker 11: Yes, water woes. Water woes where Auckland City Hospital. So
23:23
Speaker 11: a water leak means that the hospital's main building. This
23:26
Speaker 11: does include the maternity water is without hot water so overnight.
23:30
Speaker 11: We do know that the water system and part of
23:31
Speaker 11: the hospital that was turned off completely. The good news
23:34
Speaker 11: it's expected to be back on this morning. Hot water,
23:37
Speaker 11: though it's going to take a little while longer. But
23:40
Speaker 11: we do know also that the toilets, the dialysis machines,
23:42
Speaker 11: in fire sprinklers, they're all unaffected their goodness, because they
23:45
Speaker 11: run on a different water system.
23:47
Speaker 7: Great.
23:47
Speaker 2: How's the weather.
23:48
Speaker 11: Cloudy, isolated childs developing late morning, clearing tonight still hot
23:53
Speaker 11: hot hot twenty five is are high.
23:55
Speaker 2: Never Rettimuta, I thank you at a seventeen minutes to six,
23:58
Speaker 2: I was just complaining about the junk on my beach
24:01
Speaker 2: that stinks, the compost that stinks. And I said, phone
24:04
Speaker 2: the council, teaches, says, phone the council.
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Speaker 10: What are you?
24:07
Speaker 2: It's all natural, Go down and put it on your garden.
24:10
Speaker 2: Tell me, why doesn't the council go and gullip it
24:14
Speaker 2: up and stick it on all its gardens that it
24:16
Speaker 2: has around the place. It could do it. It's a resource.
24:19
Speaker 2: But just get rid of it from the beach because
24:20
Speaker 2: that stinks and it's big. And it is seventeen to six.
24:24
Speaker 2: What's happening in America with the RFK confirmation hearing? Mitch
24:27
Speaker 2: mc camp will tell you in a few moments time,
24:29
Speaker 2: and before the end of the show. We're going to
24:30
Speaker 2: talk about the new speed signs that are going up
24:32
Speaker 2: all around the country.
24:34
Speaker 1: International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
24:38
Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 2: It is fourteen to six. Let's go to America. Mitch McCann, Hello,
24:46
Speaker 2: good morning, How are you very good? The RFK Robert F.
24:49
Speaker 2: Kennedy confirmation continues and his cousin Caroline Kennedy has called
24:52
Speaker 2: him a predator with family like that, who needs enemies?
24:56
Speaker 2: Oh that's right.
24:57
Speaker 12: She put out this video yesterday saying that it was
24:59
Speaker 12: difficult for her to speak out against her cousin because
25:02
Speaker 12: they are a close family. However, she really did lay
25:05
Speaker 12: into ARIFK. Junior. She called him a predator, and she
25:08
Speaker 12: said that he used to gloat about putting chickens and
25:11
Speaker 12: a blender to feed his hawks. Of course, Arif K
25:14
Speaker 12: Junior today is facing a Senate confirmation hearing to be
25:18
Speaker 12: a Cabinet Secretary for the Department of Health in the US,
25:21
Speaker 12: essentially controlling the US Health Department. However, there are a
25:25
Speaker 12: couple of problems. He denies vaccine science and science around fluoride,
25:30
Speaker 12: and this morning he started his confirmation hearing saying that
25:33
Speaker 12: American's overall health is in grievous condition, more so than
25:38
Speaker 12: any other developed nation. And also this morning he's faced
25:41
Speaker 12: a number of protesters inside the Congressional building. Someone stood
25:45
Speaker 12: up and yelled he lies. Another person with a mask
25:48
Speaker 12: on and holding a sign said vaccine saves lives also
25:52
Speaker 12: interrupted Kennedy. So it's not been without a bit of
25:54
Speaker 12: drama this morning than Washington.
25:56
Speaker 2: With all this controversy, Is there any chance that he
25:58
Speaker 2: might not get the nod?
26:01
Speaker 12: Well, it seems like this will be the most difficult
26:03
Speaker 12: of Donald Trump's cabinet nominations. Given that Pete Higgsith from
26:07
Speaker 12: the Defense Department, he was sworn in a few days ago,
26:10
Speaker 12: he was the one that was the most unlikely to
26:13
Speaker 12: pass the test of the Senate. However, it remains to
26:16
Speaker 12: be seen whether the Republicans they.
26:18
Speaker 6: Only need three, they only need three.
26:20
Speaker 12: To vote against him, and he will fail to get
26:22
Speaker 12: through this confirmation hearing. So we're likely to hear after
26:25
Speaker 12: his his hearing today whether or not he will reach
26:30
Speaker 12: that threshold. But so he'll be sworn in in a
26:32
Speaker 12: couple of days. Highly controversial over here, very good now.
26:35
Speaker 2: Donald Trump's immigration policy has been put in place, and
26:38
Speaker 2: then a week there's already been five thousand arrests there.
26:41
Speaker 2: Cracking on.
26:43
Speaker 12: They certainly are, and they are doing that in New
26:45
Speaker 12: York now as well. And the new secretary for the
26:48
Speaker 12: Department of Homeland Security was out on the beat with
26:51
Speaker 12: enforcement OSSes yesterday morning, in fact, videoing from her phone
26:56
Speaker 12: an immigrant being led out into a police fan in
26:58
Speaker 12: the Bronx Now. She posted Christie nom a caption alongside
27:02
Speaker 12: that saying, dirt bags like this will continue to be
27:05
Speaker 12: removed from our streets. And it goes without saying this
27:09
Speaker 12: is a real public relations exercise for Donald Trump as well.
27:12
Speaker 12: The White House are posting images online of people in
27:15
Speaker 12: handcuffs being led onto a military plane to go back
27:18
Speaker 12: to places like Guatemala. Doctor Phil the TV Doctor, has
27:21
Speaker 12: even been going out with ICE immigration agents in Chicago,
27:25
Speaker 12: filming them for his TV channels. And then we've got
27:28
Speaker 12: the secretary posting photos as well. So it's a policy
27:31
Speaker 12: in the Trump administration, but it's also very much a
27:34
Speaker 12: public relations exercise as well.
27:36
Speaker 2: Much began, Hey, thank you so much for your time,
27:39
Speaker 2: no worries, thank you very much. It's eleven to six.
27:42
Speaker 1: Andrew digulous speed.
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Speaker 2: Limits have started going back up again. Thirty eight sections
27:47
Speaker 2: of the State highway network will return to their previously
27:50
Speaker 2: higher speed limits by July. The first State Highway two
27:53
Speaker 2: between Featherston and Masterton is the first place to see
27:55
Speaker 2: the increase that happened last night, and of course all
27:57
Speaker 2: the politicians were there in front of the cameras going
28:00
Speaker 2: haven't we done well? Glenn Coury is a certified safe
28:04
Speaker 2: system assessor and level crossing safety impact accessor at a
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Speaker 2: company called via Strata and joins me Now, hall a.
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Speaker 4: Glenn, good morning.
28:13
Speaker 2: Andrew didn't even know jobs like yours existed.
28:17
Speaker 4: There's lots of safety jobs out there.
28:19
Speaker 2: How did you get all the skills?
28:22
Speaker 4: There's lots of training courses both here in Australia that
28:26
Speaker 4: do things like that.
28:27
Speaker 2: Are you for or against increasing speed limits for.
28:31
Speaker 4: Most of these? Very much against. I see it as
28:33
Speaker 4: a populous move really and in quite evidence free. You know,
28:36
Speaker 4: there might be some sections that they're looking at, well,
28:40
Speaker 4: there might be a case, but a lot of these
28:42
Speaker 4: have already seen very good reductions and deaths and serious
28:44
Speaker 4: injuries already.
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Speaker 2: So you reckon that they all need to be judged
28:48
Speaker 2: on their own individual you know, status and how good
28:54
Speaker 2: or bad the roads are.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, And I think they've sort of gone with
28:59
Speaker 4: people going it's slowing me down, terrible and all the
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Speaker 4: rest of it, rather than actually looking at the evidence
29:06
Speaker 4: about what's actually happened on some of these roads.
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Speaker 2: Okay, do you have any in all your training, will
29:14
Speaker 2: you got your skills? Do you have any proof that
29:17
Speaker 2: raising the speed limits will increase productivity?
29:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, that one seems a bit of a misnomer as well,
29:23
Speaker 4: because for a start, trucks can't go higher than the
29:26
Speaker 4: ninety in In fact, even at eighty ks tends to be
29:29
Speaker 4: their optimal speed, so that's probably not going to help them.
29:32
Speaker 4: Some of the roads are talking about they're looking at
29:35
Speaker 4: urban ones for example, and like Wellington near the Terrace
29:39
Speaker 4: Tunnel's going to be a seventy k road. Well, the
29:41
Speaker 4: problem is that rush hour on Wellington you're lucky if
29:45
Speaker 4: you even don fifty at the moment.
29:47
Speaker 2: That's true, but that's rush hour. But you know, when
29:49
Speaker 2: you're at three o'clock in the morning and you've been
29:51
Speaker 2: told to go, you know, seventy when you could quite
29:52
Speaker 2: easily do one hundred, that hacks people off.
29:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that, if anything, you're going to be able
29:59
Speaker 4: to go faster and other parts of the road or
30:02
Speaker 4: other parts of the network, And so it's a bit
30:04
Speaker 4: of a moment. At one section you've saved, yes, thirty seconds,
30:08
Speaker 4: what are you going to do with thirty seconds?
30:09
Speaker 2: Make a cup of coffee? Obviously? Now once okay, Well,
30:13
Speaker 2: here's the thing. The opponents, there's fear mongering. They're saying,
30:17
Speaker 2: all these feedlomers go up, there's going to be a
30:19
Speaker 2: big jump in the road toll. Do you believe that?
30:22
Speaker 4: Well, it's what we've seen with the opposite. I guess
30:25
Speaker 4: when they've come down. So some of the sections they're
30:27
Speaker 4: looking at, say State Highway five, maybe the topor for example,
30:31
Speaker 4: since it came in three years ago, we've seen about
30:34
Speaker 4: more than forty percent drop in debts and serious injuries
30:37
Speaker 4: there the one from Nelson to blend them that that's
30:40
Speaker 4: been about a seventy percent drop. So it's really looking
30:42
Speaker 4: back the other way, we could expect to see those
30:46
Speaker 4: games go away.
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Speaker 2: The last speed limits that were reduced by the Labor government,
30:52
Speaker 2: I think there was a list of about three hundred
30:53
Speaker 2: of them, and most of them were outside of schools,
30:55
Speaker 2: and a lot of the schools were in rural areas
30:57
Speaker 2: where they were basically on state highways where going fast
31:01
Speaker 2: and the schools wanted the cars to go slower around
31:04
Speaker 2: the schools. There are a number of communities that have
31:08
Speaker 2: these concerns. Should they have the ability to ask, if
31:13
Speaker 2: not demand, a speed limit that's appropriate for their community
31:17
Speaker 2: if they want to.
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Speaker 4: I think it's very important. And I see that a
31:21
Speaker 4: lot of areas in the Tasman District, for example, have
31:24
Speaker 4: been crying out for lower speeds on rural roads or
31:27
Speaker 4: near schools and been a little bit frustrated that it
31:30
Speaker 4: hasn't been happening. So I'm a little dispointed that we're
31:33
Speaker 4: down to only getting consultation on state highways when a
31:37
Speaker 4: lot of other local roads also should be looking at,
31:40
Speaker 4: well what do the people actually want?
31:42
Speaker 2: All right, Glen Couri, I thank you so much for
31:45
Speaker 2: I ask you one last question. How much do you
31:46
Speaker 2: reckon this is all going to cost us?
31:49
Speaker 4: Well that's the other thing. Yeah, you go all the
31:51
Speaker 4: work of putting signs up and now they're potentially going
31:53
Speaker 4: to have to put new signs up, and it could
31:56
Speaker 4: be rather piecemeal as well, you chop and change, So
32:00
Speaker 4: it's adding up in terms of signs. Never mind, as
32:02
Speaker 4: I say, the cost tenche to people's lives.
32:05
Speaker 2: Gren Curry, I thank you so much. He's from a
32:07
Speaker 2: company called v Strata and he looks at safety on
32:09
Speaker 2: roads and it is six minutes to six, and a
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Speaker 2: text through just says that's rubbish. Trucks can easily do
32:14
Speaker 2: one hundred. Yeah they can do one hundred, but often
32:17
Speaker 2: they're not supposed to ninety. Limit's all over the place
32:20
Speaker 2: for tracks all the time, even on the open road.
32:23
Speaker 2: Six to six.
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Speaker 2: Be Goodbody, Mike Costing Morning. I was talking about John
32:36
Speaker 2: Minto earlier this morning. Oh yeah I was, And I
32:39
Speaker 2: was talking about how he seems to have some glee
32:41
Speaker 2: at hunting down jews.
32:43
Speaker 13: There's something wrong with people like that.
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Speaker 12: I was.
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Speaker 13: Funnily enough, I saw his photo yesterday and I thought
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Speaker 13: to myself, how long's he been around?
32:50
Speaker 2: Sorry, you know what I was about to say. I
32:52
Speaker 2: was about to say, you and John Minto have something
32:55
Speaker 2: in common, which is what well, do you have a
32:56
Speaker 2: portrait of Dorian Gray somewhere in your basement, and does
32:59
Speaker 2: he have a portrait, Because I've been watching him since
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Speaker 2: I was a kid, and ever since he had a
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Speaker 2: megaphone with whole all racial tours, barking at everybody that
33:06
Speaker 2: he could bark at, He's looked exactly the same. Well,
33:09
Speaker 2: and so do you. Yeah, I do.
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Speaker 13: I've aged really well and that's widely accepted by most people.
33:16
Speaker 13: But haven't sit there funnily enough. Funnily enough, I thought
33:19
Speaker 13: yesterday when I saw him, I thought he's aged badly.
33:21
Speaker 13: He looks the same. I know what he's saying, but
33:23
Speaker 13: I thought he did.
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Speaker 2: But as the smile crease in his face has become.
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Speaker 13: Smile, well does he ever smile?
33:29
Speaker 2: Okay, the grimace crease in his face has become particularly deep.
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Speaker 13: It's a funny way to live your life, isn't it.
33:35
Speaker 13: I mean, there's nothing wrong with apartheid the first time around,
33:37
Speaker 13: the genuine cause this time around, I don't know it.
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Speaker 2: Just people that could just cause it.
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Speaker 13: Of course, it's got ten seconds to see Jones on
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Speaker 13: the banks and fossil fuels.
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Speaker 2: Good show. Thank you, Leo. I'm Andrew Dickins. See you tomorrow.
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