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Full Show Podcast: 01 October 2024 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, suits, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge
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Speaker 1: new for twenty twenty four on the early edition with
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Speaker 1: Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a player store.
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Speaker 2: News Talks EDB, Good morning, it has just gone six
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Speaker 2: half to five News Talk ZB. It looks like Israel
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Speaker 2: is going to go into Lebanon. This is boots on
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Speaker 2: the ground. The Israeli Defense minister just in the last
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Speaker 2: week while says the next phase of the war will begin.
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Speaker 2: Quote soon, We'll have updates for you. Acts Simon Court
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Speaker 2: on the new Infrastructure Agency. Have they included labor in
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Speaker 2: their plans? The insurance industry says, stop building in dumb places.
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Speaker 2: What are dumb places? Dono Tomatow out of Australia and
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Speaker 2: guess the age of the latest Miss Universe candidate.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It is Tuesday, the first of October. You're on News
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Speaker 2: Talks EDB. Israel looks set to put boots on the
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Speaker 2: ground in southern Lebanon. The US says it could imminently
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Speaker 2: launch a limited ground incursion. Meanwhile, Netanyahu addressed the Iranian people.
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Speaker 3: That regime plunges our region deeper into darkness and deeper
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Speaker 3: into war. Every day, their puppets are eliminated. As muhammadev
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Speaker 3: Asna Suela. There is nowhere in the Middle East Israel
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Speaker 3: cannot reach.
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Speaker 2: The death toll from Hurricane Helen. In the Southeast United
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Speaker 2: States now more than one hundred two million still without power.
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Speaker 1: Our state Emergency Response team has completed nearly nine hundred
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Speaker 1: and seventy four missions and they're actively fulfilling fifteen hundred more.
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Speaker 2: Japan's going to the polls a snap election for them.
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Speaker 2: The incoming Prime minister wants the poll held in a month,
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Speaker 2: not in a year when it was planned. Shigeru Ishiba
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Speaker 2: was just elected by his party and says the people
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Speaker 2: should judge him. Ride that honeymoon Aeshiba. Ride that honeymoon
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Speaker 2: back home. The government's crowing about a triple whammy of
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Speaker 2: good news, childcare payments, new cancer drug funding kicking today.
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Speaker 2: Everybody will be talking about no, not that, how much
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Speaker 2: lux and soldiers houses forward. Did you see the TV
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Speaker 2: one story last night. I'll tell you about that in
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Speaker 2: just a few moments.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines. Ryan Bridge you for twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New Zealand.
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Speaker 1: Furniture beds and a Planet Store News.
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Speaker 2: Talk said, be here's an idea. How would you feel
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Speaker 2: about and this is the hospital in Dunedan that everybody's
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Speaker 2: talking about. How would you feel about private funding for
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Speaker 2: a public hospital? How would you feel about a private
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Speaker 2: company building it. There is a company that does this,
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Speaker 2: it's called Vital Healthcare and they have been for years
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Speaker 2: banging on Labour's door. That then government saying we want
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Speaker 2: to build stuff and then we'll rent it back to you,
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Speaker 2: and Labour said no. They put a line through it
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Speaker 2: in terms of health and in terms of education infrastructure,
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Speaker 2: they said, nah, we don't want to borrow it. How
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Speaker 2: do you feel about that? If it gets the damn
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Speaker 2: thing built? They reckon they can do things cheaper, They reckon,
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Speaker 2: they can do them more effectively. Nine two ninety two
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Speaker 2: is the number two text. I can't see a problem
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Speaker 2: with it. Build cheaper, build better, rent back to us.
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Speaker 2: What's the problem? Nine two nine two the number to text.
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Speaker 2: Would be great to have your feedback on that this morning.
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Speaker 2: And I am going to ask Simon Cought about that.
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Speaker 2: He's the he's the guy. He's an undersecretary. A bit demeaning,
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Speaker 2: but he's the under secretary for the Minister for RMA
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Speaker 2: and the Minister of Infrastructure as well, so we'll ask
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Speaker 2: him about that just before six o'clock. Also a bunch
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Speaker 2: of other stuff, like where is a dumb place to
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Speaker 2: build a house? I would have thought in a flood zone.
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Speaker 2: But if you want to build your house in a
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Speaker 2: flood zone and it's a high risk flood zone area,
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Speaker 2: should the government stop you? I mean, obviously no one's
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Speaker 2: going to ensure you. But if you've got the money
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Speaker 2: you want to do it, there's obviously an expectation of
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Speaker 2: no expectation of any kind of bailout or help from
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Speaker 2: the government. Then I don't know. I suppose go for it.
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Speaker 2: It's your life, you know. If you want a drown
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Speaker 2: in it, that's your choice. Minutes after five.
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Speaker 4: Bridge bridge.
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Speaker 2: Loads wore to come to including from Russia. They are
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Speaker 2: going to increase their defense spending in Russia by thirty percent.
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Speaker 2: And you say, how on earth are they funding all
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Speaker 2: of this? Well, two hundred and twenty eight million dollars
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Speaker 2: a year is their defense budget. They're raising personal and
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Speaker 2: corporate taxes to plug holes in their budget. So there
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Speaker 2: you go. If you're in Russia, you pay more in
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Speaker 2: tax to vun Putin's war in Ukraine. Eleven minutes after five,
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Speaker 2: You're on Newstalk, said B. News and Views.
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Speaker 1: You trust to start your days early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture, beds and a
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Speaker 1: playing store.
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Speaker 2: News Talk said B thirteen after five, Great to have
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Speaker 2: your company this morning. Did you see the news last night?
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Speaker 2: One News? It was a story about Chris Luxen and
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Speaker 2: his property saying, oh, he's making so much profit half
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Speaker 2: a million dollars. I think once they added them all
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Speaker 2: together that.
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Speaker 5: Two is pending settlement for nine hundred and thirty thousand,
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Speaker 5: resulting in a two hundred and eighty k profit. Combined
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Speaker 5: with the apartment, that's almost half a million in property
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Speaker 5: profit for the Prime minister?
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Speaker 2: Is it property profit? Because what they failed to add
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Speaker 2: in it was in the story, but they didn't add
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Speaker 2: into the equation the fact that they had undertaken extensive
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Speaker 2: renovations on the place, which would obviously increase the capital value.
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Speaker 2: So last time I checked, profit meant, you know, revenue
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Speaker 2: minus expenses. So do we just take the flat numbers
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Speaker 2: of it. This is what they bought it for, this
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Speaker 2: is what they sold it for, and completely ignore what
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Speaker 2: they spent in between. I don't know. Fourteen minutes after
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Speaker 2: five cran Bridge, speaking of property, insurers, want to make
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Speaker 2: sure the government's replacement for the RIMA ensures that we
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Speaker 2: don't build in what they call places, places that are
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Speaker 2: earthquake prone or flood prone. The government's replacing the RIMA
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Speaker 2: with two pieces of legislation. The Insurance Council says we're
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Speaker 2: particularly vulnerable to natural hazard risks. They reckon that around
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Speaker 2: seven hundred and fifty thousand people and four hundred and
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Speaker 2: sixty one thousand buildings are at risk of coastal inundation,
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Speaker 2: in land flooding. Bruce Where is a urban designer at
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Speaker 2: Saddleback Planning and Urban Design, is with us this morning. Bruce,
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Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning, Ryan. Good to have you on
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Speaker 2: the show. Do people want? Do people want to build
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Speaker 2: in high risk flood zones?
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Speaker 4: It's one of those funny ironies in New Zealand, isn't it.
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Speaker 4: Everywhere we want to live is played with a few issues,
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Speaker 4: and coastal inundation is one of them. The high value areas,
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Speaker 4: so all of our waterfronts close cloth edges, edges of waterways.
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Speaker 4: Just it's a human condition. To some extent. But having
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Speaker 4: said that, we also build on good flat land that's
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Speaker 4: prone to flooding, and we all know it's just what
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Speaker 4: it is.
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Speaker 2: Should we be allowed to or do we have a choice.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we just basically be living in apartments if
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Speaker 2: we do no.
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Speaker 4: Look, I think what it is is that. Look, it
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Speaker 4: comes down to cost. There's risks for everything, absolutely everything
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Speaker 4: you know over the and flows, and it's up to
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Speaker 4: you to do your due diligence on a size and
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Speaker 4: understand the costs of you know, most of the heavy
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Speaker 4: lifting is done at the front end of a project
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Speaker 4: when you do land development. It's not when you can
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Speaker 4: strike the house. You can set minimum floor levels, those
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Speaker 4: sorts of things for houses and that will provide you
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Speaker 4: pretty good mitigation. Most of the heavy liftings doe the
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Speaker 4: land developers when they're identifying, you know, the prime areas
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Speaker 4: to locate. And I understand the insurance counsels concerns, no
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Speaker 4: two ways about it.
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Speaker 2: Well, they don't want to be, but they have a
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Speaker 2: lot of clouts they do, and they don't want to be.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they're obviously just a warning saying we're not
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Speaker 2: going to be able to cover these guys. If they
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Speaker 2: keep building in high risk areas? Do you think we
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Speaker 2: should change the rule? I mean, should the public, should
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Speaker 2: a council, should the government ever have to bail out
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Speaker 2: or help out if a person knowingly builds in a
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Speaker 2: high risk area.
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Speaker 4: Well, the way I see it is so we're trying
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Speaker 4: to decide between having acc essentially and private property or
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Speaker 4: making people personally responsible for the decisions they take. And
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Speaker 4: you know, like I think the problem is you can
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Speaker 4: put the information out there and people still make decisions.
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Speaker 4: And if we allow people to do that and there's
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Speaker 4: no consequence, then then we're going to keep on getting
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Speaker 4: dumb decisions. Is a level of pain factor and people
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Speaker 4: you know, look, if you drive drunk, you lose your license, right,
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Speaker 4: you know what's coming. You're not insured, your car's uninsured.
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Speaker 4: You're going to get hammered both ways. And so you know,
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Speaker 4: why is it any different for property?
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Speaker 1: Why do we.
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Speaker 4: Somehow we have to bail everybody out when they do
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Speaker 4: knowingly stupid things. Yeah, it's people lie, it's fraud, it's
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Speaker 4: a crime.
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Speaker 2: Tell you, I forget that Bible saying that the man
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Speaker 2: who built his house on the rock and the sand,
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Speaker 2: And I forget how it goes, but it's that kind
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Speaker 2: of story. Bruce, thank you very much for that. Bruce Ware,
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Speaker 2: urban designer at Saddleback Planning and Urban Design, talking there
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Speaker 2: about the insurance industry which is saying stop building and
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Speaker 2: dumb places and wants the government to basically legislate that.
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Speaker 2: Simon Court is the act MP and he's the Undersecretary
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Speaker 2: responsible for We'll ask him about that when he's on
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Speaker 2: the show. Just before six eighteen after five.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge New for twenty twenty four on early edition
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Speaker 1: with Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and a Flying Store.
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Speaker 2: News Talk. Sibby, it is twenty after five. You're on
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Speaker 2: news Talk, said, be couple of quick bits of information
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Speaker 2: for you. One, businesses are feeling quite bullish. This is
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Speaker 2: A and z's business September outlook. Business confidence is up
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Speaker 2: again ten points to sixty one for September and their
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Speaker 2: expected activity. This is for themselves, not looking at the
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Speaker 2: economy in general. They also expect to lift. That's up
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Speaker 2: eight points to forty five, so that's good news. Even
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Speaker 2: looking back. They're feeling quite bullish about things given what's
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Speaker 2: happened in the last couple of weeks. However, there's a
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Speaker 2: consumer Credit Indicator report out from Centrix this morning, so
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Speaker 2: consumers business is feeling good, Consumers still battling and borrowing,
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Speaker 2: twenty four percent year on year increase in financial hardship cases.
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Speaker 2: New credit card applications are up now. Is that a
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Speaker 2: sign that people are struggling and need to pay bills
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Speaker 2: with credit cards or is it a sign they're feeling
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Speaker 2: a little bit more positive and thinking, well, I can
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Speaker 2: get that credit card now because things will improve in
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Speaker 2: the future. In any case, there's an OCR decision next week.
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Speaker 2: It is twenty one after five Bridge. You might have
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Speaker 2: seen this in New Zealand's pulling out of in the
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Speaker 2: Cargo Wellington route. This is happening in January. They say
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Speaker 2: that the decision came down to engine issues and softening
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Speaker 2: of demand. Domestically, Customers can still go to in Vicargo
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Speaker 2: from Wellington, but you've got to go via christ Church.
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Speaker 2: Jimmy Abbas singing it here is with us this morning
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Speaker 2: from the Great South, which is the tourism agency down there.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for being with me. Is this a big
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Speaker 2: loss the Wellington route?
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Speaker 6: Definitely is. We're very disappointed. We've worked really hard as
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Speaker 6: a region to establish where we are at this point
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Speaker 6: in time. Economic development's been really good, the growth has
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Speaker 6: been really good. Tourism is almost back to pre COVID
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Speaker 6: levels and one of the key factors behind this is
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Speaker 6: our accessibility. And you know, the direct flights from the
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Speaker 6: main centers from Auckland and Auckland, Wellington and christ Church.
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Speaker 6: So losing a direct route between Invacago and Wellington is
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Speaker 6: extremely disappointing for us.
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Speaker 2: Do you know how many tourists or how much it
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Speaker 2: might cost your region?
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Speaker 6: No, we haven't really done that sort of modeling. But
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Speaker 6: you know, like I mean, as a New Zealand said,
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Speaker 6: you can still come to us via christ Church, and
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Speaker 6: they're proposing that they will have additional flights put on
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Speaker 6: for us to and from christ Church, so that you
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Speaker 6: know there is still those opportunities. I don't know, we
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Speaker 6: haven't been informed of what those routes and the additional flights.
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Speaker 2: I like, it is the Auckland route in any doubt.
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Speaker 2: Have you asked in New Zealand about that.
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Speaker 6: Absolutely, they have guaranteed that it isn't the whole reason
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Speaker 6: they've gone to this particular flight. I think one of
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Speaker 6: the reasons is also about our exports going from in Chicago.
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Speaker 6: We've got the jet service via Auckland, and of course
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Speaker 6: we've got opportunities to connect to the international world via
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Speaker 6: christ Church. So those two routes are secure. The loadings
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Speaker 6: they say to Wellington is also they're also full. I
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Speaker 6: mean the flights of fall. Anybody who's been on that
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Speaker 6: flight will know that there's hardly a fair seed.
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Speaker 2: That they've guaranteed it. Yeah, Jmmy, thank you very much
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Speaker 2: for your time this Wanning really appreciate it. Jemmy, I
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Speaker 2: was singing joining us from Great South. She's the chief
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Speaker 2: executive of the Economic Development agency down there. It is
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Speaker 2: It is annoying, isn't it. When you go to book
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Speaker 2: a fly and they say, oh, you're going to go
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Speaker 2: via christ Church. It just changes the game. You're not
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Speaker 2: going to go down for the day, which is kind
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Speaker 2: of what I was looking at doing, and we while
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Speaker 2: ago for work. It just becomes a whole multi day thing,
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Speaker 2: doesn't it. So it is a bit of a game changer,
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Speaker 2: though thankfully the Auckland one seems to be guaranteed. Twenty
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Speaker 2: You're on news talk ZB twenty six minutes after five
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Speaker 2: if you're just joining US. Israel looks set to launch
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Speaker 2: a ground invasion into Lebanon. Could happen as early as
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Speaker 2: today and as all this happens, our government is refusing
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Speaker 2: to say if it will designate Hesbil's political wing as
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Speaker 2: a terrorist entity, and a statement to this show our
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Speaker 2: terrorism designations work in group the other ones who decided
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Speaker 2: this stuff. They say that the aramback group's military wing
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Speaker 2: was declared a terrorist entity in twenty ten. It basically
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Speaker 2: says they won't talk publicly about whether they're considering going
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Speaker 2: further with Hesbila. This all comes, of course, after Israel
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Speaker 2: killed its leader, Hesbila's leader, Hassan israelap. The US called
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Speaker 2: this justice the group itself interesting that sheally makes no
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Speaker 2: distinction between its military and its political social wings. What's
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Speaker 2: interesting here two things. Number One, Luxon and Winston designated
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Speaker 2: hamas a terror group in its entirety back in February,
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Speaker 2: after years of making a distinction for the political wing.
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Speaker 2: Will they do the same with Hesbila. Number Two. In Australia, Albanezi,
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Speaker 2: there is cracking down on protesters in New South Wales
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Speaker 2: and in Victoria, who was seen waving his bill of
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Speaker 2: flags and allegedly chanting violent verses. If such a thing
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Speaker 2: were to happen here, would the lack of his designation
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Speaker 2: stop our authorities from taking similar action. Leon Goldsmith, who
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Speaker 2: say Middle East expert, told me yesterday on the show
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Speaker 2: Australia and Canada don't make any distinction like we do. Ultimately,
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Speaker 2: what we do is not going to stop Warren in
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Speaker 2: the Middle East, but could affect how we deal with
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Speaker 2: the fallout here at home Rambridge. Well loads of people
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Speaker 2: are fined up about Luxon and his so called profit
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Speaker 2: on his rental properties. Morning Ryan the if my business,
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Speaker 2: if my company made two hundred and seventy five thousand
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Speaker 2: dollars profit and I didn't have to pay tax, I'd
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Speaker 2: be laughing, says Greg. I suppose there's a point there, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: profit is after expenses. Clearly that story on One News
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Speaker 2: last night was seeking a scandal rather than looking for
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Speaker 2: the truth. This is just because the story, I don't
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Speaker 2: know if you caught it, but basically said that Luxon
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Speaker 2: had made a profit on his rental properties and of
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Speaker 2: the one he lived in in Wellington because they took
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Speaker 2: what sale price was and then subtracted the purchase price
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Speaker 2: and said, right, these you profit, ignoring the fact that
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Speaker 2: apparently there had been extensive renovations on the properties. Also,
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Speaker 2: you've got your real estate agent's fees. They want to
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Speaker 2: come in and have their suck of the save, don't they.
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Speaker 2: It is twenty nine minutes after five News Talks the
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Speaker 2: be Simon Court, just before six plus new poll on
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Speaker 2: Trump and Harris in the Battlegrounds.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning, and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New
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Speaker 1: Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store.
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Speaker 2: News Talk said, be good morning. It is twenty four
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Speaker 2: away from six newsic Talalks thed b. If you're just
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Speaker 2: joining us, it looks like Israel is going to go
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Speaker 2: in boots on the ground into southern Lebanon. A official
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Speaker 2: from the United States government has told CBS confirmed that
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Speaker 2: Israel has notified the United States that to launch a
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Speaker 2: limited ground incursion into Lebanon. We have been expecting this
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Speaker 2: for a couple of days. They haven't been in there, properly,
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Speaker 2: been in there on the ground since two thousand and
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Speaker 2: six ended in a stalemate. Then but Israel wants to
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Speaker 2: go in and just whack and wipe out their capability
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Speaker 2: for firing rockets into Israel. Obviously that's something that annoys
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Speaker 2: them that they don't want to happen. Anyway, we'll keep
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Speaker 2: you up to date with what's happening there. Simon Court,
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Speaker 2: the act MP and Undersecretary on RMA and Infrastructure, he's
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Speaker 2: with us just before six. How would you feel about
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Speaker 2: a privately funded hospital in Dunedin? Also, Donald de Mayo,
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Speaker 2: our Australia correspondent, is with us this morning and just
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Speaker 2: before before we get to our reporters. You know Miss
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Speaker 2: Universe basically, what do you think? You think hot girls
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Speaker 2: and bikinis? Don't you not any longer? There's an eighty
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Speaker 2: year old woman from South Korea who wants to be
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Speaker 2: the next Miss Universe and she's entered the competition. What
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Speaker 2: exactly is a beauty pageant these days? Anyway, she's eighty.
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Speaker 2: You know, I could go and watch a cat walk
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Speaker 2: down at the Rheman village, which would be the same thing,
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Speaker 2: wouldn't it. I mean, good honor, good honor. She said,
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Speaker 2: she wants to make history. Is the oldest contestant and
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Speaker 2: the global beauty pageant. She said, I want to stun
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Speaker 2: the world, like, how is an eighty year old lady
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Speaker 2: so healthy? How did she maintain that body? What's her diet? Good?
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Speaker 7: Honor?
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Speaker 2: I suppose. So there you're going. That's happening in Mexico
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Speaker 2: in October. It is twenty two.
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Speaker 1: To six, Bryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: We're going to our reporters around the country. Calum Proctor
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Speaker 2: is in Dunedin. Clum, good morning to you. Would you
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Speaker 2: like the sound of an eighty year old miss Universe.
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Speaker 8: Thinking about I have to let Nana know about that.
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Speaker 2: She could give her a run for a money. Hey,
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Speaker 2: what's happening in Queenstown? The by laws around in water safety? Yeah?
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Speaker 8: Look, the draft bylaws are up for consultation at the moment.
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Speaker 8: Though aim to manage safety on the Queenston Lakes District's
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Speaker 8: lakes and rivers so people can enjoy water activities safely.
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Speaker 8: The council says waterways are vital to the area.
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Speaker 2: We all know that.
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Speaker 8: Ensuring navigation safety is their top priority, so they say
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Speaker 8: that particularly interested in feedback for this coming summer season
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Speaker 8: on the use of phones and communication devices on boats
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Speaker 8: and vessels, also ski lane locations, vessel speed limits and
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Speaker 8: also regulations for temporary water events.
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Speaker 2: So submissions close at the end of the month. Ryan.
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Speaker 8: The agreed by laws will be adopted early next year.
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Speaker 8: All right, how's your weather today, clem, mainly fine, high
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Speaker 8: cloud and northerly developing. Dunedin's high eighteen today.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Claire Sheuwood is in christ Church this morning.
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Speaker 6: Clear.
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Speaker 2: A positive trend continues for Canterbury University.
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Speaker 9: Yes, well for christ Church in general. Ryan. This year
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Speaker 9: is open day for Canterbury Uni has gained a record
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Speaker 9: breaking interest with more than six and a half thousand
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Speaker 9: students and families attending. That's a forty percent increase so
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Speaker 9: on the numbers from last year. This comes as enrollments
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Speaker 9: also rapidly rise, with an all time high of twin
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Speaker 9: two thousand students there this year. The Assistant Vice Chancellor
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Speaker 9: of Engagement, Brett Burkwist, says a lot of effort has
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Speaker 9: gone into designing some new programs recently. He says a
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Speaker 9: few years ago they would predominantly draw engineering students, but
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Speaker 9: that's now spread across all degrees.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's cool. How's your weather fine?
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Speaker 9: With high cloud this evening, light winds afternoon northeasterlyes warm
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Speaker 9: though twenty degrees.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Claire on this universe Ken's text and once
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Speaker 2: you know what they say, once you go great, there's
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Speaker 2: no other way. MAX tolls in Wellington this morning. Max
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Speaker 2: a pushback against paid parking being introduced here.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, this is in PITTSUNI where from today for the
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Speaker 10: first time. In fact, paid parking is in force on
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Speaker 10: the main drag drag Jackson Street. Locals understandably upset. Community
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Speaker 10: leader Mike Fisher talked to us. He says a number
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Speaker 10: of businesses as well, none of them happy. He's spoken
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Speaker 10: to them. Cafes, restaurants, bars, shops. The big concern is
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Speaker 10: that this will keep at least some people away, but
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Speaker 10: it'll also clog up the suburb side streets where parking
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Speaker 10: can be relatively scarce. The cost itself isn't particularly dere
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Speaker 10: three dollars an hour with a two hour time limit,
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Speaker 10: but it's going to be enforced nine to five, seven
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Speaker 10: days a week. The Hut City Council, of course, citing
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Speaker 10: lack of funds. Apparently, if it hadn't made these changes,
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Speaker 10: rates would have risen fair enough.
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Speaker 2: I suppose weather today and Wellington.
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Speaker 10: They're partly cloudy, some stronger winds today, northerlies fifteen. The
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Speaker 10: high in the city brilliant. Thank you, Max and neighbors
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Speaker 10: in Auckland. Good morning, Neva, good morning.
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Speaker 2: We've got a future fund to look forward to here, Yes,
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Speaker 2: we do so.
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Speaker 11: Auckland councils hoping that this new future fund will make
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Speaker 11: tens of millions of dollars and returns each year. So
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Speaker 11: this fund is officially now been launched, will initially be
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Speaker 11: capitalized by the Council's remaining Auckland Airport Chairs.
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Speaker 9: Now.
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Speaker 11: It was created to diversify the council's major investments to
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Speaker 11: improve the region's physical and financial resilience. So the decisions
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Speaker 11: of how this fund is going to be used, that's
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Speaker 11: going to be left up to the trustees board. But look,
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Speaker 11: assuming a seven point two five percent return, the council
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Speaker 11: is expecting to see number crunching forty million back in
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Speaker 11: cash each year from twenty twenty six. Wow, whether you
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Speaker 11: go for this cross? Oh my god, I'm loving that
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Speaker 11: eighty year old.
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Speaker 2: I know it's cool, isn't it good? It good on it?
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Speaker 2: And she looks fantastic, does she? I do want to know?
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Speaker 2: I can show you. Obviously it's radio, so it's bad form.
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Speaker 2: But she does look great, oh year, and you do
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Speaker 2: want to know what she's eating exactly how is she
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Speaker 2: doing that?
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Speaker 11: And they'd have to change the questions. Imagine if she
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Speaker 11: got through, you know, like do they still have a
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Speaker 11: talent or you know what do you watch for the
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Speaker 11: world and they are a global peace or something like that?
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Speaker 11: What would you ask her? Doesn't probably be married about
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Speaker 11: five times, probably twenty thousand children.
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Speaker 2: Want to ask her how she looks so good? I
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Speaker 2: guess yeah, what's your secret?
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Speaker 7: Yes?
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Speaker 2: Exactly? Weather a year weather please?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, I was just thinking what else is cloudy? Isolated?
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Speaker 11: Light ChEls this morning? Very warm though.
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Speaker 2: Eighteen beautiful weather at the moment, loving Neva. Thank you
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Speaker 12: Absolutely This happened at the Victorian Victims of Crime Assistance Tribunal.
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Speaker 12: It was called an administrative eraror basically, hundreds of email
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Speaker 12: addresses have been shared and it's understood up to about
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Speaker 12: four hundred and eighty people recipients that were all on
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Speaker 12: this single email all received the same email. But they're
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Speaker 12: calling it an accident. But the question is, isn't apology enough.
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Speaker 12: These email addresses were shared now some are believed to
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Speaker 12: belong to victims of crime, and lawyers say that it's
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Speaker 12: such a serious privacy breach. It's they've condemned the incident,
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Speaker 12: saying that it could actually add trauma for so many
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Speaker 12: vulnerable people, including victims of attempt at murder or family violence.
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Speaker 12: And well, the tribunal is offering support and has apologized,
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Speaker 12: but one person's already spoken out, telling the ABC they're
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Speaker 12: very frightened. Another reports suggest that one person has already
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Speaker 12: received graphic footage from another person in that email change.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's awful story, but you also do have to
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Speaker 2: feel probably for whoever the person was that you know
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Speaker 2: that accidentally sent the email.
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Speaker 12: Absolutely, I'm sure they feel terrible about it.
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Speaker 2: Hey, The Bushfire season kicks off today.
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Speaker 12: Are you ready, Yes, well some aren't. We're hearing from
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Speaker 12: New South Wales Fire Service and they're saying that they've
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Speaker 12: already responded to more than sixteen hundred bush and grass
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Speaker 12: fires across the state since the start of July. And
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Speaker 12: there's been years of wet weather vegetation growth and that's
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Speaker 12: making it harder for fire authorities to prepare for the
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Speaker 12: bushfire season. As you mentioned, it does start today, so
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Speaker 12: they've issued those warnings to residents to start preparing from
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Speaker 12: now and there's a number of things they need to do,
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Speaker 12: including have a bushfire survival plan. Interestingly, we heard from
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Speaker 12: the Bureau of Meteorology earlier this month and they said, oh, sorry,
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Speaker 12: last month and they said that they found that large
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Speaker 12: parts of Queensland, the Northern Territory, the southwest of Victoria
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Speaker 12: and the southeast corner of South Australia face a greater
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Speaker 12: risk of bushfires this spring.
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Speaker 2: Old yeah, not good. Hopefully they have sort of things
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Speaker 2: out and prepared themselves done and to our Australia correspondent,
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Speaker 2: it is twelve minutes away from six Bryan Bridge. The
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Speaker 2: government's released it's Q four action plan. It's got forty
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Speaker 2: three points and it's the ones we're looking at this morning,
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Speaker 2: RMA reform and establishing the National Infrastructure Agency, which is
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Speaker 2: coming by Christmas. We are promised in this action Plan.
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Speaker 2: Simon Court is act MP and Under Secretary to the
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Speaker 2: Minister responsible for RMA reform and for Infrastructure. Simon good morning,
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Ryan, thanks for being with me. The Infrastructure
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Speaker 2: Agency that we want to set up by Christmas. Have
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Speaker 2: you got any idea on what it's going to cost us?
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Speaker 7: No, but it's vital that we do have an agency
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Speaker 7: that can coordinate funding from the private sector that we
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Speaker 7: need to put it into the PPP projects, and that
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Speaker 7: has the expertise, say to accept and review market lead
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Speaker 7: proposals when the private sector has a really, really good
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Speaker 7: idea and they want to take it to government. Say
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Speaker 7: for example, when I was in Texas and twenty twenty two,
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Speaker 7: a Spanish consortium said, look, we've provided a proposal to
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Speaker 7: upgrade State Highway one and upgrade the Northern Express Busway
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Speaker 7: at no cost to the taxpayer. All we wanted was
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Speaker 7: a fifty year right to operate it. There was no
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Speaker 7: one to receive that proposal. So the National Infrastructure Agency
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Speaker 7: is intended to be the front door for really really
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Speaker 7: good ideas and the coordinator between private and institutional finance
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Speaker 7: and the big profit.
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Speaker 2: Partnership had any offers so far, sod you've announced that
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Speaker 2: it's coming.
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Speaker 7: Well. What we heard at the Building Nations conference, which
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Speaker 7: is New Zealand's big infrastructure conference about a month ago,
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Speaker 7: was it this massive desire to participate in these big
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Speaker 7: public private partnership projects.
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Speaker 2: But you haven't challenge You haven't had any specific offers
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Speaker 2: that you're aware of, the government has any specific offers
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Speaker 2: from from interested parties.
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Speaker 7: I'm aware that there are a number of parties that
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Speaker 7: are lining up to make submissions when we've got the
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Speaker 7: National Infrastructure Agency open.
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Speaker 2: Do you know how many or what their names are?
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Speaker 7: And I certainly don't. And that's the that's one of
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Speaker 7: the challenges is maintaining privatey and people have really really
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Speaker 7: good ideas. We don't want them to be in a
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Speaker 7: situation where they present the folder of good ideas to
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Speaker 7: government and then it gets shopped around all the competitors
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Speaker 7: or treated in a way that.
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Speaker 2: Have you guys spoken to Labor about the establishment of
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Speaker 2: this year? Have you have you guys been in contact
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Speaker 2: with Barbibans et cetera, because it was it all needed
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Speaker 2: to be come by our according to the Expert Advisory Panel.
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Speaker 7: Well, there is cross party support for delivering infrastructure. Different
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Speaker 7: political parties have different priorities, but the coalition's priority is
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Speaker 7: to get major roads of national significance consented and built totally.
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Speaker 2: And I get that. But the problem is you guys
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Speaker 2: start it, they stop it. The next one starts that,
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Speaker 2: they stop it. So you need to be an agreeance.
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Speaker 2: Have you guys spoken to Labor or not.
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Speaker 7: Well, I've certainly spoken to people at Barbara Emon's on
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Speaker 7: a regular basis. But here's the challenge for Labor Ryan.
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Speaker 7: They need to grow up. In countries like Australia, there
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Speaker 7: is no dispute whether roads are part of the nation's
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Speaker 7: infrastructure mix. For some reason, the left wing in New
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Speaker 7: Zealand still want to argue about where the roads are.
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Speaker 7: A good idea. They just need to grow up and
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Speaker 7: get with the proo.
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Speaker 2: I think everybody needs to grow up. Really, let's talk
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Speaker 2: about Dunedin, the hospital there. Why don't we have a
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Speaker 2: privately owned hospital built?
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Speaker 7: Well, that's a really good question. I have a delegation
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Speaker 7: to look into the key options and to develop policy
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Speaker 7: to make it much easier for those kind of projects
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Speaker 7: to go ahead with private capital. At the moment, the
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Speaker 7: government is really short of money, but public private partnerships
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Speaker 7: direction they're not. They're not just to get more money,
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Speaker 7: they're actually to get better whole of life maintenance outcomes,
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Speaker 7: bring more innovation.
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Speaker 2: And there's private companies that do this. They build health
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Speaker 2: care facilities, they build hospitals, and then we rent them back.
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Speaker 2: Would you like to see that in somewhere like to
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Speaker 2: need them.
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Speaker 7: Well, I think that's one of the options that should
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Speaker 7: be on the table. Is it necessarily Well, it may
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Speaker 7: not necessarily apply to to Needen, but it certainly should
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Speaker 7: in the health portfolio, education portfolio and other social services
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Speaker 7: going forward.
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Speaker 2: Does nationally agree with that, because at the moment they've owned,
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Speaker 2: they've limited it to acc super fund, etc.
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Speaker 7: Well, we developed the Public Product Partnership Policy Model Update
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Speaker 7: and that's going to be available in the next couple
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Speaker 7: of months, and at that point it's going to be
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Speaker 7: quite clear there's a simpler pathway for a whole of
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Speaker 7: private investors and really good quality builders to get together
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Speaker 7: and provide these solutions to government over a longer period
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Speaker 7: of time.
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Speaker 2: You're giving me the scope, simon, aren't You're saying that
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Speaker 2: hospitals and health are both fair game for private private
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Speaker 2: capital to build PPPs, to come and build them and
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Speaker 2: we rent them back.
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Speaker 7: Well, that's a government policy to consider the better use
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Speaker 7: of private institutional capital and delivering infrastructure. That's no secret, right,
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Speaker 7: but of the one of the things you've learned from
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Speaker 7: looking at Transmission Gully and some of these other projects
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Speaker 7: is actually the risk balance isn't right between the crown
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Speaker 7: and the private sector. There's some risk that the crown
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Speaker 7: should should take hold of and retain and then you
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Speaker 7: actually get a better value, smarter outcome from the private sector.
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Speaker 7: So those are one of the things that we're working
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Speaker 7: on and also making sure the collaboration up is going
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Speaker 7: to deliver the best design and the best value for
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Speaker 7: money in the next In the next couple of months,
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Speaker 7: we'll be making an announcement about that.
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Speaker 2: But just to be clear, National has so far limited
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Speaker 2: funding or ideas for funding for health and education to
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Speaker 2: the a sec Fund, the super Fund and key we Saver.
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Speaker 2: Are you saying that it could be open to private
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Speaker 2: enterprise companies like vital.
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Speaker 7: Well in the education space, you know, there are already
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Speaker 7: education pvps so at Waktapu School in Auckland, at Holbsonville.
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Speaker 7: We're private capital, not just acc and these other government
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Speaker 7: funds are already engaged. So we just want to make
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Speaker 7: sure that there's a simpler pathway to do it and
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Speaker 7: that the Crown is ready, because the Crown hasn't necessarily
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Speaker 7: been ready to have this engagement. The last six years
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Speaker 7: have seen the withering away of crown's capability to engage
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Speaker 7: with the private sector. We're making sure that we're ready
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Speaker 7: to do it and we'll have a policy an ounce
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Speaker 7: and taken the next couple of months.
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Speaker 2: All right, Simon, thank you very much for your time
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Speaker 2: this morning. That's act MP and Under Secretary for Aromy
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Speaker 2: and Infrastructure, Simon Court at a six to six.
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