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Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast: 26 August 2024 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The Issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge new
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  Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture Vans and a play at store New Storgs.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be good morning, welcome to your Monday. It is
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  Speaker 2: six after five. Great to have you with me. Hope
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  Speaker 2: you've had a good weekend as well. This fast track business,
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  Speaker 2: it's supposed to make stuff happen quickly in New Zealand.
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  Speaker 2: It's supposed to make us rich quicker, I suppose when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to the likes of mining. But it's just
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  Speaker 2: had a punch in the guts self imposed from the government.
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  Speaker 2: They're making changes. We're going to speak to strata minerals
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  Speaker 2: now they submitted on this bill. What will it mean
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  Speaker 2: for big projects that way, we're hoping to kick off
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  Speaker 2: quick smart in New Zealand. Lester Levy, Commissioner at Health
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand. He is heading back on those doctors' unions
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  Speaker 2: we spoke about on Friday who took a sideswipe at him.
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  Speaker 2: Gavin Gray's in the UK. The Islamic state there is
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  Speaker 2: claiming responsibility for an attack. It is seven after five
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  Speaker 2: the agenda Monday, the twenty sixth of August, Russia and
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  Speaker 2: Ukraine have each swapped one hundred and fifteen prisoners of war.
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  Speaker 2: The swap marked Ukraine's independence day, the third since Russia's invasion.
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  Speaker 2: It was difficult for two years, We changed locations twice,
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  Speaker 2: we had no information. When the Russians summoned us to talk,
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  Speaker 2: they blamed everything on Ukraine. So the prisoner swap happens.
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  Speaker 2: And then what does Russia do well? It ramps up
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  Speaker 2: its attacks, launching attacks in northern, southern and eastern Ukraine.
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  Speaker 2: Local authorities say at least four people have been killed. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: Reuters have said that one of their journalists in eastern
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  Speaker 2: Ukraine is missing after attack on a hotel there. In
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  Speaker 2: other news, new rules for people living in emergency housing Today,
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  Speaker 2: those applying for more than emergency housing will need to
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  Speaker 2: work with support services, attend courses, and look for private
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  Speaker 2: housing options. Repeatedly, failing to meet the new requirements could
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  Speaker 2: see people barred from getting an emergency housing aren't for
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  Speaker 2: thirteen weeks and to the Pacific Island Leader's Forum which
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  Speaker 2: kicks off today and Tonga Foreign Minister Winston Peters is
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  Speaker 2: going also our Minister for Pacific people. Shane Retti is going.
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  Speaker 2: Luxon is going later this week. Total of eighteen countries
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  Speaker 2: will be represented there. Robert Patman, who's our university International
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  Speaker 2: relations professor otago He says that they may well use
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  Speaker 2: the forum to put the feelers out on potentially joining
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  Speaker 2: ORCUS Pillar two.
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  Speaker 3: New Zealand will be taking soundings indirectly about how Pacific
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  Speaker 3: Island states might feel if New Zealand was to take
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  Speaker 3: the step to join Pillar two of UCAS.
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  Speaker 1: News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
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  Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's
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  Speaker 1: furniture Beds and a flying Store. News talk said, Bee, how.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel about that? Do you mind us getting
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  Speaker 2: really cozy with these guys even though you're taking money
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  Speaker 2: from these guys? It is an awkward conversation to be have.
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  Speaker 2: Actually interesting report this morning in the Washington Post. This
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  Speaker 2: is about Australia because if you think about it, the
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  Speaker 2: Pacific Theater as it was referred to during World War II,
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  Speaker 2: you've got Us on one side, China on the other,
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  Speaker 2: and you've got conveniently this giant, big land mass just
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  Speaker 2: to the bottom on the left in Australia, which the
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  Speaker 2: Americans are wanting to take advantage of so they have
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  Speaker 2: started expanding. This is in the northern military bases in Australia.
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  Speaker 2: They've started expanding the calling it the fifty first State
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  Speaker 2: of Australia, expanding those military bases, the runways to fit
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  Speaker 2: the B fifty two bombers. They've got new massive fuel
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  Speaker 2: depots that are going up. They've got earth covered bunkers
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  Speaker 2: for their munitions. This is all happening in Australia right
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  Speaker 2: now in anticipation of well what could happen. I suppose
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  Speaker 2: in the future RAF Base Tindall and near Darwin on
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  Speaker 2: the outskirts of Catherine. For those who have been to Catherine,
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  Speaker 2: you know it's a population in ten thousand. It could
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  Speaker 2: be quite an important strategic part of Australia very soon.
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  Speaker 2: It's just gone ten minutes after Bridge. Also this morning,
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  Speaker 2: interesting response from Lester Levy and the Herald. This is
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  Speaker 2: old mate Lester who's been brought in to sort out
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  Speaker 2: the absolute cluster that is health New Zealand. So last
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  Speaker 2: week you remember we told you about this editorial in
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  Speaker 2: the New Zealand Medical Journal. Actually wasn't an editorial, they
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  Speaker 2: called it analysis anyway, in this analysis, the doctors' unions
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  Speaker 2: said Health wasn't given enough money. Much of the money
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  Speaker 2: they are given goes to capital for buildings, et cetera,
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  Speaker 2: not to the front line. They said, any further cuts
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  Speaker 2: to health, we need more money, otherwise we'll be cutting
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  Speaker 2: into the front line anyway. Lester Levy has written for
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  Speaker 2: The Herald today. I'm encourage you to go and read.
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  Speaker 2: It's on page fifteen. He says it is important to
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  Speaker 2: note capital funding is derived from the separate total Health
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  Speaker 2: Capital envelope, which has spread over several years for multi
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  Speaker 2: year large projects, and therefore is separate funding for the
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  Speaker 2: remediation of the Holidays Act liability as well. The analysis
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  Speaker 2: in the journal, the one that I've described, represents these
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  Speaker 2: two significant categories of expenditure completely incorrectly, leading to their
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  Speaker 2: conclusion that the funding increase for this year was zero
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  Speaker 2: point four percent, or just ninety three million dollars, which
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  Speaker 2: is simply so wrong as to be meaningless. He goes
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  Speaker 2: on to say, and I'll make one more point from him.
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  Speaker 2: The editorial has a strong emphasis on the requirement for
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  Speaker 2: more funding for a health system. Happily, Health New Zealand
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  Speaker 2: has received more funding this year as part of confirmed
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  Speaker 2: three year funding uplifts. There is more funding for health
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  Speaker 2: significantly more so I guess the editorial is implying there
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  Speaker 2: should be even more funding on top of this. This
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  Speaker 2: would be a very questionable approach. Is the relationship between
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  Speaker 2: increased health care spend and the level of value derived
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  Speaker 2: has to be subject to careful examination with no direct
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  Speaker 2: or consistent correlation so far found. And you and I
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  Speaker 2: don't need to read that in the Herald today. We
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  Speaker 2: just need to look at our taxes and then we
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  Speaker 2: need to go to our local A and E. It
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  Speaker 2: is twelve after five.
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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 Spith City, New
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  Speaker 1: Zealand's furniture Beds had a playing store news Talk said.
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  Speaker 2: Be fourteen after five. Great to have your news talk,
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  Speaker 2: said b this morning for just joining us. The tit
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  Speaker 2: for tat between Israel and Hezbolla is really ramping up overnight.
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  Speaker 2: There have been Israel has sent one hundred jets to
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  Speaker 2: hit Lebanon in the preemptive strikes. That's what they're calling them,
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  Speaker 2: pre emptive strikes. Have a listen now. Both sides say
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  Speaker 2: they don't want war. This doesn't really sound like it.
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  Speaker 2: They don't want war, do they, But they are calling
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  Speaker 2: them preempt for strikes and they are trying to avoid
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  Speaker 2: at least on the face of it, civilian casualties, including
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  Speaker 2: his Bula have been going for drone launch pads, specifically
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  Speaker 2: inside IDF bases apparently. So what does this mean. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go to doctor Leon Goldsmith, the Ottagi University Middle East expert.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Leon. Good morning, Good morning Roan, thanks for being
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  Speaker 2: with me. What are you reading into this? Is this
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of something or is this just a bit
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  Speaker 2: of a saber rattling.
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  Speaker 4: I think this is probably what reasonably predictable based on
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  Speaker 4: what happened after the assassinations of Fort Shako, Hasbella and
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  Speaker 4: Hassan Asula. The leader of Habela has basically promised that
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  Speaker 4: there would be some kind of retaliation, but they were
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  Speaker 4: waiting for the Gaza ceasefire hostage talks to see if
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  Speaker 4: they could be successful, because if they could have got
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  Speaker 4: those through under severe US pressure, that would be a
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  Speaker 4: win for the whole resistance access But of course on
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  Speaker 4: the other side, they were under severe pressure to do something.
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  Speaker 4: So it's been forteen forty days since those assassinations, and
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  Speaker 4: that's why they called this operation are Beane, which an
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  Speaker 4: Arabic means forty days. But it is still a limited tad.
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  Speaker 4: As you mentioned, it's not the big major s of
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  Speaker 4: escalation that we're concerned about.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think then, that the ongoing talks in Doha
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  Speaker 2: and elsewhere are actually working as a contagor for a
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  Speaker 2: bigger attack?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think what they were hoping was that because
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  Speaker 4: the US is putting extreme pressure on all sides to
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  Speaker 4: reach some kind of a ceasefire agreement now because of
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  Speaker 4: the collector regional stability, that this is an opportunity for
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  Speaker 4: Hamas to basically survive within Gaza, which of course the
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  Speaker 4: Israelis don't want to see this, but this has been
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  Speaker 4: what the reason why we have seen a retaliation until now.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, what happens as we lead up to the US election,
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  Speaker 2: because you've got a president, a potential president in Harris,
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  Speaker 2: who is walking a tight rope between some very young
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  Speaker 2: voters who are very pro Gazen in Palestine and a
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  Speaker 2: more warhung no, I don't want to say war hungry,
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  Speaker 2: but a more strident Biden.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's definitely a factor. I'm not so
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  Speaker 4: much expert on the US politics, But I think what
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  Speaker 4: we would see is that whatever Israel wants to achieve,
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  Speaker 4: and I think they want to Vornessanier has said overnight
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  Speaker 4: that he wants to change the strategic situation on the
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  Speaker 4: northern border, and that basically means reducing his Bulla's capacity
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  Speaker 4: to pose a threat to Israel. So I think he
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  Speaker 4: probably wants to do that. Well, Biden's still there. I
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  Speaker 4: think he's been trying to provoke his brother and the
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  Speaker 4: Iranians into a direct confrontation. I think that's what's been
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  Speaker 4: happening here. So once again, the ball it's kind of
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of like a it's not really back in
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  Speaker 4: Israel's court because both sides feel as if that they've
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  Speaker 4: re established some kind of deterrence through this overnight tit
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  Speaker 4: for tat Nathania, who's feeling a little bit more relaxed
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  Speaker 4: because his poll numbers are up so he's not feeling
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  Speaker 4: so insecure, and his own Isla's feeling like he has
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  Speaker 4: at least struck a blow at Israel which has restored
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  Speaker 4: his sort of deterrence and his regional status.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for the analysis, Doctor Lion Goldsmith.
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  Speaker 2: Always great to have you on the show. Otaga University
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  Speaker 2: Middle East Expert if you're just joining us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: More the one hundred rockets have been fired, well actually
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  Speaker 2: many more than that both ways, but at least one
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  Speaker 2: hundred from Israel into Lebanon. They're calling them a preemptive strike.
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  Speaker 2: Before you know, the inevitable happens, which unless there is
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  Speaker 2: some kind of ceasefire deal, as we just heard from
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  Speaker 2: the professor, then it's likely that things will escalate. Just
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  Speaker 2: gone nineteen minutes after five, you're on News Talk said
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  Speaker 2: b still to come. The fast track process that is
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  Speaker 2: slowing down, and what will that mean for business? What
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  Speaker 2: will that mean for minds that need to be built,
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  Speaker 2: for housing developments that need to be built. We'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about that. Just before six. Also, Jimmy has text to
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  Speaker 2: show lots of flooding around Greater Wellington area. Jimmy, give
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  Speaker 2: us some details if you've gotten it, we'd love to
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  Speaker 2: share them with the listeners. Nine two nine to two
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  Speaker 2: is the number to text.
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  Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
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  Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City New Zealand's Furniture
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  Speaker 1: Beds and a play at store.
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  Speaker 2: News Talk Zibby, welcome back to just gone twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: After five Jimmy has text back in this is these
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  Speaker 2: flooding apparently surface flooding and Wellington. Jimmy says, if going
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  Speaker 2: down Kenipru drive us boat. So I guess it's bad. Jimmy,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for that. I'm sure our newsroom will be
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  Speaker 2: looking into it. Nine two nine two if you've got
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  Speaker 2: updates for us this morning. How do you actually get
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  Speaker 2: power to your have? I mean we talk a lot
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  Speaker 2: about the energy crisis and the energy crunch at the moment,
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  Speaker 2: but how do you actually get power to your houses
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  Speaker 2: with power lines?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 2: And remember you will remember this just weeks ago when
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  Speaker 2: that huge pylon fell over because someone got a bit
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  Speaker 2: loosey goosey with the nuts and it fell over, and
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  Speaker 2: that now they're looking actually how much would it cost
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  Speaker 2: to replace all this stuff? So if you want to
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  Speaker 2: get power, I want to get electricity to Northland or
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  Speaker 2: they use Coramandel as an example. If someone's going to
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  Speaker 2: unscrew some bolts or whatever, blow me down half a
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars to line Coromandel half a billion dollars And
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  Speaker 2: do you know how much that is per connection? Because
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  Speaker 2: about twenty five thousand people living in coramandl with connections
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  Speaker 2: and Corimandel. That's twenty thousand dollars. Have you got twenty
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars Corimandeal residents? No, you don't. But the question
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  Speaker 2: is do you just forget about that? And everyone does
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  Speaker 2: solar because it would actually be cheaper. They reckon per
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  Speaker 2: household to do solar. Nine nine two is a number
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  Speaker 2: of text. Andrew Awson's here was sport and no cheer.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well I'm just I'm just stretching out here on
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  Speaker 5: just testing with my calf, muscle, etc.
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  Speaker 6: But yeah, I'm sure there'll be one at some juncture.
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  Speaker 2: Awkward set up here, isn't it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's just the Royal Hosking Studio here needs needs,
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  Speaker 5: you know, a sweet.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, what are we talking about? America's Cup? The
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  Speaker 2: preliminary regatta, So that's the one we don't care so
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  Speaker 2: much about.
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  Speaker 6: Not so much.
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  Speaker 5: No, I think it seems to be jostling positions here,
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  Speaker 5: just seeing where they're at in the early stages of
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  Speaker 5: preliminary regatta. But I mean Team New Zealand has won it.
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  Speaker 5: But I think as we've seen in past America's Cups,
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  Speaker 5: the whole scenario. Teams can hold something back, and there's
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  Speaker 5: some thought that that might be the.
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  Speaker 6: Case early on.
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  Speaker 5: But it'll be more interesting probably once to get to
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  Speaker 5: the Challenges Series, which I think is four days time
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  Speaker 5: or so, when they'll get underway, A team's going to
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  Speaker 5: get to be part of that for at least the
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  Speaker 5: first junk chair. But yeah, that'll be a true test
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  Speaker 5: once these other syndicates.
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  Speaker 6: You know, to put their money on the water.
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  Speaker 2: Amazing quads on them. Those they get them out of
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  Speaker 2: the cycling teams and they throw them on the boat
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  Speaker 2: and then there you go. There's a whole new sport
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  Speaker 2: for you.
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  Speaker 5: It's it is incredible to watch. Yeah, yeah, that's just
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  Speaker 5: the technology involved. And I mean the rules change every time,
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  Speaker 5: don't they French a different addition. But yeah, I've thought
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  Speaker 5: that was an incredible adjustment if you like adaptation, just.
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  Speaker 6: Because I mean, it's more strengthen the leagues, isn't it.
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  Speaker 6: In the ending in.
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  Speaker 2: The past, any longer you standing up in the studio,
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  Speaker 2: you could probably get on there. It's feeling about that way. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: I jigged.
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  Speaker 5: My knee the other day on the on the on
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  Speaker 5: the ski slopes actually, which is a terrible admission, but
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  Speaker 5: you needed the sled off it and it's yeah, it's
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  Speaker 5: just it's just killing me at.
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  Speaker 2: The moment, gentlemen, not that you're at that age, but.
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  Speaker 6: It's an old dog new tricks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Formula one, the Dutch Grand Prix.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So victory for Landa Norris this morning. He's beaten
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  Speaker 5: out Max Stavans won the seveneficence that came back onto
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  Speaker 5: the calendar in twenty twenty one, and Norris has picked
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  Speaker 5: up a.
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  Speaker 6: Second win of his Formula One career.
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  Speaker 5: So it's sort of adding new life if you like,
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  Speaker 5: to the Formula one campaign if you like. It's all
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  Speaker 5: of a sudden red bull, under bit of pressure, etc.
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  Speaker 5: So I think it's good news for I guess the
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  Speaker 5: general neutral fan to see that that's coming into play.
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  Speaker 2: Brilliant, Yeah, yeah, brilliant, Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, just quickly, right Lydia Coe currently in a full
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  Speaker 5: way lead for potentially a third major title for her
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  Speaker 5: at the old course of Andrews.
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  Speaker 6: So it's one to watch this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Brilliant, Thank you very much. I'll want you go and
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  Speaker 2: sit down, Andrew to do the sport. It is twenty
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  Speaker 2: six minutes after five, back in a second with an
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  Speaker 2: update on that fast track what is it? Fast track legislation?
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  Speaker 1: The early edition full show podcast on I Have Read
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  Speaker 1: Your Power by News Talks IVY.
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  Speaker 2: Just go on twenty eight minutes after five. The fast
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  Speaker 2: Track Approvals Bill that's been in the news in the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of days. From fast Track, I was thinking,
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  Speaker 2: like fast food, like drive through, like quickly we can
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  Speaker 2: get infrastructure done in this country, something we haven't been
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  Speaker 2: able to do very well for a very long time.
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  Speaker 2: Like you would drive in to the McDonald's or whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is to get your speedy infrastructure done. What would
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  Speaker 2: you like, sir, I'll have a housing development, I'll have
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  Speaker 2: a bridge. Perhaps I'll have a mine on the West coast. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: drive straight to window three.
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  Speaker 4: Pay.
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  Speaker 2: There's Uncle Shane, there's cousin you know, Seymour, what's Simeon?
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  Speaker 2: Ready to take your card? And then oh lo and behold,
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  Speaker 2: Chris Biship gives you a free Sunday. He's on the
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  Speaker 2: milkshake machine. Great, everybody's happy, bam bam bam, and you're
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  Speaker 2: straight through. But no, not anymore. Now they are going
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  Speaker 2: to revise it and they're going to take away some
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  Speaker 2: of those quick decision making, so that decisions will now
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  Speaker 2: be made by you guessed at a panel of experts,
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  Speaker 2: not ministers. There's a new process involves the environmental experts,
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  Speaker 2: EWEE Authority Representatives, MALDI, development intew MALDI experts, extended time frames.
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  Speaker 2: So this is not fast food anymore people. This is
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  Speaker 2: like a long lunch for infrastructure construction and New Zealand.
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  Speaker 2: Why can we never just get on and build stuff?
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  Speaker 2: Just you know who cares about a bit of corruption,
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  Speaker 2: Just build it.
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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's
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  Speaker 1: Furniture Beds and a planet store.
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  Speaker 2: News talk zid be good morning. It is a twenty
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  Speaker 2: four minutes away from you on news talks, he'd be.
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  Speaker 2: Those two astronauts are still stuck up in space and
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  Speaker 2: the International Space Station. They don't like to say that
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  Speaker 2: they're stuck because they've got plenty of food and water
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  Speaker 2: and some would go to the toilet, et cetera. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: still up there. A SpaceX craft is apparently coming to
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  Speaker 2: the rescue and we're going to try and speak to them.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Those astronauts live from space here on the show. Not today,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: we'll get there. Lots of your texts coming in back
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: down on Earth and Wellington. Lots of flooding around the
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: greater Wellington area, Jimmy told us. Another says a lot
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: of surface flooding in nine nine and along Cambridge Terrace
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: now lower Hearts. An other says kenniprew Drivers and porttydo
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: a city, not Wellington. So I did know that, having
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: grown up on the Company Coast myself. However, most people
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: around the country probably won't care, you know what I mean.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: It would be like, let's give you an example like
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: North Shore. You know, you would say, oh, there's flooding
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: on Tacpuna Road in Auckland as opposed to in north
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Shall City.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Anyway, take care on the roads, everybody. This one is
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: from don he says. Let me be the first to
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: call it the Backtrack Approvals Bill, first of many under
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: lux and I suspect I had such hope before the
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: election just gone twenty two to six, Bryan Bridge, And
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: we're going to our reporters right around the country this morning,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: and we begin in Dunedin. I think we begin in
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: to need In this morning. Yes, we do. Where the
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: south are discussing a potential restructure. What's going on there? Yeah, morning, Ryan.
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: Both the Dneedan City Council and South and District Councils
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: will this week look at the possibility of creating unitary councils.
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: South and District Council meet Rob Scott's presenting a preliminary
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: investigation report at their council meeting today proposing that the
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: region's four entities be reconfigured into two unitary councils. Sport
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: states that having one around in for Cargo and another
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: involving the union of South and Gore Districts could save
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: the region at least ten million dollars. Here though, the
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: Dnedin City Council will discuss a potential Otago unitary authority tomorrow.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: All Right, weather today.
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: Find at first but cloud increasing, occasional drizzle later nor
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: easterlies and.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Ten the high today. Thank you Calum Cullum Proctor and
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: to Needing for us. Claire Sherewood is in christ Church. Clear,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: you've got stats on aggravated burglaries in Canterbury.
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: Yeah, while these stats are of concern to Labour's police spokesperson,
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: we've got stants that revealed the number of aggravated robberies
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: here in Canterbury have risen one hundred and sixty four percent.
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: That's between December twenty twenty three and May of this year.
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: In that same time, just that few months, the number
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: of monthly foot patrols in Canterbury dropped by almost fifty percent. Now,
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: Labour spokesperson Ginny Anderson says the government talked a very
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: big game about being tough on crime, but it's hard
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: to take them seriously given the sharp increase in the
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: likes of these violent crimes. We've reached out to the police.
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: Minister Mark Mitchell. He simply says that Anderson is cherry
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: picking statistics.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: That would be a good one to get to the
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: bottom of. It doesn't sound good for the government, does it.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Let's go to the weather clear.
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: Rain easing to drizzle, but we'll remain cloudy Southerly's the
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: high is ten degrees with six overnight.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Maxison Wellington. Max, we're hearing lots about flooding
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: across the region where you are.
• 21:25
  Speaker 9: What's going on, Yeah, Look, the rain's been coming down
• 21:28
  Speaker 9: pretty heavy overnight and into this morning. There was some
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: service flooding. I noticed I got to work obviously. Our
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: reporter starts shortly, will be chasing them up as soon
• 21:36
  Speaker 9: as possible.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: All right. And what is supposed to be happening later
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: on with the weather? Is it clearing?
• 21:42
  Speaker 9: No, Look, it's going to be raining all day. It's
• 21:44
  Speaker 9: gonna be heavy this morning, easing a little this afternoon.
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: But there's a lot of rainfall coast for this week.
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: This morning should hopefully be the heaviest of it with
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: those thunderstorms.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: All right, that's good to hear. See whenever it rains
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: in Wellington now I think is it coming from the
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: sky or is it tories, broken pipes? The tears of
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: our man? That's right, Okay, thanks Max, never really managed
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: in Auckland. You're back. I am back.
• 22:14
  Speaker 10: Oh my gosh. I never thought i'd say this, Ryan,
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: but I'm really really pleased to be back today.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm pleased to have you.
• 22:20
  Speaker 10: I had COVID last week, full disclosure, but don't you worry.
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: I'm negative now. Of the week. Prior to that, I
• 22:26
  Speaker 10: hit a couple of days off because I went to
• 22:27
  Speaker 10: two big events. There were hundreds of people were there,
• 22:30
  Speaker 10: so it's no surprise that I got COVID. But I
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: tell you. I mean I should have known the first sign,
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: you know, one of the symptoms, because I was too
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: tired to talk, and I'm never too tired to talk,
• 22:42
  Speaker 10: very unusual. Then the second sign, I was breathing like
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: Darth Vader, So there I was. I've been in my
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: bed for like seven days.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Are you poor fans? I know, are feeling all right?
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: I'm feeling fine now. Yes, I'm you know, probably about
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: ninety percent I'll say ninety percent negative, but rearing to
• 22:57
  Speaker 10: go and chit chatting, so hopefully I'll wait. Miss oh,
• 23:00
  Speaker 10: thank you, the only one who's said that so far.
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: Thank you?
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Who cares about anyone else? I'm the most important one here.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Need it's correct, right. What's happening in Newtland today?
• 23:09
  Speaker 10: Okay, so look there's Auckland Transport we're trying to do
• 23:13
  Speaker 10: a positive story about at now it's beefed up. It's
• 23:16
  Speaker 10: turn up and go transit routes across the city. Now
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: people are going to laugh at this, but it's been growing,
• 23:21
  Speaker 10: the frequent transit network. So this is about all these
• 23:25
  Speaker 10: routes that run at least every fifteen minutes seven am
• 23:28
  Speaker 10: seven pm, seven days a week since around twenty sixteen.
• 23:31
  Speaker 10: I didn't realize it had been running since that, you know,
• 23:33
  Speaker 10: since twenty sixteen. It sounds like a long time ago.
• 23:36
  Speaker 10: But anyway, now what's happening is that they only had
• 23:39
  Speaker 10: nine routes back in twenty sixteen. They've now reached forty
• 23:43
  Speaker 10: with your introduction of ninety four bus between Takapuna and
• 23:45
  Speaker 10: beech Haven. So that's the good news, supposedly, they you know,
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: there are more buses out there that you can catch
• 23:52
  Speaker 10: every fifteen minutes.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Are you a believer?
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: I think it's more busses. To me, sounds more places
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: you can get punched in the head, that seems what
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: happens on buses. How often? How often do you open
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: the paper in this some port right, I don't know.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Take a baseball, batten down the hatches are okay? What
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: can I get?
• 24:12
  Speaker 10: Some good news? Positive? Positive? Cloudy periods isolated chelse this afternoon.
• 24:16
  Speaker 10: Oh here's a good news. Eighteen eighteen is the high.
• 24:19
  Speaker 10: That's quite balmy.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: We're on the way. We're on the way out. Neither
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: great to see you again, just gone seventeen to six.
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• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Devin Gray is now UK and Europe correspondent a couple
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: of to suspected TIRA attacks going on here to start
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: with the German one Gvin.
• 25:41
  Speaker 11: Western Germany authorities have identified the man who confessed to
• 25:45
  Speaker 11: a matt knife attack as a suspected member of ISS,
• 25:48
  Speaker 11: the Islamic State group. Indeed, is claimed that they are
• 25:52
  Speaker 11: behind the attack. Now in Germany there are privacy laws
• 25:56
  Speaker 11: which mean that we don't know the full identity of
• 25:58
  Speaker 11: the person. Respect he's simply been named as Issa l
• 26:03
  Speaker 11: h and the twenty six year old had given himself
• 26:06
  Speaker 11: up and admitted to the stabbings, police have reported. Some
• 26:09
  Speaker 11: of the local media are reported that when he surrendered
• 26:12
  Speaker 11: himself he was in bloodstained clothes. This attack was particularly
• 26:16
  Speaker 11: vicious at the weekend. A fifty six year old and
• 26:19
  Speaker 11: sixty seven year old man and a fifty six year
• 26:23
  Speaker 11: old woman were the three that died, but for all
• 26:26
  Speaker 11: of those wounded are still in a very serious condition
• 26:30
  Speaker 11: in hospital. All of the victims were stabbed in the
• 26:33
  Speaker 11: neck and it seems to be completely round in this
• 26:36
  Speaker 11: attack at a festival to mark the three hundred and
• 26:41
  Speaker 11: fiftieth anniversary of the founding of a steel town in
• 26:44
  Speaker 11: West Germany called Solingham. So really pretty grim and I'm
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: afraid this comes at a time as well, when there's
• 26:50
  Speaker 11: a big debate in Germany about immigration and asylum, and
• 26:53
  Speaker 11: they are a key regional election in the countries East
• 26:55
  Speaker 11: next week.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, same thing in France. Right, and you've got the
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: near a synagogue, You've got several fires and a man
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: reportedly carrying a Palestinian flag arrested. Is that right?
• 27:08
  Speaker 11: Yes, that's what we believe to be the latest. And
• 27:11
  Speaker 11: this was from a southern resort in the city of
• 27:14
  Speaker 11: nim in France. And at that point two cars appear
• 27:19
  Speaker 11: to have been parked outside a synagogue. They were set alight,
• 27:22
  Speaker 11: it's alleged by the man that police believe they now
• 27:26
  Speaker 11: have shot and injured. But also within those vehicles were
• 27:31
  Speaker 11: hidden a gas canister, which of course exploded. I think
• 27:35
  Speaker 11: everyone is incredibly amazed, frankly, that there weren't any deaths.
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: The parent the.
• 27:40
  Speaker 11: Synagogue had got people inside, and it was very near
• 27:43
  Speaker 11: where the explosion went off. The suspect, as you said,
• 27:46
  Speaker 11: reportedly carrying a Palestinian flag, then set far for several
• 27:50
  Speaker 11: entrance doors of the synagogue, no doubt in the hope
• 27:53
  Speaker 11: of preventing anyone from getting out. In January twenty twenty four,
• 27:57
  Speaker 11: report by the Council of Jewish Institutions in France said
• 28:01
  Speaker 11: there was a threefold increase in anti's anti Semitic attacks
• 28:04
  Speaker 11: in France between twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Gavin Gray are UK correspondent, Thanks for your time. Just
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: gone eleven to six l and Bridge Rich fast Track Backtrack.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: The ministerial sign off powers have been ditched in an
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: amendment to the Fast Track Approvals Bill. That means Old
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Shane Jones will have his wings clipped.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: Well, there's a difference between a campaign politician and a
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: member of cabinet, and collective responsibility means that.
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: I'm adopting the Shakespearean approach. All's well, that ends well.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Almost four hundred projects have been applied to be listed
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: in the bill, which is set to be passed before
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: the end of the year after going through the Environment
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Select Committee. Ten percent of them get this, just ten
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: percent are made up of mining and quarry projects, despite
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: all of the bluster that you heard from the opposition
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: to this, and actually the mining portion just five percent.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Most of it housing developments, stuff like that. Josie vital
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Is with Straterra. They are funded at Straterra Minerals. They
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: are funded by the mining sector and we're keen to
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: hear their views this morning. Josie, good morning, good morning,
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Thank you for being with me. Is this going to
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: change whether because I know that you proposed submitted on
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: the bill and you were quite a proponent of it,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: will it change your support for the bill? Is it
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: going to slow the whole process down in your view?
• 29:31
  Speaker 12: No, I don't think it will slow it down. Well,
• 29:34
  Speaker 12: it can't be called fast track and its fast. I
• 29:36
  Speaker 12: am worried that there's some pressure to water things down
• 29:40
  Speaker 12: and we can't go back to where we are now
• 29:42
  Speaker 12: because you can't get things done in this country. So
• 29:46
  Speaker 12: I understand why they've changed the ministerial decision making because
• 29:50
  Speaker 12: there was a lot of pressure on. But it does
• 29:52
  Speaker 12: put a lot of emphasis on the expert panels to
• 29:54
  Speaker 12: be truly expert and not to be beside the sort
• 29:57
  Speaker 12: of panels we already go up against where their consideration
• 30:01
  Speaker 12: is entirely environmental and there's no considerations for economic, social
• 30:07
  Speaker 12: and cultural impacts. You know, we want a more holistic view.
• 30:11
  Speaker 12: So if this is the watering down, let that be
• 30:14
  Speaker 12: the end of it. And you know then the selectimity
• 30:18
  Speaker 12: report back on the eighteenth of October, and let's get
• 30:20
  Speaker 12: this bill through before the end of the year so
• 30:22
  Speaker 12: we can get some things done.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but now they've given ance, you know that they're
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: going to take a mile, aren't they In terms of
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: who's on these committees, as you say, who do they represent?
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: What interest do they represent? They're going to have some
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: environmentalists on there, They're going to have some representatives from EWE,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: They're going to have some in certain circumstances. I mean,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: it doesn't sound like the quick drive through eating experience
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: that I was describing earlier.
• 30:49
  Speaker 12: Yes, well, that's where the pressure is going to be.
• 30:53
  Speaker 12: That for us, the heart of the bill is the
• 30:55
  Speaker 12: one stop shop, which will make things a lot faster.
• 30:58
  Speaker 12: So at the moment, with a projects, you have to
• 31:02
  Speaker 12: go and knock on every door of government, and some
• 31:05
  Speaker 12: are very slow, and some are belligerent, and some don't
• 31:08
  Speaker 12: even agree with mining. So if that can come into
• 31:12
  Speaker 12: a one stop shop where you can get your decision
• 31:14
  Speaker 12: made quickly, that's the goal for us. I never understood
• 31:19
  Speaker 12: the resistance to ministers making decisions, because ministers make decisions
• 31:23
  Speaker 12: every day, and we wrote them in to do that,
• 31:26
  Speaker 12: but I can see that there was significant pressure and
• 31:29
  Speaker 12: as you say, it's interesting, the pressure was on things
• 31:33
  Speaker 12: like mining, which is five percent of the projects that
• 31:36
  Speaker 12: without mining and quarry and you'll have no houses and
• 31:38
  Speaker 12: no infrastructure. So it is a holistic view.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: It is indeed, Josie, thanks so much for your time
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: and your view on that. That's Josie Vidal from strat Terra.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: She's the mining chief executive there at Straterra Minerals. It
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: has just gone seven away from six. Ryan Bridge emailed
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: last night Bathurst Resources because they've got the mine and
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: stopped and they've got another twenty years of coal that
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: they can get out of it. They run the stocked
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: in mind and they wanted to use this fast track bill.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: He's in Australia the boss at the moment. But I
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: just said, what do you think is this going to
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: slow it all down? Is this going to be a
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: big deal? He said, basically, hopefully the changes won't take
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: away from the main point, which is exactly what Josie
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: has just said. It is the one stop shop, the
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: streamlined system to get their resources and consents so they
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: can get digging for and clearly we need energy in
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: New Zealand. Right now, don't we are seven away from
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: six on.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition with Ryan
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and a
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• 32:44
  Speaker 2: ZID be just gone sixes four minutes away from six.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: I should say the fast track backtrack, Mike's here, Hey Mike.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: I just think who cares? Let them? So what if
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: there's a little bit of corruption you don't know whenever.
• 32:58
  Speaker 13: I don't think you should say just for the bsa sake.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: I don't care that.
• 33:02
  Speaker 13: We don't care about corruption belt. The interesting thing about
• 33:06
  Speaker 13: it is, and we've got Chris Biship on this morning.
• 33:08
  Speaker 13: I don't think they've actually announced anything here because if
• 33:11
  Speaker 13: you think about it, there was an expert panel anyway. Yeah,
• 33:13
  Speaker 13: so the expert panel would go, well, tell you what, minister,
• 33:16
  Speaker 13: we should do this, and then the minister would have gone, yep,
• 33:18
  Speaker 13: I agree, enough we go.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: But they had the power to decline that advice. Yes
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: they did, now they don't.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: But how many.
• 33:24
  Speaker 13: Ministers would have gone when the expert panel comes back,
• 33:28
  Speaker 13: don't do it, and we go, well, don't worry about it,
• 33:30
  Speaker 13: I'm going to do it.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Anyway, since how many free lunches you've given them life plase,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: which is back to the point.
• 33:34
  Speaker 13: Okay, just for the record, I didn't endorse corruption at
• 33:38
  Speaker 13: any point at Ryan Bridge's Box two one a Auckland
• 33:42
  Speaker 13: right to them anyway.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Chris Buship's on this one all right, brilliant. See tomorrow.
• 33:48
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