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Full Show Podcast: 02 July 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: early edition with ex Pole insulation, Keeping Kimi Holmes warm
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Speaker 1: and try this winter News Talks, they'd be.
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Speaker 2: Good morning at a six a half to five. Great
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Speaker 2: to have your company coming up on the show this
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Speaker 2: morning before six fines for shoplifting. How will they actually work?
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Speaker 2: And practice? Will speak to Wilworst about that heat wave
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Speaker 2: in Europe. Big heat wave in Europe. Gavin gray Are,
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Speaker 2: UK Europe correspondent. The schools closed, eighteen hundred schools closed
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Speaker 2: in France overnight. Libraries here are ordering AI books, that is,
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Speaker 2: books authored by AI in the library, which we will
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Speaker 2: apparently then rent. Spending cuts for defense? How do you
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Speaker 2: marry up spending cuts for defense with the massive announcements
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Speaker 2: of billions and billions and squillions of dollars going towards defense.
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Speaker 2: We'll look at that in about ten minutes time here
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Speaker 2: on News Talks.
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Speaker 3: He'd be.
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Speaker 2: The agenda Wednesday, the second of July. After ours of stalemate,
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Speaker 2: US senators have now passed Trump's big beautiful bill. Now
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Speaker 2: it faces another tough fight in the House that goes
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Speaker 2: back to the House. Meanwhile, Musk Trump back at it.
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Speaker 2: Musk says he might run against Trump at the next election.
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Speaker 2: We might have to put those Elan Belji's the monster
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Speaker 2: that has that might have to go back and eat eline.
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Speaker 4: Would't that be fair about now?
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Speaker 2: Petonteg Shinawat. This is Thailand's Constitutional Court has suspended the
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Speaker 2: Prime Minister, who has come under mounting pressure to resign
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Speaker 2: over a leaked phone call with the former Cambodian leader.
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Speaker 2: Pultn't send the clip in which she called him uncle
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Speaker 2: and criticized the taime military commander spike public anger and
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Speaker 2: outrage in a petition for her dismissal.
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Speaker 5: She has responded saying she'll accept the judgment of the court.
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Speaker 5: She said she was only doing what she thought was
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Speaker 5: in the best interests of the country, but she has
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Speaker 5: fifteen days to present her case and she has confidence
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Speaker 5: that the court will understand.
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Speaker 2: The spectacle in New York City over the Diddy trial continues.
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Speaker 2: A load of influencers and live streamers have spent weeks
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Speaker 2: live streaming outside of the courthouse to their fans, and
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Speaker 2: this continues this morning.
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Speaker 1: We do want to get closer and understand what this
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Speaker 1: case is going to be, you know, I mean, what
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Speaker 1: is it going to wrap up to be how.
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Speaker 4: Many followers did you have at the start of this
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Speaker 4: and versus how many you have now?
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Speaker 2: I had about maybe like five thousand or soul right
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Speaker 2: now I got about sixteen thousand.
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Speaker 1: Brian Bridge on the early edition with expol insulation keeping
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Speaker 1: chili O's warm and dry this winter news talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be yeah, interesting, that, isn't it. I mean, that's
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Speaker 2: pretty much what journalists would have done, you know, in
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Speaker 2: the good old days. I suppose stand outside of a
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Speaker 2: court and report on what's going on inside there. That
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Speaker 2: would be the job of a journalist. But now it's
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Speaker 2: live streamers. That's just the way the world goes, I suppose,
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Speaker 2: isn't it. Hey, great news yesterday. This is for Skyline Enterprises,
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Speaker 2: and I just think it's we're at that time in
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Speaker 2: the economic cycle you have to stop and take the
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Speaker 2: wins and not blow them up, but you you've got
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Speaker 2: to glow up the wins. I think, so we'll do
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Speaker 2: a bit of that this morning. This is the gondola
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Speaker 2: luge operator. Skyline Enterprise is doubling its pre tax profit.
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Speaker 2: Strong tourism rebound in Queenstown.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: I know that hasn't gone everywhere, but you've got to,
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Speaker 2: as I say, take the wins where you can get them.
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Speaker 2: So overall, a profit before tax more than doubling, rising
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Speaker 2: to twenty eight point seven million dollars last year. So
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Speaker 2: from twenty eight point seven last year to sixty one
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Speaker 2: million in twenty twenty five. Domestic operations this is interesting
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Speaker 2: because they've got gondolas and loges and places like Japan.
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Speaker 2: But domestic operations recording total revenue of one hundred and
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Speaker 2: seventeen million dollars for the year, up nineteen percent on
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. One point four million gondola trips in
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Speaker 2: New Zealand and three point two million on the louge.
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Speaker 2: That's spread across both Rotru and Queenstown. So that's great news.
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Speaker 2: And I'll update you. We had another business confidence survey out,
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Speaker 2: so I looked at you on that shortly just gone
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Speaker 2: ten minutes after five. Now coming up next to the
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Speaker 2: defense force. So on the one hand, we're getting told
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Speaker 2: billions going into defense, don't worry about it. On the
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Speaker 2: other hand, we're hearing about a hundred billion dollars in cuts.
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Speaker 2: So how does that marry out one hundred million, I
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Speaker 2: should say, and cuts? How does that marry out. We'll
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Speaker 2: look at it next.
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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 X full insulation keeping Kiwi
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Speaker 1: Holmes warm and dry this winter.
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Speaker 2: News Talks B five after five on News Talks there
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Speaker 2: b Ryan, I reckon shoplifting will increase even though the
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Speaker 2: government's making these changes. No risk of jail or conviction.
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Speaker 2: How much is the fine? I'm curious there is actually
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Speaker 2: to this text that there is the risk of longer
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Speaker 2: prison sentences theft. The maximum penalty will be one year
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Speaker 2: in prison if the value is less than two thousand dollars.
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Speaker 2: Two thousand dollars or less in value of items stolen,
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Speaker 2: the fine will be up to five hundred dollars. If
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Speaker 2: the value of the stolen goods was below five hundred dollars.
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Speaker 2: So presumably if somebody steals something worth three hundred dollars,
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Speaker 2: you could find them three hundred dollars I'm assuming, So
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Speaker 2: up to five hundred, you get up to five hundred. Now,
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Speaker 2: anything one thousand dollars is up to one thousand dollars
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Speaker 2: if the stolen goods were worth more than five hundred dollars,
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Speaker 2: so you'd almost be better off stealing something worth fifteen
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Speaker 2: hundred dollars. But of course then you get yourself into
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Speaker 2: further trouble with the potential for an ankle bracelet or
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Speaker 2: time and the slammer. Thirteen after five, We've got fresh
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Speaker 2: warnings this morning of reputational damage to our Defense Force
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Speaker 2: of planned cost cutting goes ahead the PSA. This is
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Speaker 2: the Union sounding the alarm after the Defense Force revealed
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Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty million dollar budget shortfall for twenty
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Speaker 2: four to twenty five and a letter to the union.
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Speaker 2: The Defense Force confirmed it's already scraped together one hundred
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Speaker 2: million dollars in savings, but says more enduring cuts maybe
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Speaker 2: needed to be locked in because not everything can be reversed.
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Speaker 2: Hayden Ricketts is retired lieutenant colonel at Mission Home Front
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Speaker 2: with US this morning. Hayden, good morning, Yeah, good morning, Royan.
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Speaker 2: How can you just explain this. We're hearing about billions
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Speaker 2: of dollars going into the Defense Force, biggest investment ever,
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Speaker 2: doubling to two percent of GDP. How why are we
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Speaker 2: talking about cuts?
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Speaker 6: There is a really good question, Ryan. Against the context
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Speaker 6: of twelve billion dollar investment over the next four years,
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Speaker 6: it would appear that cutting the civilian workforce right at
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Speaker 6: the moment would not be the right thing to do.
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Speaker 6: If we paint the context as it alluded to, one
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Speaker 6: hundred and thirty million dollars was meant to be saved.
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Speaker 6: They found one hundred from internal savings, leaving about thirty. Now,
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Speaker 6: when the PSA kicked us off in sort of like
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Speaker 6: Tober last year, the Defense forces know there's three hundred
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Speaker 6: and seventy four positions which we're going to be cut
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Speaker 6: or acts. And actual fact is there's eighty people that
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Speaker 6: are looking at being effected of losing their jobs. And
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Speaker 6: that's significant for eighty people. But the money they're going
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Speaker 6: to save from cutting those eighty people isn't going to
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Speaker 6: be the money that they want to save. The stock
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Speaker 6: the juice is not going to be worth to squeeze
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Speaker 6: on this one. If you have a look at the
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Speaker 6: amount of money that's coming down the investment pipeline, the
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Speaker 6: Defense Force is going to need people in the staff
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Speaker 6: areas to do the introduction to service, to do the
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Speaker 6: staff work, to do the business cases in the papers
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Speaker 6: for cabinet for that money. Yes, now, in some cases
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Speaker 6: the people they're looking at cutting are the people that
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Speaker 6: do that.
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Speaker 2: Work well, do both We know that the dreat rest
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Speaker 2: of squeeze, But do we know that Hayden, because the
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Speaker 2: defense forces come out and said they are not telling
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Speaker 2: us specifically what's being cut, So how do we know
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Speaker 2: they're cutting the bits will need down the track.
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Speaker 6: Or if you can do maths, you need more people
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Speaker 6: to do more work. You've got more investment coming down
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Speaker 6: the pipeline. So it doesn't follow that you cut your
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Speaker 6: personnel workforce at the time when you need them to
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Speaker 6: do their investments.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but not everybody's going to be doing worthwhile stuff.
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Speaker 2: I mean did the Defense force? The civilian arm I'm
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Speaker 2: talking about here is like any other department has people
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Speaker 2: doing things that actually aren't important, you know, So are
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Speaker 2: there people doing unimportant things that we're getting rid of?
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Speaker 2: And the answer is we just we don't really know.
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Speaker 6: No. So on the uniform side, the armies short of
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Speaker 6: a thousand people from the mandated number of fifty one
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Speaker 6: fifty or five thousand. Air Force is short by two
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Speaker 6: hundred and fifty, Navy short by a similar amount. We've
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Speaker 6: seen what happens when people when there's not enough suitably
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Speaker 6: qualified and experienced people to do the work. You think ships.
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Speaker 2: So to suggest that there are.
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Speaker 6: People in there that aren't doing the right work, I
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Speaker 6: think that's that's a preposterous statement and quite insulting. And
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Speaker 6: if there's any reputational damage that comes to the Defense Force,
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Speaker 6: it's from people making statements like that. Have a look
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Speaker 6: at what our Defense Force is doing in the Indian
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Speaker 6: Ocean with the deployment of Takaha. We've just deployed more
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Speaker 6: Defense Force people to Nelson to help out.
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Speaker 7: The force helps out, But these people are no no, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 7: no no.
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Speaker 2: No that I'm not talking about the Defense Force personnel
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Speaker 2: who are being deployed to these as. I'm talking about well,
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Speaker 2: you know pen pushes in Wellington? Is there is there
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Speaker 2: is there a problem with the back office in Wellington
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Speaker 2: because that is what the government says that they're trying
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Speaker 2: to where they're trying to shift the money from.
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Speaker 6: So those policy statements came out from the previous government.
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Speaker 6: Remember the large back office cuts that got made to
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Speaker 6: the public sector. These decisions got made under that context
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Speaker 6: in October last year. But has the situation changed, I
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Speaker 6: would argue yes, it has. Is the global security environment changes,
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Speaker 6: as we've seen ships in the tesmen sea as we've
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Speaker 6: shunk our own ships on a good day in the
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Speaker 6: long place in the SOUTHUA specific now we're going to
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Speaker 6: need people to do that to support these investments. And
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Speaker 6: right now that the context has changed, the situation has changed,
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Speaker 6: and I don't think the juice is worth to squeeze
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Speaker 6: on these particular work for savings.
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, howdn't appreciate your perspective this morning. Hayden Ricketts,
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Speaker 2: a retired lieutenant colonel, Mission Home Front on cuts to
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Speaker 2: to what the government says are back office rolls at NZDF.
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Speaker 2: It's just gone eighteen minutes after five. News talk s
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Speaker 2: head be coming up next. We're talking while we get
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Speaker 2: to our reporters after half five. Also, Kim Jong Un
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Speaker 2: potentially finally acknowledging the fact that some of his troops
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Speaker 2: have gone to Russia.
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Speaker 1: That story ahead, Get ahead of the headlines on a
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Speaker 1: bary edition with Ryan Branch and x Fole Insulation keeping
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Speaker 1: Kiwi Holmes warm and dry this winter News Talks a'd.
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Speaker 2: Be five twenty on News Talk s headb so in.
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Speaker 2: This is a Wall Street Journal report saying that for
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Speaker 2: the first time, Kim Jong un has publicly at least
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Speaker 2: appeared to publicly acknowledge the fact that North Korean troops
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Speaker 2: have been fighting alongside the Russians in Ukraine. There have
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Speaker 2: been some coffins returned, and at the pyeong Yang Gala
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Speaker 2: there was a performance and photographs showed Kim wearing a
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Speaker 2: winter jacket Morning Soldiers and standing among a row of
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Speaker 2: caskets that appeared to be placed at the airport tarmac.
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Speaker 2: Kim was photograph placing both hands on top of the caskets,
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Speaker 2: straight with North Korea's red, blue and white national flag.
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Speaker 2: He never acknowledged the fact that their troops were going
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Speaker 2: to help the Russians until now twenty one after five.
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Speaker 2: Bryan Bridge, if you listen to the show yesterday, you
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Speaker 2: know I talked a lot about AI and AI taking
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Speaker 2: over our lives and taking over our jobs. Well here's
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Speaker 2: another prime example of this. Turns out quite a few
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Speaker 2: New Zealand's Live of New Zealand's libraries either already have
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Speaker 2: or are open to stocking books written by AI authors.
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Speaker 2: Laura Marshall is the executive director at Library and Information
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Speaker 2: Association New Zealand. Laura, good morning, Good morning, Ryan. Is
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Speaker 2: do you know of any AI written books in libraries yourself.
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Speaker 7: Yes, there are a few, but from our experience and
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Speaker 7: talking to library managers, there's not that many.
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Speaker 4: There's only a couple.
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Speaker 7: There's only a couple of supplies that even provide them
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Speaker 7: in New Zealand. So I don't believe that there is
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Speaker 7: many with the New Zealand libraries.
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Speaker 2: Yet would you read one?
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Speaker 7: I'd probably read one just to see what it was like.
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Speaker 7: But to be honest, I think they're just an interpretation
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Speaker 7: of our thoughts. I think it's just a good copy.
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Speaker 7: So I'm not really that interested in exploring the long term,
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Speaker 7: but I'd probably read one just to see what it
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Speaker 7: was like.
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Speaker 2: This is the problem, though, What if you read it
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Speaker 2: and it's good? You know? I mean, is that a
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Speaker 2: little bit scary that thought?
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Speaker 7: To be honest, when I use AI myself, it's interpreting
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Speaker 7: my thoughts, but it never comes out perfect, and it's
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Speaker 7: never enough to entice me to think that it could
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Speaker 7: replace myself or we give it the information. I don't
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Speaker 7: truly believe that AI could tell our stories. Especially in
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Speaker 7: New Zealand, we have very next stories. You have people's experiences.
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Speaker 7: That's doing. It's just interpreting those stories and that information
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Speaker 7: and I don't believe that it can really do that very.
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Speaker 2: Well yet does AI? Well, I mean, I suppose the
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Speaker 2: Internet generally. Sometimes I'm surprised libraries are still going. But
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Speaker 2: then but then I walked past them and they are full.
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Speaker 2: So how do you explain that with the Internet.
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Speaker 7: So libraries are also community hubs. They are places to
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Speaker 7: meet people. It's places to go to community programs, it's
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Speaker 7: places to interact. They really are quite.
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Speaker 4: An amazing ecosystem.
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Speaker 7: They also reflect the community, So they're an amazing place.
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Speaker 7: But believe it or not, issues and library that are
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Speaker 7: actually going out. Just because someone's reading a book online
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Speaker 7: or on their iPad, it doesn't mean they're not reading.
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Speaker 7: So issues are just going through the through the roofs.
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Speaker 7: Libraries have never been more successful. They're just an amazing ecosystem,
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Speaker 7: an amazing place, and I don't think AI and the
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Speaker 7: Internet is going to turn that around.
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Speaker 2: Okay, interesting, What about if there's a book that's written
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Speaker 2: by AI that's really good and that people want, like,
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Speaker 2: you know, there's people are asking it reception, whatever do
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Speaker 2: you think do you think her libraries should provide it?
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Speaker 7: Yes, libraries usually do stock customer requests and it comes
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Speaker 7: down to how many times a book is issued. No,
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Speaker 7: I doubt they're going to fill an entire library full
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Speaker 7: of AI written books. And if we had this conversation
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Speaker 7: in five years, Ryan, I doubt there would be that
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Speaker 7: many books that we'd been good enough to pass the
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Speaker 7: test to get into the library. But yes, we do
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Speaker 7: respond to the public as well. We have to respond
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Speaker 7: to what people want to read. And I also believe
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Speaker 7: that if you're reading anything, it's better than reading nothing,
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Speaker 7: getting into the habit of literacy and reading a book,
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Speaker 7: so better than better than nothing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, Hey, Laura, appreciate your time this morning. Thanks
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Speaker 2: coming on the show. Laura Marshall, Library and Information Association
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Speaker 2: of New Zealand, Thank you very much. I would happily
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Speaker 2: watch an AI curated directed movie, happily do that. I'm
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Speaker 2: genuinely open to reading a book too. I mean, if
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Speaker 2: you had if you just put a fake name and
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Speaker 2: didn't tell me it was AI, would you even would
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Speaker 2: I even know? You know, and if it's been proofed
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Speaker 2: and all that sort of stuff. But yeah, I don't know. Movies,
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Speaker 2: I feel what would be a lot more open to books,
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Speaker 2: Maybe not so much. Twenty five after five News Talks
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Speaker 2: News TALKSB It is five twenty seven. You know immediately
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Speaker 2: when something makes good political sense. You can usually tell
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Speaker 2: not by listening to the minister announce it, but by
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Speaker 2: listening to the opposition oppose it. Crime is the topic
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Speaker 2: juju this week, of course, and it's one of National's strongest,
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Speaker 2: biggest levers. It's got to pull. It's one of the
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Speaker 2: few election issues on which they outpoll Labor, so it's
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Speaker 2: no wonder that they've pulled out all the stops this
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Speaker 2: after a few weeks of some shaky polling and being
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Speaker 2: on the defense. The problem for Labor with crime quite simple.
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Speaker 2: No one trusts them. The facts are as follows. Crime
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Speaker 2: went nuts, Labour's policy reduced prison population, which is what
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Speaker 2: makes this such a hard slot, a hard week for Labor,
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Speaker 2: not the Greens into party Maori, who sing from a
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Speaker 2: very different songsheet. On law and audibit for hapkins, how
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Speaker 2: do you credibly stand up and argue against longer sentences
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Speaker 2: for thugs who bash first responders? How do you oppose
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Speaker 2: getting tough on coward punches? How do you oppose fines
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Speaker 2: for people stealing cuts of meat or booze from the
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Speaker 2: supermarket while the rest of us pay ever higher prices.
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Speaker 2: The answer for Labor so far has been you do
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Speaker 2: oppose these things. They've come out against pretty much every
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Speaker 2: single change that's been announced, and that plays into the
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Speaker 2: perception that they're still weak on crime, that they haven't
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Speaker 2: been going to the gym to get stronger and tougher
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Speaker 2: on crime. They are instead further withering away. Of course,
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Speaker 2: this problem could be solved if we knew anything about
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Speaker 2: what Labor is planning policy wise for the next election.
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Speaker 2: But Chippy's strategy is owing to be shock and or
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Speaker 2: they're holding cards very close to their chest until the election.
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Speaker 2: In the meantime, they do run the risk, don't they,
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Speaker 2: of looking weak while the coalition steals their thunder Ryan
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Speaker 2: Bridge talksb very quick update twenty nine minutes after five
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Speaker 2: Now ACT has put out a release. They're not happy
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Speaker 2: because councils have spent this is These are the councils
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Speaker 2: that have declared climate emergencies. Channel Greta Thunberg one point
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Speaker 2: three million dollars on international flight since twenty nineteen. Get
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Speaker 2: out twenty nine after five News Talks HEBB reporters and
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Speaker 2: then Gavin Gray UK Europe.
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Speaker 1: On Your Radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition with
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Speaker 2: Four away from six News Talk seiv B before six
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Speaker 2: Woollies on the fines for shotlifting. The heat wave in
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Speaker 2: Europe will get to Gavin Gray are UK Europe Correspondent
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Speaker 2: right now. The global dairy trade auction overnight numbers down
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Speaker 2: four point one percent, fourth negative auction in a row
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Speaker 2: and the biggest four easily the biggest fall this year.
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Speaker 2: The max last I think one point seven is as
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Speaker 2: bad as it's gotten this year. Buttered down four point
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Speaker 2: three percent, which you'll probably like the sound of if
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Speaker 2: you're buying it. Butter milk powder though, up nine point
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Speaker 2: three percent. Everything else down basically Cheddar down point two
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Speaker 2: point eight, mozzarella down point two, skim milk powder one
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Speaker 2: point seven, and whole milk powder which is our golden
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Speaker 2: goose down five point one percent, so they won't like that.
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Speaker 2: This morning, twenty three minutes away from.
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Speaker 1: Six prede in bread.
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Speaker 2: Reporters around the country, color Procter and needed for us
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Speaker 2: and planning happening around Transport four the new hospital colum.
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Speaker 8: A Morning, Ryan and z Eta here is starting to
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Speaker 8: seek feedback now on options for some key routes around
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Speaker 8: this new hospital. Here it's specifically Cumberland Street and also
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Speaker 8: State Highway eighty eight also known as Saint Andrews Street
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Speaker 8: around the new hospital. These proposed changes include adding new
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Speaker 8: crossings and removing a right hand turn. There's also plans
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Speaker 8: around nearby streets to help with driving, walking and cycling,
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Speaker 8: and they say making it safer and smoother for emergency
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Speaker 8: service vehicles to move.
19:32
Speaker 2: Around the hospital.
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Speaker 8: So NZTA is up to ten thousand pedestrians will be
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Speaker 8: walking in and around the hospital daily, so these changes
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Speaker 8: are practical and sensible to make it efficient for everyone.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather.
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Speaker 8: It's minus three at the moment at our airport, but
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Speaker 8: fine today light winds and twelve.
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Speaker 2: Thank you and Courtney and christ Church. Hey, Courtney, good morning, Ryan.
19:52
Speaker 2: Your airport's pretty busy.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 9: So in New Zealand is adding over ninety two thousand
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Speaker 9: seats to its Auckland to christ Church roots before between
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Speaker 9: November and March. This is a boost of eleven percent.
20:05
Speaker 9: It's also introducing an extra one hundred and twenty thousand
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Speaker 9: seats for the Special Olympics this December to help athletes
20:13
Speaker 9: and supporters travel to the games. This is another vote
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Speaker 9: of confidence for the Garden City as Quantus, China, Southern
20:20
Speaker 9: and Singapore airlines have increased flights over the summer season
20:24
Speaker 9: in Z's domestic General Manager Kate O'Brien sees the aiding
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Speaker 9: capacity to support tourism operators, events and regional economies in
20:32
Speaker 9: christ Church and beyond.
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Speaker 2: How's your weather, Courtney.
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Speaker 9: It's chili down here too with some morning frost, but
20:37
Speaker 9: it's going to become fine. High cloud northeasterlies a high
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Speaker 9: of ten.
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Speaker 2: You keep warm, Courtney, Max's and Wellington heymax, good morning.
20:45
Speaker 2: Now what's the council finally admitting to the cost.
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Speaker 10: Of Yeah, this was really odd by the Wellington City Council.
20:51
Speaker 10: Our newsroom went to them quite a few months ago,
20:54
Speaker 10: probably more than a year ago, to simply ask what
20:56
Speaker 10: the cost was the city's new pay by plate parking machines,
21:01
Speaker 10: which are solar powered. They have English and today Omori instructions,
21:05
Speaker 10: quite unique in that regard, and we were met with
21:07
Speaker 10: the dead fish eyes. Sorry we can't tell you. It's
21:09
Speaker 10: a secret commercial sensitivity, which is of course ridiculous. We
21:13
Speaker 10: paid for them. We went to the ombudsman. Of course,
21:16
Speaker 10: naturally have now been sent the information now grown up's gone.
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Speaker 10: Involved just over three point five million dollars for these machines,
21:23
Speaker 10: nine grand roughly per machine, and notably, just under a
21:28
Speaker 10: year ago, about eighty of them had to have their
21:30
Speaker 10: solar panels moved quite a few feet higher out of
21:34
Speaker 10: reach because they were being smashed by vandals. That work
21:38
Speaker 10: quite cost quite a bit as well. You can read
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Speaker 10: that full story Ethan Minera up on the Herald website
21:42
Speaker 10: about seven am.
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Speaker 2: I certainly will be lovely to her we preview. So
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Speaker 2: three point five million dollar? Do we know how that
21:48
Speaker 2: compares to a non woke one?
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Speaker 10: More, I don't have the number in front of me,
21:55
Speaker 10: but more you can safely assume.
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Speaker 2: All right, thanks for that. You're with it today, mix
21:59
Speaker 2: Sonny for those solar panels.
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Speaker 10: Well partly cloudy, so a little bit of power, A
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Speaker 10: strong norther east thirteen the hay.
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Speaker 2: Nice and enjoy max. Thank you. Neva's an auk Hay.
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Speaker 3: Neither greetings ye Jeffer, Yes, the Jeffer and no we're
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Speaker 3: not talking about just another if bleep Aucklander, sweet Maker Jays.
22:18
Speaker 3: I've confirmed they're going to stop manufacturing the Lolly the
22:20
Speaker 3: Jeffers because of well, declining sales. Now Jeffers have been
22:24
Speaker 3: on our shelves since nineteen thirty one and brand straighted.
22:28
Speaker 3: Just Jill Brinston says, Look, no matter how much of
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Speaker 3: a culture icon something is, if it's not selling, it's
22:33
Speaker 3: just not going to stick around. So she's saying, you know,
22:36
Speaker 3: it may rise again if there's a new spin on them,
22:39
Speaker 3: but you know, like no brands can last forever. Been
22:41
Speaker 3: around since nineteen thirty one. It's been a hot topic
22:43
Speaker 3: in the newsroom. We're just talking about. Someone brought up
22:45
Speaker 3: a really good point Dunedin. You know how that Steep
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Speaker 3: Street Boardwin Street and they used to drop their Jeffers
22:51
Speaker 3: drop them down?
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Speaker 2: Why are they going to use They stopped doing that,
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Speaker 2: didn't they? I think the last one was twenty before COVID,
22:58
Speaker 2: I think, But what is up with I would genuinely
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Speaker 2: love to hear from people, why did we stop buying Jeffers,
23:03
Speaker 2: Because they've said declining sales is the reason so nineteen
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Speaker 2: ninety two, why did you stop buying Jaffers?
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Speaker 10: Please?
23:10
Speaker 2: Is it because the price? I had a look this morning.
23:12
Speaker 2: So five dollars nineteen for one hundred and fifty grams,
23:15
Speaker 2: that's expensive. That that's six bucks for three hundred and
23:19
Speaker 2: sixty grams of just Cabrey chocolate.
23:21
Speaker 3: And I remember back in the day, you know, you'd
23:23
Speaker 3: go to the movies, but who's going to the movies now?
23:25
Speaker 3: You'd either have Jeffers, you get you could buy a
23:28
Speaker 3: box of Jeffers, either Boxer snifters or the tingy fruits. Yes,
23:32
Speaker 3: And I always used to go for the Jeffers. And
23:33
Speaker 3: when you used to go into movie theater, there's a cargo.
23:36
Speaker 3: Back in the day, you know, you know how kids
23:38
Speaker 3: used to throw the lollies around. Yeah, okay, don't waste
23:41
Speaker 3: your lollies. Used to say to my brother's go three
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Speaker 3: second rule.
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Speaker 2: Pick up those lollies. You're catching them, you're catching them.
23:47
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's an interesting question. Did we fall out
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Speaker 2: of love with them because we have more choice? I mean,
23:52
Speaker 2: you you know, lots more stuff you can get, yes?
23:55
Speaker 2: Or is it I wonder if there's a cunning back
23:57
Speaker 2: on sugar thing?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
23:59
Speaker 2: True too, because you know I wouldn't buy a full packet.
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Speaker 3: No, I wouldn't.
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't.
24:03
Speaker 3: Now I'd be just having like one and stuck on
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Speaker 3: it for like two hours, yees.
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Speaker 2: Otherwise I'd be enormous. Hey, how's that with her?
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Speaker 9: Cloudy?
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Speaker 3: Scattered shows from afternoon? Seventeen is a high here in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Nice one, thanks very much, Neva. It is eighteen away
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Speaker 2: from six that number again, nine two nine two. Our
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Speaker 2: UK Europe correspondent Gavin Gray is with us Live next
24:25
Speaker 2: and then we're talking to Woollies about the changes that's
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Speaker 2: been made to shoplifting. So you've got a fine sounds great,
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Speaker 2: five hundred dollars or one thousand dollars fine on the spot,
24:37
Speaker 2: But someone's just stolen something from your store and the
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Speaker 2: police have to issue the fine. So what are you
24:41
Speaker 2: doing in the meantime? Is Wooly's going to start holding
24:45
Speaker 2: the thieves until the cops arrive.
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Speaker 1: We'll ask before six International correspondence with ends an eye
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Speaker 1: insurance peace of mind for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 2: Just gone fourteen away from six, Jeff for feedback in
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Speaker 2: a second right now, Gavin Gray are UK Europe Corra
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Speaker 2: givin good morning, good evening to you either rat new
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Speaker 2: twist in This is Lucy Lipby, Britain's most prolific modern
25:08
Speaker 2: serial killer. What is the twist here?
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Speaker 11: Well, she's currently serving fifteen life sentences for targeting babies
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Speaker 11: at Chester Hospital or the Countess of Chester Hospital in
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Speaker 11: northwest England in the twenty fifteen to twenty sixteen killing,
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Speaker 11: murdering seven babies, attempting to murdering seven others. There's been
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Speaker 11: a great deal to talk about some of the evidence
25:32
Speaker 11: being circumstantial and not particularly reliable, but she remains behind
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Speaker 11: bars today. However, three of her bosses have now suddenly
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Speaker 11: been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. In other words,
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Speaker 11: bosses that perhaps might have been looking at the fatality
25:51
Speaker 11: rates within that baby unit now potentially facing a police
25:56
Speaker 11: investigation of their own. These arrests have come into potential
26:01
Speaker 11: corporate manslaughter at the hospital. That investigation was opened a
26:05
Speaker 11: couple of years back and then widened in March this
26:07
Speaker 11: year to include gross negligence manslaughter and those three have
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Speaker 11: been questioned and released after that questioning on bail and
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Speaker 11: the police pointing out that gross negligence. Manslaughter is a
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Speaker 11: separate offense focusing on grossly negligent action or inaction of individuals.
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Speaker 11: And as I said, all this at a time when
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Speaker 11: summer concluding, Lucy LETB may not herself be guilty.
26:30
Speaker 2: And the heat wave, we've got two people who died
26:32
Speaker 2: in Italy. Quickly just give us a sense. How hot
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Speaker 2: is it?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, well, across southern Europe very hot. So they for
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Speaker 11: having sort of mid forties forty six point six celsius
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Speaker 11: one temperature recorded nighttime temperature in Barcelona twenty seven celsius
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Speaker 11: in Seville twenty eight and today confirmed Spain and England
26:52
Speaker 11: have recorded their hottest June ever.
26:55
Speaker 2: Appreciate your time this morning. That's Kevin Gray, our UK
26:58
Speaker 2: europe correspondent. Time is twelve minutes away from six. Ryan
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Speaker 2: bred on News talks B. We're getting harsher penalties for
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Speaker 2: theft and new fines for shoplifting. Changes these are proposed
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Speaker 2: at the stage include infringement fines of five hundred bucks
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Speaker 2: if the value of the stolen goods was below five
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Speaker 2: hundred dollars, or up to one thousand dollars if the
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Speaker 2: stolen goods worth more than five hundred bucks, but theft
27:20
Speaker 2: maximum penalty will be one year in prison if the
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Speaker 2: value is two thousand or less, up to seven years
27:25
Speaker 2: in prison if goods were valued at more than two
27:28
Speaker 2: thousand dollars. Jason Stockel is wil Worst, director of Retail
27:32
Speaker 2: with me this morning. Hey Jason, morning, How are you good?
27:35
Speaker 2: Thank you? Do you think this is going? I mean,
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Speaker 2: if somebody is stealing stuff, they're probably not massively well off.
27:41
Speaker 2: We'll a fine deter them, do you think, Ryan?
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Speaker 4: It'll be interesting to see how that system works. But
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Speaker 4: from our point of view, we're just pleased that we've
27:50
Speaker 4: had the announcements. It's a positive step forward and we're
27:53
Speaker 4: happy to look at any initiative that's going to make
27:55
Speaker 4: our stores safer for our team and our customers.
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Speaker 2: How does it work if you want to issue an
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Speaker 2: on the spot fine, it's the cops that do it,
28:02
Speaker 2: So you have to wait till the cops arrive to
28:04
Speaker 2: do that. What happens if the offender leaves in the interim,
28:08
Speaker 2: You're right from what.
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Speaker 4: The detail we're looking at is, the police will obviously
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Speaker 4: shoe those fines on the spot, and if they have
28:14
Speaker 4: left they've left, we'll obviously do our normal reports who
28:17
Speaker 4: or and our CCTV reporting to hopefully that they can
28:21
Speaker 4: track them down. But again, as you said, it all
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Speaker 4: depends on what the value is that we'll report everything
28:25
Speaker 4: where we can to the police.
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Speaker 2: So you're not you're not going to change your practice
28:29
Speaker 2: of not because at the moment you know you'd always
28:32
Speaker 2: you don't let your staff hold the trolley or hold
28:36
Speaker 2: the person. Your security guards are told not to do
28:39
Speaker 2: that as well.
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Speaker 4: Is that correct if we can't restrain anybody, we can
28:44
Speaker 4: approach if we've had our team trained correctly to approach
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Speaker 4: the offender or the thief. But the main aim for
28:52
Speaker 4: us is to keep our team and customers safe.
28:55
Speaker 2: Would you like the authority to restrain people.
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Speaker 4: It'd be an interesting concept, And when we've talked about
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Speaker 4: the citizens arrest yesterday, actually it'll be interesting. But again
29:05
Speaker 4: we've got to have some real type time framework around
29:08
Speaker 4: that because you put your team or your customers in
29:11
Speaker 4: the way of a citizens ar rest, you don't know
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Speaker 4: what the outcome is going to be, particularly when we've
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Speaker 4: got knife threatening and abuse from theft at sixty five
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Speaker 4: percent increase on last year, so you just don't know
29:21
Speaker 4: what they're carrying nowadays. So again for me, it's about
29:23
Speaker 4: how do we keep our team safe. But we'll watch
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Speaker 4: this space with what the government come out with.
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Speaker 2: Okay, but if it wasn't your staff, but security guards,
29:31
Speaker 2: if they were able to do it, would you be
29:33
Speaker 2: open to.
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Speaker 4: Then Look again, probably would be.
29:37
Speaker 2: But again we've.
29:37
Speaker 4: Got to make sure that the training is right.
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Speaker 6: Ryan.
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Speaker 4: We've got to make sure that is third party security
29:42
Speaker 4: company that get involved in citizens arrest, particularly if through
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Speaker 4: in a public, open area, which our supermarkets are, we've
29:48
Speaker 4: got to make sure that they've got exactly the right
29:50
Speaker 4: training to keep them safe and the customers around them.
29:53
Speaker 2: Should anyone have a taser because that's one of the
29:56
Speaker 2: things that were going to recom mean was taser training
29:58
Speaker 2: for security guards.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, again, I won't go down that path. I've seen
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Speaker 4: it happen in our stores though, but it wasn't the
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Speaker 4: security guards as the police. But again we've got to
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Speaker 4: watch what that looks like and see what the government recommend.
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Speaker 2: Jason, appreciate your time this morning. Jason stockhol Will worst
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Speaker 2: Director of Retail. So there you go. What what difference
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Speaker 2: does a fine make if you're not there to get
30:21
Speaker 2: the fine? You know, it's like a tree falling in
30:23
Speaker 2: the woods, isn't it? The number of six? The feedback
30:27
Speaker 2: coming in on Jeffers is fascinating. We'll get to that next.
30:30
Speaker 2: And Mike has hed.
30:31
Speaker 1: Too news and views you trust to start your day.
30:35
Speaker 1: It's earlier this ship with Ryan Bridge at Expol installation,
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Speaker 1: keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and dry, this winter.
30:42
Speaker 2: News talk, so it'd be one of those stories today.
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Speaker 1: One.
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Speaker 2: It's seven away from six. The Jeffers, the fact that
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Speaker 2: our James is not going to be making them anymore. Ryan,
30:49
Speaker 2: stop leading Jeffers due to the fact that we're not
30:51
Speaker 2: meant to eat sugar. So is it the sugar is
30:54
Speaker 2: at the cost? Or is it because you have other
30:56
Speaker 2: options now? Ryan still by them occasionally cutting down on sugar,
31:01
Speaker 2: So aren't buying them as often used to? Like the
31:03
Speaker 2: giant Ones great shows? Is hamish? Ryan? The shrunk a
31:06
Speaker 2: fraction from what they were. It's ruined them. Are you
31:09
Speaker 2: sure you weren't eating the giant Ones? Ryan, it's cost
31:13
Speaker 2: of living. Can't do it anymore. And the cheaper ones
31:15
Speaker 2: called orange chocolate balls, which is completely unoriginal but cheaper
31:21
Speaker 2: and still available, says Gary. Six to six, Ryan Bredge,
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Speaker 2: Mike don't see you eating no jeckers. Do you know
31:29
Speaker 2: what we'remen eating.
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Speaker 12: What we're missing in the story is that what we're
31:33
Speaker 12: doing as old people is being nostealgic. And so the
31:37
Speaker 12: marketing exercise. As you grow older, you don't eat lollies.
31:40
Speaker 12: I mean Lolli's is a kid's thing. So you're needing
31:43
Speaker 12: to market to a new market. So what you thought
31:46
Speaker 12: was a good thing, like a fifty cent mixture or
31:49
Speaker 12: an aeroplane to a new generation. I know this because
31:52
Speaker 12: of an eighteen year old, our youngest at home. It's
31:54
Speaker 12: all party packs and imitation stuff from China and stuff.
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Speaker 2: Like that, just the sheer number. There are options you've
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Speaker 2: got now. It's not just sniffers and jets.
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Speaker 12: There are no originals left, you know, the really good ones.
32:05
Speaker 12: You know used to get a wine gum, a good
32:07
Speaker 12: chewy wine gum, and they don't exist any The jet
32:10
Speaker 12: planes are still going pretty good jet planes are still
32:12
Speaker 12: available to you. There's not Eskimo about the place. If
32:15
Speaker 12: you notice, there's not Kimo only at Easter, No, no
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Speaker 12: little Eskimo packet of eskimos pineapple lumps, not what they were.
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Speaker 2: No, well, nothing is because that's because we have options now,
32:28
Speaker 2: and we realized pineapple lumps were actually ever that good.
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Speaker 12: I reckon, I disagree. I think of blackberries and raspberries.
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Speaker 2: Would you go to the supermarket and buy well, you would,
32:36
Speaker 2: of course, of course not.
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Speaker 12: But I don't go to the supermarket and I don't
32:38
Speaker 12: buy lollies. So you're talking to the wrong person. But
32:41
Speaker 12: back in the day, it was twenty cents with your
32:45
Speaker 12: pocket money. Yeah, for the blackberries and the raspberrys?
32:47
Speaker 2: What did you do for your pocket money?
32:49
Speaker 12: Or I worked like a dog? Actually, absolutely worked like
32:52
Speaker 12: a dog. I mowed the lawns.
32:53
Speaker 2: Did you We had to work like dogs. But we
32:55
Speaker 2: didn't get pocket money.
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Speaker 4: That was just for board.
32:57
Speaker 12: So you're better raised than I am. But we're a
33:00
Speaker 12: push mower. We didn't have a motor mole. We had
33:02
Speaker 12: a push ma So I pushed went and we had
33:03
Speaker 12: a quarter acre section back in those days. So you
33:06
Speaker 12: had blackberries and raspberries, you had a push moa and
33:08
Speaker 12: you had a quarter acre section. And so you took
33:10
Speaker 12: your twenty cents down to the fall square. They're still around,
33:13
Speaker 12: so you took them down to the fall square, and
33:14
Speaker 12: for twenty cents you could buy a.
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Speaker 2: Good selection you know what they call that, mate, the
33:18
Speaker 2: good old days.
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Speaker 12: That's exactly right. And that's and that's why we're nostalgic
33:21
Speaker 12: for them, because the kids have all moved on. They
33:23
Speaker 12: don't know what we're talking about, but we just longed
33:26
Speaker 12: for what once.
33:26
Speaker 2: But also you look at inflation and what the price
33:28
Speaker 2: of a Jeffer is now compared to what it was.
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Speaker 12: You know what else happened back in the old days? No, no, no,
33:33
Speaker 12: No one stole stuff. There were no thieves back in
33:35
Speaker 12: the old days. True, you didn't have these new rules.
33:37
Speaker 2: See these new rules completely useless. If you can't hold
33:41
Speaker 2: someone down to give them a fine, what's.
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Speaker 12: The point hold them down? Wouldn't you when you be
33:45
Speaker 12: timid to hold them down?
33:46
Speaker 2: You know when they would have held them down the
33:47
Speaker 2: good old days, the good old days, exactly Mike's Necks
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