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Full Show Podcast: 17 August 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: These are the issues, the interviews and the insight. Bryan
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Speaker 3: Morning, welcome to Monday six after five. Great to have
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Speaker 3: your company. We'll look at the top situation before six.
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Speaker 3: Gavin Grays in the UK for US, Vicky Price does
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Speaker 3: the business and New Zealand Fashion Week kicks off this week.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 3: Good Morning, Monday, the seventeenth of August. It's a seven
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Speaker 3: point seven magnitude quake and Indonesia seems to be a
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Speaker 3: lot of these things around lately.
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Speaker 4: The earthquake has caused civily damage to several hospitals and
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Speaker 4: the key hospitals in Flores Islands, and that has been
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Speaker 4: sustaining minor to heavy damage. And because of that, the
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Speaker 4: doctors and the hospitals are too afraid to maintain all
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Speaker 4: the patients inside of the hospital.
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Speaker 3: They's get an update on Ukraine now. Russia says Ukraine
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Speaker 3: has launched its biggest drone attack of the year, eight
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Speaker 3: hundred and twenty two drones reportedly shot down.
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Speaker 5: It's really hard, Luba says, describing the loss of her
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Speaker 5: Vinyl records It's like nurturing a child for eight years,
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Speaker 5: investing in it and then all of a sudden you
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Speaker 5: just lose it.
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Speaker 3: Books are saving us and losing This is like losing
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Speaker 3: our hearts. While Barry's warehouse was also hit with Ukraine climbing,
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Speaker 3: it's targeted the retailer's logistics networks. Now in the UK,
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Speaker 3: Nigel Farage has been re eleaked and as expedited as
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Speaker 3: the MP for Cleecton. Not sure about old Binface.
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Speaker 6: I'm not scared of these people, far from it. But
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Speaker 6: I'm damned if I'm going to stand on a stage
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Speaker 6: having won a resounding victory, a ringing endorsement of all
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Speaker 6: that I've tried to fight for, and you try to
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Speaker 6: fight for and be demeaned and humiliated by nobody's and
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Speaker 6: I will not sadly be attending account.
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Speaker 3: So it didn't Now three million people could see the
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Speaker 3: disability and sickness payments withdrawn or modified. This is under
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Speaker 3: a proposal from France worth about fifty billion in cups.
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Speaker 7: The language that Robert Jenrick is using is really strong.
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Speaker 7: He calls to current approach suicidal empathy, arguing that people,
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Speaker 7: particularly young people with conditions such as anxiety or depression
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Speaker 7: are effectively being written off and put onto benefits when
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Speaker 7: he argues this should be helped into work.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the Headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and Spark for Business Technology that Keeps Business Moving US.
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Speaker 3: Talk ZBALKB a minutes out to five. I noticed over
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Speaker 3: the weekend more and what I mean. It's the middle
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Speaker 3: of winter or near the urs end of winter, but
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Speaker 3: we are in winter. People get sack, people get cold,
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Speaker 3: they go clog up the hospitals. And it's not just
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Speaker 3: that this happens in New Zealand, and this happens around
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Speaker 3: the world, and it happens under both governments labor and national.
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Speaker 3: Let's be real about it. No health system is perfect. Now,
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Speaker 3: if you are one of those people who are sitting
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Speaker 3: in a corridor waiting to be seen by a nurse,
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Speaker 3: probably think it feels abit third world. But that does
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Speaker 3: happen in America. That does happen in the UK. The
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Speaker 3: NHS in Britain is always complained about. Every politician that
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Speaker 3: gets in says I'm going to fix the NHS. Well,
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Speaker 3: no one can fix the NHS and no one will
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Speaker 3: fix the health system here in New Zealand either to
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Speaker 3: make it perfect. It just never will be. It's not
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Speaker 3: privately run, it's not privately operated, and resources are allocated
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Speaker 3: not on necessarily on demand, but a whole bunch of
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Speaker 3: other factors. Now, it's interesting for a couple of reasons.
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Speaker 3: We are told here that we're such a cheap tax
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Speaker 3: haven that we don't have the money in the coffers
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Speaker 3: to cover things like super or healthcare. And so Labour's
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Speaker 3: doing a capital gains tax. But look at England exhibit
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Speaker 3: a top tax rate there is forty five percent on
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Speaker 3: income above one hundred and twenty five pounds. Your capital
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Speaker 3: gains tax is twenty four percent. There when you die,
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Speaker 3: forty percent death tax for any assets above three hundred
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Speaker 3: and twenty five thousand pounds, Bang bang bang. And in
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Speaker 3: all of that taxing, not to mention the rest of
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Speaker 3: the taxing, but in all of that taxing, do even
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Speaker 3: they have a perfect NHTS public health system. No, So
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Speaker 3: when somebody comes to you this campaign season and says
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Speaker 3: I need tax A tax, B tax C to fix something,
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Speaker 3: ask them what happened to Britain, Bryan Bridge? It is
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Speaker 3: ten minutes after five great to have your company. Glad
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Speaker 3: to get that off my chest. Nine two ninety two
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Speaker 3: is the number to text. Always love hearing from you.
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Speaker 3: And we're going to talk about well a couple of things.
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Speaker 3: New Zealand Fashion Week. What are you going to wear?
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Speaker 3: Are you going to go? There's a new trend out
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Speaker 3: there at the moment. A friend of mine who was
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Speaker 3: showing me it's from Copenhagen Fashion Week and it's shoe
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Speaker 3: or socks. Well their shoe they're sort of rubbery shoes,
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Speaker 3: but they go over the toes and all the toes
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Speaker 3: are separated. Anyway, looks idious? Will we be seeing any
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Speaker 3: of that on our runway? Eleven after five News Talks
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Speaker 3: Great to have your company this Monday morning. Interesting, what's
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Speaker 3: happening when the the football so the Oceania Football Confederation,
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Speaker 3: we are part of the Ocean fat we are the
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Speaker 3: big dog in the Oceania Football Confederation and everyone has
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Speaker 3: been deciding and had to decide and vote on do
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Speaker 3: we like Infantino's plan to commercialize the World Cup and
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Speaker 3: do we like him period because his tenure is coming
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Speaker 3: up for a view shortly. And what's the Oceania Football
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Speaker 3: Confederation done is what they followed in the likes of
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Speaker 3: youway for the Europeans and gone new. We don't like
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Speaker 3: that and we don't like him except New Zealand. So
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Speaker 3: the biggest member of the Oceania group, New Zealand, only
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Speaker 3: nation to qualify for the Summer World Cup, broke ranks
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Speaker 3: with the Confederation by withdrawing their backing from Infatino and
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Speaker 3: calling for an independent review of FIFA Ford Enterprise, which
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Speaker 3: has been demanded by three rebel groups. There you go.
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Speaker 3: Fourteen after five, Rayan Bridge, fourteen minutes after five. New
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Speaker 3: Zealand Fashion Week kicks off today, celebrating twenty five years
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Speaker 3: at seven point eight billion dollar industry in New Zealand,
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Speaker 3: employing around seventy six thousand workers. Vivbek Hart of the
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Speaker 3: City CEO of me this morning, Viv, good morning, good morning.
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Speaker 3: So what are you going to be wearing to this thing?
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm still working it out because you need to
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Speaker 2: wear flat shoes to the launch.
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Speaker 8: That's an interesting one with a cocktail output.
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Speaker 3: Oh really, white flat shoes is that because of the well,
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Speaker 3: it's something to do with the venue, so it all
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Speaker 3: will were revealed short ladies don't like that, viv.
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Speaker 2: It's interesting to see if people do that anyway.
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Speaker 3: So does this actually bring any money in for Auckland
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Speaker 3: or not?
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Speaker 8: It absolutely does. Actually, there was a noticeable increase in
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Speaker 8: sales last year around the Queen Street area and downtown
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Speaker 8: apparel and hospitality in particular. On the Wednesday it was
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Speaker 8: nineteen point six percent up on the previous week and
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Speaker 8: the Friday thirty two percent, and it bought a real bards.
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Speaker 3: Actually it was.
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Speaker 8: It was a great event last year, and we're particularly
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Speaker 8: excited this year because it's a great year for the
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Speaker 8: city center and a great week with the open day
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Speaker 8: for CRL on Saturday and the new station, and also
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Speaker 8: right in the middle of restaurant months, so we're expecting
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Speaker 8: a boomer.
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Speaker 3: Have they told us where the opening thing is that?
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Speaker 3: Or is that a surprise?
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Speaker 8: It's the station, the new station, t y. She's got
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Speaker 8: ententss Victoria Street and Wellesley Street.
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Speaker 3: So will they be going the on the cat? What
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Speaker 3: will go up and down the escalator? Will it go
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Speaker 3: along the train?
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Speaker 2: Sorry?
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Speaker 8: No, no, sorry that we've got an open day that's
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Speaker 8: for people to come and see.
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Speaker 3: L No, but I'm talking about the fashion show. Well,
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Speaker 3: the fashion show. Do you think they'll have it down underground?
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Speaker 8: Well, not that I'm aware of it mostly around Shed
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Speaker 8: ten with a few other locations. But we did actually
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Speaker 8: launch restaurants on the underground. It was fabulous.
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Speaker 3: Did you notice they had all these like a disco
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Speaker 3: thing going on? They had all these weird sort of dances.
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Speaker 3: What was that about? Whereabout in the in the subway?
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Speaker 3: It was very strange. I don't know if you'd accord
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Speaker 3: it to Courter.
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Speaker 8: G So that might have been was that on Saturday?
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Speaker 8: You mean the opening of the other State another station
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Speaker 8: in k Road.
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Speaker 3: I might have been that one. Yeah. Anyway, so we
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Speaker 3: unlikely to see anyone walking down a catwalk in a train.
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Speaker 8: Station, well unless it's a surprise, right at all?
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Speaker 2: Well you never know?
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Speaker 3: All right, Hey, good stuff, Thank you for bet out
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Speaker 3: of the City Chief Executive. This morning, it is seventeen
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Speaker 3: It'd be great to have your company nineteen minutes after
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Speaker 3: five high. Ryan. By the time we get paid our
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Speaker 3: wages or salaries, we get taxed on them. Then we
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Speaker 3: pay tax on whatever we purchase. Then on what's left
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Speaker 3: we invest, and that is tax tax the earnings off that.
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Speaker 3: So what do we actually get to keep now are
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Speaker 3: death tax? They're talking about? Oh my goodness, where do
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Speaker 3: you go? Aj Well, not to Australia or to the UK,
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Speaker 3: because these are even the worst. Ryan. How long did
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Speaker 3: underwear last as a fashion trend being worn on the
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Speaker 3: outer of the outer of one's head, Kirsten, This is
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Speaker 3: in relation to fashion Week? I suspect not very long.
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Speaker 3: I haven't. I haven't walked down the street and seen
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Speaker 3: anyone apart from on k Road. This is some crazy
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Speaker 3: people who put the rundies on their head and then
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Speaker 3: try and stab you. Ryan. How is the party on
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Speaker 3: Friday night? Is anyone going to tell us or was
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Speaker 3: there any video coverage? Because I'm sure z B listeners
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Speaker 3: like me would be most interested, says Norman. Norman, I
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Speaker 3: cannot tell you the answer. The party was fantastic. There
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Speaker 3: was an ice sculpture with one hundred years in it.
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Speaker 3: The Prime Minister was there, Mike did a great speech.
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Speaker 3: There was free champagne flowing, there was a chocolate fountain.
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Speaker 3: I didn't even see the chocolate fountain McKenzie. Anyway, it
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Speaker 3: was a great time and yeah, a lot of hobnobbery
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Speaker 3: going on. Twenty after five Brian Bridge. Right, let's get
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Speaker 3: to Vicky Price, Ukarius Business correspondent. Vicky, good morning to you.
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Speaker 9: Good morning.
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Speaker 3: Now you've got an update for us on the cost
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Speaker 3: of wildfires in Europe in terms of GDP.
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Speaker 9: Well, yes, I mean there have been a number of calculations.
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Speaker 9: Of course, the latest ones that we've now got for
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Speaker 9: this year already by the European Commission is something like
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Speaker 9: more than one percent of European GDP. But there's also
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Speaker 9: of course calculations in terms of the billions that will
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Speaker 9: need to be bent for making up, if you like,
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Speaker 9: the damage that's already happened. And the real worry is
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Speaker 9: that that cost is not insured by businesses and there
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Speaker 9: has to be you know, either sort of catastrophe insurance
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Speaker 9: which the government brings in or loads of los of
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Speaker 9: companies and households which I have seen the houses but
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Speaker 9: are not going to be able to get compensation for
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Speaker 9: what's been going on. So it's businesses which are not ensured,
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Speaker 9: it's individuals seeing their property disappear, and of course that
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Speaker 9: may well end up with an awful lot more cost
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Speaker 9: to the government in terms of being able to at least,
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Speaker 9: you know, give a little bit more confidence to people
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Speaker 9: that this reconstruction can actually happen. And of course if
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Speaker 9: you add to that farming community, the crops that have
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Speaker 9: been affected, and the longer term impact of these heat waves,
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Speaker 9: then that's going to be you know, adding to the
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Speaker 9: cost that I've already mentioned to you, which could be
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Speaker 9: indeed very significant totally.
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Speaker 3: What about Germany catting investment into the US because of
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Speaker 3: the trade uncertainty is a significant cat.
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Speaker 9: Well, that's a really interesting figure which has come out
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Speaker 9: just recently which suggests that there's been a you know,
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Speaker 9: it's something like a third of what used to be
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Speaker 9: invested in the US by German companies, says is what
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Speaker 9: is happening now. So it's reduced very, very substantially. And
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Speaker 9: one of the reasons for that is that there is
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Speaker 9: so much uncertainty about the Trump pot is on tariffs
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Speaker 9: in particular, despite the fact, I'm sure you're aware that
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Speaker 9: part of the trading agreement which the U has with
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Speaker 9: the US, there's something like five hundred billion of investment
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Speaker 9: that's supposed to be happening from European companies to the US.
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Speaker 9: So it's the deal that allowed them to have now
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Speaker 9: just a blanket, if you want to call it, that
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Speaker 9: ten percent tax on everything that they sell, plus perhaps
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Speaker 9: special taxes that they have to pay import taxes that
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Speaker 9: not the European of course, but it's the importer, so
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Speaker 9: I have to put on top of thisslike pharmaceuticals and
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Speaker 9: some of the mechanical goods which are being ported in cars.
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Speaker 9: So there is a little bit of uncertainty there. So
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Speaker 9: if you add to that fact that Germany isn't doing
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Speaker 9: particularly well and investment is suffering anyway, it's not greatly surprising,
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Speaker 9: but it does show you a trend, and obviously the
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Speaker 9: US will notice that actually the Europeans aren't investing anything
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Speaker 9: like as much as they said they would, and who knows,
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Speaker 9: of course, what the reaction might be, but it is
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Speaker 9: very significant drop by comparison to what was going on,
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Speaker 9: certainly over the last couple of years before the latest
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Speaker 9: figures for this first half year have just come out.
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Speaker 9: And also what was going on pre COVID where the
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Speaker 9: investment by US by German firms into the US was
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Speaker 9: really significant.
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Speaker 3: Vicky Kutevir upload is always Vicky Price, do our business correspondent.
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Speaker 3: It is twenty four minutes after five. Very quickly, this
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Speaker 3: is staying in Europe for a second. The Moroccan police,
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Speaker 3: you know that suet of the place in Spain, what's
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Speaker 3: the Spanish enclave in North Africa. But we saw those
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Speaker 3: hordes of people swimming just no life, no boat, no dingy,
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Speaker 3: no nothing, just swimming across to the coast. Well it's
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Speaker 3: happened again and this time Rock and police were ready.
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Speaker 3: They have arrested at least one hundred and eleven people
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Speaker 3: who try to ender Spain. It is twenty five after
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Speaker 3: five News TALKSB News Talks EB twenty seven after five
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Speaker 3: on your Monday morning. Hey, Labor New Zealand is not Australia.
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Speaker 3: A little message for you this morning. Last week on
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Speaker 3: my Herald show, I ran through some numbers on tops
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Speaker 3: calculator and that got ugly for Top. Today we're looking
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Speaker 3: at Labour's capital gains tax. They justify it by looking
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Speaker 3: at Australia. They say, just look across the ditch and
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Speaker 3: the sky hasn't fallen. Here's a quote from them. Australia
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Speaker 3: introduced a capital gains tax in nineteen eighty five, and
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Speaker 3: its economy and incomes have kept growing. Okay, like those
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Speaker 3: two things are related. This is true, not untrue, but
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Speaker 3: also amidst two quite important things. One, Australia is not
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Speaker 3: rich because it has a capital gains tax. Australia is
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Speaker 3: rich because it has a larger economy, greater economies of scale,
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Speaker 3: and mainly because, unlike they extract minerals and fossil fuels
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Speaker 3: from the earth for the rest of the world to
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Speaker 3: burn and all make steel. Their top export earners are
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Speaker 3: iron ore oil and gas coal LNG and then finally farming.
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Speaker 3: Guess we are those young people who are leaving New
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Speaker 3: Zealand and leaving Motel City in Rottadua looking for a
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Speaker 3: job where they're probably going a mining job in Australia,
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Speaker 3: Labour wouldn't let them have here. Number two, this is
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Speaker 3: how the tax is applied. It's not fair because labor
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Speaker 3: New Zealand's tax is treated very differently to the Aussies.
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Speaker 3: Let's say you buy a house a rental today for
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Speaker 3: a million bucks. You can sell it for one and
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Speaker 3: a half and ten years. You've made five hundred k. Right. Wrong.
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Speaker 3: Once you take into account how much inflation has eroded
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Speaker 3: away the value of that money in real terms, you
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Speaker 3: are worse off. So you are getting taxed on the
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Speaker 3: full twenty eight percent, on the full five hundred k,
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Speaker 3: when it should be the three hundred k or whatever
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Speaker 3: the inflation adjustment is. And here again the Aussies do
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Speaker 3: it better. They are not as harsh. They give you
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Speaker 3: a fifty percent discount to account for inflation. No such
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Speaker 3: offer from Hipkins, no such offer from labor and probably
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Speaker 3: and what is this going to bring house prices down? Well? No,
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Speaker 3: because remember they need it to go up in order
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Speaker 3: to pay for the doctor's visits. So does the math
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Speaker 3: really add up? Here? Ryan Bridge, you're on news TALKSB.
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Speaker 5: So that truly far away from six newstalks, it'd be
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Speaker 5: great to have your company.
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Speaker 3: On this Monday morning, I'll tell you what We were
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Speaker 3: just talking about taxes over in the UK, and there
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Speaker 3: is a new report This is from the Adam Smith
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Speaker 3: Institute that says, not only is are they fleeing really
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Speaker 3: rich people fleeing the UK, but they're not creating as
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Speaker 3: many home grown billionaires and millionaires either. So here are
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Speaker 3: the numbers. Compared to twenty twenty four, Britain has thirty
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Speaker 3: five thousand fewer residents worth a net worth of a
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Speaker 3: million pounds or more. This is the fewest since two
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Speaker 3: thousand and eight and it's a seven percent decline in
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Speaker 3: two years, which is not a good sign. Why is
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Speaker 3: this not a good sign Because the Adam Smith Institute
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Speaker 3: says the top one percent of earners pay twenty nine
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Speaker 3: percent of British income tax. If the rich people leave,
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Speaker 3: they'll take their taxes with them, you can be sure
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Speaker 3: of that. And the number for homegrown is down at
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Speaker 3: least ten percent on where it was last year. Twenty
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Speaker 3: three away from sex ran Bridge, our reporters Callen, good morning,
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Ryan. What's the major event in Dunedin.
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Speaker 10: It's a big surf event that's been announced this morning
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Speaker 10: for Saint Clair Beach. The World's surf leg Qualifying competition
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Speaker 10: of the WSL will be held here in Daneda next March.
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Speaker 10: So this is good news that to Dnedan has an
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Speaker 10: event to announce. It's been a while since we've had
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Speaker 10: an announcement of this sort and it'll provide a much
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Speaker 10: needed boost for the city's economy.
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Speaker 3: Events expected to attract about two.
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Speaker 10: Hundred surfers from across the Asia Pacific region and inject
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Speaker 10: about four million dollars into the local economy with the
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Speaker 10: two thousand visitors that it will bring. It's back by
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Speaker 10: the Danedan City Council and its Events procurement funding. Ryans
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Speaker 10: So Mayor Sophie Barker says this will put our cities
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Speaker 10: coastline in the spotlight and give thousands of potential visitors
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Speaker 10: a reason to consider it and its planned to become
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Speaker 10: a regular fixture for the city.
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Speaker 3: Great staff, Callum, how's your weather?
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Speaker 10: The odd shower from midday here, a cel weister developing
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Speaker 10: and a high of twelveth Nice one, Thank you, clar and.
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Speaker 3: Christ It's morning, clear, good morning. What's the latest on
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Speaker 3: this fatal dog attack? Very sad?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, this is so sad.
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Speaker 11: They've had more than thirty five thousand dollars donated to
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Speaker 11: the family and the parents effectively of this one year
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Speaker 11: old who died in a dog attack here in christ
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Speaker 11: Church on Friday. Sonny Charles Watson is the child's name.
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Speaker 11: He died from critical injuries and the property on bassing
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Speaker 11: Stote Street in Ardanui the dog lived at the property.
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Speaker 11: That dog has since been removed from there. Sonny's parents
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Speaker 11: say he was their ray of sunshine. He brought light
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Speaker 11: to everyone's lives. I Give a Little pages been set
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Speaker 11: up by friends of theirs from the Checkmate jiu Jitsu
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Speaker 11: club where Sonny's parents are coaches, in order to help
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Speaker 11: ease some of the financial pressure they're facing. The page
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Speaker 11: says donations will allow them some space to grieve and
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Speaker 11: support one another without the added burden of worrying about
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Speaker 11: work and expenses. Police are continuing to investigate. They say
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Speaker 11: they've asked the public not to speculate, and council has
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Speaker 11: also not shared any further details on the dog's breed specifically.
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Speaker 3: All right, clear, thank you very much.
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Speaker 11: What about weather futures this morning should clear to find
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Speaker 11: this morning we could see some frosts at southwesterlies and
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Speaker 11: a high twelve.
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Speaker 3: Well, thank you. In mex and Rullings and morning Max,
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Speaker 3: good morning. Police are back down over a gang insignia prosecution.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, a curious case that just went through the High
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Speaker 12: Court regarding gang patches, insignia, etc. It seems police might
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Speaker 12: be still trying to figure this stuff out. Mongrel Mob
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Speaker 12: member Acid Tadata has already successfully been prosecuted and had
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Speaker 12: his patch confiscated. Earlier this year, he gone to trouble
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Speaker 12: again and taken to court for wearing in public of
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Speaker 12: rugby league jersey that is technically affiliated with the mongrel Mob.
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Speaker 12: It just says Lower North Bulldogs on the front. It
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Speaker 12: was a jersey that was produced for the Gang's Clash
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Speaker 12: of the region's tournament that happens every year different chapters
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Speaker 12: taking part against each other playing rugby league. Nothing visibly
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Speaker 12: mob about it, though, aside from a very small bulldog
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Speaker 12: in the logo. The case returned to the High Court
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Speaker 12: and police offered up no evidence that current legislation had
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Speaker 12: been breached, so the charge was thrown out. Gang patches,
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Speaker 12: where does it start and end? Tadata's lawyer says, if
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Speaker 12: he were to roll around in public in the very
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Speaker 12: same rugby league Jersey, no one would batter an eyelid
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Speaker 12: or think it was gang affiliated. And this was a
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Speaker 12: case of a known gang member being unfairly targeted.
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Speaker 3: Interesting, how's without you're.
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Speaker 12: Weather cloudy, period's occasional showers, Southerly's nine.
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Speaker 3: Nice on, Thanks Max, neighbors and all come good morning, neighbors.
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Speaker 13: Morning.
22:38
Speaker 3: Urban planning could be key to unlocking Auckland's full potential.
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Speaker 13: Yes, now, Auckland Council, this is new Auckland Council analysis,
22:46
Speaker 13: I should say. Now it's highlighting how local policy choices
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Speaker 13: could help boost the city's productivity. Now this is through housing,
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Speaker 13: transport and also infrastructure. So this new analysis is laying
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Speaker 13: out a number of priorities, including allowing more productive use
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Speaker 13: of the urban land. Now, Gary Blick, he's the chief economist.
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Speaker 13: He's saying that there's some urban planning rules that are
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Speaker 13: already in the process of being adjusted, particularly in areas
23:10
Speaker 13: obviously of that soon to open city rail links. So
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Speaker 13: says this means people live in those locations, Well, they'll
23:17
Speaker 13: have more choice on housing types and access to housing.
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Speaker 12: Overall.
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Speaker 3: Nice stuff. How's our weather fine?
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Speaker 13: Apart from a few early morning showers, I'm still cold.
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Speaker 13: We've got those southerlyes whipping through today's high twelve beautiful Neva.
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Speaker 3: Thank you very much. It is nippy this morning. Time
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Speaker 3: is eleven sorry, nineteen minutes away from six o'clock. You're
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Speaker 3: o news talks there, b we are live to the UK.
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Speaker 1: Next International correspondence with ends and eye insurance. Peace of
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Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 3: Whose talks twenty sorry, sixteen minutes away from six. Moroccan
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Speaker 3: authorities have intercepted dozens of migrants seeking to cross into
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Speaker 3: the Spanish North African enclave of Sweta. Gavin Gray's our
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Speaker 3: UK Europe correspondent, Gavin, Good morning.
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Speaker 14: Go mining Ryan. Yes, here we go again. Is what
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Speaker 14: the EU is concerned about because a fortnight ago, seventy
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Speaker 14: eight thousand migrants arrived in the Spanish enclave, which is
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Speaker 14: really surrounded by Morocco on three sides as it were,
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Speaker 14: and the sea on the other, and those seventy eight
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Speaker 14: thousand around in just a matter of hours. Tragically, one
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Speaker 14: hundred did die, but all that sets Morocco apart from
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Speaker 14: the Spanish enclave is some fencing. Now, just in the
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Speaker 14: last few days Moroccan police, including some in riot gear,
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Speaker 14: have been really much much more present, and indeed Spain
24:36
Speaker 14: has really been putting a lot of effort into installing
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Speaker 14: new boundaries, a big metal fence, a floating barrier, because
24:44
Speaker 14: they're trying to come round on the sea. Morocco dispatching
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Speaker 14: army officers, navy speedboats and drones to the border, and
24:52
Speaker 14: Madrid sending one and a half thousand security officers to
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Speaker 14: patrol the area. So they are taking this very seriously,
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Speaker 14: but it does appear on social media there are calls
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Speaker 14: for another mass move from North Africa from Morocco into
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Speaker 14: the Spanish enclave. And of course this is where last
25:08
Speaker 14: time around Spain fell out with Italy, Finland, Denmark, Czech Republic,
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Speaker 14: who all said, right, well, we're very concerned about this
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Speaker 14: and the free movement of people across the EU, and
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Speaker 14: now we're going to sort of suggest that Spain is
25:20
Speaker 14: severed from that agreement temporarily.
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Speaker 3: Now. In one of the biggest cock ups of probably
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Speaker 3: the Myth's history, the London Police are apologizing for inadvertently
25:30
Speaker 3: sending out email addresses of people who were accused Muhammed
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Speaker 3: al Fayed of sixual abuse.
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Speaker 14: Yes, so Mohammed phil had, of course a well known
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Speaker 14: businessman here Egyptian, but had British rights to stay in
25:44
Speaker 14: Britain and owned Harold's, the exclusive department store. But he
25:49
Speaker 14: since died, and really since his death, lots of people
25:52
Speaker 14: have come forward saying young women that he was employed
25:56
Speaker 14: and manipulated them then in order to try and get promoted. Now,
26:01
Speaker 14: suffice to say, there's been lots of claims that this
26:03
Speaker 14: is not true, but those claims standing out, and indeed
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Speaker 14: Harold's has given some money out in compensation for those.
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Speaker 14: But it's now estimated one hundred and forty people have
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Speaker 14: come forward with this saying they were sexually abused by
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Speaker 14: the former Harold's owner. And what's rather sad about this,
26:24
Speaker 14: as you mentioned, is that the Scotland Yard Detectives police
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Speaker 14: in London were doing a monthly email update to those
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Speaker 14: alleged victims saying this is where we are with the
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Speaker 14: police investigation, except they didn't blind copy it, in which
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Speaker 14: of course I think everyone will know. Is when you
26:41
Speaker 14: do a mass email, but nobody can see anyone else's
26:44
Speaker 14: email address, and they accidentally just copied everyone in so
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Speaker 14: all the victims could see all the email addresses and
26:52
Speaker 14: some of the names of the other victims. So the
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Speaker 14: forces apologized for this. It was due to human error,
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Speaker 14: they said. But this is the second big problem with
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Speaker 14: a data breach. Indeed, the Watchdog has taken action because
27:06
Speaker 14: one breach involved an officer disclosing a stalking victim's new
27:09
Speaker 14: address and telephone number to her alleged talker.
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Speaker 3: Goodness, mate, Vince, Sorry, Gavin gray are UK europe correspondent.
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Speaker 3: Time is twelve minutes away from six Bryan Bridge. Right,
27:20
Speaker 3: let's look politics back home. Top ones, a political donation
27:23
Speaker 3: cap of thirty k donut per party per literal cycle.
27:27
Speaker 3: That's the detail past, a public lobbying register, and stricter
27:31
Speaker 3: rules around contact with ministerial officers.
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Speaker 9: We should be making this a contest of ideas, not
27:37
Speaker 9: who can put the most billboards out there or pay
27:39
Speaker 9: for as many social media ads as possible.
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Speaker 3: Julie Haggie, Transparency International CEO, with me this morning. Good morning, Julie,
27:45
Speaker 3: good morning. So I'm just looking at their returns. I
27:48
Speaker 3: mean they've got a donation from someone with seventy five grand,
27:51
Speaker 3: so pot kettle black.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well it is a wait, and I think, yeah,
27:57
Speaker 2: I can see what people are heavily go at. But
27:59
Speaker 2: of course it's see that people who are having to
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Speaker 2: go have got a lot more than more than that
28:04
Speaker 2: and aren't saying anything about what they're anything about integrity.
28:07
Speaker 2: So it's that's politics for you. Isn't that people beating
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Speaker 2: off on each other generally? Soon? And I think I
28:14
Speaker 2: think it's great to see what they're proposing. It's a
28:17
Speaker 2: stick in a stand that we haven't seen for a
28:20
Speaker 2: while on integrity and and so yeah, there's probably the
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Speaker 2: motives and of traveling all around that, but I still
28:28
Speaker 2: think it's a it's a really good move for them.
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Speaker 3: When you say, you know, when we talk about managing
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Speaker 3: conflicts in politics and in business, where if you've got
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Speaker 3: a close relationship with a certain business industry or a
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Speaker 3: you know, you stand to benefit financially from a donation,
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Speaker 3: then you should recruise recuse yourself from decision making, shouldn't you?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it should be Yeah, that's generally. Yeah, it's a
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Speaker 2: general general philosophy of conflicts of interest, that's for sure.
28:56
Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean for you're talking about that in
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Speaker 2: terms of this party putting up a thing and then
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Speaker 2: getting money. Is that what you're saying.
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Speaker 3: No, No, I'm just saying in general that if the government,
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Speaker 3: if the government's working on a policy, I'm mates with
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Speaker 3: Bob who owns a fishing company, I have to sit
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Speaker 3: out of this decision because everyone knows I know Bob,
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Speaker 3: and I'm declaring it.
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Speaker 2: You know, yes, yes, And that's actually in the There
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Speaker 2: is actually rules and politicians do do that. You can
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Speaker 2: go on the line and find the list.
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Speaker 3: So it's all quite transparent, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Well not really, because you don't actually know who's coming.
29:29
Speaker 2: It's about lobbying. Public doesn't really know who's trying to
29:32
Speaker 2: influence government and to be able to balance out up
29:36
Speaker 2: against say public consultation, for example. So if there's been
29:41
Speaker 2: a sudden change in policy, and you can and you
29:46
Speaker 2: can have a look and you can see, okay, who's
29:48
Speaker 2: been in touch with him to shift that. We should
29:50
Speaker 2: know that. I mean, that's what happened with the Fonterra
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Speaker 2: case and with the influence on politicians around climate relationship arming.
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Speaker 2: You know, nobody knew about that because it wasn't just clear,
30:04
Speaker 2: and I think that's what we're talking about experience.
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Speaker 3: I think it's a lobbying sign and sign out book
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Speaker 3: that we can all see basically.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, lobbyists. And it depends what you mean by that,
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Speaker 2: because the definition is really important. But lobbyists should be.
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Speaker 3: Able to have to say who are they? I mean
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Speaker 3: if Greenpeace would be a lobbyist, wouldn't they yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, thanks being international would be a lobbyist. That's
30:26
Speaker 2: how wide I would go. And some jurisdictions have only
30:30
Speaker 2: gone to third party lobbyists, you know, the terms that
30:32
Speaker 2: actually advertise themselves as professional lobbyists. But that's turned out
30:36
Speaker 2: not to be not to be sufficient. And then it's
30:39
Speaker 2: much better when they've actually gone border and said, okay,
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Speaker 2: anybody's actually trying to influence without, you know, not including
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Speaker 2: the people who are talking to them down the road
30:46
Speaker 2: and meeting them at the supermarket. And then I think
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Speaker 2: there's plenty of got evidence overseas, plenty of good examples.
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Speaker 3: If you're going to put if you're going to put
30:53
Speaker 3: like Fonterra on there, I think you also have to
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Speaker 3: put great power on there. You have to put green
30:57
Speaker 3: Peace on there. You have to put the world Wildliine
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Speaker 3: Fund on there. Do you know what I mean? Because
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Speaker 3: they've all got their interests. They might be for things
31:04
Speaker 3: you like or don't like, but they all have interest
31:06
Speaker 3: and they're all trying to change policy. Therefore they're all lobbyists.
31:11
Speaker 3: Eight to six News Talk said B.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 3: News talk ed B. Six to six News Talk said,
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Speaker 3: be you know how South and North Korea are basically
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Speaker 3: still at war, technically still at war since nineteen fifty three.
31:31
Speaker 3: They ended hostilities, they signed an armistice, but there was
31:34
Speaker 3: no end to the war. Well, they're trying to do
31:37
Speaker 3: that again. They've tried many times over the years, but
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Speaker 3: they reckon that they're getting the closest they've been in
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Speaker 3: quite a while. The South Korean president is the one
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Speaker 3: reaching out to the more tetchy Kim Jong On and
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Speaker 3: we'll see where that goes, won't we. Bridge read a
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Speaker 3: long time between drinks, right, it is six minutes away
31:54
Speaker 3: from six and Mike's in the studio morning way, So
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Speaker 3: you Ryan, good weekend.
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Speaker 15: I had a great weekends.
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Speaker 3: Thank you. Lovely, lovely little speech you did at the
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Speaker 3: hundredth anniversary party on Friday night.
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Speaker 15: Pretty nice, very nice for you to say. Can I
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Speaker 15: just for the record say, Katie thought you were the
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Speaker 15: best dressed person there?
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Speaker 3: She really, I thought, no.
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Speaker 15: Good And I actually, to be fair, I think you
32:18
Speaker 15: probably were.
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Speaker 3: You're lovely, thank you.
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Speaker 15: And here's the interesting thing about it. See she felt
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Speaker 15: because she wore a very sort of long elegant and
32:28
Speaker 15: so she thought she was over dressed.
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Speaker 3: Well, she would have been pleased to see me, which.
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Speaker 15: Would have made you the over by my argument, as
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Speaker 15: you can't be overdressed exactly. And so you had a
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Speaker 15: very tom Ford sort of look about you in a
32:41
Speaker 15: black velvet, thank you, jacket brand bow tie, the brand
32:45
Speaker 15: in there, and it was it was excellent. So she
32:48
Speaker 15: was really impressed.
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Speaker 3: So that was all good. What were you wearing? It
32:52
Speaker 3: was a nice sort of.
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Speaker 15: A little something I threw on last minute.
32:56
Speaker 3: I actually thought the Prime Minister speech was kind of funny.
32:59
Speaker 15: See here's the thing, and I'll talk to him about
33:01
Speaker 15: that later on because a lot of people, I can't
33:04
Speaker 15: tell you how many people in the room just turned
33:05
Speaker 15: around and go, why don't we hear more?
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Speaker 3: Of that. Yeah, And I've.
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Speaker 15: Actually got an answer, And the answer is because the
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Speaker 15: bloke you saw on Friday night wasn't post cabinet being
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Speaker 15: peppered by questions from the media. He was just a
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Speaker 15: guy who had written the speech, was an amusing, entertaining
33:19
Speaker 15: kind of guy. And that's the gap between what you
33:22
Speaker 15: see and what you get. Sometimes.
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Speaker 3: Does that tell you he thought he was in a
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Speaker 3: comfortable room? Probably, and what happens when he goes into
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Speaker 3: the one hundred thousand uncomfortable?
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Speaker 15: That's the difficulty's and that's the difference between say a
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Speaker 15: key who he was what he was, Yeah, you know,
33:38
Speaker 15: take me or leave me, whereas I don't know that
33:40
Speaker 15: luxein is necessarily mastered to take me or leave me thing.
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Speaker 3: Did you read? I think it was in the Post
33:45
Speaker 3: at the weekend? There was narticle, an opinion piece. Basically,
33:49
Speaker 3: if he had the votes, if he had the mandate,
33:52
Speaker 3: you can act like a bit of a full sometime
33:54
Speaker 3: you get the permission.
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Speaker 15: But there's a skill in there's a skill in being
33:58
Speaker 15: completely free to be yourself. And once you get surrounded
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Speaker 15: by a lot of rules and regulations and people and
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Speaker 15: marketing and spin and all that sort of stuff.
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Speaker 3: You can easily for it, get a lot of blue tape.
34:08
Speaker 15: Anyway, he's in this.
34:08
Speaker 3: Morning, and who knows what he'll say.
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Speaker 15: I mean, you know, he's like these days, it's just
34:13
Speaker 15: policy on.
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Speaker 3: We're off to war exactly. Have a great day. See tomorrow.
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