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Full Show Podcast: 23 March 2026 · 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: earlier this show with one roof Love where you Live
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Speaker 1: News Talk said, be.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, great to have your company. Just gone six
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Speaker 2: after five, coming up this morning, interest free loans for
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Speaker 2: eb charging stations. Gavin Gray's in the UK for US
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Speaker 2: Andrew was sporting dog attacks. The government is moving to
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Speaker 2: finally crack down.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: Monday, the twenty third of March, about seventeen hours left
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Speaker 2: on Trump's ultimatum clock obliterate Iranian power plants. That's the
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Speaker 2: threat if they don't open the Strait. Ran says, well,
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Speaker 2: we're not going to open the strait and we'll go
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Speaker 2: nuts if you do that. In Netanya, who says, well,
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Speaker 2: they're already there.
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Speaker 3: If you want proof that Iran endangers the entire world,
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Speaker 3: the last forty eight hours have given it. In the
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Speaker 3: last forty eight hours, Ran targeted a civilian area. They're
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Speaker 3: doing that as a mass murder weapon. Luckily no one
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Speaker 3: was killed, but that's due to luck, not their intention.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, in the UK, the government ministers they're hosing down
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Speaker 2: talk that an Iranian missile could hit Paris or London,
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Speaker 2: not aware.
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Speaker 4: Of any assessment at all that they are even trying
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Speaker 4: to target Europe let alone, that they could if they tried,
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Speaker 4: But even if they did, we have the necessary military
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Speaker 4: capability to defend this country.
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Speaker 2: Finally, this morning, have you heard about the story the
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Speaker 2: small French town. There's amoral election and they're facing off
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Speaker 2: today voters today mayor running for reelection. His name is
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Speaker 2: Hitler and his opponent's name is Zelinski.
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Speaker 5: They are municipal elections, local elections, and every town, city
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Speaker 5: has its own particularity in a lot of personalities involved.
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Speaker 5: Who who kind of transcend the national concerns.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines On early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and one roof Love Where you.
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Speaker 2: Live Us Talks ad Me eight after five? Did you
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Speaker 2: head along to Winston's speech and totong yesterday? Did you
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Speaker 2: have yourself a good afternoon? One thing became very clear.
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Speaker 2: I listened to his speech and he was attacking as
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Speaker 2: much I think national former national governments as he was
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Speaker 2: Labour ones. It was a typical MP speech from Winston Peters.
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Speaker 2: I'm the guy in the middle that'll be the handbrake
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Speaker 2: and keep them all honest, which is what he's done
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Speaker 2: for how many years now? But the one thing that
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Speaker 2: won't be happening is asset sales, because he makes the
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Speaker 2: point and really the governments he hated the most were
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Speaker 2: not MMP governments. Really they were Ruth Richardson, Roger Douglas.
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Speaker 2: They were Jacindaden and Grant Robertson, who remember, while it
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Speaker 2: was an MMP election, the outcome was anything but so
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Speaker 2: they had a landslide. So he didn't like that. And
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Speaker 2: he says that those governments screwed the country, screwed the
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Speaker 2: poach more than any others, and so he will be
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Speaker 2: in there to keep these types of governments honest. But
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Speaker 2: one thing he kept mentioning is that Labour gets us
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Speaker 2: into debt and then National comes in and sells off
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Speaker 2: the family silver to pay for it. The asset sales.
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Speaker 2: So I think you can bet your bottom dollar that
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Speaker 2: no matter how much Christopher Luxon talks about asset sales
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Speaker 2: and how much ACT might want them, it's probably going
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Speaker 2: to be a non start of this election. I mean,
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Speaker 2: even Seymour last week when I spoke to him about
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Speaker 2: the New Zealand situation. Oh, they're awoke. They're running the
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Speaker 2: airline into the ground with the electric planes and all
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Speaker 2: this sort of stuff. Even he said, yeah, actually, it
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Speaker 2: wouldn't be a bottom line getting rid of or flogging
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Speaker 2: off an airline or flogging off an asset like that,
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Speaker 2: So I think that can be pretty much a non starter. Now,
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Speaker 2: as for the Greens, Winston did mention them in his
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Speaker 2: speech yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Just look at the ida of the seats.
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Speaker 6: They are all in the center of center of cities,
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Speaker 6: full of well to do, upper crust bubbles or work
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Speaker 6: obsesstudents and windows with.
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Speaker 3: People here.
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Speaker 2: One for the crowd. Now they have come out this
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Speaker 2: morning with a couple of ideas, if you call them,
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Speaker 2: that make public trainsport free. This is for to solve
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Speaker 2: the crisis we currently find ourselves, and if we'd call
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Speaker 2: it a crisis yet though I don't think we're quite there,
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Speaker 2: public transport free for users. How much will that cost
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Speaker 2: a relief payment for low income people who live real
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Speaker 2: really okay, how much will that cost? A wind full
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Speaker 2: profits tax to prevent corporate price gouging? Now, when I
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Speaker 2: heard about this yesterday, I thought, on what basis are
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Speaker 2: you asking for a windfall profit tax to prevent corporate
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Speaker 2: price scouging? Because the last time I checked, which was
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Speaker 2: literally on Friday, the Commerce Commission said that the fuel
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Speaker 2: companies are not price gouging and it's their job to monitor.
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Speaker 2: So who are we taxing exactly?
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Speaker 5: Bredge Rich.
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Speaker 2: Ten minutes after five, I'll get you across what the
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Speaker 2: Fitch Ratings agency came out with a bit of a
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Speaker 2: downgrade to our outlook. I'll tell you what that means
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Speaker 2: in just a second. Also, Andrew is here was Sport
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Speaker 2: News Talk SEB on your.
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Speaker 1: Radio and online on iheard radio edition with Ryan Bridge
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Speaker 1: and one roof Love where you Live, News Talks.
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Speaker 2: EDB, News Talk SAIB. It is their teen minutes after five,
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Speaker 2: there's some numbers out saying more people are getting on
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Speaker 2: the bus, getting on public transport because the price of
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Speaker 2: fuel has gone up. I guess that stands to reason. Also,
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Speaker 2: the EV announcement is interesting and we'll talk to we'll
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Speaker 2: talk about this, I should say, just before six this morning,
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Speaker 2: doubling the number of charging stations. Would that be a
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Speaker 2: game changer for you? Is that the reason that you're
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Speaker 2: not buying an EV or is the reason you're not
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Speaker 2: buying an EV because of the price, all because you
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Speaker 2: just don't like them. Also, we will talk about the
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Speaker 2: fact that Tom Walsh has won a fourth shot put
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Speaker 2: World indoor title. This was in Poland Andrew with Sport
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Speaker 2: next fourteen after.
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Speaker 1: Five Ryan Bridge go Govenment's.
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Speaker 2: Finally making moves to help prevent dog attacks, if that's
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Speaker 2: even possible, order a review of the Dog Control Acts
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Speaker 2: to crack down on roaming dogs, updating enforcement guidelines so
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Speaker 2: that control offers have consistent approach to their work. Grant
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Speaker 2: McCallum north from the MP with us this morning morning, Grant,
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Speaker 2: good morning, Right, what's the problem here? If a dog attacks,
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Speaker 2: somebody put it down. What's so hard?
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Speaker 7: Well, there's a legal process to go through because some
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Speaker 7: some dog owners object to the fact you might want
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Speaker 7: to put the dog down. So but we're going to
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Speaker 7: review the Dog Control Act to actually say, okay, have
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Speaker 7: we got the settings right? And it's got to be
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Speaker 7: a comprehensive review because no one wants dog attacks at all,
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Speaker 7: and we've got to make sure the owners understand their
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Speaker 7: responsibilities and we have a much clearer set of guide,
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Speaker 7: like a set of rules that the councils can enforce
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Speaker 7: much more efficiently and easily.
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Speaker 2: What do you think they should be Grant, Like, if
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Speaker 2: your dog attacks a child and you know, just rips
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Speaker 2: in the face up.
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Speaker 7: They should be put well in the end, yes, absolutely,
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Speaker 7: they should be put down. There should be taken to
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Speaker 7: the as you've taken to the pound and put down.
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Speaker 7: That's the attacking human being on a farm. If we
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Speaker 7: as a farmer, if you see a dog attacking your stock,
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Speaker 7: you're allowed to shoot it. If a dog attacks at
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Speaker 7: a human being, then that should ultimately be what should happen,
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Speaker 7: no question.
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Speaker 2: At the moment. If a dog attacks livestock, you can
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Speaker 2: shoot it.
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Speaker 7: For training around on my property is yeah, yeah, okay,
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Speaker 7: then that's a difference, right, it's on my property.
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Speaker 2: Yes. Now what about dockland, because you get a lot
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Speaker 2: of the unconstructed, the feral dogs on dockland, they should
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Speaker 2: be shot on site too well.
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Speaker 7: And that's why the Minister of Conservation to Paul Tuck
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Speaker 7: is when you get a program where they're going to
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Speaker 7: get some professional hounds and to take care of dogs
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Speaker 7: on do on dock land, wild dogs, there is the
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Speaker 7: odd place where they have that is starting to happen
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Speaker 7: when there's wild dogs, so we're going to be that
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Speaker 7: the idea is to go and take care of them
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Speaker 7: because they are not good for tourism. Or for farmers
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Speaker 7: they have to put up.
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Speaker 2: With the stuff. No, they don't want to be walking
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Speaker 2: down a dock track and get jumped by a feral dog,
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Speaker 2: do you correct.
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Speaker 7: So that's why we are taking action in that space,
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Speaker 7: which is really good to see.
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Speaker 2: All right, Okay, So the message to dog owners is
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Speaker 2: look out the laws changing. It's a privilege, not a right,
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Speaker 2: and if your dog attacks another at a human being,
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Speaker 2: you'll probably have it dead.
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Speaker 7: Well it should be. Ultimately, Yes, the authorities, our governmently
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Speaker 7: counsels can do there, but we as dig oing and
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Speaker 7: yes I'm a dog owner both working on a pet dogs.
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Speaker 7: Our responsibility to look after our dogs, you know. And
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Speaker 7: it's the good owners have got nothing to fear here.
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Speaker 7: It's the people that don't look after their dogs that have.
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Speaker 7: How the ones that we're going to be making sure
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Speaker 7: actually get the message that wild dogs or dangerous dogs
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Speaker 7: are not welcome out society because people should be able
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Speaker 7: to go out and enjoy the outdoors and local park
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Speaker 7: without being worried about being attacked by dog.
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Speaker 2: Grant McCallum, Northrom the MP, good to have you on
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Speaker 2: the show is always Grant upright and early. He is
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Speaker 2: sixteen minutes after five. So the Fitch Ratings Agency you
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Speaker 2: might have seen this at the weekend. They give us
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Speaker 2: one of the agencies that gives us our credit ratings.
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Speaker 2: So we have maintained or affirmed our AA plus rating
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Speaker 2: tick good. Great. The outlook though, has turned negative. So
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Speaker 2: what does this mean. Well, it doesn't mean that our
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Speaker 2: borrowing costs will go up yet, so we still have
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Speaker 2: our rating affirmed, but the outlook is negative. So basically
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Speaker 2: we're on notice to pay down our debt and get
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Speaker 2: our spending under control. It's higher now, our spending is
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Speaker 2: a percentage of GDP than Grant Robertson had it, and
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Speaker 2: we keep delaying the surplus. And by the way, we're
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Speaker 2: not currently getting the same benefit because, I mean, the
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Speaker 2: ratings agency makes the point, and economists have made the
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Speaker 2: point that at least when Grant Robertson was spending like
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Speaker 2: a drunken sailor, there was some stimulus going on. There
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Speaker 2: was you know, the payments to business, etc. We're not
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Speaker 2: even getting the benefit of that now. So what exactly
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Speaker 2: are we spending all this money on? Is the question.
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Speaker 2: They're basically been warned. We spend ten almost ten billion
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Speaker 2: dollars a year on interest on the debt that we
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Speaker 2: owe that they racked up ten billion dollars. That is
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Speaker 2: more than we spend on police, customs, correction and defense combined.
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Speaker 2: Eighteen after five.
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Speaker 1: Confuse it, use you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: early Ediship with Bryan Bridge and one roofe Love where
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Speaker 1: you live, news talks. He'd be talk.
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Speaker 2: We get to sport in just a few seconds. Ryan
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Speaker 2: my son was attacked by two pig dogs. Owners refused
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Speaker 2: to put the dogs down. Council had no power. Turns
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Speaker 2: out it was not the first time. Kate says, it's
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Speaker 2: absolutely unbelievable. So we had Grant McCullum on the show
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Speaker 2: and if he was riding the rules then which he
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Speaker 2: would be a part of doing that. But if he
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Speaker 2: was riding the rules, if your dog attacks another human,
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Speaker 2: then it's shot, well not shot, but it's put down.
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Speaker 2: It's euthanized. If your dog attacks stock, livestock on the farm, shot,
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Speaker 2: which you can do now because it's your property. And
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Speaker 2: on dockland. If there's feral dogs in they're roaming around
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Speaker 2: them and they're causing a problem, well you get the
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Speaker 2: hunters in and you take them out. Twenty one after
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Speaker 2: five Ryan Bridge like sport andrews here morning, Andrew Goodding's Ryan.
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Speaker 2: Now Tom Walsh great, great knight to right.
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Speaker 8: He started again a fourth World Indoor title and defending
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Speaker 8: his championship from Nanjing last year, this time in the
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Speaker 8: heart of Poland, and Walsh has thrown twenty one point
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Speaker 8: eight two. He took a lead twenty one point sixty
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Speaker 8: six in the fifth rounds. I was getting a bit
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Speaker 8: tight there, but has gone on to then extend that
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Speaker 8: with his final throws. So yeah, well it's his seventh
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Speaker 8: World Indoor medal. It continues this extraordinary career that we've
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Speaker 8: seen from Tom Walsh. I mean he did he first
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Speaker 8: got on the scene in twenty fourteen in Poland at
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Speaker 8: the Wild Indoor Champs with a bronze medal, but has
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Speaker 8: gone from strength to strength from there. So thirty four,
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Speaker 8: I think he was the oldest athlete in the field, so.
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Speaker 2: Was he really fantastic to see. Now the Warriors Newcastle Knights,
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Speaker 2: we beat them convincingly and that would make it our
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Speaker 2: third in a row, a third winn in a row
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Speaker 2: this season.
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Speaker 8: Well, you talk of strength to strength and the Warrior
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Speaker 8: is just looking more and more convincing. I mean the
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Speaker 8: strength and the I guess, the power and the just
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Speaker 8: grinding Newcastle down into submission if you like. With the
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Speaker 8: forward pack. Another strong performance from Tanner Boy in the halves. Yeah,
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Speaker 8: with of course Luke Metcalf looking to come back. This
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Speaker 8: is a Warrior's side that is just so consistent so
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Speaker 8: far in the season and to be ahead of Penrith,
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Speaker 8: albeit by two points on points differential, they're on six
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Speaker 8: penri six.
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Speaker 2: Bulldogs with six.
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Speaker 8: As well, but they've had to buy the Warriors in
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Speaker 8: the prime spot early.
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Speaker 2: Friends are very excited about this.
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Speaker 8: Momentum and that passion that people have for the Warriors
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Speaker 8: keeping the faith well, it's entirely justified so far, all right.
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Speaker 8: And but cats yeah, less less I guess convincing the
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Speaker 8: Black as in Wellington. They've been bundled out for one
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Speaker 8: forty five chasing one sixty five, so they've lost by
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Speaker 8: nineteen runs to South Africa. It's two all this is
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Speaker 8: for the men.
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Speaker 1: Of course.
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Speaker 8: The women have won their series three to one against
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Speaker 8: the same opponent, the Proteins, but the men just falling
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Speaker 8: short with just struggling I guess in the latter stages
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Speaker 8: the I mean it's a weakened if you like New
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Speaker 8: Zealand's side. I mean you're plumbing their depths there with
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Speaker 8: players preparing to go to the IPL, others out injured,
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Speaker 8: et cetera. But it will set up a bit of
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Speaker 8: a thriller in christ on Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: Fantastic with the decider. Good to see you, Andrew. Andrew
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Speaker 2: Allar was sports all him throughout the morning, of course,
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Speaker 2: with your updates twenty three minutes after five here on
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Speaker 2: News Talks dB. Next, what is the I think there's
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Speaker 2: a bit of a political vacuum, power vacuum going on
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Speaker 2: because the Prime Minister is well a little bit ma
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Speaker 2: I think you would have to say, and Winston is
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Speaker 2: coming along and Winston is going to fill it. We'll
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Speaker 2: talk about that next. Also, we'll get to our UK
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Speaker 2: correspondent after five point thirty News this after this morning,
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Speaker 2: because how far can the Iranians really shoot their missiles?
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Speaker 2: Do you if you're going on holiday to Paris, or
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Speaker 2: to London or to Berlin, do you really need to
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Speaker 2: be worrying about an Iranian missile? We'll talk about that afternoons.
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Speaker 2: He'db it is twenty six minutes after five in good morning,
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Speaker 2: good welcome to you Monday. Winston Peters is driving a
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Speaker 2: bit of a dump truck. I think through Luxeon's political strategy.
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Speaker 2: His strategy is let your ministers do the talking. He
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Speaker 2: says his strength is in picking his team and letting
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Speaker 2: them do their thing. Good reason to do that. He
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Speaker 2: has competent ministers finance, Justice, police, Education, Chris Bishop, Todd
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Speaker 2: McLay on trade, Nikola Willis, she's taking control, taking the
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Speaker 2: bull by the horns on the fuel crisis, which is
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Speaker 2: his COVID. Let's not forget. But as a voter, this
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Speaker 2: leaves a little bit of a power vacuum at the top,
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Speaker 2: at least the appearance of one. Luxon's been cutting back
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Speaker 2: media appearances and when he does appear, performances haven't been
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Speaker 2: that great by his own admission. Now, if Winston poll's
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Speaker 2: at twelve percent on election day or higher New Zealand first,
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Speaker 2: well they could make up a quarter of the cabinet.
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Speaker 2: Imagine that. That's why yesterday we met Alfred Nado. Not
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Speaker 2: that people knew who he was, but he was a minister.
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Speaker 2: It's also why Winston was looking at Stuart Nash, although
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Speaker 2: that looks to be a little dead duck in the
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Speaker 2: water after the unfortunate comments about women's genitalia. The most
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Speaker 2: powerful part of Winston's pitch to voters yesterday, though, was
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Speaker 2: not so much the policies, which we knew about. It
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Speaker 2: was the experience in a time of crisis, as we
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Speaker 2: battle these international head winds. Experience matters. It didn't hurt.
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Speaker 2: The message came from a foreign minister who's been around
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Speaker 2: since Moses was a lannebacker. Now, if you're a voter
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Speaker 2: and you think the national leader is a little bit
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Speaker 2: doing a good job, got a good team, but a
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Speaker 2: little bit Mia or a little bit Na, then you'rely
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Speaker 2: have thinking, well, basically, I'm picking a cabinet, aren't I?
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Speaker 2: When I elect a party, I'm picking a cabinet, not
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Speaker 2: necessarily the one man or the one woman to lead
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Speaker 2: them all like a Jacinda. And if Winston wields the
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Speaker 2: power and Luxon knows his failure in leadership is communication,
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Speaker 2: which he has said, what would be the harm in
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Speaker 2: for a year or two during the next term of
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Speaker 2: this coalition Winston peters as Prime Minister for a year
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Speaker 2: or two. Luckson's political strategy creates a certain power vacuum,
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Speaker 2: and Winston would, I am sure, be more than happy
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Speaker 2: to fill it. Brian twenty eight minutes after five nine
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Speaker 2: nine two is the number to text. Yeah, lots of
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Speaker 2: people texting in about John, says Rhin. I was expecting
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Speaker 2: Nash to be announced, not somebody that no one recognizes.
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Speaker 2: I'm picking that Nash is still too busy trying to
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Speaker 2: memorize the answers to tricky questions. Yeah, Winston doesn't like
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Speaker 2: crude comments, you see, and that was They were quite
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Speaker 2: crude comments, weren't they. So I think, well, what I'm
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Speaker 2: hearing is that's that's dead man walking. It's not a thing.
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Speaker 2: It's not going to happen over in South Australia. I
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Speaker 2: mentioned this on Friday, Pauline Hansen's One Nation Party. So
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Speaker 2: they finally went to the polls and the polls were
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Speaker 2: showing that they were going to do all right. They
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Speaker 2: claimed several seats in the South Australian state parties. National
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Speaker 2: matriarch Pauling Hansen saying she feels vindicated by the results.
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Speaker 2: One Nation was polling at twenty one percent, ahead of
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Speaker 2: the Liberal opposition at nineteen percent, So there you go.
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Speaker 2: That's I mean, that's more good news actually if you're
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Speaker 2: thinking about it for a party like New Zealand first,
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Speaker 2: isn't it when you're looking at the at them beating
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Speaker 2: the Liberals over in Australia. Twenty three minutes sorry, twenty
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Speaker 2: nine minutes after five this morning, and we're off to
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Speaker 2: the UK next.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roote Love
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Speaker 7: They'd be.
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Speaker 2: Twenty four away from six news talks, they'd be before
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Speaker 2: the top of the hour. Will get to the UK.
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Speaker 2: The UK saying basically, don't freak out about Iranian missiles
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Speaker 2: hitting our European capital cities, thank you very much. You're
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Speaker 2: not going to see an Irainean missile hitting Paris or
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Speaker 2: London anytime soon. Gavin Gray on that. Also this morning,
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Speaker 2: the government has just announced that they're going to pop
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Speaker 2: twenty sorry fifty two million dollars into two companies as
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Speaker 2: interest free loans for ev charging stations, so charge Net
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Speaker 2: and Meridian. They are investing money capital in there. They
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Speaker 2: will interest free loans and then money will have to
18:27
Speaker 2: be paid back. They reckon, you'll get an extra two
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Speaker 2: and a half thousand new charge points public charge points
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Speaker 2: across the country. So is that going to turn the
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Speaker 2: dial on your decision to buy an EV We'll look
18:39
Speaker 2: at that before at.
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Speaker 1: Six o'clock, grayam Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Just reporters Jamie Dunedin, Good morning, Good morning Ryan. So
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Speaker 2: there's a bit of a race on for the new
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Speaker 2: boss at Dunedin City Council.
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Speaker 9: Yes, they are on the hunt for a new chief executive.
18:53
Speaker 9: Advertising for the top job is expected to begin today
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Speaker 9: as incumbent Sandy Graham's second term concludes in October. Mayor
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Speaker 9: Sophie Barker says Dunedin's at a pivotal point where councils
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Speaker 9: focused on long term sustainability, delivering high quality services and
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Speaker 9: preparing for the future, and the chief executive is central
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Speaker 9: to this work.
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Speaker 7: She says.
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Speaker 9: The Council's undertaking an open and competitive recruitment process with
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Speaker 9: the support of external recruitment agency Sheffield, New South Island.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather?
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Speaker 9: Cloud clearing to fine in the morning and returning in
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Speaker 9: the evening. Northeasterly is developing this morning and a high
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Speaker 9: of twenty Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Jamie Claar and christ Morning Clear, Good morning. So we've
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Speaker 2: got the council in trouble with Environment can Debris for
19:38
Speaker 2: pumping sewage.
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Speaker 10: Yes, again in trouble. So e Caan has issued a
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Speaker 10: second abatement notice to council for dumping sewage without proper
19:47
Speaker 10: consent into both Littleton and Acadaha Harbor's. This comes after
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Speaker 10: council recently responded to another notice over the Bromley wastewater
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Speaker 10: treatment plants to stink. E Can's operations director Brett Aldridge
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Speaker 10: says this is incredibly serious, so they are setting very
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Speaker 10: high expectations about what needs to change. He says, without
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Speaker 10: a doubt the water infrastructure down here is under pressure
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Speaker 10: from rising populations and does need more investment. Council says
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Speaker 10: staff will provide some further advice during the week. It
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Speaker 10: does have until June first to provide full compliance information.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's the weather cloud clearing?
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Speaker 10: To find it about? Mid day to day northeasterly is
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Speaker 10: developing and high of nineteen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, cleiar. Maxim Wellington, Morning, Max, good morning. You've
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Speaker 2: got a Facebook video that's led to an eviction.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, just continuing the canine theme of the earlier in
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Speaker 11: the show, Terry and Natasha told their landlords they owned cats,
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Speaker 11: but anytime landlords visited it is smelled of urine and dog.
20:45
Speaker 11: In this lower Hud house, which was in a terrible condition,
20:48
Speaker 11: cats were approved. Dogs would not. The landlords took the
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Speaker 11: couple to the tendency tribunal, which turned out to be
20:54
Speaker 11: a pretty easy win because one look at Natasha's Facebook
20:56
Speaker 11: page showed a recent video celebrating a one year birthday
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Speaker 11: for the dog they weren't dealing with the brightest. There's
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Speaker 11: a media version of the story in The Herald's website,
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Speaker 11: but apparently what it does show is social media can
21:07
Speaker 11: be a bit of a gray area for landlords. Obviously
21:09
Speaker 11: this stuff is public, but if it is to be
21:12
Speaker 11: used against a tenant in any way, it has to
21:14
Speaker 11: be discussed with them first. Private or locked social media
21:18
Speaker 11: accounts can't be cited. That's a breach of privacy. I
21:22
Speaker 11: suppose just the obvious. Watch what you post online?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, what did you say? The person's name was Terry
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Speaker 2: and Natasha. There is a couple, I think, yeah, a couple,
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Speaker 2: so I could include their surname, but who cares? Quite right?
21:36
Speaker 2: Next we here be good. But how's you within that?
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Speaker 7: Yeah?
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Speaker 11: Fine? Today afternoon southerleast twenty.
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Speaker 2: Two Thank you morning, Neva, good morning. Exclusive report shows
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Speaker 2: ford systems and poor resourcing preceded a man's death in prison.
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Speaker 12: Yes, forty six year old Rob Fitzpatrick. Now, he died
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Speaker 12: in Mount Eden prison. This happened in June last year,
21:57
Speaker 12: after allegedly being beaten to death by a cellmate. A
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Speaker 12: draft Health New Zealand review obtained by The Herald Now
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Speaker 12: this shows that the forensic prison team had no information
22:06
Speaker 12: about the victim's cellmate, so it's also suggesting they had
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Speaker 12: no input in placing the mentally unwell meant together and
22:13
Speaker 12: was shut out from accessing important health and documents. The
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Speaker 12: report also adds that the tragedy happened while mental health
22:19
Speaker 12: personnel were overstretched and understaffed.
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Speaker 2: Good not good. How's their weather?
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Speaker 12: Few showers becoming more frequent, possibly heavy for a time
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Speaker 12: this morning clearing though tonight still hot. I have twenty
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Speaker 12: four here in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant neither. We'll take that, thank you very much. Right
22:34
Speaker 2: time now is nine ten minutes away from six, by
22:36
Speaker 2: the way, you know, and we talk about the Goldman
22:38
Speaker 2: Sachs they've got projections forecast for where the price of
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Speaker 2: oil might go. Will they set over the weekend. I
22:43
Speaker 2: don't know whether you caught this, but there was a
22:45
Speaker 2: piece in the Wall Street Journal about it saying that
22:48
Speaker 2: they probably could might stay elevated, stay above one hundred
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Speaker 2: dollars a barrel for years. So remember it was like
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Speaker 2: down at sixty, then it was seventy, and then it
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Speaker 2: shot up to eighty, and then ninety and then over
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Speaker 2: one hundred. They reckon it could stay above one hundred
23:05
Speaker 2: dollars a barrel through twenty twenty seven because you've got persistent,
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Speaker 2: large supply shocks that happen and then keep happening, And
23:14
Speaker 2: everybody is going to be stockpiling now because they know
23:17
Speaker 2: that this thing could. You know, all it takes is
23:19
Speaker 2: a couple of people with a couple of drones and
23:22
Speaker 2: a couple of speed boats and maybe a few mines.
23:25
Speaker 2: You don't need a navy, you don't need an army.
23:28
Speaker 2: You don't need much these days to hold the world
23:31
Speaker 2: to ransom. Eighteen to six we're in the UK. Next
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Speaker 2: time is sixteen minutes away from six year on news
23:37
Speaker 2: Talk ZB. So over the weekend you would have seen
23:39
Speaker 2: the truth social posts from Trump saying forty eight hours ultimatum,
23:43
Speaker 2: I will destroy all of your power plants in Iran
23:47
Speaker 2: unless you open the strait. Well, they're not opening the straight.
23:49
Speaker 2: In fact, they've doubled down, saying We're going to keep
23:51
Speaker 2: the straight closed to our enemies, their words and to
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Speaker 2: boot if you hit our power plants, one of the biggest,
23:58
Speaker 2: one of which is a nuclear power plant. If you
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Speaker 2: hit our power plants, we will go after energy infrastructure
24:03
Speaker 2: and other infrastructure in the Golf States, including the desalination plants.
24:07
Speaker 2: Remember we spoke about them last week. A lot of
24:09
Speaker 2: these aman ninety percent of their water comes through a
24:12
Speaker 2: desail plant, so they were basically going to drive you
24:15
Speaker 2: to thirst in the Golf States. If you do a
24:18
Speaker 2: deer do this. And there's about sixteen hours left on
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Speaker 2: Trump's clock.
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Speaker 1: International correspondence with ins and Eye Insurance Peace of Mind
24:26
Speaker 1: for New Zealand Business.
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Speaker 2: Kevin Gray are UK. You're a correspondent on the question
24:31
Speaker 2: of whether actually an Iranian missile could hit European capitals
24:36
Speaker 2: like Paris and London. Devin, could they?
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Speaker 13: Well, the latest analysis from the security services in the
24:45
Speaker 13: UK suggest not. It thinks that Iran has deliberately capped
24:49
Speaker 13: its missile range two thousand kilometers. Ministers for Iran saying
24:53
Speaker 13: they've done that deliberately because quote, we don't want to
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Speaker 13: be felt as a threat by anyone else in the
24:59
Speaker 13: world but the Israelis. And indeed this was confirmed in
25:03
Speaker 13: another statement just in the last few hours by Vinuminett
25:06
Speaker 13: and Yahoo have said actually they had the capability to
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Speaker 13: strike right at the heart of Europe. We're talking Paris,
25:13
Speaker 13: Berlin and London, and that is nearer four thousand kilometers,
25:17
Speaker 13: so a significant doubling there of the distance that their
25:20
Speaker 13: missiles are said to be able to travel. Today, the
25:23
Speaker 13: government and ministers have been saying there is no assessment
25:26
Speaker 13: to substantiate those claims that Iran has long range missiles,
25:30
Speaker 13: and as one menister said, even if they could, why
25:33
Speaker 13: would they Well, of course now people are thinking, well
25:36
Speaker 13: they might because America is using British bases both here
25:40
Speaker 13: in the UK but also a joint based on the
25:43
Speaker 13: Chigossian island of the Diego Garcia with which to launch
25:47
Speaker 13: missions against Iran. So great deal of concern about this intelligence,
25:51
Speaker 13: which Israel says is genuine.
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Speaker 2: Keavin, tell me about this odd well, it seems an
25:55
Speaker 2: odd peeringord Iranian man and a Romanian woman who've been
25:59
Speaker 2: chad with trying to get into a navy base.
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Speaker 13: Yes, not just any navy base, though Ryan, it is
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Speaker 13: the home of the UK nuclear armed submarines. One can't
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Speaker 13: think of a more secure unit, at least I'd hope so.
26:13
Speaker 13: But nevertheless, a thirty four year old man and a
26:16
Speaker 13: thirty one year old woman were arrested. It appears to
26:19
Speaker 13: be at the perimeter fence of the naval base, which
26:22
Speaker 13: is at argaland Butte in Scotland. Now they're due to
26:24
Speaker 13: a peer before a sheriff's court Monday our time, in
26:27
Speaker 13: other words, probably about fourteen fifteen hours from now, and
26:32
Speaker 13: the news reports are that the nature of the charges
26:35
Speaker 13: will not be confirmed until then. But the UK's four
26:39
Speaker 13: Vanguard class ballistic missile submarines, which carry triedent nuclear missiles,
26:44
Speaker 13: are based there, so the idea somebody might have been
26:46
Speaker 13: trying to get in for some nefarious reason is pretty amazing.
26:50
Speaker 13: But we'll wait to hear what the charges are when
26:53
Speaker 13: this peer appear in court. As you said, though a
26:55
Speaker 13: Roumanian but also crucially I think of great interest to
26:59
Speaker 13: thirty four year old eren and man.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I appreciate your time. Gavin Gray are UK europe
27:04
Speaker 2: correspondent twelve minutes away from six Ryan brid Government wants
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Speaker 2: to double ev charging points via interest free loans. An
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Speaker 2: extra two and a half thousand is what we promised.
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Speaker 2: Fifty two million and zero interest loans on the table,
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Speaker 2: plus another sixty million from charge Net and Meridian. Greg
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Speaker 2: IPPs is Important Vehicle Association's CEO with me live this morning. Greg.
27:23
Speaker 2: Good morning, Lordie, Ryan. How's it going very well? Thank you?
27:26
Speaker 2: Is this a doable plan?
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Speaker 14: I think so. I mean, I think the great thing
27:33
Speaker 14: that has happened here is that the government has actually
27:35
Speaker 14: spent over the last year or so working with industry.
27:40
Speaker 14: There's been an industry stakeholder group that has come together
27:44
Speaker 14: on a regular basis to talk about how these things
27:47
Speaker 14: could be done. There's been a really good survey done
27:50
Speaker 14: of how many charges are out there and where the
27:54
Speaker 14: gaps might be. So this is really a good step
27:57
Speaker 14: towards plugging the gaps there.
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Speaker 2: Do you think that from a you know, consumer point
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Speaker 2: of view, is that the biggest problem that I think
28:05
Speaker 2: I'm not going to be able to charge it. There's
28:06
Speaker 2: not going to be enough range.
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Speaker 14: I think there's a few things. I mean, I think
28:12
Speaker 14: solving our transport problems I've described as being like a triathlon.
28:16
Speaker 14: You know, you need to actually try and have a
28:18
Speaker 14: few sets of skills there. People are worried about charging
28:22
Speaker 14: infrastructure and so being able to show people that if
28:27
Speaker 14: you have an EV you can get anywhere. I think,
28:30
Speaker 14: you know, there's always the price hurdle to get over,
28:35
Speaker 14: and there's also a bit of a supply hurdle because
28:38
Speaker 14: there's you know, every country out there is trying to
28:41
Speaker 14: get hold of these vehicles, and so for us to
28:44
Speaker 14: be able to get them at prices we can afford
28:47
Speaker 14: is always going to be an issue too. But for
28:49
Speaker 14: people who are looking and can afford, having the knowledge
28:53
Speaker 14: that there's good charging network out there, I think will help.
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Speaker 2: The other thing is just the price of them of
28:58
Speaker 2: buying an EV is normal but more normally more expensive
29:02
Speaker 2: than a combustion engine.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, but you know, some of the newer vehicles coming in,
29:07
Speaker 14: it really depends on the family circumstance or the small
29:12
Speaker 14: business circumstance. There are some evs that are coming in
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Speaker 14: at around thirty thousand or in that thirty thousand grange.
29:19
Speaker 14: Now that's a price that I think some corporates and
29:23
Speaker 14: small businesses could afford or some of the families who
29:26
Speaker 14: are better off. My members are independent importers and they're
29:30
Speaker 14: bringing in used imports and we know that those vehicles
29:34
Speaker 14: are really hitting in the space for a lot of
29:37
Speaker 14: Kiwi families. Now we don't have a lot of evs
29:40
Speaker 14: available in Japan to bring in. So it's like I said,
29:45
Speaker 14: it's a triathlon. There needs to be people who are
29:48
Speaker 14: good at the running and the swimming and people who
29:50
Speaker 14: are good at the cycling. We bring them all together
29:52
Speaker 14: and we can solve the transport problem. So you know
29:55
Speaker 14: we're hitting the affordable space. We really need the new
29:58
Speaker 14: car industry to be bring them the new technology.
30:01
Speaker 2: Greg IPPs, Imported Vehicle Association CEO, good to have you
30:05
Speaker 2: on the show, is always nine minutes away from sex rym.
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Speaker 2: So their concessionary loans is watching what the government's doing
30:10
Speaker 2: and they recommend it as opposed to just giving out
30:13
Speaker 2: a grant and saying here's your money, go away and
30:15
Speaker 2: build the thing. The average loan per charge point will
30:20
Speaker 2: be twenty grand and then once the repayments affected in,
30:24
Speaker 2: once you get the money back. The net cost of
30:26
Speaker 2: the Crown is ten thousand per charger, which is roughly
30:29
Speaker 2: a quarter of what a direct grant would have cost
30:32
Speaker 2: them in the first place. That's what they're claiming anyway, So.
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Speaker 7: There you go.
30:35
Speaker 2: There get two and a half extra. Did you see it?
30:37
Speaker 2: The weekend also Winston Peters because he said I'm not
30:39
Speaker 2: going to meet with Mark Brown, the Cox PM all
30:42
Speaker 2: a but Frosty not going to meet with him, and
30:44
Speaker 2: PM's not going to meet with him. And then lo
30:46
Speaker 2: and behold there's a photo that's put out on Winston
30:49
Speaker 2: Peter's socials of Mark Brown over at Winston's house in Auckland.
30:54
Speaker 2: Didn't won't say what was discussed. And communication or dialogue,
30:58
Speaker 2: as they said on going eight to six news talks,
31:02
Speaker 2: they'd be Mike next.
31:04
Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the day early
31:07
Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and one Route Love where you
31:11
Speaker 1: live news talks, they'd be.
31:12
Speaker 2: Six minutes away from six news talks. There'd be good morning, Mike,
31:15
Speaker 2: good to see you this morning, Amazing to see you Roy.
31:17
Speaker 2: Now the outfit of the weekend had to go to
31:19
Speaker 2: Nicola Willis at Marsden Point.
31:21
Speaker 6: That one of the things when I'm running the country
31:25
Speaker 6: is going to be that under no circumstances do stupid
31:29
Speaker 6: floro jackets and hat because I felt sorry for it
31:31
Speaker 6: because also, yes, a very hot day apart from me,
31:34
Speaker 6: think it was mid twenties this sh up north, Yeah,
31:36
Speaker 6: mid twenties. And so when you're having to put a
31:38
Speaker 6: hard hated, people didn't see it a hard hat and
31:41
Speaker 6: goggles and the whatever that was.
31:43
Speaker 2: And they weren't so much goggles as windscreens.
31:46
Speaker 6: They were massive. I assumes for the splashback from the diesel,
31:50
Speaker 6: she's also going to touch. But anyway, there she was,
31:53
Speaker 6: and I just said, oh, no, you poor woman.
31:55
Speaker 7: Do you know?
31:56
Speaker 6: I had my Zimbabwe moment over the weekend. I drove
32:00
Speaker 6: card to get a warrant. So I drove past a
32:02
Speaker 6: service station. I looked at the electronic sign. It was
32:04
Speaker 6: three forty five ninety five or three forty five. I
32:07
Speaker 6: thought nothing more of it, you know, you monitor these things. Anyway,
32:09
Speaker 6: I drove back forty five minutes later it was three
32:11
Speaker 6: forty eight. It had been going up within the hour.
32:13
Speaker 6: It got more expensive going there and back. It was amazing.
32:16
Speaker 2: And everybody, I mean, you would have seen this stuff.
32:18
Speaker 2: The greens are put out this morning about wanting a windfold,
32:21
Speaker 2: a windfall tax on price gouging, come and go.
32:24
Speaker 6: Look, look, look they're handing their votes over to the
32:26
Speaker 6: National Party. If only, if only they do what everything
32:28
Speaker 6: the gas want, cancel all the roads.
32:30
Speaker 2: I know they told me about it yesterday. Do you
32:32
Speaker 2: want to get Chloe on? I'm like, for what? For
32:34
Speaker 2: what purpose?
32:35
Speaker 6: Precisely?
32:36
Speaker 2: But one of the But the thing is they're going
32:38
Speaker 2: after companies that are price gouging us. The last week
32:41
Speaker 2: the Commerce Commission said, we're not being price gouged. They're
32:44
Speaker 2: actually not passing on the full because we're not paying
32:47
Speaker 2: what they paid for the fuel. We're paying what they
32:49
Speaker 2: replace it at.
32:50
Speaker 6: It's did you know that beforehand? It's one of the emails.
32:53
Speaker 6: There's two things I'm getting emails on at the moment.
32:55
Speaker 6: I mean apart, there's a general angst on emails at
32:57
Speaker 6: the moment that we know when things go wrong the world, Yes,
33:00
Speaker 6: the traffic suddenly the angst rises, So I'm getting angst.
33:04
Speaker 6: I'm also getting this. I don't know why the price
33:07
Speaker 6: goes up. Do people not realize that you're paying for
33:09
Speaker 6: a replacement?
33:10
Speaker 2: No, no they don't. So that's a learning Do you
33:12
Speaker 2: know can I tell you something. The other day, I
33:14
Speaker 2: had Wayne Brown on the show and I would just
33:16
Speaker 2: explained that very point about replacement con He didn't know that. No,
33:19
Speaker 2: he yelled out, God, you have to explain everything to
33:22
Speaker 2: these idiots. You mean the public, he goes.
33:29
Speaker 6: Yeah, the voters, the people, the people who support you.
33:33
Speaker 6: I did notice yesterday coming back from the country, there
33:36
Speaker 6: was It wasn't dramatic, but there's fewer people on the road.
33:39
Speaker 6: There's no question about that in my mind. And I
33:42
Speaker 6: also noticed coming back from dinner last night passed a
33:45
Speaker 6: train station. How all the trains in Auckland are going
33:47
Speaker 6: to be.
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Speaker 2: Off for April.
33:48
Speaker 6: And I'm just thinking, if there's a golden moment for
33:51
Speaker 6: public transport, try and put a train on ah and
33:53
Speaker 6: they still can't get it right. Anyway, Prime Minister, to
33:56
Speaker 6: deal with all of that, and you'll be.
33:57
Speaker 2: Happy about your warriors. Oh, I mean three in a row.
34:01
Speaker 2: All right, Monday Morning News Talks It be my next
34:04
Speaker 2: with you. I'll just put up with you.
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