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Full Show Podcast: 05 May 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Bryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: early edition with Spark for Business Technology that keeps Business
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Speaker 1: moving US talks they'd be.
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Speaker 2: Six out the five. Good morning, great to have your
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Speaker 2: company runs firing missiles at the UAE over Project Freedom.
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Speaker 2: We'll get the latest on that. Cook straight ferry projects
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Speaker 2: getting a shot over the bow from Treasury divorce rates.
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Speaker 2: What are your chances, I'll tell you Donald's in Australia
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Speaker 2: and we'll get to carry out of DC the agenda Tuesday,
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Speaker 2: the fifth of May. We're back to that, he said.
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Speaker 2: He said on the straight of poor Moves, the US
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Speaker 2: says ships have been sailing through, thank you very much.
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Speaker 3: No one has said emphatically or specifically that US Navy
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Speaker 3: units will actively escort neutral ships out of the strait.
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Speaker 3: It's unclear whether the intention is to guide and coordinate
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Speaker 3: or to actually go in and do a classic convoys situation.
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Speaker 2: Aaron's calling bs on the whole thing.
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Speaker 4: We will that any aign armed forces, especially the aggressive
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Speaker 4: US military, that intends to approach or enter the Strait
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Speaker 4: of hor Moves, will be targeting.
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Speaker 2: Here is a captain of one of the cargo ships
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Speaker 2: stuck in the strait who spoke to media guests underwent.
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Speaker 5: You know, various situations, various mindsets and stress, anxiety, all
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Speaker 5: those things were there.
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Speaker 2: Now there has been a release from US Central Command
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Speaker 2: in just the last couple of minutes. I'll give you
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Speaker 2: the details in a second. To other news this morning,
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Speaker 2: the UK is going to join the European Union in
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Speaker 2: a loan scheme for Ukraine. It's the one that's worth
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Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy billion New Zealand dollars. Starmer is
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Speaker 2: at a summit in Armenia.
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Speaker 6: It's in our national interest to be closer to Europe
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Speaker 6: and whether that's the EU loan scheme which we are
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Speaker 6: discussing with them. That's a great benefit to Ukraine. But
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Speaker 6: it's also a great benefit to the United Kingdom as
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Speaker 6: well in terms of the jobs that it will create.
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Speaker 2: And let's go to the Metgala, because why not Fashion's
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Speaker 2: biggest night. It's in New York. Jeff Bezos and his
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Speaker 2: wife Lawrence cheers Bezos and co cheers and sponsors of
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Speaker 2: the event.
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Speaker 1: This year the first.
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Speaker 7: Time in history that the lead sponsor of this event
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Speaker 7: has been individual billionaires. So we have had fashion designer sponsorate,
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Speaker 7: We've had big tech companies under the company name. So
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Speaker 7: Amazon has invested before, so has Apple. Instagram ticked up,
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Speaker 7: but it's different this year. I think leading with the
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Speaker 7: names and it being so tied to them as figures
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Speaker 7: is very political, right.
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Speaker 2: Seventy five thousand UIs dollars for a six If you'd
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Speaker 2: like to go.
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Speaker 1: News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for business technology
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Speaker 1: that keeps business moving, News talks.
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Speaker 2: For how the other half love. I've actually got my
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Speaker 2: hands on a list of what's inside the goodie bags
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Speaker 2: that they'll be given out, that will be handed out
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Speaker 2: Seventy five thousand dollars for a seat. You'd expect something decent.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I know it's charity, but still we'll get
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Speaker 2: to that a little before six o'clock this morning first.
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Speaker 2: So you as Central Command is it's interesting because what's
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Speaker 2: happening in the obviously affects us well. It affects us,
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Speaker 2: definitely does. Because the crude the feedstock for the refineries
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Speaker 2: in Asia that we rely on for our fuel. It
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Speaker 2: all goes through there, right, But if you listen to
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Speaker 2: what Luxon and Nichola Willis and Todd McLay to be fair,
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Speaker 2: have been saying out of Singapore over the last twenty
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Speaker 2: four hours that getting feedstock from elsewhere those Singaporean refineries
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Speaker 2: is going to take longer. It's going to take time,
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Speaker 2: which is what we were expecting, what we were told
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Speaker 2: would happen. But they are managing to source it from elsewhere,
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Speaker 2: including America. So it is important, but maybe a little
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Speaker 2: less important than it was a month ago. However, what's
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Speaker 2: interesting about this is that there is a ceasefire. Remember,
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Speaker 2: and it's been ages since the Ranians have actually fired
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Speaker 2: missiles and drones, and they've done that to the UAE overnight.
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Speaker 2: They've been alerts for the first time since April four, missiles,
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Speaker 2: a number of drones. There was a fire at an
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Speaker 2: oil hub. This is a fijura An oil hub. This
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Speaker 2: is where they pump much of the petrol output around
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Speaker 2: Iran's chokehold on the Straight of Horn Moves, So this
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Speaker 2: is you get around your long journey to get around
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Speaker 2: the Strait of Horn Moves. They're targeting that, and then
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Speaker 2: they're clever, aren't they. US Central Command has now said
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Speaker 2: that cruise missiles have been launched at US Navy vessels
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Speaker 2: and at tankers and that they have fended them off.
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Speaker 2: Sailors reported earlier witnessing a drone strike on a tanker
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Speaker 2: and a military jet buzzing overhead, which presumably would have
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Speaker 2: been American, because if we had to believe Trump, the
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Speaker 2: Iranians don't have any anymore. Oil as a result, has
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Speaker 2: been bouncing around. Benchmark Future's Brent crude hit one hundred
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Speaker 2: and fourteen dollars a barrel just before I came on here.
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Speaker 2: That was up five percent. Here it finally diesel is
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Speaker 2: getting back to where it belongs. Just so the average
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Speaker 2: price of diesel this is according to gas be Remember
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Speaker 2: they take a month average. But the average price of
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Speaker 2: diesel fallen back to just under the average price of
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Speaker 2: ninety one. This is the first it's happened in more
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Speaker 2: than a month. Petrol was down ten percent on the
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Speaker 2: highs that we saw in April, diesel down sixteen percent
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Speaker 2: on the highs that we saw in mid April. And
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Speaker 2: the Commerce Commission, remember they're watching very closely because they
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Speaker 2: don't want the petrol companies ripping us off. They reckon
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Speaker 2: that petrol prices were about what they would expect. However, diesel,
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Speaker 2: this is where it gets interesting. Diesel, the fuel companies
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Speaker 2: charged more than you could easily explain by a higher
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Speaker 2: refined fuel cost throughout the month of April. So the
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Speaker 2: diesel price went up a dollar forty two on pre
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Speaker 2: war and the imported cost went up only a dollar
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Speaker 2: and one dollar and zero one point zero two dollars.
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Speaker 2: That made sense. So basically they're watching I mean, they're
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Speaker 2: not saying they're ripping us off yet, but they're saying
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Speaker 2: that the numbers don't at this point quite add up,
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Speaker 2: as Knighted did mine clearly. Twelve minutes after five News
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Speaker 2: TALKSTB talk about marriages. What are your chances of getting
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Speaker 2: a divorce? Next we'll talk about the warning from Treasury
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Speaker 2: on the cook Straight Ferries. News Talks het B.
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Speaker 1: The First Word on the News of the Day earlier
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology that
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Speaker 1: Keeps Business Moving News TALKSB five fourteen.
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Speaker 2: There's a Royal Commission in Australian to anti Semitism. This
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Speaker 2: is after the Bondai terror attack and some of this
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Speaker 2: is the first day of hearings that they've held and
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Speaker 2: some of the testimony is pretty out there.
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Speaker 8: I've been abused on the Street and again that was
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Speaker 8: the moment that really harkened back to the Soviet Union,
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Speaker 8: to be called a Jewish dog on the streets of Sydney.
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Speaker 9: We never expected synagogues to be burned down, We never expected.
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Speaker 4: Jews to be hunted on Bondai Beach.
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Speaker 9: We really didn't expect this sort of thing in this country.
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Speaker 9: This was the safest place in the world for jew
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Speaker 9: and it was golden and it is not anymore.
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Speaker 2: Fifteen people died in that attack. They reckon this will
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Speaker 2: be a watershed moment for anti Semitism in Australia, and
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Speaker 2: you'd have to hope so after so many did it
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Speaker 2: is quarter past five. Brian Bridge Winston's cookstraight Fairies are
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Speaker 2: being whacked with a high risk Amber alert from Treasury,
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Speaker 2: warning there could be more cost blowouts delays because of
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Speaker 2: back to front planning and some of the landside infrastructure
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Speaker 2: they thought they could reuse can't be reused. In fact.
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Speaker 2: Carl Findlay, is Maritime Union Secretary, joins US Live this morning, Get.
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Speaker 10: A Carl, Yeah, good morning, how are you very well?
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Speaker 2: Thank you? What sort of infrastructure are we talking about
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Speaker 2: that's been degraded to the point it can't be used
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Speaker 2: in the way they thought it could be.
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Speaker 10: Well, it's nothing new to us. I mean this was
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Speaker 10: a reporter back in my opinion Wallace made the silly
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Speaker 10: decision to scrap the IRIS project and so siding back
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Speaker 10: then the infrastructure issues in the cost blow out there.
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Speaker 10: So you know, it's a real surprise to me now
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Speaker 10: that the Treasury are jumping up and down almost three
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Speaker 10: years later, still citing the same problem, but understanding there
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Speaker 10: hasn't been anything done at the port of Littleton, sorry
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Speaker 10: not Littleton, Wellington or Pickton in preparation for these ferries
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Speaker 10: that Winston sorted out to bring down here.
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Speaker 2: Ferry Holdings Limited have come out and said they've done
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Speaker 2: extensive due diligence. We will reuse the rail and road
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Speaker 2: marshaling yards, we will reuse the existing buildings, but we
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Speaker 2: need new link spans for both ports that you've talked about.
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Speaker 2: What are link spans and you know how important are they?
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Speaker 10: Well, the very importantnes is key piece of infrastructure for
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Speaker 10: our rail enabled fairies to get our cargo running between
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Speaker 10: the two islands. But the problem I have was what
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Speaker 10: Ferry Holdings are you know that were set up to
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Speaker 10: sort of this out, So why haven't they pulled together
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Speaker 10: the Porter of Wellington, the Porter Picton, the Council of Wellington,
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Speaker 10: the Council of Picton and Paul Allen and sort of
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Speaker 10: this all out so that they're all working off the
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Speaker 10: same page. It doesn't seem to be any communication there.
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Speaker 10: And yet you know again it's the taxpayer and the
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Speaker 10: workers in particular that they're paying the price here for
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Speaker 10: you know, this, this bloody carry on that we're all
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Speaker 10: sick of.
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Speaker 2: Cal I want to apologize to our listeners for the
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Speaker 2: unfortunate turn of phrase there. That's right, hey, In terms
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Speaker 2: of the deadline, so twenty twenty nine is the deadline,
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Speaker 2: and Treasury has gone to them and said you need
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Speaker 2: to come up with a backup, a plan B. What
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Speaker 2: what could that look like? How could we keep sailing
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Speaker 2: if we don't have the land side done? The old
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Speaker 2: fairies are out of action? What do we do.
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Speaker 10: Well? Exactly. There's someone sitting in the background looking at
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Speaker 10: the Gracie Brother was a project that they're looking at
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Speaker 10: and Campbell Bay I believe it's called and there they're
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Speaker 10: they're sitting out there and they're they're wait they to go.
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Speaker 10: So and that's on the south island side. So yeah.
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Speaker 10: Other than that, I'm not sure what else we can do.
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Speaker 10: I think just once Weston needs to get into here
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Speaker 10: and bang all that group said together again and make
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Speaker 10: them get a deal done.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate your times one in Calvin Lay Maritime Union Sectary.
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Speaker 2: It's eighteen minutes after five year on News Talks a bit. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: we could swim kayak. We'll be back with marriage and
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Speaker 2: divorce rates next.
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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.
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Speaker 2: News talksb News Talks twenty one minutes after five, we'll
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Speaker 2: get a decision from the Bserve Bank. In Australia this afternoon,
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Speaker 2: they're expected to hike again. It will be their third
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Speaker 2: consecutive hike and that will take them to four point
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Speaker 2: three to five percent. They're already at four point one
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Speaker 2: percent after two hikes this year, and we had yesterday
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Speaker 2: in Melbourne the Institute Inflation Gauge Tracking a er point
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Speaker 2: six percent rise from March to be four point three
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Speaker 2: percent higher than a year ago. They won't like that.
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Speaker 2: Although it is a bit lower on the March number
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Speaker 2: that they reported last month, it's still too high. For
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Speaker 2: the RBA, so they're likely to hike today for a
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Speaker 2: five twenty.
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Speaker 1: One, Ryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Marriage rates are now officially lower than divorce rates. According
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Speaker 2: to stats in z three percent fewer couples decided to
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Speaker 2: tie the not last year than in twenty twenty. Four
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Speaker 2: to five percent more got divorced. Jeremy Sutton's a family lawyer. Jeremy,
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Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning, Ryan, How are you very well?
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Nice to have you on the show. Who's
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Speaker 2: getting divorced? Couples that have been together for twenty years
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Speaker 2: or couples that have been together for five years?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's kind of a mixer, Ryan, But there's one category,
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Speaker 5: the silver spooners. So they're you know, over fifty and
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Speaker 5: accisively time and they're just they don't have the same interest.
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Speaker 5: One wants to travel perhaps and one wants to work.
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Speaker 5: And then the younger ones sometimes are only together for
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Speaker 5: a few years and they have also those people you
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Speaker 5: will often have two or three relationships in their life.
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Speaker 2: Jeremy, does it matter how long you are together, Like,
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Speaker 2: if you are together for a longer period of time,
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Speaker 2: I guess there's more chance, a greater chance that you
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Speaker 2: will change as individual people and therefore you might be
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Speaker 2: more likely to get a divorce.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, if you're together for a longer period of time,
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Speaker 5: you'll you will change over time, and it's perhaps more
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Speaker 5: likely that you're going to kind of get a bit
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Speaker 5: sick of each other in terms of what you've been doing.
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Speaker 5: But the average lengths of a relationship, Ryan, is about
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Speaker 5: fourteen years.
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Speaker 2: You're a family lawyer. You see a lot of this
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Speaker 2: stuff in the courts. What's your advice to people? If
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Speaker 2: people don't want to get divorced, they want to stay married,
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Speaker 2: they'd like to give it a good go. What do
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Speaker 2: you tell people?
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Speaker 5: I tell people that it's never perfect. There are always
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Speaker 5: going to be issues within a marriage, and get help
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Speaker 5: either through your friends, friends network, or buy some some
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Speaker 5: sort of counseling and professional help to you know, to
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Speaker 5: to work through things with a psychologist. That there are
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Speaker 5: always going to be issues within a marriage, aren't there, Ryan,
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Speaker 5: But you just need to work through these things. Sometimes
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Speaker 5: it might be to do with finances. Sometimes it could
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Speaker 5: be with you know, the amount of time you spend
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Speaker 5: it together. But just just have have a go and
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Speaker 5: be patient.
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Speaker 2: Jeremy Sutton, family lawyer. Nice to have you on talking
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Speaker 2: about those new stats in Z numbers. It is twenty
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Speaker 2: four minutes alfter five into of course, is having a fear?
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Speaker 2: I mean, stay married, but have an a fear and
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Speaker 2: keep things interesting. I suppose for a while longer than't
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Speaker 2: that a News Talks B. I was actually interested in
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Speaker 2: asking you this morning if you could text me nine
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Speaker 2: two nine two, what's how long have you been married?
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Speaker 2: And what's just what's the secret source? Because I'd love
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Speaker 2: to know if we could get we could probably crown
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Speaker 2: a winner this morning, who has been married the longest
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Speaker 2: and what is the secret twenty five after five News
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Speaker 2: Talks EB.
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Speaker 1: The early edition full the show podcast on iHeartRadio how
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Speaker 1: It By News.
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Speaker 2: Talks EV, News TALKSB twenty seven minutes after five what
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Speaker 2: are your chances of getting divorced? The new stats in
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Speaker 2: Z numbers were interesting for a couple of reasons. One,
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Speaker 2: fewer people are getting hitched. In twenty twenty five it
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Speaker 2: was seven point six marriages per one thousand people. That's
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Speaker 2: half the it was in the year two thousand. In
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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy one, which was peak marriage, it was forty
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Speaker 2: five people per one thousand, So basically, fewer of us
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Speaker 2: are bothering to get married. I got friends who are single,
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Speaker 2: don't mind being single. That was far less acceptable in
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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy one. Number two, we're getting married later in life.
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Speaker 2: We put a ring on it at around twenty in
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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy one. We now wait until we're in our thirties,
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Speaker 2: and I reckon this is part of a biggo trend.
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Speaker 2: People still live at home with their parents when they're
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Speaker 2: twenty five. This is common. They go to UNI. They
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Speaker 2: don't get proper jobs until sometimes they're in their late
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Speaker 2: twenties or even early thirties. We're living longer at the
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Speaker 2: other end of life, and it feels like we're kind
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Speaker 2: of stretching out childhood a bit at the beginning as well.
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Speaker 2: Get a dog, live at home, complain about house prices,
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Speaker 2: marry later. Number three divorce the most interesting part. If
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Speaker 2: you're in a marriage and you're wondering whether you might
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Speaker 2: get a divorce, then I reckon you probably will. Otherwise,
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Speaker 2: why would you be thinking about or worrying about it,
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean? The numbers tell us how
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Speaker 2: long you're likely to be married for how long you're
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Speaker 2: married before you call it quits. Five percent quit within
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Speaker 2: five years, fifteen percent within ten years, and a third
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Speaker 2: within twenty five years. Here's the good news, the news
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Speaker 2: you should hope for. Sixty percent of couples remain married
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Speaker 2: for the rest of their lives, happily ever after. Just
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Speaker 2: like in the movies, A wise man once told me,
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Speaker 2: the best way to stay married is to just not
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Speaker 2: get divorced.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Red.
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Speaker 2: I suppose makes sense, doesn't it? Twenty eight minutes after
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Speaker 2: five Ryan fifty three years married. Trust and communication the secrets. Ryan,
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Speaker 2: I'm forty three kids, married, fifteen years with the missus
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Speaker 2: for twenty two years. You don't hear people using missus
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Speaker 2: much these days. Dere for twenty two years. Once we
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Speaker 2: started sharing finances, arguments disappeared overnight. Communication is the key,
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Speaker 2: and marrying your best friend helps. Ryan. Yesterday was our
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Speaker 2: sixty second wedding anniversary. Tolerance and gratitude, says Allison, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: married nineteen years. I am very overly patient. That's slightly patronizing,
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Speaker 2: isn't it overly patient? And we both have our partition
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Speaker 2: of special jobs around the house which keeps the peace.
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Speaker 2: Looking forward to nineteen plus more years with my other half,
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Speaker 2: isn't that lovely? Go and give it if you're still
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Speaker 2: at home and your husband or your wife for pottering around.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio, Belly Edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and Spark for business technology that keeps business moving,
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Speaker 1: News Talk ZEDB.
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Speaker 2: Pretty far away from the sex year on News Talks EDB.
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Speaker 2: The UA is one of its major oil ports is
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Speaker 2: on fire. A drone from Iran has had a mid
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Speaker 2: project Freedom. We'll get an update from the US just
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Speaker 2: before sex and we'll get to dinner in Australia. These
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Speaker 2: texts on marriages are just some of them are absolutely beautiful.
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Speaker 2: I just have to come back to them for a second. Hi, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: We've been married for twenty six years, says Mike and Arrowtown.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike, Congratulations a different interest, but always spend
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Speaker 2: most of our time together, enjoy each other's company. Henry
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Speaker 2: takes the cake business morning, because I was asking. We
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Speaker 2: got stats yesterday our marriage and divorce. Henry has been
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Speaker 2: married sixty five years and you are officially of all.
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Speaker 2: We've had loads of texts this morning. You have been
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Speaker 2: married for the longest time. If there is any issue,
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Speaker 2: try and talk about it. That's what Henry says. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Henry Henry, you must be hard of hearing because you've
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Speaker 2: called me Brian. Maybe that's the secret of success. You're
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Speaker 2: not really hearing anyway, Henry. It's lovely to have you listening.
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Speaker 2: Fifteen years. The secret is don't argue now this text
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Speaker 2: I have a problem with. They say silent treatment is
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Speaker 2: more peaceful, especially after a week, and you both end
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Speaker 2: up laughing because you forgot why you had silence in
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Speaker 2: the first place. I disagree. All of the people have
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Speaker 2: been married for decades say that you have to talk
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Speaker 2: about your problems. Silent treatment is the worst. It's a
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Speaker 2: toxic cocktail for your relationship. This one's interesting. Just one more,
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Speaker 2: and this is from Actually I won't say your name
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Speaker 2: because it might give you away. Married twenty six years,
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Speaker 2: first run six years together, split for fourteen, back together
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Speaker 2: for six. Don't know if we particularly like each other.
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Speaker 2: Ha ha. He does his thing, I do mine. We
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Speaker 2: care about each other for what we care about each
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Speaker 2: other and have done for so long. I guess it works.
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Speaker 2: There you go. It is twenty two.
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Speaker 1: Away from six Bryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Callum and Eden. Callum, good morning morning, Brian, Hey,
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Speaker 2: what's that tiger? Reach are you married, Callum, correct, Yes,
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Speaker 2: how long you've been going last time I checked? H God,
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Speaker 2: do a mess? Thirty five? What thirty five?
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Speaker 11: Thirty five years?
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Speaker 7: Will?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Thirty five? Wow, we'll put down thirty five. How
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Speaker 2: old are you, callum, mid fifties? Ah, you so much younger,
20:07
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you for that. No idea? All right, anyway,
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Speaker 2: let's move on Targo Regional Council. What's happening here.
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Speaker 11: Look, they've set out a road map for the rest
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Speaker 11: of this term for the Otago region. They've agreed on
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Speaker 11: thirty four priority actions the regional counselors, and that covers
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Speaker 11: areas like science, resilience, environmental management and public transport. That
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Speaker 11: includes strengthening pest control for Otago, improving infrastructure risk assessments,
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Speaker 11: and working more closely with central government, they say the
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Speaker 11: council chairs, Hillary Calvitch. She says this will provide them
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Speaker 11: with an additional layer of governance emphasis and they can
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Speaker 11: now clarify where attention is required and support a more
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Speaker 11: focused delivery.
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Speaker 2: How's the weather, callum, Bit.
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Speaker 11: Of low cloud about the coast this evening, but otherwise
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Speaker 11: a fine day today again, light winds and sixteen.
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Speaker 2: Nice Thank you Claires than christ this morning.
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Speaker 5: Claire Gooding, Now you've.
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Speaker 2: Got an update from the police shooting in christ Church
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Speaker 2: last year.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, this was the one in August last year. But
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Speaker 12: a charge has now been dropped against a man whose
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Speaker 12: partner was shot dead by police. In the incident on
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Speaker 12: Clyde Road. Police were called to a man who was
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Speaker 12: armed with a knife who was threatening to hurt himself
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Speaker 12: and his partner. The man was shot and injured. The
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Speaker 12: woman was then fatally shot and killed after she picked
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Speaker 12: up the knife and then ran at police. Now, yesterday
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Speaker 12: there was a significant development here. A District Court judge
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Speaker 12: granted a request from the man's lawyer to dismiss the
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Speaker 12: charge against the man. It was around having an offensive weapon.
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Speaker 12: The Crown did not oppose that. We got a statement
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Speaker 12: from police and Detective Superintendent Darryl Sweeney who says, look,
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Speaker 12: it's obvious there were multiple impacts on the man as
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Speaker 12: a result of this incident and the court has taken
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Speaker 12: that into account. It's not the end though for the
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Speaker 12: overall incident. There is still an investigation underway by the
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Speaker 12: Independent Police Conduct Authority.
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Speaker 2: How's you were the Claire?
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Speaker 1: A bit of fog and.
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Speaker 12: Low clown about here, but should clear too far. Some
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Speaker 12: northeasterlies developing and the high will be fifteen nice one.
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Speaker 2: Thank you about Won't ask Mechs of his Mary because
22:05
Speaker 2: there's are understanding he struggles to get dates. Mechs, good morning.
22:09
Speaker 2: Why ask a question you know the answer directly? Hey,
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Speaker 2: what's Indian triala doing with the face the truck?
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Speaker 13: Yeah? The hiking them for trucks, commercial vehicles a tough
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Speaker 13: look for them. The cook straight ferries not immune to
22:22
Speaker 13: fuel hikes, obviously they use a type of diesel. A
22:26
Speaker 13: percentage of a truck or freight invoice is made up
22:29
Speaker 13: of what's called a fuel adjustment factor, which is charged
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Speaker 13: on top rather than I, rather like GST. The Post
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Speaker 13: reports in April it was twenty seven percent. It's now
22:38
Speaker 13: fifty four percent. KiwiRail says fuel is simply one of
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Speaker 13: its biggest costs and the hike is necessary transporting New Zealand.
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Speaker 13: Not happy this is, it, says, going to end up
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Speaker 13: in the lap of customers at the end of the chain.
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Speaker 13: It is a little surprised by the degree of the increase.
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Speaker 13: Members already not happy. Winston Peter's defending Kbral says it's
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Speaker 13: pretty standard stuff.
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Speaker 2: Max. Thank you. How's your weather, barley? Cloudy? Nor the
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Speaker 2: least fifteen nice one neither? Good morning, good morning. Now
23:06
Speaker 2: you have an update on our green food bins.
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Speaker 4: Yes, you and I we've been criticized, criticized by the newsroom.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
23:14
Speaker 4: So in the two years that it's been running, this
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Speaker 4: is the food waste collection program has converted sixty two
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Speaker 4: thousand tons of organic material to fertilize it and biogas
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Speaker 4: for the national grid. Now I'm right in saying, because
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Speaker 4: we've spoken about this, we.
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Speaker 2: Don't use the green the little bins fuck compost.
23:31
Speaker 4: Bins, and only about forty percent of people who receive
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Speaker 4: a bin are using it. Now, I've done a quick
23:36
Speaker 4: survey out there in the newsroom. They all use a bin,
23:39
Speaker 4: of course they do, except for you and I, and
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Speaker 4: they are very.
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Speaker 2: Very edgy.
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Speaker 4: The losers, they said, we don't care.
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Speaker 2: Well, do you know what if you ask the question,
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Speaker 2: who would you rather hang out than have a beer
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Speaker 2: with people who use the little green bin or people
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Speaker 2: who don't? I would rather hang out with people who don't.
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Speaker 2: Ye here, So it's just like you and I.
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Speaker 12: That's that so well, I have no mates.
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Speaker 4: Hey, Now I've just got to say because I love
24:03
Speaker 4: this topic about what you're talking about divorced marriage. Now
24:06
Speaker 4: I'm not married, but I was just telling producer, your
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Speaker 4: producer KEENSI, that's that. Her name just quickly escaped me.
24:13
Speaker 4: I have been a bridesmaid seven times. Five of those
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Speaker 4: marriages ended in divorce. Two are still together. One I
24:22
Speaker 4: think shouldn't be. But that's pretty good.
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Speaker 1: Isn't it.
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Speaker 2: That's pretty good. And you know what. You may not
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Speaker 2: have a marriage, Neva, but you have nine year streak
24:32
Speaker 2: as newsreader of New Zealand. Well you know what I mean,
24:38
Speaker 2: And I have no food waste. Seventeen away from six
24:43
Speaker 2: News Talk ZB, we live to Australia next News Talk CB.
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Speaker 2: It is fourteen minutes away from six. We will head
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Speaker 2: to the US and we'll head to Australia in just
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Speaker 2: a second. But first, more than thirty European leaders and
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Speaker 2: Mark Karney because he's been given an invite the Canadian
24:57
Speaker 2: Prime Minister. They're in Armenia for a summit and they're
25:01
Speaker 2: talking about well, I mean, obviously Trump's been having a
25:03
Speaker 2: go at Europe, so they're wanting to strengthen their own
25:05
Speaker 2: tires amongst themselves. But the location is interesting. Zelenski is
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Speaker 2: going along and they're expected to give them a bunch
25:12
Speaker 2: of money and loans. But Armenia, the capital of Armenia.
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Speaker 2: Why are they heading there? Well, it is pretty cozy
25:20
Speaker 2: with the Kremlin. Moscow actually hosts a military base there,
25:25
Speaker 2: and Armenia is very much reliant on Russian oil and gas,
25:29
Speaker 2: and so they reckon. Basically, the reason that they're having
25:31
Speaker 2: it in Armenia is a bit of a middle finger
25:34
Speaker 2: to putin.
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Speaker 1: International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of mind
25:40
Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.
25:41
Speaker 2: But anyway, from sixth we've had day one of witnesses
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Speaker 2: that the Royal Commission in Sydney into Anti Semitis and
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Speaker 2: donnad demur with us Donna. It was pretty harrowing stuff.
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Speaker 14: Absolutely, yes, this is the first day of public hearings
25:54
Speaker 14: of this Commission into Anti Semitism and Social Cohesion. Now
25:58
Speaker 14: we heard from a woman called she a Gootnik. Her father,
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Speaker 14: Reuven Morrison was killed fighting these alleged gunmen and she
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Speaker 14: was that first witness at this commission. And we know
26:10
Speaker 14: that her dad was sixty two years old and he
26:12
Speaker 14: was one of those fifteen people shot and killed on
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Speaker 14: December fourteen in that anti Semitic attack. And we know
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Speaker 14: that her father died after he threw bricks at the
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Speaker 14: alleged gunment. Now, this is a man who'd fled to
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Speaker 14: Australia from Ukraine aged fourteen. He met her mum, another
26:28
Speaker 14: Jewish refugee, at that very same beach, many many years earlier. Now,
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Speaker 14: in her testimony, she said she lived in constant fear
26:37
Speaker 14: and a heightened sense of vigilance in public spaces. We
26:40
Speaker 14: also heard from a Holocaust survivor who said that Jews
26:44
Speaker 14: have become targets in Australia. We also heard from a
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Speaker 14: former High Court justice, Virginia Bell, who's heading the hearings,
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Speaker 14: and she said yesterday that it is important that people
26:55
Speaker 14: understand how quickly events in the Middle East can prompt
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Speaker 14: ugly to plays of hostility towards Jewish Australians. We know
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Speaker 14: the hearings will run for about a fortnight.
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Speaker 2: It's absolutely disgusting some of that stuff. Hey, who's criticizing
27:08
Speaker 2: your social media band?
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Speaker 14: I think this is extraordinary. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, well,
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Speaker 14: he's on a speaking tour in Australia, he's promoting his book,
27:17
Speaker 14: but he's found the time to describe Australia as a
27:19
Speaker 14: social media ban, an unmitigated disaster, and an embarrassment. And
27:24
Speaker 14: he believes that teaching kids to accept surveillance from tech
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Speaker 14: companies when they go online is just ridiculous. And he's
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Speaker 14: criticized you know how much social media can be, you know,
27:34
Speaker 14: a nasty place, you know for people. You know, there's
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Speaker 14: people that are attacked on these platforms, you know, Facebook
27:39
Speaker 14: and Instagram, TikTok and so forth. But then in the
27:41
Speaker 14: same breath he's opposed to government policies that are aimed
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Speaker 14: at keeping teenagers off social media, so he thinks the
27:47
Speaker 14: federal government hasn't thought it through anyway.
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Speaker 2: That's Donna. I appreciate the update, Thank you, Donad. Tomorrow
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Speaker 2: Our Australia corresponding eleven minutes away from six someone says
27:57
Speaker 2: I want to divorce and marry Neva, which I thought
27:59
Speaker 2: was quite funny and Bridge rich Right, So the UA
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Speaker 2: is intercepting missiles and drones hitting from Iran that are
28:07
Speaker 2: edited again, Why well, it's Trump's Project Freedom, which aims
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Speaker 2: to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to have some US
28:16
Speaker 2: navy destroyers and US flag merchant ships sailing through the
28:20
Speaker 2: strike which is starting to happen. Tony Waterman, US correspondent
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Speaker 2: Feature Storey on News with US this morning, Tony, what's
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Speaker 2: the lightest to you? Well?
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Speaker 15: President Trump just put a social media post out saying
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Speaker 15: that the US has destroyed seven Iranian fast boats that
28:34
Speaker 15: have tried to interfere with this effort to guide ships
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Speaker 15: through the Strait of Jumus. This is something that Iran
28:41
Speaker 15: has denied, and in this social media post, the President
28:45
Speaker 15: has also said that Iran has managed to damage a
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Speaker 15: South Korean cargo ship, suggesting that Soul come to join
28:53
Speaker 15: this mission to reopen this vital waterway. But what we
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Speaker 15: have seen today is really this back and forth of
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Speaker 15: attacks not just at sea, but also on land. The
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Speaker 15: UAE the United Arab Emirates saying that they have been
29:08
Speaker 15: responding to multiple drone and missile attacks, some of those
29:12
Speaker 15: actually connecting with structures on the ground. There's been a
29:16
Speaker 15: fire reported at a petroleum site in the country, also
29:20
Speaker 15: damage to some structures. So this is really threatening what
29:25
Speaker 15: is a pretty shaky cease fire at this point, but
29:28
Speaker 15: also really risks spiraling this situation out of control and
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Speaker 15: entering a new front in this.
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Speaker 2: War, and we're seeing the price of oil respond to that,
29:37
Speaker 2: What are the chances this thing blows out and we're
29:39
Speaker 2: back to square one again? They're fighting.
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Speaker 9: Well.
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Speaker 15: I guess when you speak to certain experts, they'll say,
29:46
Speaker 15: you know, despite the optics the way that everything looks
29:49
Speaker 15: right now, we are in fact progressing towards a peace deal.
29:54
Speaker 15: There are these conversations that are taking place in exchange
29:57
Speaker 15: of proposals throughout the WEE weekend, So there is discussion,
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Speaker 15: there is dialogue that is still taking place. But certainly
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Speaker 15: this announcement by the President on Sunday to start guiding
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Speaker 15: these ships through the Strait of Hormuz has opened up
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Speaker 15: another area in this conflict, because the strait is really
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Speaker 15: Iron's main leverage point right now. So the US appears
30:23
Speaker 15: to be trying to chip away at that by pushing
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Speaker 15: these boats through. But experts say that even if they're
30:29
Speaker 15: successful in getting ships through this waterway, this is not
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Speaker 15: a permanent solution to this problem because those ships are
30:36
Speaker 15: not going to return if that area is not yet secure,
30:40
Speaker 15: if there is still fighting taking place.
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Speaker 2: Tony Waterman, I, US correspondent, great to have your analysis
30:44
Speaker 2: this morning. It is eight to six News Talks ABI.
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Speaker 1: Before the news breaks here it first Bryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: early edition with Spuck for business Technology that keeps Business moving.
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Speaker 2: News TALKSIB time is six to six News Talks Abby
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Speaker 2: and Mike is with your next. Good morning, Mike.
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Speaker 8: Well not next now, I mean I'm here now, live
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Speaker 8: here now.
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Speaker 2: But's your show starts. It's all on what are you
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Speaker 2: doing today? Jet Garla.
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Speaker 8: Generally I know, yes, yes, I'd lie if I wasn't
31:14
Speaker 8: going to show an interest in that, but I am.
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Speaker 8: I note this morning of great interests. Are you following
31:18
Speaker 8: the Beesos aspect of the met Gala?
31:20
Speaker 2: Yes? The fact so him and his wife are the
31:22
Speaker 2: sponsors of him.
31:23
Speaker 8: Brought his way into it. But I also note this
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Speaker 8: morning that he's selling his yacht, which is called Koru. Now,
31:29
Speaker 8: the interesting thing about the yacht is that he had
31:32
Speaker 8: it built, and there was much coverage at the time
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Speaker 8: because it's the biggest in the world and the most
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Speaker 8: expensive and stuff. Then he's gone and got that and
31:39
Speaker 8: he's decided because it's so distinctive, he can't live with
31:43
Speaker 8: it anymore, so he needs to sell it.
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Speaker 2: What do you mean so distinctive. Oh that's Jeff's yacht.
31:48
Speaker 8: You can't there's no anonymity anymore.
31:50
Speaker 2: So you can have everything.
31:51
Speaker 8: But once you've got everything, you don't want everything because
31:54
Speaker 8: you become conspicuous by your consumption.
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Speaker 2: I'm reading a book book called The Have Knots and
31:59
Speaker 2: the Have Yachts, and it's about It's kind a good title,
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Speaker 2: that's why I bought it, but it goes through just
32:05
Speaker 2: how big those things have gotten through the years. And
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Speaker 2: you've now got your gigga yachts, you had your CEP yachts,
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Speaker 2: and then you get the last thing.
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Speaker 8: I was reading another article the other day, not in
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Speaker 8: that book, but it's the last thing in the world
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Speaker 8: whereby you can truly show the world what you're about.
32:20
Speaker 8: Because everyone's got a plane and everyone's got multiple houses.
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Speaker 2: But if you and the idea was that you can
32:25
Speaker 2: go and get away from people clubs us clubs. But
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Speaker 2: the world is getting smaller. You've got satellites, you've got drones.
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Speaker 8: You if you follow the super yacht community is closely
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Speaker 8: as you do, is you know I do. The interesting
32:39
Speaker 8: thing is they all go to the same places, and
32:42
Speaker 8: once they all go to Saint Bart's and the Caribbean,
32:45
Speaker 8: and so they're all parked up next to each other,
32:46
Speaker 8: steering at each other, and you're having cocktails. Come over
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Speaker 8: to my yacht and have It's all about footage. It's
32:51
Speaker 8: all about size. When they say, you know, size doesn't matter,
32:53
Speaker 8: size doesn't matter.
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Speaker 2: You have to have a lot of money because the
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Speaker 2: stress of the upkeep the costs.
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Speaker 8: Running, it's extraordinary. It's not totally on myself. You can
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Speaker 8: afford a yacht, but running it and having the staff
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Speaker 8: I have.
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Speaker 2: Have you ever watched Below Dick, But it's probably beneath you.
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Speaker 2: It's beneath you. But I love that show and I've
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Speaker 2: always wanted. I've always wanted to go on one of
33:11
Speaker 2: those week long cruises that you do. Well, why don't
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Speaker 2: you Well, there's very.
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Speaker 8: Expensive, but equally you you get the rat virus. Yeah, man,
33:20
Speaker 8: imagine packed on a yacht and you've got the rat
33:23
Speaker 8: virus and Kate Birdie won't let you in and you're trapped.
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Speaker 8: This is taking a bit of a twister.
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Speaker 2: It's in your hands. But I've enjoyed it all right,
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Speaker 2: Mica is with your next Have a fantastic day and
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Speaker 2: we will see you tomorrow. And stay Marrying.
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