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Full Show Podcast: 15 October 2024 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge you
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  Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four on an early edition with Smith City,
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture beds and a play at store US Dogs.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be good morning at a six after five Tuesday morning.
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  Speaker 2: Great to have your company. Twelve percent jump and jogs
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  Speaker 2: job seekers. Are we surprised? Who exactly are they? We'll
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  Speaker 2: ask that before six this morning. The US is tied
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  Speaker 2: up in the Middle Eastern Ukraine and China surrounds Taiwan.
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  Speaker 2: Should we be worried? Farmac funding changes have been called
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  Speaker 2: for this morning, but have we already done them? We'll
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  Speaker 2: ask that in a few moments time. Plus how much
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  Speaker 2: fuel in terms of fuel resources and reserves do you
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  Speaker 2: think we have on hand in New Zealand? Should have
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  Speaker 2: disaster to strike, we'll tell you seven after five.
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  Speaker 3: The agenda.
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  Speaker 2: It's Tuesday, the fifteenth of October. Eighteen people have died
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  Speaker 2: in an Israeli strike in northern Lebanon. Sirens have been
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  Speaker 2: heard sounding and parts of central Israel this morning, presumably
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  Speaker 2: bracing for a response. Meanwhile, Netta Na who's saying to
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  Speaker 2: the peacekeepers get out of the way.
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  Speaker 4: Mister Secretary General, get the utiful forces out of homes
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  Speaker 4: where it should be run right now immediately.
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  Speaker 2: Israel's ambassador to New Zealand was called into the Ministry
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  Speaker 2: of Foreign Affairs yesterday to hear New Zealand's thoughts on
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  Speaker 2: the un being targeted. CPI. The numbers out tomorrow should
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  Speaker 2: be confirmation that we're back in our target zone of
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  Speaker 2: one to three percent inflation. Second quarter, remember was three
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  Speaker 2: point three percent. Third quarter. The Reserve Bank reckons we
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  Speaker 2: should be closer to two percent. An z reckons the
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  Speaker 2: quarterly rate will beer point eight, so that takes us
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  Speaker 2: to two point three annually either way. As I said
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  Speaker 2: last week, we have won the war, but we're still
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  Speaker 2: counting our losses. The Aussies, Elbow, etc. They're looking at
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  Speaker 2: banning surcharges for payments by debit cards. They've got a
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  Speaker 2: Preserve Bank of inquiry into payment cards and it's ongoing.
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  Speaker 2: You can pay anything in Australia, get this from one
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  Speaker 2: percent to up to ten percent on the top of
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  Speaker 2: the price of your goods costing up to four billion
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  Speaker 2: bucks a year.
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  Speaker 3: Fuck. It's then the flyman.
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  Speaker 2: Crow staying across the ditch for a second. The king
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  Speaker 2: is just days away. From embarking on his visit to
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  Speaker 2: Australia and the Pacific. An official welcomers planning camera on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: But some of those invited won't be attending. None of
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  Speaker 2: these six Australian state premiers will be there.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's a wheezer way out. I think it's
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  Speaker 5: not necessarily a big store here. It's a big story
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  Speaker 5: back home. I can tell you that because the state
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  Speaker 5: premier is using array of pretty lame excuses.
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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 Smith City, New
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  Speaker 1: Zealand's furniture beds and a plying store news talk.
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  Speaker 2: Sid be's a very big of a deal. I was
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  Speaker 2: reading the story this morning as well, and it seemed
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  Speaker 2: to me that the state premiers were all just a
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  Speaker 2: bit busy sending someone else in their place. New South
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  Speaker 2: Wales or basically every state New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Wa,
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  Speaker 2: South Australia, Tasmania. They're all saying, not sending our premiere,
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  Speaker 2: thank you very much, thank you for the invite, lovely
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  Speaker 2: that the King's coming, but just a bit busy with
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  Speaker 2: other things. You can imagine what our civic leaders would
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  Speaker 2: be chomping at the bit to get to a meeting
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  Speaker 2: with him, and it's a reception in Canvas. So you're
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  Speaker 2: going to fly halfway across the world's largest country just
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  Speaker 2: to get there. So I don't think there's much of
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  Speaker 2: a story to it. But anyway, there you go. Tell
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  Speaker 2: you what. There is a story too, and that is
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  Speaker 2: what's going on in Taiwan, the Taiwan Straight So China,
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  Speaker 2: you might have read this yesterday, is basically surrounded them.
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  Speaker 2: They've done this before. That's not the interesting part. The
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  Speaker 2: interesting part is the fact that America is very much
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  Speaker 2: distracted both in Ukraine and in the Middle East. Has
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  Speaker 2: this got anything to do with the fact that China
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  Speaker 2: is surrounding Taiwan, and I mean literally surrounding them. Do
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  Speaker 2: you know what a blockade of the time and at
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  Speaker 2: Taiwan straight would cost the global economy ten percent off GDP,
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  Speaker 2: thank you very much, way worse than anything COVID brought
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  Speaker 2: to us in terms of impact on trade and shipping, etc. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: we'll look at that with Robert Patman in just a
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  Speaker 2: few seconds. One more thing to get off my chest.
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  Speaker 2: So I actually there's the India Canada thing as well.
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  Speaker 2: Which we'll get to. But this group, the Sustainable Electric
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  Speaker 2: Vehicle Group that's sewing the government. They're called the Better
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand Trust. You might have seen this in the
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  Speaker 2: news yesterday, Sustainable Electric Vehicle Group taking the government to
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  Speaker 2: court for basically making laws. So I thought it was
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  Speaker 2: their job anyway. It's an EV lobby group. It's run
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  Speaker 2: by a woman who on the website, you go to
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  Speaker 2: the website, she bought a press in twenty eleven and
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  Speaker 2: she now wants us all in one. Anyway, so I
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  Speaker 2: had to look at their sponsors. Who is funding this group.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously there's some EV companies, you'd expect that. There's some
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  Speaker 2: power companies, you'd expect that. But under their major sponsors,
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  Speaker 2: what I didn't expect to see was the inter Island,
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  Speaker 2: a Ferry and Earth. Are they doing sponsoring this which
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  Speaker 2: is currently suing the government for making laws? I have
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  Speaker 2: no idea If you can answer me that riddle nine
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  Speaker 2: two ninety two is the number to text eleven after.
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  Speaker 3: Five Brian Bridge.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot happening in the austraight oft Taiwan. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: we had one of our vessels go through the strait.
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  Speaker 2: Just a couple of weeks ago as well due to
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  Speaker 2: Collins confirming first time since twenty seventeen. So we will
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  Speaker 2: take a look at that with Robert Patman. Next will
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  Speaker 2: sue our.
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  Speaker 3: Besil get ahead of the headlines.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge you for twenty twenty four on early edition
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  Speaker 1: with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a planet store.
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  Speaker 2: News Talk said be thirteen after five. So Shane Jones,
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  Speaker 2: who's the Associate Minister for Energy, he says we need
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  Speaker 2: to increase our resilience when it comes to fuel reserves.
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand imports nearly all of its engine fuels. As
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  Speaker 2: you will know, we no longer have a refinery here.
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  Speaker 2: The previous government had stipulate and this isn't due to
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  Speaker 2: come into January next year that fuel importers will be
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  Speaker 2: required to hold twenty eight days cover for petrol and
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  Speaker 2: twenty four days cover for jet fuel twenty one days
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  Speaker 2: for diesel. This in case of an emergency, something goes wrong.
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  Speaker 2: You want to have continuity of supply, right, Shane Jones
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  Speaker 2: says wrong, I'm not satisfied that twenty one days cover
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  Speaker 2: for diesel is enough. He is asking officials to go
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  Speaker 2: back and try and sort this out. The big problem
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  Speaker 2: is Auckland Airport. You've got three or basically three oil
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  Speaker 2: companies that have an interest in the infrastructure and they
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  Speaker 2: can't decide on whether they should invest further or not.
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  Speaker 2: He said, he is looking at a minimum supply of
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  Speaker 2: jet fuel at Auckland Airport because you don't just want
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  Speaker 2: fuel all over the country. Well you do want fuel
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  Speaker 2: all over the country, but you obviously need it in
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  Speaker 2: your main centers quite heavily as well. So it's just
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  Speaker 2: gone quarter past five. Shane Jones is onto that one.
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  Speaker 3: Spray and bridge.
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  Speaker 2: The Chinese military this is People's Liberation Army. They have
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  Speaker 2: said that drills around the Strait of Taiwan yesterday involved
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  Speaker 2: all wings of the army and were designed to simulate
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  Speaker 2: attacking Taiwan by land, sea and air. It's an interesting
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  Speaker 2: development which are going to get to in just a
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  Speaker 2: few moments here on News Talk, said b And also
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  Speaker 2: we're going to get to employment. Those numbers are on
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  Speaker 2: the job seeker going up. We're going to get to
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  Speaker 2: those just before at six o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
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  Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith. City New Zealand's furniture,
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  Speaker 1: beds and a planet store. News Talk SIB.
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  Speaker 2: First up, though there are calls for Farmac to change
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  Speaker 2: up the way it funds drugs are report commissioned by
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  Speaker 2: Multiple Sclerosis New Zealand says it's time to base funding
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  Speaker 2: decisions not just on the cost of the medical device,
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  Speaker 2: but on the impact we'll have on the health system
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  Speaker 2: and society as a whole. The cost benefit model has
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  Speaker 2: been widely used overseas and was recommended by the Treasury
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  Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen. Neil Woodams is the Multiple Sclerosis New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand President. He's with me this morning. Now, Good morning
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  Speaker 2: to you.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, Ryan, how are you well?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you? My first question is has this not changed already?
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  Speaker 2: David Seymour gave a directive, did he not to Farmact
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  Speaker 2: to do something like this.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we.
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  Speaker 6: Are hopeful as as changed. We actually started this report
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  Speaker 6: last year and it's the first detailed, evidently based report
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  Speaker 6: on the subject. We think it supports David Seymour's position,
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  Speaker 6: but we also think it's worthwhile demonstrating exactly what those
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  Speaker 6: costs are and how significant they are.
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  Speaker 2: Can you give us one example of a medicine that
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  Speaker 2: we don't currently fund using the old model versus your
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  Speaker 2: new one.
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  Speaker 6: Well, the medicine that we use in this case is
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  Speaker 6: a drug called okerlism ab, which has been approved for
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  Speaker 6: relapsing remitting MS, but not for primary progressive MS until
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  Speaker 6: just very recently. It took us about I suppose eight
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  Speaker 6: years to get that drug approved, and so we've based
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  Speaker 6: the report, or Richard Milner's based the report on the
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  Speaker 6: modeling that was done for oparism, but the model that
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  Speaker 6: he's used is applicable to any dragonisimilar situation.
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  Speaker 2: It's basically saying there are wider benefits to society, to
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  Speaker 2: the health system, etc. From using these drugs other than
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  Speaker 2: it might save one, two, three lives whatever.
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  Speaker 6: That's absolutely right. I mean, there are significant costs to
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  Speaker 6: the government in a disease like multiple sclerosis that pharmic
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  Speaker 6: don't take into account. For example, this cost to social
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  Speaker 6: welfare when people stop working and go on to an
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  Speaker 6: unemployment benefit or a disability benefit. But there's also very
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  Speaker 6: substantial cost to the family and to the individual. People
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  Speaker 6: with mism will stop work fifteen twenty years before they
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  Speaker 6: would be due to retire, and so there's the whole
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  Speaker 6: impact economic impact of the family of a loss of
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  Speaker 6: an income and then on retirement.
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  Speaker 7: Can we say for etc.
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  Speaker 3: Etc.
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  Speaker 2: It's interesting, isn't it. I mean something you would have
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  Speaker 2: thought obviously Treasury recommended it in twenty fifteen. It's something
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  Speaker 2: you would have thought that a government would be looking
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  Speaker 2: at doing, or a lens through which they would look
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  Speaker 2: at funding anyway, Neil, thank you for that. Neil wham
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  Speaker 2: is the Multiples Crisis New Zealand President. It is nineteen
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  Speaker 2: ouf to five on.
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  Speaker 1: Your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition with Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Bridge and Swis City, New Zealand's Furiture Beds and applying
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  Speaker 1: store news Talk.
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  Speaker 2: Z'd be twenty one after five. Welcome to your Tuesday morning.
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  Speaker 2: Lots of texts coming on China, Taiwan, China's surrounding Taiwan,
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  Speaker 2: and basically military drills yesterday. Good morning, Ryan. With America
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  Speaker 2: currently led by a politically weak, lame duck president and
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  Speaker 2: preoccupied with its election, it makes sense for China to
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  Speaker 2: try and push the line of what's acceptable to try
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  Speaker 2: and force political concessions from Taiwan right now, certainly before
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  Speaker 2: a possible Trump presidency. Thanks Peter, Peter, thanks for your
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  Speaker 2: call your text this morning. Robert Patman the Ottaga University
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  Speaker 2: International Relations experts with me this morning. Robert, Good morning
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  Speaker 2: to you.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning Ryan.
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  Speaker 2: Do you reckon Peter's got a point?
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  Speaker 7: I think he's got a point. We certainly are entering
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  Speaker 7: what may be described as lame duck territory. But it's
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  Speaker 7: fair to say that China has been quite concerned about
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  Speaker 7: the president the administration running Taiwan for some time. William Lai,
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  Speaker 7: who's thought following in the steps of his predecessor in
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  Speaker 7: saying that Taiwan is an independent country and that China
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  Speaker 7: has no right to speak twenty three million people who
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  Speaker 7: live in Taiwan.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's saying, you won't annex us basically, and that's
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  Speaker 2: that's touch China is that would they have done this
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  Speaker 2: if the US wasn't busy in the Middle East, in
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  Speaker 2: Ukraine and everywhere else, or would you think they would
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  Speaker 2: have done this anyway?
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  Speaker 7: I think they're testing the waters. This is part of
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  Speaker 7: the long term policy. I mean, ideally China would like
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  Speaker 7: Taiwan to fall into their lap without the use of force.
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  Speaker 7: It's an attempt at political intimidation having these drills involving
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  Speaker 7: warships and friple jets, but Taiwan's having none of it. It
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  Speaker 7: condemned the drills, and so it's military holding its positions
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  Speaker 7: at sea and in the air. And if China hasn't
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  Speaker 7: ruled out the use of force in the future, if
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  Speaker 7: it did decide to use force, it would find out
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  Speaker 7: that Taiwan is formable faux potential foe if it used force.
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  Speaker 7: Of course, Taiwan doesn't want that and China doesn't want that,
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  Speaker 7: but they have inflicting political objectives. I think the Chinese
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  Speaker 7: leadership is testing America's result. As you quite rightly say,
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  Speaker 7: America's distracted, particularly by the events in the Middle East
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  Speaker 7: recently but before and to some degree also by the
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  Speaker 7: Ukraine situation, and the Chinese are very mindful that mister
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  Speaker 7: Trump will be cutting America's commitments to Ukraine, and that
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  Speaker 7: would give mister Putin a China ally anti factor for
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  Speaker 7: victory in Ukraine. And this is something to watch. I
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  Speaker 7: think it's not just the lame duck factor, which I
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  Speaker 7: think is real, but I think even bigger factor is
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  Speaker 7: a doubt whether mister Trump, despite his rhetoric, would actually
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  Speaker 7: have the same determination to support allies as mister Biden.
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  Speaker 7: At least mister Trump as much more of a transactional
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  Speaker 7: president who moves from issue to issue and study is
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  Speaker 7: everything case by case.
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  Speaker 2: Can you give us a very quick update Ukraine? Obviously
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  Speaker 2: these oil energy prices outside of the human cost of
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  Speaker 2: these wars. But for little old place like New Zealand,
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  Speaker 2: you know Ukraine, you get your changes to all prices
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  Speaker 2: the middle least. We've got our trade routes affected. What
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  Speaker 2: would a blockade of Taiwan mean for New Zealand financially.
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  Speaker 7: Well, it's a very bad news. We have excellent relations
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  Speaker 7: so in Taiwan, I think it's the sixth or seventh
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  Speaker 7: biggest trade partner of New Zealand, and of course China
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  Speaker 7: is our biggest trade partner, so it's potentially a double
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  Speaker 7: where me if those two countries got involved in conflict
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  Speaker 7: and the other thing is at the moment, New Zealand
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  Speaker 7: is struggling to maintain what's called international rules based order,
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  Speaker 7: and the conflict there would only further who rode that process.
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  Speaker 7: Why doesn't the z need an international rules based order
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  Speaker 7: because we trade with more than one hundred countries around
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  Speaker 7: the world and we need rules. Rules are there for
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  Speaker 7: the week, not for the strong. And if you had
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  Speaker 7: a superpower flecting its muscles and ignoring international law, again
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  Speaker 7: a pattern we've seen with Ukraine now, Gaza now, and
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  Speaker 7: possibly Taiwan. That would be very bad news for small
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  Speaker 7: and middle powers in the world, which are the majority
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  Speaker 7: but don't actually have majority.
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  Speaker 2: Saying what happens, Robert Patman, thank you very much for
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  Speaker 2: your time. I Tiger University International Relations, the expert responding
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  Speaker 2: there to the military drills being conducted by China around Taiwan. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: the early.
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  Speaker 1: Edition full the Show podcast on iHeartRadio powered by News Talks.
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  Speaker 2: It be you're on News Talks. It'd be twenty seven
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  Speaker 2: minutes after five o'clock. The poll last night, the one
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  Speaker 2: news variant poll that had basically not a lot of
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  Speaker 2: change other than a dip in the personal popularity of
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  Speaker 2: both the leaders of the major parties in Chris Luxen
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  Speaker 2: and in Chris Hepkins. Nothing really major is going on,
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  Speaker 2: is it? And it's been that way for a couple
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  Speaker 2: of poles.
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  Speaker 7: Now.
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  Speaker 2: What I find interesting is just the vibe, the energy
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  Speaker 2: levels that you're picking up off these guys. Luxon obvious,
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  Speaker 2: he's like the road Runner. You ever ever watched the
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  Speaker 2: road Runner? The Looney Tunes thing, and he's running around
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  Speaker 2: in a cloud of dust, bumping into things. You know,
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  Speaker 2: get out of my way. I'm just in a hurry
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  Speaker 2: to get rid of this done and off he goes.
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  Speaker 2: And meanwhile, old Hipkins, well is his hard on it?
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  Speaker 2: What do you really think when you see him being interviewed.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I've interviewed him over many years now and
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  Speaker 2: I just think it must be hard to maintain a
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  Speaker 2: level of enthusiasm. But I just think he's sort of
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  Speaker 2: outwardly showing it now. You know, he'll be dusting off
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  Speaker 2: his CV. No doubt he'll be thinking about what's next.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't want to be there for the next election,
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  Speaker 2: does he. I mean the problem at the moment is
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  Speaker 2: no one else really wants to take the job by that,
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  Speaker 2: because it's a bit of a poisoned chalice. But I
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  Speaker 2: look at Chris Hipkins and I think there's a man
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  Speaker 2: who doesn't want to be there. I mean, that's why
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  Speaker 2: you go and spend two weeks over in London at
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  Speaker 2: Liverpool actually half the time. Anyway, we will watch these
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  Speaker 2: polls with interest, won't we. We'd love your thoughts. Nine
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  Speaker 2: to nine two is the number two text I would
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  Speaker 2: love to hear from you on that. Coming up before
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  Speaker 2: six Unemployment. The job seeker numbers are up. We'll ask
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  Speaker 2: why and where.
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  Speaker 1: News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
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  Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's
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  Speaker 1: Furniture Beds and a flying store.
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  Speaker 3: News Talk sid B.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, it's twenty four away from six News Talk said,
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  Speaker 2: be busy. A few days in space. We've had the comets,
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  Speaker 2: we've had the fingers, the mechanical fingers, catching the space
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  Speaker 2: rocket as it lands, catching the space ship. And now
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  Speaker 2: NASA is off to Jupiter. Apparently there's a frosty moon
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  Speaker 2: we need to go and inspect. Just near Jupiter. It's
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  Speaker 2: got what they're describing as potentially an enormous ocean hidden
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  Speaker 2: beneath its ice covered surface. What is under there? Can
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  Speaker 2: we somehow get this water? Can we somehow bring it here?
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  Speaker 2: Can we move there? I'm sure they answer all these questions.
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  Speaker 2: NASA's mission is leaving twelve o'clock Monday. Back down here
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  Speaker 2: on planet Earth, where we're all lazy. Jobs seeking numbers
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  Speaker 2: are up. I shouldn't say that, really, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people have lost their jobs for good reason. Northland is
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: sitting at ten percent. This is for the job seeker
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: support ten percent. That's up point four percent. This is
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: for March twenty twenty four, bay of twenty seven point
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: seven percent. That's up point two But you look at
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: somewhere like Auckland Central Auckland Metro, they call it here
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  Speaker 2: six percent, but that's up point six percent. So one
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  Speaker 2: of the higher and same goes for the central plateau
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  Speaker 2: five point nine percent on the job seeker that's up
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: point seven percent. It's twenty three away from six Ryan
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Bridge and we're going to our reporters right around the country.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Callum Proctor is in Donedan this morning. Calum a reduction
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  Speaker 2: and off license trading hours. Yeah, morning, right.
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  Speaker 8: This is just a proposal for Dnedan's bottle stores at
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: this stage. Also, the proposal is for earlier closing times
• 19:29
  Speaker 8: for entertainment venues, nightclubs, et cetera. The City Council's put
• 19:33
  Speaker 8: forward the swath of public proposals for changes to its
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: local alcohol policy. The proposed closing time for clubs now
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: three am and reducing off license ours from ten to
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: nine pm closing. The amendments focus on what they say
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: is limiting alcohol related harm, particularly among Danedan's student population.
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: The city council says the changes would align with community
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: values and ensure vulnerable populations are protected. This consultation period
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  Speaker 8: is open for another month.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, interesting, how's your weather today, collum?
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: But around this morning clearing to find this afternoon southwesterlies
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  Speaker 8: and I have only eleven today.
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  Speaker 2: Brilliant, Thank you. Claire Sherwood is in christ Church this morning.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Get a claar. We're talking safety upgrades for the Church
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  Speaker 2: Corner intersection.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: City councilors are going to choose between two options for
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: the intersection of ricketten Yoldhurst and Main South Road at
• 20:28
  Speaker 9: their meeting tomorrow. Anyone who's driven through the area will
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: know it. It's a forked intersection, and it's actually in
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: the top three percent of christ Church's most risky intersections.
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: There have been eighty three crashes there in a decade.
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: Now.
• 20:41
  Speaker 9: Council staff for recommending removing a right turn from Maine
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: South Road onto Ricketon Road, but the local councilor, Mark Peters,
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: says that option is very unappealing for many. He says
• 20:53
  Speaker 9: the idea to fully signalize the intersection and keep the
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: right turn seems to be where the upgrade is heading,
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: right with he today clear occajal rain about this morning.
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  Speaker 9: It will clear this sou afternoon. Southwesterlies the high here
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  Speaker 9: only eleven as well.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thank you clear, We're going to Max and Wellington. Max.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: I think we should have a bit on whether the
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: government gets involved in the council there. What do you reckon?
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Okay, twenty bucks?
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Do you say, well, they're not going to go
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: full commissioner on it, are they? They haven't got that far,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: but they'll probably go for one of the lower rungs
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: on the on the escalation scale.
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  Speaker 4: All right, I'll play devil's advocate and go leave us alone.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: We'll do our own thing.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Prove you can. I guess it's the point, right.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: Well, that's what Tory Fano is trying to do at
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: the moment. She was in the studio yesterday with Nick Mills.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: The message from her is clearly all is well, we're
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: virtually on track. A couple of hours later, though, you
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: had Nikola Willis telling Heather Duplessi Allen that the government
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: intervention at Council is a definite possibility. Something the government
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: is taking seriously post this airport shares sale breaking down.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: Simeon Brown says he's also concerned. And what you did
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: have yesterday though, is Fino conceding that there's no chance
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: now of getting a total unity around the council table
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: and there are clearly some people she doesn't reckon she
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: can work with. Meanwhile, we've got a story in our
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: bulletins this morning about more CBD businesses looking to move
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: across the Harbor to Battoni because of the roadworks and
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: loss of parks, an issue that's now led to the
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: retail Endz, Hospitality Enz and the Bus and Coach Association
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: actually teaming up to protest cuts of them in our
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: bulletins this morning as a group, a new group pleading
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: with the city council to better listen to businesses and
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: stop being so obtuse.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's interesting. So you've got union guys and they're
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: all saying basically get rid of the cycle wives or
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: stop the cycle ways.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: Yes, and it's about engagement as well. Clearly, so many
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: business owners in the city don't feel like they're being
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: listened to. It's not being explained well enough to them
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: these changes that they're seeing, these roadworks outside their front
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: door and it's costing the money.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: All right. How's the weather today, max.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Cloud even the odd shower, some stronger southerly's twelve high
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: in the city.
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  Speaker 2: Brilliant. Thank you Neva's and Auckland Hey, Neva, good morning.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: It's so Auckland Transport's fifty dollars a week cap has
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: kicked in.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, now this is a great incentive. So what we
• 23:14
  Speaker 10: know is that more than twenty thousand Aucklanders I've taken
• 23:16
  Speaker 10: advantage of this fifty dollars a week cap, so we
• 23:20
  Speaker 10: know the system has been put in place for the
• 23:23
  Speaker 10: last twelve weeks and it means that commuters will pay
• 23:26
  Speaker 10: no more than fifty bucks. This is for the buses,
• 23:28
  Speaker 10: the trains and also that in harbor ferries. So there's
• 23:31
  Speaker 10: been a twenty two percent increase in public transport trip
• 23:33
  Speaker 10: since last year. So there's been push to try and
• 23:36
  Speaker 10: get everyone to use the public transport work. Will it
• 23:39
  Speaker 10: continue to grow? Let's see what happens. There's also other
• 23:43
  Speaker 10: improvements that they've made to the transport system, you know,
• 23:45
  Speaker 10: the contactless payments and giving buses priority at the traffic
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: lights as well. Ah looking that now, well, apparently I've
• 23:54
  Speaker 10: thought Oh, I haven't seen that.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: So is that with the bee that?
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  Speaker 11: Yes?
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the bus lane that what it stands for? What
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: did you think of me?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know the arch these neighbors lane patient anyway?
• 24:10
  Speaker 10: Ye, okay, shells clearing to mainly fine. We've got through.
• 24:19
  Speaker 10: Southwesterly is becoming strong. Seventeen is there every day?
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Good to see you about seventeen minutes away from sex News, Toxic.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: B International correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Look out, New Zealand. They're coming for our doctors at
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: quarter to six. This is the Australian government. Doctors from
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: the UK, Ireland and New Zealand will be fast tracked
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: to work in Australia and changes designed to address their
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: GP shortage. There Donna demos, our Australia correspondent, donnad just
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: leave them alone.
• 24:55
  Speaker 12: Oh look, we don't have enough doctors here. So we
• 24:58
  Speaker 12: have heard now that well, the Federal Health Minister Mark
• 25:01
  Speaker 12: Butler and his state counterparts have recommended this proposal. It's
• 25:05
  Speaker 12: effectively going to get rid of a significant amount of
• 25:08
  Speaker 12: red tape. In fact, so the Medical Watchdog looks like
• 25:11
  Speaker 12: it will proceed with this overhaul of the accreditation process
• 25:15
  Speaker 12: for overseas doctors, and yes it does include n Z doctors.
• 25:19
  Speaker 12: And this means that GPS who are qualified from New Zealand,
• 25:23
  Speaker 12: Ireland and UK can then get this specialist registration with
• 25:27
  Speaker 12: the Watchdog and they don't need to be assessed by
• 25:30
  Speaker 12: the Royal Australian College of GPS anymore. Well, the College
• 25:34
  Speaker 12: is a little myf to say the least. They're bringing
• 25:36
  Speaker 12: up issues with oh, you know what about safety standards.
• 25:39
  Speaker 12: So the Health Minister says, no, safety standards will not
• 25:42
  Speaker 12: be compromised. He says, for too long, highly trained doctors
• 25:45
  Speaker 12: have been caught up in this red tape. So I
• 25:48
  Speaker 12: think it's about three hundred gps from these areas and
• 25:52
  Speaker 12: countries apply each year. But now interestingly they will now
• 25:58
  Speaker 12: no longer have to pay it's about twelve thousand dollars
• 26:02
  Speaker 12: for this assessment feed that they used to pay for
• 26:04
  Speaker 12: the college. Perhaps that's why the college is unimpressed with
• 26:07
  Speaker 12: this many Yeah, okay, so there's side stepping it, trying
• 26:10
  Speaker 12: to get some of the cut, some of the fat
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  Speaker 12: out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, what's going on with the spit hoods in Northern Territory.
• 26:17
  Speaker 12: Well, this is described as a way to be tough
• 26:19
  Speaker 12: on crime. It is a controversial device. It's a spithood.
• 26:23
  Speaker 12: It's exactly what it sounds like. It's put over the
• 26:26
  Speaker 12: head of a young people and in this instance we're
• 26:29
  Speaker 12: talking about the Northern Territory and it's used to restrain
• 26:33
  Speaker 12: Northern Territory children. Now I know that we heard from
• 26:36
  Speaker 12: the police chief that over the last three months, sixty
• 26:39
  Speaker 12: eight police have been assaulted in the Northern Territory and
• 26:42
  Speaker 12: there've been twenty counts of spitting. It's been described as
• 26:45
  Speaker 12: abhorrent what's happened to police. So they're saying now that
• 26:49
  Speaker 12: the new government, the Country Liberal Party, is going to
• 26:52
  Speaker 12: reintroduce spitthoods on Northern Territory children only when they're being
• 26:59
  Speaker 12: held at what house facilities. But we know that's last
• 27:02
  Speaker 12: year the UN Committee Against Torture recommended Australia take all
• 27:06
  Speaker 12: necessary measures to end the user spehoods. So interesting that
• 27:10
  Speaker 12: it's being reintroduced.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, God, it's a tough one, isn't it. Because if
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: you're the police officer, you don't want to be spat at,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: do you? And if it's happened twenty times thank you
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: very much for that. Donald Tomayo Are Australia correspond at
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: twelve minutes away from six.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: O'clock, Ryan Bridge.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: New data out this morning from the Ministry of Social Development.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: This is in the New Zealand Herald from MSD shows
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: that between September twenty three September twenty four, the number
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: of people getting the job seeker work Ready payment twelve thousand,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: three hundred increase. That's eleven point eight percent. Interestingly, and
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: this is how the government will try and spin it.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: More recent month on month data shows that the tide
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: is starting to turn back the other way for job
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: sec work ready numbers that are down by three hundred
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: people zero point two percent. That's month on month, So
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: they're saying, yes, year on year, this looks bad. Month
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: on month, we think we have reached the peak. However,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: we're going to go to Jennifer Mill's employment specialist at
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Jennifer Mills and Associates for her take on this this morning. Jennifer,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: good morning to you.
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  Speaker 11: Good morning, How are you Ryan?
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Very well? Thank you, nice to hear your voice. Who
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: are you seeing?
• 28:17
  Speaker 11: I was just thinking, Ryan while I was waiting it.
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  Speaker 11: This is the first time that I've been on your
• 28:22
  Speaker 11: show and it's the first time we've caught up since
• 28:25
  Speaker 11: your previous role.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: So nice to be involved, nice to have you on.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Tell me who are you seeing being made redundant at
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: the moment?
• 28:33
  Speaker 11: Well, just before I look at who we, I think
• 28:38
  Speaker 11: our private practice experience is consistent with for September figures.
• 28:44
  Speaker 11: So we had a real spike in structuring instructions up
• 28:50
  Speaker 11: to the angelized June period, and it was the sort
• 28:54
  Speaker 11: of redundancies which were designed to cut labor costs. So
• 28:57
  Speaker 11: it was downsizing, simple disestablishment of positions, and it wasn't
• 29:01
  Speaker 11: theen nice to have maximizing synergy type redundancy, So employers
• 29:07
  Speaker 11: were cutting costs. But interestingly, and this is the part
• 29:10
  Speaker 11: that's consistent with the data, since winter, we have seen
• 29:16
  Speaker 11: a decline in the number of restructuring instructions. And I
• 29:20
  Speaker 11: do wonder whether employers have now got to the point
• 29:24
  Speaker 11: where they've done everything they can from a cost labor
• 29:29
  Speaker 11: cutting perspective to you know, get the business right, and
• 29:35
  Speaker 11: now they're hunkering down. And I also wonder whether there
• 29:40
  Speaker 11: is an impact from the restructuring or recruitment I should
• 29:44
  Speaker 11: say freeze. So employers have completed their restructuring and now
• 29:50
  Speaker 11: they're in a holding pattern and there's very much a
• 29:52
  Speaker 11: freeze on recruitment. And you may have seen also, Ryan,
• 29:57
  Speaker 11: that there's been a drop by thirty three percent in
• 30:01
  Speaker 11: job advertisements being posted coming up to that June twenty
• 30:05
  Speaker 11: twenty four quarter period. And you know, that's really telling.
• 30:10
  Speaker 11: I think that they're just aren't the jobs.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really interesting that what you're seeing marries up
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: with what we're hearing here from this data. Can you
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: just very quickly before we go the clients that you
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: see who have been made redundant in the last couple
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: of months or even in the last couple of years,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: do they have savings to go and live off. Do
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: they have other work that they have managed to pick up.
• 30:33
  Speaker 11: No, So it's pretty pretty dire for a large group
• 30:40
  Speaker 11: of the people who we see are being made redundant.
• 30:44
  Speaker 11: Most are party to individual employment agreements. They don't have
• 30:48
  Speaker 11: an entitlement to redundancy compensation because there's no statutory right
• 30:52
  Speaker 11: to it in this country. Employers are doing the right
• 30:57
  Speaker 11: thing as best they can, and they are paying grasher
• 31:00
  Speaker 11: payments to soften the blow. But we really, you know,
• 31:05
  Speaker 11: we do see employees being made redundant without savings, with
• 31:09
  Speaker 11: very little buffer, and it's excuse me, it's very difficult
• 31:13
  Speaker 11: for them to find and secure alternative employment. And that's
• 31:16
  Speaker 11: what we're seeing in the annualized results to September. There
• 31:20
  Speaker 11: is certainly then and there's an increase on the tenure
• 31:25
  Speaker 11: anual average as well, which is I guess by design
• 31:30
  Speaker 11: by the Reserve Bank. But people are doing it tough.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's what Bryan, It's what we need. It's what
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: we needed, is what's what we ask for. Really, isn't
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: it as well in terms of taming inflation? But not
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: easy for those individuals who are affected. Jennifer Mills, thank
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: you very much for your time this morning and great
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: to have you back on our show, any show.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Really.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: I think you're great. Jennifer Mills, employment specialist at Jennifer
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Mills and Associates. Just gone seven away from six.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge New for twenty twenty four on early edition
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  Speaker 1: with Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and a Playing
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  Speaker 2: To Sex News Talk, said be Ryan, the polls right
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  Speaker 2: now are a waste of time, won't affect anyone. The
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: elections not for another what two years, says Alan, Ryan
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Hapkins will step down soon enough. Maybe he stays in
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: New Zealand politics. Maybe not. Yeah, I don't know about that, Luke.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: It is just coming up to five away from sex
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  Speaker 2: and Mike's here, Good morning morning.
• 32:28
  Speaker 13: We're talking about that earlier. There was that other poll
• 32:31
  Speaker 13: out yesterday that said, you know, the forty percent who
• 32:33
  Speaker 13: thought things were no better? Yes, and the inferences and
• 32:36
  Speaker 13: this is why polls are such a phenomenal waste of time.
• 32:40
  Speaker 13: So do you think things are worse? I mean, they're
• 32:42
  Speaker 13: indisputably worse.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, think about it.
• 32:44
  Speaker 13: I mean, we reveal what's in the economy. The economy
• 32:47
  Speaker 13: is worth. It's a statement of fact.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: It's worse.
• 32:48
  Speaker 13: Not a reflection on the government of the day. It's
• 32:50
  Speaker 13: reflection on the last government. But then you go thirty percent,
• 32:53
  Speaker 13: I think it's better. Is it could be because the
• 32:55
  Speaker 13: government might be a good government and they might turn
• 32:57
  Speaker 13: the country around. You seeing some green shoots at the moment.
• 32:59
  Speaker 13: So you in the what you in the thirty.
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: You you know what I mean?
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: And is it just I mean sentiment?
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Really you don't.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: You don't necessarily feel that things are better, but you
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: just have hope that they probably might.
• 33:09
  Speaker 13: Precisely, And because the question is not nuanced in any
• 33:12
  Speaker 13: and because your response is not nuanced, it's it's some
• 33:15
  Speaker 13: sort of random kind of go up to you're feeling
• 33:18
  Speaker 13: all right, oh yeah, I suppose.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: About life since the election? What's that? What's that?
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: Even?
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 33:24
  Speaker 13: Even to me? How much does all that cost? And
• 33:25
  Speaker 13: why are they still doing it?
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Well? I was thinking that last night, because they are
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: doing monthly and I think.
• 33:31
  Speaker 13: It's tens of thousands of dollars to a pole.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why news I never did precisely.
• 33:37
  Speaker 13: So, I mean so for for for an organization that's
• 33:40
  Speaker 13: laying people off and has got major money worries.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: A lot of money to.
• 33:44
  Speaker 13: Two years from an election, are they doing line by
• 33:46
  Speaker 13: line budgets or all sudden they once looked through it?
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: Anyway?
• 33:50
  Speaker 13: Speaking which Prime Minister's with us this morning on a Tuesday.
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