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Full Show Podcast: 13 February 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: earlier this show with one roof love where you live
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Speaker 1: News Talk, sa'd be good.
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Speaker 2: Morning, Welcome to Friday. Just gone six minutes after five.
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Speaker 2: Kayger Auto's big turnaround plan to get themselves out of debt.
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Speaker 2: Tamapuul Tarker says, actually we're doing quite well. He's on
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Speaker 2: the show. Vincent's in the UK for US sale GP
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Speaker 2: tickets haven't quite sold out for a year. Is that
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Speaker 2: a problem for them? And tyodod Or Flavel is here
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Speaker 2: live on the Malordi seats. The agenda Friday the thirteenth
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Speaker 2: of February. Great to have your company. Comps have named
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Speaker 2: the shutter in Canada.
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Speaker 3: The suspect has been identified as eighteen year old Jesse
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Speaker 3: Van Rutzlar, who is a resident of tumblr Ridge. Two firearms,
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Speaker 3: a long gun and a modified handgun were recovered by
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Speaker 3: responding officers.
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Speaker 2: Was a man now a woman? Just for clarification, Trump's
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Speaker 2: borders Tom home and he's come out, says, Operation Metro
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Speaker 2: Surge in Minnesota is over.
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Speaker 4: Well, We're going to continue to force immigration law. That's
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Speaker 4: what American people voted for, but has to be priority
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Speaker 4: of criminals and look I hear, are the heat now
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Speaker 4: you should arrest everybody. Oh, we are, but we're prioritizing
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Speaker 4: also a biggest structure of community, the rapists, the murders,
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Speaker 4: the child molester, o molesters. That's the right thing to do.
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Speaker 2: Four thousand of them they arrested too, by the way. Finally,
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Speaker 2: this morning, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, this is the Ineos Sky
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Speaker 2: Petrochemical Sky billionaire from the UK, had the spat with
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Speaker 2: NZR over the sponsorship deal owns the football team. You
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Speaker 2: know I'm talking about. Well, he made the comment about basically, Mike,
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Speaker 2: we have a listen.
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Speaker 5: I mean that the UK has been colonized. It's costing
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Speaker 5: too much money. It will cause, it will cause. The
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Speaker 5: UK has been colonized by himmigrants. Reirly, isn't it. I
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Speaker 5: mean the population of the UK is fifty eight million
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Speaker 5: in twenty twenty. No, it's seventy million. That's twelve million people.
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Speaker 2: So he's come out and apologized. Well, it's one of
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Speaker 2: those sorry, not sorry apologies says sorry that my choice
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Speaker 2: of language has offended some people. But it is important
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Speaker 2: to raise the issue of controlled and well managed immigration
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Speaker 2: that supports Economic Growth.
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Speaker 1: Views and Views you Trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: early edition with Bryan Bridge and one roof Love Where
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Speaker 1: you Live News Talks had.
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Speaker 2: Been nine two the numbers text flick me one this
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Speaker 2: morning before six o'clock. Isn't it funny how we only
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Speaker 2: pay attention to companies that we hate paying to use
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Speaker 2: when their profits go up, but not when their profits
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Speaker 2: come down, not when they're on the coming downs. It
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Speaker 2: just doesn't suit the narrative, does it. This week we've
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Speaker 2: had an insurance outfit Evil and a bank double Evil
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Speaker 2: Devil incarnate a six monthly reporting season going on. IAG
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Speaker 2: New Zealand's profit was down. This is insurance, their commercial
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Speaker 2: market a bit softer for them, lower investment income, more
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Speaker 2: of us making claims. You know, the currency hasn't help,
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Speaker 2: but more of us making claims because the weather all
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Speaker 2: that sort of stuff. So company says insurance profit was
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Speaker 2: down fifty million dollars, down from three hundred and sixty
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Speaker 2: five million on the same time last year. And that's
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Speaker 2: the thing with insurance companies. They tend to do well
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Speaker 2: when their aunt storms, and then they come off of
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Speaker 2: it when they do have to pay out for bad weather.
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Speaker 2: Stands to reason ASB Bank might have had better lending
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Speaker 2: and margins actually both of those things, but they also
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Speaker 2: had higher expenses. Their result was down by a few minutes,
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Speaker 2: basically flat. For ASB. They made more money because they
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Speaker 2: lent more money, which is a good thing, and they
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Speaker 2: did better at charging for it, which is not such
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Speaker 2: a great thing for us. Their expenses were up in
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Speaker 2: part well twenty one percent because they settled out of
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Speaker 2: court on that class legal action that we have been following.
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Speaker 2: Now you could argue that's a bad thing, but also
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Speaker 2: a good thing. It shows a system that manages to
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Speaker 2: correct a wrong and hold a big bank accountable. So
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Speaker 2: there you go, a couple of results you probably won't
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Speaker 2: hear much about this week, wouldn't have heard much about
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Speaker 2: this week, and the next time we hear about them,
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Speaker 2: it'll be because you know why, they will have recovered
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Speaker 2: and they'll be making skillions and making headlines because of it.
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Speaker 2: And I'm not saying I like paying for any of
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Speaker 2: this stuff either, but some balance in the splashy headlines
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Speaker 2: might help allay some of the big business frothy critics
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Speaker 2: that we often hear in the media. Bridge after five
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Speaker 2: news Talks heb I said, we'll get Tomma Pautucker on
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Speaker 2: kying order in their big turnaround plan that's coming before
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Speaker 2: six this morning. Next spec to two O flavel because
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Speaker 2: Winston's banging the Mardi seat drum quite loudly. News Talks Hebb.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and One Room Love
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Speaker 1: Where You Live.
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Speaker 2: News Talks at B five thirteen Rome. With the cost
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Speaker 2: of a ticket for sale GP at one hundred and
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Speaker 2: ninety dollars. I'm not surprised that they haven't sold. It's
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Speaker 2: daylight robbery. This is that's to get into the stand
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Speaker 2: that they've erected done on the wild Waterfront. We'll speak
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Speaker 2: to them. We're gonna ask to what's it called aukand
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Speaker 2: unlimited is what we're talking to it twenty so we'll
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Speaker 2: ask them about the ticket price and maybe that is
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Speaker 2: why they haven't sold them all because they looked last
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Speaker 2: night online there's still tickets available and the thing starts
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Speaker 2: tomorrow very quickly for you. Another example of why the
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Speaker 2: hell did you bother asking me that? So Health New
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Speaker 2: Zealand went to surveyed people, do you want us to
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Speaker 2: increase the price that we charge you to park at
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Speaker 2: a hospital, and everyone of course went no, and they went, okay,
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Speaker 2: we won't. Why bother asking like that is the stupidest
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Speaker 2: thing furiating Anyway, they didn't just ask the public, they
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Speaker 2: asked the staff as well. Everyone said no, bugger off
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Speaker 2: and so went to their credit, they've listened. But I
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Speaker 2: just wonder why they have taken the time and the
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Speaker 2: exercise and the energy to bother asking anybody that. Fourteen
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Speaker 2: after five Ryan Bridge Winston Peters wants to get rid
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Speaker 2: of the Mardy seats. He's going to campaign and it
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Speaker 2: says they're no longer needed because of representation in parliament.
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Speaker 5: But there's someone was saying to people in this country,
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Speaker 5: if you want a dramatic unified electoral system, good for us.
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Speaker 2: As the Format party. Mardi co leader joins us. Now, Mareena,
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Speaker 2: good morning, Marina, good to have you on the on
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Speaker 2: the show. So is he right? I mean we do
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Speaker 2: have now more Maori representation in parliament than the general population?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, no, no, I mean bottom line is that when
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Speaker 6: you're in parliament, whether you're in New Zealand First or
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Speaker 6: Act or whatever, Parliament part of your and you respond
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Speaker 6: to the leadership of those particular parties. You're not responsible
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Speaker 6: to marin wah, shape or form. And of course Winston
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Speaker 6: is responding to that, and we'll dingers, what's going on
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Speaker 6: here on my phone anyway? I hope you can't serve.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, we got you.
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Speaker 6: I'm just trying to tell us along of right, I've
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Speaker 6: got Winston is just responding, responding to that, and a
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Speaker 6: pretty poor form. Bearing in minded he used those mighty
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Speaker 6: seats once upon a time to get himself into power
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Speaker 6: and maintain power. So it's politicizing the issue for the
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Speaker 6: purposes of, in a sense, actually bringing another split into
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Speaker 6: the country on the on the basis of our representation
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Speaker 6: and race based electioning, tirdro, what.
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Speaker 2: Is the what is the purpose of them? Because if
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Speaker 2: the purpose is representation, we have twenty eight percent of
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Speaker 2: our parliament currently of people who are Maori. The general
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Speaker 2: population is seventeen percent. So if it's if it's representation,
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Speaker 2: how do we not have that already?
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Speaker 6: Well, I mean it's got a historical context and you've
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Speaker 6: got to put it in that sense. Back in eighteen
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Speaker 6: sixty seven or thereabouts, there's an Act of Parliament more
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Speaker 6: called the Mighty Representation Act. That's where it starts from.
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Speaker 6: Did Mighty have more members of sorry that Mighty have
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Speaker 6: more people on this land than non Maori. Of course
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Speaker 6: we did, and yet we only got four ceas it's
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Speaker 6: a very small percentage of the parliament that was established
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Speaker 6: clearly at that time to get rid of to purchase land,
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Speaker 6: get rid of to take the land from Mighty people
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Speaker 6: at the time. That's well documented. Those seats stayed in
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Speaker 6: their state until nineteen ninety six. So there's a long
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Speaker 6: history there of trying to maintain, at least in a small,
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Speaker 6: very small percentage, Mighty representation in parliament. As I'll say,
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Speaker 6: Winston has used them. But if you are Maori in parliament,
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Speaker 6: you are required to follow the prodocols of your party,
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Speaker 6: no matter what they are. And the classic example of
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Speaker 6: that was Tadoana Tudia. When she was alive she had
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Speaker 6: to cross the floor away from the Labor Party that
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Speaker 6: she had been a minister in that particular party at
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Speaker 6: the time. She had a fall out with the Labor
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Speaker 6: Party because they promoted a policy that was clearly a
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Speaker 6: confiscation of land. She recognized it. And even those Mighty
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Speaker 6: members of Parliament that are that have been in Parliament
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Speaker 6: have come out now all admitted that they had to
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Speaker 6: follow the party line, offered all sorts of incentives to
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Speaker 6: stay with Labor such that they present today sort of
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Speaker 6: a cohesive voice to the country. Well, she didn't believe
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Speaker 6: in that, and she came out from the mighty party. Now.
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Speaker 6: I'm not here to advocate for the Maori Party right
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Speaker 6: especially right now, but most importantly just to say that
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Speaker 6: you know, when you are in Parliament, you are caught.
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Speaker 6: So it gives you as a Mary.
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Speaker 2: What you're saying is it gives you the kind of
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Speaker 2: power to call out your big party bosses if you
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Speaker 2: want to, and cross the floor and actually do something
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Speaker 2: about it.
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Speaker 6: No, not really, It means that you probably have to
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Speaker 6: leave the party. And you know, yeah, but you've got
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Speaker 6: your leaving the Labor Party.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you've got your seat to do.
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Speaker 7: Well.
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Speaker 6: Yeah maybe, but I mean you are at the behest
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Speaker 6: of that political political movement. They put you there. You
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Speaker 6: went under their banner and therefore you are required to
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Speaker 6: follow their line. That is classic politics and you'd probably
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Speaker 6: you're aware of that. So I mean, and even now
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Speaker 6: Shane Jones at wat excid quite openly to the whole
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Speaker 6: forum of the National leaguehich is that he actually didn't
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Speaker 6: care about Marty vote. His vote has comes from park
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Speaker 6: out New Zealander, is non Mighty New Zealand or he's
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Speaker 6: he's really going after that vote.
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Speaker 2: Where's who's going to win the Marty seats this year?
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Speaker 2: Do you reckon Labor get a few back?
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Speaker 6: I in my heart I think probably yeah, they will
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Speaker 6: get some back. I think the Greens will probably have
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Speaker 6: some input into that as well. So it's as I've
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Speaker 6: posted recently, it's not the greatest time for Marty politics.
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Speaker 6: But we'll just see what happens the next couple of months.
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Speaker 2: So he appreciate your time. This morning to door Favel,
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Speaker 2: who's the form? It's party PARTI colider with colliad with
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Speaker 2: me this morning Times nineteen minutes after five, we'll talk
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Speaker 2: about the ticket prices for sale GP.
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Speaker 1: Next the first word on the News of the Day
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Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and one Route Love where.
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Speaker 2: You live News Talks. That'd be five twenty one sal
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Speaker 2: GP back in town on the White to matad This
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Speaker 2: weekend last year, more than twenty five thousand spectators neck
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Speaker 2: hell is tataki Auckland Unlimited CEO with me this morning.
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Speaker 2: Good morning morning Ryan. All the tickets sold, you.
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Speaker 8: Have to ask our GP that I'm not sure that
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Speaker 8: they have. But it's bigger this year, so it's a
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Speaker 8: bit more of an ask.
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Speaker 2: What involvement does tattacking Auckland Unlimited have.
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Speaker 8: Quite a few things. We put in half the funding
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Speaker 8: to bring it here. We manage the all the engagements
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Speaker 8: between the between SALGP and the city. So that's everything
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Speaker 8: that goes from physically the stadium through right through to
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Speaker 8: dealing with the harbor Master and a whole range of
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Speaker 8: things that mean the city is able to put on
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Speaker 8: an event like this and make the most of it.
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Speaker 2: You say you put half the funding and you must
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Speaker 2: have some idea of how ticket sales are going.
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Speaker 8: Well, not not directly. We don't.
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Speaker 6: We don't.
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Speaker 8: We don't take that risk.
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Speaker 2: They do, Okay, all right, So what are you looking
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Speaker 2: forward to this weekend?
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Speaker 9: Then?
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Speaker 2: Will it be about? What is your what's your focus?
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Speaker 2: How many spectators you get down there?
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Speaker 8: A few things, Yeah, how many spectators go there, how
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Speaker 8: successful the event is. There's a whole bunch of targets
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Speaker 8: around that. How many people come to the city and
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Speaker 8: particularly when they stay in the hotels, what it does
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Speaker 8: to the city center in particular in terms of the
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Speaker 8: spend and the vibrancy of the place, but also just
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Speaker 8: how it's promoted internationally. So an event like this on
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Speaker 8: the harbor, what it does for Auckland's reputation to attract
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Speaker 8: people here, to put Auckland on the world map.
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Speaker 2: It's a beautiful event. Twenty five thousand spectators last year.
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Speaker 2: What's your target this year?
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Speaker 8: It'll be similar, but they've increased the stand and then
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Speaker 8: you have a whole lot of people all around the
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Speaker 8: waterfront watching it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well it's the ones that are walking around the
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Speaker 2: waterfront watching it that spend all the money in the
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Speaker 2: restaurants and stuff. I mean they all do, probably, but
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Speaker 2: they all do. Yeah, they all do.
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Speaker 8: Because it's actually quite a tight window that they racing.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it's an hour and a half of town.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right, and it's a number of races and
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Speaker 8: it's spectacular. I mean last year they hit every single
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Speaker 8: target and we did two for the city. So do
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Speaker 8: you think it's a fantastic event?
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Speaker 2: And this year, so your target's about twenty five thousand,
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Speaker 2: are you expecting that or more? Yeah? Yea, we are okay. Good,
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Speaker 2: We'll look forward to it. Nick, thanks for coming on
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Speaker 2: the show. Nick Hell, who is Tantuki? Auckland Unlimited CEO
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Speaker 2: Sales GP on Saturday and Sunday in Auckland twenty four
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Speaker 2: after five News 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 B News Talks B five twenty six on your
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Speaker 2: Friday morning. You know how everyone complains that the lights
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Speaker 2: at supermarkets are too bright. People say that to you,
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Speaker 2: People say that to me all the time. People reckon
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Speaker 2: that they do it on purpose. It's like a trick
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Speaker 2: to keep you awake. It doesn't matter what time of
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Speaker 2: day it is. Keep you awake, keep you alert, keep
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Speaker 2: your shopping, keep you buying more of their stuff. Well,
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Speaker 2: the opposite, it is true of movie theaters. Right if
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Speaker 2: you think about this, you go there, they dim the
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Speaker 2: lights because it makes you feel a bit relaxed, a
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Speaker 2: bit comfortable. The screen is kind of a sensory overload.
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Speaker 2: That's the thing you're paying for. It's coming at you
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Speaker 2: like a ton of bricks, and the lighting being dim
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Speaker 2: kind of enhances the experience. Well, can I just say
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Speaker 2: that you should never go to the movies early before
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Speaker 2: they have dimmed the lights. I went to the movies
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Speaker 2: the other day in the afternoon. My usual cinema was
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Speaker 2: not showing anything at this time, and I wanted to
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Speaker 2: go to the movies. So off I go down to
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Speaker 2: wait for it Queen Street. I know what was I thinking?
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Speaker 2: So the parking, that's seventeen dollars, that's on me, forty
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Speaker 2: dollars for the ticket, and a Coca Cola which went
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Speaker 2: down quite smooth, smoothly outrace of choked on the price
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Speaker 2: of the ticket. Anyway. The cinema is empty, but the
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Speaker 2: lights are on because I'm there early, like floodlights, like
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Speaker 2: supermarket lights in the cinema. And there is precisely zero
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Speaker 2: glamour about a Queen Street movie in full glare. It's
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Speaker 2: like when they turn the lights on at a nightclub.
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Speaker 2: The seat was so worn and you would never see
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Speaker 2: this when it's dark. Seat was so worn on the
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Speaker 2: backside and the shoulders. There was no tread lift on
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Speaker 2: the thing. Then there were the stains and I don't
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Speaker 2: want to I don't want to talk about the stains. Actually,
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Speaker 2: I don't want to get into them. Carpet was all
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Speaker 2: worn and tatty under the seats there was popcorn for Africa.
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Speaker 2: It's like somebody vacuumed the bits you walk on and
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Speaker 2: everything else they just forgot. Now, I'm not complaining about this,
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Speaker 2: believe it or not. I just don't really like complaining
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Speaker 2: about bad experiences generally, Like if I go to a
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Speaker 2: restaurant and I don't like it, I just don't go back.
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Speaker 2: And I like going to the movies, even though I
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Speaker 2: knew it was a bit gross and tatty. I sat down,
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Speaker 2: I got my coke, and I got my popcorn, and
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Speaker 2: I sat down and I pretended it was silky otter.
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Speaker 2: All I'm saying to you this morning, dear listener, is
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Speaker 2: you wouldn't go shopping in the dark, So just do
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Speaker 2: not ever visit them when the lights are on bran Bridge.
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Speaker 2: He said, be Hey, you know Austin Applebee. You'll remember
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Speaker 2: the name because it's quite unusual. But this is the
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Speaker 2: kid who made headlines the other day because he swam
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Speaker 2: for four kilometers. His family was in trouble in the surf.
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Speaker 2: He swam for four k's to save them, to rescue them,
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Speaker 2: picked up the family phone and made the call to
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Speaker 2: emergency services. Well the quite chilling call. They've released the audio.
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Speaker 1: Police emergency, What location to do the police?
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Speaker 10: Hello, my name is Austin and I'm outside beach. I
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Speaker 10: have two siblings and Grace. We went out on a
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Speaker 10: kai trip and an adult board trip and we got
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Speaker 10: lost out there and then I haven't seen them since that.
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Speaker 10: I think they're kilometers out in c I'm sitting on
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Speaker 10: the beach right now, and I also explained I think
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Speaker 10: I need an ambulance because I think I have hypothermia.
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Speaker 2: Incredible. This is a thirteen year old kid who's just
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Speaker 2: swam four kilometers. Anyone who's done any swimming knows it's
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Speaker 2: a bloody long way to swim. Everyone just done any
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Speaker 2: walking knows it's a bloody long way to go. So
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Speaker 2: good on him and family was rescued, safe and well.
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Speaker 2: Coming up to half past five News next, and then
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Speaker 2: we're to the UK with Vincent mcavin.
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Speaker 1: All ahead, get ahead of the headlines on an early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof Love.
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Speaker 2: Where you Live News talks that'd be twenty four away
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Speaker 2: from six News Talks. That'd be great to be with
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Speaker 2: you on a Friday morning. Coming up, we'll get to
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Speaker 2: Tommy Paul Tucker on Ko's turnaround plan. Vincent mcavity in
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Speaker 2: the UK for US Nicola Willis yesterday released some new
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Speaker 2: numbers on this is before we get to reporters, some
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Speaker 2: new numbers on investment Boost, and they're not actually numbers,
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Speaker 2: it's a survey. The problem with Investment Boost, well it
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Speaker 2: was the problem from the beginning, is that if there
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Speaker 2: is to be a problem, that it's more of a
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Speaker 2: long term situation. It's a slow burn. The lift to
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Speaker 2: GDP of one percent would take I think it was
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Speaker 2: twenty or thirty years or something for that to actually
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Speaker 2: flow through and happen, So it's not like it was
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Speaker 2: going to something that would be something that would suddenly
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Speaker 2: switch on and change the game. And clearly it hasn't
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Speaker 2: been or hasn't shown up in the books yet because
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Speaker 2: they've had to do a survey. Inland Revenue has surveyed
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Speaker 2: eight hundred firms. But if you go off the survey numbers,
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Speaker 2: they're quite good. Forty percent say the policy increased how
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Speaker 2: much they were going to spend over the last twelve months,
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Speaker 2: so they would have spent less without the policy. That's
18:43
Speaker 2: got to be good. Eleven percent said that increase was significant,
18:48
Speaker 2: and then looking ahead, half of them say that they
18:51
Speaker 2: will invest over the next five years. In the investment
18:54
Speaker 2: boost will positively influence those plans. So either bring it
19:00
Speaker 2: forward or they will spend more, or they will choose
19:04
Speaker 2: to buy rather than leave, something which has got to
19:06
Speaker 2: be a good thing in the short term, I suppose,
19:09
Speaker 2: even if it is a survey twenty three away from
19:11
Speaker 2: six Bryan Bridge, Colum and dnede Hey Colum. Right now,
19:15
Speaker 2: what is it says here about flow week? It is
19:19
Speaker 2: what's flow week? I thought it was O week?
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Speaker 11: Get O Week's next week? Flow week? Flow week always
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Speaker 11: comes before OH week.
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Speaker 2: So what does it mean, like the bear is flowing
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Speaker 2: or something.
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Speaker 11: Well, it's it's it's short for flat Orientation week. Just
19:35
Speaker 11: another excuse to party Ryan, Let's be honest and it's
19:41
Speaker 11: all go here. In fact, the police are preparing for
19:45
Speaker 11: the end of flow week heading into O week next week,
19:47
Speaker 11: so they're expecting these flatting parties to reach their peak
19:50
Speaker 11: over the next three days. Are really noticeable here and
19:52
Speaker 11: to Needa that the students have arrived, so police have
19:56
Speaker 11: planned to be staffed accordingly for this comes after a
19:59
Speaker 11: young man was found in a critical condition, having fallen
20:02
Speaker 11: from a university building earlier this week. Note though he
20:05
Speaker 11: wasn't a student. Police, though, are urging students to avoid
20:09
Speaker 11: that type of risky behavior, such as climbing on buildings.
20:12
Speaker 11: There's been a lot of partying on roofs. They want
20:14
Speaker 11: that to stop, and of course throwing bottles. They say
20:17
Speaker 11: they will block streets if needed, with increased patrols out
20:21
Speaker 11: designed to keep the students safe.
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Speaker 2: All right, okay, we've got two interns here at news
20:26
Speaker 2: Talks there'd be this morning who probably know a lot
20:28
Speaker 2: about flow week and O Week. Perhaps I should have
20:31
Speaker 2: asked them before coming on Callum, how's your weather?
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Speaker 11: It's wet for flow week today, but that won't stop
20:37
Speaker 11: the student's rainies. As to the odds shower of this afternoon,
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Speaker 11: a fresh cel westerly twenty two the height.
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Speaker 2: All right, very good, thank you. Clear you'd know all
20:44
Speaker 2: about O week Flow Week, wouldn't you.
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Speaker 12: I'm going yeah, I'm all about it.
20:48
Speaker 2: What's happening in the Port Hills?
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Speaker 12: Hey, Look, there's a decade long program to revegetate the Porththills,
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Speaker 12: or specifically the red zoned area of the Hills. It's underway.
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Speaker 12: Basically more than two hundred sections across the likes of Sumner,
21:01
Speaker 12: Redcliffs at Faerymead, Heathcott Valley and Governor's may will be
21:05
Speaker 12: planted to restore the native biodiversity. This is a project
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Speaker 12: that will cost council about one hundred and fifty thousand
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Speaker 12: dollars a year. The Residential red Zone Manager for the council,
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Speaker 12: Dave Little, says the value is far beyond the dollar figure,
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Speaker 12: though he says there will also be significant fire reduction
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Speaker 12: benefits and as we know, we need that in the
21:23
Speaker 12: porthills because grass will burn better than native grass does
21:27
Speaker 12: burn better rather than native species do. Little also adds
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Speaker 12: at about seventy five thousand dollars a year is spent
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Speaker 12: currently purely for maintenance, so it's not a hell of
21:36
Speaker 12: a lot more for a much bigger benefit.
21:39
Speaker 2: How's your weather.
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Speaker 12: There clip mostly cloudy. There is a bit of rain
21:43
Speaker 12: about this morning. We'll frequent later on today and the
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Speaker 12: highest twenty seven brilliant.
21:47
Speaker 2: Thank you and Maxis and Wellington. Good morning, Max morning,
21:51
Speaker 2: stay off the beaches this weekend.
21:53
Speaker 13: Yeah, we spoke to a scientist yesterday just to clarify
21:56
Speaker 13: exactly what the resks are at some of these beaches
21:59
Speaker 13: at the moment. Obviously, with this waste water disaster, there
22:01
Speaker 13: are still people on the beaches, if you'd believe it,
22:03
Speaker 13: even some going into the water, which is just lunacy.
22:07
Speaker 13: Some of this bacteria just on the beach itself, if
22:09
Speaker 13: it comes into contact with your skin, that could be
22:12
Speaker 13: enough to make you sick, enough to make your dog sick.
22:15
Speaker 13: We've had a warm week as well, which just exacerbates
22:17
Speaker 13: the problem and bacteria growth. I also want to mention,
22:21
Speaker 13: just to wrap up the week, this ludicrous statement Wellington
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Speaker 13: Water put out this week saying it would no longer
22:26
Speaker 13: respond to media questions, and I want to point out
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Speaker 13: we don't ask questions for our own edification or to
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Speaker 13: satiate our egos. We ask questions on behalf of the public.
22:35
Speaker 13: I'll give you an example. We had a surf club
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Speaker 13: contact us asking it why it had only seen staff
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Speaker 13: testing the water in the shallows and not further out
22:43
Speaker 13: to see where they would go where swimmers would go.
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Speaker 13: No response. We asked about staffing levels at mar point,
22:49
Speaker 13: no response.
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Speaker 2: There was even a.
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Speaker 13: Day this week when we were told to direct questions
22:53
Speaker 13: only to the city council, and then after a few hours.
22:55
Speaker 13: The council responded and said, no, it's Wellington Water. You
22:58
Speaker 13: still need to go to This has been a disaster
23:01
Speaker 13: class in PR.
23:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, the comms team's not the great. I quite like
23:05
Speaker 2: Pat Dowdy, the guy in charge, but the comms team
23:07
Speaker 2: needs a lot to.
23:08
Speaker 13: Be well exactly. Pat Dockerty says the right things. But
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Speaker 13: who knows where this directives come from?
23:12
Speaker 2: I was at Dockerty, what's sorry? I mean, who kires?
23:15
Speaker 2: They've made quite a mess off the harbor. I think
23:17
Speaker 2: I can make a mess of his name exactly. My
23:21
Speaker 2: brother said, because he lives down there. He said, no
23:24
Speaker 2: one trusts you know, when they say it's all good,
23:26
Speaker 2: you can swim an Oriental Bay. No one's trusting anything
23:29
Speaker 2: they're saying. Is that? Is it what you're picking up? Yeah,
23:32
Speaker 2: that's the that We've heard that for years.
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Speaker 13: And even when you see kids jumping off that platform
23:36
Speaker 13: you know by Tipapa into that small area of water there,
23:40
Speaker 13: you just think, God, what are they putting in their
23:42
Speaker 13: systems when they when they land in the water.
23:44
Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, it's a real shame. How'se youer?
23:46
Speaker 13: Weather showers developing this afternoon mid twenties.
23:50
Speaker 2: With a hint of pooh in the wind and Neva's
23:52
Speaker 2: an Auckland morning.
23:53
Speaker 9: Neva, you're firing on all cylinders today. It must because
23:56
Speaker 9: it's Friday.
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Speaker 6: Hey.
23:58
Speaker 2: Do you know I was just talking to the intern
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Speaker 2: out there.
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Speaker 14: I haven't met them yet.
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Speaker 2: I just quickly right, howe? I know she's like that? Guys?
24:07
Speaker 2: Is that you think she's nice? You know, all bubbly
24:11
Speaker 2: and like doing the news?
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Speaker 9: Excuse me, I've got an l with hues between eight
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Speaker 9: and nine.
24:16
Speaker 2: But do you know what they were telling me? Just well,
24:20
Speaker 2: I said, I said, white news talks, you know, good
24:22
Speaker 2: to have you here. And I said, what what did
24:24
Speaker 2: you get off of anything else? Or what are the
24:26
Speaker 2: other opportunities? And they said that there was opportunities for
24:30
Speaker 2: people to go to aren Z and no one took them. Really,
24:34
Speaker 2: they want to come to z.
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Speaker 14: B because we're the fun people exactly.
24:37
Speaker 2: Yes, right, what are you going on about?
24:39
Speaker 9: Well, East Auckland now, and there we've got some really
24:42
Speaker 9: good news here because that last bit of funding I
24:45
Speaker 9: think you'll remember this of one hundred and one million
24:47
Speaker 9: dollars that has been signed off for the final stretch
24:50
Speaker 9: of the Eastern Busway to Botany, thank goodness. So this
24:54
Speaker 9: one point four billion dollar busway. It opens next year.
24:57
Speaker 9: That's about seven kilometers a busway.
24:59
Speaker 14: Five new Star.
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Speaker 9: Bruce Kendall, he's the Howick local board cheeses. Look the
25:04
Speaker 9: roads here that have been clogged with housing intensification. This
25:08
Speaker 9: subper public transport. So this is going to allow that
25:11
Speaker 9: quick access to Panmua. Then the commuters can catch the
25:14
Speaker 9: train into the CBD.
25:16
Speaker 2: Are very good. Yes, how's our weather for heading into
25:18
Speaker 2: sal GP weekend?
25:20
Speaker 9: Well we've got rain heavy at times, thunderstorm's localized downfalls possible,
25:25
Speaker 9: but I can tell you for that sale GP, there's
25:27
Speaker 9: a lot of wind today tomorrow as well and still
25:30
Speaker 9: warm twist.
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Speaker 1: That's what we want.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant neghor thank you. It is sick. Go and say
25:34
Speaker 2: hello to the intens six. Stand away from sex News talks.
25:38
Speaker 2: Be We're head to the UK.
25:38
Speaker 1: Next international correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of
25:43
Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
25:45
Speaker 2: So turn away from six news talks they'd be Sir.
25:48
Speaker 2: Jim Ratcliffe is now apologizing Seemi it's this sorry, not
25:51
Speaker 2: sorry for saying that the UK is being colonized by
25:54
Speaker 2: immigrants storing us as Vincent Macavoney are UK you're a correspondent, Vincent,
25:58
Speaker 2: Good morning. Good Yeah, So what's this? What's the apology?
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Speaker 15: Well, Sir Jim Ratcliffe is the seventh richest person in Britain.
26:08
Speaker 15: He's worth about seven billion pounds. He owns a chemical
26:10
Speaker 15: company called Ineos, but he also part owns man United
26:14
Speaker 15: and last night he gave an inflammatory interview which was
26:17
Speaker 15: completely factually inaccurate. Additionally, he was sort of saying that
26:20
Speaker 15: the UK is being colonized and he can't handle the
26:23
Speaker 15: level of mygrants coming in. He inflated the amount of
26:26
Speaker 15: population increase. He said that we've gone up by twelve
26:29
Speaker 15: million in five years when we've actually gone up less
26:32
Speaker 15: than three million in that period. And he also had
26:35
Speaker 15: wrong figures on benefits. So he's had to put out
26:38
Speaker 15: an apology, as you say, but he's sort of done
26:41
Speaker 15: it in a mealy mouthedway. He says a fun apologized
26:44
Speaker 15: for offending some people, but maintained an open debate on
26:48
Speaker 15: the matter was needed. Now there's a lot of hypocrisy
26:51
Speaker 15: being pointed at him. He owns obviously Man United. Manchester
26:54
Speaker 15: as a massively diverse city, the Premier League in the
26:57
Speaker 15: UK has a huge amount of players from over sea,
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Speaker 15: and he himself is someone who decided to quit the
27:04
Speaker 15: UK back in twenty twenty after having advocated for Brexit.
27:08
Speaker 15: He brexited himself to Monaco, so he doesn't even pay
27:10
Speaker 15: tax in this country anymore. So a lot of people
27:13
Speaker 15: quite annoyed at the tone he was using in these comments.
27:17
Speaker 2: Unsurprisingly, now Trump in has sewing BBC. How's that case going?
27:22
Speaker 15: Yeah, well, we've now got a date for this case.
27:25
Speaker 15: It will go to trial in February twenty twenty seven.
27:28
Speaker 15: In this multi billion dollar lawsuit, it's all about a
27:32
Speaker 15: Panorama program, a documentary program that was aired in the
27:35
Speaker 15: UK a few days before the last election, which looked
27:39
Speaker 15: at the activities of Trump on January the sixth. Now
27:42
Speaker 15: it's important to note this program was never broadcast, nor
27:45
Speaker 15: was it anyway accessible to view from the United States.
27:49
Speaker 15: But Donald Trump is claiming it jeopardized his vote tally
27:54
Speaker 15: in Florida, a state he won by a landslide, and
27:56
Speaker 15: of course he won that election. The BBC has decided
27:59
Speaker 15: to this case. They're concerned that it might mean that
28:03
Speaker 15: any kind of dictator or tyrant around the world might
28:06
Speaker 15: try and shop jurisdictions, essentially to bring you know, ludicrous
28:11
Speaker 15: claims against them. The BBC is saying that yes, there
28:13
Speaker 15: was an editing mistake in the documentary that made it
28:17
Speaker 15: look like two sentences he said sometime a part in
28:20
Speaker 15: the speech had been said consecutively, but that this did
28:24
Speaker 15: not change the fact that his conduct on that day
28:28
Speaker 15: and the fact that he still managed to win the election.
28:30
Speaker 15: So they're trying to get this case dismissed, but it
28:33
Speaker 15: might go to trial in a really key test for
28:35
Speaker 15: media freedom.
28:37
Speaker 2: Vincent appreciate that. Vincent Meca of any UK Europe Correspondence
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Speaker 2: just gone teen to Sex and Bridge. We're one year
28:43
Speaker 2: on since Coming or Order began its turnaround playing the government.
28:46
Speaker 2: Rickens it's now ceeding its tagets savings tagets, delivering two
28:50
Speaker 2: hundred and eleven million dollars in operating cost reductions. Tama
28:53
Speaker 2: Portaka is Associate Housing.
28:55
Speaker 7: Good morning, Hey cider Ron, how are you this morning?
28:58
Speaker 2: Good think you so? What's the I mean? The debt
29:00
Speaker 2: was the big problem, very fast growing over the last
29:03
Speaker 2: couple of years and was going to hit I think
29:05
Speaker 2: twenty five almost twenty five billion by twenty six twenty seven.
29:08
Speaker 2: What have you got it down to?
29:10
Speaker 7: Well, the peak debt is now forecast to be one
29:13
Speaker 7: and a half billion lower than the budget twenty four projections,
29:16
Speaker 7: and that's a materially stronger financial trajectory. We're really happy
29:20
Speaker 7: with the way kind of orders going. And of course
29:22
Speaker 7: when we arrived it was a basket case.
29:23
Speaker 2: You're just building fewer houses.
29:26
Speaker 6: There are a.
29:27
Speaker 7: Few houses being built, but we're actually re refurbing a few.
29:31
Speaker 7: We're doing a lot better in terms of the average
29:34
Speaker 7: build costs. Instead of three and a half thousand per
29:36
Speaker 7: square meter in twenty twenty four, we're down to three
29:40
Speaker 7: two nine oo is quarter one twenty twenty six. Standardizing
29:45
Speaker 7: designs and getting better procurement, which driving a lot of efficiencies.
29:50
Speaker 2: How many fewer houses are you are they building?
29:53
Speaker 7: Well, Ryan, we are building less houses than what was
29:57
Speaker 7: aspired to underlay it. We're actually continuing to build houses,
30:01
Speaker 7: and also we're continuing to support a lot of community
30:04
Speaker 7: housing providers throughout the country in a much more efficient way,
30:08
Speaker 7: in a better way than what was happening before him.
30:11
Speaker 7: You know very much about the that we're doing in
30:14
Speaker 7: that space.
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Speaker 2: Did we not need all the houses that they said
30:17
Speaker 2: that we need? It is that way you're not building
30:19
Speaker 2: as many well.
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Speaker 7: There's considerably less people on the social house and weightlist, right,
30:23
Speaker 7: And I think you know that very well, that there's
30:25
Speaker 7: been a massive reduction from about twenty nine thousand to
30:28
Speaker 7: about twenty thousand people fano on the social house and waitlist.
30:32
Speaker 7: In the addition, we're really tilting towards community housing providers
30:36
Speaker 7: to provide those houses.
30:37
Speaker 2: I saw some things that I've never seen before. There
30:39
Speaker 2: was a guy with a shopping trolley going across Victoria Park.
30:42
Speaker 2: I was in the car and he had these two big,
30:45
Speaker 2: quite ferocious looking dogs tied to the shopping trolley and
30:48
Speaker 2: it was filled with this stuff. And there's a bit
30:51
Speaker 2: of a homeless camp going on. I mean that has
30:54
Speaker 2: gotten worse, hasn't it. The homeless problem.
30:57
Speaker 7: Well, you know the latest reports from the Oakland Council
31:00
Speaker 7: stats are there about twenty to thirty people in the
31:02
Speaker 7: central area of Auckland that are rough sleeping. We've actually
31:05
Speaker 7: seen nearly three hundred people come off the streets and
31:08
Speaker 7: into houses as a result of Mission Bishops of my
31:10
Speaker 7: announcements and better money by the folks that are working
31:14
Speaker 7: on these matters.
31:14
Speaker 2: It's actually getting better. Well, that's good.
31:17
Speaker 7: There are places where there are places where things are
31:20
Speaker 7: getting better. There are places where there are ports of
31:22
Speaker 7: more homelessness, but we have been really focused on supporting
31:27
Speaker 7: people that are sleeping rough or having some tough times
31:30
Speaker 7: in housing. And that's that's seen three hundred people going
31:34
Speaker 7: to housing first places in the last three or four months.
31:36
Speaker 2: Used when I get rid of the multi seats, that's a.
31:40
Speaker 7: Matter that hasn't been discussed at the National Party.
31:42
Speaker 2: So it's not no, not a no.
31:44
Speaker 7: We're focused, no focus. We're focus on the economy and
31:48
Speaker 7: other things. Ryan, We're not focused on that matter. We're
31:50
Speaker 7: focused on things that are in the National Party.
31:52
Speaker 2: Appreciate your time, Tama, Paul Taker, who's Associate Housing. It's
31:56
Speaker 2: seven to six News Talks.
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Speaker 2: Five to six News Talks said be Mike's in the
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Speaker 2: studio as he always is at this time of day. Morning. Mike, Greetings, Ryan,
32:14
Speaker 2: you would have met and introduced yourself to our interns
32:17
Speaker 2: who are here, Marcus and MICHAELA.
32:19
Speaker 16: Know that there's a rule around here that when the
32:21
Speaker 16: new people arrive, yes, they had to first pass the
32:25
Speaker 16: test of your producer, my producer and Glenn. And if
32:29
Speaker 16: they get before they get to me, if they get
32:31
Speaker 16: past that and they're still there, then we'll talk to
32:33
Speaker 16: them later on. But isn't it exciting to have new
32:36
Speaker 16: It is new people.
32:37
Speaker 2: And also I was telling me earlier, they told me
32:40
Speaker 2: that no one took up the RNZ opportunities. Everyone wants
32:43
Speaker 2: to come here.
32:44
Speaker 14: Why would you've been?
32:47
Speaker 2: I've been there too.
32:49
Speaker 14: Would you go back?
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Speaker 4: No?
32:52
Speaker 2: Well, I never.
32:56
Speaker 16: No, I'm not talking about that desperation when you showed
32:59
Speaker 16: usn't work and you've got to pick up some part
33:01
Speaker 16: time work. I'm talking out, you know, being a quality
33:04
Speaker 16: broadcaster and voluntarily crossing the rain.
33:06
Speaker 2: I'd probably do it like in my older age. Oh
33:09
Speaker 2: would you yeah?
33:10
Speaker 16: Like here at Humphrey, Come here at Humphrey.
33:13
Speaker 2: You know when you sort of all the all the
33:16
Speaker 2: umph has gone out of.
33:17
Speaker 1: You, right.
33:20
Speaker 16: When you've got nothing left together and you speak really
33:23
Speaker 16: slowly and the bird calls suddenly appealing you're back anyway?
33:29
Speaker 16: What am I doing this morning? It's the tell me
33:31
Speaker 16: what I'm doing? That's such a bad night.
33:36
Speaker 14: It's chock. What's not the human? If you go I
33:38
Speaker 14: got a here haven't you got a here?
33:39
Speaker 2: But the aircon doesn't work. It's not powerful.
33:42
Speaker 14: I'll get it fixed. Get a big you're engine, couldn't
33:44
Speaker 14: I say, what's the matter with you? Anyway? There will
33:46
Speaker 14: be something coming up. It'll be highly entertainment.
33:49
Speaker 2: Right, very good. Mike's with your next Have a Greade weekend.
33:51
Speaker 2: Everyone enjoy sale GP.
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