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Full Show Podcast: 08 May 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: early edition with Spunk for Business Technology that keeps business
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Speaker 1: moving News talks.
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Speaker 2: They'd be good morning, Welcome to Friday six alf to five.
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Speaker 2: Coming up, we'll do the superannuation debate. Vincent's in the
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Speaker 2: UK for US Andrew former Prince Andrew in a bit
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Speaker 2: of trouble. Curl is gold plated. Yeah we know. Tourism
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Speaker 2: Holdings Boss on charging foreigners coming here to use our parks.
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Speaker 2: The agenda FRODA, the Age of May, the hands of virus.
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Speaker 2: Don't worry, the World Health Organization says, we don't need
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Speaker 2: to panic.
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Speaker 3: This is not the start of a corvid pandemic. This
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Speaker 3: is an outbreak that we see on a ship. This
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Speaker 3: is not the same situation we were in six years ago.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't spread the same way like coronaviruses do. It's
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Speaker 3: very different. It's that close intimate contact that we've seen,
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Speaker 3: and most hunted viruses don't transmit between people at all.
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Speaker 2: Right, So the ship now sailing to the Canary Islands,
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Speaker 2: passengers will be evacuated into tenres that.
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Speaker 4: They will be completely a stated from the pub they'll
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Speaker 4: be taken too isolated fenced off police. They will be
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Speaker 4: a vehicles. They will written area of the airport that
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Speaker 4: will be completely isolated. They will embark on aeroplanes and
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Speaker 4: then they will leave. I would say this just so
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Speaker 4: public in the Canary Islands, women.
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Speaker 2: There just don't go near rap Who's that's the moral
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Speaker 2: of the story. Across the ditch, three women, the Isis
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Speaker 2: bride's alleged Isis brides. They've landed in Melbourne and straight
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Speaker 2: away that from Syria and they've been arrested.
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Speaker 5: The Victorian Joint Counter Terrorism Team have arrested two women
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Speaker 5: at Melbourne International Airport. It is expected a fifty three
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Speaker 5: year old woman will be charged tonight or tomorrow. These
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Speaker 5: offenses each carry a maximum penalty of twenty five years imprisonment.
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Speaker 2: And to the US, Lulu disilvers at the White House.
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Speaker 2: This is the Brazilian president alongside Trump. They'll talk about tariffs.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of teriffs on Brazilian goods, plus the war.
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Speaker 6: Whether there will be updates on where it's there with
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Speaker 6: peace negotiations. But it's notable that President Lula really is
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Speaker 6: one of the biggest and most outspoken critics of the
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Speaker 6: US Israel war. There He's called it madness.
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Speaker 7: And finally this morning and there are snakes here too.
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Speaker 7: Lots of each hunt requires more energy, draining the bears
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Speaker 7: of their reserves. Kenya, famous for its big cats, the
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Speaker 7: Supreme Hunters.
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Speaker 2: And the Supreme Voice of Nature, turns one hundred today.
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Speaker 2: Concerts planned for him at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
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Speaker 2: He's seed a special birthday message too.
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Speaker 8: I had rather thought that I would celebrate my one
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Speaker 8: hundredth birthday quietly, but it seems that many of you
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Speaker 8: have had other ideas. I've been completely overwhelmed by birthday greetings.
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Speaker 1: Views and views you trust to your day. It's early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology that
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Speaker 1: keeps business moving.
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Speaker 2: Confused talks had been nine after five nine two nine
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Speaker 2: two is the number to text. He's got one of
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Speaker 2: those voices, doesn't he? So that I didn't even did
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Speaker 2: you notice there? I didn't even say his name once
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Speaker 2: during that segment, But you knew who we were talking about,
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Speaker 2: didn't you. Let's go to Australia very quickly and I'll
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Speaker 2: just run through what the isis alleged isis brides are
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Speaker 2: accused of doing and why they've been arrested because there
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Speaker 2: was a huge kafuffle at Melbourne Airport when they arrived.
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Speaker 2: So you got three alleged Isis brides touching down met
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Speaker 2: by security who were all wearing black clothes. It was
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Speaker 2: really bizarre and they were obviously pre arranged to come
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Speaker 2: and escort these private security of some description. Anyway, the
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Speaker 2: security ended up getting in a scuffle with the media
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Speaker 2: who were all trying to get pictures and video as
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Speaker 2: the brides arrived and come from Syria, all the way
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Speaker 2: from Syria. So chaos at Melbourne airport and then they're arrested.
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Speaker 2: So two of them facing charges of crimes against humanity
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Speaker 2: for enslaving a woman. Charges include possessing a slave, using
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Speaker 2: a slave, engaging in slave trading, each of which carries
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Speaker 2: a penalty of twenty five years. And it was alleged
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Speaker 2: that a Kurdish speaking religious minority, a woman from that community,
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Speaker 2: was who they were holding. The other one was charged
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Speaker 2: with joining a terrorist organization charming. Now, SpaceX, I want
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Speaker 2: to update you on what's happening here because we spoke
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Speaker 2: the other week about how there's likely going to be
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Speaker 2: an IPO of SpaceX. This is Musk's big space company. Well,
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Speaker 2: it's a rockets company, it's a satellites company. It's actually
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Speaker 2: an AI company now too. It's a bit of everything,
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Speaker 2: and boy, it'll be worth a pretty penny when it
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Speaker 2: goes on to the stock market. They reckon anywhere to
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Speaker 2: two trillion US dollars. I mean, I don't even know
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Speaker 2: how much that is. I certainly can't count it on
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Speaker 2: one hand, can you. So the IPO, there is an
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Speaker 2: event in June ahead of that. He is spending up
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Speaker 2: big I'm talking massive money. They're doing launch pads in Florida.
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Speaker 2: They're doing a new solar cell factory in Texas. They're
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Speaker 2: doing potentially sending up to a million AI satellites into
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Speaker 2: low Earth orbit in the years ahead. A million AI satellites.
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Speaker 2: What happens if they crash? Like it's just a big
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Speaker 2: dump up there? Isn't it's just a big tip in
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Speaker 2: the sky. Anyway, The amount that's being spent is eyewatering.
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Speaker 2: So there's a chip factory that they are going to
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Speaker 2: build in conjunction with Tesla, his other company. Apparently fifty
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Speaker 2: five billion dollars they are spending on this factory. Eleven
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Speaker 2: minutes after five Ryan Bread, We'll all be abed by
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Speaker 2: shares of course. Apparently Retail Investor is going to be
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Speaker 2: a massive part of that IPO launch when it happens
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Speaker 2: in May. You're on News Talk seed B. Coming up
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Speaker 2: next we will do the tourism changes coming the Government's
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Speaker 2: introduced a bill. We've got details. Next. News Talk sed B.
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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 Bredge and Spark for Business Technology that
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Speaker 2: News TALKSB five fourteen News Talks. You continue to surprise me,
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Speaker 2: dear listener. I thought people would love David Edinburgh. I
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Speaker 2: love David Edinburgh. What's not to love about David Edinburgh?
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Speaker 2: Ryan Atedinburgh Climate change Wokester says, one, Ryan although an environmentalist,
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Speaker 2: what is his carbon footprint? Yeah, but he's not like
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Speaker 2: a greta. He's not like an annoying, you know, weird
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Speaker 2: attention seeker. He's a professional who shows like he's one
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Speaker 2: of those people who, Yes, he talks about in the
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Speaker 2: environment and the climate, which is nothing actually inherently wrong
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Speaker 2: with it's the way you go about it. He shows
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Speaker 2: us as opposed to shouts at us, doesn't he? Ryan
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Speaker 2: Bridge fourteen after five? I tell you what he probably
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Speaker 2: won't like this next Tory. It's about to get easier
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Speaker 2: for tourism businesses to use conservation land. Government is introducing
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Speaker 2: the Conservation Reform Bill. It's also going to allow new
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Speaker 2: international visitor levies at some of our hot spots. Grant
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Speaker 2: Webster Tourism Holdings Limited, Chief executive with us this morning.
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Speaker 2: Gidda Grant, good morning, good morning. Good to have you
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Speaker 2: on the show. Now this can you just clarify for
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Speaker 2: us the tourism businesses and conservation land. What sort of
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Speaker 2: stuff are we talking here?
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Speaker 9: Are you talking anything from jet boating ski? For us,
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Speaker 9: it's our cave operations in the way Common District. There's
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Speaker 9: so many.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's not like we're building factories on conservation land,
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Speaker 2: is it. It's tourism stuff and it's low impact.
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Speaker 9: Absolutely, it's engaging with the environment in a really controlled
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Speaker 9: and deliberate manner.
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Speaker 2: What do you reckon that this will do for jobs?
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Speaker 9: I think this is fantastic All credits, Minister po Tucker.
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Speaker 9: This is long overdue, you know. His release noted it's
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Speaker 9: been over forty years and it's going to I think
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Speaker 9: create an opportunity for all round, all year round jobs
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Speaker 9: and really open up some regions as well.
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Speaker 2: People are going to freak out about the twenty to
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Speaker 2: forty dollars levees in some of the places, like you know,
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Speaker 2: Cathedral Cove, Milford Sound. This is very common overseas, isn't it, Grant.
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Speaker 9: Look at it is, and it's it's far better for
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Speaker 9: us to have fees like that that are in trip
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Speaker 9: rather than at the border, like the International Visitor levy.
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Speaker 9: Once you're in and going around, you go, okay, looking
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Speaker 9: extra twenty bucks to see Cathedral Cove. Great, yep, that's
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Speaker 9: that's okay. Whereas you put something in order and people
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Speaker 9: may go, yeah, I might not go to New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: When do you actually pay it? Does the tourism operator
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Speaker 2: you know, taking you on a ride around Cathedral Cove
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Speaker 2: or on a kayak? Do they charge it? How does
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Speaker 2: it get paid?
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Speaker 9: Look, it's different in different places around the world, and
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Speaker 9: I don't know what the detail is for this one.
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Speaker 9: I would hope that we actually wake up do something
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Speaker 9: simple and digital and hopefully Pavement of Conservation can do
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Speaker 9: something like that easy on an app GEO based. I'm
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Speaker 9: mentoring this area being on my credit card.
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Speaker 2: Done sounds too good to be true, Grant, but let's
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Speaker 2: hope they can do it. Grant Webster Tourism Holdings Limited,
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Speaker 2: Chief Executive with US Live this morning, seventeen after five, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: it's Lego one Zeru nil. This is the massive trademark
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Speaker 2: battle that's been going on. So basically it all comes
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Speaker 2: down to one line, one promo line on a max
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Speaker 2: Build more plastic brick building kit that Zuru put out.
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Speaker 2: This is a Mobras outfit, the Mobras, I should say.
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Speaker 2: So they put on their Lego brick compatible. So they've
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Speaker 2: released their own Lego and they say it's which you know,
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Speaker 2: I shouldn't be using the word, should I, But here
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Speaker 2: we are, and they say it's Lego brick compatible. Now
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Speaker 2: Lego didn't like that because they put the Lego logo
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Speaker 2: on their brick. So they are trademark battling now. And
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Speaker 2: the Supreme Court has approved Lego's application to take further action.
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Speaker 2: So Lego's up one. This is toy wars. This is
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Speaker 2: Ego Wars, isn't it. So anyway, they're going to go
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Speaker 2: to the Court of Appeal, make their case and see
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Speaker 2: if they can uphold an earlier High Court ruling. It
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Speaker 2: is eighteen minutes after five year on news Talk said
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Speaker 2: be next, we'll talk infrastructure the CRL. Who would have
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Speaker 2: thought it was gold play today.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and Spark for business technology that keeps business moving newstalks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be right. Of course, the entry fees you should
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Speaker 2: pay them. An entry to Yozamite National Park in the
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Speaker 2: US for a US citizen is one hundred bucks. That's
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Speaker 2: US and one hundred and sixty New Zealand dollars. Imagine
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Speaker 2: what we could do with even a thirty dollars fee,
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Speaker 2: says Nathan good point. Time is twenty after five Ryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: I'll get to the political donations in just a second
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Speaker 2: because that's a bit spicy. But first gold plated cost blowouts.
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Speaker 2: The government's doing a review now on why the CRL
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Speaker 2: has cost us so bloody much. Former sera OL boss
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Speaker 2: Sean Sweeney has told The Herald it could have probably
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Speaker 2: been done for two billion dollars cheaper, two billion cheap
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Speaker 2: at total cost five point five.
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Speaker 10: I think we could have delivered this for half the cost,
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Speaker 10: but it would have looked different.
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Speaker 2: Netleget Infrastructure New Zealand CEO with US this morning Hey, Nick,
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Speaker 2: how are you on the money?
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Speaker 10: I wouldn't be arguing with anything shawan tween he said,
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Speaker 10: I think that when he was close to the projects,
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Speaker 10: he knows the decisions that were made, and he says
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Speaker 10: now that based on his experience, it was over specified
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Speaker 10: and over designed. And look, I think that does happen
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Speaker 10: quite a lot of infrastructure in New Zealand. We don't
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Speaker 10: have the proper controls, and sometimes we take too long
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Speaker 10: to plan, or we don't plan enough and we let
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Speaker 10: things drag on.
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Speaker 11: And you know, he also.
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Speaker 10: Makes a really key point, and that is get the
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Speaker 10: right people with the right expertise on at the start.
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Speaker 10: And that's another change. We don't do some of these
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Speaker 10: projects Ryan often enough.
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Speaker 11: If you think about it, when was a metro rail?
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Speaker 10: When was a metro rail project done in New Zealand
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Speaker 10: like this, it's hard to remember.
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Speaker 11: So we don't have the expertise often.
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Speaker 10: On shore, and we don't line things up properly, and
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Speaker 10: it's sort of a bit of a continuous cycle and
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Speaker 10: I think we've got to learn from it.
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Speaker 2: But isn't the irony of all of this that he
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Speaker 2: himself probably shouldn't have been a hide because he says
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Speaker 2: he didn't have the experience to know that this meaning
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Speaker 2: that was being done probably shouldn't have been done.
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Speaker 10: I think if you look at the project, we're going
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Speaker 10: to get a very high quality project. But ultimately, the
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Speaker 10: people who specify the design and agree to it, you know,
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Speaker 10: the people that contract these sort of projects, they're the.
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Speaker 11: Ones that are ultimately in control. So you know, he's said,
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Speaker 11: look I didn't know enough.
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Speaker 10: Fair call who was better, and uh, look it's just
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Speaker 10: the case of we just got to lift our game
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Speaker 10: as a country.
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Speaker 2: And is it the design, the designers, the geotech.
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Speaker 11: No, it's it's it's not.
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Speaker 10: It's it's the who contracts the job, who pays for
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Speaker 10: the job, that's the question.
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Speaker 11: You know, those are those are the things we've got
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Speaker 11: to look at and are they just the questions.
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Speaker 2: A JV between the government and the council, which this
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Speaker 2: was not a good idea.
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Speaker 10: Well, I think jvs are a good idea. We should
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Speaker 10: be doing more. But what we've got to do is
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Speaker 10: make sure that they're specifying the right designs, that they're
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Speaker 10: they're focusing on getting the right cost controls and not
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Speaker 10: you know, as he uses this word gold plating.
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Speaker 11: You know, some of these stations.
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Speaker 10: You know, a couple of stations are you know, the
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Speaker 10: same size as the biggest ones in the London underground
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Speaker 10: two hundred meters long. It's right, and I've just I'm
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Speaker 10: actually not in New Zealand, which is why I sound
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Speaker 10: so bright and bright.
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Speaker 11: Eyed and bushy tailed. I'm in Norway.
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Speaker 10: I've just looked at we just looked at a metro
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Speaker 10: development today. It's twice as long as CRL, and it's
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Speaker 10: got twice as many stations, and it's costing the same
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Speaker 10: And so we can lock to international expertise.
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Speaker 11: The other thing though, after giving.
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Speaker 10: Ourselves a short sharp kick, we've got to change our
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Speaker 10: behavior with the stuff.
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Speaker 11: We've also got to remember that CRL is going to
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Speaker 11: be awesome for Auckland.
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Speaker 10: The next challenge is to make sure that we get
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Speaker 10: the best out of it, which.
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Speaker 11: Means getting more housing around it, got more jobs and growth.
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Speaker 11: Don't that's the bit we should hold ourselves to.
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Speaker 2: Now, don't waste a very expensive opportunity and leget infrastructure
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Speaker 2: New Zealand and CEO twenty four after five. Here are
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Speaker 2: the numbers national six point two million. This is donations
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Speaker 2: for twenty twenty five six point two million dollars in
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Speaker 2: donations for the National Party Act two point four. Labor
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Speaker 2: also two point four actscellently ahead of them, the Greens
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Speaker 2: one point eight New Zealand first one point three. Now
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Speaker 2: before you go and sale, that's as big money and
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Speaker 2: big money is funding our well, it is a lot
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Speaker 2: of that, but there's also a whole bunch of individual
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Speaker 2: donations sixty five thousand under fifteen hundred bucks to Labor
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Speaker 2: and nineteen thousand under fifteen hundred bucks to National Interesting though,
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Speaker 2: the Greens can't go running around saying that big money
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Speaker 2: is and rich you know elites are funding the other
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Speaker 2: parties because they received one hundred and thirty two thousand
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Speaker 2: dollars from investor Robert Morgan. They at Labor, for their part,
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Speaker 2: received one hundred and twenty five grand from the Mills
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Speaker 2: family Leis Mills, Gym Empire Tycoons. Terrible twenty five after five,
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Speaker 2: of global boffins is headquartered in Paris. No offense to
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Speaker 2: the French, but they are screaming out for a lesson
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Speaker 2: in basic economics. Their debt to GDP ratio one hundred
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Speaker 2: and eighteen percent, their debt sixty percent above the EU limit,
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Speaker 2: breaking all sorts of records for the wrong reasons. You're
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Speaker 2: used to hearing about the Italians and the Greeks in
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Speaker 2: the EU, but the French are up there with them too,
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Speaker 2: in the top three most indebted nations in the Bloc.
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Speaker 2: The country nearly fell over, remember that, trying to cut
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Speaker 2: back on pension spending. Poor old Macron. They spend billions
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Speaker 2: on stuff that we would consider nice to have. Basically,
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Speaker 2: you asked them, do you want to spend something, and
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Speaker 2: they say that's the French. The OCD is, of course,
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Speaker 2: a multi nation group just happens to be based in Paris,
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Speaker 2: been around since the sixties. But they've come up with
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Speaker 2: a bunch of stuff that they think that we need
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Speaker 2: to do, including linking pensions to life expectancy. So if you're,
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Speaker 2: on average, meant to live longer, you'll get your pension later.
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Speaker 2: That's the idea. This, of course, is a problem because
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Speaker 2: not everyone is the average. Why should somebody get super
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Speaker 2: before you, only for you? To get hit by a
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Speaker 2: bus or hit by cancer and only end up with
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Speaker 2: a few years on your Gold card getting discount public transport.
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Speaker 2: This is the same group that wanted us a few
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Speaker 2: years back, you might remember, tax property and shares. I
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Speaker 2: know they're also saying we should have quotas for women
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Speaker 2: on boards in publicly listed companies. I mean even Haln
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Speaker 2: Clark doesn't think that's a good idea. So a lot
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Speaker 2: of this is to say that it should be taken
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Speaker 2: with a grain of salt and probably actually better shouted
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Speaker 2: out the window of their offices in Paris. Ryan Bridge
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Speaker 2: News Talk ZB pretty far away from six Yer on
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Speaker 2: we'll do the super debate before six and over in Australia.
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Speaker 2: There is an election this weekend which is of interest,
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Speaker 2: and we just talked about the donations for our political parties.
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Speaker 2: We're pulling Hanson's doing pretty well, thank you very much.
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Speaker 2: In fact, gena Ryan Hart, you know big mining magnate
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Speaker 2: as they like to call them, because it's a bit
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Speaker 2: of alliteration to it. I think that's the only reason anyway,
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Speaker 2: she's throwing a bunch of money at them. Goodbye to
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Speaker 2: the Liberal National Coalition, a lot of money going towards
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Speaker 2: one nation and pulling Hanson at the moment across the Tasman.
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Speaker 2: Now this text of lots of text over the CRL,
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Speaker 2: which is good because people are rightly annoyed at how
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Speaker 2: much it's costing, but doesn't mean we won't use it
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Speaker 2: when it comes. However, this person says, and I tend
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Speaker 2: to agree, though I do like Nick Leget. This person says,
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Speaker 2: why are you talking to Nick leg about infrastry? He's
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Speaker 2: got a BA in political science. What would he know
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Speaker 2: about delivering infrastructure? Look at male point, surely you need
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Speaker 2: to speak to an engineer as someone who actually can deliver.
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Speaker 2: I tend to agree. We do speak to him I mean,
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Speaker 2: he is the boss of Infrastructure New Zealand, so there
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Speaker 2: is a good reason to talk to him about that.
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Speaker 2: But I tend to agree that engineers kind of make sense.
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Speaker 2: And my brother in law as an engineer, and when
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Speaker 2: they talk, you go, oh yeah, you know Wayne Brown,
19:25
Speaker 2: same thing. You go, oh yeah, that makes sense. David
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Speaker 2: Seymour he started engineering at university and you go, oh yeah,
19:32
Speaker 2: kind of makes sense when they talk. Do you know
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Speaker 2: what I mean? Twenty two away.
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Speaker 13: From six, Ryan Bridge coll.
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Speaker 2: Him into need and colhim good morning morning. Right, winter
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Speaker 2: grazing season, you've got some flights going up over Otago.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, the Regional Council to hear they're taking to the
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Speaker 14: skies over the next six weeks conducting compliance flights around
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Speaker 14: the region. So they'll be monitoring activities like intens of grazing, forestry, earthworks,
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Speaker 14: land surbances and machinery operating near waterways. The Regional Council
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Speaker 14: says these flyovers again a bird's eye view on land
20:08
Speaker 14: use to help identify.
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Speaker 2: Risks to water quality.
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Speaker 14: So they say farmers and contractors are all expected to
20:14
Speaker 14: have plans in place for managing sediment to protect Otago's waterways.
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Speaker 2: This winter.
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Speaker 14: We'll right, how'd you wear the calum Yeah, we'll tell
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Speaker 14: you about that. Due to the heavy rainfallcast for our region.
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Speaker 14: Rain developing for duned and today as well, possibly heavy
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Speaker 14: light winds and seventeen today.
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Speaker 2: Nice one, Thank you, Clears and christ tore Its morning, Claire,
20:33
Speaker 2: good morning. The stink in Bromley.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, it's been a while since we talked about this,
20:37
Speaker 12: but of course it all came to a head in
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Speaker 12: February when Environment Canterbury issued a christ Church City Council
20:43
Speaker 12: with that abatement notice that was over the smell that
20:45
Speaker 12: was particularly bad over summer. It's from the previously fire
20:49
Speaker 12: damaged wastewater treatment plant, but now it's just from the
20:52
Speaker 12: ponds effectively not working well. There were more than five
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Speaker 12: thousand complaints in a matter of weeks from people concerned
20:59
Speaker 12: about the smell.
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Speaker 6: Well.
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Speaker 12: Environment Canterbury's abatement notice had demanded council provide a plan
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Speaker 12: outlighting both the short and long term odor mitigation measures.
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Speaker 12: That's when we heard from the mayor who suggested that
21:11
Speaker 12: we just send the sewage out to the sea basically,
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Speaker 12: which surprised to many and also discussed the aquaculture industry.
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Speaker 12: But now Christich City Council says that abatement notice has
21:20
Speaker 12: officially been canceled. That's come about after a review found
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Speaker 12: it no longer acquired because the council has now put
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Speaker 12: forward some plans and met the requirements.
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Speaker 2: How'd you wear the Claire?
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Speaker 12: Mostly cloudy, there is some occasional rain A bit later.
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Speaker 12: Northeasterly is becoming strong and high of twenty two.
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Speaker 2: You have a great weekend, Max and Wellington Morning, Max,
21:37
Speaker 2: good morning. I saw this footage yesterday, incredible of the orca.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, you can watch it on the Herald. It is incredible.
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Speaker 15: Local Michael Lanzensburger was flying his drone around Wellington's south
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Speaker 15: coast when he spotted this pod of orca a cuff
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Speaker 15: a juvenile two adult orcas swimming close to the Short
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Speaker 15: Island Bay. Everyone loses their mind here when they spot
21:58
Speaker 15: a whale or dolphin or whatever, but this is quite
22:01
Speaker 15: something apparently, this pot of orcers. We're out hunting stingrays
22:04
Speaker 15: very close to the coast. Some lucky surfers even had
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Speaker 15: seen them close up earlier around Lyle Bay and Houghton Bay.
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Speaker 15: And just to point out, an experienced drone operator well
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Speaker 15: within the rules stead clear of the airport, et cetera,
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Speaker 15: et cetera.
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Speaker 2: Great footage. You can watch it on the Herald. It
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Speaker 2: really really I highly encourage people to do it. It was
22:22
Speaker 2: taken on Ensac Day as well. The lighting of it,
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Speaker 2: it almost looks ai, doesn't it. It's not. It's real. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: good on him. How's your weather?
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Speaker 15: Periods of rained strong northerlies, very strong northerlies. Indeed this afternoon,
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Speaker 15: this evening gale force eighteen. Today's hey, cheers, Max Navy,
22:37
Speaker 15: Good morning, greetings.
22:38
Speaker 2: It's going on on Wypoo.
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Speaker 1: Yes, well, let's.
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Speaker 16: Talk about the glow Worm Cave farm. Now it's putting
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Speaker 16: out the word because it's looking for a fifty hand
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Speaker 16: to help fund its conservation work. Now the owner of
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Speaker 16: the Northland Attractions hoping, hoping a billionaire will buy forty
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Speaker 16: nine percent share of the cave and the surrounding land.
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Speaker 16: Now the Waipoo glow Worm Cave. You know, it's home
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Speaker 16: to the Milkie Way Cave, known for hosting concerts and
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Speaker 16: all the public tours as well. In Fox he's the owner.
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Speaker 16: He says, Look, I still want to be in charge.
23:07
Speaker 16: I won't just take anybody, but I am open to
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Speaker 16: looking off shore. So he's hoping that the word spreads
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Speaker 16: as he starts this very he's calling it a low
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Speaker 16: key campaign. I don't think it is, but there you have.
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Speaker 2: It, brilliant Neva.
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Speaker 16: How's our weather cloudy, isolated showers, rain tonight, possibly heavy
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Speaker 16: and those winds will become strong tonight as well. Still warm.
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Speaker 16: Twenty one is the high here in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. You have a great weekend. It
23:30
Speaker 2: is eighteen minutes away from six. You know, the other
23:33
Speaker 2: day we told you that Merse, the global shipping giant,
23:36
Speaker 2: is upping their fees almost thirty percent in terms of
23:39
Speaker 2: the fuel surcharged coming to New Zealand, Impulse coming into
23:42
Speaker 2: New Zealand going to push the price price of goods
23:44
Speaker 2: that come here up. Well, the boss of Merse, the
23:47
Speaker 2: CEO of Vincent Clerk says, I mean stating in the
23:51
Speaker 2: bleeding obvious, but this is why they're doing it.
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Speaker 17: The most important disruptions that we're faced with is the
23:57
Speaker 17: rising energy cost, with a price of fuel that has
24:01
Speaker 17: nearly doubled, and that implies about a half a billion
24:04
Speaker 17: dollar off cost extra cost per month since since the
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Speaker 17: beginning of this we can do some on pressing the
24:13
Speaker 17: cost agenda further, but for us, what is really important
24:16
Speaker 17: is actually to pass on these cost increases to our
24:19
Speaker 17: customers as much as possible so that we can protect
24:22
Speaker 17: our margin and the operations integrity going forward.
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Speaker 2: So unsurprising. Basically, it's the war and wheel eighteen away
24:29
Speaker 2: from six y're on news talks here B. We're live
24:31
Speaker 2: to the UK next. According to six on News Talks
24:33
Speaker 2: here B, we'll get to the UK in a couple
24:35
Speaker 2: of seconds very quickly. Back home, average rents flat and
24:38
Speaker 2: auckland declining in Wellington. The trend continues. This is the
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Speaker 2: latest number from real estate dot co dot in z
24:43
Speaker 2: infact in Wellington. I mean there might not be as
24:47
Speaker 2: many jobs around and they might not be paying as much,
24:49
Speaker 2: but your rent is down and whopping seventy seven bucks
24:52
Speaker 2: on average a week over the last two years.
24:55
Speaker 1: International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of mind
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Speaker 1: for News Island business.
25:01
Speaker 2: But to make of any ow UK europe correspondents and
25:04
Speaker 2: the hint of virus the who is saying dank pinnic. Yeah,
25:08
Speaker 2: that's right.
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Speaker 18: They've held a press conference today saying it was not
25:12
Speaker 18: the same situation as a couple of years ago with
25:15
Speaker 18: COVID nineteen. Because this virus spreads through close and intimate contact.
25:20
Speaker 18: The latest that we have on this is that five
25:24
Speaker 18: of the eight suspected cases of hantavirus have now been confirmed,
25:30
Speaker 18: and that's on top of the three people who have died,
25:33
Speaker 18: including a sixty nine year old Dutch woman, her husband,
25:36
Speaker 18: and a German woman who were all on this cruise ship.
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Speaker 18: The virus typically spreads from rodents, but to the latest
25:44
Speaker 18: outbreak that who has confirmed has seen the documented cases
25:49
Speaker 18: for the first time of human to human transmission. So
25:53
Speaker 18: this is something they're keeping an eye on as they
25:54
Speaker 18: decide what to do with the one hundred and fifty
25:57
Speaker 18: passengers and crew from this small cruise ship that has
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Speaker 18: now docked in the Canary Islands.
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Speaker 2: Basically, are they saying that don't freaking out because person
26:08
Speaker 2: to person contact you basically have to be having intercourse
26:10
Speaker 2: and order for that to happen.
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Speaker 18: It seems so it seems like it has to be
26:14
Speaker 18: very close contact.
26:16
Speaker 2: Hey, what about Andrew, former Prince Andrew in the threat
26:19
Speaker 2: that he's been under.
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Speaker 18: Yeah, this story has emerged today last night here in
26:25
Speaker 18: the UK at about seven point thirty pm, It's understood
26:28
Speaker 18: that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor was walking dogs and he has
26:33
Speaker 18: near his new home in Norfolk, when a man wearing
26:36
Speaker 18: a balaclava approached him and his private security started yelling
26:41
Speaker 18: and apparently was acting in an intimidating manner and had
26:46
Speaker 18: a weapon on them. Andrew and his security ran into
26:50
Speaker 18: a car and got away. This person did sort of
26:53
Speaker 18: try to chase them, and we understand that they have
26:55
Speaker 18: now been arrested on suspicion of a public order offense
26:59
Speaker 18: and possess seeing an offensive weapon.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate your update. Vince mcaviny, a UK europe correspondent, Time
27:05
Speaker 2: airs twelve minutes away from six Bryan B. So back
27:09
Speaker 2: to this new OECD report for a second. They reckon
27:11
Speaker 2: the age of eligibility for super should go up. Basically
27:15
Speaker 2: you get the pension later. Okay, that's not so controversial
27:18
Speaker 2: now outside of a New Zealand first in our parliament.
27:22
Speaker 2: But recommending eligibility be linked to life expectancy that is controversial,
27:27
Speaker 2: eventually rising as high as age sixty nine. Also recommending
27:30
Speaker 2: means testing to factor in ethnicity and occupation. Nichola Willis
27:35
Speaker 2: agrees that something has to change. On this.
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Speaker 5: Whether or not it is through the approaches that the
27:40
Speaker 5: OECD suggests is another question.
27:42
Speaker 18: But is there a form required to our superanuation settings?
27:47
Speaker 2: Yes, so, Brad Elson informetric CEO with us this morning.
27:50
Speaker 2: Hey Brad, good morning. How would it work the life
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Speaker 2: expectancy part? If it's is it linked to an average
27:57
Speaker 2: for an ethnicity or well, how would it work?
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Speaker 19: Well? I mean all of those details would have to
28:02
Speaker 19: be worked through when we've looked at it before. The
28:05
Speaker 19: general better approach, in my mind, would to be to
28:08
Speaker 19: have it to just general life expectancy, And partly that's
28:11
Speaker 19: how you'd already get up to sort of you know,
28:13
Speaker 19: sixty seven sixty eight as the age, because we are
28:16
Speaker 19: just spending so much more time, we're living so much
28:18
Speaker 19: longer that we're spending more time on New Zealand super.
28:22
Speaker 19: So you could do that over time, you could look
28:24
Speaker 19: at it stats and z brings out comprehensive life expectancy
28:27
Speaker 19: figures over time. I'm probably less keen personally on you know,
28:33
Speaker 19: looking things through life expectancy for different ethnicities or cohorts
28:37
Speaker 19: only because I don't really feel that you should be
28:40
Speaker 19: paid out earlier in life or change your expectancy just
28:44
Speaker 19: because you're a different ethnicity. If we've got problems there,
28:46
Speaker 19: and so, for example, we know that Marty die earlier,
28:50
Speaker 19: we shouldn't pay them out because they die earlier. We
28:52
Speaker 19: should stop them dying earlier. There's sort of a different
28:54
Speaker 19: approach here. But long story short, the OECD has made
28:57
Speaker 19: it clear we need to do something about super You
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Speaker 19: know it, I know it, Everyone seems to know it.
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Speaker 19: But we're also not particularly convinced it will happen. Be
29:05
Speaker 19: it something around means testing all the age or life expectancy,
29:10
Speaker 19: or for example, one of the things Treasury has talked about,
29:13
Speaker 19: which is linking superannuation payments through to inflation rather than wages.
29:18
Speaker 19: All of those things we're going to have to consider
29:20
Speaker 19: because at some point otherwise we're going to hit a
29:22
Speaker 19: bit of a fiscal cliff.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to pay the piper. Hey, what about it? So,
29:26
Speaker 2: just coming back to your point, and it was a
29:27
Speaker 2: good one about ethnicity and whether you use that as
29:31
Speaker 2: a barometer for how long somebody or how early somebody
29:34
Speaker 2: gets super it doesn't seem I mean, it's the current
29:38
Speaker 2: situation is not fair on average. You have to accept that.
29:41
Speaker 2: But also if you were to say, oh, this Chinese
29:45
Speaker 2: person or this Indian person or this European person gets
29:49
Speaker 2: SUPER earlier or later. I mean, you can all get
29:52
Speaker 2: hit by a bus tomorrow, can't you, And then you've
29:54
Speaker 2: only had SUPER for a year or two, and then
29:56
Speaker 2: that's not fair.
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Speaker 20: Well exactly, and not only that, but again depending on
30:00
Speaker 20: just how detailed you get it. You know what happens
30:02
Speaker 20: if you then bring in the likes of you know,
30:05
Speaker 20: the occupation that you're in. I know that's a constant
30:07
Speaker 20: one that's brought up in terms of you know, people
30:10
Speaker 20: who are often in more manual trades and similar and
30:12
Speaker 20: they often can't keep.
30:13
Speaker 19: Working past a certain stage, and so you get into
30:16
Speaker 19: all those complications. I guess that the worry writers that
30:19
Speaker 19: when you look at some of those occupation groups, the
30:22
Speaker 19: same rings true today. Like it's not like at age
30:25
Speaker 19: sixty five today, you know, builders are just absolute spring chickens,
30:28
Speaker 19: and at sixty five plus one, they're all of a
30:31
Speaker 19: sudden completely destitute and unable to work. Like, the pressures
30:34
Speaker 19: on occupation groups are.
30:35
Speaker 20: Very much there.
30:36
Speaker 19: I think the decision we've got to come to as
30:37
Speaker 19: a country is at the moment we've got a universal system,
30:40
Speaker 19: everyone broadly gets it all. At the same time, if
30:43
Speaker 19: we move away from that, we've got to, I think,
30:45
Speaker 19: have a much broader conversation about why, what is the
30:48
Speaker 19: purpose of New Zealand super what are we trying to achieve?
30:51
Speaker 19: And at the moment, I think the challenge, right Ryan,
30:53
Speaker 19: is we keep having this conversation. I mean, we could
30:56
Speaker 19: do this every three weeks report that.
30:57
Speaker 20: Comes out and says it. And are we realistic that
30:59
Speaker 20: it's it going to change?
31:00
Speaker 19: I certainly feel pretty despondent that anyone's actually going to
31:03
Speaker 19: take the bull by the horns.
31:04
Speaker 2: As soon as Winston Peters leaves politics and this will
31:07
Speaker 2: all change, mark my words. Eight to six Ryan Bridge line.
31:11
Speaker 2: Considering men die on average a few years earlier than women,
31:13
Speaker 2: would that mean that men get to retire earlier? Very
31:16
Speaker 2: good point. Hey. By the way, we talked the other
31:18
Speaker 2: day about Shell about BP doing pretty well. We've got
31:21
Speaker 2: a number now profit for shall they're British six point
31:25
Speaker 2: nine billion for the first three months of the year.
31:27
Speaker 2: That is almost a quarter more than a year ago.
31:30
Speaker 2: And of course this is thanks to the high oil prices,
31:32
Speaker 2: which is thanks to the war.
31:33
Speaker 13: News talk said b before the news breaks here it first,
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Speaker 13: Ryan Bridge on early edition with Spark for Business Technology
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Speaker 13: that keeps Business Moving News Talk said B News Talks.
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Speaker 2: It is six minutes away from six. It is Friday morning,
31:48
Speaker 2: and Mike is here as he always this morning, Mike,
31:49
Speaker 2: good to see you, Ryan. Did you see you know
31:52
Speaker 2: all of the chip companies are doing really well off
31:54
Speaker 2: of AI. Some of the other companies, the associated companies
31:58
Speaker 2: that are doing well, like the toilet maker, ceramic toilet
32:01
Speaker 2: maker in Japan. Did you read about them this morning?
32:03
Speaker 19: No?
32:04
Speaker 21: I haven't.
32:04
Speaker 2: They're up something like fifty percent. There's shares over the
32:07
Speaker 2: last year because ceramics are used in semiconductor components. Isn't
32:12
Speaker 2: that fascinating. There's another company that does. They've got a
32:16
Speaker 2: windfall from data centers. They do glass making.
32:21
Speaker 21: No, I did know about that, because the strait's the
32:24
Speaker 21: problem because the whole ceramic Do you again, where's the
32:26
Speaker 21: ceramic industry based India? Yes, and so that's that's been
32:31
Speaker 21: closed down, but anything adjacent to it is booming.
32:34
Speaker 2: Because of it.
32:35
Speaker 21: Do you know I'm going to install this is a
32:39
Speaker 21: related love stories. No, No, don't tell me. Tell me
32:42
Speaker 21: why we haven't done it before? Why don't we all
32:43
Speaker 21: have Japanese toilets.
32:46
Speaker 2: Hey speaking preaching to the choir, Have you got a
32:48
Speaker 2: Japanese toilet? No do I have. I have lobbied my
32:52
Speaker 2: partner for one for a very long time.
32:53
Speaker 21: I reckon, Once you've had a Japanese toilet, there's no
32:56
Speaker 21: going back.
32:57
Speaker 2: These are the guys that make them. Yeah, total yeah,
33:00
Speaker 2: but they washlets and they have been around for donkeys years.
33:04
Speaker 21: You go to Japan, they're everywhere. They're not a thing.
33:07
Speaker 21: It's like going to Finland and seeing a sauna. It's
33:10
Speaker 21: like it's like having a kitchen.
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Speaker 2: Totally.
33:12
Speaker 21: Everyone has a sauna. Everyone has a warm toilet.
33:14
Speaker 2: Well, not only that, they play music to discuss what
33:17
Speaker 2: you're doing.
33:17
Speaker 21: The lift, the lift of the seat you never touched,
33:20
Speaker 21: You never touch it, which is clean, it cleans itself,
33:23
Speaker 21: or you were.
33:23
Speaker 2: Talking to the people to the time.
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Speaker 21: I don't actually know what they cost, and I suspect
33:28
Speaker 21: they cost a lot.
33:29
Speaker 2: I don't think they're that experiend when you can get
33:31
Speaker 2: cheap versions version.
33:33
Speaker 21: Because that's going to break and then you're going to
33:34
Speaker 21: try and ring somebody to come and fix your toilet.
33:36
Speaker 21: There's not going to be no one and no one
33:38
Speaker 21: in the country. But you want a top one. But
33:40
Speaker 21: what would you pay? So so regular that's a thousand bucks,
33:42
Speaker 21: that can pay two or three or four.
33:44
Speaker 2: I'd probably pay another five seven. Oh, you're probably made
33:47
Speaker 2: in another seven hundred.
33:48
Speaker 21: Bucks for one thousand dollars. I reckon, I reckondly three
33:50
Speaker 21: or four times more expensive than a regular toil.
33:52
Speaker 2: You know, we haven't even talked about the best feature
33:54
Speaker 2: of all, which is it's cold, it's nighttime. You need
33:56
Speaker 2: to sit down, it's warm.
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Speaker 21: It's warm, and once you've done it, you'd never go back,
34:01
Speaker 21: That's right. Why haven't we Why are we so third
34:03
Speaker 21: world in this country?
34:05
Speaker 2: Anyway?
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Speaker 21: Nichola Willis by the way, Ben this morning after.
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Speaker 2: Seventh, have a great Friday. See you Monday.
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