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Full Show Podcast: 04 September 2024 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside Ryan Bridge new
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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four on an early edition with Smith City,
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Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture vans and a play at store news talks,
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Speaker 1: he'd be.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, it is six after five news. Excuse me,
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Speaker 2: Newstalks said, be well, it was a great start. The
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Speaker 2: terrorist tax. Is it going to cost us more than
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Speaker 2: we actually gain from it? We'll look at that just
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Speaker 2: before six this morning. Is your phone giving you brain cancer?
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Speaker 2: We've all wondered it. A new study is definitive on
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Speaker 2: an answer. A terror expert says, we should be screening
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Speaker 2: security screening at our regional airports and for regional flights.
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Speaker 2: Plus can the police implement the new Gang's Bill. We'll
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Speaker 2: look at that just before five thirty as well.
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Speaker 3: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, the fourth of September. Fifty one people
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Speaker 2: have died in the Ukrainian city of put Lava, one
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Speaker 2: of the deadliest russiattar since the start of the war.
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Speaker 2: Eighteen people are still reportedly trapped under rubble following the
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Speaker 2: missile strikes. The target was a military institute where Kiev
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Speaker 2: says cadets were training.
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Speaker 4: The time range for the ballistic missiles to reach the
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Speaker 4: target was very short and the only way to intercept
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Speaker 4: them was to have a Patriot system or Sempty Air
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Speaker 4: defense system because they're the only one capable of intercepting
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Speaker 4: ballistic missiles.
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Speaker 2: A Greek flagged oil tanker in the Red Sea is
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Speaker 2: still on fire almost two weeks after being attacked by
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Speaker 2: Hooti rebels. It's carrying about a million barrels of oil,
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Speaker 2: which if spelt, could cause an environmental disaster and be
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Speaker 2: one of the worst oil legs from a tanker. In
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Speaker 2: other news, twelve people have died asylum seekers after a
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Speaker 2: boat sank crossing the English Channel. Twenty one thousand people
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Speaker 2: make that journey each year, and we'll have Gavin Gray
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Speaker 2: on that just before six back here. A new study
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Speaker 2: from Otarga University has found evening screen use only begins
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Speaker 2: to impact sleep if it's done from bed, not in
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Speaker 2: the hours before that. The lead author, Dr Bradley Brosnan
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Speaker 2: says this goes against current guidelines and is recommending people
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Speaker 2: start to keep devices out of the bedroom.
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Speaker 5: Just even being a bit more mindful. If you can't
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Speaker 5: put your devices away. How much time am I spending
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Speaker 5: on screens in the bed would be something to think about.
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Speaker 3: The first word on the News of the Day early.
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Speaker 6: Edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture
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Speaker 6: beds at a play at store news talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be some good news this morning. On electricity, the
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Speaker 2: wholesale prices have plummeted the energy this is energy linked
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Speaker 2: data around three dollars twenty per megawatt hour. In mid August,
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Speaker 2: the average was eight hundred dollars per megawat hours. So
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Speaker 2: when I say the word plummet, I mean it. Lake
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Speaker 2: Pukhaki apparently is up a meter water levels, that is
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Speaker 2: on two weeks ago. This was always going to happen,
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Speaker 2: wasn't it. I mean, the experts told us that it
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Speaker 2: would eventually rain, all the snow would melt and we
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Speaker 2: would get out of this particular problem. But it will
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Speaker 2: happen again, and we've got no bridging finance. Really that's
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Speaker 2: the problem, you know. Unless Shane gets his wish and
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Speaker 2: they dig baby dig for some more coal, or we
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Speaker 2: have a gas an interim gas solution, the problem will
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Speaker 2: return next year. But it is good to see that,
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Speaker 2: at least in the immediate term. The wholesale prices have
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Speaker 2: gone down. Looking at the global dairy trade auction down
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Speaker 2: point four percent on a fortnight ago. You remember we
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Speaker 2: told you last time it was up five point five.
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Speaker 2: The most important numbers really for us are the whole
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Speaker 2: milk and whole milk powder was down two point five percent.
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Speaker 2: Skim milk powder was up four point five percent. It
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Speaker 2: is our largest export commodity, that's milk powder, largest export commodity,
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Speaker 2: worth ten billion dollars to our economy. We send most
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Speaker 2: of it to China. Weirdly. The second place was Algeria,
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Speaker 2: and they put it in their products and feed it
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Speaker 2: to their masses or send it around the world. It's
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Speaker 2: just gone ten minutes after five, Ryan Bridge, Now the phone.
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Speaker 2: Second bit of phone news for you this morning. This
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Speaker 2: is a new study of studies. Is one of those.
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Speaker 2: So sixty three studies from nineteen ninety four to twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty two have been analyzed by Australian researchers. Mobile phones
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Speaker 2: don't give you brain cancer. There you go in case
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Speaker 2: you were worried about that. This is from the Australian
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Speaker 2: Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency or ARPENZA. They've reviewed
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Speaker 2: studies and they say, irrespective of the time how long
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Speaker 2: you spend on calls, how many calls you make, irrespective
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Speaker 2: of how long you've had a phone for Why are
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Speaker 2: they so confident? Well, it's simple, really, mobile phone US
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Speaker 2: is skyrocketed, brain cancer hasn't. So I guess that figures,
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Speaker 2: doesn't it. The big question really is what about male
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Speaker 2: fertility when you put your phone in your pocket? That's
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Speaker 2: what they say, is your iPhone killing your swimmers? Eleven
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Speaker 2: after five.
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Speaker 6: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with
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Speaker 6: Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and
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Speaker 6: applying store news Talk zed B.
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Speaker 2: Good Morning. Fourteen after five nine two is the number
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Speaker 2: to text in a second. We're going to look at
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Speaker 2: that sas reporting to our terar threat in New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: But first, this Gang's Bill is expected to pass its
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Speaker 2: third reading this year. It'll come into force by November.
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Speaker 2: This is the search powers for police being able to
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Speaker 2: disperse gang members if they're congregating together, banning the gang patches,
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Speaker 2: all that stuff. Z B has obtained a police briefing
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Speaker 2: and they don't think they'll be ready in time to
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Speaker 2: actually implement the law. And there's a practical problem here.
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Speaker 2: I mean if you think about it, how if you
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Speaker 2: are in wide Or, for example, this is what the
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Speaker 2: Police Association says, if you're in wide Or and you've
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Speaker 2: got two cops and twenty gang members, how are you
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Speaker 2: going to tell them to take their patches off and
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Speaker 2: actually practically enforce the law. I suppose it's not a
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Speaker 2: reason not to do it, you know, And it's not
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Speaker 2: really if you think about it. This measure aimed at
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Speaker 2: policing gangs. I think probably more about society feeling like
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Speaker 2: we're fighting back against the crime that has been, you know,
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Speaker 2: skyrocketing over the last week while, so perhaps that's less important. Anyway.
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Speaker 2: It should be coming into force by November to go
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Speaker 2: one quarter past five. Cran Bridge, a terrorism expert, says
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Speaker 2: everybody boarding a plane in New Zealand, including regional flights,
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Speaker 2: should go through security screening. It comes after the release
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Speaker 2: of a new assessment of the country's security threat. This
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Speaker 2: is by the SIS the Security Intelligence Service. It says
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Speaker 2: there's a realistic possibility of a terrorist attack in New Zealand,
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Speaker 2: most likely a lone actor attack, but the terror threat
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Speaker 2: level hasn't changed. John Battersby is massive University Center for
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Speaker 2: Defense and Security studies expect with us this morning. John,
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Speaker 2: good morning, good morning, Thanks for being with me. How
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Speaker 2: you reckon the regional flights? It is always weird when
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Speaker 2: you go get on the plane and you haven't been screened.
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Speaker 2: Do you think it's time we look at that.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the Essays report hasn't really said anything
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Speaker 5: that's terribly different from the risk that has existed now
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Speaker 5: for let's say the last fifty years. Airports have been
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Speaker 5: a vulnerable point for quis some time now, and what
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Speaker 5: New Zealand needs to do is start to look at
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Speaker 5: where the opportunities could be taken by an individual perpetrator
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Speaker 5: wishing to do harm to a group of people. And
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Speaker 5: that's one area to me that seems an obvious point
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Speaker 5: at which we could just strengthen our security consciousness and
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Speaker 5: eliminate another option that would be there.
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Speaker 2: What's the difference between a bus and a plane. I mean,
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Speaker 2: if you're thinking about a regional flight to Pame from Auckland,
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Speaker 2: for example, I don't know how many you'd have on there.
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Speaker 2: I do that flight quite often. You probably have twenty
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Speaker 2: thirty forty people on there. You know, what is the
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Speaker 2: difference between that and somebody getting a knife out on
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Speaker 2: a bus.
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Speaker 5: Oh look, you're absolutely right. The risk that it's there
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Speaker 5: are with anywhere where there are people in a confined space,
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Speaker 5: that risk is there, and it overseas terrorist organizations have
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Speaker 5: used those options. They tend to use those options slightly
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Speaker 5: less than they're doing acraft for some reason. But yeah, no, look,
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Speaker 5: you're absolutely right, and you know, the realistic possibility idea
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Speaker 5: is it's there. It's not a high risk. It's not
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Speaker 5: like you know, it's going to happen tomorrow, and we
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Speaker 5: know that it's just a risk that's sitting there and
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Speaker 5: just a reminder for us to be a little bit
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Speaker 5: more security conscious about things. So yeah, look we can't
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Speaker 5: we can't change absolutely everything we do. We just got
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Speaker 5: a little more security conscious about how we do it.
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Speaker 2: I think what the report more generally talks about the
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Speaker 2: threat of radicalization of people here in New Zealand online
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Speaker 2: over issues like Palestine, and we've seen lots of protests
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Speaker 2: about that. Is that a big worry for you?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 5: I don't think anything's a bit worry. It's it's just
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Speaker 5: a lacent risk that's sitting there all the time. As
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Speaker 5: if you look back across these industry sometimes these international
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Speaker 5: events do seep through interaction here. So yeah, where we
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Speaker 5: have a strongly emotive issue that can motivate people to
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Speaker 5: do something, there's always that elevated risk that something might occur.
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Speaker 5: Does it worry me a great deal?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 5: I think what worries me more is that the zenders
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Speaker 5: tend to not take these kinds of seriously and we
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Speaker 5: just need to wake up a little bit so to
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Speaker 5: the risk that is the that's only one to shoot,
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Speaker 5: there are the others.
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Speaker 2: John, thank you very much for your time. John badisbey
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Speaker 2: Massi University's Center for Defense and Security Studies with us
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Speaker 2: talking about that report from the SAS yesterday. We don't
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Speaker 2: really take things too seriously, do we? And it is
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Speaker 2: nice getting on a regional flight. Oh that's right. I
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Speaker 2: don't have to go through security. I mean, it's all
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Speaker 2: rainbows and butterflies until someone takes the plane down. I suppose,
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Speaker 2: isn't it.
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Speaker 6: News and Views you trust to start your day, It's
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Speaker 6: early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's
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Speaker 6: Furniture Beds and a Flying Store.
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Speaker 3: News Talk said, be.
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Speaker 2: Just gone twenty one minutes after five. We're going to
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Speaker 2: Gavin Gray over in the UK just after the five
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Speaker 2: point thirty news, I should say the large search and
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Speaker 2: rescue operation underway in the English channel. This is a
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Speaker 2: boat carrying migrants is capsized off the French coast. Twelve
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Speaker 2: people have died, there are two missing at the moment.
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Speaker 2: More than twenty thousand people make that journey every year,
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Speaker 2: so we'll talk to Gavin Gray about that, and just
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Speaker 2: to set well. Just after the news in the US
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Speaker 2: this morning, the slow down fears are creeping back. This
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Speaker 2: is a Wall Street Journal reports the worst day on
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Speaker 2: the Stock exchange since August fifth. Remember that was the
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Speaker 2: day of the panic attack, where all the traders went,
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Speaker 2: what's going to happen to the economy. We're worried about
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Speaker 2: a slowdown, So this is the latest shock. Is off
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Speaker 2: the back of manufacturing data which was showing contraction, and
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Speaker 2: the traders are sweating bullets because Friday night, our time
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Speaker 2: is when we get the monthly jobs report, which will
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Speaker 2: help inform the Federal Reserve decision on whether to cut
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Speaker 2: rates and if so, by how much. Which is happening
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Speaker 2: this month, So a bit jittery on Wall Street this morning.
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Speaker 2: Twenty two minutes after five really weird story about toilets
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Speaker 2: out of the whited upper, which we'll get to in
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Speaker 2: a second. The Twitter issue. So Brazil has banned x
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Speaker 2: largely over fake news stuff like that, and some Democrats
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Speaker 2: in the US now want it gone from the Land
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Speaker 2: of Three in the Home of the Brave, Yes, they
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Speaker 2: want to ban Twitter. Musk owns it. He's rich and
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Speaker 2: he's supporting a lot of conservatives, so perhaps that's why
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Speaker 2: they're doing it. I hate these platforms, so I'm not
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Speaker 2: gonna stand here and sort of espouse the virtues of them,
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Speaker 2: because I don't think there are many keyboard warriors, brain
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Speaker 2: rot etc. However, here are five reasons to not ban it. China, Iran,
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Speaker 2: North Korea, Russia and Venezuela. They are countries who have
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Speaker 2: banned it. Is that the kind of company you want
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Speaker 2: to keep? I wouldn't think so. Twenty three after five
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Speaker 2: the early.
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Speaker 2: Twenty five after five NEWSTALKSB. I have zero issues with
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Speaker 2: foreign visitors paying more to visit New Zealand. The tax
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Speaker 2: hike that is being touted is big, thirty five dollars
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Speaker 2: up to one hundred dollars per visitor that is substantial. Crucially, though,
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Speaker 2: our Aussie mates are execs and they make up forty
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Speaker 2: percent of our market, so that's a good chunk who
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Speaker 2: won't be contributing, so shouldn't be affected in terms of
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Speaker 2: numbers visiting us here. The impact overall impact still quite unclear.
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Speaker 2: The government, on one hand says they've got MB advice,
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Speaker 2: which is always good advice, saying that it won't be
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Speaker 2: a significant impact. The industry says, we will have forty
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Speaker 2: eight thousand fewer visitors coming here and they'll take their
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Speaker 2: almost three hundred million dollars spend elsewhere, thank you very much.
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Speaker 2: The industry says this is alarming. It's possible they're both
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Speaker 2: right here. The total tourist numbers visiting in the year
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Speaker 2: to June three point two million, so forty eight thousand
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Speaker 2: is both not significant if you're the government, but alarming
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Speaker 2: if you're the industry. The cold, hard reality is we're
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Speaker 2: not as hot as we used to be when it
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Speaker 2: comes to a New Zealand as a destination, not as sexy,
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Speaker 2: you could say, post COVID our recovery has story. I
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Speaker 2: think we're at about seventy three percent of pre COVID
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Speaker 2: levels in terms of visitors. Largely this is about costs,
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Speaker 2: not because our mountains are any less beautiful, our lakes
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Speaker 2: less attractive, Largely about the cost of getting here. But
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Speaker 2: those issues, you know, the plane supply, the roots, et cetera,
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Speaker 2: should subside. And when that happens, don't we want the
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Speaker 2: extra money to maintain our walking tracks and to give
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Speaker 2: the Germans somewhere to go to the loop? I would
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Speaker 2: have thought so. And if it's going to put anyone off,
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Speaker 2: wouldn't it be the low spending, high infrastructure, using smelly
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Speaker 2: backpacker variety of which I have been one, of which
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Speaker 2: I have been one. I'm not disparaging them. Well, I
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Speaker 2: suppose I am a little disparaging myself. But don't we
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Speaker 2: want sort of higher spending, higher yield tourists coming here
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Speaker 2: using less of the country and less of its resources
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Speaker 2: and infrastructure, but spending more. Nine n seven after five,
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge Karmala Harris. We've got some time here. So
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Speaker 2: Carmala Harris is being accused, and you can be the judge.
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Speaker 2: I'll play you the audio. But is being accused of
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Speaker 2: using accents wherever she goes. She's been at a Labor
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Speaker 2: Day rally in Detroit. This is a blue collar area,
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Speaker 2: union workers, auto workers, It's a battleground state, so crucial,
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Speaker 2: and the Republicans are saying, this is a woman who
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Speaker 2: grew up in Canada and California. Why is she talking
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Speaker 2: like this? Have listened to this what the Republicans are
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Speaker 2: calling a phony accent?
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Speaker 3: You better thank a union member.
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Speaker 2: One of five day walk we You better thank our
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Speaker 2: union member for sick leave.
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Speaker 3: You better thank a.
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Speaker 7: Union member for paid leave.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, ill better thank It's not the first time. Politicians
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Speaker 2: do this all the time, don't they, where they try
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Speaker 2: to appeal to whoever's in front of them. Remember Hillary Clinton,
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Speaker 2: She was on a black radio show, a breakfast radio show,
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Speaker 2: and they asked her what do you always have with
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Speaker 2: you on your person? And she said this, that's us.
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Speaker 3: Really yes, I want you to know.
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Speaker 2: People are gonna see it and say, Okay, she's paying
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Speaker 2: her and to black people.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, is it working?
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Speaker 2: Oh so cringe. Biden, less schmoozy, more aggressive in trying
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Speaker 2: to win the black vote. If you have a problem
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Speaker 2: figuring out whether you're PREMI or Trump and you ain't
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Speaker 2: black Trump, let's get to him. This is the doozy.
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Speaker 2: He said. This is just recently actually that his criminal
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Speaker 2: convictions enhanced his appeal to black voters.
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Speaker 5: The black people are so much on my side now
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Speaker 5: because they see what's happening to me happens to them.
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Speaker 2: I built a lot of buildings, and I want to
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Speaker 2: tell you a black worker is a great worker.
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Speaker 1: You've done an incredible.
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Speaker 2: Job, right, Okay, let's move on from that. Twenty nine
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Speaker 2: minutes after five nine to ninety two is the number
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Speaker 2: to text. We're going to to Gavin Gray, our UK
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Speaker 2: europe correspondent just after the news at five point thirty.
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Speaker 2: We'll have our wrap from our reporters around the country,
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Speaker 2: plus we will speak to Intrepid Travel. They do lower
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Speaker 2: cost travel options. You could save four people coming to
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Speaker 2: New Zealand. Do they think it'll cost us tourists?
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Speaker 6: Ryan Bridge New for twenty twenty four on early edition
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Speaker 6: with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture, beds and a playing store.
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Speaker 3: News Talk Siddy, Good.
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Speaker 2: Morning, it is twenty four away from the sixth Wednesday,
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Speaker 2: the fourth of September. You're on news Talk, said b.
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Speaker 2: This is early edition on rhan Bridge. Great to be
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Speaker 2: with you this morning. We'll get to our reporters around
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Speaker 2: the country in just a second. Your feedback right now, though,
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Speaker 2: this is about the tourist tax going up from thirty
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Speaker 2: five bucks per person to one hundred.
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Speaker 3: Ryan.
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Speaker 2: The tourist tax going up, my opinion is we will
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Speaker 2: end up with just wealthy people visiting. I would have
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Speaker 2: thought that was a good thing. Nothing wrong with the backpackers,
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Speaker 2: but they're not spending as much, and they are quite
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Speaker 2: high intensity on our resources and our national parks, et cetera. Ryan,
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Speaker 2: this extra tax on tourists is nothing apart from the
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Speaker 2: reporters digging deep for the negative here. It should be
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Speaker 2: seen as a positive. More money for upgraded tracks in
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Speaker 2: our conservation state, et cetera. Graham, I agree with you there.
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Speaker 2: Brad says, since July the Aussies tax us to visit,
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Speaker 2: so why let them off the hook when they come
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Speaker 2: here because this tax won't apply to the Aussies. Actually, Brad,
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Speaker 2: they did hike their tourist tax in July, but we
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Speaker 2: are exempt, so we exempt each other from the charges.
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Speaker 2: Twenty three away from six Ryan Bridge, and we're going
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Speaker 2: to have reporters. Jamie Cunningham is in dneed in this
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Speaker 2: wor Jamie, good morning. You've got an update. Actually we
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Speaker 2: mentioned this earlier, but for those who might have missed it.
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Speaker 2: Screen devices and what time we should be watching?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, good morning. So we've found out that they may
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Speaker 9: not be impacting people in the same way as originally thought.
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Speaker 9: A new Otago University study looked at device use by
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Speaker 9: teenagers and found evening's screen use only begins to impact
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Speaker 9: sleep if it's done from bed and not the hours before.
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Speaker 9: Lead author doctor Bradley Brosnan. This goes against current sleep
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Speaker 9: hygiene guidelines. He sees basically, everyone uses screens before going
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Speaker 9: to bed and this is okay because their tests show
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Speaker 9: little effect. He sees the issue is about creating healthier
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Speaker 9: habits when in bed by removing screens for that period.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather in Dunedin today, Jamie.
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Speaker 9: Well it's fine and there's a bit of high cloud
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Speaker 9: this afternoon and a high of fourteen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Claire Schubert is in christ Church this morning. Claire,
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Speaker 2: you guys gonna host the Calm Games?
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Speaker 10: Well, put simply no, Ryan, that's the answer. The report
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Speaker 10: into the feasibility of christ Church hosting a comm Games
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Speaker 10: is back and it says we shouldn't be throwing any
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Speaker 10: more money at that idea. This comes after me fil
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Speaker 10: Major requested a report back in January on the viability
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Speaker 10: of hosting. Twenty thirty ten councilors voted in favor of
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Speaker 10: going ahead and doing this report. That report is now back.
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Speaker 10: News Talks Edb's.
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Speaker 7: First to have it.
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Speaker 10: It recommends that christ Church puts the brakes on the
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Speaker 10: idea of hosting stand alone. It does say that, you know,
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Speaker 10: maybe at such a time as a national bit is
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Speaker 10: put forward, then we join in. At that time, it
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Speaker 10: did consider the opportunities for christ Church if New Zealand
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Speaker 10: was to host, including things like return on investments, showcasing
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Speaker 10: the city, and benefits to our local clubs and organizations.
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Speaker 2: Right well, at least I've made a decision. I guess clear.
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Speaker 2: How's your weather today?
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Speaker 10: Rain clearing this morning, should become a bit finer by afternoon.
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Speaker 10: Southwesterlies are high of thirteen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Max Toles and Wellington Max the Expressway Company.
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Speaker 2: Expressway get a bit quicker.
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Speaker 4: That's right.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, one hundred to one hundred and ten for about
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Speaker 8: twenty five kilometers of the State Highway from about the
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Speaker 8: Lomati interchange around pram To south of Ortaki. Transport Minister
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Speaker 8: Simeon Brown says nz TA consulted on this ninety three
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Speaker 8: percent of responses did want a faster speed. It'll be
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Speaker 8: in place by the end of November. Transmission Gully is
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Speaker 8: really the big one for the region that seems almost
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Speaker 8: destined to be one ten, but there are niggally reasons
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Speaker 8: why it can't be just yet. Specifically, parts of Transmission
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Speaker 8: Gully aren't technically finished and is the subject of a
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Speaker 8: dispute between nz TA and the builder. The Autachy to
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Speaker 8: north of Levin Motorway will have a one ten speed
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Speaker 8: limit once built, so it's gonna be pretty quick getting
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Speaker 8: up and down the coast soon.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that transmission Gully gets quite steep there, doesn't it.
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Speaker 2: If you're going if you're going one hundred and ten,
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Speaker 2: you might actually take off, you know that's right.
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Speaker 8: I think my car would just about blow up if
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Speaker 8: it tried to go one ten up that hill.
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Speaker 2: What are you peckin? Max? What are you driving?
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Speaker 4: Two?
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Speaker 2: And Hondo Accord? Thank you Max? Very you're we with
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Speaker 2: it today? How's you wear that?
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Speaker 3: It's not so exciting?
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Speaker 2: Does a Honda Accord leg it does everything. Anything a
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Speaker 2: car do, it'll do it.
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Speaker 8: Early showers, fairly clear this afternoon. Southerly's eleven, the high Central, brilliant.
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Speaker 2: Thank you nevers, giggling away and all goody.
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Speaker 11: Now I'm laughing when Mix said about his Honda Accord,
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Speaker 11: because I'm drive in a Sentita, so mine would definitely
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Speaker 11: blow up. I wouldn't even reach a hundred of the gully.
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Speaker 2: Hey, I tell you who won't be driving in a Sanita,
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Speaker 2: and that is the Auckland Transport CEO, Dean Kimpton. What's
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Speaker 2: his celary?
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Speaker 11: Well, he's been reappointed. He's going to keep his six
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Speaker 11: hundred and twenty thousand dollars salary plus plus a possible bonus.
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Speaker 11: Now this bonus is dependent on meeting the key performance indicators,
22:45
Speaker 11: so it's up to fifteen percent. So as you can imagine,
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Speaker 11: this goes against me and Wayne Brown's wishes that no
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Speaker 11: CCO boss owns more than Auckland Council Chief Executive Phil Wilson.
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Speaker 11: So Richard Leggett, he's the at board chairs, he's not
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Speaker 11: given the size of the role. The boards deemed it
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Speaker 11: fair to give him the salary. So as you can imagine,
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Speaker 11: John Reeves. Who's the Public Transport Users Association guy.
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Speaker 2: He's come out. He says, hey, hey, hey.
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Speaker 11: Doesn't seem right during cost of living crisis rates rises,
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Speaker 11: He goes, I don't think people Aucklander's commuters will be
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Speaker 11: keen to be giving him a bit of a pay rise.
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Speaker 11: So this is back and forth, back and forth.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the performance bonus thing, I kind of understand. I mean,
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Speaker 2: if he actually affects change and buses turn up on time, etc.
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Speaker 2: Then maybe that's a good way to incentivize him.
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Speaker 11: That's right, you know, So let's see if he does that.
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Speaker 2: Let's see the weather today, nev We've got.
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Speaker 11: Showers, some heavy thunderstorms, hail possible from afternoon. So yesterday
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Speaker 11: we had that high, beautiful spring weather of twenty one.
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Speaker 11: Today the southerlyes whipping in and the high sixty bit.
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Speaker 2: Devin g At, UK europe correspondent, Live search and rescue
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Speaker 2: operation underwe in the English Channel. Devin, what's happened?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, Ryan, I'm afraid another boat carrying migrants trying to
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Speaker 12: cross the English Channel to enter the UK illegally has capsized.
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Speaker 12: More than fifty people have been rescued, according to the
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Speaker 12: French Coastguard, but twelve people, including we now believe a
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Speaker 12: pregnant woman has died. This is the deadliest disaster this
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Speaker 12: year in the Channel. Indeed, some are suggesting it's probably
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Speaker 12: the biggest single fatality for several years within the Channel.
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Speaker 12: Downing Street here in the UK saying the news is
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Speaker 12: truly horrific. More than twenty thousand people have made the
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Speaker 12: crossing from France to the UK so far this year,
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Speaker 12: but the numbers of deaths has also risen significantly in
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Speaker 12: this last year alone, and they're saying that's because quite simply,
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Speaker 12: the people smugglers are getting more ruthless. They're using boats
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Speaker 12: that simply aren't capable of carrying people and certainly are
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Speaker 12: not seaworthy. Indeed, this boat was seven meters long, which
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Speaker 12: are sunk and it was overloaded with seventy people, and
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Speaker 12: quite simply, I'm afraid it seemed to go under. We
26:11
Speaker 12: have had some windier rougher seas and I'm afraid it
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Speaker 12: just looks like this boat simply capsized.
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Speaker 2: Terrible. The former boss of Volkswagen has appeared in court.
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Speaker 2: This is the well huge scandal, but years and years
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Speaker 2: ago now taken a while to get to court.
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Speaker 12: Yes, it sure has.
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Speaker 10: So.
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Speaker 12: Nine years after the cow maker was found to have
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Speaker 12: rigged the missions tests, the former boss of Volkswagen, Martin Vintercon,
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Speaker 12: chief executive company in twenty fifteen, is on trial. He
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Speaker 12: denies the charges. We've just had the first day of
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Speaker 12: the so called diesel Gate trial, and if found guilty,
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Speaker 12: the seventy seven year old could face up to ten
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Speaker 12: years in prison. Now you'll remember the diesel Gate scandal
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Speaker 12: erupted in September twenty fifteen, and that was because American
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Speaker 12: environmental protection agencies accused Volkswagen of installing illegal software on cars,
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Speaker 12: so called defeat devices. And what that member was software
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Speaker 12: within the car recognized that the vehicle was being tested
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Speaker 12: in a laboratory and managed to turn on emissions control
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Speaker 12: so that it would pass the tests. As soon as
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Speaker 12: it was outside the laboratory, it would turn them on
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Speaker 12: again in order to boost performance. And of course it
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Speaker 12: became a scandal which engulfed Audi, Porsche, Sayout and Scoda
27:28
Speaker 12: as well as Volkswagen itself. And indeed the scandal is
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Speaker 12: said to cost more than fifty five billion New Zealand
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Speaker 12: dollars in fines to Volkswagen.
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Speaker 2: Kevin, thank you for that, Kevin Gray, UK europe correspondent.
27:41
Speaker 2: I did notice, actually that Volkswagen is going to be
27:44
Speaker 2: closing one of its factories in Germany. We might ask
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Speaker 2: motoring expert Mike Hosking about it. Shortly just gone to
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Speaker 2: living away from six Bryan Bridge, right. The tourist debate.
27:55
Speaker 2: It's raging this morning over how many tourists this new
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Speaker 2: text hike will turn off a visit to Middle Earth.
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Speaker 2: The international tourist levy is currently thirty five dollars, but
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Speaker 2: from the start of next month it'll cost visitors arriving
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Speaker 2: here one hundred dollars. The tourism industry says forty eight
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Speaker 2: thousand fewer tourists will come here as a result, and
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Speaker 2: they spend almost three hundred million dollars So who's right
28:20
Speaker 2: who's wrong? Eve Lawrence is with Intrepid Travel New Zealand. Eve,
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Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning. Do you who do you think
28:28
Speaker 2: is right here? Do you think, you know, the numbers
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Speaker 2: being banded about are possible that we could lose fifty
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Speaker 2: thousand tourists a year?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I absolutely do. I think New Zealand is losing
28:38
Speaker 7: competitiveness in the tourism landscape and I think it's absolutely
28:41
Speaker 7: possible we could lose a lot of revenue to New Zealand.
28:45
Speaker 2: What types of tourists would be affected most? Do you think?
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Speaker 7: Well, when you think about the recent increases in visa fees,
28:52
Speaker 7: we're talking about the Asian market as well. Here, if
28:56
Speaker 7: you look at a family of four coming over to
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Speaker 7: New Zealand from China, that already now going to be
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Speaker 7: looking at around two thousand dollars just to choose New
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Speaker 7: Zealand as a holiday destination, and that's before they even
29:06
Speaker 7: think about booking flights or coming here and paying for
29:09
Speaker 7: on ground services.
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Speaker 2: Is that two thousand extra on top of what they
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Speaker 2: were paying because of recent heights or that's two thousand total,
29:17
Speaker 2: that's two thousand total.
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Speaker 7: So the visa fees of doubled and the IVL has
29:21
Speaker 7: now increased by one hundred and eighty five percent.
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Speaker 2: How does that compare to similar markets that they might
29:27
Speaker 2: otherwise go to. I saw Australia put their livy up,
29:30
Speaker 2: albeit only ten bucks in July.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, they absolutely did. But the reality is we are
29:36
Speaker 7: still lagging far behind a lot of other nations in
29:39
Speaker 7: terms of our recovery from pre COVID. We're only sitting
29:42
Speaker 7: at eighty percent visitation of pre COVID numbers, whereas Australia
29:45
Speaker 7: are going to recover to one hundred percent in a
29:47
Speaker 7: round about the next three months. We're lagging behind in
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Speaker 7: air connectivity and we're also lagging behind now on price.
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Speaker 2: So would you argue now's not the right time. Do
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Speaker 2: you can see that we do need at some point
30:00
Speaker 2: to increase this levy because it pays for the upkeep
30:02
Speaker 2: of our national parks, et cetera.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, one hundred percent. But that's also something that hasn't
30:07
Speaker 7: been given to us or hasn't been discussed, is what
30:11
Speaker 7: this funding mechanism is actually going to be going towards
30:15
Speaker 7: and how it's going to be distributed. So we need
30:17
Speaker 7: to understand what's going to go towards tourism and what's
30:20
Speaker 7: going to be pushed towards conservation.
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Speaker 2: I've seen fifty to fifty split.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, but who's that going to go to and how's
30:26
Speaker 7: that going to be distributed? And of course we support
30:30
Speaker 7: an increase, but a three week window in order for
30:33
Speaker 7: us to push this out to travel agent market is
30:36
Speaker 7: not long enough. So October twenty twenty five would have
30:38
Speaker 7: been a more reasonable timeframe.
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Speaker 2: Actually, I suppose people have already booked. Well, if you've
30:44
Speaker 2: already booked, whatuld you have already paid and therefore you
30:46
Speaker 2: wouldn't be affected from next month?
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Speaker 5: But who knows?
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Speaker 7: I think is it for new applications or are people
30:52
Speaker 7: that have already submitted then their ETA going to be
30:55
Speaker 7: expected to increase their fee if they arrive after the
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Speaker 7: first of October.
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Speaker 2: It's a good question, you see, couldn't Eve thank you
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Speaker 2: for that, Eve Lawrence, Intrepid Travel, New Zealand. It is
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Speaker 2: eight minutes away from six nine to nine two the
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Speaker 2: number to text. Ryan. Backpackers spend a lot, particularly in
31:11
Speaker 2: our regions, so let's not discount them. They are important
31:15
Speaker 2: labor source for us as well. Ryan next one hundred
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Speaker 2: dollars to visit here is nothing. We need quality big spenders,
31:21
Speaker 2: not quantity who are here on the cheap causing problems.
31:26
Speaker 2: That's from Polly eight to six.
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Speaker 6: The News you Need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 2: Sai'd be five to six, Peter says Ryan. The cost
31:40
Speaker 2: to come to New Zealand is far larger than Australia
31:42
Speaker 2: and Canada, et cetera. We need our fees to be
31:45
Speaker 2: cheaper than theirs. Mike Hosking is here next. Hey Mike.
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Speaker 13: I'm in a real quandary over it, because in theory
31:53
Speaker 13: I would argue it's bollocks. One hundred dollars is fifty pounds,
31:57
Speaker 13: it's sixty US dollars, it's nothing. But all the people
32:01
Speaker 13: I've talked to in the industry argue against it. Where
32:03
Speaker 13: they've been hoisted. I suspect is that when Doucy yesterday
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Speaker 13: said ninety three percent or whatever the number was, said
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Speaker 13: they want an increase. So the consultation was do you
32:11
Speaker 13: want an increase? Most people actually said yes. Where it's
32:14
Speaker 13: fallen apart is the increases to one hundred dollars. Most
32:16
Speaker 13: people said make it fifty or whatever, but they all
32:20
Speaker 13: say it is material. But then again, you go back
32:22
Speaker 13: to your question. If one hundred dollars as you hurdle,
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Speaker 13: fifty pounds as you hurdle, sixty bucks as you hurdle,
32:27
Speaker 13: do you really want those people in the country If
32:29
Speaker 13: suddenly you're going sixty US dollars, Oh my god, I
32:32
Speaker 13: don't know if I'm.
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Speaker 3: Going to go to New Zealand. How t A.
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Speaker 2: It's mainly backpackers. Were you ever backpacked? I was wondering
32:38
Speaker 2: that before, because a ridiculous question. Do I look like
32:41
Speaker 2: I've ever backed?
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Speaker 3: No?
32:42
Speaker 2: But do we young?
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Speaker 13: I own a backpack?
32:44
Speaker 2: You were young? Once? I thought, well, then when I
32:47
Speaker 2: was young, I looked like this, and that's very sad.
32:53
Speaker 13: And get this, of course it's sad, but it didn't
32:55
Speaker 13: mean a backpacked And so that that's not not against backpackers.
32:59
Speaker 13: But at the end of day, the end of the day,
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Speaker 13: I mean, so I can't with the real issue is
33:03
Speaker 13: the fundamental issue, which is the people have not come
33:06
Speaker 13: back to this country. We're at eighty percent of where
33:08
Speaker 13: we were, and I think we killed our reputation when
33:11
Speaker 13: we closed the borders and was so slow.
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Speaker 2: We're not as sexy now, and it's expensive to get here,
33:16
Speaker 2: it is, and you've got plane supply issues, and you've
33:18
Speaker 2: got root issues, and we're stuck.
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Speaker 13: We're stuck a bit at the bottom of the world.
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Speaker 13: And we shouldn't be arguing about one hundred dollars. Really,
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Speaker 13: we got bigger fish to for I agree, so to speak.
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Speaker 2: All right, well, you'll be doing lots on that this morning.
33:29
Speaker 2: I'm sure MIKE'SI the next I will see you tomorrow.
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