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Full Show Podcast: 17 December 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickens on
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Speaker 1: Earlierditio with our the Supercenter explore r V successories and
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Speaker 2: That'd be Welcome morning, Welcome to the program, Thank you
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Speaker 2: so much for choosing us. We're here for the next hour.
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Speaker 2: And coming up. Dodgy electoral practices involving voter fraud has
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Speaker 2: meant to result in the recent local body elections has
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Speaker 2: been voided. What the hell went down and how can
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Speaker 2: we avoid this in the future? That story in five minutes.
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Speaker 2: We've got a new mega ministry. It's called m SERT.
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Speaker 2: Can you come up with a better name? The Ministry
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Speaker 2: for Cities, Environments, Regions and Transport. But what is the
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Speaker 2: problem that's trying to solve and is it the answer?
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Speaker 2: And breaking news the country has broke and therefore just
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Speaker 2: before sex, what would Barbara Edmonds and labor do differently?
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Speaker 2: We'll have these stories plus corresponders from right around New
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Speaker 2: zeal And, Gavin Gray out of the UK, and news
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Speaker 2: as it breaks and you can have your say on
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Speaker 2: the text. Ninety two ninety two is a number. Small
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Speaker 2: charge applies at seven after five. Well's Wednesday the seventeenth
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Speaker 2: of December, three more Bondai shooting victims have been named.
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Speaker 2: Here's a tragedy. The couple happy named Boris and Sophia German.
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Speaker 2: They were killed at the hannukaer attack that they're fifteen
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Speaker 2: ded They tried to stop the gunman. They actually grabbed
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Speaker 2: the gun, but they got shot for their trouble. Edith
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Speaker 2: Brupman has been named Dash came by way shows Boris
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Speaker 2: and Sophia trying to stop the gunman as they got
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Speaker 2: out of the car. Some of the other victims include
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Speaker 2: forty one year old Eli Schlanger, French national Dan el Kaim,
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Speaker 2: Holocaust survivor Alexander Klaytman, former police officer Peter Mayer, and
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Speaker 2: ten year old Matilda, who broke our hearts and broke
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Speaker 2: all the hearts at the Bondai service.
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Speaker 3: A happy kid.
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Speaker 4: You know some kids, they may be shy, they may
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Speaker 4: be afraid of you or something.
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Speaker 3: She was open, hard, openheart anyway.
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Speaker 2: She she was like a son and police are probing
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Speaker 2: a pre attack trip to the Philippines by the father
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Speaker 2: and son gunman, including claims of military style training. No
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Speaker 2: evidence of collusion.
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Speaker 4: There's no evidence that these people were part of a cell.
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Speaker 2: Clearly they were motivated by this extremist ideology. Now he
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Speaker 2: said he could do it, and he's gone and done it.
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Speaker 2: This is Donald Trump.
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Speaker 5: You'll be seeing.
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Speaker 6: I'm suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth
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Speaker 6: literally and to put words.
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Speaker 7: In my mouth.
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Speaker 6: They had me saying things that I never said coming out.
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Speaker 6: I guess they used AI or something. So we'll be
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Speaker 6: bringing that lass. A lot of people were asking, why
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Speaker 6: are you bringing that lawsuit? Even the media can't believe
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Speaker 6: that one.
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Speaker 2: Well, he's done it. He filed a five billion US
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Speaker 2: dollar lawsuit against the BBC over that edit of his
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Speaker 2: sixth January twenty twenty one speech in a Panorama documentary,
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Speaker 2: and Donald Trump's accused the broad caster of defamation and
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Speaker 2: of violating a trade practices law. The BBC says, well,
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Speaker 2: we're going to defend that. And now finally some Lizzo
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Speaker 2: So Pop souers elebrating a legal victory after a judge
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Speaker 2: dismissed allegations of fat shaming. This is a twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: three lawsuit filed by three of her former dancers who
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Speaker 2: she called fat. While those specific allegations have been dropped,
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Speaker 2: the case against Lizzo and her production company will continue
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Speaker 2: overclaims that the three dancers were subject to sexual harassment.
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Speaker 2: It's nine after five.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the day earli
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Speaker 2: That'd be all right, here's the moment I go for Grandpa.
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Speaker 2: I went for a walk yesterday just before the storm
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Speaker 2: came in. It was a beautiful walk. It was a
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Speaker 2: nice and warm and I saw two men working on
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Speaker 2: the most magnificent garden. So it's our main road. It's
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Speaker 2: on a slope facing the road. It's very very visible.
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Speaker 2: It's very very architectural. Nine shrubs cut into giant toperary balls.
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Speaker 2: It's amazing, the precision of the work, the dramatic mass
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Speaker 2: of box cut hedges around it, rock gardens and stairs
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Speaker 2: and concrete benches, all top off with four magnificent cypresses.
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Speaker 2: It's our work of art that we can all share.
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Speaker 2: From the road. And I caught the eye of one
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Speaker 2: of the professional gardeners, and I point it to the
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Speaker 2: gardener and gave them two thumbs up. In a chef's kiss,
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Speaker 2: and he smiled a big smile, gave me a thumbs up.
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Speaker 2: And that was a man proud of his work, a
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Speaker 2: job well done, a beautiful garden we can all enjoy.
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Speaker 2: And I do like fantastic gardens by the road. They
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Speaker 2: make a suburbs sing, don't they. It's a gift to
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Speaker 2: the community. I tend two gardens. One's a little one
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Speaker 2: and one's a big one. I've been working on them
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Speaker 2: a lot recently, getting them ready for Christmas. And if
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Speaker 2: I invited you round today, you'd say, oh, Andrew, nice garden,
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Speaker 2: and I'd be proud, and I'd be happy to make
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Speaker 2: you happy. And I say this because as I drive
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Speaker 2: to work, I drive through a state house area, an
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Speaker 2: old fashioned one, you know, with those three bedroom wooden
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Speaker 2: boxes set on grass fields. There are no plantings, there
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Speaker 2: is no garden, and the grass is often long and
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Speaker 2: uncared for. There's junk in the grass, there's cars in
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Speaker 2: the grass. There's maybe one or two lost children in
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Speaker 2: the grass. If I lived in such an environment, I
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Speaker 2: be on the booze or the gear as well. And
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Speaker 2: I have no idea why our state house areas are
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Speaker 2: so often so desolate. Why the tenants who have been
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Speaker 2: offered this lifeline take no pride in the property. You know,
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Speaker 2: if I was a state, I'd give you some tools
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Speaker 2: and say check you every six months have you done
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Speaker 2: some gardening? And check also that you haven't sold the
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Speaker 2: tools for a slab of beer. The state of your
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Speaker 2: garden is a reflection of your soul and pride and
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Speaker 2: ambition and care for the community. It can be done
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Speaker 2: very cheap, so go and do it for everybody's mental
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Speaker 2: health wellbeing. Twelve after five. I couldn't believe the story
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Speaker 2: yesterday about a local body result being thrown out over
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Speaker 2: claims of voter fraud. What country do we live in?
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Speaker 2: What country do we live in? Anyway? So what happened
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Speaker 2: in this electorate? And is there anything we can do
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Speaker 2: about it? We'll talk to the CEO of Transparency International,
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Speaker 2: New Zealand next here on Newstalks MB. It's twelve after
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Speaker 2: five on.
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Speaker 2: B All right, it is now forteen minutes after five.
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Speaker 2: There are concerns about the integrity of our elections. After
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Speaker 2: a South Auckland local body result was thrown out over
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Speaker 2: claims of voter fraud, Amnico judge found irregularities in the
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Speaker 2: Puppet Toy Toy subdivision that affected the result. That means
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Speaker 2: a new election has to be held next year. Investigators
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Speaker 2: say seventy nine votes were cast without the voter's knowledge,
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Speaker 2: some allegedly taken straight from the mailboxes. Julie Hagey as
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Speaker 2: the CEO of Transparency International New Zealand, and joins you
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Speaker 2: now goombording.
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Speaker 3: To you, Julie, good morning.
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Speaker 2: This is pretty concerning. Really, we haven't really heard much
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Speaker 2: of this sort of thing in the past.
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Speaker 3: No, that's right. I think this is a very unusual case.
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Speaker 3: There have been complaints to judges, but none's actually none
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Speaker 3: has actually resulted in a an overturning of an election
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Speaker 3: as far as I could look back, as far as
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Speaker 3: I could see, So it's it is really an unusual case.
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Speaker 3: And I have to say I haven't seen the decision
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Speaker 3: of the complaint and no charge has been laid, but
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Speaker 3: though there are two investigations underway, so I can talk
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Speaker 3: about its publicly available in the media.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, it's interesting. It's interesting when they've looked at
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Speaker 2: seventy nine votes four the four councilors who got onto
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Speaker 2: the board all got on with majorities between twelve hundred
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Speaker 2: and two thousand. Would seventy nine irregular votes actually affecting
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Speaker 2: a result?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think that what the judge said
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Speaker 3: was that there was an indication that there might be more,
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Speaker 3: and that this was just the ones they opened, and
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Speaker 3: they found that a high portion of them had been
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Speaker 3: were actually voted for the group of the group, and
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Speaker 3: so they said there's likely to be it's likely to
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Speaker 3: be a bigger problem. And so I think that's the
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Speaker 3: biggest issue. The threshold they have to get to under
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Speaker 3: the Local Literal Act, judge has to get to to
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Speaker 3: look at avoiding a result, and he got to that,
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Speaker 3: and that's that's a high threshold. So it's not it's
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Speaker 3: clearly there's a range of issues. We don't know them
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Speaker 3: all yet, but clearly there's a range of problems.
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Speaker 2: Do you recogmen, there's more electorates and more elections that
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Speaker 2: are affected by the sort of thing.
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Speaker 3: Oh well, no, I don't see evidence. We've got pretty
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Speaker 3: good systems and in this election there's been several challenges
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Speaker 3: to the district Court and quite a few of them
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Speaker 3: have been overturned because they hadn't met that three shold.
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Speaker 3: So I think there is a process for people to
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Speaker 3: go through. It probably needs in this select committee that
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Speaker 3: looked into the last local abody election, the previous local
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Speaker 3: body election, said thinks there are some changes that need
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Speaker 3: to be made the law to strengthen it and to
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Speaker 3: increase the penalties. But it does seem to be picking up.
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Speaker 3: That's a good thing about this is that a person
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Speaker 3: made the made the effort to go to make a
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Speaker 3: district court inquiry to position for that and.
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Speaker 8: Got a result.
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Speaker 3: So that's that's a good thing. There's a good thing
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Speaker 3: about our system.
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Speaker 2: Random mission. Well, I was going to say, you could
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Speaker 2: say it was caught, and you know, it was caught
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Speaker 2: and the result was thrown out and that shows in
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Speaker 2: a way that our system is working. But it was
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Speaker 2: only caught because Viv House here, who's the deputy chairman
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Speaker 2: of the board, actually had some concerns and brought the complaint.
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Speaker 2: So is the system really working or do we need
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Speaker 2: whistleblowers like Viv Well?
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Speaker 3: I think it does, it doesn't. We do need people.
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Speaker 3: Is your right to say we don't think this voting
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Speaker 3: process has been run correctly. It's not just about somebody
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Speaker 3: above that finding it out. So everybody has got to
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Speaker 3: write to do that in relation to their voter, in
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Speaker 3: relation to their who voted for them or who didn't
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Speaker 3: vote for them. They've got a right to get that.
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Speaker 3: There's there's problems with the timing. They have to get
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Speaker 3: it through very quickly, so that's a that's an issue
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Speaker 3: with timing. But it is that system does seem to
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Speaker 3: be does seem to have held up in this case,
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Speaker 3: although we now need to see the police investigations are underway.
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Speaker 3: What really matters is that if there has been malfis
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Speaker 3: what's happening here, people are actually held to account, and
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Speaker 3: that's the real nub of this. It might be harder
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Speaker 3: to prove, but I'm hopeful that the police are putting
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Speaker 3: good energy into the those investigations.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Julie Hagey, And of course I
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Speaker 2: mentioned of iv Housier. Hausier is on with Ever after
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Speaker 2: six o'clock to day to talk about what she found
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Speaker 2: and the process she went through, text through saying I've
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Speaker 2: just listened to your insults in regard to State House tenants.
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Speaker 2: Your comments were rude and ignorant and deliberately designed to
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Speaker 2: incite stereotypes and discrimination. I'm sorry, just do your gardens?
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Speaker 2: Is that too much to ask? It's five nineteen. We
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Speaker 2: have brand new ministry. It's called MSERT, needs a better name.
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Speaker 2: You can text me your ideas ninety two ninety two.
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Speaker 2: This is a big murder of the I'll tell you
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Speaker 2: more about this after the break. We're going to talk
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Speaker 2: to a FELLO from Transporting New Zealand about whether this
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Speaker 2: is a good move.
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Speaker 3: They'd be five.
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Speaker 2: Twenty one gone in other days when we're going to
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Speaker 2: have separate ministries for transport, the environment and housing, they're
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Speaker 2: all going to be merged into one mega ministry called MSERT,
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Speaker 2: the Ministry for Cities, Environment, Regions and Transport. So let's
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Speaker 2: talk to Don Callacy, who is the CEO of Transporting
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Speaker 2: New Zealand, and of course the new ministry will affect
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Speaker 2: his sector.
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Speaker 9: Hello Don, morning, Andrew.
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Speaker 2: Are you happy with this? News or is it or whatever.
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Speaker 9: I think that there is some sensibility to it. You know,
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Speaker 9: I think navigating across different ministries and agencies can be difficult,
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Speaker 9: So sometimes having less is small and ultimately transports one
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Speaker 9: part of a larger ecosystem, and so you know, taking
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Speaker 9: a more unified, connected approach does make some sense.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, transport has an awful lot of work in
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Speaker 2: front of it, the transition to electronic road user charges
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Speaker 2: and congestion pricing, and there's a whole lot of technical
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Speaker 2: work as well, and now it's being merged into one
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Speaker 2: big mega ministry where they're thinking about other stuff as well.
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Speaker 2: Are you worried that that sort of work might actually
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Speaker 2: not be done as efficiently as when you had a
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Speaker 2: dedicated ministry of transport.
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Speaker 9: I think there is a risk, and that is something
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Speaker 9: we're worried about. We've just sort of started to get
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Speaker 9: some momentum in those areas and we don't want to
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Speaker 9: lose that. But look, in terms of a mega ministry,
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Speaker 9: I had a quick look last night, and from what
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Speaker 9: I can gather, bringing those three ministries together, plus you've
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Speaker 9: got some from DIA, you're probably looking at about thirteen
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Speaker 9: hundred maybe forteen hundred people at the most. But if
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Speaker 9: you look at other agencies and ministries, mby's got about
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Speaker 9: six thousand people. MDPA has got about three thousand people.
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Speaker 9: So you know, big organizations like this there already exists,
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Speaker 9: is there, working to various degrees of success. It is
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Speaker 9: what it is, and we'll be doing everything we can
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Speaker 9: to help the new ministry.
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Speaker 2: Good Man, good commenttion. I thank you so much as
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Speaker 2: Don Calassy from transporting New Zealand's but he's quite right
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Speaker 2: about MB Okay. MB has a problem. It's a mega
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Speaker 2: ministry and nobody knows who's reporting to who. It's very messy.
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Speaker 2: So will this one be exactly the same as MB
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Speaker 2: even though it will be smaller. Remember, under this ministry
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Speaker 2: they've got RMA reform and transport reforms that we've just
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Speaker 2: heard about to get through. Do they have the capacity
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Speaker 2: to get that right? Here's the thing about though it's
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Speaker 2: not reducing the amount of ministers, nor can anyone tell
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Speaker 2: me that it automatically means a dramatic reduction in the
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Speaker 2: number of public servants and their salaries, which, of course
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Speaker 2: a lot of people are wanting right now to help
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Speaker 2: the books. As sir Brian Roach reported this week we
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Speaker 2: have a massive public service sixty two, six hundred and
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Speaker 2: fifty four staff in June of this year, compared to
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Speaker 2: sixty five six hundred ninety nine at the peak, which
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Speaker 2: is back in twenty twenty three. We've still got nearly
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Speaker 2: sixty three one thousand public servants. We've got forty three departments,
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Speaker 2: departmental agencies into departmental executive boards of various sizes and mandates,
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Speaker 2: all operating right now, more than most small advanced economies. Can.
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Speaker 2: We manage costs at the moment, Sir Brian says, no,
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Speaker 2: maintain critical capacity no, and deliver joined up services with
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Speaker 2: a system perspective.
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Speaker 7: No.
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Speaker 2: And here we are making an even bigger one. It
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Speaker 2: is five twenty four.
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Speaker 2: These Talks it B five twenty six. Well, ladies and gentlemen,
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Speaker 2: we're broke. The half year the government fiscal update shows
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Speaker 2: we're still in debt and the debt is getting bigger.
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Speaker 2: So we're broke. Not enough money, everything's more expensive, so
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Speaker 2: it's off to the money lender before the bailiffs come
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Speaker 2: in and sell everything. Sounds like a lot of households
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Speaker 2: around me. Idealy, of course we'll be in surplus. That
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Speaker 2: will mean we have raised enough money to actually pay
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Speaker 2: our way. Then we'd have more money than costs. But
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Speaker 2: we act and the possibility of that happening has got
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Speaker 2: further away. So make no misas sake. Deficit is bad,
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Speaker 2: but surplus actually that's only just okay, that's how bad
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Speaker 2: we are, and we're getting more and more into debt.
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Speaker 2: The government has a debt to GDP ratio of forty
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Speaker 2: one point eight percent. It used to be twenty nine,
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Speaker 2: and it's forecast to rise to over forty six percent
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Speaker 2: before it starts going down. But you can just say
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Speaker 2: we're broke. Simple, easy, let's put another lens on it. Though.
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Speaker 2: The New Zealand government has posted a surplus seventeen times
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Speaker 2: since nineteen eighty. That's seventeen times and forty five years.
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Speaker 2: So the government has been broken, had to run off
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Speaker 2: to the money lenders sixty two percent of the time
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Speaker 2: since nineteen eighty, being broke as our normal. And if
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Speaker 2: I applied the surplus deficit debt ratio to my own finances,
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Speaker 2: then I've been broke most of my adult life. I
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Speaker 2: mean hello, who hasn't had a debt to equity ratio
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Speaker 2: of ninety five percent in their lives. So if you
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Speaker 2: look at that at that way, it's not so bad.
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Speaker 2: And we're still on the right half of the indebted
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Speaker 2: nations list because everyone's broke. I think sometimes we're a
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Speaker 2: bit naive when we demand surpluses about just how hard
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Speaker 2: it is to do. If you listen to Stephen Joyce
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Speaker 2: on Heather's show yesterday, he said government books are hard
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Speaker 2: to turn. Like a super tanker. As he said yesterday,
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Speaker 2: it can take up to a decade to go from
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Speaker 2: deficit to surplus. But some of us think, oh, a
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Speaker 2: few public service cuts and cuts to benefits and we'll
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Speaker 2: be tickety boot. Our fiscal crisis is far more fundamental
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Speaker 2: than that, and that the problem is we don't make
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Speaker 2: enough money in this world to fix it. We need
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Speaker 2: to make more money in the world so we have
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Speaker 2: more tax revenue, so we can then afford the good
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Speaker 2: stuff and the necessary stuff, and so we don't have
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Speaker 2: to have debt. So my question to you is, what
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Speaker 2: are you doing there standing here listening to this. Get
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Speaker 2: to work, make more money, said be five twenty nine.
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Speaker 2: So I got stuck into State House gardens and I
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Speaker 2: got insulted. Graham agrees with me, though agree with your
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Speaker 2: granddad moment. If someone is good enough to have a
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Speaker 2: house for you to live in state or private, then
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Speaker 2: it's a good form to look after it and the grounds.
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Speaker 2: And unfortunately, in this modern time, a thing called entitlement,
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Speaker 2: combined with laziness and arrogance, create a whole lot of
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Speaker 2: airheaded people who like living in their own mess and
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Speaker 2: expect everybody else to clean it up. Thank you, Graham,
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Speaker 2: And Taylor says Andrew, you can make even a muddy
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Speaker 2: pig look okay if you just wash it. My partner
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Speaker 2: and I live down a cul de sac driveway. We
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Speaker 2: get out and always tidy the shared gardens on the
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Speaker 2: shared driveway. It doesn't take a lot, makes everything look better.
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Speaker 2: We even water blasted the fence for everyone. People don't
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Speaker 2: seem to have much pride in their space, Thank you, Taylor.
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Speaker 2: And that's true. Still on the way, Barbara Edmonds from Labor,
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Speaker 2: how would she run the economy better? Well, there's a
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Speaker 2: big question.
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Speaker 2: Well outside is prideful, but the fire is so delightful.
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Speaker 4: And since we've no place.
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Speaker 1: To go, it's snow.
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Speaker 10: Let it snow.
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Speaker 2: Let it still, well it does. We're sitting a cold
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Speaker 2: bunch of air coming over the country right now, but
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Speaker 2: I ain't gonna snow. I never know why we play
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Speaker 2: songs like this in New Zealand when it's summer, but
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Speaker 2: there we go. Let us know that it's no merry
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Speaker 2: Christmas to you all. So we've been a bit negative
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Speaker 2: of what with the fact that the country's broken, me
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Speaker 2: complaining about the state of state house cardens or by
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Speaker 2: the way Texas says regarding the state housing, perhaps a
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Speaker 2: competition could be instigated with a prize offered for the
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Speaker 2: best cap grounds with maybe a rent production. I think
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Speaker 2: that's great and I'd like to see the pictures. Here
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Speaker 2: is the best kept state house by a tenant, and
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Speaker 2: this person gets a month free win. How about that?
18:38
Speaker 2: I don't know anyway, So I thought you might need
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Speaker 2: some good news here some good news. The Sir Colin
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Speaker 2: Giltrap Raceway, a world class karting facility in Auckland, is
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Speaker 2: officially opening The track builds on our carting heritage because
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Speaker 2: we're so good at the karting and the track will
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Speaker 2: be opened by six car six time IndyCar Chapian Scott
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Speaker 2: Dixon fifty nine career wins first QUI to win the
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Speaker 2: Indy five hundred. Scott Dixon is in with Heather. Here's
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Speaker 2: to Sir Colin Giltrap and his family with what they've
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Speaker 2: done in terms of giving back with their money, in
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Speaker 2: terms of facilities and helping people. You know, Liam Lawson
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Speaker 2: wouldn't be anywhere without Colin, So thank you so much
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Speaker 2: to the Giltrap family for what you've done and can't
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Speaker 2: wait to see this world class carting facility in Auckland.
19:18
Speaker 2: Have more about It TV and said meanwhile, has released
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Speaker 2: what it's biggest shows were ever the year. Not surprisingly,
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Speaker 2: One News was its biggest. They reckon seventy percent of
19:28
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19:39
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20:04
Speaker 2: of nonsense. It's twenty one to six news talks 'd
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Speaker 2: be in the country. We go Callen Proctor from Motago.
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Speaker 2: Good morning to you morning Andrew. If you need urgent
20:14
Speaker 2: twenty four to seven care, You've got a new facility, Yeah,
20:18
Speaker 2: we do.
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Speaker 11: A new service opens today here in Doneda. It's the
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Speaker 11: Daneedan Urgent Doctors and Accident Center. It will give locals
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Speaker 11: round the clock healthcare support and access. It's part of
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Speaker 11: the government one hundred and sixty four million dollar investment
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Speaker 11: to improve urgent and after our services. So Danieda Miyors
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Speaker 11: Sophie Barker is happy with this. She says the region's
20:39
Speaker 11: growing population and student culture means these services are urgent,
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Speaker 11: and she says she knows from her own experience, especially
20:46
Speaker 11: from her student days waiting in A and E, and
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Speaker 11: that people need shorter wait times to receive better care.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather call it today?
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Speaker 11: Here early morning shower or two southwesterly sixteen the high.
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Speaker 2: And who can go clear shure with from christ Church?
21:01
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning. You've got a new art exhibition
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Speaker 2: to visit.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, and we do, and it's bank See. We've got
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Speaker 12: more than one hundred and fifty original artworks from the
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Speaker 12: world famous street artist on display over summer at Tipei
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Speaker 12: Convention Center here in christ Church. The exhibit has traveled
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Speaker 12: to more than twenty cities, but this is the first
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Speaker 12: time it's come to the South Island. Curator and producer
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Speaker 12: Michelle Borschma says the original flower thrower artwork will be
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Speaker 12: on show. There's also some installations that provide insight into
21:33
Speaker 12: Banksy's creative process. As a hub for street art, christ
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Speaker 12: Church is said to be the best city to host
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Speaker 12: a displayed like this. The venue has made it one
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Speaker 12: of the best versions they've done on the tour. Borschmar
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Speaker 12: says to have an over of one artist in one
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Speaker 12: space is very unique and this is what they would
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Speaker 12: consider a museum grade exhibition on tour.
21:56
Speaker 2: Now, it's quite good. I went and I bought a
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Speaker 2: T shirt when it was in Auckland. Now, how do
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Speaker 2: you weather a little bit more like winter here?
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Speaker 12: This morning We've got Shaoer's thundery bit of hail about
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Speaker 12: then turning to a heavier rain. Some southwesterlies will ease
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Speaker 12: by this evening. The high only seventeen.
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Speaker 2: Not t shirt weather Maxtell from Wellington, Good morning to
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Speaker 2: you morning. VIC University is officially AI friendly.
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Speaker 12: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: This is the annual academic ranking of world universities, also
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Speaker 8: known as the Shanghai Ranking, which has put Victoria in
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Speaker 8: the top fifty in terms of being AI friendly of
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Speaker 8: graduates being ready to work in or with AI A
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Speaker 8: Singaporean institute number one, a Chinese Uni two, Toronto three.
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Speaker 8: Apparently Vick has been making a concerted push in the
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Speaker 8: past few years to focus on AI, make sure it's
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Speaker 8: incorporated into different studies. One tech expert tolus. Companies often
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Speaker 8: have to look offshore for expertise, but that's certainly been
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Speaker 8: growing in the capital. A lot of people in the
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Speaker 8: public sector using AI more and more to positive and
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Speaker 8: negative effect. Newly created roles as well in the tertiary
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Speaker 8: sector in this country is having to respond to that demand.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather.
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Speaker 8: Another wet day with stronger southerly so cool fifteen the hay.
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Speaker 2: And I thank you. Wendy Pittrick now joins me from
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Speaker 2: AUKLANDHALLO Wendy for inner. Oh we're talking about rubbish collection.
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Speaker 7: Oh, I know it's an exciting topic, isn't it. Rubbish
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Speaker 7: Auckland a council is trashing a plan to trial a
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Speaker 7: fortnightly rubbish collection, but the idea hasn't been removed from
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Speaker 7: the picture now. The trial would have included ten thousand
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Speaker 7: households in Tiata two Peninsula, Palma, Tamakie, Clinton Park and Weymouth.
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Speaker 7: Of the more than five thousand submissions, seventy eight percent
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Speaker 7: actually opposed trialing a fortnightly rubbish collection. Councilor Daniel Newman
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Speaker 7: says the possibility of fortnite collection lives on in the
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Speaker 7: current waste management minimization plan. He says he and other
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Speaker 7: counselors will try to permanently move the region to a
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Speaker 7: weekly service next year. So I guess we'll just have
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Speaker 7: to wait.
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Speaker 2: Do you fill your rubbish bin every week?
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Speaker 7: Well? I yes, I do.
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Speaker 2: Actually no, we're about free court. We're about seventy five percent.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes We've got a low rubbish week where it's only fifty,
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Speaker 2: but other times we're packed, I know, so every fortnight
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Speaker 2: I think we'd be spilling out.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I admire people that do manage to
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Speaker 7: have hardly any rubbish. So we do try.
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Speaker 2: Orkan's weather.
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Speaker 7: Oh wow, looking at a few cloudy periods with a
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Speaker 7: few showers today, mainly in the morning, though southwesterlyis will
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Speaker 7: be strong in the afternoon. Heading for twenty degrees and.
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Speaker 2: I thank you. It is seventeen minutes to six still
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Speaker 2: to come. Before six o'clock. We are talking with Barbara Edmunds,
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Speaker 2: of course, the finance spokesperson for the Labor Party, about
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Speaker 2: what she would do differently. Could she really do anything differently?
24:34
Speaker 2: Craig sent me a text, Andrew, why doesn't Barbara Edmonds
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Speaker 2: also take responsibility for our government running deficits. She needs
24:40
Speaker 2: to remember the borrowing and spending that Labor did when
24:42
Speaker 2: they were in government. They spent like drunken sailors. And
24:45
Speaker 2: this is also the recent our economy is in such
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Speaker 2: a state. And then there's four exclamation marks. But as
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Speaker 2: I put it out, Craig, in the last forty five years,
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Speaker 2: who only ever had seventeen surpluses. We've always been spending
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Speaker 2: like drunken sailors. It's just that labour's bit more anyway.
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Speaker 2: Barbara is here very shortly, but nixt Gavin Gray from
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Speaker 2: the UK.
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Speaker 1: International correspondence with Insigne Eye Insurance Peace of Mind for
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Speaker 1: New Zealand business.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it's now forteen minutes to sixth to the UK
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Speaker 2: with Gavin greg Good morning to you hither and so
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Speaker 2: what's happened to the bloke who uses car as a
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Speaker 2: whip and he plowed into more than one hundred and
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Speaker 2: thirty people at Liverpool's football club's victory parade.
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Speaker 4: Yes, back in twenty six of May. This was a
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Speaker 4: fifty four year old former Royal Marine was sitting in
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Speaker 4: doc and showed no emotion. Was He was sentenced and
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Speaker 4: jailed for twenty one years and six months. He plowed
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Speaker 4: his vehicle into more than one hundred and thirty people
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Speaker 4: at the victory parade. He admitted thirty one charges, including
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Speaker 4: causing grievous bodily harm with intent and dangerous driving and
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Speaker 4: a fray. The victims ranged from a six month old
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Speaker 4: baby to a seventy seven year old woman. Now, the
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Speaker 4: judge and the caught her that the married father of
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Speaker 4: three was traveling into the city center to collect friends
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Speaker 4: from that parade when he lost his temper and then
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Speaker 4: drove his forward Galaxy car directly into supporters dashcom footage
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Speaker 4: was played in court. It was horrendous. It accelerated down
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Speaker 4: Water Street, which had been closed for traffic, and in
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Speaker 4: the footage it can be heard shouting move, move and
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Speaker 4: swearing at the crowd, including after he hit a ten
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Speaker 4: year old girl who when no defects in the car.
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Speaker 4: He was not under the influence of drink or drugs
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Speaker 4: and only recently changed his plea.
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Speaker 2: So he didn't get angry at the Liverpool team, did he?
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Speaker 2: He got angry just because the parade was in his way.
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Speaker 4: I just think, you know, he just that was never
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Speaker 4: really clearly explained in the court. He just got angry
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Speaker 4: and the red miss came down and then for some
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Speaker 4: reason cloud into the crowd.
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Speaker 2: Oh right, speaking of angry Donald Trump versus the BBC.
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Speaker 4: Yes, this could be an expensive few months for the BBC.
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Speaker 4: He has now launched a five billion US dollar so
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Speaker 4: that's roughly eight billion New Zealand dollar lawsuit filed by
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Speaker 4: him because of an edit over his speech January twenty
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Speaker 4: twenty one. Now that was ahead of the twenty twenty
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Speaker 4: four US election, and it was on the day that
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Speaker 4: there were riots at the US Capitol. So in full,
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Speaker 4: he basically says, look, they cheated the BBC. A change
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Speaker 4: the words that came out of his mouth. What came
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Speaker 4: out of his mouth Andrew was quote, We're going to
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Speaker 4: walk down to the Capitol and we're going to cheer
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Speaker 4: on our brave senators and congressmen and women. Fifty minutes
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Speaker 4: later he said, and we fight, We fight like hell.
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Speaker 4: But the Panorama documentary program by the BBC showed a
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Speaker 4: clip with him which connected the two in this way.
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Speaker 4: It said We're going to walk down to the Capitol,
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Speaker 4: I'll be there with you, and we fight. We fight
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Speaker 4: like hell, making it seem like he was, of course
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Speaker 4: promoting or inviting people to fight, which he says that
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Speaker 4: absolutely is not his intention. So this very expensive lawsuit,
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Speaker 4: the BBC say they will defend. They said there was
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Speaker 4: no malice in the edit and that he was reelected
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Speaker 4: shortly after. They had a whole load of excuses. We'll
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Speaker 4: wait to see where this leaves for the BBC.
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Speaker 2: They have to defend it. It's their entire name and honor,
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Speaker 2: and I Thankgavin Gray from the UK. By the way,
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Speaker 2: I just want to mention the couple in the dash
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Speaker 2: cam footage out of Bandai who were killed trying to
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Speaker 2: fight off the Bondai shooter. They've been identified as Boris
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Speaker 2: and Sofia German. The footage you may have seen it
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Speaker 2: shows the moment that Boris tackled the shooter, said Akram
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Speaker 2: wrestled the gun from him, but it was all for
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Speaker 2: nothing because the second gunman killed Boris and Sofia in
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Speaker 2: cold blood. We don't have one hero on this day.
28:42
Speaker 2: We've certainly have three, and we probably have more. It
28:44
Speaker 2: is now ten to.
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Speaker 1: Six News Talk Siddy.
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Speaker 2: All right, We've got the treasuries half year scorecard yesterday.
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Speaker 2: It's not pretty. The government's books are worse than expected.
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Speaker 2: The surplus timeline has been pushed back a bit to
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Speaker 2: twenty nine thirty. That's back a year. The deficit blows
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Speaker 2: out to nearly fourteen billion dollars, one point eight billion
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Speaker 2: worse than back in May. So Nichola Wis was quick
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Speaker 2: to defend herself.
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Speaker 13: We had the receipts and unfortunately for labor having opposed
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Speaker 13: every saving that we have delivered. They cannot take a
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Speaker 13: position of responsible fiscal management.
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Speaker 2: So Labor's economics spokesperson Barbara Vans is with us. Hello Barbara,
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Speaker 2: good morning Andrew. What do you say to what Nicholas said?
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Speaker 5: Oh, of course she's attacking Labor. She's also attacking the
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Speaker 5: taxpayer union, who also said the books have gotten worse.
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Speaker 5: The alternative is is she would have to defend her books.
29:39
Speaker 5: And as you've said, what can we already know? Christopher
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Speaker 5: Luxe and Nicholas have made things harder?
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Speaker 2: Would you have made things better?
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Speaker 5: Absolutely? If you looked at what we had in the
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Speaker 5: pre election fiscal updates, we would have been in surplus
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Speaker 5: in twenty six twenty seven. But the books don't lie.
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Speaker 5: I mean ultimately, unemployed mom is forecast to get worse.
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Speaker 5: Growth as weaker than expected, and food prices continue to
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Speaker 5: go up, you know, basics like bread is fifty three
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Speaker 5: percent higher over the last year.
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Speaker 2: And what would you as a government do to actually
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Speaker 2: change that? Would you cut spending? How would you cut spending?
30:16
Speaker 2: Would you cut spending?
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Speaker 5: Well, ultimately, we told them that the tax cuts were unaffordable.
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Speaker 5: In the twenty three election, also it's all about choices.
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Speaker 5: They've decided to spend money on property speculator.
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Speaker 2: Hold on, holda notice. Barbara I said, would you cut
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Speaker 2: spending and then you started talking about the tax cuts,
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Speaker 2: which is about tax we'll get onto that later. Would
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Speaker 2: you reduce the amount that that any government, if you
30:39
Speaker 2: were running it spends.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so that's what the forecast did show the pre
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Speaker 5: Food twenty twenty three. We'd also gone through a consolidation
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Speaker 5: as well.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so you've met it already. Of course, the tax cuts,
30:52
Speaker 2: the moving of the thresholds, you obviously would not have
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Speaker 2: done that, So that means you would have had higher
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Speaker 2: taxes than national currently has. Would you have increased taxes?
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Speaker 5: We would have kept on the same track that we
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Speaker 5: had had in twenty twenty three. That was our plan
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Speaker 5: back at the election. Ultimately, it all comes down to choices,
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Speaker 5: and they've chosen to give funding to things that don't
31:17
Speaker 5: help everyday kiwis like with the cost of living.
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Speaker 2: Okay. In the high food the cost of superannuation payments
31:23
Speaker 2: is projected to increase from twenty four point eight billion
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Speaker 2: in twenty five twenty six to thirty point nine billion
31:29
Speaker 2: and twenty nine thirty. All economists say this is the
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Speaker 2: biggest spending driver. Would you cut super.
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Speaker 5: No, We've said we'd keep it at sixty five, and
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Speaker 5: that's something that every party would need to take to
31:41
Speaker 5: the election as well. New Zealanders want to be able
31:45
Speaker 5: to plan for their retirement. Of course, obviously superannuation is
31:48
Speaker 5: part of that. Housing as part of that, qui saver,
31:51
Speaker 5: as part of that.
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Speaker 2: Okay, well, how about this one, Working for families tax credits.
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Speaker 2: If you abolish those, you could save three billion in
31:58
Speaker 2: twenty five to twenty six, or nearly fifteen billion over
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Speaker 2: the forecast period. So would you cut working for families
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Speaker 2: tax credits?
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Speaker 5: No, because we know right now it's really difficult for
32:08
Speaker 5: a lot of families and they depend on their weekly
32:12
Speaker 5: Working for families will be work working for families every week.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So how exactly would you reduce the cost of living,
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Speaker 2: which is about the only meta you've said you do
32:22
Speaker 2: so far. How would you do that?
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Speaker 5: So we'll set out much more of our cost of
32:27
Speaker 5: living plan and next year as part of the election.
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Speaker 5: But we're also so far already announced, for example, that
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Speaker 5: we would look at providing three free GP visits for
32:37
Speaker 5: people coming out all.
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Speaker 2: Right, thank you, Barbara. Barbara Edmonds is ladies for that spokesperson.
32:41
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Speaker 2: Albert Reckons. No substance in what are you saying? Just slogans?
32:58
Speaker 2: I agree. I asked this some quite specific questions, no answers.
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Speaker 10: Hello, Heather, how about how about I turn on that
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Speaker 10: microphone there?
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Speaker 2: You're getting pretty flash at this job. Forgot the basics,
33:10
Speaker 2: but you know what it is.
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Speaker 10: It's because we all have to give ourselves, cut ourselves
33:13
Speaker 10: a little bit of slack. This is the Wednesday before Christmas.
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Speaker 2: Like you've got three more days to work. Yeah, you're starting.
33:21
Speaker 10: You don't want to be winding down, but your body's
33:23
Speaker 10: running out.
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Speaker 2: And then a house Barbara, and she said, what will
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Speaker 2: the announce some stuff close into the election, And I thought,
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Speaker 2: I wought do matter?
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Speaker 10: Is this bad has frustrated to you?
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Speaker 2: Has she?
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Speaker 7: Oh?
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Speaker 2: Yes, of course. Yeah.
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Speaker 10: Well they're between a rock and a hard place, aren't they,
33:33
Speaker 10: Because they have absolutely no economic credibility, but they have
33:37
Speaker 10: and we have absolutely no money, but they want to spend.
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Speaker 2: We have no money and this matter, whether it's National
33:42
Speaker 2: or Labor, we haven't. As I told you this morning,
33:44
Speaker 2: We've only had seventeen services.
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Speaker 10: He is an outrageous idea for you. Do you think
33:50
Speaker 10: Nikola Willis should have been a Labor Party finance minister?
33:53
Speaker 10: She could be anybody be quite credible as a Labor
33:56
Speaker 10: Party final Piari as well.
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Speaker 2: She's a bit flannelly as.
33:59
Speaker 10: Well, loves to spend.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, very good. All right here that's next. My thanks
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Speaker 2: to producer Kenzie. Yeah, I'll see you tomorrow. By about
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Speaker 2: now this morning, thought i'd write it, Chris Smash, how
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Speaker 2: quickly can you build this?
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Speaker 7: Morment? Thank be.
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