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Full Show Podcast: 29 July 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickets on
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Speaker 2: There'd be a very good morning, a very chilly morning
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Speaker 2: to you. I'm Andrew Dickinson here for an hour and
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Speaker 2: coming up. No bird flu for a week. However, the
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Speaker 2: rules are getting tighter. What are we doing. We've got
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Speaker 2: the Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard in about five minutes, supercars,
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Speaker 2: big windfall for Topov or more can that town do?
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Speaker 2: And what's happening next year? We'll do that in ten
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Speaker 2: and the government tweaks the RS scheme for seasonal workers.
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Speaker 2: What are the changes and how are the employers feeling.
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Speaker 2: That's just before six. We'll go to the UK with
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Speaker 2: Gavin Gray. We've got reporters from right around New Zealand
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Speaker 2: and news as it breaks and you can have your
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Speaker 2: say on the text. Ninety two ninety two is the number.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: And so it's Wednesday, the twenty ninth of July and
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Speaker 2: a major earthquake has rock Japan. Several people are dead.
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Speaker 2: There are fears that is about twenty or thirty guys
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Speaker 2: who are trapped in So I had a shopping mall.
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Speaker 2: This is in the town of Kumamoto. Elsewhere, people are
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Speaker 2: also reported missing after a paper factory chimney collapsed.
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Speaker 3: We are still assessing the extent of casualties and property damage,
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Speaker 3: but we have already received reports of people being injured.
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Speaker 3: There are also areas experiencing power outages and fires, as
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Speaker 3: well as damage to roads and bridges and the collapse
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Speaker 3: of buildings. Above all, I ask everyone to take action
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Speaker 3: to protect themselves, including evacuating to a safe place.
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Speaker 2: The earthquake was about six point eight on the Richter scale.
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Speaker 2: Now to the White House, it's been busy and Donald
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Speaker 2: Trump's been meeting with Ukrainian prison Vladimir Zelinsky. Patriot missiles
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Speaker 2: is what they're talking about.
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Speaker 4: He says that two leaders discussed licenses for Patriot interceptor
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Speaker 4: production as well as diplomacy, and he added it's important
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Speaker 4: that the diplomatic process be reinvigorated, and their teams will
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Speaker 4: arrange the details of their further communication.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, being to Vignitnya who he's also in town and
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Speaker 2: he had a weird Now. Trump has taken issue with
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Speaker 2: Benjamin Nettina, who's claims about an alleged US strike on
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Speaker 2: Iran's pick X Mountain.
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Speaker 4: No I heard BB announced that.
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Speaker 5: I said, why didn't you just tell them to me?
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Speaker 6: Why do you have to announce it to the world.
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Speaker 6: I know exactly what's going on at Pickaxe.
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Speaker 7: It's not a big problem.
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Speaker 5: We took out their nuclear sights, and we'll.
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Speaker 8: Have to take out Pickaxe if we don't make a deal.
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Speaker 2: Oh the name. Now both leaders are in Washington, and
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Speaker 2: so they're going to Senator Lindsey Graham's funeral, which is
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Speaker 2: happening as we speak to The memorial service has been
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Speaker 2: underway at Capitol Hill.
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Speaker 4: J d.
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Speaker 2: Vance has already paid his respects.
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Speaker 9: And when he walked into the Senate, this was a
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Speaker 9: guy who couldn't have stood more than five foot six
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Speaker 9: or five foot seven, but he's swashed buckle in with
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Speaker 9: his jacket open like he was six foot five. He
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Speaker 9: had an attitude to him, and it's one of the
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Speaker 9: reasons why Lindsay Graham was Lindsay Graham. But he would
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Speaker 9: walk into the United States Senate and he would slap
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Speaker 9: you on the back, He would greet the person who
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Speaker 9: served his food. He treated everybody the same.
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Speaker 2: Never forget. Jeddy Varns has written a book and he
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Speaker 2: knows how to write a speech. And it is ten
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Speaker 2: after five.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Andrew
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Speaker 2: Be well, this is a juicy story. Yesterday Allegedly we
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Speaker 2: have a spy in Russia. Apparently he approached US and
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Speaker 2: allegedly provided information against Russia for New Zealand, New Zealand
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Speaker 2: spying against Russia. Russia mentioned New Zealand by name, but
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Speaker 2: also remember they mentioned Five Eyes, which we're part of.
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Speaker 2: So that shows, hey, even if we had no real
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Speaker 2: part in all of this, in our association with Five Eyes,
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Speaker 2: along with the US and the UK and Australia and
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Speaker 2: Canada means well, actually I think we're low lying fruit
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Speaker 2: that Russia can actually strike against easily. They can mention
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Speaker 2: us a whole lot easier than talking about the US
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Speaker 2: and the UK. There is the price, though, of the
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Speaker 2: new geopolitical reality. We need to be part of this thing.
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Speaker 2: The world is drawing up sides. We need to be
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Speaker 2: part of that, and from time to time we need
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Speaker 2: to bear the costs, like being accused of running some spies.
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Speaker 2: But the video of the arrest is also interesting in
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Speaker 2: the way it's been publicized for multiple audiences, not just
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Speaker 2: for US, but for the Russians as well, and Robert
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Speaker 2: Patman and other analysts in New Zealand say that message
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Speaker 2: is actually more too domestic citizens of Russia. That's showing
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Speaker 2: you this is what happens to you if you spy.
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Speaker 2: This is Russia protecting you against unfriendly states. That's what
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Speaker 2: Russia and Putin are saying to their people. Even our
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Speaker 2: own Sis say they're taking it with a grain of salt.
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Speaker 2: They also say that Russian media is not the most
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Speaker 2: reliable source of accurate reporting. So overall we're not too
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Speaker 2: worried about this accusation that we have a spy. But
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Speaker 2: through all of it, I can't help but feel for
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Speaker 2: that Russian guy who we saw on the telly being
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Speaker 2: thrown down to the ground, a Russian guy preparing to
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Speaker 2: rot in a Russian jail, a patsy in some sort
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Speaker 2: of international pantomime. And then I think at one hundreds
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Speaker 2: of of dead Russian boys in Ukrainian fields who lie
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Speaker 2: there on behest of a state who seems to have
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Speaker 2: no care for the individual, and then I thank God
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Speaker 2: or any God who's listening that I have lived my
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Speaker 2: life in New Zealand protected from a state that has
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Speaker 2: such negligent disregard for human life z B twelve after five.
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Speaker 2: Remember the big big story a week ago was bertflu
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Speaker 2: bertflu bird flu. All our native birds are about to die.
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Speaker 2: But guess what, we haven't had a case for a week.
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Speaker 2: So what's the situation we've got The Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard,
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Speaker 2: he's with me.
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Speaker 2: It's fourteen minutes after five to the bird flu. Government
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Speaker 2: is tightening up the rules for poultry farmers ahead of
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Speaker 2: what they're saying will be a mass bird flu outbreak.
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Speaker 2: Any farm with over one hundred are going to have
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Speaker 2: to submit a contingency plan to MPI. It has to
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Speaker 2: outline how they would safely and humanly cull their stock
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Speaker 2: if it was to get infected. Andrew Hoggart is the
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Speaker 2: Biosecurity Minister of the man in charge of doing all
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Speaker 2: of this and joins me. Now Hello, Andrew, Come on,
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Speaker 2: been a week since the last case. Is that because
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Speaker 2: we haven't found them, or perhaps it's not as widespread
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Speaker 2: as we thought.
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Speaker 7: Well, I don't want to kiss, but you know, we're
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Speaker 7: getting about one thousand. We've had about a thousand notifications
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Speaker 7: and been out checking impure staff being out looking along
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Speaker 7: beaches and other places where they think birds may have
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Speaker 7: could have shown up where the last two have been
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Speaker 7: in no sign yet. So look, it may have just
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Speaker 7: been a weather pattern or something like that that forced
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Speaker 7: a few up. Expectation though, is if they're obviously making
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Speaker 7: it to us in Australia, they've moved around the Antarctica,
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Speaker 7: so we can probably expect more in spring.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so we've got to come up with a plan.
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Speaker 2: So you've released the new rules. What are they trying
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Speaker 2: to achieve?
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Speaker 7: So basically it's about lifting the biosecurity on each farm
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Speaker 7: and making sure people are really looking at how can
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Speaker 7: they prevent wildlife getting into the farm and infecting their birds.
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Speaker 7: And then if there was an infection, what are the
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Speaker 7: steps you're going to take? The quickly depopulate the shed
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Speaker 7: and sterilear clean everything before repopulation, because if you sort
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Speaker 7: of just leave a whole dimess of birds and that
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Speaker 7: creates a risk for more spread and potentially other farms
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Speaker 7: getting infected. We have been working, you know, we've had
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Speaker 7: developed with the industry a bi security plan template last
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Speaker 7: year and have had the offer to farmers with MPI
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Speaker 7: on Farm Support to help put these plans together. So
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Speaker 7: we're there to help and have run around rung around
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Speaker 7: all of the smaller scale producers in the last week
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Speaker 7: restating that offer and following up those that are keen
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Speaker 7: to get that help.
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Speaker 2: But how much of a job, how much of how
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Speaker 2: much work is this going to bean for the farmers,
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Speaker 2: I mean, how many hours are going to take them
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Speaker 2: to count with this contingency plan.
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Speaker 7: Well, most of them will already have most of them
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Speaker 7: measures in place in terms of or at least have
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Speaker 7: protocols and all the rest of it in place. And
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Speaker 7: that's why you know, half of them, most farms of
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Speaker 7: visit it already have a lot of the stuff in place,
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Speaker 7: and that's why we've put that offer a support out there.
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Speaker 7: You know, at the worst case scenario, someone's got absolutely
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Speaker 7: nothing in place. You're possibly looking at, you know, a
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Speaker 7: good week stuck in the office writing stuff, but again
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Speaker 7: will help with sorting that out. But I don't I
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Speaker 7: think most people have got a lot of the stuff together,
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Speaker 7: of course, and worthy to help.
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Speaker 2: Having this sort of stuff ready to go. I mean
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Speaker 2: that's part of the job, really, isn't it. I mean
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Speaker 2: if it was, if it wasn't bird flu, it might
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Speaker 2: be something else. This is something that most responsible farmers
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Speaker 2: they've already got on top of.
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Speaker 7: They Yeah, look, most of the poultry farm well, all
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Speaker 7: of the poultry farms I've visited, it's far more stringent
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Speaker 7: by security measures than what exists on my dairy farm.
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Speaker 7: So anyone can sort of rock up to my dairy
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Speaker 7: farm and wander on in, whereas with the poultry farms
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Speaker 7: you've got to sign and there's often locked gates, there's
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Speaker 7: and quite frankly that I'm just not going to accept
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Speaker 7: anyone that rocks up the standard practices. Hey, if you've
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Speaker 7: been anywhere near any other birds forty eight hours, you're
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Speaker 7: not allowed on that property. So the ones I've visited
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Speaker 7: really good levels of by security already. It's just about
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Speaker 7: making sure everyone's up to that similar type level.
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Speaker 2: Very good, May I good luck continue Andrew Hoggard as
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Speaker 2: to buy a security minister. Thank you for your time.
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Speaker 2: It is eighteen minutes after five, and good morning to
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Speaker 2: the truck farmers this morning, and good morning to all
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Speaker 2: the farmers. Also, good morning to the ships at sea.
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Speaker 2: And yes it's cold, it's three in or Organ can't
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Speaker 2: cope with that sort of weather. I can tell you
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Speaker 2: beautiful in the Central North Island right now people are
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Speaker 2: skiing on Fucker Papa and they're celebrating in Topol after
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Speaker 2: the supercars. That story's next.
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Speaker 2: I told you that awkwinders are freaking out of the cold.
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Speaker 2: I've just had a text. Good boarding. Apparently it's zero
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Speaker 2: in the Mackenzie Hills in Helensville. And good morning to
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Speaker 2: you and thank you for listening to the program. Now,
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Speaker 2: Supercar weeken was a cracker for Topol. Visitors to the
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Speaker 2: city apparently spent seven point nine million dollars. That was
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Speaker 2: despite the fact there was a big old cycone. Remember
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Speaker 2: that via ANNU which caused disruptions to the schedule. So
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Speaker 2: Steve Giles is the event's venue and venues manager for
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Speaker 2: Topul District Council and joinsing now, Steve, congratulations, big event.
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Speaker 6: Thank you Andrew one of we'll be on this morning.
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Speaker 6: And look it was. It was a fantastic It wouldn't
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Speaker 6: weekend and easily mentioned against the backdrop of a cyclone
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Speaker 6: to still get those results.
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Speaker 2: Well, could it have been even bigger if Ione who
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Speaker 2: hadn't naturally decided to pop in and pay a visit.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Look, I think slightly. Obviously we didn't deliver the Sunday,
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Speaker 6: but we take the ones out of that. We're the
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Speaker 6: first day of host city to deliver supercars over two
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Speaker 6: weekends because we're snuck in a race down in christ Church. Look,
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Speaker 6: I think probably the numbers would have held firm anyway,
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Speaker 6: the visitors were in town, and I think people did
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Speaker 6: listen to the national advice about hunkering down and staying
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Speaker 6: in town. So, in a perverse kind of way, while
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Speaker 6: we didn't race, and that was really disappointing, we didn't
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Speaker 6: lose that visitation that had really arrived in total, So.
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Speaker 2: It's eight million out of supercars Funnily enough, if the
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Speaker 2: iron Man weekend, which is another one of your big events,
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Speaker 2: that's also an eight million dollars weekend. So those are good,
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Speaker 2: but you'd like some more, wouldn't you.
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Speaker 6: Well, absolutely definitely, and look about extending summer too. You know,
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Speaker 6: we want events ideally that fall and May and June
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Speaker 6: nar are soft months from an economy perspective in Topor,
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Speaker 6: so anything we can push into those. But yeah, it's
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Speaker 6: pretty hard to swim in the lake in May and June.
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Speaker 2: So what do you guys do around New Years? And
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Speaker 2: I say this because I don't know if you've heard,
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Speaker 2: Rhythm and Vines is on the move and they are
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Speaker 2: looking for a new venue and they want a venue
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Speaker 2: where people can camp, and you've got a race course
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Speaker 2: because people already camp for the civicars. What would you
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Speaker 2: like to say to the organizers of Rhythm and Vines
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Speaker 2: who might be looking for you for New Years?
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Speaker 9: Oh?
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Speaker 6: Hey, look, Topal's open for any new business. So most
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Speaker 6: definitely happy to have a conversation in that space. In
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Speaker 6: saying that, we are very lucky Alcurrence have a homegrown
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Speaker 6: event from Trademark that arrived in Topo a few years back.
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Speaker 6: Now is really starting to find it's home. And I
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Speaker 6: guess that's always been brilliant for us, because it's been
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Speaker 6: a couple of days before Rhythm and Vines. We've managed
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Speaker 6: to sort of draw in that Auckland crowd as they
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Speaker 6: make their wound down by Gibbon. So hey, look, if
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Speaker 6: it moved somewhere else, as long as it was still
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Speaker 6: on that sort of pathway for us, we'd be happy
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Speaker 6: with that too.
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Speaker 2: All right, Steve, good luck going forward. And can you
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Speaker 2: just express to Tope on my condolences because your former
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Speaker 2: mayor David Tauaas died suddenly yesterday, So that was a
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Speaker 2: sad piece of news.
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Speaker 6: A thank you, our look at was a tough day
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Speaker 6: for the team yesterday. Someone I work really closely with
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Speaker 6: for well over a decade. So yeah, condolences and we'll
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Speaker 6: certainly pass those onto the fam.
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Speaker 2: Okay, buddy, thank you so much. Yes, David was sixty
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Speaker 2: three years old. I interviewed him last summer and he
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Speaker 2: was fantastic for the summer breakfast. He was just great.
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Speaker 2: But death came suddenly. I think he had grandkids and
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Speaker 2: I think, yeah, he had a well lived life. Used
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Speaker 2: to be in retail for forty years any way, on
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Speaker 2: the way Gavin Gray out of the UK just to
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Speaker 2: run through the world. At the moment, the war is
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Speaker 2: in limbo, which is interesting in itself. Oil prices are
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Speaker 2: going down, okay, net and Yahoo and Zelenski have visited
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Speaker 2: the White House and there's been a big earthquake in
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Speaker 2: Japan and there are people trapped in a shopping mall.
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Speaker 2: News talks that be five twenty six. Took a while
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Speaker 2: for the Commonwealth Games to get going, but yesterday they
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Speaker 2: finally did. Lewis Claibert took gold in the two hundred
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Speaker 2: meters butterfly in an insane burst over the last fifty meters.
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Speaker 2: You've got to watch it. He's incredible a race he
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Speaker 2: even he caught stupid. There we go, but he won
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Speaker 2: and that's a great feeling for the nation because no
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Speaker 2: disrespect to the earlier medalists. It's gold that gets us going.
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Speaker 2: And it's been a funny Old common Games thus far
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Speaker 2: because no gold, but also it's a scaled down replacement event.
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Speaker 2: After Victoria lost their bottle and canceled their games and
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Speaker 2: Glasgow said, okay, we'll have a crack. And it's been
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Speaker 2: plagued by no shows from high performance athletes who thought
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Speaker 2: it beneath their participation. But I've always liked the Commonwealth Games.
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Speaker 2: It's a good meet. To win at the Commonwealth Games
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Speaker 2: still supersedes any win in a national competition. To be
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Speaker 2: the best swimmer from amongst nations like Australia or England
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Speaker 2: or any of the other seventy four nations present is
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Speaker 2: a big thing. By the way, this is a record
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Speaker 2: attendance of countries now when Christier is hosted. Back in
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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy four, they were called the Friendly Games. And
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Speaker 2: I've been watching these games on TV three and also
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Speaker 2: on Sky with the crowd goes wild, team right, and
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Speaker 2: they've got that vibe of the Friendly Games. They celebrate
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Speaker 2: the great, they celebrate the sport, but also the wacky,
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Speaker 2: the looser, the fun aspects of the games. Their tongues
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Speaker 2: are firmly in their cheeks. It's a good watch. And
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Speaker 2: the reason it's a good watch at seven o'clock at night,
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Speaker 2: it's a healthy antidote to their cynical and world weary
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Speaker 2: news we get day in and day out from a
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Speaker 2: globe mired and difficulty zibby now Lewis Clarebert has a
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Speaker 2: chance to do it all again this morning in the
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Speaker 2: four hundred meters individual medley. That's where he's going to do,
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Speaker 2: you know, one hundred of each of the four different strokes.
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Speaker 2: You've got to be go real all round it. He
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Speaker 2: is the Commonwealth record holder, he set that record when
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Speaker 2: he won Commonwealth gold four years ago. He is the favorite,
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Speaker 2: so he might have a second Goldy Lewis is swimming
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Speaker 2: at six forty seven this morning, thirteen minutes to seven
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Speaker 2: this morning. Zoe Hobbs, by the way, is in the
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Speaker 2: one hundred meters and that's happening at six thirty six
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Speaker 2: in the morning. But you won't be watching that because
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Speaker 2: you'll be listening to Mike Hosking now on the way. Yes,
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Speaker 2: Gavin Gray out of the UK and there's been well,
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Speaker 2: they're very sensitive after the murder of Anne Whittacombe, and
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Speaker 2: obviously so because there are some crazy people in the
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Speaker 2: UK and the rhetoric is pretty strong, and Nigel Farage
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Speaker 2: has become a sensitive person as well. This is after
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Speaker 2: a guy from the Green Party wore a T shirt
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Speaker 2: which featured the name Nigel and besides it was a
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Speaker 2: image of a Gither team, so Nigel Farage has said,
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Speaker 2: right I'm not taking that and so there's all sorts
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Speaker 2: of argibargi going on about that, but rightfully, so can
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Speaker 2: I just say what happened the other day with Paul Henry,
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Speaker 2: you know they mentioned death and politicians and of course
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Speaker 2: Aisha got all upset about it. So you can't do
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Speaker 2: that right now because of what's happening in the UK.
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Speaker 2: But he is Nigel getting upset about a T shirt,
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Speaker 2: you know, because it's real at the moment. Who would
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Speaker 2: be a politicians at the moment. There's all sorts of
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Speaker 2: crazies out there, so maybe we just need to be
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Speaker 2: the grown ups in the room and not Pope the bear,
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Speaker 2: if you know what I mean. So anyway, Gavin Gray
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Speaker 2: from the UK on the way, we'll also go right
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Speaker 2: around the country. You've got an early edition with me
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the program. Ryan's back with you from Monday.
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Speaker 2: I'm here to the end of the week. Here's a text.
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Speaker 2: I'm in hospital. I'm loving the Commonwealth games on all night,
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Speaker 2: which has been marvelous, helping pass the night. Hope you
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Speaker 2: get well soon. But yeah, hey, how about that crowd
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Speaker 2: for Ryan Fox yesterday downtown in Auckland. An amazing crowd,
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Speaker 2: huge crowd. And how good has Ryan Fox been over
18:18
Speaker 2: this period of time. He's just been Foxy has been
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Speaker 2: on fire and coming straight home so he can give
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Speaker 2: the New Zealanders a chance to say thank you and
18:25
Speaker 2: wow and all that. And Grant Fox of course, his dad,
18:28
Speaker 2: who I went to school with. I mean, he must
18:29
Speaker 2: be as proud as punch. Ryan Fox was proving himself
18:32
Speaker 2: to be a really good man with a really good
18:35
Speaker 2: high skill set. And I hope he continues with this
18:38
Speaker 2: great run and to continue with great news. I went
18:41
Speaker 2: to the Odyssey, and the Odyssey, of course is dominating
18:44
Speaker 2: the box office world wide. Is it any good? Yes, Brian,
18:48
Speaker 2: I went to Imax. The theater was full. It's very loud.
18:53
Speaker 2: I actually took along some earplugs for Helen just to say, look,
18:58
Speaker 2: it's very loud. It is very loud. It's over hundred decibelds. Apparently.
19:01
Speaker 2: Here's a cheap note for you. The Trojan Horse is
19:04
Speaker 2: a Bronze Age equivalent of the atomic bomb, and that's
19:08
Speaker 2: when you start seeing the similarities with Oppenheimer. And this
19:11
Speaker 2: film is all about what happens when politeness leaves civilization.
19:14
Speaker 2: So there's a message for you. But of course you
19:16
Speaker 2: can just sit back and enjoy the cyclops and the
19:17
Speaker 2: sauce arrests who turns men into pigs. It's a very
19:20
Speaker 2: impressive film and it stars Tom Holland and Zendaya and
19:23
Speaker 2: they're about to have another big old juggernaut coming out
19:26
Speaker 2: this Friday, spider Man Brand New Day. It is Tom's
19:30
Speaker 2: fourth outing as Peter Parker, first one since twenty twenty
19:33
Speaker 2: One's been five years. It's a Spider Man movie. Early
19:36
Speaker 2: reactions from the premiere on Monday. The action sequences are
19:40
Speaker 2: amazing and Tom Holland's on fire. It is twenty two
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Speaker 2: to five us dogs be had around the country. We
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Speaker 2: go to Dunedin and Callen Proctor. Good morning to you morning, Andrew.
19:49
Speaker 2: We all know the flood risks for Dunedin, particularly Dunedan South,
19:54
Speaker 2: So how is this going to affect property owners?
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Speaker 10: Well, they may have to start paying paying more as
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Speaker 10: far as their rates are concerned, those especially in the
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Speaker 10: Otaga Reginal Council catchment. The original council wanting to make
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Speaker 10: flood protection and drainage rates simpler and fairer, so it's
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Speaker 10: looking at changing the way targeted rates are calculated for
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Speaker 10: the lower Tidy and Lower Cluther schemes.
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Speaker 2: They say the current.
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Speaker 10: System too complicated two outdated, so it needs changed. This
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Speaker 10: proposed new approach would based charges on how much benefit
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Speaker 10: properties receive from flood protection and how often they use
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Speaker 10: drainage services, so that can being proper owners pay more.
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Speaker 10: Consultation could start next month. Of counselors today, give the
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Speaker 10: plan the green light?
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Speaker 2: All right, Dan, how's the weather.
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Speaker 10: Fine today? High cloud light, northerlies and fifteen the high.
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Speaker 2: Very good stuff to Christ. Here we go, Chles, sure
20:44
Speaker 2: we're good morning to you.
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Speaker 4: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: So tell me about the ED ED crashage Hospital.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, this is a story we talk about every year,
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Speaker 11: but it seems to be getting worse at year on year.
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Speaker 11: Overcrowding and the ED is now considered a near and
20:56
Speaker 11: daily issue. There are seventy bed facility regularly reached up
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Speaker 11: to three hundred percent occupancy during the winter months. Senior
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Speaker 11: doctor Dominic Fleischer is speaking out about this. He says
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Speaker 11: the department's gone from lining beds along corridor wars to
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Speaker 11: beds jutting out into walkways, which is something he's never
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Speaker 11: seen before. He estimates that ed presentations are up four
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Speaker 11: percent since last year, four times faster than the city's
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Speaker 11: population growth. Fletcher says you can't treat patients with care
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Speaker 11: in corridors, or examine them or ask any intimate questions.
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Speaker 11: He adds that they're in the highest level of gridlock
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Speaker 11: known as code READ on a daily basis, which used
21:34
Speaker 11: to happen weekly. Health en Z has responded and said
21:37
Speaker 11: it's boosted capacity in order to help manage the demand.
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Speaker 2: How's weather?
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Speaker 11: The weather another frosty start and then should we find
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Speaker 11: a bit of high cloud about this afternoon? Northeasterlyies and
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Speaker 11: the high will be sixteen Thank.
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Speaker 2: You very much to Wellington. We go Max Toll, good morning,
21:50
Speaker 2: good morning. So shiver containers, we see them all over
21:53
Speaker 2: the place. Now there's a bit of algiebajie about this.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, just a curious little slice of local life here.
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Speaker 8: Property owner well in central Wellington who's refusing to remove
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Speaker 8: eight giant shipping containers stacked up on their property in
22:06
Speaker 8: the middle of Wellington, trying to argue they're no different
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Speaker 8: to cars, or pots or plants. This is on Victoria Street,
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Speaker 8: to opposite the children's dental clinic. The owner insists they're
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Speaker 8: just being used for storage, not as buildings, certainly not
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Speaker 8: as accommodation or living quarters. He and the council have
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Speaker 8: been locked in this feud for close to two years.
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Speaker 8: It is an obvious I saw that this certainly isn't
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Speaker 8: a container all. So it's gone to the Environment Court.
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Speaker 8: It's now stepped in and ruled yes, they have got
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Speaker 8: to go. I think thirty days you need a resource
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Speaker 8: consent for that type of thing.
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Speaker 2: Great stuff.
22:38
Speaker 8: How's your weather find this morning? A little cloud later
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Speaker 8: nor the least thirteen and neive a written man.
22:43
Speaker 2: Who joins us from walking good morning to good morning. Now,
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Speaker 2: if you're going to a restaurant, you'll see that little
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Speaker 2: sign that says you know exactly what their grade is
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Speaker 2: ABCD No. I was like, yeah, so the food safety grade,
22:55
Speaker 2: but there could be some changes there.
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Speaker 12: Yes, well that's right, and all convenience may be off
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Speaker 12: the hawk when it comes to displaying that you know,
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Speaker 12: food safety grade. Andrew, You're quite right, So local democracy
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Speaker 12: now that's reporting the food safety information by law requiring
23:10
Speaker 12: that grade certificate display that expires next April. So council
23:15
Speaker 12: documents showed that a review found that the by law
23:18
Speaker 12: was no longer fit for purpose as the Food Act
23:21
Speaker 12: is effective enough. So Restaurant Association General manager Nicola Waldron,
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Speaker 12: she's agreeing not to renew it, and we'll just saying
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Speaker 12: that if you choose not to renew it, it won't
23:32
Speaker 12: negatively affect compliance because she's saying that it's not consistently
23:36
Speaker 12: required throughout the country. I didn't realize that and making
23:39
Speaker 12: Auckland and outliers.
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Speaker 2: So but when I walk in and I go, oh,
23:42
Speaker 2: yeah it's a C. I better not pay much for this.
23:45
Speaker 2: I walk in and go, yeah it's an A. Let's go.
23:47
Speaker 2: You know. The consumer wants to know that.
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Speaker 12: Yes, but I think the national legislation throughout is pretty good.
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Speaker 12: That's what they're saying.
23:55
Speaker 2: How's Hawkin's weather?
23:56
Speaker 12: Fine morning frosts and sheltered places fifteen? The high currently
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Speaker 12: are chili three here in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Stop all right in a moment, Gavin Gray out of
24:05
Speaker 2: the UK. We're going to talk about Nigel Farrance has
24:07
Speaker 2: taking the fence at a t shirt and also the wildfires,
24:10
Speaker 2: and then you might be asking yourself, what's happening with
24:12
Speaker 2: this war in the Middle East. It's still in limbo.
24:14
Speaker 2: It's like an extended hydration break, and I come in
24:17
Speaker 2: every morning, go what's happened. It's still in limbo. The
24:20
Speaker 2: New York Times writes today, they reckon Iran is in
24:22
Speaker 2: no rush to return to talks with the United States.
24:25
Speaker 2: They reckon their leaders can They're betting that they can
24:28
Speaker 2: endure more pain than President Trump. And they reckon they've
24:31
Speaker 2: got better leverage over the Strait of hor moves, so
24:33
Speaker 2: they're not coming to the table and Trump's not forcing them.
24:35
Speaker 13: Now.
24:36
Speaker 2: Other bits about the war, in case you missed it,
24:38
Speaker 2: Ukraine is now involved, so they could see the two
24:41
Speaker 2: major conflicts on our globe merging. It was a Ukrainian
24:44
Speaker 2: strike glass weekend on an Iranian cargo ship in the
24:47
Speaker 2: Caspian Sea. Ukraine reckon this ship was carrying military equipment
24:51
Speaker 2: between Iran and Russia. So you don't want those two
24:54
Speaker 2: wars joining. Oil prices apparently falling sharply Brent and West
24:59
Speaker 2: Texas down around five percent in the latest trading day.
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Speaker 2: Overnight crude is now at its lowest level in over
25:04
Speaker 2: a week. Thank you for the limbo time. Here's another
25:08
Speaker 2: thing though, in Libya there's some anti government protests and
25:11
Speaker 2: they're attacking the Malika Oil and Gas complex. Now this
25:16
Speaker 2: is a problem because that complex provides coal for backup
25:20
Speaker 2: for electricity systems under stress that they aren't getting any
25:23
Speaker 2: oil at the moment, and also it's a big blow
25:25
Speaker 2: for Europe who get a lot of their gas from
25:27
Speaker 2: Libya these days. Goodness me, what a conflagration. Sixteen to six.
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Speaker 2: To Europe, we go Gavin Gray out of the UK. Gavin,
26:37
Speaker 2: good morning to you. What's the latest from the wildfires
26:40
Speaker 2: in France and Spain.
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Speaker 13: Well, I'm afraid Andrew, it's a pretty grim picture. Are
26:45
Speaker 13: The temperatures are getting more intense there, set to hit
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Speaker 13: forty centigrade in France tomorrow and in Spain that'll follow
26:53
Speaker 13: suit as well. And those are really where the worst
26:56
Speaker 13: of the wildfiles are still centered. Indeed, the spokesman for
26:59
Speaker 13: the National fire Fighters Federation in France said it's like
27:02
Speaker 13: David against Goliath, and that is because quite simply, the
27:05
Speaker 13: ground is so dry and so hot, and the winds
27:09
Speaker 13: are really really picking up that they are blowing the
27:12
Speaker 13: flames ever closer. Now at the moment, it is said
27:15
Speaker 13: that it is less than fifteen kilometers from the city
27:20
Speaker 13: of Bordeaux that has a population of two hundred and
27:23
Speaker 13: sixty thousand. Now the authorities are saying, look, it's not
27:26
Speaker 13: currently under a threat, but there is no doubt that
27:28
Speaker 13: there are a great deal of very worried people there.
27:31
Speaker 13: The air is said to be thick with smoke and
27:33
Speaker 13: bits of ash, people staying indoors, and also lots of
27:36
Speaker 13: people wearing masks. But it's also fires around Madrid that
27:40
Speaker 13: are causing some concern, and indeed firefighters there trying to
27:44
Speaker 13: prevent it to get into the outskirts of that city,
27:48
Speaker 13: and thousands of hectors have been destroyed at the start
27:51
Speaker 13: of the year. It really is horrendous and the firefighters
27:54
Speaker 13: really struggling to contain this.
27:56
Speaker 2: Cities are not immune. We lived there from Los Angeles
27:58
Speaker 2: a few years ago, and you'll pray for Madrid. In
28:01
Speaker 2: Bordeaux now after Ann Whittkom's murder, people are getting pretty
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Speaker 2: sensitive in the UK, including Nigel Faraj.
28:08
Speaker 13: Yes, Now, this was all because posted online by the
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Speaker 13: Green Party leader Zach Polanski was a picture that he
28:16
Speaker 13: shared of a man at an event, a Green event,
28:21
Speaker 13: at which there was a man wearing a T shirt. Now,
28:23
Speaker 13: on the T shirt was a drawing of a guillotine
28:28
Speaker 13: and next to it was the name Nigel. Indeed, there
28:32
Speaker 13: was a comment saying we're only making plans for Nigel.
28:34
Speaker 13: Now you may know that line that comes from a
28:37
Speaker 13: song back in nineteen seventy nine, but of course it
28:40
Speaker 13: refers potentially to Nigel Farahs, the leader of Reform UK.
28:45
Speaker 13: Now he said, look, if I was to post anything
28:48
Speaker 13: as insightful that I would expect to be arrested, and
28:51
Speaker 13: so should the leader of the Green Party, Zach Polanski,
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Speaker 13: a Green Party spokesman, said, look, once the image was
28:57
Speaker 13: brought to his attention, he immediately unshared post. It wasn't
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Speaker 13: what he thinks and does not support this type of
29:03
Speaker 13: dangerous message. But as you said, with the death the
29:06
Speaker 13: murder of Anne Whittickomb hit across the head more than
29:09
Speaker 13: twenty times by a hammer, and Whittickumb being the immigration
29:13
Speaker 13: spokeswoman for Reform UK, things are extremely sensitive now at
29:18
Speaker 13: the moment we're being told that the police have not
29:21
Speaker 13: yet made contact with a Green Party leader and whether
29:25
Speaker 13: they will or not another mattery, but we do know
29:28
Speaker 13: that so far he has not apologized to Nigel Farage.
29:31
Speaker 13: And as you said, security for our elective officials absolutely
29:35
Speaker 13: front and center of much political debate at the moment.
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Speaker 2: All right, Kevin, I thank you for your time. It
29:40
Speaker 2: is ten minutes to six zid me. So the government
29:44
Speaker 2: is shaking up the recognized seasonal employment scheme. A good
29:47
Speaker 2: time to be doing it, of course, because we've got
29:49
Speaker 2: the season coming out. The changes will make it easier
29:51
Speaker 2: for workers to leave exploitative employers, to switch growers that's
29:55
Speaker 2: an interesting one, and to apply for pretection if needed.
29:57
Speaker 2: Good employers also will be rewarded with their longest six
30:00
Speaker 2: year accreditation. So Colin Bond joins us from the New
30:04
Speaker 2: Zealand kee We Growers Incorporated. He's the CEO. Morning Colin,
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Speaker 2: good morning, nice to be here. Happy to get these changes.
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Speaker 2: Are they just a tweak or are they something more substantive?
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Speaker 5: I think something more substantive actually, and it's changes that
30:19
Speaker 5: employers have been asking for for a while. As had
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Speaker 5: the Pacific as well, because after nearly twenty years, the
30:24
Speaker 5: scheme's got very complex, so a time an opportunity now
30:29
Speaker 5: is to simplify and make sure everybody understands the requirements
30:32
Speaker 5: of the scheme.
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Speaker 2: So I see how being able to switch grows is good.
30:35
Speaker 2: I mean grows would love that, etc. I see how
30:37
Speaker 2: if you're a good employee get rewarded with a longer accreditation,
30:40
Speaker 2: So that's good as well. But this whole thing about
30:43
Speaker 2: workers leading exploitative employers. How big a problem in New
30:46
Speaker 2: Zealand has worker exploitation been.
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Speaker 5: Oh, we don't see it as a significant problem at all,
30:54
Speaker 5: and the incidence of happening is very small. At the
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Speaker 5: end of the day, we've got two hundred employers and
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Speaker 5: twenty thousand workers, and we want to make sure everybody
31:04
Speaker 5: involved in the scheme gets a great experience. So I
31:07
Speaker 5: think structurally it's important that if an employee is in
31:11
Speaker 5: a situation where they don't feel like they're being looked after,
31:16
Speaker 5: then the scheme needs to have a system that allows
31:18
Speaker 5: that worker to be transferred and looked after. So I
31:21
Speaker 5: don't think it's a big problem, but still important that
31:23
Speaker 5: the scheme is a solution.
31:24
Speaker 2: So you've got some workers, you've got to house them.
31:26
Speaker 2: And there are going to be some decisions made about
31:28
Speaker 2: accommodation standards made in September. What would you like to
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Speaker 2: see from them?
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Speaker 5: Just clarity so that employers who are purpose building accommodation
31:39
Speaker 5: in the future have got certainty about making sure that
31:42
Speaker 5: if they build it, then the workers can come and
31:45
Speaker 5: it will meet all of the requirements of the scheme
31:47
Speaker 5: for the long term. So again something that employers have
31:50
Speaker 5: been asking for for a while. We want certainty to
31:53
Speaker 5: invest so that employees we can build great accommodation, the
31:56
Speaker 5: employees can come and enjoy it.
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Speaker 2: Have yourself a good season, Colin, and I think you
32:00
Speaker 2: for your time today. Colin is the CEO of the
32:01
Speaker 2: Kiwi Fruit Growers Association. It is seven minutes to six.
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Speaker 1: Well the first word on the News of the Day
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Speaker 1: Early edition with Andrew Dickens and Spark for Business Technology
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Speaker 1: that keeps business moving, News talks that'd.
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Speaker 2: Be Is it an amazing when athletics and gold medals
32:19
Speaker 2: get underway, we start giving a damn about the Conwell's game.
32:23
Speaker 2: So six thirty six this morning, Zoe Hobbs is in
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Speaker 2: the one hundred meters and then six forty seven This
32:28
Speaker 2: morning Lewis Cleibert defending his four hundred meters individual medal title,
32:33
Speaker 2: which he won four years ago in a record time
32:35
Speaker 2: which is still the Commonwealth record. Michael, good morning to
32:37
Speaker 2: you morning. Do we care about that?
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Speaker 6: I do?
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Speaker 2: There?
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Speaker 14: Good on fun the three That is true the Australians.
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Speaker 14: It seems almost a benefit for the Australians.
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Speaker 6: True.
32:46
Speaker 14: It's like if you look at the medal table, it's like, have.
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Speaker 2: You seen how much money they put into high performances
32:51
Speaker 2: they called a lot while Gina puts a lot of
32:52
Speaker 2: money into swimming.
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Speaker 14: Did you see that that they're not allowed to think her.
32:56
Speaker 14: So the rule is so the Australian Commwealth Committee said,
32:59
Speaker 14: she gives out prize money if you win goals and
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Speaker 14: silver and set world records and stuff like that. And
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Speaker 14: they said the other day if you win a medal,
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Speaker 14: you're not allowed to think her for whatever reason.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: So, Graham Hart, why aren't you actually giving money to
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Speaker 2: Lewis clear bird?
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Speaker 14: Well, exactly encourage them, mind you would Lewis swim any faster?
33:16
Speaker 2: No, of course not. But Paul Henry was saying, look
33:18
Speaker 2: we can might build a ten million dollar charity hospital
33:21
Speaker 2: just like that ten billion if people start giving some money.
33:25
Speaker 2: So where's the money giving coming? Where's the trickle down coming? Exactly?
33:29
Speaker 14: Anyway, the RC rules today are being changed, so we'll
33:33
Speaker 14: find out what that's about. And did you see the
33:35
Speaker 14: supercar's number? Twenty one million dollars for two events for
33:39
Speaker 14: two events, And there's more where that came from. And
33:42
Speaker 14: not only they came internationally and then they stayed another
33:45
Speaker 14: they seemed on average to stay for ten days. Wouldn't
33:48
Speaker 14: you I guess if you came from America. They came
33:50
Speaker 14: from America. Why would you come from America to go
33:52
Speaker 14: the supercar?
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Speaker 2: I reckon SVG has made pure look at the zero cars,
33:56
Speaker 2: go gee that racing is Have you seen that panorama thing?
33:58
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, we're going down there.
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Speaker 14: Well it works twenty one minutes. So anyway, we'll.
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Speaker 2: Capagate this scull. Very good stuff And my name is
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Speaker 2: Andrew Dickins here for the rest of the week. My
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Speaker 2: thanks to producer Kimsey said that producer Sam, have yourself
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Speaker 2: a fantastic daykeep warm and see you tomorrow.
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Speaker 6: Start a dream.
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