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Full Show Podcast: 03 September 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickots on
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Speaker 1: earlier this show with one roof love where you Live
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Speaker 1: News Talk said.
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Speaker 2: Be welcome one to you and welcome to the program,
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Speaker 2: and thank you so much for choosing us. Coming up
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Speaker 2: over the next hour, the Education Minister has rejected recommendations
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Speaker 2: to tight enough our tertiary qualifications. I'll ask the question,
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Speaker 2: has our tertiary sector being dumbed down? And we'll have
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Speaker 2: that story for you. In five tourism numbers are up,
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Speaker 2: but how can we move the needle even higher? That story?
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Speaker 2: In ten, should we pull out of the Paris climbate
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Speaker 2: a cord. I've got some thoughts, but we'll talk to
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Speaker 2: fed farmers to see if they welcome this move or
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Speaker 2: does it have fish hooks for our cornerstone industry of farming.
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Speaker 2: And we'll talk about the Westport man who was struck
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Speaker 2: by lightning who claims his gun boots saved his life.
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Speaker 2: We'll have that story plus correspondence from around the world.
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Speaker 2: It's Gavin Gray from the UK today and correspondents from
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Speaker 2: around New Zealand and you can have your say on
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Speaker 2: the text. The number is ninety two ninety two and
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Speaker 2: a small charge applies to five the agenda. At Wenesday,
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Speaker 2: the third of September, the stage is set in the
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Speaker 2: heart of Beijing for a grand display of power at
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Speaker 2: military that's all been choreographed by President Jesimping.
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Speaker 3: The parade is important.
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Speaker 2: It will highlight the discipline of our soldiers and our
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Speaker 2: morale will be high.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, the parade will showcase China's strength and let
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Speaker 4: the world know we are big country and we have power.
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Speaker 2: Yes. Well, there's twenty six world leaders there looking at
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Speaker 2: a new world order. Putins their body is there, and
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Speaker 2: for the very first time, Kim Jong un. They're all
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Speaker 2: fronting up together. Putin's been meeting with Xi ahead of
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Speaker 2: the parade to.
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Speaker 4: Please I thank you for the warm welcome extended to
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Speaker 4: our entire delegation. Our close communication reflects the strategic nature
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Speaker 4: of Russia China relations, which are at an unprecedentedally high level.
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Speaker 2: Now to America, where there's another legal loss for Donald trumpet.
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Speaker 2: Judge in California has blocked the president's move to send
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Speaker 2: the National Guard into Los Angeles, saying it breached laws
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Speaker 2: banning military use on domestic soils. Now the ruling's on
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Speaker 2: hold for now and Donald Trump's expected to appeal.
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Speaker 5: At this point, it only applies to California. The present
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Speaker 5: is thinking about sending troops into Chicago in the coming
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Speaker 5: days to help with law enforcement. Obviously, that will create
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Speaker 5: another legal challenge from the state of Illinois in the
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Speaker 5: city of Chicago. I think what the administration will do
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Speaker 5: is argue that this is a district court and it
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Speaker 5: doesn't really have the power to constrain the authority of
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Speaker 5: the President.
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Speaker 2: And finally some Madonna is After months of speculation, Anna
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Speaker 2: Wintur has announced a new top editor at both Enna
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Speaker 2: announced in June. She of the Big, Big Sunglasses All
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Speaker 2: Day Night. Anna announced in June that she was stepping
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Speaker 2: down from the role she heild for almost forty years,
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Speaker 2: and now Chloe Mahler, who currently serves as editor will
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Speaker 2: step up as the head of editor editorial content for
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Speaker 2: Vogue US. Thank you, Anna, Bye bye.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day Early
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Speaker 1: edition with Andrew Dickins and One Root Love Where You Live.
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Speaker 2: News Talk sa'd be It is now ten minutes after
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Speaker 2: five yesterday, the Prime Minister was on the good News
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Speaker 2: trail talking up Amazon's seven point five billion dollar investment
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Speaker 2: in data centers around Auckland. It's right up as aali.
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Speaker 2: He's long said that foreign investment is needed in New Zealand,
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Speaker 2: but to be faired, this has nothing to do with
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Speaker 2: the current government, and Christopher Luxen was actually quite open
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Speaker 2: about that. Amazon actually unveiled the plans back in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty one, saying the data centers would open in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty four. Construction, however, was holded in twenty twenty three,
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Speaker 2: but they pulled their finger out last December. They said
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Speaker 2: the data centres would open this year, and now they have.
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Speaker 2: The company has also confirmed yesday it is still investing
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Speaker 2: seven point five billion and would support an average of
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Speaker 2: more than one thousand full time equivalent jobs, and they
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Speaker 2: reckon they will add ten point eight billion dollars to
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Speaker 2: our economy. So this is all good, isn't it. But
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Speaker 2: some don't like it because it's Amazon, because it's Jeff Bezos,
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Speaker 2: because it eats up more of our precious power, and Amazon,
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Speaker 2: of course undermines local manufacturing and retailing and wage rates. However,
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Speaker 2: Amazon will be employing in the high skilled areas, So
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Speaker 2: this is telecommunication engineers, data wranglers, all those sorts of
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Speaker 2: people and we should not quibble because all investment is
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Speaker 2: good investment. It stirs the cash in the pot. So
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Speaker 2: foreign investment is fine, but you know, local investment is
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Speaker 2: infinitely better because local investment means local profits stay in
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Speaker 2: our country, and that really keeps the wheels going round.
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Speaker 2: I heard some talkback on this with the Boys yesterday afternoon.
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Speaker 2: In one caller criticize the government's belief that foreign investment
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Speaker 2: is the answer to all our economic problems. He said,
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Speaker 2: that's naive, and our problems run far deeper than a
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Speaker 2: lack of foreign investment, and he's not wrong. In the weekend,
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Speaker 2: Liam Dan wrote about our cost of living crisis. He
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Speaker 2: did what good journalists do, found that a pound of
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Speaker 2: butter is pretty much the same price all around the world,
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Speaker 2: and he said, we do not have a cost of
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Speaker 2: living crisis. We have a wage crisis, which means we
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Speaker 2: can't afford our products and the services we need. And
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Speaker 2: our low wages are not because of a lack of
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Speaker 2: foreign investment, because actually there's already plenty of that about already,
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Speaker 2: but because we have a wealth creation crisis. The real
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Speaker 2: answer to our malaise is that New Zealanders need to
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Speaker 2: make stuff and products that people overseas buy and New
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Speaker 2: Zealanders need to invest in New Zealand businesses that create
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Speaker 2: the wealth. Andrew Dickens twelve after five and speaking of
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Speaker 2: wealth to our cornerstone of our economy. The Global Dairy
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Speaker 2: Trade Auction was out today, prices down azero point three percent.
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Speaker 2: What can I tell you? Butter down two point five percent,
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Speaker 2: So maybe we might see that powder butter go down
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Speaker 2: a little bit and whole milk powder down minus five
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Speaker 2: point three percent. We're going to talk more about farming
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Speaker 2: a bit later on. Farmers is joining us in the show.
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Speaker 2: But next the universities. Too many people are giving away
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Speaker 2: too many, too many easier degrees, too many easier masters,
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Speaker 2: too many easier PhDs. There was a push to make
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Speaker 2: it harder, but that's been rejected by Shane Retti. We're
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Speaker 2: going to ask a guy from Lincoln University and the
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Speaker 2: chair of the university's New Zealand what he thinks about
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Speaker 2: the minister's move. That's next on news Talk Zreb.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the Headlines on early edition with Andrew
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Speaker 1: Dickens and one roof Love where you Live News Talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be it's fifteen out of five so a push
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Speaker 2: to make our universities more elite has been shot down.
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Speaker 2: The government's rejected tougher entry rules and limits on who
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Speaker 2: can hand out or doctorates. It's accepted just twenty three
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Speaker 2: of sixty three recommendations from our report from the University
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Speaker 2: Advisory Group led by Peter Gluckman. So to talk about this,
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Speaker 2: let's talk to an educator. Grant Edwards is the vice
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Speaker 2: chancellor of Lincoln University and the university's New Zealand Chair
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Speaker 2: and joins me this morning. Good morning to your Grant,
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Speaker 2: Good morning Andrew. Do you think we need more limits
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Speaker 2: on who can hand out our top academic qualifications?
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Speaker 3: No, I don't think we need further limits. Universities are
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Speaker 3: the terchi institutions that do research led teaching in New Zealand,
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Speaker 3: and so believe that research only masters and research PSDs
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Speaker 3: should be awarded in universities.
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Speaker 2: But it's also those other universities that hand out all
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Speaker 2: sorts of masters and all sorts of other things that
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Speaker 2: makes the people make the accusation that we've been dumbing
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Speaker 2: down our tertiary sector.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's in terms of the high degrees in the
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Speaker 3: postgraduate space, we have a range of taught masters in
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Speaker 3: particular and postgraduate qualifications. I think there I don't think
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Speaker 3: there's any indication that those other institutes are actually dumbing
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Speaker 3: down in handing out those particular qualifications. As particular interest
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Speaker 3: here is in research masters and research PhDs, which with
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Speaker 3: universities being research led, there's an important place that they're
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Speaker 3: awarded in universities.
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Speaker 2: Okay, well that was that was my next question. Should
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Speaker 2: universities be the only ones that can award masters and PhDs?
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Speaker 3: I think, as I indicated to you, the in particular
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Speaker 3: research masters and PhDs should be in general awarded by
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Speaker 3: the universities in New Zealand.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 2: I heard Sandra Gray on our news this morning at
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Speaker 2: five am saying the real problem for our tertiary sector
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Speaker 2: is the funding model. Would you agree?
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Speaker 3: In terms of the funding model, there are many funding
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Speaker 3: systems around the world, and most end up with some
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Speaker 3: form of a private government funding contributions similar to us.
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Speaker 3: We can always look at our funding system and how
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Speaker 3: funding is distributed and how it's both education and research
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Speaker 3: funding is directed towards qualifications particular disciplines. However, present probably
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Speaker 3: a long slow reduction and funding in real terms is
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Speaker 3: acting against the long term needs of the country and
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Speaker 3: probably just simply making changes in how we manage a
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Speaker 3: diminishing pool of funding won't serve university is all the
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Speaker 3: country well in the longer.
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Speaker 2: Term, all right, Gret, itwas I thank you so much
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Speaker 2: time grants the ad vice chances of Lincoln University and
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Speaker 2: from Universities New Zealand. And you may remember Peter Gluckman
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Speaker 2: actually talked to hit the last night. That is up
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Speaker 2: on our website right now. Oh and more education news.
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Speaker 2: Schools across New Zealand will be given cash to fix
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Speaker 2: up the failed experiment of open classrooms. This is a shock,
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Speaker 2: this is a surprise. Education Minister Erica Stamford made that
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Speaker 2: announcement on the Paddigawa Has issue show, which investigated the
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Speaker 2: problems the big old barn classrooms are causing. She said
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Speaker 2: schools could get money from a contestable fund based on
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Speaker 2: need to put in walls in the barns that have
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Speaker 2: been made. But here's the thing that I found quite amazing.
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Speaker 2: Erica revealed that she had ordered officials to determine the
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Speaker 2: scale of the problems because incredibly, the Ministry of Education
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Speaker 2: cannot tell us how many open planned classrooms that we
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Speaker 2: have even though the claims are over five billion dollars
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Speaker 2: has been spent on them. This is New Storks HEREB
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Speaker 2: it is five nineteen. Here's some good news for you. A.
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Speaker 2: Tourism numbers are up, but tourism people are not overly
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Speaker 2: happy with it all. Why well, that story is next
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Speaker 2: here on New Storks Here be nineteen after five on your.
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Speaker 1: Radio and online on iHeartRadio of Early Edition with Andrew
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Speaker 1: Dickens and one Root Love where you Live News Talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be five twenty one act in New Zealand. First, A,
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Speaker 2: we should be pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord
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Speaker 2: because we're overdoing it. Do you agree? Do you know
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Speaker 2: that you can send me a text? Two ninety two.
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Speaker 2: Now here's the good news to us. Are back and
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Speaker 2: they're here to spend. An international visitor survey shows there
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Speaker 2: was a five percent increase in visitors over the last
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Speaker 2: year and their spending was up by four percent, as
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Speaker 2: pumping more than twelve billion dollars into the local economy.
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Speaker 2: So I'm joined now by Sam McKinnon from Hospitality New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: Go on to your Sam.
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Speaker 6: Thank you to Andrew.
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Speaker 2: You'd be a happy Camper.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, obviously were pleased to see a list
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Speaker 6: and spend and arrivals. It's all about things trending in
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Speaker 6: the right direction for us. So yeah, positive to hear
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Speaker 6: that announcement yesterday.
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Speaker 2: So is five percent enough or could we kick it up?
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Speaker 6: Of course we'd love more. Hospitality is also very reliant
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Speaker 6: on the domestic market, and we're seeing a list there
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Speaker 6: as well. But you know it's similar sort of number
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Speaker 6: four percent, five percent into and seven percent christ Church.
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Speaker 6: But you know, we've come through a really challenging period,
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Speaker 6: so I guess seeing that the seeing that things are
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Speaker 6: trending upwards is a real positive science for us.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, as you say, overseas tourism returning, but the
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Speaker 2: domestic spends returning, but maybe not enough is our real
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Speaker 2: problem at the moment that Kewis are reluctant to open
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Speaker 2: their wallets in the current economic environment.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's definitely a contributing sector. I mean, hospitality is
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Speaker 6: definitely a discretionary spend and households are struggling to cover
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Speaker 6: the cost that they've already got. So we're aware that
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Speaker 6: any spend that we're getting as a benefit at the moment,
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Speaker 6: But I guess as we've started to see some of
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Speaker 6: those increases in income for households around OCR cuts and
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Speaker 6: that sort of stuff, where I guess some of seeing
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Speaker 6: some of that confidence flow back into hospitality spend, which
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Speaker 6: is all positive science heading towards the summer trading period.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and as you would say to all keywis, get
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Speaker 2: out there and see your country and spin spin spend.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, if you're able to get out and support hospitality.
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Speaker 2: Now, is this tourism uptick a bit more geographically targeted
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Speaker 2: than in the past, like pre COVID, like more and
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Speaker 2: more people just go into Queenstown.
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Speaker 6: I think Queensland has seen a decent left in that spend.
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Speaker 6: I mean, obviously it's our primary tourism hotspot in New Zealand. See,
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Speaker 6: you'd expect that to be to see a good chunk
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Speaker 6: of that left and spend. I mean, I guess overall,
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Speaker 6: you know there's across New Zealand councilors are trying to
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Speaker 6: work through their destination management plans. Everyone's trying to get
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Speaker 6: a slice of the tourism pire. So as we see
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Speaker 6: that those numbers left, overall, we should see a bit
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Speaker 6: more of that regional dispersal come through.
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Speaker 2: Good stuff, Sam McKinnon, I thank you from Hospitality New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: And in more good news for the hospitality sector, it
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Speaker 2: was the government yesterday outline proposed changes to licensing rules
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Speaker 2: for the events sector and events planning, because like if
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Speaker 2: you go to a gig, you do like to get
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Speaker 2: a beer and at the moment it's really hard to
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Speaker 2: do that. But they're going to make that a lot
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Speaker 2: easier and the tourism sector is already appreciating this greatly.
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Speaker 2: It is News talks HEB. Should we pull out of
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Speaker 2: the Paris Climate Accord? That's the question on the table
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Speaker 2: and my thoughts.
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Speaker 2: Talks B Wednesday morning. I'm Andrew Dickinson for Ryan Bridge
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Speaker 2: who's on holiday. He'll be back next week. So the
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Speaker 2: question put on the table yesterday should we pull out
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Speaker 2: of the Paris Climate Accord, got the backing of ACT
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Speaker 2: and New Zealand. First they said we should. We're over
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Speaker 2: doing it, and of course my first reaction is, of
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Speaker 2: course we should pull out. Yes, the thing isn't working.
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Speaker 2: It's never worked. It's always felt like something the world
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Speaker 2: does to make itself feel like it's doing something even
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Speaker 2: though it's doing nothing. When you combine that, the Paris
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Speaker 2: accords with the emissions trading scheme, which is a giant
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Speaker 2: Ponzi scheme made to make coldplate feel better about touring
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Speaker 2: the world at jetplanes, meanwhile filling up our pastures with
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Speaker 2: trees because of their guilt. The whole thing seems useless.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, well meaning, but useless. So why be involved?
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Speaker 2: And we're so little? New Zealand's biggest contribution to CO
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Speaker 2: two numbers is our farming, which is a fairly benign
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Speaker 2: polluter because the world needs food just as much as
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Speaker 2: it needs oxygen. The world doesn't need more cheap genes
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Speaker 2: and plastic crap, but the people who make that stuff
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Speaker 2: are merely pumping rubbish into our atmosphere. We're making food here,
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Speaker 2: so why should we be punishing the cornerstone of our
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Speaker 2: economy making the food. We're in the scheme of things.
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Speaker 2: It contributes so little while the real polluters keep on polluting.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, let's stand up, tell the world they're in
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Speaker 2: a fool's paradise of virtue signaling, and let's get on
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Speaker 2: with feeding the people. We can. But the rest of
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Speaker 2: the world, with the exception of the United States, still
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Speaker 2: believe in this, and they're the ones buying our food.
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Speaker 2: And there are also the ones who will find any
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Speaker 2: way to blacklist our awesome agricultural products. Boy, the Euros,
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Speaker 2: the Europeans, if they can find a chink in our armor,
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Speaker 2: they will, They'll say, you can't bring your butter here.
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Speaker 2: So pulling out of the parade may see us cutting
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Speaker 2: off our nose despite our face. It may reduce the
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Speaker 2: compliance costs on our farmers in the first instance, but
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Speaker 2: what's the point of that if it makes the rest
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Speaker 2: of the world turn their back on our milk and
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Speaker 2: butter of meat because they think we're filthy pollutzers. So
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Speaker 2: Act in New Zealand First may think that this posturing
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Speaker 2: is helping our farmers, but in fact, maybe it could
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Speaker 2: be penalizing them more if heavily and maybe Act in
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Speaker 2: New Zealand First er are just play acting this for votes,
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Speaker 2: just as much as the Paris Climate Accords are play
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Speaker 2: acting for the environment. So look, let's call this thing
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Speaker 2: for what it is. Say it doesn't work. But rather
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Speaker 2: than just pulling out a bit of a flounce, we
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Speaker 2: should be advocating for real change to the accords and
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Speaker 2: the policies and to actually get on with helping the environment.
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Speaker 2: You don't need some towny on the radio talking about this.
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Speaker 2: We're going to talk to the Fed farmers just before six.
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Speaker 2: Is this going to help farmers or like I pointed out,
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Speaker 2: could it actually punish farmers by preventing us from exporting
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Speaker 2: the very stuff that our economy is built on. We'll see.
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Speaker 2: Also still to come. I've got a great story about
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Speaker 2: a guy in Westport who got hit by lightning. He
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Speaker 2: reckons its gun boots saved his life. We've got Gavin
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Speaker 2: Gray from the UK as well as the UK government.
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Speaker 2: It's even further than the doggy Doo Doo when it
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Speaker 2: comes to their economy and US is next. This is addition.
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Speaker 7: Sometimes I just can.
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Speaker 1: Views and views you trust. To start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: early edition with Andrew Dickens and One roof Love, Where
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Speaker 1: you Live, News Talks at Ben Cold.
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Speaker 2: You goodbye, example, Welcome to your Wednesday. I'm Antree Dickinson
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Speaker 2: for Lion runs back on Monday. It's fair to say
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Speaker 2: that everyone's saying get out of the Paris climate of cords.
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Speaker 2: We'll find out what the farmers believed. Just before six o'clock.
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Speaker 2: I'll give you some of the reaction that's come from
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Speaker 2: farmers actually later on in the program, speaking of farmers,
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Speaker 2: did you hear this story. It's a Westport dairy farm
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Speaker 2: manager who was out and about Monday and he got
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Speaker 2: hit by lightning and he reckons. His gun boot saved
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Speaker 2: his life. Chris Wilson was on his squad bike herding
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Speaker 2: cows into the milking shed about six am on Monday.
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Speaker 2: Then when lightning struck, he saw the whitest light he's
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Speaker 2: ever seen. He passed out. He woke up stumped over
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Speaker 2: the bike and he couldn't see for about five or
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Speaker 2: ten minutes. He gathered up all the cows and he
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Speaker 2: went home and had some breakfast, and then over breakfast,
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Speaker 2: he spewed up a little, and as missus said, you'd
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Speaker 2: better go to the doctor. So he went to the
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Speaker 2: doctor and Buller Hospital picked him up. And he's got
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Speaker 2: migraines and stuff, and this lightning burnt a whole and
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Speaker 2: his gun boots. So he's written to scale up to
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Speaker 2: tell the gunboots, those gun boots saved my life. A
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Speaker 2: little bit of rubber insulation there. If you've been grounded,
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Speaker 2: maybe he could have died. Management should probably have told
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Speaker 2: him to stay in during the storm. But hold on,
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Speaker 2: Chris's management. He's the farmer. He made his decision to
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Speaker 2: go out in the storm, which brings me to the
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Speaker 2: closure of Cornwall Park during the weekend in Orkan. It's
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Speaker 2: been criticized as an abundance of caution, taking away our
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Speaker 2: personal responsibility. But hold on, using my power of personal responsibility,
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Speaker 2: you weren't going to find me wandering around one hundred
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Speaker 2: year old trees in the middle of the storm. So yeah, okay,
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Speaker 2: Cornwall Park may have gone too far, but surely all
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Speaker 2: they did was what anyone with an ounce of common
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Speaker 2: sense would have done anyway. And Chris, I'm glad you're okay,
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Speaker 2: but next time, don't go out in the storms. Andrew Dickens,
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Speaker 2: it's twenty two to six esco around the country to
19:51
Speaker 2: our tiger we go Callum Proctor, good morning to you morning, Andrew.
19:55
Speaker 2: So in Toneda and Queenstown people are using the buses.
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Speaker 6: They are.
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Speaker 8: The Otago Regional Council runs the public transport here and
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Speaker 8: they're reporting a seven year high four bus patronage. In fact,
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Speaker 8: record breaking numbers. Toned and passengers made more than three
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Speaker 8: point four million trips between July last year and June
20:14
Speaker 8: this year. That's a thirty seven percent increase since twenty
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Speaker 8: eighteen nineteen, surpassing the heights of those pre COVID levels.
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Speaker 8: Queenstown recorded nearly two million trips, thirty three percent rise
20:26
Speaker 8: compared to seven years ago. The regional Council says it's
20:29
Speaker 8: encouraging to see these numbers drove despite MZTA subsidies declining. However,
20:33
Speaker 8: they also recognize there's still work to be done, including
20:36
Speaker 8: exploring public transport options in Omoru.
20:39
Speaker 2: And what's the weather lake if you wait to get
20:40
Speaker 2: the bus stop.
20:41
Speaker 8: It's chilly this morning, frosts an areas here, but a
20:44
Speaker 8: fine day nor easterly is developing.
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Speaker 2: Fourteen The high good stuff. Cless Sherman from Christis good morning,
20:49
Speaker 2: Good morning. So we've got our white beta issue.
20:53
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, some.
20:54
Speaker 10: Messy white bitas causing an issue. Andrew, We've got Wymark
20:58
Speaker 10: at Eddy District Council planning to see and staff out
21:01
Speaker 10: to check on these white baitas who have put up
21:03
Speaker 10: some makeshift shelters along the northern banks of the Wymac River.
21:07
Speaker 10: Pictures shared to our newsroom show several of these structures
21:11
Speaker 10: and sort of camping setups, including tents, but also wooden
21:14
Speaker 10: structures which have been erected along the banks since the
21:18
Speaker 10: white baiting season started on Monday. A council spokesperson says
21:22
Speaker 10: under the Pegasus Bay by law, overnight camping on the
21:25
Speaker 10: beach all the sand dunes is not permitted. They say
21:28
Speaker 10: staff will be taking an education before enforcement approach, at
21:32
Speaker 10: least in the first instance.
21:33
Speaker 2: How's your weather fine?
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Speaker 10: Though frosty to start here as well. Northeasterly is developing
21:38
Speaker 10: a bit later, are high of thirteen?
21:39
Speaker 2: Thank you to Wellington. We go. Max Tol, good morning,
21:42
Speaker 2: Good morning. You're a man of mystery. All I have
21:44
Speaker 2: from you is disorder around the region, and I have
21:46
Speaker 2: no idea what kind of disorder you're talking about.
21:48
Speaker 11: Yeah, let me tell you, not good, as you can imagine.
21:51
Speaker 11: We seem to be seeing a bit of a spate
21:53
Speaker 11: of crime right across the Lower North Island lately. You've
21:55
Speaker 11: had these gang shootings in LEAVENLA last month, a gang
21:59
Speaker 11: relay disorder and Palmerston North two separate gun related incidents
22:03
Speaker 11: there in a matter of hours. Also coming to light.
22:06
Speaker 11: Yesterday was a very nasty attack in Lower Hut over
22:09
Speaker 11: the weekend. The female manager of japan Mart, a shop
22:12
Speaker 11: on the high Street beaten unconscious by a gang of
22:15
Speaker 11: youths after banning them from her shop and trying to
22:18
Speaker 11: call police. This was a group of young girls. Police
22:20
Speaker 11: never came. We hope she's okay. We're trying to look
22:23
Speaker 11: for an update. Meanwhile, three people also charged after allegedly
22:27
Speaker 11: stealing a very large amount of meat from supermarkets here
22:30
Speaker 11: in Wellington and Ireland Bay and Crofton Downs about one
22:33
Speaker 11: thousand bucks worth targeted thefts. Thankfully they were tracked down.
22:37
Speaker 11: Two young people and an eighteen year old man believed responsible.
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Speaker 2: Wellington. It's a great place when it's a nice day
22:42
Speaker 2: speaking which how is the day?
22:44
Speaker 11: Well, it is fine today, lighter winds getting up to
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Speaker 11: thirteen central.
22:49
Speaker 2: Now I'm joined by Niva Ritchie Manno from Auckland, Hell
22:51
Speaker 2: and Nava. Good morning. So the Auckland to Corrimandel fiery
22:54
Speaker 2: used to run then it didn't run. That's coming back, yes,
22:57
Speaker 2: yay yay.
22:58
Speaker 9: So Explore group is rhein dating that very popular Auckland
23:02
Speaker 9: to Corimantal ferry service just in time. For summer fullers
23:05
Speaker 9: removed the summer service that was back in twenty twenty
23:07
Speaker 9: two because of staff shortages. It's going to initially operate
23:11
Speaker 9: the two hour services on a Friday, Saturday Sunday and
23:15
Speaker 9: the first service will set sail on October twenty fourth.
23:18
Speaker 9: The local businesses, the Coromandal Business Association says, look, it's
23:21
Speaker 9: going to be great after the pandemic. Hopefully get more
23:24
Speaker 9: tourists there, good news, increase their customer base as well.
23:28
Speaker 2: Two things on that. Number one, when you do that,
23:30
Speaker 2: you're lucky to see some dolphins in Orca because you
23:33
Speaker 2: go right across the Firth of Terms. It's an amazing
23:35
Speaker 2: ninety minute ride. I haven't been on it because they
23:38
Speaker 2: keep on closing it down.
23:39
Speaker 1: Yes, oh okay, right.
23:40
Speaker 2: The other thing, I know a bloke who actually bought
23:42
Speaker 2: some land who was going to build a batch in
23:43
Speaker 2: Coromandal because he didn't want to actually do the big
23:46
Speaker 2: drive because the drive is enormous and he wanted to
23:49
Speaker 2: take the boat. But then so he bought the land
23:51
Speaker 2: and then the boat stopped. Yes, of course, yeah, he
23:54
Speaker 2: was not happy.
23:55
Speaker 9: He was not happy, but hey, let's be positive about this.
23:58
Speaker 2: Yeahs back, it's but only on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
24:02
Speaker 7: Baby for starters.
24:03
Speaker 2: And now how's the.
24:04
Speaker 9: Weather partly cloudy, isolated morning, Charlesbourn a afternoon find spells
24:08
Speaker 9: sixteen is a high here in Auckland.
24:10
Speaker 2: And I thank you it is now seventeen to six.
24:12
Speaker 2: The TEXTUS ninety two ninety two small charge applies textas say,
24:15
Speaker 2: is great to see more bus users into Nedin. Shame
24:18
Speaker 2: on the council announcement yesterday that they're increasing the bus
24:20
Speaker 2: fares go figure. You know, there's no public transport that
24:24
Speaker 2: actually covers costs, and you either get the bus fares
24:28
Speaker 2: go up or you get the rates go up. So
24:30
Speaker 2: good luck with that one. But I thank you in
24:32
Speaker 2: a moment Gavin Gray out of the UK. It's always
24:34
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24:36
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Speaker 2: Have been great from the UK. Welcome to the program,
25:50
Speaker 2: Hi there, Andrew So. UK government long term borrowing costs
25:53
Speaker 2: have reached their highest level since nineteen ninety eight. That's
25:56
Speaker 2: not good economic news.
25:59
Speaker 7: No, that is not good. So this basically is the
26:02
Speaker 7: interest rates at which we the British, are being charged
26:05
Speaker 7: for people that want to lend us money, and we
26:07
Speaker 7: need that money because we are running at a massive,
26:10
Speaker 7: massive overdraft, a massive national debt and the thirty year
26:15
Speaker 7: government bonds, so that's the period of time it's paid
26:18
Speaker 7: over with, known as the YELD. They jumped to five
26:21
Speaker 7: point seventy two percent. So that means all of a sudden,
26:24
Speaker 7: all of the forecasts that the government has been relying
26:27
Speaker 7: on to basically outline the income and expenditure that it
26:31
Speaker 7: wants to make and to bring in is all now
26:34
Speaker 7: out of the window because suddenly everything's getting much more expensive.
26:37
Speaker 2: Now.
26:37
Speaker 7: The UK is not alone in seeing these borrowing costs arise,
26:40
Speaker 7: Andrew German, French and Dutch bonds also climbing to their
26:44
Speaker 7: highest Why. Well, a lot is the instability coming out
26:47
Speaker 7: of America with these trade policies and the upcoming confidence
26:51
Speaker 7: vote in the French government as well weighing in people's
26:54
Speaker 7: minds here in the EU. But this, I think is
26:56
Speaker 7: now going to push this government here in the UK
27:00
Speaker 7: into raising income tax levels or at least other big
27:04
Speaker 7: taxes here because if the government wants to to remain
27:10
Speaker 7: within its tax and spending rules, it's going to have
27:13
Speaker 7: to do something.
27:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay. Meanwhile, another CEO who has lost his job
27:18
Speaker 2: after a romantic relationship with a direct subordinate.
27:23
Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 7: Now, this is the Swiss food giant Nesle. Of course,
27:26
Speaker 7: they're famous for things like Kitcat chocolate bars and espresso
27:30
Speaker 7: coffee capsules, etc. Say that Lauren Frize has been dismissed
27:35
Speaker 7: with immediate effect following an investigation led by an independent
27:39
Speaker 7: director and Nesle's chair. It's understood but not confirmed. The
27:43
Speaker 7: inquiry into his behavior was triggered by a report made
27:47
Speaker 7: through his company's whistle blowing channel. These of course reports
27:51
Speaker 7: now about you know, how employees should feel free to
27:55
Speaker 7: report anything that they think is untoward. And the Nesle
27:59
Speaker 7: chair said it was a necessary decision the values of
28:02
Speaker 7: the company and governance. They're very strong foundations for the company.
28:05
Speaker 7: They thank him for his many years of service. But
28:09
Speaker 7: this is certainly a bit of a shock. The Financial
28:12
Speaker 7: Times here in London reporting that concerns were raised about
28:15
Speaker 7: his relationship with an employee earlier this year. After an
28:18
Speaker 7: internal investigation, the claims were found to be unsubstantiated, but
28:23
Speaker 7: the complaints persisted, and according to that newspaper, Nesle conducted
28:27
Speaker 7: another investigation with help from an outside council, after which
28:31
Speaker 7: the claims were upheld. Now this, you'll know, of course,
28:34
Speaker 7: is the longest in a long line. We've had other
28:36
Speaker 7: companies here in the UK with similar issues. The BP
28:40
Speaker 7: chief executive who led the oil job for three years,
28:42
Speaker 7: Bernard Looney, he had to quit after admitting he was
28:45
Speaker 7: not fully transparent over allegations about him. Steve Easterbrook was
28:49
Speaker 7: fired by mc donald's in twenty nineteen after it found
28:52
Speaker 7: he had consensual relationship with an employee, and that led
28:56
Speaker 7: to a rather larger financial fine in the US misleading investors.
29:01
Speaker 7: So companies very attuned now to perhaps things that twenty
29:05
Speaker 7: thirty years ago might not have made the headline.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely don't fall with the crew and I thank you
29:09
Speaker 2: so much, Gavin Gray from the UK. Or Meanwhile, I'm
29:12
Speaker 2: seeing the BBC reporting that the Northern Lights are back
29:15
Speaker 2: in big time and that means that the Australia, the
29:17
Speaker 2: Aurora Australia is the southern lights. Our lights are back
29:20
Speaker 2: as well, and apparently you're going to get a good
29:22
Speaker 2: displayed this weekend. It is ten to six. All right,
29:26
Speaker 2: our our climate targets getting in the way of our productivity.
29:29
Speaker 2: Both act in New Zealand first have pledged to pull
29:31
Speaker 2: out of the Paris Accords on their serious changes have made.
29:34
Speaker 2: They say this is to stop putting pressure on farmers.
29:36
Speaker 2: So how do farmers feel about this move? Wayne Langford
29:40
Speaker 2: is Fed Farmers National President and joins me, Now go
29:43
Speaker 2: on into your.
29:43
Speaker 12: Wayne, Good morning, Andrew.
29:45
Speaker 2: What do you reckon?
29:47
Speaker 12: I mean it's the start of an encouraging conversation, but
29:51
Speaker 12: I mean it's a bit of political bostero and I
29:54
Speaker 12: think really well, we'd like is some action being taken
29:56
Speaker 12: to to actually make those changes rather than just talking
29:58
Speaker 12: about it.
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Speaker 2: You all know that the players Climate Accords for the
30:02
Speaker 2: globe and not working. The omission trading scheme is not working.
30:05
Speaker 2: It needs to be changed. But wood pulling out of
30:09
Speaker 2: the accords actually put us in the naughty corner and
30:12
Speaker 2: hurt farmers more.
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Speaker 12: Well, that's you know, that's certainly one view on it.
30:17
Speaker 12: That the challenge for us is why the government just
30:20
Speaker 12: getting on and making the changes that are needed so
30:23
Speaker 12: that not only the rules that can prosper, but also
30:26
Speaker 12: the rest of the New Zealand compostor because actually mentioned
30:28
Speaker 12: it is holding back some of the New Zealand's prosperity.
30:31
Speaker 12: And that's what the two parties they're talking about. They're saying, Hey,
30:35
Speaker 12: how do we adjust this to make this a fit
30:38
Speaker 12: better of what New Zealand is? Well, the last time
30:40
Speaker 12: I checked, how you guys are in government? Why don't
30:42
Speaker 12: you change it?
30:42
Speaker 2: Get on and door, So let me get this right.
30:45
Speaker 2: Are you saying, yes, stay in the Paris Climate Accords,
30:48
Speaker 2: but for God's sake, try and make some changes to
30:50
Speaker 2: the whole things. Meanwhile, earn our domestic economy, make things
30:53
Speaker 2: more rational.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, what we're saying is the climate rules will set
30:57
Speaker 12: for ourselves a New Zealand hero. What causing the problem
31:00
Speaker 12: not necessarily the Paris Agreement in itself. So we've got
31:03
Speaker 12: overly ambitious methane targets where we're planning. We're doing full
31:07
Speaker 12: farm from conversions into forestry conversions. But we were still
31:11
Speaker 12: talking about planning pricing egg commissions. Why don't we just
31:16
Speaker 12: scrapple that. Why don't we get that sorted so that
31:19
Speaker 12: farmers know where we're sitting and we know what we're
31:22
Speaker 12: doing in the country.
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Speaker 2: I'm getting a few techs some farmers right now who's saying, look,
31:25
Speaker 2: I'm carbon neutral already. You know, we're actually doing a
31:27
Speaker 2: very good job of producing very efficient meat with as
31:30
Speaker 2: low a mission as you can possibly have. So are
31:34
Speaker 2: farmers getting more appreciated with this new government than before?
31:38
Speaker 12: Definitely, definitely they are. And we're certainly seeing that in
31:41
Speaker 12: the results that we're getting thrown our surveying as well.
31:44
Speaker 12: And while there is a lot of sentiment out there
31:47
Speaker 12: around going out of Paris, I think when you dig
31:50
Speaker 12: deeper and they're look into what's actually holding Paris packet
31:52
Speaker 12: is actually what we're setting on ourselves as the government.
31:55
Speaker 12: And that's what that's what we're saying about this announcement.
31:57
Speaker 12: He we appreciate the conversation. We like what you're talking
32:00
Speaker 12: about here both acting news on person. But by the
32:03
Speaker 12: way you guys are in government, you guys can make
32:06
Speaker 12: these changes. Now, just get on and make these changes
32:08
Speaker 12: that farmers have got a clear road to heat.
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Speaker 2: Wayne, I thank you so much. Wayne Langford from Federated
32:13
Speaker 2: Farmers News Talks at b It is seven to six.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
32:18
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32:23
Speaker 1: where you live, news talks.
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Speaker 2: At be so, as I said this morning, you don't
32:26
Speaker 2: need a towny on the radio talking about the Climate
32:28
Speaker 2: Accords for farmers. So here's a text from farmer called Grunt,
32:32
Speaker 2: and Grant says, I'm a small farm. I have plenty
32:34
Speaker 2: of trees and grass on the property to combat carbon
32:37
Speaker 2: Our country shouldn't do anything different. We are relatively carbon neutral,
32:42
Speaker 2: and we produce the best meat, and God knows the
32:44
Speaker 2: world needs the meat. And as I said before, we're
32:46
Speaker 2: kind of a benign polluter compared to everybody else. And
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Speaker 2: Mike Hosking joins me, now, good morning morning A.
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Speaker 13: Hoggard on this former head of pharmacyse Days and ACTMP.
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Speaker 13: Of course, it's I don't subscribe to that old argument,
32:58
Speaker 13: the old argument that you know, we don't pull. Therefore,
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Speaker 13: the whole idea behind it was that we play our part,
33:03
Speaker 13: we are seen to do our part. And the most
33:06
Speaker 13: relevant argument I've heard this morning is the trade connection,
33:09
Speaker 13: because a lot of people write it into FDA's and
33:13
Speaker 13: so it's carbon miles and all that sort of stuff.
33:15
Speaker 13: But ultimately, if it doesn't work, which it isn't, and
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Speaker 13: it never was going to. Then you've got to ask
33:20
Speaker 13: the question eventually, don't you If it's not working and
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Speaker 13: we're not doing what it's set out to do, what's
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Speaker 13: the point.
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Speaker 2: That's the point. But at the same time, if you
33:27
Speaker 2: pull out and then at the European say, oh well,
33:29
Speaker 2: we're not going to take any of your milkle meat
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Speaker 2: to me.
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Speaker 13: Said that America is pulling out bad knock in Britain
33:35
Speaker 13: when she gets to be Prime minister, which she will
33:37
Speaker 13: or that party will one day.
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Speaker 2: They're pulling out.
33:39
Speaker 13: So there's a move on. So I see more simply
33:42
Speaker 13: reading the room. So well, talk to hohog out about
33:43
Speaker 13: that and the tourism numbers this morning as well. And
33:45
Speaker 13: a wine by the way, got some very good news
33:47
Speaker 13: on one and a blow. The best story actually is
33:49
Speaker 13: the bloke who's won a competition to design Liam Lawson's
33:53
Speaker 13: helmet and has won it.
33:55
Speaker 2: Lawson picked the winner.
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Speaker 13: He's won it, prize trip to Singapore to hand it
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Speaker 13: to him on the head of the F one Grand Prix.
34:02
Speaker 13: How good.
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Speaker 2: So that's great, awesome Grand Prix at night, Lovely Town,
34:07
Speaker 2: have a great show, Mike, Thank you so much for
34:09
Speaker 2: the producer. Kenzie I'm Andrew Dick and see you again tomorrow.
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