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Kara Biggs: Campaign for Wool's general manager celebrates new directive to use NZ wool in Government buildings · Best of Business

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  Speaker 1: Bright Iron Bread.
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  Speaker 2: Rich government is saying yes please to woolen insulation and
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  Speaker 2: carpets and government buildings over synthetic materials. From July. All
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  Speaker 2: government buildings worth more than nine million dollars and refurbishments
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  Speaker 2: with the price tag of one hundred thousand dollars or
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  Speaker 2: more must use Kiwi will quote where possible. This is
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  Speaker 2: all part of the New Zealand First coalition. Dear Winston,
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  Speaker 2: Peter's proud as punch.
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  Speaker 3: We are proud as a government as a party to
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  Speaker 3: back our farmers and rural sectors and there many thousands
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  Speaker 3: of workers.
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  Speaker 1: We are putting New Zealand wool first again.
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  Speaker 2: Kara Biggs is with the campaign for wool here and
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  Speaker 2: she's with me.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Hikara, Hello, Ryan, thanks for having us.
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  Speaker 2: You happy as Winston's.
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  Speaker 3: I think maybe can we be happier really ecstatic about this?
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  Speaker 3: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: What about the nine million dollar You know they're going
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  Speaker 2: to have to build buildings worth more than nine million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: How many of those are they doing well?
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to say. At the moment. But what they
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  Speaker 3: are doing is they are absolutely making sure that agencies
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  Speaker 3: within the government are making sure that they prioritize wool
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  Speaker 3: products within all of their builds. And not only that,
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  Speaker 3: I mean Nikola Wallace also willis Sorry, also said that
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  Speaker 3: she is asking agencies to report against why they haven't
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  Speaker 3: chosen wolves, So they really they don't really have a
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  Speaker 3: get out of jail free card. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say, there is that language still around,
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  Speaker 2: you know where possible. I think it says or as appropriate.
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  Speaker 2: Are you worried about that?
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  Speaker 3: So honestly I was, But having heard the three of
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  Speaker 3: them speak today, not so much. They will be asking
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  Speaker 3: for reports. They say, wool stacks up. They say, it's
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  Speaker 3: a value conversation. Now, it's not a cost conversation. And
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  Speaker 3: it's a long term play. So it's not just about
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  Speaker 3: how much this is going to cost now, it's what's
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  Speaker 3: the value for money in the long term. So now
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  Speaker 3: felt very much less worried about that.
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  Speaker 2: Wool is so good for so many different reasons. And
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  Speaker 2: I say this as the son in law of a
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  Speaker 2: sheep and beef farmer who and so I've kind of
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  Speaker 2: learned over the last few years but can you just
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  Speaker 2: tell us even the flammable qualities. You put a match
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  Speaker 2: up to a lighter up to this over the synthetic stuff,
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  Speaker 2: it's day night.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, one hundred percent. So if you put a
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  Speaker 3: match up to a synthetic product, it will basically melt,
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  Speaker 3: and it melts in a big gooey mess. It can
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  Speaker 3: melt onto skin. It causes all sorts of issues. If
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  Speaker 3: you have a wool product, it will ignite at a
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  Speaker 3: very high temperature, but to start with, it basically scorches.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why as kids we were all given you know,
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  Speaker 3: woolen back blankets on the end of our bed so
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  Speaker 3: that we could wrap ourselves up at them and you know,
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  Speaker 3: run out of a house fire will it will scorch,
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  Speaker 3: but it will not burn until it is a very
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  Speaker 3: very high ignition point.
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  Speaker 2: How much do you reckon it might be worth Kara
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  Speaker 2: something like.
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  Speaker 3: This, millions and millions. So basically it's not just what
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  Speaker 3: the government is putting in front of us. So I
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  Speaker 3: think Minister Patterson said we could easily double exports with this.
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  Speaker 3: Now obviously this isn't an export conversation, but what this
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  Speaker 3: will do is it will start to create more and
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  Speaker 3: more demand. So growers, manufacturers, brands, they will all read
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  Speaker 3: the benefits, the financial benefits from this decision.
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  Speaker 2: Today, CALA appreciate your time. Thank you very much. Kara Biggs.
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  Speaker 2: Suit's the general manager at the Campaign for WOOLL.
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