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Full Show Podcast: 26 November 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: Earli ereditiaw with r the Supercenter explore r V successories
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Speaker 2: That'd be good morning. Welcome to Wednesday six after five.
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Speaker 2: Coming up, we'll speak to the Turkey voting for Christmas,
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Speaker 2: on regional councils, getting the shop and Gavin Gray's in
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Speaker 2: the UK for US is always more good news on
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Speaker 2: maths from Stanford. It's ocr day today. Nick Tuffley on that,
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Speaker 2: and there's a tax coming out of the UK and
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Speaker 2: we don't like taxes, but this one actually seems quite reasonable.
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Speaker 2: The agenda Wednesday the twenty six in November, peace coming
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Speaker 2: to Ukraine. While there's a question mark still all of
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Speaker 2: this is off the record, officials briefing the press, that
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Speaker 2: sort of thing, but they reckon they've agreed to a
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Speaker 2: deal in principle. The outline of a deal. Russia is
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Speaker 2: apparently still not moving an inch from the og Us plan.
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Speaker 3: We expect to receive the version they consider interim after
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Speaker 3: the coordination phase with the Europeans and Ukrainians and then
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Speaker 3: were its because if the spirits and letter of anchorage,
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Speaker 3: the key understandings we recorded are stripped out, it will
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Speaker 3: be a fundamentally different situation. But for now, I repeat,
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Speaker 3: we have not received anything officially.
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Speaker 2: Absolute chimozzle in space from China. They're rushing to rescue
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Speaker 2: three astronauts stranded on the space station. The unnamed Shinzu
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Speaker 2: twenty two has been launched months early after the crew's
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Speaker 2: original ride home was given to another team when their
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Speaker 2: capsule was damaged by space debris.
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Speaker 4: They're not due to come back till next April. But
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Speaker 4: what if there's an emergency? What if something went wrong
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Speaker 4: with the Tangong Space Station? What if one of them
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Speaker 4: had an injury or something like that? Day would be
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Speaker 4: feeling much better today because what's happened is a rocket
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Speaker 4: has taken off from western China and a new module
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Speaker 4: has now successfully docked on the station, giving them the
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Speaker 4: ability to return home.
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Speaker 2: Can't just uberhim? Can you finally remember this classic with
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Speaker 2: Robin Williams?
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Speaker 5: Help me do him?
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Speaker 2: At fifty six year old Italian man has been caught
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Speaker 2: pollowing a real life misdoubtfire, dressing up as his dead
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Speaker 2: mother to keep claiming her pension. He did her death,
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Speaker 2: had her death, I should say for three years even
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Speaker 2: turning up to renew her ID card and a wig
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Speaker 2: with makeup on and wait for it, pearls around his neck.
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Speaker 2: Staff clocked the deep voice, the thick neck and called
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Speaker 2: the police because he was a bloke.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and r the Supercenter explore v his accessories
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Speaker 1: and servicing Paul.
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Speaker 2: In one news talks he'd been would you think you
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Speaker 2: would get away with that? Maybe his mum was manly.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. Nine two ninety two is the number
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Speaker 2: to text I say this morning, Go Peter Berling, Go
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Speaker 2: Peter Berling. I've spoken to lots of people who've worked
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Speaker 2: with him, interviewed him loads. The guy doesn't really have
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Speaker 2: an egg, well not in an annoying way, like all
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Speaker 2: athletes have egos because you need one. It's almost like
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Speaker 2: an occupational hazard. But he's not an egg. He's an
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Speaker 2: ego without an ego, but not an egg. Is an
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Speaker 2: Epeter Berling and Grant Dalton. On the other hand, the
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Speaker 2: statement he put out yesterday, this is after Berlin's podcast
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Speaker 2: episode came out. It was a little on the nose,
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Speaker 2: I thought. Basically, Berling said, Team New Zealand wanted too
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Speaker 2: much control over his time, which would affect other things
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Speaker 2: that he's doing. And then Dalton basically comes out and
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Speaker 2: said Berling wasn't giving the team his full attention and
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Speaker 2: you need the full attention to win, which doesn't really
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Speaker 2: make sense, does it. Because he was doing sale GPS,
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Speaker 2: doing a bunch of other team other things last time,
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Speaker 2: still won the cup, didn't he. And there's definitely ego
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Speaker 2: involved on that side of the coin, I think, and
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Speaker 2: the stakes are pretty high. If we lose, everyone's going
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Speaker 2: to be furious with Grant Dalton, aren't they. He'll be
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Speaker 2: public enemy number one, you thought Netbele news Zell and
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Speaker 2: cop bad over Dame Nils. Just wait for the blowback
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Speaker 2: on this one if the wind doesn't go our way,
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge. After five news talks there B have we
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Speaker 2: had some numbers from We'll talk to Nick Tuffley from
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Speaker 2: ASB on the OCR today, but we had some numbers
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Speaker 2: yesterday from the Reserve Bank. We get a dashboard tomorrow
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Speaker 2: for September which tells you how each individual banks results
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Speaker 2: and positions are going. But we got overall numbers yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Overall net interest margins are at two point three percent.
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Speaker 2: That is down from two point three four percent both
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Speaker 2: one and two years ago. From the same quarter a
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Speaker 2: year ago, bank net interest income was down sixteen percent. Overall,
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Speaker 2: the asset base, which is basically their loans, are up
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Speaker 2: six point two percent from a year ago at seven
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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty nine billion. So what are we going
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Speaker 2: to do with our mortgage insistrates? That's really the question
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Speaker 2: we want to answer this morning. We'll speak to Nick
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Speaker 2: Tuffley asb next.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on earlier today with r V Supercenter explore
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Speaker 1: r VS eccessories and servicing all in one news talks'bi
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Speaker 1: PO thirteen.
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Speaker 2: I told you yesterday this was going to happen, and
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Speaker 2: it's happened. So they're basically this is the regional council
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Speaker 2: stuff that they're going to get rid of them and
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Speaker 2: then bring in these new boards which the mayors, the
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Speaker 2: existing mayors of a region will sit on and then
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Speaker 2: make decisions about the region as a whole. It's interesting
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Speaker 2: that the reaction did you see on the news last night?
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Speaker 2: They got a one of the regional councilors on who said,
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Speaker 2: I'd like to start by extending my condolences to my
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Speaker 2: fellow regional council colleagues, and I went, oh, no one cares.
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Speaker 2: Can you tell me? And this is a genuine question.
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Speaker 2: Nineteen nine two the number to text. What have you
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Speaker 2: ever got from a regional council? Tell me? Fire up
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Speaker 2: the text machine. Fourteen minutes after five, we're going to
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Speaker 2: speak to Hillary Calvert, who you might know the name
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Speaker 2: was an act MP and now sits on the Otago
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Speaker 2: Regional Council. She's actually kind of for it. She's with
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Speaker 2: us before six five fourteen. It's a final OCR day
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Speaker 2: for the year. Economists expecting the reserve banks cut by
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Speaker 2: twenty five basis points to two point twenty five, leaving
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Speaker 2: the door open for further easing if the economy continues
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Speaker 2: to stumble. Nick Toughly ASBCHV economist with us this morning. Nick,
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Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning. Do you know what regional councils do, Nick?
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Speaker 6: Well, I'm sure they sort of look after the water
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Speaker 6: and the environmental standards, but I don't know that they
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Speaker 6: do any OCI decision.
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Speaker 2: No, they don't, and which is what you're here to
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Speaker 2: talk about. We're expecting a quarter point cut, a quarter
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Speaker 2: percent cutness the today later today. What are we expecting
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Speaker 2: beyond that?
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Speaker 6: It's really going to be very much a focus on
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Speaker 6: what is the Reserve Bank judging is the likelihood that
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Speaker 6: it needs to cut further, and we expect it will
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Speaker 6: keep the door wide open to taking further action if
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Speaker 6: it needs to next year. So it's just got that
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Speaker 6: rock and a hard place at the moment where it
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Speaker 6: looks like the economy is starting to turn up, but
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Speaker 6: it's going to be away on holiday for three months
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Speaker 6: and it will be just wanting to use that period
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Speaker 6: to really gauge whether we are getting enough of a
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Speaker 6: recovery to come through to stop inflation calling too far
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Speaker 6: in the longer term?
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Speaker 2: Do you agree Nick with Kievy Bank? They said that
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Speaker 2: we should have gone lower sooner and we're now basically
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Speaker 2: having to do a mop up job.
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Speaker 6: Look, there's a degree of that in the sense that
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Speaker 6: the Reserve Bank paused earlier on this year ended up
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Speaker 6: having to restart and even cut slightly more aggressively. But look,
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Speaker 6: it has been a challenging time because, let's face it,
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Speaker 6: inflation has been sticky and the Reserve Bank was steering
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Speaker 6: inflation picking back up which it has to three percent,
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Speaker 6: and worrying that it may hold up there again. With
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Speaker 6: those memories of seven percent inflation, probably we'll see it
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Speaker 6: into our brains a bit as well.
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Speaker 2: If you've got a mortgage, our longer term fixed rates
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Speaker 2: already bottoming out.
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Speaker 6: Do we think they are getting close to that? And look,
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Speaker 6: that's where I think the messages today going to be
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Speaker 6: quite critical for that because as long as the Reserve
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Speaker 6: Bank keeps the door open that it could cut next
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Speaker 6: year if it needs to, that's going to help keep
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Speaker 6: the the wholesale rates and the mortgage rates two mortgage
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Speaker 6: rates contained. You know, if they give a signal say hey, lot,
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Speaker 6: we think we've done the job, you know, there's a
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Speaker 6: rest that you do start to see rates sort of
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Speaker 6: pop back up a little bit. So, look, we're getting
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Speaker 6: near the end of the declines and mortgage rates, so
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Speaker 6: sort of it's a time to start sort of thinking
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Speaker 6: about what the trade offs are for people about you know,
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Speaker 6: whether they do look to fix longer or not, whether
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Speaker 6: that's something that's in their interests.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate your time, Nick Tuffley, asb Chief Economists for expecting
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Speaker 2: that decision from the Reserve Bank sou after noon sixteen
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Speaker 2: after five over in the U is the FED decision
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Speaker 2: is happening next month so you've got a December decision
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Speaker 2: and they're basically divided. The problem they've got there is
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Speaker 2: you've got job growth which is kind of stagnant. You've
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Speaker 2: got inflation, which is their target is two percent, but
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Speaker 2: they're closer to three percent. And the committee's divided do
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Speaker 2: we cut or do we not cut? And two of
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Speaker 2: Powell's allies to IMpower THEE chair are kind of out
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Speaker 2: there in the last twenty four hours laying the groundwork
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Speaker 2: for a cut. So you've got a guy called John
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Speaker 2: Williams and Mary Daily. They have indicated support for a cut,
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Speaker 2: and so the markets are now expecting a cut, a cut,
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Speaker 2: and then hold cut and do nothing for a while,
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Speaker 2: which kind of adds to the argument that reserve banks,
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Speaker 2: and this is what markets have been saying, is that
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Speaker 2: reserve banks around the world aren't really that interested in
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Speaker 2: taming and inflation these days. It is not really the thing,
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Speaker 2: even though it's meant to be the thing that they do.
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Speaker 2: Five to seventeen, News Talk said, be good news on education, next.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning, and the in Depth
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Speaker 1: Analysis Early edition with Ryan Bridge and r V Supercenter
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Speaker 2: Ad be Well, the verdict descent on regional councils. None
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Speaker 2: of you like them, Ryan. All regional councils do is
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Speaker 2: piss everybody off.
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Speaker 1: Ryan.
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Speaker 2: All I've got from regional councils is Gary is problems
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Speaker 2: and barriers, true, says Ryan. Here in Todonger, all we
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Speaker 2: get is a six hundred dollar bill. Three hundred and
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Speaker 2: sixty of that is for a bus service which no
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Speaker 2: one uses. Ryan. All I ever got from e Can
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Speaker 2: was rates are bills, and this one in Otago, our
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Speaker 2: Otago Regional Council has just got a brand new building
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Speaker 2: to work in, which was totally unnecessary. That's how lucky
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Speaker 2: we are, not says Joy Joy. Not very joyous this
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Speaker 2: morning anyway. Diane what's her name, Diane Colvit or is
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Speaker 2: it yes? Sorry, Hillary Calvit. She's on the show just
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Speaker 2: before six. She works in that building, so we'll ask
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Speaker 2: her about that. To twenty after five.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: More good news from the government's education reforms. In just
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Speaker 2: twelve weeks. Year seven and eight's on a maths acceleration
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Speaker 2: trial for extra support made on average a year to
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Speaker 2: two years progress in the space of twelve weeks and
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Speaker 2: the rest just doing an hour of maths a day,
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Speaker 2: the basics also made a full year's progress in that time.
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Speaker 2: Chris Abercrombie the PPTA with me this morning, Chris, good morning,
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Speaker 2: How are you good? Thank you? So this is this
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Speaker 2: is more good news. Do we think something I don't know?
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Speaker 2: Is there something in the water. Is there something perhaps
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Speaker 2: from Wellington happening that's working?
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Speaker 7: Well?
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Speaker 8: We know an intensive intervention does support young people. You know,
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Speaker 8: when you get that one on one time, that small group,
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Speaker 8: it definitely makes progress. So it's great to see.
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Speaker 2: Great, So we need more of it.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely, and we need to have a different year levels
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Speaker 8: as well. So one of the things we really want
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Speaker 8: is to get that support into year nine, ten and
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Speaker 8: year eleven for those students who sort of have missed
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Speaker 8: out on some of the support there for literacy and nuiracy.
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Speaker 8: So hopefully this can be rolled out in other year levels.
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Speaker 2: Great, and what about the data for those who aren't
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Speaker 2: in the accelerated program. But just you know, your general
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Speaker 2: students who are doing an hour of math today with
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Speaker 2: the new books and all that sort of stuff, they
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Speaker 2: are showing massive improvement too.
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Speaker 8: Again, know they say, like when they've got the intense focus,
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Speaker 8: it's definitely going to have a benefit. So it's good
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Speaker 8: to say that numeracy is increasing.
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Speaker 2: Great. Why did we stop the intense focus on basics?
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Speaker 8: Oh, I wouldn't say we stopped the intense focus. It's
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Speaker 8: just that we've we had different ways of doing it,
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Speaker 8: and this is another way of doing it. But one
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Speaker 8: of the issues with intense focus is that it is
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Speaker 8: resource heavy. And that's you know, and that's fine as
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Speaker 8: long as that resource continues. It is a very resource
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Speaker 8: heavy way of doing it, but it's not a necessarily
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Speaker 8: bad thing, just that resource needs to continue.
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Speaker 2: What's resource heavy about doing an hour of math today?
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Speaker 8: Well, everything about it in the in the intensive part
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Speaker 8: of it, the twelve week program, the hour of day
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Speaker 8: is having that focus means you need to do less
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Speaker 8: of other things and you have to have resources to
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Speaker 8: make sure you can do that and focus. So be
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Speaker 8: it the textbooks, as you mentioned, the teacher time, the
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Speaker 8: expert time, that's all resource heavy.
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Speaker 2: But what were they doing if I understand that, yes,
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Speaker 2: you have to spend an hour on maths today, but
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Speaker 2: but what else were they doing?
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Speaker 8: Well, there's other things. It's a very broad curriculum.
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Speaker 2: Was that a bad idea? Was that a bad idea?
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Speaker 8: I mean, like, you know, this is the thing.
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Speaker 2: Is that but you can do you can do art
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Speaker 2: at home, crest, can't you? I mean you've got to
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Speaker 2: learn message at home, can you? Well? No, most parents
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Speaker 2: probably wouldn't be able to teach their kids maths. Most
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Speaker 2: of them can probably give them a paintbrush and let
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Speaker 2: them go nuts.
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Speaker 8: I have more faith and parents about teaching maths. I
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Speaker 8: teach my kids maths, So I'm not a math teacher.
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Speaker 8: I think I think it's they're doing a bit of
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Speaker 8: a disserviced appearance. But what I'm saying is that there's
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Speaker 8: always trade offs in these decisions. So and that's and
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Speaker 8: that's perfectly fine as long as we're all willing to
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Speaker 8: deal with those trade offs.
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Speaker 2: I think we are. Do you think Erica Stamford is
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Speaker 2: the best education minister we've had in decades?
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Speaker 9: Are on?
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Speaker 8: You know, I'm not going to answer a silly question
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Speaker 8: like that.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate your time. Chris Chris Abercrombie, PPTA President, twenty four
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Speaker 2: After five News Talks VB.
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Speaker 2: Five, twenty six News Talks. Heb, oh, look, I'm not
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Speaker 2: that old, but I'm part of a generation that grew
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Speaker 2: up pre cell phones. Grew up at a time where
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Speaker 2: presents were usually clothing that you needed. Toys were chatterings, marbles,
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Speaker 2: maybe a skateboard if you were really lucky. There was
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Speaker 2: no picky eating. Did you hear about this last week?
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Speaker 2: If you didn't finish what was on you played at dinner,
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Speaker 2: you didn't get a treat afterwards, and treats were usually
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Speaker 2: fruit or a RaRo sachet if you managed to sneak
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Speaker 2: one out of the pantry. There were no snacks. If
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Speaker 2: you were hungry before dinner, Mum would say, drink a
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Speaker 2: glass of water. Goodness me. School was basic. It was maths, reading, writing,
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Speaker 2: a bit of everything else. What we're learning as a
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Speaker 2: society is that where collectively we have taken our eye
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Speaker 2: off the ball, we've taken parenting to a level beyond usefulness.
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Speaker 2: Do we need cheap, imported asbestos sand to engage toddlers? No,
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Speaker 2: we don't. Do we need one thousand fun school subjects
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Speaker 2: in place of decent time on basic ones, No we don't.
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Speaker 2: Do we need to tiptoe around kids not eating their veggies,
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Speaker 2: as was suggested yesterday, for fear that they may develop
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Speaker 2: some kind of eating disorder. No we don't do They
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Speaker 2: all need cell phones that helicopter parents message constantly while
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Speaker 2: their kids should be learning at school. No we don't.
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Speaker 2: We didn't then and we don't now. And the results
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Speaker 2: speak for themselves. The Aussies abandon social media. Cell phone
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Speaker 2: bands in schools here are working. According to those results, yesterday,
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Speaker 2: students forced to do an hour of good old fashioned
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Speaker 2: maths a day made a full year's progress in just
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Speaker 2: twelve weeks. Kids are fatter than ever because of what
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Speaker 2: we're feeding them, so the meal time passive parenting thing
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Speaker 2: clearly ain't working. The good news is that it's not
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Speaker 2: too late to turn all this around. Frankly, parents and
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Speaker 2: teachers are the ones who need to grow up and
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Speaker 2: show leadership here, not the kids. The kids will follow
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Speaker 2: the lead. And the best news of all is that
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Speaker 2: most of this stuff is easier and cheaper. We've set
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Speaker 2: expectations too high, boundaries too low, and our kids are
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Speaker 2: paying the price. Ryan Bridge, twenty eight minutes after five
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Speaker 2: nine the number to text Wayne Brown yesterday, and this
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Speaker 2: is quite funny. I didn't know the Palestine protests people
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Speaker 2: are still going, but apparently they are. This happened in
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Speaker 2: the council meeting yesterday.
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Speaker 5: Free Free Palestine, Free be.
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Speaker 8: Ryan.
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Speaker 2: Honestly is that PPTA guy for real? Parents can teach
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Speaker 2: children maths from home. Lots of parents can't be bothered
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Speaker 2: sending their kids to school. What a fool, says Ryan.
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Speaker 2: Chris would have loved jan Tanisi though. I imagine see
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Speaker 2: this is the problem. The unions lose all credibility. When
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Speaker 2: something good happens, you just say, yeah, this is good,
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Speaker 2: and if you really care about kids, you say, yeah,
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Speaker 2: we should do more of it. To be fair, he
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Speaker 2: didn't say that. He just doesn't want to give any
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Speaker 2: credit to the current lot. They coming up after news.
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Speaker 2: We're in the UK. There is talk that Ukraine is
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Speaker 2: agreeing to a peace plan with the Russians, and Broken
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Speaker 2: by America will have the latest on that. News talks there'd.
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Speaker 10: Be the first word on the news of the day
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Speaker 1: All in one news talks.
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Speaker 2: A'd be too far away from the six news Talks.
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Speaker 2: They'd be great to have your company coming up, Lord Culling,
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Speaker 2: regional councils will do that before six. And we're in
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Speaker 2: London as well. We're streeting who's the health secretary over there.
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Speaker 2: He's in out because they've got the budget obviously, and
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Speaker 2: so they're announcing a few of their we taxes that
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Speaker 2: they're getting and even though they said they wouldn't do
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Speaker 2: any more taxes, they're doing more taxes. But this one
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Speaker 2: I can kind of get on board with and I
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Speaker 2: want to test the waters with you see where you're
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Speaker 2: at with it too. So Labor there has confirmed it's
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Speaker 2: extending their sugar tax. This is for soft drinks, you know, pepsi, coke,
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Speaker 2: that kind of thing. But also what they're labeling it today,
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Speaker 2: this is the opposition, is a milkshake tax, because there
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Speaker 2: was an exemption for milk based drinks that's now being
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Speaker 2: scrapped and the levy is being lowered from five grams
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Speaker 2: of sugar poo one hundred mils to four point five
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Speaker 2: grams of sugar pool one hundred mils. So basically more
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Speaker 2: drinks would be caught up in all of this, and
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Speaker 2: they are saying not this is a crackdown on obesity,
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Speaker 2: but also quite helpful for them given their current situation,
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Speaker 2: financial situation. It'll let them they reckon an extra hundred
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Speaker 2: million bucks a year, thank you very much. Now, the
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Speaker 2: reason I think this is if I don't like taxes,
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Speaker 2: No one likes taxes. But if you're going to do
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Speaker 2: a tax, if you have to do a tax, I
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Speaker 2: think you could do worse than a sugar tax, because
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Speaker 2: I mean, look at that last week we learnt about
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Speaker 2: is it twenty forty five? Every dollar in tax we
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Speaker 2: pay will go on just health and super health and
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Speaker 2: super and the fatter and more obese we make children
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Speaker 2: and allow children to become, the more health problems they
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Speaker 2: will have down the line, the more it costs the
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Speaker 2: health system. So I would tax the hell out of sugar,
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Speaker 2: and I would give people who are on low incomes.
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Speaker 2: I would give them, you know, like on a community
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Speaker 2: services card. Whole foods would be discounted. You'd flip that
19:43
Speaker 2: whole thing on its head, surely, wouldn't you? Nine two
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Speaker 2: nine two the number it is twenty two away from six.
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Speaker 2: Bryan Bread, Let's go around the country. Calum Propter and
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Speaker 2: Tonedan Callum, good morning morning. Right, you've got the Alpine
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Speaker 2: Lakes Forum kicking off in Wonica today. Yeah.
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Speaker 11: This is a two day fresh water event bringing together
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Speaker 11: mar the Fenua researchers, policymakers and community leaders are discussing
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Speaker 11: how to protect our region's deep alpine lakes. The lakes
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Speaker 11: healths are under pressure from land use change, nutrient in puts,
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Speaker 11: climate variability and biodiversity decline. Why Warnacher's hosting the forum
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Speaker 11: The CEO's Cat Dylan. He says bridging the gap between
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Speaker 11: research and actions the key to protecting these lakes. He says,
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Speaker 11: real change happens when we work together to turn knowledge
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Speaker 11: into action for healthy waterways. And note the Otago Regional
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Speaker 11: Council will be represented at the meeting.
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Speaker 2: For now callum for now. Hey, how's your weather?
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Speaker 11: Rain Clears to find this morning. Gusty northwest is here today,
20:41
Speaker 11: so the High twenty eight.
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Speaker 2: Cheers, Mate Clears and christ this morning.
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Speaker 12: Claire, good morning.
20:46
Speaker 2: This is very tragic, but it's an unforgiving mountain. As
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Speaker 2: an Adaki Mount Cook it is.
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Speaker 12: This was terrible yesterday Ryan, when we found out that
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Speaker 12: there had been some sort of rescue mission around Aldaki
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Speaker 12: Mount Cook late the night before. We then found that
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Speaker 12: two people had died after a fall there at around midnight.
21:07
Speaker 12: What we know is that these two climbers were part
21:09
Speaker 12: of a group of four. We now know that there
21:12
Speaker 12: were two guides and two clients, one of each have
21:16
Speaker 12: died in this tragedy. They were roped together and completing
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Speaker 12: its reverse of the country's highest peak when they fell
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Speaker 12: and died.
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Speaker 13: Now it is.
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Speaker 12: Thought that this tragedy is an unfortunate reminder of how
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Speaker 12: unforgiving this environment is. Mountain Safety Council Chief Executive Mike
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Speaker 12: Daisley says, while it's a beautiful environment for people to explore,
21:35
Speaker 12: small mistakes can have very tough consequences. He says conditions
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Speaker 12: on the mountain have actually been ideal lately, drawing many
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Speaker 12: climbers to the summit in recent days.
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Speaker 2: I was reading yesterday something like two hundred and forty
21:48
Speaker 2: people have died on that mountain since the start of
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Speaker 2: the twentieth century, which is an incredible thing, and dozens
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Speaker 2: of them have never been found.
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Speaker 12: I was about to say, many never recovered and some
21:58
Speaker 12: not so long ago. It's a terrible tragedy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it is. But also they had doing what
22:03
Speaker 2: they love, what they love. You know what I mean,
22:05
Speaker 2: there's a reason they go back. How's the weather today
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Speaker 2: clear here.
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Speaker 12: In christ Church, mostly cloudy. There is a few spots
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Speaker 12: of morning rain. Northeasterly's turning northwest and the high will
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Speaker 12: be twenty nine.
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Speaker 2: Nice thanks oh twenty nine goodness met? Thanks clear. Max
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Speaker 2: in Wellington, Good morning, Max, good morning. Got a couple
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Speaker 2: of new sites for Wellingtonians.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: I heard the comments by the Venerable mister Hosking on
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Speaker 7: Monday saying are from sound a little gloomy and with
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Speaker 7: that some cheerful positivity in the capitol. We have a
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Speaker 7: new arts venue for one the city's oldest cinema, the Paramount, Sir,
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Speaker 7: which is.
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Speaker 2: Mess that it's pot kittle black. He's mister gloomy every
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Speaker 2: day of the year.
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Speaker 7: Well I for one vow to from here on out
22:44
Speaker 7: have a sunny disposition. The Paramount along Courtney Place upstairs
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Speaker 7: the old cinema being repurposed as a place to watch music, comedy, theater, etc.
22:54
Speaker 7: During the annual Fringe Festival next year. Beautiful loft space,
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Speaker 7: open air rooftop. It's it's been quite a shame. Actually,
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Speaker 7: it hasn't been in use for some time now, since
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Speaker 7: twenty seventeen and hopefully it can last beyond this February
23:06
Speaker 7: Arts Festival also got a new sculpture installed at Whitehangy Park,
23:11
Speaker 7: a very large sort of upside down steel orb that's
23:14
Speaker 7: been installed along one of the paths. It was designed
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Speaker 7: and made by a South Korean artist, made for six
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Speaker 7: hundred thousand dollars. But thanks to fundraising by the Wellington
23:25
Speaker 7: Sculpture Trust, you've got that now down at the Waterfront
23:28
Speaker 7: Park as well.
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Speaker 2: And upside down steel orb all right, must get to Wellington.
23:32
Speaker 2: That's to be fair good on them for fundraising and
23:35
Speaker 2: doing it that way. That's fantastic to hear. You haven't
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Speaker 2: mentioned the three hundred and thirty staff at Wellington Council
23:40
Speaker 2: that shouldn't be there, Max, Is that too, Nique?
23:43
Speaker 7: Well, you can go down two routes, can't you with
23:46
Speaker 7: these live crosses?
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Speaker 2: So are you saying for the rest of the year, Max,
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Speaker 2: you're going to be happy? I maybe for the rest
23:54
Speaker 2: of the week. Okay, how shall wear that?
23:58
Speaker 7: Mostly fine this morning and then some showers later? Strong
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Speaker 7: win twenty one the high.
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Speaker 2: Nceel and thank you Nevers and Auckland Hall.
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Speaker 14: I was ready to put some money on that.
24:06
Speaker 2: I know what yeah, I call be yes. Now what
24:10
Speaker 2: have you got about Brian Tommicky.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, well look he's trying once again, this is negative
24:15
Speaker 14: to disrupt traffic over Auckland Harbor Bridge. Yes, yes, So
24:18
Speaker 14: what is he doing. He's launching an application for a protest. Now,
24:20
Speaker 14: this is on January thirty first. Now I think people
24:23
Speaker 14: will remember that he had a march over the bridge planned.
24:26
Speaker 14: This was last month, but it didn't go ahead because
24:29
Speaker 14: Tamiki's claiming he decided not to go ahead with it.
24:32
Speaker 14: But NZTA says it refused permission. So the Transport Agency
24:36
Speaker 14: is now saying that Tamaki's made a new application. He
24:40
Speaker 14: made this new application on Monday for you know, this
24:43
Speaker 14: protest on January thirty first. Now you might be saying,
24:46
Speaker 14: with this new march, okay, what will he be protesting about?
24:50
Speaker 2: What is it this time?
24:51
Speaker 14: Immigration? This is the funniest one politicians who's morals he
24:54
Speaker 14: disagrees withhead'll be everyone.
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Speaker 2: Just so, But do you know what's annoying about this?
24:58
Speaker 2: We use that bridge. Just go and protest at a
25:01
Speaker 2: civic square exactly like Eden Park needs more events, Go
25:04
Speaker 2: and give them one. Just bugger right, that's right, annoying.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, that's our weather, Neva.
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Speaker 14: Partly cloudy, isolated shells twenty five not as high as
25:12
Speaker 14: Christich with your twenty nine, but twenty five.
25:15
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Speaker 2: Are we close to a deal on Ukraine? Gavin Gray?
26:36
Speaker 2: Are UK europe correspondent with Uskevin, how we looking?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
26:40
Speaker 5: I think we're edging there.
26:41
Speaker 3: So.
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Speaker 5: Roustom Umarov, he's the head of Ukraine's Security Council, has
26:46
Speaker 5: said that the US and Ukraine has quote reached a
26:49
Speaker 5: common understanding on the key terms of the agreement discussed
26:52
Speaker 5: at those talks in Geneva, and is also saying that
26:56
Speaker 5: they're trained to arrange a visit for President Lotiman Zelensky
27:00
Speaker 5: from Ukraine to visit the US meet Donald Trump quote
27:03
Speaker 5: at the earliest suitable date this month. So that would
27:07
Speaker 5: mean in the next three, four or five days or so,
27:09
Speaker 5: as the diplomatic attempts to end the war continue. Not
27:13
Speaker 5: quite sure yet how much, if any of Europe's input
27:18
Speaker 5: into this is going to count into the final solution.
27:22
Speaker 5: The counterproposals reportedly drafted by the uk France and Germany
27:28
Speaker 5: frankly have been dismissed by a Krimin officialist being completely unconstructed.
27:32
Speaker 5: But we'll wait to see what the details are about
27:35
Speaker 5: this after this meeting with Donald Trump. Incidentally, they'm afraid
27:38
Speaker 5: a night of violence and death with according to President Zelenski,
27:43
Speaker 5: twenty two missiles and more than four hundred and sixty
27:46
Speaker 5: drones launched at Ukraine overnight, resulting in the deaths of
27:50
Speaker 5: at least six people.
27:52
Speaker 2: Givin wiztrating expanding the sugar techs and now it'll apply
27:56
Speaker 2: to chocolate milk, presumably because there's no milk exemption to it.
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Speaker 2: Did people care about this? Did I think it's a
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Speaker 2: good idea, bad idea.
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Speaker 5: I think it's something the government might just have been
28:07
Speaker 5: keeping back to issue the day before the much heralded budget,
28:12
Speaker 5: in which the government will lay out its plans for
28:14
Speaker 5: the finances and the economy and the tax intake and
28:18
Speaker 5: the spending. That's all going to come in just about
28:21
Speaker 5: twenty two hours time from now. But this is something
28:24
Speaker 5: which most doctors agree with, a lot of medics agree with.
28:28
Speaker 5: Critics say it's you know, big nanny, big state getting
28:30
Speaker 5: involved in what people eat. But what this first started
28:33
Speaker 5: out was back in twenty eighteen, the previous government, previous
28:37
Speaker 5: political party brought in a levy aiming to reduce sugar
28:40
Speaker 5: consumption by giving manufacturers an incentive to use less sugar.
28:45
Speaker 5: And the government says the original tax had led to
28:47
Speaker 5: a forty six percent reduction in the sugar in fizzy drinks.
28:51
Speaker 5: Now it's going further. It is reducing the threshold at
28:54
Speaker 5: which tax applies from five grams of sugar per one
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Speaker 5: hundred milli liters to four point five. Now, if you think, well,
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Speaker 5: that's not going to make much difference, lots of the
29:03
Speaker 5: drinks manufacturers reduce things down to five percent to fall
29:08
Speaker 5: outside of the tax. Now they're going to have to
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Speaker 5: do it again. It's going to be interesting to see
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Speaker 5: how they get on.
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Speaker 2: So you get lesson less sugar. I appreciate your time.
29:14
Speaker 2: That's govin Gray. Our UK europe correspondent time is ten.
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Speaker 1: To six bridge.
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Speaker 2: So government wants to cull all eleven regional councils across
29:22
Speaker 2: the country. Instead, their consenting powers will be given to
29:25
Speaker 2: the city and district mayors, who will form another form
29:27
Speaker 2: of council to make region wide decisions. Hillary calverts Otago
29:31
Speaker 2: Regional Council chair with me this morning. Could be out
29:33
Speaker 2: of a job if these went through Hillary, Good morning,
29:36
Speaker 2: good morning thoughts.
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Speaker 13: Yes, it's sort of been a while coming regional councils
29:45
Speaker 13: and that there's the feeling that there's perhaps one too
29:50
Speaker 13: many layers of decisions and activity and local government in
29:55
Speaker 13: New Zealand, I think, and.
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Speaker 2: You agree with that, you'd be happy to be out
29:59
Speaker 2: of a job.
30:03
Speaker 13: Yes, I am probably one of the one of the
30:07
Speaker 13: turkeys who would organize Christmas. Not not because I would
30:14
Speaker 13: like to be out of a job, because I've just
30:16
Speaker 13: got into it and having been chosen as cheered by
30:19
Speaker 13: my fellow counselors. It is a bit sad the thought
30:24
Speaker 13: that I can't continue to do that, but for the
30:28
Speaker 13: sake of the Otago Region people and the ratepayers. I
30:35
Speaker 13: can see where the government's coming from.
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Speaker 2: How many staff work at the Otago Regional Council.
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Speaker 8: I think.
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Speaker 13: Three hundred and sixty eight to something. Wow, so there's
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Speaker 13: twice as many as there was six years.
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Speaker 15: Ago and are doing yeah, well, a lot of planning
31:02
Speaker 15: and that's probably an area that the government has particularly
31:05
Speaker 15: focused on because of what the awkwardness about planning is
31:11
Speaker 15: that the government makes rules like here's what water should
31:15
Speaker 15: be like, and you should go and make a plan
31:19
Speaker 15: about how are you going to do that, And then
31:21
Speaker 15: we go and make a plan about the water and
31:25
Speaker 15: that it's done every five years or whatever it's done.
31:29
Speaker 15: And then the people below us, the territorial authorities, then
31:34
Speaker 15: they make plans to carry out what we tell them
31:36
Speaker 15: to do. And that also is a plan that might
31:39
Speaker 15: be five yearly and it might have been two years
31:41
Speaker 15: after the plan that we've made, so and there's another
31:47
Speaker 15: one below that.
31:48
Speaker 13: So the government it's all out of step and it
31:53
Speaker 13: doesn't produce good, good results really because it hasn't got
31:59
Speaker 13: a clear pathway because.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's just sitting around writing plans, out of date ones
32:04
Speaker 2: at that. Hillary, appreciate your time this morning. Hillary calvet
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Speaker 2: Otago Regional Council Chair. Happy to be out of a job.
32:09
Speaker 2: By the way, the RMA reforms are coming by the
32:12
Speaker 2: end of the year and that will mean fewer plans,
32:15
Speaker 2: fewer consent categories, fewer consents needed, therefore less to do.
32:19
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Speaker 2: AB five to six on News Talks CBS. So we
32:33
Speaker 2: have seventy eight councils in New Zealand, including those territorial authorities.
32:37
Speaker 2: Yesterday we had a list of the most populated cities
32:40
Speaker 2: in the world. Come out. Jakarta has overtaken Tokyo as
32:43
Speaker 2: the world's largest city. Jakarta is forty two million people.
32:47
Speaker 2: Tokyo now number three, thirty three million people. Guess how
32:50
Speaker 2: many local governments they have in Tokyo for thirty three
32:53
Speaker 2: million people. Twenty three. There you go, Mike's here with
32:57
Speaker 2: you next. Good morning, Mike.
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Speaker 9: They'd have some different prefix you account as though, wouldn't they.
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Speaker 2: This is twenty three local council local governments, I'm told,
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Speaker 2: in total for that many people.
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Speaker 9: Problem is the interesting thing we'll have Old Chris Bishop
33:08
Speaker 9: on this morning. The interesting thing I think about the
33:11
Speaker 9: story is that it's it's a profound change, but no
33:14
Speaker 9: one cares so, in other words, because no one turned
33:17
Speaker 9: up to both no, so we couldn't give a monkey.
33:19
Speaker 9: So there's no point in complaining about it, or worrying
33:21
Speaker 9: about it or thinking about it, because you know, we
33:23
Speaker 9: spoke a couple of weeks ago, and you know, we
33:25
Speaker 9: couldn't even bothered participating.
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Speaker 2: So unless your labor who said this is terrible because
33:29
Speaker 2: it takes away a layer of decision.
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Speaker 9: As say everything they say everything is terrible. It's like
33:34
Speaker 9: your mate, what about your mate from the union. I mean,
33:36
Speaker 9: I mean that story is one of the great stories.
33:39
Speaker 9: You can't argue, just admit it. And it's just like say, excellent.
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Speaker 9: Well was he sounded so miserable, didn't he? He did
33:48
Speaker 9: well the RB today as well.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant Have a great day, everybody, see tomorrow.
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