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Duncan Bridgeman: NZME Managing Editor expresses his concerns with economic growth in the business community · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Right now to the juice the mood of the boardroom.
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  Speaker 1: How did our executive fear? This is basically our business
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  Speaker 1: leaders judging our politicians, and we all love a bit
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  Speaker 1: of that, don't we. Erica Stanford came out on top
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  Speaker 1: at number one of the choices here, four point zero
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  Speaker 1: one out of five, Simon Brown, Nichola Willis, and Chris
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  Speaker 1: Bishop up there too. Luxon came in sixth, Winston Peters seventh,
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  Speaker 1: David Seymour He's done in twelve, sandwiched between Andrew Bailey
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  Speaker 1: and Simon Watts. Overall, the sentiment seems to be quite
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  Speaker 1: good from our business leaders for the direction that the
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  Speaker 1: government is taking. And we're going now to Duncan Bridgman,
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  Speaker 1: who is the managing editor of nz enmy Business, for
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  Speaker 1: the mood of the boardroom. Dunkin, good morning, Oh, good morning, Ryan,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for being with me. What is the mood?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, as you said, they have ranked the politicians
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  Speaker 2: and that's one thing, but they've also given us an
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  Speaker 2: insight into their own thinking around the economy, how they
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  Speaker 2: think we are businesses will fare themselves, and the general
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  Speaker 2: kind of business environment. So there's one hundred and three
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  Speaker 2: Chief executives and a couple of years involved in this,
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  Speaker 2: and we go out to them in August and September
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  Speaker 2: with a range of questions. Now, as you touched on,
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  Speaker 2: we took they gave us feedback on the cabinet the
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  Speaker 2: government's top ranked politicians, and number one was Eric of Stanford,
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  Speaker 2: as you mentioned that, with the score of four point
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  Speaker 2: one out of five. Now that means that a very
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  Speaker 2: impressive is five and not very impressive as well. So
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  Speaker 2: she's obviously scoring well and the executives obviously liked what
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  Speaker 2: she's doing in the education portfolio. Obviously back to basics
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  Speaker 2: reform that's happening there. Christopher Luxen as Prime Minister, came
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  Speaker 2: in at six with three points seven three, so above average,
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  Speaker 2: but he is ranked six in the cabinet, so you
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  Speaker 2: know we're looking at that. And as you mentioned, there's
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  Speaker 2: some others in there, Chris Bishop Nicola Willis Judith Collins,
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  Speaker 2: all scoring well. So it's a pretty positive look at
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  Speaker 2: the at the top cabinet, right.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting the comments surrounding this saying the message seeming to
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  Speaker 1: be time to focus on the future, a positive future
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  Speaker 1: rather than just bashing labor. Kind of put that behind you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely there was a theme that came through. We've
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  Speaker 2: had a year now of the new government and yes
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  Speaker 2: they've had to what they describe as unwind a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things that were put in place. So the business
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  Speaker 2: community is saying, right, you've done that. Now is time
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  Speaker 2: to take some bold steps to really spurdy the economic
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  Speaker 2: growth that's needed. So I think there's definitely some uncertainty
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  Speaker 2: there around the delivery that Crystopher Lax and his team
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  Speaker 2: can can pull through. They're obviously making good headway on
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  Speaker 2: some things, but but then there's there's other constraints such
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  Speaker 2: as the things like cost blowouts and infrastructure projects. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the other big sort of issues with the Duneden Hospital
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  Speaker 2: and of course the very's infrastructure problems. So yeah, there's
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  Speaker 2: a bit of uncertainly whether whether that delivery will come
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  Speaker 2: through there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Duncan thank you very much for that. Duncan Bridgeman,
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  Speaker 1: who's the managing editor of NZ in me business, Go
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  Speaker 1: and pick up your copy of the Herald this morning.
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  Speaker 1: It's got the mood of the boardroom. If you are interested,
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  Speaker 1: there's a huge well, it's quite fake. I could probably
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  Speaker 1: make a sound if I dropped it on the desk.
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  Speaker 1: It's in the Herald today.
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