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Full Show Podcast: 28 January 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ramand Travers on
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Speaker 1: early edition with one roof make your Property search simple
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Speaker 1: news talks that'd be good a.
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Speaker 2: New Zealand Roman Travis here for early edition. In for
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge in before six this morning, Linda Keene is
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Speaker 2: the Tourism Council Chief Executive. She will talk to us
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Speaker 2: more about this change in policy for tourists so they
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Speaker 2: can keep working and have a good time. Isn't that
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Speaker 2: already what they're doing? What actually has changed? We'll find
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Speaker 2: out more with Linda in before six. Our international correspondent
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Speaker 2: this morning is Donna Demeyo with news out of Australia.
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Speaker 2: Jonathan Erickson. He's of Superannuation and Super Fun. The expert
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Speaker 2: how much money do you need to retire with? We're
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Speaker 2: always told you need shed loads and we'll find out
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Speaker 2: just how much that She is at about twenty past
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Speaker 2: five and very soon. Julie Chapman is the CEO of
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Speaker 2: Kids Can. With more and more children heading back to
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Speaker 2: school without what they need, why is that still happening
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five? As always, I love your feedback.
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Speaker 2: My email is a man at Newstalk ZIRB dot co
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Speaker 2: dot Nz at the text nine two ninety two the agenda.
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Speaker 2: It is Tuesday, the twenty eighth of January. US President
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump has dropped his threat of twenty five percent
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Speaker 2: tariffs on Columbia after its government agreed to accept flights
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Speaker 2: carrying deported migrants.
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Speaker 3: Well, we have our first ever leftist president in charge
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Speaker 3: here in Colombia, and of course his politics don't sit
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Speaker 3: well with the politics of those in the White House
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Speaker 3: in the United States, so they're going to come to
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Speaker 3: a head again. This is undoubtedly going to be the case.
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Speaker 2: The White House has called it a win, saying today's
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Speaker 2: events make clear to the world that America is respected again.
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Speaker 2: Today marks a week since Trump's inauguration. Israel says eight
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Speaker 2: of the twenty six remaining hostages who are set to
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Speaker 2: be released in Phase one of its ceasefire deal with
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Speaker 2: Hummas are dead. Thirty three hostages were due to be
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Speaker 2: exchanged for around one nine hundred palacetine and prisoners. Seven
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Speaker 2: have been released so far. Eighty years on from the
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Speaker 2: liberation of the Auschwitz Birkenal death camps, survivors and family
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Speaker 2: members have gathered to remember this is the.
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Speaker 4: Epitome, the epicenter of evil. This is the most concentrated
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Speaker 4: node in Naxus of Eagle because it had everything. It
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Speaker 4: was an extermination center with the dedicated gas chambers and
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Speaker 4: crematoria in Berkenal and the gas chamber here in Auschwitzer.
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Speaker 2: US stocks are down this morning after developments in a
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Speaker 2: new Chinese artificial intelligence company, Deep Seek were revealed. The
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Speaker 2: Dell opened zero point eight percent, lower, SMP down two percent,
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Speaker 2: and the tech driven Nasdaq dropping three point six percent.
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Speaker 2: Deep Seek offers a service similar to chat GPT, but
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Speaker 2: at a fraction of the costs of US based AI companies,
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Speaker 2: saying it spent just five point six million developing the product.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day in
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Speaker 1: early edition with Roman Travers and one Room Make Your
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Speaker 1: Property Surgeon Simple News Talks.
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Speaker 2: It'd be a very good morning to you now that
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Speaker 2: there's a new crime wave hitting the streets of Napier,
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Speaker 2: or to be precise, the street signs. No one seems
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Speaker 2: to be any closer to solving this crime, and there's
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Speaker 2: real mystery surrounding the identity of a sign bandit in
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Speaker 2: Napier who's been changing dozens of street names into crude
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Speaker 2: words for months without being nabbed. So far, the handiworkers
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Speaker 2: cost ratepays more than five thousand dollars for repairs. The
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Speaker 2: good people of Napier say, the culprit might feel like
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Speaker 2: a comedian, but the tampering isn't funny. There's two aspects
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Speaker 2: to this conundrum that haven't yet been delved into. When
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Speaker 2: was the last time you ask someone for directions? Gone
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Speaker 2: are the days when you took note of the instructions
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Speaker 2: given by a helpful stranger as they pointed relatively accurately
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Speaker 2: and gave you the names of streets to look for.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't everyone use Google Maps now? Our street signs still warranted.
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Speaker 2: The other aspect of the story, beyond the obvious cost
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Speaker 2: to Napier's ratepayers, is our collective reluctance to voice, or
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Speaker 2: even to print, some of the krue words used by
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Speaker 2: the comedic criminal. We stare blankly at the coverage of
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Speaker 2: the genocide inflicted upon people in Palestine, and perhaps hold
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Speaker 2: our breath momentarily until the next news item comes on.
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Speaker 2: But we can't bear the thought of using a long
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Speaker 2: list of crude words in case someone is offended. I
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Speaker 2: have that list of krue works head with me this
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Speaker 2: morning to share with you, but sadly I'm out of time.
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Speaker 2: Well another time maybe on the way. Julie Chapman, the
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Speaker 2: CEO of Kids Can, Why are so many children heading
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Speaker 2: back to school this year without what they need? Even
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Speaker 2: shoes and socks and jerseys. It's just terrible. Eleven past
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Speaker 2: five it's early edition used Talk SEDB on your.
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Speaker 1: Radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition with Roman Travers
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Speaker 1: and one roof Make your Property Search Simple Youth Talks EDB.
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Speaker 2: Their teen past five. Schools are starting up for the
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Speaker 2: new year from this week, but there's a warning thousands
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Speaker 2: of students will start the year without the essentials. Kids
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Speaker 2: Can has done a survey with more and two hundred
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Speaker 2: schools with feedback from teachers showing that kids are showing
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Speaker 2: up without shoes and jerseys because families struggle with the costs,
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Speaker 2: and there's concern that many just won't turn up at
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Speaker 2: all because of the embarrassment. Kids Can CEO Julie Chapman
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Speaker 2: joins me. Now morning Julie, Good morning, Roman. What's the
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Speaker 2: situation like this year? How many schools have been applying
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Speaker 2: for the help they need?
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Speaker 5: Oh, look, we've got seventy schools on our waiting list
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Speaker 5: right now. Twenty have applied to us since the middle
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Speaker 5: of last year, and we're already supporting children in more
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Speaker 5: than one thousand, one one hundred schools and early childhood
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Speaker 5: centers across New Zealand. So it's a pretty bleak picture
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Speaker 5: as kids head back to school for families who just
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Speaker 5: don't have enough money to provide those essentials.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're not even into the cold part of
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Speaker 2: the year yet. How does this compare to previous years?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I was, you know, I was just thinking about
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Speaker 5: that while I was waiting to come on, and it
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Speaker 5: seems to be, you know, something that is talked about
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Speaker 5: every single year, and it's certainly something that kids can
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Speaker 5: has been tackling for the past twenty years, and it
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Speaker 5: doesn't really seem to get any better. And I think,
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Speaker 5: you know, cost of living, food prices, you know, all
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Speaker 5: of those things really exacerbate it. And so for us,
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Speaker 5: you know, we're all about education equals opportunity and so,
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Speaker 5: you know, really trying to do as much as we can,
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Speaker 5: but the problem is huge.
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Speaker 2: It's hard enough getting kids to go to school, apparently
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Speaker 2: because of the pandemic and the ongoing effect of that.
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Speaker 2: How does this though, affect school attendance.
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Speaker 5: It does affect school attendance. A lot of you know,
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Speaker 5: families with children who they kind of for the essentials
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Speaker 5: for feel a lot of shame. You know, they are
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Speaker 5: good people, They're not wasting their money. They just simply
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Speaker 5: don't have enough every week to be able to do
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Speaker 5: those extra things. You know, at this time of the year.
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Speaker 5: We know that a lot of teachers and can schools
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Speaker 5: tell us that kids are wearing you know, the jackets
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Speaker 5: we provide in the height of summer because it's the
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Speaker 5: only part of the uniform they have. There's kids coming
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Speaker 5: with empty food packets even to try and show that
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Speaker 5: they have had something when they may not have. So,
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Speaker 5: you know, for us, our goal for this appeal is
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Speaker 5: to get a thousand kids sponsored so that they can
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Speaker 5: take advantage of their education that that is offered to
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Speaker 5: all of us.
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Speaker 2: You've mentioned food, the jerseys, the shoes, what other things.
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Speaker 2: What are the aspects of influencing whether they even turn
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Speaker 2: up or do well at school?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, look, it's stationery, it's having enough you know at
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Speaker 5: home before they even get there. It's in sport, it's
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Speaker 5: all of those things. And so what we provide is
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Speaker 5: the clothing, the shoes, the food, which gives that little
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Speaker 5: bit of families just to provide those essentials that hopefully
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Speaker 5: make it a bit easier for parents and kids to
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Speaker 5: get to school. Really about making sure that they have
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Speaker 5: that social inclusion at school starts day one. Any day
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Speaker 5: that's missed of school is going to have an impact
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Speaker 5: on our child's learning.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Julie, Thank you so much. Julie Chapman as
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Speaker 2: the CEO of Kids Can looking for more help there,
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Speaker 2: Just get in touch with them if you've got some
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Speaker 2: deep pockets and you'd like to contribute. I'm sure they
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Speaker 2: could do with the help. Up next, we'll find out
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Speaker 2: about superannuation. We're always told how many millions we need
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Speaker 2: to have a good life. How many millions do you
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Speaker 2: actually need? Jonathan Erickson a superannuation and super fun experts
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Speaker 2: with us. Next on early edition seventeen past five News.
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Speaker 1: Views you Trust to start your day is the early
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Speaker 1: edition with Roman Travers and one roof make your Property
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Speaker 1: search Simple.
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Speaker 2: New talks that'd be nineteen past five. We've got more
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Speaker 2: suggestions on how much you should put aside for retirement.
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Speaker 2: The latest retirement expenditure guidelines have found less than five
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Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars in savings should be enough for most retirees,
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Speaker 2: but many are spending more. Massive universities say retirees should
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Speaker 2: have additional income beyond superannuation so they don't have to
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Speaker 2: worry about running out superannuation, and super fund expert Jonathan
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Speaker 2: Erickson joins me now morning Jonathan Morning.
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Speaker 6: Roman thinks, oh.
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Speaker 2: I'm pretty broke, actually pretty broken and terrified. Really suggested
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Speaker 2: n't be.
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Speaker 6: Don't be, no, no, no. The key thing is New
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Speaker 6: Zealand super is not enough to live on, but it's
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Speaker 6: the best inflation proof income you can yet, not only
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Speaker 6: in New Zealand but in most retirement systems around the world.
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Speaker 6: So what you need to do is to build up
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Speaker 6: in the gig to top it up. And Massi University
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Speaker 6: is right. The target should be half a million, and
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Speaker 6: then if you want a bit more luxury and you
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Speaker 6: want to be able to go on holidays every year
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Speaker 6: and go and visit the grandchildren in Australia or whatever,
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Speaker 6: then you probably need a million. But they are targets
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Speaker 6: and the key thing is to save as much as
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Speaker 6: you can and enjoy what you're doing for your work
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Speaker 6: and to say be careful and look after your health.
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Speaker 6: So gym memberships all that sort of stuff are critical.
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Speaker 2: Yeah makes sense, doesn't it. What about for a no
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Speaker 2: thrills household, no children to visit overseas, no desire to
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Speaker 2: go to every gig and show that comes to Eden
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Speaker 2: Park or the cake in the Wellington.
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Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, yeah, Well well then then I still say
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Speaker 6: you need four hundred thousand because you don't know what
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Speaker 6: your healthcare costs.
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Speaker 2: Where have you gone here either? You are you come back?
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Speaker 2: Just appeared there for it? Jonathan, just repeat that last
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Speaker 2: tenteg key.
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Speaker 6: Think it's healthcare and whether you can get access to
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Speaker 6: that on the public health system for more or less free.
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Speaker 6: You know, that's why I live in Auckland. I'm quite
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Speaker 6: close to north Shore Hospital. But if you have to
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Speaker 6: travel or you have to pay for health care privately,
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Speaker 6: then it may make the difference between life or death.
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Speaker 6: Having ten thousand dollars of the kiddy.
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Speaker 2: How much has inflation and the cost of living impacted
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Speaker 2: how much you need to save for retirement?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's put it up by twenty percent, So everything's
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Speaker 6: gone up, even the basics like food. But the key
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Speaker 6: things are rates, if you're own your own home and insurance.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Well they always say that youth is wasted
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Speaker 2: on the young, don't they now, considering things will likely
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Speaker 2: get more expensive, should the younger generation prioritize savings for
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Speaker 2: retirement a whole lot sooner and a whole lot more
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Speaker 2: than what they are now?
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Speaker 6: It depends how much they're saving now. If they're saving
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Speaker 6: ten percent of their income, that's enough. But if they're not,
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Speaker 6: if they're living week paycheck to paycheck or week to
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Speaker 6: week and spending what they make is though you know
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Speaker 6: there's no tomorrow, then that's a big mistake.
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Speaker 2: Do you find that a lot of people get in
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Speaker 2: touch with you or just do you get the feeling
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Speaker 2: that most of us are terrified because most of us
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Speaker 2: are asset rich with you? If you own a home
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Speaker 2: in Greytown Featherstone that's worth millions anyway, but you're not
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Speaker 2: selling it, are you?
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Speaker 6: No? No, So there's reverse inuity mortgages. But this is
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Speaker 6: the problem people that shouldn't be terrified. There's fear doesn't
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Speaker 6: change anything, but effectively, what you want to be able
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Speaker 6: to do is get some cash out of your house.
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Speaker 6: And when you're living in places like Featherston and Greytount
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Speaker 6: that you can't do any better quite frankly. But if
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Speaker 6: you're living in Auckland or Willington, you can sell up
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Speaker 6: there and go and live in the provinces and basically,
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Speaker 6: you know, live off the saving that you make in
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Speaker 6: the difference in the value of the two homes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense. I'm going to be self up
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Speaker 2: and moving into a camping ground, I think. Jonathan Erickson,
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Speaker 2: a superannuation and superfund expert, thanks for your time this morning. Rights. Look,
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Speaker 2: we've got this news about the digital nomad visa policy.
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Speaker 2: What does it actually mean? Well, I've got some more
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Speaker 2: thoughts on that, and I've got better alternatives that could
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Speaker 2: make money for New Zealand. Next here on early edition
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Speaker 2: twenty three past five.
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Speaker 1: The early edition for All the Show podcast on iHeartRadio
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Speaker 1: Power by Newstalks at Me.
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Speaker 2: Twenty five past five. It's great to see the Coalition
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Speaker 2: government looking at every possible way in order to maximize
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Speaker 2: the New Zealand economy. Right yesterday a bunch of very
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Speaker 2: important government ministers stood near the arrival gates of Wellington
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Speaker 2: Airport to reinforce the news regarding the loosening of visa
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Speaker 2: requirements for overseas visitors who want to too in New
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Speaker 2: Zealand while working remotely for their employer at home. This
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Speaker 2: is a copy and paste of what other countries have
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Speaker 2: successfully implemented. Essentially what are known as digital nomads will
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Speaker 2: include visitors like IT specialists, as long as they are
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Speaker 2: not receiving any income from New Zealand sources. It would
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Speaker 2: also extent to social media influences, provided they're not being
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Speaker 2: paid by overseas companies. These changes will apply to all
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Speaker 2: visa visitors visit of visas, including tourists and people visiting family.
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Speaker 2: Visit of visas can be extended for up to nine months,
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Speaker 2: although the ministers warned that working New Zealand for more
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Speaker 2: than ninety days could require them to declare themselves as
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Speaker 2: New Zealand tax residents. This may well indeed help in
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Speaker 2: a range of ways to ensure that more and more
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Speaker 2: overseas residents spend more time and money here, or indeed
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Speaker 2: eventually decide to make New Zealand home. However, the ongoing
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Speaker 2: influence of massive companies like Netflix may prove to be
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Speaker 2: more of a success story for New Zealand than any
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Speaker 2: policy invoked by any government over the past weekend, parts
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Speaker 2: of Dunedin were turned into an eighteen hundred style Californian
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Speaker 2: town with Hollywood heavyweights filming a new Netflix drama. Academy
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Speaker 2: Award nominee Florence Pukee is one of the actresses starring
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Speaker 2: in a new adaptation of a nineteen fifty two novel
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Speaker 2: East of Eden, filmed around New Zealand. Auckland actress Jess
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Speaker 2: Hoolk is just one of many New Zealand stars hitting
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Speaker 2: the big time with Netflix in a range of movies
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Speaker 2: and Netflix series watched by millions globally. Then there's Lucy
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Speaker 2: m buchanan in the current super smash series on Netflix,
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Speaker 2: The Night Agent. It's revery good. Actually dial it up
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Speaker 2: if you haven't. This is currently the number one show
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Speaker 2: around the world for Netflix, with the ongoing potential to
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Speaker 2: not only print money for Netflix and those that invest
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Speaker 2: in the company, but also for New Zealand. There's a
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Speaker 2: very long list of actors doing amazing things on the
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Speaker 2: big and small screens of the world, and this list
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Speaker 2: is only fortified and embellished by the even longer list
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Speaker 2: of producers, directors, and other behind the scenes talent who
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Speaker 2: enhance the image perception and geographical recognition of New Zealand
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Speaker 2: each and every time they land a big gig. You've
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Speaker 2: seen what the Lord of the Rings movies and subsequent
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Speaker 2: TV series has done for New Zealand, but we've changed
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Speaker 2: how we want to be entertained since Peter Jackson got
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Speaker 2: stuck into the Ring thing. Government policy like we saw
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Speaker 2: being announced yesterday is gold for the country, but ensuring
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Speaker 2: we do everything possible to keep New Zealand high on
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Speaker 2: the locations list for the abundance of movies and TV
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Speaker 2: series yet to be made is crucial for the desperately
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Speaker 2: needed growth for the economy and the ongoing career is
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Speaker 2: for all those who continue to tread the boards and
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Speaker 2: feel the pool of the limelight. Schmoozing the pate of
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Speaker 2: you and movie company executives is of greater importance than
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Speaker 2: fiddling about with immigration policies. Zed Be twenty nine past five.
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Speaker 2: Let me know your thoughts on that. I found that
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Speaker 2: policy announcement yesterday a little bit odd. I found it
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Speaker 2: odd because I thought, so when people come to New Zealand,
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Speaker 2: what they haven't been checking their emails, they haven't been
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Speaker 2: doing a bit of an update of a spreadsheet a
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Speaker 2: bit of a chat with people back at home. Everybody's
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Speaker 2: working when they're on holiday, so we'll find out more
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Speaker 2: about what that actually means because at about ten two
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Speaker 2: six will be joined by Linda Keene and Linda is
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Speaker 2: the Tourism Council Chief Executive, so she'll talk more about
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Speaker 2: this digital nomad policy and what it actually means. Do
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Speaker 2: you think though, that we've got more scope to make
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Speaker 2: more money, more scope to make more money when it
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Speaker 2: comes to the movie industry and stuff that people come
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Speaker 2: to New Zealand four for the backdrops for the scenes.
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Speaker 2: I reckon let me know your thoughts nine two nine
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Speaker 2: two or Roman at newstalgzb dot co dot NZ.
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Speaker 1: Roman travers on early edition with one roof make your
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Speaker 1: Property Search Simple, youth dog zibby.
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Speaker 2: Yes, talk fair me, Good morning, Welcome along to Welcome
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Speaker 2: back to early edition Roman Travis Headral six in for
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge on the way, Donadjmayo with news out of
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Speaker 2: our Australia with our international correspondent and a really interesting
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Speaker 2: discussion coming up before six with Linda Kine who's the
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Speaker 2: Tourism Council Chief Executive. She's with us to talk more
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Speaker 2: about these changes that will allow tourists to be here
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Speaker 2: for longer, working remotely all that kind of stuff. I
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Speaker 2: think they've already been doing that, but this will make
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Speaker 2: it quite legal, won't it. Some feedback for you as well,
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Speaker 2: before we get to the reporter roundup, Roman, you referred
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Speaker 2: to deep pockets in reference to the kids can interview. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I did. They need all the help they can get.
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Speaker 2: Deep pockets means your pockets are so deep you can't
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Speaker 2: reach the money, so you keep it so that means
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Speaker 2: you have lots of money. Well that's quite good, I
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Speaker 2: guess in some ways. At least you can retire with
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Speaker 2: lots of money, which is also one of the topics today.
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Speaker 2: Hither Man, I actually practice being a digital nomad outside
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Speaker 2: of New Zealand. New Zealand is too expensive, It has
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Speaker 2: no cool history to wander around, no internet in the
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Speaker 2: remote places, and it's just not very interesting, says David. David. Really, Oh,
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Speaker 2: you need to ring read Michael king'sbook, A History of
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Speaker 2: New Zealand. Yeah, it's Oh, you'll love it, lind says Roman.
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Speaker 2: So parents can't afford school essentials and yet they need
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Speaker 2: to be saving four hundred thousand dollars at least for retirement.
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Speaker 2: It's a joke. We all got to work till the
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Speaker 2: day of our funeral, and even then it's too costly
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Speaker 2: to die. It's very sad, rarely says Lynn. That's a
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Speaker 2: very sad text, isn't it good? Lord, that's just oh
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Speaker 2: that's quite depressing actually, twenty two to six News talk z'
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Speaker 2: be as we head around the country. Let's get to
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Speaker 2: Dunedin first with Callum Proctor. Morning to you, Callum. What's
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Speaker 2: happening with all the birds?
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Speaker 7: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Bit of a worry.
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Speaker 8: This a disease has been discovered responsible for killing hundreds
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Speaker 8: of ducks just north of Dunedin, and so citywide surveillance
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Speaker 8: is underway here to check that it hasn't spread. The
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Speaker 8: Council's identified avian botulism at the Waikwaiti Wastewater Treatment plant
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Speaker 8: near the estuary.
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Speaker 3: There.
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Speaker 8: This can paralyze and often kill birds. It's not known
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Speaker 8: to spread to humans though, but it has killed hundreds
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Speaker 8: of ducks so far. And look it's important to note
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Speaker 8: this is unrelated to the Otago Farm bird flew outbreak
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Speaker 8: last year. The Council says the treatment plants fenced off,
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Speaker 8: they have dock and fish and game conducting surveillance of
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Speaker 8: birds across Dunedin for signs of further spread, and they
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Speaker 8: advise for people not to handle dead birds and fish
20:29
Speaker 8: or let pets eat them, and to maintain strong hygiene.
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Speaker 2: I saw some of the pictures of those lovely paradise
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Speaker 2: shell ducks. Oh really sad. What's the weathery're doing for
20:38
Speaker 2: duned and today? Callum You're pretty good, mostly fine today.
20:41
Speaker 8: A few shells later tonight's Northleys and a high of
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Speaker 8: twenty two Callum.
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Speaker 2: Proctor and Dunedin. Thank you so much. Claire Sherwood. You're
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Speaker 2: in christ Church where the wead is always beautiful and
20:51
Speaker 2: good day to sit in the.
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Speaker 9: Park and have a drink for some Roman possibly but
20:56
Speaker 9: it might be one of the last times they do that.
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Speaker 2: We're looking at.
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Speaker 9: Potentially adopting a local alcohol policy here in the Garden City,
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Speaker 9: so our city councilors are deciding over the next few
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Speaker 9: days whether we will have one introduced before the October elections. Now,
21:10
Speaker 9: these policies set out rules around the number, location and
21:13
Speaker 9: opening hours of licensed premises. This could apply city wide
21:17
Speaker 9: or possibly just in specific areas. Meerfilm Major says they've
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Speaker 9: spent a lot of time kicking the can down the
21:23
Speaker 9: road on making a decision on this, He says counselors
21:26
Speaker 9: could ultimately opt against a policy, but they have to
21:29
Speaker 9: do their homework and see how other cities are faring
21:31
Speaker 9: with one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, kicking the bear can down the road probably. What's
21:34
Speaker 2: the weather light today in christ Church?
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Speaker 9: Fine? Aside from some morning cloud, northeasterly is turning northwest
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Speaker 9: a bit later a high of twenty three not too bad.
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Speaker 2: Sounds good, Thank you Claire Sherwood and christ Church. There,
21:45
Speaker 2: Let's head to Wellington where the weather is never anything
21:47
Speaker 2: but superb. Max Toll morning to you. What's happening in
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Speaker 2: the Hut Valley some pretty big developments there?
21:53
Speaker 10: Yeah, good morning, just to quick on this morning. The
21:55
Speaker 10: Apuni Housing development open yesterday at Social Housing. It's going
21:59
Speaker 10: to mean a hundre and thirty four new homes in
22:01
Speaker 10: Lower Hut built with the Hutt City Council. Housing Minister
22:05
Speaker 10: and local MP. Chris Bishop was at the opening yesterday.
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Speaker 10: He says the project has faced delays but it has
22:10
Speaker 10: been completed within the eighty million dollar budget. Some of
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Speaker 10: the planned tenants are shifting there from emergency housing motels.
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Speaker 10: He says, so the need for social housing obviously high
22:20
Speaker 10: in the area. The project essentially turning thirty dilapidated, quake
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Speaker 10: prone buildings into more than one hundred warm and dry ones.
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Speaker 2: Our good stuff. Is it a good day to be
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Speaker 2: taking the sandwiches to Oriental Bay?
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Speaker 10: Well it is if you're not working mostly fine. Northerly
22:35
Speaker 10: is the high twenty Central?
22:37
Speaker 2: Oh you're not too bit, next toll on Wellington? Thank you, Neva,
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Speaker 2: Ritti Manu, how are you?
22:41
Speaker 11: Good morning?
22:42
Speaker 2: The trains the clickertyty clickerty crackety mind the gap, they're
22:45
Speaker 2: all back. What do you want today?
22:49
Speaker 11: Well, you're right, most train services romain. They will be
22:52
Speaker 11: back up and running in Auckland today.
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Speaker 1: Yay.
22:54
Speaker 11: Now, obviously they took a break over some of the
22:56
Speaker 11: maintenance and upgrades. So I can tell you the Western
22:59
Speaker 11: Line we'll run at a twenty minute frequency. The only
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Speaker 11: Hunger line will run on a thirty minute schedule. But
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Speaker 11: the full network, this is everything is going to be
23:09
Speaker 11: back online on Monday as Kiwi Rail carries out it's
23:12
Speaker 11: final lot of repairs. Now remain.
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Speaker 2: I've just got to say, yesterday you.
23:17
Speaker 11: Were complaining about not sleeping because your ear con unit,
23:21
Speaker 11: you know, like broke down seven years ago. I thought
23:24
Speaker 11: it was three years ago, seven seven years ago, and
23:27
Speaker 11: I thought, look, I've come up with two ideas.
23:29
Speaker 2: Oh yes, and they're free.
23:30
Speaker 11: You won't have to it's not going to cost you
23:32
Speaker 11: that I know.
23:33
Speaker 2: I know you love that.
23:33
Speaker 11: You don't have to spend any money. Look, first one,
23:36
Speaker 11: take a frozen face cloth to bed. Put it on
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Speaker 11: your face, so you know, isn't that a great idea?
23:40
Speaker 11: So you wet it, then just put it in the freezer.
23:43
Speaker 11: Second one, you know how you get the hot water bottle? Yeah,
23:45
Speaker 11: fill your hot water bottle with cold water, cold water,
23:48
Speaker 11: put it in the freezer. Then later, some hours later,
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Speaker 11: put the frozen water bottle in your bed.
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Speaker 2: They'll call you down. You wouldn't want it too close
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Speaker 2: to your essentials. But when you see that's right.
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Speaker 11: I just want to get that image out of my
24:00
Speaker 11: because he's sleep naked.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, but so good lord, why.
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Speaker 11: Don't you put it on your feet because it'll call
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Speaker 11: your feet in the rest of the body. That's a
24:07
Speaker 11: good idea and won't cost you a seen.
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Speaker 2: I love it. And what about the weather?
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Speaker 11: Today's lovely, cloudy, isolated morning. Charles Nordal City twenty three
24:14
Speaker 11: is the high.
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Speaker 2: Oh I managed to avoid more embarrassment. Thank you so much.
24:17
Speaker 2: Never reimed great tips, they are great tips. We'll head
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Speaker 2: to Australia next with our international correspondent Donna to Mayo
24:24
Speaker 2: on Early edition seventeen to six, on early edition, good Lord,
24:29
Speaker 2: that's embarrassing.
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Speaker 1: International correspondents with ends in eye insurance Peace of mind
24:34
Speaker 1: for New Zealand Business.
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Speaker 2: Fourteen to six and our Australian correspondent this morning, Donna Demeyo. Morning, Donna.
24:41
Speaker 2: The Prime Minister has some real issues, doesn't he.
24:44
Speaker 12: Well, it's an election year at Anthony Alberanese's approval ratings
24:48
Speaker 12: have hit their lowest point since he was elected. Now yesterday,
24:52
Speaker 12: speaking in Perth, he stated that he still believes Labor
24:55
Speaker 12: can form majority government. This News poll is showing a
24:59
Speaker 12: majority of Australians are expecting the Coalition to win this
25:02
Speaker 12: year's federal election. Satisfaction with Albo forty four percent. That's
25:07
Speaker 12: his lowest ever. As I mentioned, our opposition leader Peter Dutton,
25:10
Speaker 12: while he's climbed from twenty two percent in twenty twenty
25:13
Speaker 12: two right up to forty one percent, so he's faring
25:17
Speaker 12: quite well. If you look at those stats. The Coalition
25:20
Speaker 12: leads fifty one to forty nine two party preferred and
25:24
Speaker 12: we know that the Prime Minister has been facing quite
25:26
Speaker 12: a lot of pressure over his handling of a spate
25:28
Speaker 12: of alleged and his Semitic attacks recently, but so far
25:32
Speaker 12: the unofficial campaign has focused on cost of living pressures.
25:36
Speaker 12: So we know the election will be held on or
25:39
Speaker 12: before the seventeenth of May this year.
25:41
Speaker 2: Now, Adelaide's a lovely town. I love Adelaide. You wouldn't
25:44
Speaker 2: think You don't think Adelaide neo Nazis.
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Speaker 6: Do you?
25:48
Speaker 10: Yes?
25:48
Speaker 12: Well, we have seen alleged neo Nazis taken to the
25:52
Speaker 12: streets and we know that South Australia Police have since
25:55
Speaker 12: been praised for their actions after we saw sixteen people
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Speaker 12: were arrested after a rally in Adelaide at the weekend.
26:03
Speaker 12: They're due to a peer in court today. The Prime
26:06
Speaker 12: Minister says there's no place for this hateful ideology in Australia.
26:10
Speaker 12: The group was from the National Socialist Network, amongst them
26:13
Speaker 12: a sixteen year old boy from Victoria. Offenses include funny
26:17
Speaker 12: to sea, sloitering and assault police and we know a
26:20
Speaker 12: twenty five year old from Wa was charged with using
26:23
Speaker 12: a Nazi symbol. The Prime Minister says they were horrific scenes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what a bunch of morons. Donnod demeyo, our Australian correspondent,
26:32
Speaker 2: thank you so much for your time this morning News
26:35
Speaker 2: Talk zibby Well. Tourists and New Zealand's on the visit
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Speaker 2: of Visa will soon be able to work remotely while here.
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Speaker 2: The changes targeting digital nomads, people employed by overseas companies
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Speaker 2: here on holiday and working at the same time in
26:48
Speaker 2: the hope they'll spend more time and money in the country.
26:51
Speaker 2: Tourism is currently New Zealand's second largest export and the
26:55
Speaker 2: latest visit in numbers from Statistics in New Zealand show
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Speaker 2: we're reaching eighty six per sense of the pre COVID levels.
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Speaker 2: Linda Keen is the Tourism Export Council Chief Executive and
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Speaker 2: joins me now a very good morning to you, Linda.
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Speaker 7: Good morning Raman.
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Speaker 2: How much of a difference will this policy make, because
27:12
Speaker 2: let's be honest, they've been working anyway.
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Speaker 7: Look, the third thing, Raman, is that this is very
27:20
Speaker 7: encouraging that the government has now identified tourism as a
27:24
Speaker 7: major economic driver and to help their growth agenda. What
27:29
Speaker 7: difference will it make now? Not a lot in the
27:32
Speaker 7: second half of the visitor season, which is this January
27:35
Speaker 7: to March period. And the reason for that is that
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Speaker 7: New Zealan is a long ha destination. You have to
27:41
Speaker 7: either have one or two long haul flights to reach US.
27:46
Speaker 7: So if the target for America or Southeast Asian digital
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Speaker 7: nomads is for them to come to New Zealand, they
27:53
Speaker 7: may not quickly switch to that right now. This type
27:57
Speaker 7: of initiative would have been fantastic to have announced this
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Speaker 7: time last year.
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Speaker 2: All right, So you did say it won't make much
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Speaker 2: of a difference. When will it make a difference?
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Speaker 7: I think with the upcoming season. So the season starts
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Speaker 7: on the first of October, and because a digital nomad
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Speaker 7: and all visitors as a long haul destination, they take
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Speaker 7: their time to make a commitment to visit New Zealand.
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Speaker 7: We're committed to destination. It's a little bit different with Australia.
28:24
Speaker 7: When we might decide tomorrow that we're going to go
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Speaker 7: to Australia for a short break, which is a short
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Speaker 7: haul destination, so it's going to take I would say
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Speaker 7: at least six months for us to see any positive
28:36
Speaker 7: result with the Digital Nomad initiative.
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Speaker 2: All right, okay, well, good things take time, I guess
28:41
Speaker 2: could more quick changes have been made to improve visitor numbers.
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Speaker 5: Yes, we know.
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Speaker 7: The government's been working hard with trying to get the
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Speaker 7: economy back on track. Some of the decisions that have
28:54
Speaker 7: made in the past twelve months, particularly with increasing immigration
28:58
Speaker 7: visa fees and the international Visitor and Conservation levy, these
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Speaker 7: are decisions that we knew. So these were increases we
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Speaker 7: knew we're probably going to come through, but we suggested
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Speaker 7: to government that the best time to do that would
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Speaker 7: have been from the first of October twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 7: And that's because the industry is still in recovery. Our
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Speaker 7: first season that we reached fifty five percent of pre
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Speaker 7: pandemic numbers. At the end of this season we only
29:28
Speaker 7: recovered at eighty three percent, and now on an annual
29:31
Speaker 7: basis after another six months, we're only at eighty four percent.
29:35
Speaker 7: So the timing of these initiatives are absolutely critical. But
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Speaker 7: I'm saying that we're just really pleased that the government
29:42
Speaker 7: have put tourism back as on their growth. The gender,
29:45
Speaker 7: and we're keen to partner and work with them to
29:47
Speaker 7: get our visitors back as quipney as we can.
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Speaker 2: You'd prefer there to previous government decisions on migration and
29:54
Speaker 2: increasing the levy fees and all that sort of stuff
29:57
Speaker 2: hasn't had Did it have much of an effect on
29:59
Speaker 2: to and the economy. If you're faced with a fee
30:02
Speaker 2: to go and enter our parks or whatever it might be,
30:05
Speaker 2: is that going to put people off? Have you noticed that.
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Speaker 7: At this time? Yes, we have the inbound tour operators
30:13
Speaker 7: that we work with, they have offshore too, wholesalers and
30:16
Speaker 7: travel agents as their clients, and the word from the
30:21
Speaker 7: offshore industry is that the timing of us increasing these
30:26
Speaker 7: fees has certainly had an impact on visitors considering New
30:30
Speaker 7: Zealand as a destination. We're in a global market to
30:33
Speaker 7: try to get tourism back to recovery, and we're lagging somewhat.
30:37
Speaker 7: So any type of initiative needs to have a little
30:40
Speaker 7: bit of a runway, It needs a bit of a
30:42
Speaker 7: lead time, and in hindsight, you know, the industry, we
30:46
Speaker 7: do believe that these increasing fees have had an impact.
30:50
Speaker 7: We knew they were going to come but we would
30:52
Speaker 7: have hoped that they would have come later this year,
30:54
Speaker 7: not last year.
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Speaker 2: All right, Linda, So in a nutshell, it's a good move.
30:57
Speaker 2: It'll take time, tibed in, but well we'll reap the benefits.
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Speaker 7: Soon, Yes, exactly.
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Speaker 2: Oh good on you, Linda. Linda Keen there, who's the
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Speaker 2: Tourism Council chief executive. Good stuff, good stuff with that
31:09
Speaker 2: in Netflix and more milk and cheese being exported will
31:12
Speaker 2: be away and laughing, we'll have enough to retire on
31:14
Speaker 2: and no time at all. Well, he didn't retire. He's
31:17
Speaker 2: come back. Mike Hosking. It's his first day back this year,
31:20
Speaker 2: and we'll join him next to find out what's coming
31:22
Speaker 2: up on the Mike Hosking Breakfast here on early edition
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Speaker 2: eight to six, The.
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Speaker 1: News you need this morning and the in depth analysis
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Speaker 1: Early edition with Roman Travers and one roof Make your
31:33
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31:35
Speaker 2: Be five to six. Just a quick text here regarding
31:38
Speaker 2: saving for your retirement and how much we need. Shane
31:40
Speaker 2: says most of us are paying just to live, let alone.
31:43
Speaker 2: Putting a money aside four to five hundred thousand dollars
31:46
Speaker 2: for retirement would be nice, but I'm sure there's a
31:49
Speaker 2: lot in the same place. I'm sure that is very
31:51
Speaker 2: much the case. Thank you, Shane, Mike Hosking, good to
31:54
Speaker 2: see you, see you too. You're back.
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Speaker 13: I am back, well money because I'm broke, and so
31:59
Speaker 13: I just speaking of retirement because I use my holiday
32:03
Speaker 13: period to work out and assatain whether or not I
32:06
Speaker 13: want to retire or not, and I can't afford to us.
32:10
Speaker 13: It turns out but encouraging to know that it's only
32:13
Speaker 13: half a million dollars because they do this thing every year,
32:15
Speaker 13: of course, and it doesn't seem to have gone up,
32:19
Speaker 13: but it is predicated on the idea that you don't
32:22
Speaker 13: have a mortgage, and rural versus city is completely different.
32:26
Speaker 13: Living in the country is a lot cheaper than living
32:27
Speaker 13: in the city, and of course you need what else
32:31
Speaker 13: do you need? You've see no mortgage and rural versus
32:35
Speaker 13: so it's less if you're in the rural part of
32:37
Speaker 13: the country.
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Speaker 2: Most of us have traditionally tied up our money and
32:39
Speaker 2: our property right selling it thinking I'm going to move
32:42
Speaker 2: to Gore, from Wellington to Gore, I'm gonna have millions
32:45
Speaker 2: in the back. Gore has now become very expensive, hasn't it.
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Speaker 13: It has the other thing. If you don't own property
32:50
Speaker 13: in terms of saving for retirement, you are in the market,
32:52
Speaker 13: of course, and one of the things you would have
32:55
Speaker 13: done is buying video. But because of the Chinese this morning,
32:58
Speaker 13: if you're following the market, they so the Chinese are
33:02
Speaker 13: one of the great stories of the year, as far
33:03
Speaker 13: as I can work out. Having said that, I know
33:05
Speaker 13: I'm rambling slightly, but it's my first day back. You've
33:07
Speaker 13: seen the BYD, you know BYD speaking of the Chinese
33:10
Speaker 13: and the ev I saw a shark the.
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Speaker 2: Other day, which is their new ute.
33:13
Speaker 13: Yes, and it's not a bad looking thing as far
33:16
Speaker 13: as square things go. That can haulsome anywhey. Look, do
33:21
Speaker 13: you know what they are new now? A brand new ute?
33:24
Speaker 13: No tell me seventy grand seventy grand for a brand
33:28
Speaker 13: new youth. I don't think there's anyone in the market
33:30
Speaker 13: that can compete with that. And that's why the Chinese
33:31
Speaker 13: slowly but surely are going to take over the world.
33:33
Speaker 13: And that's before I get to Nauru, which you up
33:36
Speaker 13: on Naaruru. So Peters was going to Nauru meeting with
33:40
Speaker 13: the President doesn't want to meet anymore. So we've frozen
33:43
Speaker 13: our aid in a very Trump esque sort of move
33:46
Speaker 13: because the Narulians are of course now tied up very
33:49
Speaker 13: tightly with the Chinese.
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Speaker 6: Wow.
33:50
Speaker 13: So the geopolitical state of the country the region is fascinating,
33:54
Speaker 13: which is very good because we've got the Prime Minister
33:56
Speaker 13: on the sea.
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Speaker 2: There you go. Yeah, my costume is that he's had
33:58
Speaker 2: a holiday, but he's on fire. It's all set to
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