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Full Show Podcast: 14 November 2024 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside Ryan Bridge new
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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
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Speaker 1: New Zealand's.
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Speaker 2: Furniture bands and a play a store news dogs.
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Speaker 3: It'd be good morning six half for five. Great to
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Speaker 3: have your company. It is Thursday morning, of course, and
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Speaker 3: I'll lead into you before six. Tourism grinding along and
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Speaker 3: keyw is hopping across the ditch for good. We've got
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Speaker 3: new numbers out yesterday. We'll ask an economist what it
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Speaker 3: means for the rest of us. The new PPP framework
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Speaker 3: has been released. We'll talk for infrastructure New Zealand about it.
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Speaker 3: Is it any good? Mitch mccannon's stateside and the christ
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Speaker 3: Show is happening, but it's only going to be half
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Speaker 3: as big.
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Speaker 2: The agenda.
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Speaker 3: It is Thursday, the fourteenth of November. The transition is
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Speaker 3: kicking off any moment now. Donald Trump is going to
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Speaker 3: head to the White House and meet with Biden. This
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Speaker 3: is going to be the start of the handover. Surely
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Speaker 3: Mlani will be there measuring up the cursions. Get some
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Speaker 3: new drapes in there. Also big day Foo Senate Republicans
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Speaker 3: today voting on the new leader. Mitch McConnell stepping down
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Speaker 3: from January.
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Speaker 4: There is stiff competition between Texas Senator John Cornyn John Thune,
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Speaker 4: who is the Republican whip currently, and also Florida Senator
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Speaker 4: Rick Scott, who most notably has picked up support from
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Speaker 4: a number of Trump allies, including Eloton Musk.
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Speaker 3: It certainly has after two years of cooling and staying stateside.
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Speaker 3: Right now, US inflation has ticked up ever so slightly
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Speaker 3: in October, just zero point two percent for the month,
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Speaker 3: the annual rate two point six percent. That's compared to
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Speaker 3: two point four for September. Core inflation, which excludes fuel
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Speaker 3: and food prices, remains steady at three point three percent. Now.
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Speaker 3: This is in line largely with economist expectations and it
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Speaker 3: shouldn't affect the next FED rate cut. New Zealand food
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Speaker 3: price inflation numbers will be out later this morning. That
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Speaker 3: volcano and Indonesia still erupting, Jetstar Quantus flights still canceled
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Speaker 3: entering its tenth day.
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Speaker 5: The problem is these type volcanos can be very complex,
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Speaker 5: they can be unpredictable, and their eruptive activity is typically
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Speaker 5: this intermittent style of significant explosion every few days or
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Speaker 5: so you've.
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Speaker 3: Got a field for Valencia. Thousands of people have been
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Speaker 3: evacuated from southern Spain as another red severe weather warning
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Speaker 3: has been issued, so that includes parts of Valencia. They
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Speaker 3: are again under Orange weather warnings there. Two hundred and
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Speaker 3: twenty people have died in recent severe weather events and
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Speaker 3: flash flooding in the country.
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Speaker 2: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 2: analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Swift City, New
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Speaker 2: Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store.
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Speaker 3: News Talk said, be a couple of little things to
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Speaker 3: kick us off this morning. One was the hiccor yesterday.
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Speaker 3: You would have seen, I'm sure the coverage on the
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Speaker 3: news last night. How can we not know how many
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Speaker 3: people cross the Harbor Bridge? You know, we've got police
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Speaker 3: there who have the little tickers in their hand. Are
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Speaker 3: they not counting? They said they were so they gave
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Speaker 3: us a number of five thousand. The organizers gave us
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Speaker 3: a number of twenty five thousand. I mean these are
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Speaker 3: vastly different numbers, aren't they. Twenty five thousand. Labour gave
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Speaker 3: us a number of ten thousand. Have listened to this
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Speaker 3: reporter on one news.
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Speaker 6: The hikoy was so big that it needed to be staggered,
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Speaker 6: so several hundred people would be grouped and would cross
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Speaker 6: the bridge at different times. I was there for the
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Speaker 6: duration of the morning and saw waves and waves over
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Speaker 6: seven waves.
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Speaker 3: I counted, so two hundred and fifty per waves seven waves,
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Speaker 3: that's by my calculation, seventeen hundred and fifty people. So
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Speaker 3: now we have four numbers. We have seventeen hundred and fifty,
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Speaker 3: we have five thousand, we have twenty five thousand, and
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Speaker 3: we have ten thousand. Who do we believe honestly, nine
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Speaker 3: two ninety two is the number to two? I suppose
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Speaker 3: it doesn't really matter. It does matter how big this
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Speaker 3: protest is. It does because remember the big heikoy for
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Speaker 3: Foreshaw and Seabd. I went back and had a look.
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Speaker 3: They reckon there was about ten thousand protesters, swelling to
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Speaker 3: fifteen thousand by the time it got to Parliament. And
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Speaker 3: what to party my will want to say is that
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Speaker 3: this protest in particular is the biggest that New Zealand
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Speaker 3: has ever seen. And so that's one they're giving us
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Speaker 3: numbers like twenty five thousand, which are patiently false. I mean,
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Speaker 3: that's misinformation, isn't that If you look at the reporter,
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Speaker 3: the police and even labor to Passy Valdi's number is
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Speaker 3: way out the gate, So I don't know. It does matter,
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Speaker 3: it does matter, But who do you believe? I guess
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Speaker 3: ten minutes after five you're on News Talk, sat.
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Speaker 2: By and Bread Rich.
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Speaker 3: eleven after five. News Talk said, b.
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Speaker 2: Get ahead of the headlines, Ryan Bridge, you for twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New Zealand,
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Speaker 2: Furniture Beds and a playing store, News Talk SEDB.
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Speaker 3: There's one hundred thousand journalists out sothing, not quite that many,
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Speaker 3: but a few outside the White House right now. They're
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Speaker 3: all eager to get a photo of Donald Trump returning
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Speaker 3: to the White House. He is going to head back
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Speaker 3: to the Oval Office for a meeting. It's crazy to
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Speaker 3: think about, isn't it, But that is democracy. For a
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Speaker 3: meeting with Joe Biden is to start the transition. At
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Speaker 3: the same time, The New York Times is reporting this
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Speaker 3: morning that Jack Smith, now he's the special counsel for
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Speaker 3: the Justice Department that was taking those prosecutions against Trump.
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Speaker 3: That was the one was about the election defeat, you know,
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Speaker 3: plotting to overturn the election defeat. The other was about
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Speaker 3: hiding classified documents. Well, this guy, Jack Smith, has come
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Speaker 3: out and said I'm going to end these two prosecutions
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Speaker 3: of Donald Trump and I'm going to resign before he
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Speaker 3: takes office. And the reason he's doing that, well, firstly,
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Speaker 3: the Justice Department says you can't prosecute a sitting president,
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Speaker 3: and he hasn't done it in time. Secondly, he was
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Speaker 3: told by Trump through the media, I will fire you
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Speaker 3: within two seconds of getting into office, so he's just
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Speaker 3: sort of beating him to it. I suppose. Fourteen after five,
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Speaker 3: Ryan Bridge, the government has released it's refreshed public private
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Speaker 3: Partnership framework. It was part of the National at Coalition
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Speaker 3: agreement and the government says it'll help deliver a new
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Speaker 3: generation of vital infrastructure projects. Interestingly, the four word written
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Speaker 3: by Labour's Barbara Edmonds. So is that a sign of
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Speaker 3: some you know, bipartisanship on this issue. Nick Leggett is
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Speaker 3: Chief Executive Infrastructure New Zualanities with me this morning. Hey Nick,
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Speaker 3: Hi Ryan, what sticks out for you here? I mean
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Speaker 3: the first one that they look at is the risk.
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Speaker 3: So who's taking on all the risk? And at the
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Speaker 3: moment we might be putting people off by putting too
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Speaker 3: much risk on the contractors.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean that's that has been a bit of
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Speaker 7: an issue here. And of course if you want public
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Speaker 7: private partnerships to be successful, you've got to actually attract
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Speaker 7: the private sector and having is much understood upfront about
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Speaker 7: the project and if you think about you know that
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Speaker 7: the underlying land in New Zealand's got some rocky parts
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Speaker 7: of the country, but also getting in and buying land early,
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Speaker 7: establishing as much as you can know so risk can
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Speaker 7: be properly allocated. The thing is that the private sector's
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Speaker 7: prepared to take risks. Of course it just will be
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Speaker 7: priced into the job. But this is you know, we're
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Speaker 7: very immature where it comes to public private partnerships. We've
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Speaker 7: only built eight The last labor government paused them, so
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Speaker 7: we haven't sort of evolve them properly. So this frameworks
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Speaker 7: really important and it means the government doesn't have to borrow.
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Speaker 7: And the other point about a public private partnership and
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Speaker 7: there'll be people driving on roads now that aren't in
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Speaker 7: good conditional taking their kids to schools, to school buildings
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Speaker 7: that should have been replaced and renewed. We need to
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Speaker 7: do better where it comes to our infrastructure assets. And
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Speaker 7: it's the thing about a PPP. It's not just about
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Speaker 7: building the road or the school. It's about taking a
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Speaker 7: whole of life approach to that particular asset. And the
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Speaker 7: private set not only owns and builds it, but they
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Speaker 7: maintain it. And Brian, I think kiwis know the government
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Speaker 7: has been pretty poor over many decades at maintaining our
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Speaker 7: public assets.
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Speaker 2: And so them is just one tool.
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Speaker 3: My car our testament to that. Just on that because
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Speaker 3: it's related to your point. So the part of this
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Speaker 3: framework is that any PPP must stack up against other
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Speaker 3: potential models of delivery, which seems entirely reasonable. Are there
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Speaker 3: types of projects that actually wouldn't be suitable for PPPs?
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Speaker 3: And so what types of projects?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, look, it's a good point. I mean I think
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Speaker 7: you know, there be many many projects that aren't suitable.
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Speaker 7: I mean you have to have scale, so a road
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Speaker 7: would be suitable. But frankly, Ryan, it's another conversation we've
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Speaker 7: got to have because it's better to have an income
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Speaker 7: stream from these assets that are public private partnerships. So
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Speaker 7: a road with a toll on it is going to
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Speaker 7: be much more appropriate than a road without a toll.
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Speaker 7: And you know people will also go to Australia and
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Speaker 7: other parts of the world we're road tolling for good.
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Speaker 7: Decent pieces of road are standard and people don't mind
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Speaker 7: paying more if they get places quicker and more safely.
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Speaker 7: And as you know, you say, the rooms of their
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Speaker 7: car are not damaged. And so it would be those
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Speaker 7: large projects or a whole lot of individual, smaller projects
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Speaker 7: bundle together, and you know we have we've had school
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Speaker 7: PPPs and you know what, the schools love them because
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Speaker 7: it means that teachers and principals get to educate kids.
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Speaker 7: They're not focused on being property managers every time you
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Speaker 7: have the light.
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Speaker 3: Fails or and they're in a room that's not covered
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Speaker 3: in mold. Nick, thank you very much for that this morning.
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Speaker 3: Great to have you on the show as always, Nick Legatiev,
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Speaker 3: executive at Infrastructure New Zealand. They've put the PPP framework
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Speaker 3: up online for those who might be interested. Ex I
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Speaker 3: was having a look at the report by Stephen Joyce.
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Speaker 3: They looked into the new agency they're setting up to
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Speaker 3: as the funding vehicle for PPPs this morning, and I'll
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Speaker 3: share that with you in just a second. But I
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Speaker 3: am looking at live pictures coming out of the White
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Speaker 3: House right now. Biden and Trump have sat down together.
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Speaker 3: They have made up, well I don't know if they're
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Speaker 3: quite made up, but they've sat down in front of
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Speaker 3: a roaring fire and how do we chat to the media.
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Speaker 3: We'll bring you audio of that next.
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Speaker 2: On your radio and online on iHeart Radio Early Edition
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Speaker 2: with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds
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Speaker 2: and a playing store.
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Speaker 3: On youth talks, that'd be twenty one after five. On
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Speaker 3: news talks, they'd be We'll get to Trump and Biden
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Speaker 3: at the White House shortly right now though, alpacker, judge
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Speaker 3: and competitions, lawn mower racing, sheep and equestrian events. Christ
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Speaker 3: Church Show is back this week, but smaller. They have
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Speaker 3: one hundred thousand visitors last year, expecting sixty thousand this year.
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Speaker 3: But it's still an amazing feat for Anderson's event high.
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Speaker 3: Christ Church Show event director Pel thanks for being with me.
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Speaker 3: It's quite a rabbit you've pulled out of the hat
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Speaker 3: here to get this all together.
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Speaker 8: Yeah. Sure has been, specially for the last three months,
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Speaker 8: which is yeah, the time we've had, which is usually
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Speaker 8: a year to organize such an event. So yes, still
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Speaker 8: such an impressive lineup and the look and feel of
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Speaker 8: a normal imp show. So yeah, we're so excited because it.
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Speaker 3: Was going I mean, it was basically off, wasn't it.
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Speaker 3: And you guys came in and you're doing a bit
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Speaker 3: of a rescue job here.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, basically we said can't be done. A new board
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Speaker 8: came in and they went, I reckon, you guys, all right,
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Speaker 8: let's make something happen here, and yeah, it'll just flowed
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Speaker 8: from there, which we were so grateful for.
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Speaker 3: How many events have you got your How big will
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Speaker 3: the turnout be? I know that the numbers are about
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Speaker 3: sixty thousand they're expecting, But in terms of the trade stores,
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Speaker 3: et cetera, compared to last year.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, trade is probably about thirty forty percent lease. But
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Speaker 8: in terms of everything else around the AMP show experience
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Speaker 8: much the same, if not more. Maybe entertainment or a
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Speaker 8: real good mix of entertainment like lawnmar racing. Never seen
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Speaker 8: it so excited, you know, that just seems so unusual,
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Speaker 8: and I just think there'll be it's like that a
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Speaker 8: part of the show that people are just going to
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Speaker 8: really go what a core experience.
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Speaker 3: Hey, do you guys make money out of something like this?
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Speaker 8: Phil? The aim is too, But yeah, not a lot though,
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Speaker 8: to be for you, there's a lot of costs associated
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Speaker 8: with us, especially you know when we consider the other
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Speaker 8: events that we do, this thing's very heavy in terms
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Speaker 8: of the cost. Is so much infrastructure that goes into
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Speaker 8: us that's been such a massive learning curve.
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Speaker 3: Good on you're for getting it done in such a
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Speaker 3: quick amount of time. Phil, I really appreciate you coming
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Speaker 3: on the show. And best of luck with Christ Show,
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Speaker 3: which is on this week. That was Phil Anderson event
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Speaker 3: higher Christ Jutch Show event director. Twenty three minutes after five,
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Speaker 3: Ryan Bridge, Right, let's go to the White House. Biden
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Speaker 3: and Trump have met. Wells President, I.
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Speaker 9: Like former president, Thank you, congratulations, thank.
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Speaker 3: You, looking forward to having a like we said, it's
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Speaker 3: still with transition toever we can make sure you're coming
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Speaker 3: in what you need. We're gonna get a chance.
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Speaker 10: To talk across today. It's good, welcome, welcome, Jenna, thank
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Speaker 10: you very much.
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Speaker 2: And politics is tough.
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Speaker 10: And it's to many cases not a very nice world.
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Speaker 10: But it is a nice world today. And I appreciate
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Speaker 10: very much a transition that's so smooth. It'll be as
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Speaker 10: smooth as you can get. And I very much appreciated Jill.
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Speaker 3: You are there. You go. That noise you can hear
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Speaker 3: in the background is a roaring fire. Someone really cranked it.
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Speaker 3: That's got one, two, three, four, fix six logs on
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Speaker 3: it coming. They are almost on fire, the two of them.
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Speaker 3: But there you go. Trump saying it's a nice world today.
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Speaker 3: There is a smooth transition taking place. This is what
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Speaker 3: usually happens. Obviously didn't happen last time, but this is
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Speaker 3: what usually happens when you have one president taking over
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Speaker 3: from another from different parties. They will come in and
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Speaker 3: they'll have their little transition meeting. Milania I did mention
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Speaker 3: Millennia might be they're measuring up the drapes and you know,
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Speaker 3: paint colors, things like that. Apparently she stayed at Mara
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Speaker 3: Lago today. She stayed away. Didn't want to see Jill Biden.
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Speaker 3: So do you go twenty five after five Y're on
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Speaker 3: news Talks. He'd be lots of your text to get
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Speaker 3: to on, particularly on the everyday rewards. Actually, here's one
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Speaker 3: quickly from Gary. I think everyday rewards is fantastic. I'm
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Speaker 3: a regular. Fifteen dollars off my Woolies groceries and everyday
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Speaker 3: rewards specials, ten percent off petrol easy as flashing are
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Speaker 3: rewards on my phone, Happy and easy, says Gary. Well,
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Speaker 3: if you're getting fifteen dollars off your Bullies groceries, that's
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Speaker 3: not bad, is it. Twenty five after five.
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Speaker 3: Talks at me, it's news talks. It'd be twenty seven
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Speaker 3: after five. Great to have your company this morning. Why
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Speaker 3: does no one like us New Zealand. Two numbers out
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Speaker 3: yesterday that prove this, one eighty seven percent. We're still
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Speaker 3: plateauing in the high eighties for tourism. That's on pre
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Speaker 3: COVID levels. And number two fifty five thousand for the
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Speaker 3: year September that was our net migration loss of New
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Speaker 3: Zealand citizens, which is a new record. Not only are
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Speaker 3: we that unsexy to foreigners, they won't come here and
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Speaker 3: have a piece, but our own people are off flirting
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Speaker 3: up a storm with the likes of Australia. And they're
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Speaker 3: not even flirting. It's not a weekend fling. They have
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Speaker 3: left us. It's divorce. Sure, we're getting more people in
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Speaker 3: terms of overall migration, meaning an overall net positive number.
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Speaker 3: But next year, many economists predict, for the first time
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Speaker 3: in a long time, excluding COVID, we'll hit net zero migration.
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Speaker 3: And we need migrants to support our economy here, and
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Speaker 3: we need tourists to support our economy here as well.
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Speaker 3: So what's happened to us? Do we stop brushing our hair?
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Speaker 3: And cleaning our teeth. Do we look like some antipody
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Speaker 3: and mole at the bottom of the world that you'd
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Speaker 3: rather skip over. The Aussies are rebounding much better than
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Speaker 3: us on tourism, and they're taking all of our young workers,
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Speaker 3: and you look at all the places that are so
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Speaker 3: overcrowded by tourists. They're introducing limits in Florence. Just yesterday
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Speaker 3: they announced that they're banning key boxes to stop Airbnbs
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Speaker 3: in their city. Rome, Amsterdam, Athens, Pouquette, just to name
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Speaker 3: a few. They're all doing similar things. Last year, we
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Speaker 3: ranked one hundred and fifty seventh out of one hundred
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Speaker 3: and eighty countries on growth and things haven't improved much
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Speaker 3: there since we are a very expensive place to come
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Speaker 3: and we are at the bottom of the world. The
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Speaker 3: heart of the matter, though, is we've lost a bit
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Speaker 3: of our mojo. Apart from cutting spending and focusing on
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Speaker 3: the basics, which are important, what is this country's big
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Speaker 3: plan to grow our economic future and fortunes? What industries
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Speaker 3: are we targeting. Until we can answer that big question,
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Speaker 3: we'll still look a little bit ugly to the rest
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Speaker 3: of the world.
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Speaker 2: News and views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 2: early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's
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Speaker 2: furniture beds and a flying store News talks. That'd be.
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Speaker 3: Good Morning New Zealand, twenty four away from six. Great
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Speaker 3: to have your company on this Thursday morning. Donald Trump
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Speaker 3: has just met with Joe Buying at the White House.
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Speaker 3: Says politics is a brutal sport, but quote, it's a
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Speaker 3: nice world today. They did that chat fireside. Republicans are
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Speaker 3: about to pick their new leader for the Senate. That's
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Speaker 3: happening in two hours. Mitch McCann is with US live
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Speaker 3: from New York. Inside the next fifteen also before six,
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Speaker 3: an economist on our tourism numbers and migration as well.
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Speaker 3: The government has just released yesterday a calculator, a gender
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Speaker 3: pay gap calculator. I mean, this is such a big
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Speaker 3: issue for me that I thought I would go and
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Speaker 3: use the calculator. So apparently the average pay gap is
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Speaker 3: eight point two percent, so women are an eight point
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Speaker 3: two percent less than men. You can go in and
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Speaker 3: you can put as if you're an employer, you put
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Speaker 3: how many workers you have male female? Workout your gap,
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Speaker 3: and then it tells you what to do about it.
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Speaker 3: So here here's the results that I pretended I had
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Speaker 3: three men and three women working for me. I pretended
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Speaker 3: the men. The average for men was sixty thousand a year.
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Speaker 3: The average for the women was fifty thousand. What did
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Speaker 3: that tell me? Whip? Do you do that? The end
19:00
Speaker 3: to pay gap was sixteen point seven percent? Didn't say
19:04
Speaker 3: whether you know one of those men was the CEO
19:07
Speaker 3: or the manager, which might have completely skewed the result.
19:10
Speaker 3: It just says, no, sixteen point seven percent is your
19:12
Speaker 3: gender pay gap? There? It is. It also asked me
19:15
Speaker 3: do you have any gender diverse people working for you?
19:17
Speaker 3: And I said no, So it has given me a
19:20
Speaker 3: gender diverse pay gap of one hundred percent. But there's
19:26
Speaker 3: no gender diverse person. So the difference between what a
19:29
Speaker 3: man earns and what a gender diverse person earns is
19:32
Speaker 3: one hundred percent. Do we have to address that anyway?
19:35
Speaker 3: Let's get to now the important part, which is what
19:39
Speaker 3: does this mean? That it gives you a whole toolkit,
19:42
Speaker 3: our whole explanation and a whole roadmap for what to
19:45
Speaker 3: do next? What does this mean and what could you do?
19:48
Speaker 3: It says here you may find that some employees still
19:52
Speaker 3: get stuck, or that women are less likely to advance.
19:55
Speaker 3: What do you do about that? Increase fairness and remuneration
19:59
Speaker 3: reviews by reducing discretion. This could include introducing a step
20:04
Speaker 3: based pay system with an automatic annual adjustment and delinking
20:09
Speaker 3: performance from pay. So, in other words, ditch performance pay.
20:15
Speaker 3: On what planet are we living? When a government tells
20:18
Speaker 3: a business not to performance pay its staff. What if
20:23
Speaker 3: you're shit at your job? I'm sorry, I don't care
20:25
Speaker 3: if you're a man or a woman. What if you're
20:27
Speaker 3: bad at your job? Oh well, she's got boobs. Tick
20:31
Speaker 3: the box, give her the right, give her the raise.
20:33
Speaker 3: I mean, I just don't understand this, But then maybe
20:37
Speaker 3: I'm not meant to. It's twenty one away from six
20:41
Speaker 3: shown to our reporters around the country. Black Ben's in
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Speaker 3: duned and Blake disbelief over a theft at a primary school.
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Speaker 3: What's this about?
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Speaker 5: Yes?
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Speaker 11: This is the broad Baying School, which has had a
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Speaker 11: number of expensive tool stolen, including a weed eater, leaf blower,
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Speaker 11: and lawn mower. They're used by the enviro school to
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Speaker 11: maintain its gardens, which students actively use as part of
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Speaker 11: the Garden to Table program. Otidra Peninsula Community Board Chair
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Speaker 11: Paul Pope says people go out of their way to
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Speaker 11: contribute to their schools, which is why thefts like these hurt.
21:09
Speaker 11: Principal Rebecca Gilbertson says they'll be relying on locals to
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Speaker 11: bring tools from home for their working be next Sunday,
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Speaker 11: adding the community has responded with warmth and kindness. She's
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Speaker 11: thankful for the police help as they investigate.
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Speaker 3: That's terrible house. So were that blake.
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Speaker 11: We'll be a bit of a cloudy morning here with
21:25
Speaker 11: rain and northeasterly is developing this afternoon.
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Speaker 3: I have eighteen thank you claires and christ Church's clear
21:31
Speaker 3: on a wildlife park, the chief executive resigning. What are
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Speaker 3: people saying about it?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 12: While the organization investigating Irana Park has spoken about Elen
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Speaker 12: Anderson's resignation, she announced yesterday she's stepping away from the
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Speaker 12: zoo here in christ Church after twenty eight years in
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Speaker 12: the top job. Staff reports of animal deaths had prompted
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Speaker 12: four separate investigations earlier this year. Some of those do
21:54
Speaker 12: remain ongoing now. Anderson's resignation announcement interestingly doesn't mention any
21:58
Speaker 12: of the investigations, saying now is the time for her
22:01
Speaker 12: to focus on health and some work life balance. The
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Speaker 12: Zoo and Aquarium Association Australasia is finalizing its independent report.
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Speaker 12: It says it will be provided to the park's board
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Speaker 12: in the coming weeks. It does say it regrets to
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Speaker 12: hear of Anderson's resignation, saying she has been a dedicated
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Speaker 12: leader and thanks her for her contributions and achievements.
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Speaker 3: All right, how's your weather?
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Speaker 12: A bit of rain about to start today clearing this
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Speaker 12: evening northeasterly is becoming fresh and eighteen degrees, Thank you Max.
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Speaker 3: A caution for public servants wanting to join the he coy.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, when that he coy, of whatever size it actually is,
22:36
Speaker 13: does get to the capital marches on Parliament, it's of
22:39
Speaker 13: course going to be incredibly disruptive.
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Speaker 3: In Wellington.
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Speaker 13: The Public Service Association, which publicly supports the protests, is
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Speaker 13: warning its members to hide who they work for, ie.
22:49
Speaker 13: Don't wear lanyards, ID badges, anything like that. The PSA
22:53
Speaker 13: is still encouraging people to take part, telling them they
22:55
Speaker 13: absolutely can do if they want to in their own time,
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Speaker 13: even if their agency department requires them to be politically neutral.
23:03
Speaker 13: The vast majority of public servants being told to work
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Speaker 13: from home if possible next Tuesday. A lot of the
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Speaker 13: major unions in fact backing the HECOID, which is not
23:11
Speaker 13: surprising at the pub Post Primary Teachers Association, Early Childhood
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Speaker 13: Union and zed EI are in that camp. David Seymour
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Speaker 13: this week saying students would be disadvantaged by missing out
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Speaker 13: on valuable learning time should their parents bring them along
23:25
Speaker 13: or if they skip school to go.
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Speaker 3: So hang on. All all of the public services being
23:30
Speaker 3: told to work from home that day if they can.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, it happens when there's a major protest or demonstration
23:37
Speaker 13: at Parliament. If you can work from home, do so well.
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Speaker 3: If we could put up with our bridge being closed,
23:42
Speaker 3: you guys can put up with it anyway. Next thing
23:44
Speaker 3: you how's your with.
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Speaker 13: Her rain getting stronger as the day goes on the
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Speaker 13: High twenty.
23:49
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Neiva's and Norkland hay Nava.
23:51
Speaker 14: Good morning.
23:52
Speaker 3: So there's a few restrictions on the Franklin Road Christmas
23:55
Speaker 3: lights this year.
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Speaker 15: Yes, Now they're going to the becon this year, starting later,
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Speaker 15: turning off sooner and also with security. So what will
24:03
Speaker 15: happen is that it's going to run from December to
24:05
Speaker 15: seventh I think usually it's from the first to December
24:08
Speaker 15: and residents are going to switch the lights off around
24:11
Speaker 15: ten pm. Used to be eleven pm. Now, the coordinator says,
24:15
Speaker 15: there was a lot of feedback. This is on unlicensed
24:17
Speaker 15: street vendors, so I think in previous years and last
24:21
Speaker 15: year they had people on licensed vendor selling balloons and
24:23
Speaker 15: food and all sorts. So the residents in the area went, hey, hey,
24:27
Speaker 15: we don't want that happening. So the Pondsibu Business Association
24:31
Speaker 15: is going to provide them with security as well, because,
24:32
Speaker 15: as we all know, up and down that street on
24:35
Speaker 15: Franklin Road in the middle of the night and they
24:36
Speaker 15: get all those drag races and people yet the you know, yeah,
24:40
Speaker 15: the hooligans, that's what you call them, the rolygans.
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Speaker 3: The riff raff come to Christmas. No, it's terrible, it's terrible.
24:46
Speaker 3: They'll need and they always have a police presence there too,
24:48
Speaker 3: don't they, which is a shame that they have to.
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Speaker 15: I've got a couple of friends that live on that
24:51
Speaker 15: street and they just roll their eyes at the time.
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Speaker 3: Awful place to live, I think, So I hate that
24:58
Speaker 3: a house.
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Speaker 15: The weather showers us morning and those shows will become
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Speaker 15: more frequent. This evening Auckland's High.
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Speaker 3: Twenty two brilliant. Thank you Neva. This funny text is
25:06
Speaker 3: coming on Blake's story out of Dunedin, which was an
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Speaker 3: environmental school and they're upset because their weed eater has
25:12
Speaker 3: been stolen. This textas says, wouldn't an environmental school use
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Speaker 3: sheep and goats instead of a weed eater? Good point?
25:19
Speaker 2: International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of mind
25:23
Speaker 2: for New Zealand business.
25:26
Speaker 3: It is fourteen minutes away from sex News Talk ZEBB.
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Speaker 3: So incoming president President elect Donald Trump has met with
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Speaker 3: Biden at the White House in the Oval Office fireside,
25:36
Speaker 3: and boy Mitch mccanner is with us. That fire was
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Speaker 3: absolutely cranking. Yes, I know what is freezing over here. Ryan.
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Speaker 16: It looked like a beautiful morning in the White House
25:46
Speaker 16: for an awkward conversation. I think we've all had awkward
25:49
Speaker 16: meetings in our life, but perhaps not as awkward as
25:52
Speaker 16: we expected that one to be between Joe Biden and
25:55
Speaker 16: Donald Trump, although it seems on the surface of it
25:59
Speaker 16: they were families. Joe Biden said to Donald Trump, well,
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Speaker 16: mister President elect, former President Donald congratulations, and he said
26:07
Speaker 16: welcome back to the White House, and Donald Trump responded,
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Speaker 16: politics is tough in many cases, not a very nice world.
26:14
Speaker 16: But it is a nice world today and I appreciate
26:17
Speaker 16: it very much. So a lot of smiles and a
26:19
Speaker 16: lot of handshakes between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, perhaps
26:23
Speaker 16: a little bit unexpected, Ryan, seeing it seems like they
26:26
Speaker 16: despise each other usually.
26:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a little weird, a little awkward, and
26:30
Speaker 3: I did wonder whether they'd put this. I counted seven
26:32
Speaker 3: logs on that fire, and I hate to keep going
26:34
Speaker 3: on about it. Was that like a metaphor for democracy burning,
26:37
Speaker 3: you know, it's possible.
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Speaker 16: I didn't even know it was a real fire, but
26:40
Speaker 16: it looked very nice.
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Speaker 3: I'd rather be there this morning cranking. Let's talk about
26:44
Speaker 3: aviation suspending flights they have out of the US to Haiti. Yeah,
26:49
Speaker 3: that's right.
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Speaker 16: America's aviation regulator, that is, the FAA, has suspended flights
26:54
Speaker 16: to Haiti for thirty days now. That country has been
26:57
Speaker 16: embroiled in chaos for some time now. It's estimated by
27:00
Speaker 16: the Yuien that more than three thoy six hundred people
27:03
Speaker 16: have been killed in eighty since January. Essentially, the problem
27:06
Speaker 16: is it has been overrun by gangs at the moment,
27:10
Speaker 16: but three American aircraft Jet Blue, Spirit and American Airlines
27:14
Speaker 16: were all hit by bullets on Monday after flying to
27:17
Speaker 16: the capitol Porto Prince, So the FAA has now said
27:20
Speaker 16: for thirty days no American flights are going to go there.
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Speaker 3: All right, Mitch, thank you very much for that much.
27:25
Speaker 3: Mccnal live from New York. Just so that you know,
27:27
Speaker 3: Jimmy Carter apparently grew up around wood burning systems throughout
27:31
Speaker 3: his childhood, so when he got to the White House,
27:33
Speaker 3: he installed six wooden stoves, wood stoves around the building,
27:38
Speaker 3: So there you go. They're still in operation today. Apparently
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Speaker 3: twelve two six Brian Bridge and you're on News Talk.
27:44
Speaker 3: Tourism numbers are out. It's not good news for the
27:47
Speaker 3: sector as we head into summer. We're still only hitting
27:50
Speaker 3: eighty seven percent of our pre COVID numbers. It's more
27:54
Speaker 3: of a merit than an excellence on an NCAA exam,
27:57
Speaker 3: you'd have to say. Migration is also declining as a
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Speaker 3: record number of kiwis leave most of them to Australia.
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Speaker 3: It's net positive for now, but reducing each month. So
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Speaker 3: could we be on the way to net zero migration
28:09
Speaker 3: next year. And what does it mean? Mark Smiths, the
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Speaker 3: ASP senior economists, Mark, good morning, good morning, good to
28:14
Speaker 3: hear from you. Should we be worried about this? It's
28:18
Speaker 3: a pretty stubborn pre COVID number on migra on tourism.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, that's right in sims of the shortfall. If you
28:27
Speaker 9: put it that way, it threes. We're broad based by
28:30
Speaker 9: different markets, particularly Europe about thirty percent below pre COVID levels,
28:35
Speaker 9: China about forty five, and the rest of Asia about
28:38
Speaker 9: thirty percent as well. So it is a reasonable broad
28:41
Speaker 9: based reason for that. Now, looking at probably the reasons, One,
28:47
Speaker 9: the global economy stare of recovering from COVID, so it
28:49
Speaker 9: will take some time.
28:51
Speaker 7: Two.
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Speaker 9: New Zealand's are pretty peripheral destination for tourism the best
28:55
Speaker 9: of times, and we're very small, only about two point
28:57
Speaker 9: two percent of global tourism. Probably the most important reason
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Speaker 9: I think is that cost remains stubbornly high for people
29:04
Speaker 9: getting to New Zealand were long away. New Zealand's are
29:08
Speaker 9: recently high cost destination and air fares were still very
29:11
Speaker 9: high as well.
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Speaker 3: So it's not us, it's them. Basically, they're in the
29:15
Speaker 3: cost of living crisis too, and we're far away. It's
29:18
Speaker 3: not that we've gotten ugly orly shiny during COVID.
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Speaker 9: Well I'm not so sure about that, And I mean,
29:24
Speaker 9: there are things you can do to make sure that
29:26
Speaker 9: you're a lot more attractive destination. Arguably, we'll probably have
29:30
Speaker 9: some work to do as well.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and when we are slapping on a tourist tax too,
29:34
Speaker 3: which has yet to be felt. Let's talk about the
29:37
Speaker 3: other elephant in the room, and that's migration. What happens
29:40
Speaker 3: if we hit net zero next year? What does that
29:42
Speaker 3: mean for us?
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Speaker 9: Well, yeah, migration if you like is a viewer, I
29:47
Speaker 9: suppose again of how attractive you are, we've gone from imparible,
29:51
Speaker 9: we're sort of at the head that the dirty stakes
29:54
Speaker 9: very attractive now to locking at potentially net outflows next year.
29:59
Speaker 9: Now that's really reflection of where the New Zealand economy
30:02
Speaker 9: is real to the rest of the world, and at
30:04
Speaker 9: the moment we're weaker and those migration flows for falling. Now,
30:07
Speaker 9: migration is the difference between two very big numbers, and
30:10
Speaker 9: it's certain possible we could see the outflows for next
30:14
Speaker 9: year as well.
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Speaker 3: Next year and is that really bad? I mean, what
30:17
Speaker 3: does it do to our GDP. Obviously it'd be good
30:21
Speaker 3: for presumably for demand on resources like hospitals, et cetera.
30:24
Speaker 3: But what does it do to our growth?
30:27
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean that's a good point. A lot of
30:28
Speaker 9: the things, a lot of the resource utilization will ease,
30:32
Speaker 9: so things like congestion, hospitalization that that will be easier.
30:37
Speaker 9: The other side of the corner that will be demanded,
30:39
Speaker 9: and the economy will be a weaker. The housing market
30:41
Speaker 9: for example, will be a weaker as well, less demand
30:43
Speaker 9: thousand and potentially things like for the labor market. Migration
30:48
Speaker 9: has been a huge factor enabled New Zealand to revise,
30:51
Speaker 9: you know, enough staff for certain worlds that might also
30:55
Speaker 9: be an issue.
30:56
Speaker 3: What's what's our projection for GDP for next year? In
30:59
Speaker 3: the following.
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Speaker 9: Essentially it's been flat, well has a year or two.
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Speaker 9: We might see a bit of a rebound sort of
31:08
Speaker 9: in the second half of next year and that should
31:10
Speaker 9: hopefully ten around migration flows. But again it's still quite
31:14
Speaker 9: a long way ahead and they're still quit of them, certainly,
31:17
Speaker 9: but hopefully we're past the store of trif of the
31:20
Speaker 9: cycle and we should start to improve by the next year,
31:25
Speaker 9: you hope.
31:25
Speaker 3: So Australia is looking at one point two percent for
31:28
Speaker 3: twenty five and one point nine percent for twenty six,
31:30
Speaker 3: so we're going to try and beat them. Some stats
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Speaker 3: up with Mark. Thank you very much, Mark Smith asb
31:35
Speaker 3: senior economist. On those two new numbers, one tourism, the
31:38
Speaker 3: other migration. It's eight to sex News Talks. He'd be.
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge, new for twenty twenty four on the early
31:46
Speaker 2: edition with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a
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Speaker 2: playing store news Talk.
31:51
Speaker 3: Hi'd be slicks away from sex news Talk, said, be.
31:53
Speaker 3: The big story you'll be hearing about today out of
31:55
Speaker 3: the US is the fact that Trump has returned to
31:57
Speaker 3: the White House for a fireside chat with Joe and
32:00
Speaker 3: boy was that fire cranking? Ryan, The fireplace looks so
32:05
Speaker 3: hot in that photo. I've done a Google image search.
32:08
Speaker 3: None have been cranked as hard as today's fire, despite
32:11
Speaker 3: all of the meetings with world leaders that have been
32:13
Speaker 3: held there. So conspiracy, Ryan, Why this is from Brian?
32:17
Speaker 3: Why is Biden meeting with a Nazi? Good question? Mike's here,
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Speaker 3: Hey Mike, good morning. Did you see that fire? Yeah,
32:24
Speaker 3: it's it's gas.
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Speaker 14: You realize it's a gas fire.
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Speaker 3: It's not. It's a well known gas fire and been
32:32
Speaker 3: a well known gas fight.
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Speaker 14: Well, because, of course, the first question you always ask
32:35
Speaker 14: whenever they have those meetings in that room is you
32:38
Speaker 14: know you have the fire going, what time of year
32:40
Speaker 14: is it, how much heat has put out?
32:42
Speaker 2: You know?
32:42
Speaker 14: How do you offset it with.
32:43
Speaker 3: The air conditions?
32:43
Speaker 14: These are the questions you are very much So what
32:45
Speaker 14: about how many people are in the room. You going
32:47
Speaker 14: to realize a lot of very small room, A lot
32:48
Speaker 14: of people in the room love journalists In terms of
32:51
Speaker 14: is it really gas it's a gas fire? Well, of course,
32:53
Speaker 14: it's a convincing gas fire. It's a very good gas fire.
32:57
Speaker 14: And I'm into gas fires. Look at it, and so
33:00
Speaker 14: the only gas fire I've ever experienced. There's a place
33:03
Speaker 14: in New Zealand that I won't name, but it's a
33:05
Speaker 14: very well known hotel that has a similar style of
33:08
Speaker 14: gas fire.
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Speaker 3: Because mostly it was crackling. Are you making this up?
33:11
Speaker 3: I'm not making it up.
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Speaker 14: It's a well known gas fire.
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Speaker 3: How does a gas fire crackle? You simply turn it up.
33:17
Speaker 14: You simply turn it up.
33:18
Speaker 3: Sounds like a yarn. It's not a it's the real story.
33:22
Speaker 3: Jimmy Carter lovedood and he had them installed in the right.
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Speaker 14: Think about why it's a gas fire. You can't have
33:29
Speaker 14: logs and things exploding out of the fireplace where world
33:32
Speaker 14: leaders are in the room, setting the carpet on.
33:35
Speaker 3: Fire and the curtain. I think they've cranked it that hard.
33:37
Speaker 3: I believe that's a symbolism. I think that to say, look,
33:40
Speaker 3: democracy is burning Trumps back in the back.
33:42
Speaker 14: I think they want to melt his makeup. I think
33:45
Speaker 14: there's something in that because I've never seen it that
33:47
Speaker 14: high as well. It was major.
33:49
Speaker 3: But that's a cool fire.
33:51
Speaker 14: If you get a gas fire, because most gas fires.
33:53
Speaker 3: Here take that.
33:54
Speaker 14: You get a little tiny, pathetic flame and there's no heat.
33:56
Speaker 3: If you can pump that.
33:57
Speaker 14: Up, mind you think about that. They'd beyond pipes, not tanks,
34:00
Speaker 14: because you'd be burning through a guests.
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Speaker 3: Look, honestly, I didn't give it that much thought. That's
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Speaker 3: why I'm here. Mike is with you next with all
34:08
Speaker 3: of the good information.
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