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Full Show Podcast: 11 September 2024 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The Issues, US.
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Speaker 2: The interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge new for twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty four on the early edition with Smith City, New
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Speaker 2: Zealand's furniture beds and a play at store.
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Speaker 1: Ustorgs'd be good morning.
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Speaker 3: It is Wednesday, Humpday Debate Day two. Former US Ambassador
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Speaker 3: Mark Gilbert joins us. Gilbert, I should say, joins us
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Speaker 3: on that before six population in some towns could have
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Speaker 3: after Winstone Pop's closure banning phones for kids, How will
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Speaker 3: you police it if you're a parent? Plus, after five
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Speaker 3: point thirty seventeen hundred prisoners are being released today. Don't worry.
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Speaker 3: It's in the UK, not here. It's to combat overcrowding
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Speaker 3: in prisons and we know how well that went for US.
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Speaker 3: Gavin Gray is our UK correspondent after the News the agenda.
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Speaker 3: It is Wednesday, the eleventh of September. Great to have
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Speaker 3: your company. Nineteen people have died following an Israeli strike
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Speaker 3: in southern gazas humanitarians. This is according to the Hamas
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Speaker 3: Health Ministry.
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Speaker 4: We have eyewitnesses who are saying that they walk up
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Speaker 4: to the sound of between four and six missiles heading
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Speaker 4: the camp, setting tents on fire.
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Speaker 3: Terrible at least one hundred and twenty seven people have
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Speaker 3: died in Vietnam after a typhoon struck northern regions of
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Speaker 3: the country. Fifty four people still missing. It had previously
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Speaker 3: struck China and the Philippines, leaving twenty four dead. It
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Speaker 3: is debate day today. Kamala Harris is bringing friends to
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Speaker 3: Philly with her. She's going to troll Trump, inviting some
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Speaker 3: of his former officials, former Trump White House Communications director
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Speaker 3: Anthony Scaramucci. Scaramucci is going to be going. He served
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Speaker 3: only ten days before he was fired, so really, what
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Speaker 3: value can he add. She's inviting them as guests and
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Speaker 3: surrogates because there's no audience obviously, but you can as
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Speaker 3: a candidate, you can bring guests or surrogates. So she
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Speaker 3: is bringing two of those. Debate kicks off one pm.
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Speaker 3: You can watch on YouTube. Australia, Peter Dutton is channeling
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Speaker 3: Tony Abbott, going hard after Labor and Albanesi on a
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Speaker 3: carbon tax attack.
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Speaker 5: I'm not going to destroy the economy and send families
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Speaker 5: bankrupt in the process of decarbonizing our economy.
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Speaker 3: It sounds like somebody's thinking practically. At least Dutton Montster
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Speaker 3: built six nuclear reactors to limit power outages. Eight after five.
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Speaker 2: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition with
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and
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Speaker 2: a playing store.
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Speaker 3: On News Talk z B, we'll get two cycle ways
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Speaker 3: in a second. Also, whether you could be going one
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Speaker 3: hundred and twenty k's on a motorway in New Zealand. Well,
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Speaker 3: that's got you excited, hasn't it. First though, Wilworst is
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Speaker 3: fighting back. This is a really interesting business desk piece.
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Speaker 3: Wilwast is fighting back. So you had the ComCom come
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Speaker 3: out and the groceries are the grocery Commissioner coming out
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Speaker 3: and saying they're profiting, their margins are up, grocery guys
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Speaker 3: bad and there's no meaningful competition. And this is what
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Speaker 3: they said. They said there's no meaningful competition after the
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Speaker 3: introduction of the Grocery Industry Competition Act or GEEKER as
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Speaker 3: I'm calling it. So that was Labour's act that they introduced.
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Speaker 3: It was quite rushed, quite hurried. Anyway, they said no
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Speaker 3: meaningful competition after the introduction of GEEKER. They said that
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Speaker 3: retail margins are up three point one percent on non
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Speaker 3: fresh point four percent on fresh you know, naughty, bad,
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Speaker 3: evil supermarkets. Anyway, the supermarkets have come back. Warl worst
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Speaker 3: is saying the report used old data. All the data
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Speaker 3: used for the margins predates that new law. So how
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Speaker 3: can you say the law wasn't making meaningful differences to
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Speaker 3: competition if you don't have the figures relevant to the
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Speaker 3: period after the law was enacted. Doesn't make any sense.
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Speaker 3: According to wol Wis, I couched that with According to
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Speaker 3: wo Wis, they also said, and this is interesting, wages
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Speaker 3: for their supermarkets up nineteen percent over two years. The
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Speaker 3: return on average capital was overstated, they say by the ComCom.
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Speaker 3: It actually dropped from fourteen percent in twenty nineteen to
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Speaker 3: six percent in twenty twenty three. They now say their
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Speaker 3: return on average capital so what they're getting out from
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Speaker 3: what they're putting in is two percent. Now that doesn't
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Speaker 3: sound good to me. I'm no expert. But worryingly, in
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Speaker 3: this article they say, given current market conditions, Woolworths has
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Speaker 3: very little appetite to invest in New Zealand. Now if
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Speaker 3: our so called two headed duopoly, the monsters who sit
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Speaker 3: back and profit and you know, rake in the cash,
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Speaker 3: won't invest here. What hope do we have of a new.
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Speaker 1: Entrant Rambridge from the Western.
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Speaker 3: Yes, it is five minutes, sorry, eleven minutes after five,
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Speaker 3: I should say. On News Talks it'd be lots more
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Speaker 3: to come. We're going to talk phone banning phones. If
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Speaker 3: you're a parent, how would you actually police that? Do
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Speaker 3: you have a cupboard that you would lock the phones in?
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Speaker 3: That's what I would do? I mean, or some of
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Speaker 3: you lock the children? I guess probably free proably both.
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Speaker 3: We'll get to that just before the news at five
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Speaker 3: thirty News Talks, he'd be.
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge you for twenty twenty four on early edition
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Speaker 2: with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store.
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Speaker 1: News Talks, it'd be great.
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Speaker 3: To have you with me fourteen after five News Talks,
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Speaker 3: he'd be text me nine to nine two and I'll
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Speaker 3: read your text out on ear if there's no profanity.
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Speaker 3: We'd love to hear your thoughts this morning on how
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Speaker 3: You because we're going to talk about it just after,
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Speaker 3: just before the news, how you police your kid's mobile phone?
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Speaker 1: News?
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Speaker 3: Because it's obviously doing damage to them right now. Though
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Speaker 3: it's going to be a hard job policing these two.
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Speaker 3: A big day in the US. The first presidential debate
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Speaker 3: since Joe Biden quit the race. So I guess it's
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Speaker 3: Trump's second presidential debate of this election season, his first
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Speaker 3: against Kamala Harris, what is going to happen and does
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Speaker 3: it really matter? Mark Gilbert joins US. He's a former
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Speaker 3: US ambassador and Democrat Party member. He's joining us from
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Speaker 3: Park City, Utah. This morning. Mark, Good morning, thanks for
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Speaker 3: being on the show.
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Speaker 6: Good morning, Ryan Kiyota.
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Speaker 3: Tell me what's your read? Here? Is what happens today?
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Speaker 3: Going to move the dial make a difference?
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Speaker 6: I believe that it could. First of all, this is,
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Speaker 6: as you just mentioned, the vice president's first presidential debate,
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Speaker 6: and a lot of the polling shows that many people
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Speaker 6: across the unit as they really don't know her. So
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Speaker 6: this will be a great opportunity for her to be seen.
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Speaker 6: And the expectation is that this will exceed more than
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Speaker 6: fifty nine in people, maybe as many as sixty million
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Speaker 6: people will watch.
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Speaker 3: Harris says Trump is not burdened by telling the truth.
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Speaker 3: Does that matter? I mean, he's been elected previously, we
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Speaker 3: know he's got form in that area. Do people care?
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Speaker 3: Does it matter if he's not trying to tell the truth.
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Speaker 3: Should she try and fact Chickenen like Hillary Clinton did.
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Speaker 6: I think she will, and I think this is different
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Speaker 6: than twenty sixteen. You know, back in twenty sixteen, he
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Speaker 6: was seen into an outsider. His independence was seen through
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Speaker 6: the kind of comments that he made and actually a
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Speaker 6: little bit of a bullying with Secretary Clinton. I don't
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Speaker 6: believe that that is how people look at it today,
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Speaker 6: because he has said some things especially that people just
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Speaker 6: look at and go, oh my god, I can't possibly
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Speaker 6: be true. So I do think it will make a difference,
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Speaker 6: But of course it will matter how the Vice president
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Speaker 6: addresses that, whether she fax checks in in real time
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Speaker 6: or basically says, you know, here you go, that's just
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Speaker 6: another lie. Let me tell everyone what the real truth is.
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Speaker 3: How vulnerable is she on the border and inflation that
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Speaker 3: incumbency issue that she's got from being attached to Biden.
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Speaker 6: So the border probably would have been her largest negative
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Speaker 6: issue until the President told the Republican Party to take
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Speaker 6: the bill that their party actually negotiated and throw it
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Speaker 6: out because he wanted it as a campaign issue. So
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Speaker 6: I believe that that's something that is actually backfired for him,
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Speaker 6: and the numbers at the border have dramatically closed. As
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Speaker 6: far as how people see which party's fault, it is,
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Speaker 6: as a matter of fact, a lot of people see
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Speaker 6: it as both parties fault and that's something that I
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Speaker 6: personally agree with.
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Speaker 3: It's hard to see how it could be anything, but
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Speaker 3: given the numbers over over so many different presidencies. Right, Mark,
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Speaker 3: thank you very much for joining us this morning. Really
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Speaker 3: appreciate your time and enjoy the debate. Mark Gilbert, former
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Speaker 3: US Ambassador and Democrat Party member, joining us from Park City, Utah.
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Speaker 3: You can catch that debate on here in New Zone.
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Speaker 3: You can actually watch it on YouTube. I've discovered from
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Speaker 3: one o'clock this afternoon, seventeen after five coming up next,
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Speaker 3: your kids and their phones? Would you realistically would you
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Speaker 3: be able to enforce a ban nine to ninety two
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Speaker 3: the number to text eighteen after five?
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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 Fifth City, New
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Speaker 2: Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store.
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Speaker 1: News Talk said, be.
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Speaker 3: I'll get to this idea of one hundred and twenty
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Speaker 3: kilometers in our speed limits for new roads in New
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Speaker 3: Zealand in just a second. But first the Aussies. The
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Speaker 3: government there it has decided to ban the use of
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Speaker 3: social media apps like TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook for children
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Speaker 3: the age limit don't know yet still but to be decided.
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Speaker 3: The legislation will be introduced by the end of the year.
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Speaker 3: They say, our Prime minister City is open to looking
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Speaker 3: at this. How do you police it? Nathan Wallace is
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Speaker 3: a parenting expert and he's with us this morning. Nathan,
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Speaker 3: good morning, Good morning, right, how are you mate, I'm
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Speaker 3: very well, thank you. Good idea bad idea for a ban.
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Speaker 7: I think it's a good idea. I mean, I know
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Speaker 7: it seems like the horses bolted already, but there's long
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Speaker 7: correlation between our mental health crisis and how social media
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Speaker 7: is contributing to that. And you know people can't access counseling.
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Speaker 7: People on the phone, you stilly actually trying to get
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Speaker 7: access counseling and trying to get an ADHD diagnosis though
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Speaker 7: I told it was either two and a half grand
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Speaker 7: to see someone or a year and a half wait.
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Speaker 7: So if we take the health crisis from the other end,
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Speaker 7: if we ban things like social media, that could be
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Speaker 7: one of the major causes of our our mental health
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Speaker 7: crisis with teenagers support.
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Speaker 3: It Okay, these days, I'm like, who doesn't have ADHD?
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Speaker 1: Is is it possible?
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Speaker 3: Can phones call ADHD?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 7: Not really ADHD. It's hard to diagnose ADHD because it's
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Speaker 7: very similar to trauma, you know, I'm basically the brain
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Speaker 7: just responds to stress in a similar way. So whether
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Speaker 7: that is trauma, whether it's ADHD, whether you're grieving because
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Speaker 7: your grandmother's dying, the brain responds in a similar way.
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Speaker 7: So it's hard to say exactly what is ADHD.
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Speaker 3: Vaping, but yeah, vaping and drinking. Obviously kids can't do it,
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Speaker 3: but they still do. Do you see this as another
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Speaker 3: one that would fall into that category? Are you shouldn't
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Speaker 3: it's illegal? But actually they do.
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Speaker 7: Anyway, Absolutely, And I think lots of people are going
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Speaker 7: to do social media anyway because they've had a whole
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Speaker 7: generation of kids who've got used to doing social media.
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Speaker 7: But when you make it illegal, you do send a
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Speaker 7: clear message that this is dangerous because a lot of
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Speaker 7: people now let their kids drink under a team, you know,
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Speaker 7: let their kids vape, So you're going to get people
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Speaker 7: that do it anyway. But I still think it's a
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Speaker 7: good message to make it illegal and say, look it
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Speaker 7: just because a warning flag to people. This is a problem,
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Speaker 7: This is a cause of concern.
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Speaker 3: How old should a kid be before they get a phone?
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Speaker 7: Oh it's hard to say, isn't it. I'm an ideal world.
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Speaker 7: Sixteen Yeah, and you've got two years, well actually sixteen,
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Speaker 7: two years of your parents helping you to manage it
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Speaker 7: before you're eighteen and they have to manage it by yourself.
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Speaker 3: Couldn't agree with you more. Nathan, thank you very much
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Speaker 3: for being with us this morning, so early as well.
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Speaker 3: Nathan Wallace, parenting expert, just gone twenty two minutes after five.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Ryan, says Marie. I use an app on
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Speaker 3: my phone called Arrow, which allows me to limit the
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Speaker 3: screen time for kids, block apps from individual phones, etc.
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Speaker 3: In fact, I can even block the husband if he
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Speaker 3: annoys me. Sounds like a great app, Marie. Another says,
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Speaker 3: what age are the kids? As a parent, don't buy
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Speaker 3: your kid a phone or buy them a dumb phone
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Speaker 3: so they can only ring or text. My mum wouldn't
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Speaker 3: let me get a phone when I was a kid.
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Speaker 3: I think I must. I think she will. Actually she
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Speaker 3: wouldn't let me get one until I was sixteen. But
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Speaker 3: I bought one with my paper run money a little
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Speaker 3: earlier than that and just didn't tell her. What she
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Speaker 3: didn't know didn't really hurt her. And actually she used
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Speaker 3: to have a rule at the dinner table you weren't
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Speaker 3: allowed to use your phone, you know, which is fair enough.
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Speaker 3: That's a pretty basic standard rule. I would have thought
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Speaker 3: you will have that in your house as well. Ninety
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Speaker 3: two number to text. However, the other day mum came
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Speaker 3: to stay. What was she doing at the dinner table
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Speaker 3: on her bloody phone? Anyway, We'd love to hear your
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Speaker 3: rules at home. Nineteen nine twers number of text twenty
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Speaker 3: four minutes after five The early.
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Speaker 2: Edition Full The Show podcast on iHeartRadio powered by Newstalks.
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Speaker 3: Me a wild, bizarre and highly entertaining media scrum in
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Speaker 3: Wellington yesterday, culminating with an MP saying he didn't mind
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Speaker 3: swimming in other people's sewerage. Yes, human waste. I'm talking
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Speaker 3: here about the chaotic caucus run of one labor MP
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Speaker 3: for Ohadio, Greg O'Connor. He was asked, first of all,
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Speaker 3: why Wellington's dying? You know you've seeing that in the
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Speaker 3: news with the cafes closing down et cetera.
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Speaker 5: Why when you walk along the waterfront, there's not enough
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Speaker 5: to do along that waterfront. I mean there's been stopping
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Speaker 5: things from happening. I mean you can walk a long
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Speaker 5: way there. There's no cafe. There's no way to actually
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Speaker 5: get a coffee.
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Speaker 3: Greg, Greg, Greg, Why don't they just put more cafes in?
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Speaker 3: He says, Well, these things require business investment and profit
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Speaker 3: to be had, don't they could? The reason that there
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Speaker 3: aren't enough flat whites down at Queen's Wharf be because
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Speaker 3: one labor heights the minimum wage beyond affordability. Too, they
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Speaker 3: help drive up inflation with unrestrained government spending. And three
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Speaker 3: they told everyone to stay home and out of the CBD,
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Speaker 3: out of the office. So far so normally, I guess,
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Speaker 3: and MP struggling to grasp the realities of running a
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Speaker 3: small business. Here's where it all gets a bit messy,
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Speaker 3: though literally, he says. The solution is to get more people, tourists, residents, whoever,
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Speaker 3: get them down to the waterfront. Get them down to
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Speaker 3: Queen's Wharf, he says, And a reporter kindly points out
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Speaker 3: that the water is often not safe swimming because of
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Speaker 3: human waste. Are you talking about the same harbor that
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Speaker 3: gets polluted when there's heavy rain due to the bed places.
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Speaker 5: Don't stop people swimming and there doesn't know, Hey, that's
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Speaker 5: a typical not so why you look at the where
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Speaker 5: else can you swim off Oriental Bay Beach?
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Speaker 8: Well, they don't advise you to swim in there because
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Speaker 8: the sewage in the harbor, And we're.
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Speaker 5: Rising people not to do that for years, so people
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Speaker 5: have done it.
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Speaker 9: Look, ok, would would you swim in the harbor of
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Speaker 9: the sewageon there?
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Speaker 3: Don't worry about it, just jump in. Don't worry about
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Speaker 3: the feces. Then here's the best part. Let's blame the
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Speaker 3: journalists for reporting on the wastewater in the first place.
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Speaker 5: Is there a warning at the moment? I don't know
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Speaker 5: you guys. Is there a warning at the moment? So
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Speaker 5: why bringing this up there? So it's well? Intent positive?
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Speaker 5: Is that you can go swimming well in in harbor today?
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Speaker 5: Is that what I'm hearing from you? Good report that, guys?
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Speaker 3: The world According to Greg O'Connor, you can't beg welling's
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Speaker 3: on a good day. A good day being one with
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Speaker 3: no wind and no rain, no pooh in your harbor,
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Speaker 3: and perhaps a coffee cart down at the waterfront. I
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Speaker 3: think there should be a new slogan, Wellington take a
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Speaker 3: chance on me. Twenty eight after five, Bryan Bridge, you
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Speaker 3: might have seen this in the news, and if you have,
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Speaker 3: I'm concerned for you. It's the fake news slash scam
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Speaker 3: news alert. This morning there's an imposter web page apparently
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Speaker 3: warning people that the Prime Minister has canceled New Zealand
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Speaker 3: superannuation and senior citizens are losing their minds poor things.
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Speaker 3: Age Concerns says it's a fake story. It's designed to
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Speaker 3: look like the Herald website so that you know, sort
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Speaker 3: of passes for the muster. I suppose some people in
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Speaker 3: the far North are saying, has Christopher Luxen canceled the pinsure? No,
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Speaker 3: he hasn't. It's a fake news story and it's asking
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Speaker 3: you to pay four hundred and ten dollars to secure
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Speaker 3: your super which should be the giveaway. I would have
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Speaker 3: thought anyway, we're talking about banning kids from social media.
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Speaker 10: Be the elderly, honestly.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early edition.
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Speaker 2: With Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture bids
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Speaker 2: and a playing store news talk Sippy.
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Speaker 3: Good Morning, New Zealand, twenty four away from Sex. Welcome
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Speaker 3: to your Wednesday morning. Great to have you with me.
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Speaker 3: And do you want the good news all the bad news?
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Speaker 3: We'll get to our reporters. Well, this is not bad news.
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Speaker 3: We'll get to our reporter and just a few seconds
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Speaker 3: who are with us live around the country. Also our
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Speaker 3: UK correspondent Gavin Gray. They're letting seventeen hundred prisoners out,
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Speaker 3: releasing them all today because the prison's are overcrowded. How's
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Speaker 3: that going to go? Right now? Though? The good news,
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Speaker 3: the bad news. The good news. Apparently most of us
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Speaker 3: support a one hundred and twenty kilometer in our speed
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Speaker 3: limit on highways. Yes, they surveyed, well, got people to
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Speaker 3: put submissions in on this idea, and half of the
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Speaker 3: five thousand submitters supported it. Imagine that going one hundred
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Speaker 3: and twenty ks cruising on the motorways up and down
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Speaker 3: New Zealand, how.
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Speaker 10: Much quicker we would get places?
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Speaker 3: However, the bad news, roads will be and how many
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Speaker 3: of you do it anyway? Be honest, roads will be
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Speaker 3: more expensive to build if we do this, new safety
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Speaker 3: engineering standards will be required. They would need to be straighter, flatter,
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Speaker 3: with the wider shoulders. The reality is we can barely
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Speaker 3: get roads built for one hundred kilometers an hour, so
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Speaker 3: maybe we should be realistic. A road, any road, is
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Speaker 3: better than a fast road, and that's probably all we
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Speaker 3: can hope for at the moment. Twenty two away from
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Speaker 3: the six Crayan Bridge, right, we're going to Callum first,
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Speaker 3: who's in Dunedan Calm. Good morning morning, Ryan, Good to
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Speaker 3: have you on the show. Tell us about this futuristic
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Speaker 3: public transport that's been dreamed up. It's been dreamed up
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Speaker 3: by New Zealand company Woosh, and it's a gondola cable
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Speaker 3: car style form of transportation where that riders would be
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Speaker 3: elevated above traffic and enclosed cabins taking them from A
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Speaker 3: to B and woosher working towards a pilot of this
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Speaker 3: form of transportation in Queenstown. CEO Chris Ellingson's told us
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Speaker 3: the technology has already been fully funded and they're on
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Speaker 3: track to get the last funding in place for this
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Speaker 3: pilot early next year.
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Speaker 11: He says, for Queenstown this would solve some pretty significant
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Speaker 11: traffic issues in a cost effective way, and the pilot
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Speaker 11: would be the first stage of a wider city project.
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Speaker 3: Well, and so it's just you and the gondola. There's
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Speaker 3: no one it's a one person gondola. I think this
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Speaker 3: room for more than one in some of the cabins.
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Speaker 3: But it's an on demand style type form of transportation.
20:10
Speaker 3: You'd have an app and you'd dial it up and
20:13
Speaker 3: it would come to your aid and wash off.
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Speaker 1: You go.
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Speaker 3: All right, how's it we there today, Callum.
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Speaker 11: You mainly find high cloud develops this afternoon and northerally
20:22
Speaker 11: this morning the high seventeen.
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Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Clear sherewards with us in christ
20:26
Speaker 3: Church this morning. Good morning, Clear, good morning. Good to
20:29
Speaker 3: have you on the show again. The significant milestone for
20:31
Speaker 3: christ Church's post quake infrastructure.
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Speaker 9: Yes, Ryan, this is the construction of the city's Olympic
20:36
Speaker 9: sized swimming pool, which is officially underway. The fifty meter
20:40
Speaker 9: competition pool is one of the key features of our
20:43
Speaker 9: new metro sports facility, Padda Kyorday. This is the one
20:46
Speaker 9: that was initially meant to open in twenty twenty one,
20:49
Speaker 9: but it has been plagued by seriously ongoing delays and setbacks.
20:53
Speaker 9: The pool installer Lea Jacobs says this pool has five
20:57
Speaker 9: hundred panels held together by about bolt. He says it's
21:01
Speaker 9: very versatile. There's also a movable boom which will allow
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Speaker 9: council to transform it into two twenty five meter polls
21:08
Speaker 9: as needed. The facility, pado Chiod is still due to
21:11
Speaker 9: open late next year. At the stage, it's.
21:13
Speaker 3: Good news clear you're weather today.
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Speaker 9: It's frosty to start in christ Jews, but should clear
21:18
Speaker 9: to find northeasterlies easing the highest fourteen.
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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Max, Minji Max and Wellington Max.
21:24
Speaker 3: Excuse me, in fact you should front the new ad
21:31
Speaker 3: campaign for attracting tourists to Wellington Max, because because it
21:35
Speaker 3: sounds like Wellington needs it well, as.
21:39
Speaker 12: You played on the program earlier. Some very odd comments
21:41
Speaker 12: from Labour's Greg O'Connor regarding the declining state of our economy.
21:46
Speaker 12: More cafes should just open. Everyone in Wellington needs to
21:49
Speaker 12: be more positive. We the news media need to do
21:52
Speaker 12: better running more positive stories. And even if there's a
21:55
Speaker 12: sewage in the harbor, we shouldn't be afraid of taking
21:58
Speaker 12: a dirty dip. Tori Faro, the Mayor, speaking a little
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Speaker 12: more sensibly yesterday, she acknowledging really for the first time
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Speaker 12: that I can relect how much disruption all the construction
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Speaker 12: work has had on businesses and will have going forward.
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Speaker 12: She says the Council is now looking into a business
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Speaker 12: support package for when the Golden Mile work gets underway.
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Speaker 12: That's along Courtley Place, Willis Street. Lambdon key. A little
22:22
Speaker 12: less sympathy though for the businesses that are closing or
22:25
Speaker 12: losing money, blaming car parks at least partly being taken away.
22:29
Speaker 12: Quite simply, she says she doesn't believe that's a factor
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Speaker 12: at all.
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Speaker 3: Okay, well she was doing so well right un tilling
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Speaker 3: in here? Next weather today?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, almost listening fine with southerleast thirteen the high Central brilliant.
22:43
Speaker 3: Thank you, Neva any Man as an Auckland, Hey, Neva,
22:46
Speaker 3: good morning, big giant Heymart habig.
22:48
Speaker 8: Camart, Camart is coming, well, the biggest New Zealand's biggest kmart.
22:53
Speaker 8: And where is it going? Auckland's Westgate. Everything goes to Westgate,
22:57
Speaker 8: doesn't it. So the really big retail chain is building now.
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Speaker 8: This is six thousan seven hundred square meter store. So
23:03
Speaker 8: that's going to go opposite Costco in a street yet
23:07
Speaker 8: to be creative. But they've got a name for it.
23:09
Speaker 8: Maukey Place. That's what it's going to be called.
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Speaker 13: Now.
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Speaker 8: This top's the almost five thousand square meter store and
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Speaker 8: that's the one in Monaco. So it's going to be
23:19
Speaker 8: the twenty eighth shop country wide. The good news that
23:22
Speaker 8: will employ about two hundred and forty staff.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
23:25
Speaker 8: Can you imagine the traffic though, That's what we were
23:27
Speaker 8: just talking about before, and that Westgate once it's all done.
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Speaker 3: Because you wouldn't go there on a Saturday, would you.
23:32
Speaker 3: Interesting though, that's the same number of people who have
23:35
Speaker 3: just been let go from the to the Windstone pop
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Speaker 3: International Mills in Repay's and that number all employed by
23:44
Speaker 3: one shop in Auckland. Isn't that crazy?
23:46
Speaker 1: Yes?
23:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, but how long would you spend out there? You
23:49
Speaker 3: drive out to Wisgate and you would just never leave.
23:51
Speaker 8: Well, that's it, I mean, and some people do that,
23:54
Speaker 8: you know. I mean, I love Camus.
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Speaker 3: People have gone miss.
23:57
Speaker 8: People have gone missing in the stores. The good thing
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Speaker 8: was us is it? Because we finish early. I wouldn't
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Speaker 8: go on the weekend, but you know I would go
24:05
Speaker 8: after nine thirty am. I'd have my nap, my daily
24:09
Speaker 8: nap a little bit later, so you and I we
24:11
Speaker 8: could go to the store. We could probably go there
24:13
Speaker 8: for like two or three hours.
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Speaker 13: I'd lose you.
24:14
Speaker 8: You'd go one end, I'd go the other end.
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Speaker 3: Well, no one would never see us again. As the
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Speaker 3: weather today never.
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Speaker 8: Cloudy, isolated showers becoming fine this morning Auckland's high sixteen degrees.
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Speaker 3: And then thank you our UK europe correspondent with us
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Speaker 3: They're living seventeen hundred prisoners out of prison in England
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Speaker 3: crowd and Gavin Gray's our UK and Europe correspondent.
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Speaker 14: Gavin indeed, yeah, Ryan, So all those prisoners been released
25:53
Speaker 14: on a single day, which is raised a few eyebrows
25:57
Speaker 14: because of course it'll be a real stretch to make
25:59
Speaker 14: sure that there are just left out on the street
26:01
Speaker 14: with nowhere to go and no help to try and
26:03
Speaker 14: get back on their feet. But instead of people being
26:06
Speaker 14: allowed at having served fifty percent of their sentence, the
26:10
Speaker 14: government has now reduced that to forty percent of their sentences.
26:13
Speaker 14: The government is pointing out the offenders jailed for violent
26:17
Speaker 14: offenses with the sentences of at least four years, sex
26:20
Speaker 14: offenders and domestic abusers are not eligible for early released.
26:25
Speaker 14: So who are these people? Well, a mix of different
26:28
Speaker 14: criminal offenders here. But being released on license means the
26:31
Speaker 14: defenders must st adhere to well quite a few restrictions
26:34
Speaker 14: for the rest of their sentence that could include a curfew,
26:37
Speaker 14: could include being tagged and of course being supervised by
26:41
Speaker 14: probation officers. However, some are saying that the victims of
26:45
Speaker 14: those who have been released have not been warned early
26:48
Speaker 14: enough that they were going to be released, which is
26:51
Speaker 14: a concern for those who might have been stalked or
26:54
Speaker 14: maybe potentially if you've been abused by a partner or
26:58
Speaker 14: so forth. So there are concerns about the numbers being
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Speaker 14: released and guess what, Raan, They'll be doing it all
27:03
Speaker 14: again next month. Why because the jails are full and
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Speaker 14: I'm afraid to say they are almost at capacity. Just
27:10
Speaker 14: at the time when the government has been tough with
27:12
Speaker 14: all those that took part in the rum.
27:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds like a real problem. We did the
27:17
Speaker 3: same thing here and it didn't go very well for us.
27:20
Speaker 3: I can tell you that. Given tell us about this fine,
27:22
Speaker 3: the two billion pounds that Google's been fined what for.
27:27
Speaker 14: Yeah, so they were fined for abusing the market dominance
27:31
Speaker 14: of its shopping comparison service by Europe's top court, so
27:36
Speaker 14: roughly four point two four point three billion New Zealand
27:39
Speaker 14: dollars in a fine. The original fine was levied back
27:44
Speaker 14: in twenty seventeen, but Google appealed. However, today it learned
27:49
Speaker 14: it has lost and so therefore it is going to
27:53
Speaker 14: go through. And it incidentally was the biggest ever find
27:56
Speaker 14: the meeted out by the Commission that that has been
27:59
Speaker 14: overtaken by a bigger fine also against Google. Google says
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Speaker 14: it's disappointed with the ruling and this brends an end
28:07
Speaker 14: though to a very long running case. At the heart
28:10
Speaker 14: of this case was the contention that Google made its
28:12
Speaker 14: own shopping recommendations appear much more prominently than its rivals
28:17
Speaker 14: when somebody went into search results. So Google had argued
28:22
Speaker 14: that the case had no legal or economic merit, but
28:25
Speaker 14: the European Commission decided that was not the case and
28:29
Speaker 14: dismissed their appeal. And incidentally, if you think that's it,
28:33
Speaker 14: well believe it or not. Actually, I think it shows
28:35
Speaker 14: perhaps a direction of travel because the search giant has
28:38
Speaker 14: amassed about eight billion euros of fines from the Commission
28:43
Speaker 14: and other things are still going through cases in America,
28:47
Speaker 14: cases in the UK, and the EU is also currently
28:50
Speaker 14: investigating the firm over whether its preferences its own goods
28:54
Speaker 14: and services over others in search results. And if found guilty, Yep,
28:58
Speaker 14: you guessed it, it could be another big fine on
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Speaker 14: the way.
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Speaker 3: Goodness me all right, Kevin. So criminals walk free and
29:04
Speaker 3: Google gets a fine. That's how UK you're correspondent Gavin
29:07
Speaker 3: Grade ten to six. Ryan Bridge sales for the electricity, gas,
29:11
Speaker 3: waste and water services industry up thirty six percent in
29:15
Speaker 3: the June quarter. That's on the same time last year.
29:18
Speaker 3: This is from stats end Z. They put it down
29:21
Speaker 3: to the energy crunch, So no rain for the lakes,
29:23
Speaker 3: it's cold, we're using more electricity. The gas storage problem,
29:27
Speaker 3: the gas issue. It comes on the back of the
29:30
Speaker 3: Windstone Pulp international closures. Yesterday two hundred and thirty jobs
29:35
Speaker 3: have been lost there. John Harvard is the Major Electricity
29:39
Speaker 3: Users Group chair. He's with us this morning. John, Good morning,
29:42
Speaker 3: Good morning. Just wanted to check with you. Are you
29:44
Speaker 3: aware of any new mills or factories that are considering
29:48
Speaker 3: closure because of this problem.
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Speaker 15: Look, I think it's there's a number of businesses that
29:54
Speaker 15: are under enormous strain at the moment, and you know,
29:57
Speaker 15: their ongoing operation is an matter of almost daily consideration.
30:02
Speaker 15: And I think the other thing we need to bear
30:03
Speaker 15: in mind with Windstone Pulp is there's a lot of
30:05
Speaker 15: businesses in that area that make their living from supporting
30:08
Speaker 15: Windstone Pulp, and so their future at the moment is
30:11
Speaker 15: highly uncertain as well.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're talking about essentially about the potential decimation of
30:17
Speaker 3: entire towns. Here. You've got two hundred and thirty jobs,
30:21
Speaker 3: but then you look at that that's probably one thousand
30:23
Speaker 3: people in terms of family members, et cetera. You know,
30:27
Speaker 3: Aura Kuni data Hei, these have a population of two
30:31
Speaker 3: thy three hundred.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, it's absolutely devastating for that community, and I think
30:37
Speaker 15: it really shines a light on how vulnerable that a
30:41
Speaker 15: lot of our regional and provincial communities are too, things
30:45
Speaker 15: like rapidly escalating wholesale electricity prices that undermine the viability
30:52
Speaker 15: of the businesses that they depend on.
30:54
Speaker 3: This thirty six six percent increase, this is for the
30:57
Speaker 3: journ court on the same time last year for electricity, gas,
31:00
Speaker 3: waste and wastewater services. Is that significant?
31:03
Speaker 15: Yeah, it's absolutely significant. To put another sort of way
31:07
Speaker 15: of looking at it, Ryan is for the period we're
31:09
Speaker 15: looking at, starting in twenty sixteen. At that time, the
31:13
Speaker 15: combined profits of the Ford gent Taylors was two hundred
31:16
Speaker 15: and ninety seven million dollars. This year, the combined profits
31:20
Speaker 15: of the for Gent Taylor's is one billion and eighty
31:22
Speaker 15: five million dollars. So we've seen a massive increase in
31:25
Speaker 15: the amount of profit these companies are making, and they're
31:28
Speaker 15: not making any more electricity than they were eight years ago.
31:32
Speaker 3: So we shouldn't have partially privatized them.
31:36
Speaker 15: Well, I think we certainly had an argument that the
31:39
Speaker 15: partial privatization has exacerbated a pre existing problem. The Commist
31:44
Speaker 15: Commission back in two thousand and nine, so prior to
31:48
Speaker 15: the partial float, found that New Zealanders were already paying
31:52
Speaker 15: higher prices for electricity than they would if we had
31:54
Speaker 15: a competitive market. And to give you a sense of
31:57
Speaker 15: sort of what the scale of that is is sort
31:59
Speaker 15: of between the electricity regulator, the electricity authority and private
32:04
Speaker 15: investment companies that have sort of looked at this with
32:06
Speaker 15: their modeling tools. As the estimate is New Zealand consumers
32:10
Speaker 15: including households, are paying between one and two billion dollars
32:13
Speaker 15: a year more than we should be for our electricity.
32:16
Speaker 3: Goodness me, John, thank you very much for that. Of course,
32:18
Speaker 3: there's a task force that is currently looking at options.
32:22
Speaker 3: We'll see how that goes over in Australia. As a
32:25
Speaker 3: report earlier in the show, they are looking at nuclear,
32:27
Speaker 3: you know, because you cannot rely on wind, solar and
32:31
Speaker 3: hydro its intermittent, so you either need coal or gas
32:35
Speaker 3: or nuclear. So there you go. Mike's here next six
32:39
Speaker 3: to six.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines.
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge you for twenty twenty four on early edition
32:46
Speaker 2: with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store.
32:49
Speaker 1: News talks be four to six.
32:51
Speaker 3: News talks said be on Windstone pulp closing and a
32:54
Speaker 3: huge kmart set to open in Auckland. Steve says two
32:58
Speaker 3: hundred and forty workers gone from production to consumption. Caroline says,
33:02
Speaker 3: came out as a great employer. I have several Farno
33:05
Speaker 3: who work there and they absolutely love it. Mike's with
33:07
Speaker 3: us now, Good morning, Good morning.
33:08
Speaker 13: Where's Mike Ryan, head of Winstone. Where's he? Well, so
33:12
Speaker 13: he makes a big announcement.
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Speaker 16: One of the obligations you have, I think, is that
33:16
Speaker 16: when you make the sort of and it's not about
33:18
Speaker 16: just the business, it's about the region, it's about the country,
33:20
Speaker 16: it's about the economy. It's a much wider story. Where
33:22
Speaker 16: are the people who run this place explaining it? Because
33:24
Speaker 16: here's my suspicion. As easy as it is to blame
33:27
Speaker 16: the power and it is easy, I think it's got
33:31
Speaker 16: as much to do with the price of wood and
33:33
Speaker 16: pulp and paper and all the other problems in that industry,
33:36
Speaker 16: and you can just go, oh, there's escape yard.
33:38
Speaker 13: Don't blame the power companies. So we'll have a look
33:40
Speaker 13: at that this morning.
33:41
Speaker 3: I take it without Mike Ryhan, without Mike Ryan. See tomorrow.
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