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Full Show Podcast: 07 August 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: early edition with Spark for business technology that keeps business moving,
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Speaker 1: news talks.
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Speaker 2: There'd be good morning six after five grade to have
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Speaker 2: you coming this Friday morning. We'll look at MP We've
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Speaker 2: got a Vincent in the UK. We're in South Africa
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Speaker 2: for the rugby labour wants to cancel investment booster and
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Speaker 2: the Murdocks might be coming back to New Zealand.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It is Friday, the seventh of August. TIFA getting in
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Speaker 2: behind Infantino at yesterday's meeting in Morocco.
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Speaker 3: Effort went to the book in six months time. I
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Speaker 3: still have a funny feeling that Johnny infantinol would get
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Speaker 3: enough support to carry on for another four years. But
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Speaker 3: that's not the point. There are many FIFA competitions obviously
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Speaker 3: in the next four years, and if you'll stick to
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Speaker 3: what they're saying, quite honestly, work FIFA competitions with our
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Speaker 3: European teams on it. That's impossible.
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Speaker 2: And what you AI fors saying this morning is we
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Speaker 2: want you gone. Even after the backdown on the World Cup,
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Speaker 2: they want Infantino gone. So I think his election is
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Speaker 2: up in march right to the US. Fauci, this is
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Speaker 2: doctor COVID in the United States, THEA Ashley Bloomfield. He's
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Speaker 2: now in contempt of Congress because he won't answer the questions.
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Speaker 2: Keep pleading.
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Speaker 4: The fifth documents tell only part of the story. Many
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Speaker 4: of these questions can be answered only by doctor Fauci.
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Speaker 4: He answered none of them. There will be another pandemic.
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Speaker 4: The time to determine which legislative reforms are necessary to
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Speaker 4: ensure that the mistakes of the past are not repeated
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Speaker 4: is now, not later.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the guy yesterday we were talking about Abdel alsayed.
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Speaker 2: This is the Democrats pick for Michigan, which is a
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Speaker 2: key Senate race for them. Trump says he's quote full
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Speaker 2: of shit and hates Jews. He's now responding, this is a.
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Speaker 5: Guy who can't even focus on our Affordability's more interested
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Speaker 5: in saying my name in an interesting way or calling
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Speaker 5: me a lovely gentleman than he is interested in actually
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Speaker 5: solving our problems. We have to stand up to that,
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Speaker 5: which means let's go get to work. Let's go talk
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Speaker 5: to our fellow Michiganders about who we are and who
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Speaker 5: we want to be and what it takes to take
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Speaker 5: on the most corrupted president in American history and his
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Speaker 5: lackey who licks every boot he possibly can of that man,
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Speaker 5: Mike Rodgers.
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Speaker 2: Finally this morning, name me an AI company that hasn't
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Speaker 2: had one of its bots go rogue. This time it's
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Speaker 2: Meta and they.
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Speaker 6: Say that a misconfiguration in a regular system inadvertently gave
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Speaker 6: the model access to the open Internet, which then the model,
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Speaker 6: in trying to complete the cybersecurity evaluation, actually went out
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Speaker 6: to hack another company's internal systems. We don't know what
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Speaker 6: the company was, We don't know the extent of the hack,
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Speaker 6: but there's real questions and concerns about their own safety
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Speaker 6: and alignment within these models.
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Speaker 1: Before the news breaks. Hear it first Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 2: It'd be nine olter five nine two nine two is
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Speaker 2: the number two TIXT. I was listening to Eleiktua yesterday.
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Speaker 2: That's what I do in my spare time about AI.
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Speaker 2: It was fascinating that the woman was giving the lecture
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Speaker 2: as the head of the AI Forum in New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: Dr Master mccaulay's her name, and she's fascinating. She was saying.
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Speaker 2: She put up on the screen a whole bunch of
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Speaker 2: different technological advancements or inventions that have happened through human history,
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Speaker 2: starting with the airplane and ending with AI models like
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Speaker 2: Chat GPT, And she said, how long did it take
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Speaker 2: for each of these to hit fifty million users? And
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Speaker 2: it started with the airplane, which took sixty eight years
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Speaker 2: to hit fifty million users, and then it got down
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Speaker 2: to Facebook two years, and then it got to chat
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Speaker 2: GPT five weeks. Fascinating. So if you have an AI system,
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Speaker 2: or if you've got a company that's got an AI system,
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Speaker 2: it's probably right now hacking into someone else's. Now a
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Speaker 2: couple of little things for you this morning. We are
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Speaker 2: going to talk about the MMP and I'm keen to
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Speaker 2: hear what you think. Nine two nine two. It's just
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Speaker 2: him going rogue, the Prime Minister going rogue. Here's this
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Speaker 2: is the problem for him that it makes his colleague
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Speaker 2: sound when he doesn't tell them what he's going to say.
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Speaker 2: This was Mark Mitchell on The Times yesterday.
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Speaker 7: Oh look, I understand he made a few comments on
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Speaker 7: news talks he'd be this morning. We've previously reflected as
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Speaker 7: a party that we think in future having a referendum
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Speaker 7: on a four year term, it's a good idea to
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Speaker 7: get New Zealand's New Zealanders feedback on the electoral system.
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Speaker 7: And I think, as I understand it, he also expressed
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Speaker 7: interest in getting feedback on MMP.
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Speaker 2: That was Nikola. So they all and this was two
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Speaker 2: hours after the interview with Kerrie. And you'd think that
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Speaker 2: if you're the Prime minister, you'd run around or one
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Speaker 2: of your press secretaries'd run around and say, hey, I've
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Speaker 2: just sort of made this policy announcement, so can you
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Speaker 2: guys be prepared. This is what I've said. It doesn't
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Speaker 2: look like that happen. That was obviously Nicola. We'll play
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Speaker 2: mark for you shortly, so nineteen nine tents numbers text.
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what I think about that at about
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Speaker 2: five twenty five and about twenty minutes time. Also E scooters.
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Speaker 2: I saw a guy yesterday. This is an interesting one
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Speaker 2: because it's popped up this morning. But yesterday I saw
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Speaker 2: a guy on an EES scooter have a bit of
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Speaker 2: a tumble and didn't come it didn't hurt himself, but
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Speaker 2: had a tumble. And there's a story out this morning
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Speaker 2: that you are E scooters way worse than motorcycles, way
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Speaker 2: worse than bikes when it comes to injuries. Three times
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Speaker 2: more likely to suffer traumatic brain injuries than motorcyclists, and
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Speaker 2: motorcyclists are going a lot faster. Usually this is out
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Speaker 2: of England and Wales. Brain injuries accounted for a third
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Speaker 2: of injuries on e scooters. Riders sustained more internal organ
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Speaker 2: and blood vessel damage than did motorcyclists or pedal cyclists.
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Speaker 2: I mean, your center of gravity is higher, isn't it
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Speaker 2: if you've been on one of these things. The only
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Speaker 2: time I've ever been on one is after a few
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Speaker 2: drinks leaving a concert. Not probably not a great idea,
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Speaker 2: but your center of gravity is higher, so it's easier
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Speaker 2: to fall, and when you fall, you fall badly. Also,
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Speaker 2: they reckon women way worse off on an EES scooter,
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Speaker 2: So if you're a lady, don't get on ane scooter
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Speaker 2: because you're a third more likely to have a crash
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Speaker 2: than a man. The handlebars are at men's height and
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Speaker 2: women are getting chest injuries. Twelve after five we'll look
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Speaker 2: at investment boost cancellation if labor was to get a
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Speaker 1: first passed the post all the way. This is Mark
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Speaker 1: Mentchell by the way on the tiles yesterday, sort of
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Speaker 1: caught off guard O Lok.
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Speaker 7: I understand, team mate.
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Speaker 2: Ah, I don't know what's happening with this, but it
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Speaker 2: won't play. Mark will only play Nickeler. Clearly the gremlins
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Speaker 2: in the system. Here we go, Kensy's going to play
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Speaker 2: for us. Go Kenzy. He was very much taken by surprise,
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Speaker 2: had no idea what day it was. Was Mark wha
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Speaker 2: he was?
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Speaker 8: He was obviously asked was you on something in it's
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Speaker 8: and he shared his view on it and in my view,
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Speaker 8: it's something that's not relevant for this election, but certainly
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Speaker 8: if we're successful and then returned to government, then it's
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Speaker 8: something to talk about in there you go.
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Speaker 2: This is from David and Ryan. A lady wouldn't really
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Speaker 2: lady wouldn't get on anee scooter, so I wouldn't worry
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Speaker 2: about the injuries. Quarter past five Brian Bread now Labour
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Speaker 2: wants to scrap National's Investment Boost scheme and replace it
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Speaker 2: with a one point five six billion dollar package. It
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Speaker 2: includes requiring big companies to pay small companies invoices within
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Speaker 2: fifteen days, lifting the GST threshold to eighty k and
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Speaker 2: increasing the instant asset right off to ten k. Leanne
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Speaker 2: Watson is Business Canterbury CEO with me this morning, Lee
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Speaker 2: and good morning, good morning Ryan. So which is the
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Speaker 2: better program? Which is the better policy? Do you think?
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Speaker 9: Look, I think the first thing to acknowledge is that
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Speaker 9: you know, given small businesses make up ninety seven percent
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Speaker 9: of businesses across New Zealand, it's great to see the
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Speaker 9: political parties outlining how they do intend to support those
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Speaker 9: small businesses. So and look, these policies are a good
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Speaker 9: starting point because we know some of the pain points
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Speaker 9: continue to be around cash flowing compliance and of course
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Speaker 9: that does have an aedibility for those small businesses to
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Speaker 9: invest in new assets. So these policies will certainly make
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Speaker 9: it easier to sort of grow and innovate and drive productivity,
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Speaker 9: which is a great starting point.
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Speaker 2: Totally. I think it's great that there is a focus,
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Speaker 2: but one's worth about six billion one's worth one point five.
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Speaker 2: So the benet, the overall the benefit to business as
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Speaker 2: a whole is way better off under National But is
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Speaker 2: labors smarter because it's targeting those smaller businesses, there are
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Speaker 2: more of them and it's simpler. Yeah.
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Speaker 9: Look, I think you know that there's certainly some of
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Speaker 9: the policies that have been outlined are good. One of
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Speaker 9: the things that I do really want to reinforce investment
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Speaker 9: booths has been highly effective. That's been an effective driver
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Speaker 9: of business investment, productivity and growth, and removing it I
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Speaker 9: think would significantly weaken the overall package.
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Speaker 6: You know.
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Speaker 2: But on that on the other side, you've got to
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Speaker 2: be The thing is, you can't have both, can you
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Speaker 2: You know?
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Speaker 9: Well, you can absolutely, I mean you can have both.
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Speaker 9: You know, there's definitely ways that we can have both.
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Speaker 9: I visit a manufacturer the other day and they outlined
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Speaker 9: three new pieces of equipment, all of which had been
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Speaker 9: bought under the Lescent boost scheme. So you know, this
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Speaker 9: does provide confidence for businesses to actually do that, and
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Speaker 9: I think you can have both. I think it's an
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Speaker 9: end conversation on the war, all.
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Speaker 2: Right, Lee and Wat's in business. Kanterbury CEO. Nice to
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Speaker 2: be on the show this morning. Seventeen minutes after five.
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Speaker 2: I mean if you had both, then you're looking at
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Speaker 2: what seven eight billion dollars total'd and you'd also need
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Speaker 2: some grain coalition between Labor and National to get it
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Speaker 2: across the line. By the way, Labour's plan also includes
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Speaker 2: and if you've got it a holiday home, you're probably
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Speaker 2: not going to vote Labor anyway, because if you sell
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Speaker 2: it then they will capital gains tax or any gain.
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Speaker 2: After twenty twenty seven, however, they are increasing the threshold
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Speaker 2: for GST from sixty K to eighty K and a
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Speaker 2: lot of people who have Airbnb's, a lot of people
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Speaker 2: who have a batch who rented out will limit the
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Speaker 2: number of nights that they rented out so that they
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Speaker 2: keep under the threshold so they don't have to bother
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Speaker 2: with GST. This would mean an extra twenty k a
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Speaker 2: year and extra few nights up on Airbnb. Eighteen after five,
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Speaker 2: It is twenty after five. Ryan referring him on MMP
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Speaker 2: would be a fantastic idea. This country doesn't have a
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Speaker 2: chance to get ahead with the tail wagging the dog.
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Speaker 2: Daryl says Ryan. Well done to the Prime Minister for
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Speaker 2: having the intestinal fortitude to call out MMP. Ryan. The
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Speaker 2: system sucks. Let's change it, says Nicola. That's not Nichola Willis.
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Speaker 2: It's just another Nicola. Nice to have you listening this morning.
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Speaker 2: We'll come back to this in five minutes. It's twenty
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Speaker 2: after Ryan Bridge the greatest rivalry and sport is back.
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Speaker 2: All Blacks kickoff their tour of South Africa tomorrow when
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Speaker 2: they take on the Stormers. Ready, he's saying, basically every
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Speaker 2: player will get a chance to impress him in the
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Speaker 2: opening matches. Liam Napier, Herald's rugby correspondent, is in South Africa.
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Speaker 2: Is with us now? Liam? Good morning, Good morning, run.
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Speaker 2: How's it over there?
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Speaker 10: It's good. So we're in Cape Town, one of the
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Speaker 10: great cities of the world. So yes, certainly IM looking
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Speaker 10: forward to tomorrow's match.
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Speaker 2: Is it weird that Artie's not there? Will they be
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Speaker 2: a little lost?
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Speaker 10: I don't think so he's been playing for eighteen months,
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Speaker 10: needed a rest and he'll come in ten days before
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Speaker 10: the opening tests, So chance for others to step up.
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Speaker 10: Patrick two Polochus captaining the team this weekend. Very second
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Speaker 10: string All Blacks team, but they've got three headouts before
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Speaker 10: that opening test, so chance, as you say, for everyone
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Speaker 10: to get a run.
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Speaker 2: And in terms of how tough these first games are
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Speaker 2: going to be compared to you know, your opening matches
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Speaker 2: of the Nation's championship.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, significantly weaker opposition the Stormers this weekend, six weeks
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Speaker 10: out from their season. They play in the Northern Hemisphere
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Speaker 10: and they're also missing nine spring Boks, so far from
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Speaker 10: full strength. But the All Blacks, as I say, running
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Speaker 10: out a second string team, but you'd still expect a
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Speaker 10: comfortable victory this weekend.
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Speaker 2: There's been a couple of stories over here about just
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Speaker 2: how many South Africans are supporting the All Blacks over there.
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Speaker 2: Is this just a beat up or are you seeing that?
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Speaker 4: No, it's genuine.
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Speaker 10: There's a historical element to this particular. It's largely confined
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Speaker 10: to Cape Town and it's a wee bit long winded,
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Speaker 10: but basically, the Springboks were a symbol of apartheid, and
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Speaker 10: it's a generational support for a lot of South African
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Speaker 10: fans in Cape Town has been passed down through their generations.
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Speaker 10: They affiliate with the All Blacks. They are very passionate.
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Speaker 10: They had five thousand people turn up to one of
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Speaker 10: their open training sessions. They've got people waiting for them
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Speaker 10: outside their hotels. It's public events. They are swarmed of support.
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Speaker 10: It's very, very genuine. Things have changed a wee bit
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Speaker 10: around the spring Box. They've had the first black captain
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Speaker 10: and CIRCLESI and that the composition of that team has
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Speaker 10: changed a lot over the years. But in Cape Town,
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Speaker 10: the support for the All Blacks remains very strong.
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Speaker 2: Good stuff, Liam, nice to have you on the show.
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Speaker 2: Limnap Here the Heralds Rugby correspondent in South Africa. Time
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Speaker 2: is twenty three minutes after five. Zelenski is still heading
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Speaker 2: putin where it hurts in the pocket. He has hit
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Speaker 2: two oil refineries overnight, the bash Neft Nove oil refinery
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Speaker 2: that's thirteen hundred kilometers outside of Ukraine's border. They've also
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Speaker 2: had another one that's seven hundred kilometers away. Two military
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Speaker 2: patrol boats and a shadow fleet were hit in the
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Speaker 2: Black Sea, so they are really going for it. And
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Speaker 2: those boats, by the way, the ones that the Russians
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Speaker 2: used to export the the oil is of course sanctioned,
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Speaker 2: so it's illegal, so they use the shadow fleet and
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Speaker 2: as Olenski is going after it oil refining. I had
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Speaker 2: a look this morning for July in Lowest in twenty
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Speaker 2: five years, three point six million barrels. That's about a
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Speaker 2: third of what they would normally do, so they're putting
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Speaker 2: the pressure on. Of course, you need the oil money
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Speaker 2: to fund your war, don't you. Ukraine's drones, the combat
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Speaker 2: drones have now a proven distance or long range of
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Speaker 2: seventeen hundred kilometers. Just think about that. So thirteen hundred
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Speaker 2: kilometers they got an oil refinery, seven hundred kilometers they
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Speaker 2: got an oil refinery, and they still got another four
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Speaker 2: hundred kilometers on the clock. Twenty four after five MMP
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Speaker 2: Next News TALKSB twenty six minutes after five Buckle up,
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Speaker 2: New Zealand. Christopher Luxen is officially going rogue. The risk
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Speaker 2: when making constitutional policy pronouncements ninety two days out from
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Speaker 2: an election, blindsiding your colleagues and diverting attention from your
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Speaker 2: key messaging is that you might look erratic at best.
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Speaker 2: Voters might see this as a distraction plate. They might
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Speaker 2: see this as a means to regain the oxygen, but
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Speaker 2: it's not something that anyone's actually asking for. The top
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Speaker 2: seven things voters care about in the Lates Hipsos poll
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Speaker 2: aris follows in order. One inflation sixty two percent, two
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Speaker 2: health thirty eight percent, Three economy thirty four percent, Housing, unemployment, poverty, petrol.
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Speaker 2: Guess what's not in the top twenty mmp. The twentieth
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Speaker 2: line item is defense slash foreign affairs slash terrorism at
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Speaker 2: two percent, so two fits of bugger all people want
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Speaker 2: them to be talking about the electoral system. It's like
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Speaker 2: somebody putting creed on the jukebox and wondering why everyone
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Speaker 2: stops dancing. It's a big call. It's risky business. The
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Speaker 2: problems are twofold. One, it'll never happen because it's not
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Speaker 2: even national policy, and even if it was won't get
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Speaker 2: support from other parties to pass.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 2: Not being able to do what you say you want
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Speaker 2: to do when you're the prime minister could be seen
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Speaker 2: as weakness. Two and most importantly, you risk pissing off
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Speaker 2: you wor They looked a mixed of confused, bewildered and frustrated. Yesterday,
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Speaker 2: They've now spent an entire week walking back and explaining
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Speaker 2: things their boss is saying in public. There are about
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Speaker 2: twelve weeks now until advance voting opens. The polling companies
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Speaker 2: will be on the blower today, and if there's no
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Speaker 2: MMP bump or even a dip, the rogue agent may
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Speaker 2: yet be put out in the cold the bridge ten
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Speaker 2: minutes after five, Ryan, give the Prime Minister a break.
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Speaker 2: He is human, He does make some of his thoughts
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Speaker 2: on his own. He does not need to consult the
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Speaker 2: country every time, let alone the press and the media.
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Speaker 2: Anthony agreed with you. This is not to say the
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Speaker 2: Prime Minister has done a bad job. He's had quite
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Speaker 2: a shite job to deal with, frankly, and we all
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Speaker 2: know why. He's got a great set of ministers who
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Speaker 2: have performed. Some of them have performed exceptionally well given
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Speaker 2: the circumstances. He's got a great team. But the question,
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Speaker 2: and I hear you, but the question is not for
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Speaker 2: people who are going to vote national anyway. The question
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Speaker 2: is for swing center voters. How does this play to them?
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Speaker 2: Does this distract from their message? Does this confuse the center?
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Speaker 2: Those are the guys and gals that he needs to
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Speaker 2: have a strong national presence after those November seventh, The
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Speaker 2: question is whether talking about MMP is talking to them
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Speaker 2: We will get to the UK Vincent mcavini in a
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Speaker 2: few minutes time. We will also talk about MMP, that
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Speaker 2: little hot button issue. You've got the text machine going
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Speaker 2: this morning, will come to your messages shortly. Interesting. We
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Speaker 2: spoke yesterday about these reports and they were just reports,
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Speaker 2: and I'm talking here about sources inside the Pentagon telling
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Speaker 2: the press that the US was running low on munitions,
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Speaker 2: especially particular types of munitions, stuff that you need like
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Speaker 2: air defense missiles. They reckon stock piles were done by
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Speaker 2: up to eighty percent. Will Trump's come out and said
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Speaker 2: that it's nonsense. He's tweeted saying the US has massive
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Speaker 2: amounts of munitions, especially of certain types. Additionally, large amounts
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Speaker 2: of being manufactured and shipped to the US as needed.
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Speaker 2: So nothing to see here. He hasn't actually made specific
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Speaker 2: comment about the defense air defense missiles, which is what
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Speaker 2: the allegation was to begin with. But we'll see what
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Speaker 2: happens with that. Twenty three away from six Bryan Bridge,
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Speaker 2: our reporters around the country, Colum and toned and morning Callum,
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Speaker 2: Morning Ryan. Hey, what's Queenstown are going to do about
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Speaker 2: the traffic here? Look, that's the big question.
19:12
Speaker 11: The tourist town's exploring everything it can, from cable cars
19:16
Speaker 11: to ferries, look, anything to tackle it's worsening congestion crisis.
19:21
Speaker 11: What should be a ten minute trip these days can
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Speaker 11: take up to an hour and a half and so
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Speaker 11: there's massive frustrations on the roads. This is due to
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Speaker 11: international and domestic visiting numbers soaring and the permanent population
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Speaker 11: which is rising rapidly, and so the lake's district councils
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Speaker 11: are proposing a new Congestion task Force to tackle the
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Speaker 11: infrastructure issues. Mere John Glover says, with thousands of new
19:44
Speaker 11: homes still to come, a self directing task force made
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Speaker 11: up of community stakeholders is needed here to make this difference.
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Speaker 11: He says, not one person's going to fix the issue,
19:54
Speaker 11: so this task force would move at speed to triage
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Speaker 11: the different solutions and find a path forward.
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Speaker 2: How's your weather?
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Speaker 11: Extreme frosts this morning minus six at the airport roads
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Speaker 11: are treacherous. Fine though morning frost a few spots around
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Speaker 11: this afternoon the high ten good stuff callen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you clear than christ Church morning clear, Good morning.
20:13
Speaker 2: Healthcare coming closer for Selwyn residents.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, well this is.
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Speaker 12: All coming at good time. And given the fact that
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Speaker 12: christ Church Hospitals ED has been nearing breaking point for
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Speaker 12: some weeks. We've been talking about the fact that it's
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Speaker 12: regularly operating at three times over capacity and it's just
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Speaker 12: simply not coping. We've got now the surgeon after hours
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Speaker 12: clinic opening in Rolliston. It's at a space called Talker
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Speaker 12: Harpeye Selwyn Health Hub and opens tomorrow Saturday. This will
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Speaker 12: offer urgent care a bit closer to home for what
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Speaker 12: is the country's fastest growing district of Selwyn. The mayor,
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Speaker 12: the Ldy of Gliddin says way too many people are
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Speaker 12: having to travel into christ Church for essential care, which
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Speaker 12: as we know they will wait some time for so
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Speaker 12: the benefits will be felt for those in Roliston, but
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Speaker 12: also well beyond Rolliston as well. Health Minister Simon Brown
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Speaker 12: says he stands that health services must keep pace with
21:02
Speaker 12: Selwyn's rapid growth.
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Speaker 2: How's you wear the clear very frosty.
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Speaker 3: Here this morning as well.
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Speaker 12: Already minus four point five should clear though to a
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Speaker 12: mainly find day. There is the chance of a shower
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Speaker 12: later northeasterlies and the high will be.
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Speaker 2: Ten nice one, Thank you Mexis and Wellington morning Max,
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Speaker 2: good morning. You've got a bit of division, an amalgamation situation,
21:22
Speaker 2: that's right, and I don't think we're unique in that respect.
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Speaker 13: Roughly half the region's councils have now backed a mega
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Speaker 13: Mercher merger from the city to wided Apper, including Polyido
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Speaker 13: and Carpady. The other half not so keen. So on
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Speaker 13: the plus side you've got Hut City, Potida, South widered
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Speaker 13: Apper obviously Wellington City as well, not so Keen Upper Hut, Masterton, Carterton,
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Speaker 13: a carpety sort of on the fence. Wellington Meyor Andrew
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Speaker 13: Little isn't happy. He says he wanted more time to
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Speaker 13: put together a proposal for negotiations, but the government demands
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Speaker 13: it and it's now in their hands. It is the
21:55
Speaker 13: same arguments. It would certainly benefit the city with its
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Speaker 13: infrastructure and water woes, but those smaller authorities like Upper
22:02
Speaker 13: Hut that have managed to keep their rates raises down
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Speaker 13: a bit, especially compared to the city here just not keen,
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Speaker 13: not happy. One last meeting happening today behind closed doors
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Speaker 13: between all the regions mass to try to hash this
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Speaker 13: thing out, otherwise it may be forced upon them.
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Speaker 2: How's your weather?
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Speaker 13: Mainly fine? Northerly's picking up twelve good stuff?
22:22
Speaker 2: Next, thank you, NIVA's not think. Good morning, Good morning.
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Speaker 2: How was that meeting with the PM in Mount Roskill
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Speaker 2: last night?
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Speaker 14: Yes, well, luxe and fronting to the Mount Roscal electorate
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Speaker 14: quite right alongside. You know, there was an assortment of
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Speaker 14: national MP's and candidates here as well. So the Prime
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Speaker 14: Minister grilled on a range of matters, everything for the
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Speaker 14: cost of living to health, obviously local Auckland issues like
22:43
Speaker 14: what of course public transport. He also, you know, like
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Speaker 14: repeated his desire for referendum about four year terms and
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Speaker 14: I who do you talk about this? The EMMP system
22:52
Speaker 14: some of the crowd. They really praised Luxeon's honesty and
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Speaker 14: then others suggested, you know what he avoided answering more
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Speaker 14: of those tricky questions around and the environment.
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Speaker 2: A mixed bag. How is our weather today?
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Speaker 7: Fine?
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Speaker 14: Morning, frost some severe.
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Speaker 2: Now Neva is coming on TV this morning to do
23:12
Speaker 2: a little interview.
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Speaker 15: Yes I do.
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Speaker 2: It's one hundred years of z B, which is an
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Speaker 2: amazing milestone for the station, isn't it? And you've been
23:23
Speaker 2: here the entire time, so we thought who better to
23:27
Speaker 2: get than Neva? And Carrie Woodhaman is going to join
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Speaker 2: me on the Herald Show this morning.
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Speaker 14: Well, I have to tell you just this one little
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Speaker 14: wee snippet. Kerrie has been here for nearly thirty years.
23:37
Speaker 14: I think get out no next year, and I am
23:40
Speaker 14: the same as well. You have two months ahead of me,
23:44
Speaker 14: and so between us we've been here for sixty years.
23:47
Speaker 14: I think Hoskin's been here forty. So then you have
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Speaker 14: the one hundred.
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Speaker 2: It's out rageous, but also how many you've won. For
23:53
Speaker 2: most of those years, you've won Best News in the.
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Speaker 14: Cup and I have not been counting thirteen thirteen, thirteen.
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Speaker 2: Right eighteen away from six you're on news talk 'db
24:03
Speaker 2: we're in the UK. Next you're on news talks. He'd
24:05
Speaker 2: be sixteen minutes away from six. We track consumers spending
24:08
Speaker 2: credit closely on the show, because the more the consumer
24:11
Speaker 2: gets out there and starts swiping kitchin kachin kitching, the
24:14
Speaker 2: better the economy does. Well. Paymark's payments for July have
24:17
Speaker 2: come in. They were better than May. That is good.
24:20
Speaker 2: They were up on last year by one point seven percent.
24:23
Speaker 2: That's from the July year ago. That's good. Three point
24:26
Speaker 2: eight billion we spent in the month and the regions
24:29
Speaker 2: well Auckland is up one point nine percent. The why
24:32
Speaker 2: carts are up three point seven percent, can Tobry up
24:34
Speaker 2: two point three Wellington of course down slightly. The interesting
24:38
Speaker 2: thing about these numbers is that they are probably padded
24:41
Speaker 2: a little bit. We had five Fridays in the month
24:44
Speaker 2: as opposed to last year when there were four, and
24:46
Speaker 2: people spend more money on a Friday. The other thing,
24:48
Speaker 2: of course, is we've had inflation, inflation running it four
24:51
Speaker 2: point one percent, and you add those two factors together
24:55
Speaker 2: and it means that this number is not terrible, but
24:57
Speaker 2: probably flat or down slightly in real turn.
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Speaker 1: International correspondence with Insigne Eye Insurance peace of mind for
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Speaker 1: New Zealand business.
25:07
Speaker 2: To Mecabanio UK. You're correspondent with us this morning, Vincent,
25:10
Speaker 2: geez you a way for not breaking down? How that
25:12
Speaker 2: they just want Infantino gone.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, that's right. Infantino has been trying to gloss over
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Speaker 15: all of this. He was at a big FIFA jamboree
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Speaker 15: in Morocco, one of the host countries for the next
25:21
Speaker 15: World Cup, and talked about the you know, being sad
25:25
Speaker 15: and sorry for the trouble over the past few days.
25:28
Speaker 15: But UEFA not happy with him still because they say
25:32
Speaker 15: that the criteria they laid down that first the proposals
25:36
Speaker 15: to sell to this corporation are taken off the table,
25:40
Speaker 15: but secondly that assurances are made that there would never
25:42
Speaker 15: be attempts made to try and, as they say, disfigure
25:45
Speaker 15: the game in this way. Again, they're saying that whilst yes,
25:48
Speaker 15: these proposals have now been withdrawn, in Infantino's position looks
25:51
Speaker 15: quite delicate. Still at the moment, they still haven't had
25:54
Speaker 15: from him assurances that he will never try this again,
25:57
Speaker 15: and they say until that is done they will continue
25:59
Speaker 15: this boycott of all FIFA run competitions, not just the
26:03
Speaker 15: World Cup, and that would mean that you've got fifty
26:06
Speaker 15: five European member teams not taking part and that could
26:09
Speaker 15: be a bit of a death now for FIFA.
26:12
Speaker 2: What's funny about Amanda Knox? What on earth is this about?
26:15
Speaker 15: Yeah, this very strange career of Amanda Knox continues. She
26:20
Speaker 15: is meant to be performing a comedy show at the
26:24
Speaker 15: Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which is kicking off at the moment.
26:26
Speaker 15: It's the biggest performing arts festival in the world, very
26:29
Speaker 15: famous for sort of dramatic performances and comedy shows. And
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Speaker 15: Amanda Knox, who of course was convicted but later acquitted
26:39
Speaker 15: of murdering the British student Meredith Kirshner back in Italy
26:44
Speaker 15: in two thousand and seven. She's putting on a show
26:47
Speaker 15: after she's done podcasts and documentaries and dramas and everything else.
26:50
Speaker 15: And the show is called Cartwheel. She says that she'll
26:53
Speaker 15: be talking about motherhood and how she'll have to explain
26:56
Speaker 15: what happened to her in Perusia to her daughter one day. Well,
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Speaker 15: the family of Meredith Kircher have come out very strongly
27:03
Speaker 15: across the airways here in Britain, today saying addressing her directly, saying,
27:07
Speaker 15: think about the family here, think about her friends to
27:10
Speaker 15: try to turn the tables. If this was your sister,
27:13
Speaker 15: how would you feel? They feel it's pretty wrong for
27:16
Speaker 15: her to be doing this eleven day run of a
27:18
Speaker 15: sort of comedy show in Edinburgh, and it's sort of
27:22
Speaker 15: as much as the Man of Knox are saying it
27:24
Speaker 15: honors Kirshner's memory, family saying just stop.
27:28
Speaker 2: Very strange. Indeed, Vincent mcaviny are UK europe Correspondent twelve
27:31
Speaker 2: minutes away from six in Bridge Bridge. Yeah, here's a
27:34
Speaker 2: little tidbit for you. So Donald Trump, the big question,
27:36
Speaker 2: of course is who is going to replace him, Who
27:38
Speaker 2: is going to run for the Republicans once he leaves
27:41
Speaker 2: off well, if he leaves Offers and it is the
27:43
Speaker 2: issue too, but the succession game. He's hinted apparently in
27:48
Speaker 2: Beck room in an Oval Offers meeting, was some donors,
27:52
Speaker 2: so closed doors, behind closed doors, he's heavily hinting. Now
27:57
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, this is a quote
27:58
Speaker 2: from one of the donors the game, given to Fox News.
28:00
Speaker 2: At the end of the day, we need to elect JT.
28:03
Speaker 2: So there you go. At JD rather, this is what
28:06
Speaker 2: he said just last year about when he was asking
28:08
Speaker 2: you who are your favorites. He's basically said in that time.
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Speaker 4: I could name ten, fifteen to twenty people right now
28:17
Speaker 4: just sitting.
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Speaker 2: Here, Marco Rubio or JD. Vance. But he is apparently
28:21
Speaker 2: now saying to donors openly, although behind closed doors, that
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Speaker 2: it would be JD. It is eleven away from six
28:28
Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge, right, let's come home. Luxon's got himself into
28:32
Speaker 2: a bit of a squabble again with his coalition partners.
28:35
Speaker 2: This is what he said to Carrie Woodham yesterday.
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Speaker 10: Well, I think we should definitely referend him on the
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Speaker 10: four year term, and I'm open for the saying which
28:42
Speaker 10: we center back out to New Zealand and say they
28:43
Speaker 10: still supportive for him.
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Speaker 7: Would you do that if you're a prime minister next year.
28:46
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think I would.
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Speaker 2: Now, his coalition partner Winston Peters is calling him desperate.
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Speaker 10: Point us, why did the Prime Minister of all people
28:53
Speaker 10: say it this close to an election? For goodness sake?
28:55
Speaker 10: They kind of think that the Boles aren't looking good
28:58
Speaker 10: for the Prime minister and there's a sense of desperation.
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Speaker 3: That's the reality of it all.
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Speaker 2: Liam Here, lawyer and political commentator with me, Liam, good morning,
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Speaker 2: Good morning. What's your take here, Well.
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Speaker 16: There's two things this could be. It could be just
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Speaker 16: a straightforward moment of ill discipline or a gas, so
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Speaker 16: to speak, or it could be a three dimensional chess
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Speaker 16: of The argument for three dimensional chess would be that
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Speaker 16: it's a deliberate wedge provocation to his coalition partners who
29:26
Speaker 16: is obviously frustrated with and that he's done it to
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Speaker 16: remind them of how to say that National is a
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Speaker 16: senior partner, and perhaps the single of voters that a
29:37
Speaker 16: stronger National Party means that you don't have to deal
29:39
Speaker 16: with people like new Zell Ferson at competfully sort of
29:42
Speaker 16: weakening that the main center right party. But I think
29:45
Speaker 16: it's more likely to be an error or a genuine
29:48
Speaker 16: gas because the fact of the matter is that in
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Speaker 16: the immediate aftermath he had a National MP's unsure. No
29:58
Speaker 16: one has really was really able to say whether not
30:01
Speaker 16: this was an announcement or a policy or just a view,
30:05
Speaker 16: and that makes it more likely that this wasn't pre planned,
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Speaker 16: it wasn't briefed. There was something that just kipping off
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Speaker 16: the cuff and then grew up to something much larger
30:14
Speaker 16: than Lucks had probably wanted it to be.
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Speaker 2: There is well or did he? I mean, that's the question.
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Speaker 2: Is it genius or is it, you know, a blunder.
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Speaker 2: That's what everyone's going to be debating today because on
30:27
Speaker 2: one hand we are talking about that, but at least
30:29
Speaker 2: we're talking about Luxeon and at least he's doing something,
30:32
Speaker 2: you know, or saying something. But on the other hand,
30:34
Speaker 2: it's never going to happen, So why even raise it.
30:37
Speaker 2: If you're the prime minister and you can't get what
30:38
Speaker 2: you want, what's the point of being prime minister?
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Speaker 11: You know?
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Speaker 16: Yeah, and that's the latter one. That sort of makes
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Speaker 16: it more of a blunder or an error in my view.
30:46
Speaker 16: Look at you shun always say that, you know, no
30:49
Speaker 16: publicity is bad publicity. But when you say things that up,
30:54
Speaker 16: open yourself up for criticism, open yourself up for looking
30:57
Speaker 16: likely parties divided, provoked, your colition partner. You're not getting
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Speaker 16: all well worth. The costs probably outweigh any benefit.
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Speaker 2: I think Liam here, political commentator and lawyer. Good to
31:09
Speaker 2: have you on the show this morning eight to six
31:11
Speaker 2: on News Talks at.
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31:18
Speaker 1: with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology the keeps
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Speaker 2: He'd be six to six news talks here. B Mike's
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Speaker 2: in the studio Morning Mike.
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Speaker 17: Thro All the seat of Rhyme.
31:28
Speaker 2: What are you up to today?
31:29
Speaker 17: Well, I got Joseph Parker come in for I think
31:32
Speaker 17: three rounds of sparring, just.
31:34
Speaker 2: To go a little.
31:35
Speaker 17: He's going to come out worse off, just a little
31:37
Speaker 17: bit of back and full Well, we'll see how guys,
31:39
Speaker 17: he's I love Joe, do you know it?
31:41
Speaker 2: Yeah? I love Joe too. Everyone everyone loves Joe piano.
31:45
Speaker 2: Didn't know that? Yeah, he played the He played a
31:47
Speaker 2: piano in the foyer at TV three years ago. We're
31:50
Speaker 2: doing some breakfast show right and it was quite beautiful.
31:53
Speaker 2: Good on them.
31:55
Speaker 17: The news this week, of course, it'll be interested how
31:57
Speaker 17: much you can say, because there's still a bit of
31:59
Speaker 17: background around in the you know, in the old legal department.
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Speaker 2: Still it's not much.
32:04
Speaker 17: It's going to come free, apparently, I'm told in a
32:07
Speaker 17: week or so it's all out and it'll be done anyway.
32:10
Speaker 17: Point is he's back, you can back backfight. So he's
32:12
Speaker 17: got some sort of room around the place that he
32:15
Speaker 17: could be fighting this weekend, which I don't think is true.
32:18
Speaker 17: Two he is promoting Nieka, which is true. Three He's
32:22
Speaker 17: going to be fighting possibly twice before the end of
32:25
Speaker 17: the year. So I'm always interested to see where does
32:27
Speaker 17: that place him, and you know how far off a
32:30
Speaker 17: big fight.
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Speaker 2: Of the loveliest guys in sports years he's come of age.
32:34
Speaker 17: So latsin, Yeah, no, you've got all don't look you
32:39
Speaker 17: came in all edgy this morning in the New Zealand
32:41
Speaker 17: Herald way and it's it's.
32:47
Speaker 2: I don't think I was edgy, you know. I think
32:49
Speaker 2: I think there's two There's two basic things they were
32:51
Speaker 2: meant to do, stable coalition and the economy. How's it looking?
32:55
Speaker 2: You know, Well, I can I can answer that.
32:58
Speaker 17: I think in terms I actually still argue that in
33:00
Speaker 17: terms of we've never seen a three party proper full
33:03
Speaker 17: on coalition. This is it, and I think by and
33:06
Speaker 17: large it's moderately successful.
33:08
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's probably a mistake on Luckson's part
33:11
Speaker 2: because he doesn't look like he's in control of it.
33:14
Speaker 2: Do you reckon? See I couldn't disagree with you more.
33:17
Speaker 2: He's a fantastic cabinet. He's got star performers who are
33:20
Speaker 2: doing brilliant jobs. But is the you know, the packaging
33:24
Speaker 2: really selling part of it?
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Speaker 17: I blame on the media in terms of they're looking
33:29
Speaker 17: for trouble.
33:30
Speaker 2: I mean, Peters is trouble. I'll give you that.
33:32
Speaker 17: Peter's is a pain in the ass. But what else
33:36
Speaker 17: are you to expect in an election campaign when those
33:39
Speaker 17: smaller guys are desperately looking for airtime and noise and
33:43
Speaker 17: votes and stuff like that.
33:44
Speaker 2: But blind siding your colleagues, I mean that for me
33:47
Speaker 2: is the f one. How does it go down with
33:49
Speaker 2: your soft center and too, how does it go down
33:52
Speaker 2: with your workmates?
33:53
Speaker 17: What's what's the offering? He's offering a vote, he's saying
33:57
Speaker 17: he's having it. Well, it doesn't matter. But what I'm
33:59
Speaker 17: saying is i'd come out yesterday and said, hey, I'm
34:01
Speaker 17: going to implement a change to the constitution. Sure, but
34:05
Speaker 17: all he said was, while you're voting for a three
34:07
Speaker 17: or four year thing, why don't we toss a question
34:09
Speaker 17: and on the MMP And what's wrong with arguing for democracy?
34:13
Speaker 2: Well you can't argue with that. Ran Mike's next news talks.
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