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Full Show Podcast: 11 November 2025 · 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: Earliership with r VS Supercenter explore r V successories and
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Speaker 1: servicing more than one news talks.
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Speaker 2: They'd be good morning Tuesday. It is six after five.
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Speaker 2: Great to have your company this morning. Coming up on
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Speaker 2: the program to party mart who's divorced. They've lost a
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Speaker 2: third of their caucus now lives, the Yeomens and Australia
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Speaker 2: for US, the Nazi protest that's dragging MPs down. Bank
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Speaker 2: profits will look at those and firearms changes coming out
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Speaker 2: today will tell you what they are likely to be
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Speaker 2: and not be. The agenda Tuesday the eleventh and November.
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Speaker 2: Finally some movement in Washington. The Senate's passed wait for it,
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Speaker 2: the first step towards ending the government shutdown, so not
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Speaker 2: quite there yet.
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Speaker 3: If it does pass, it would bring back for a
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Speaker 3: lord Federal workers Fund, backpay for miss paychecks, and fully
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Speaker 3: restore SNAB food benefits, and the government would have the
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Speaker 3: money to operate at least through the end of January.
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Speaker 3: But it still has to pass both the Senate and
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Speaker 3: then the House before it becomes.
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Speaker 2: Across the Atlantic. The beebe Cross Trump now Trump City
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Speaker 2: will sue them here's the cheer apologizing sort of.
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Speaker 1: That was the wrong call.
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Speaker 4: It was a mistake.
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Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying?
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Speaker 5: Yes, are you apologizing directly to President Trump personally on
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Speaker 5: behalf of the BBC.
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Speaker 6: We have received communication from President Trump and and his
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Speaker 6: people and react mother considering how to apply to him.
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Speaker 5: As he said that he's going to be suing the BBC.
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Speaker 6: I do not know that yet, but he's a religious fellow,
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Speaker 6: so you should be prepared for all all outcomes.
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Speaker 2: Maybe you should have been too, Director General, Head of News.
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Speaker 2: They both quit.
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Speaker 5: I stepped down over the weekend because the box stops
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Speaker 5: with me.
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Speaker 2: But I'd like to make one thing very clear.
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Speaker 5: BBC News is not institutionally biased. That's why it's the
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Speaker 5: world's most trusted news provider.
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Speaker 2: Mmmm. That's a bit of a clanger on a day
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Speaker 2: like this, isn't it now? Psychosey, Remember we told you
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Speaker 2: a few weeks back that he had gone to prison
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Speaker 2: five years sentence. He's meant to be soon, and he's
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Speaker 2: got bodyguards in the cells next to him to protect
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Speaker 2: him because he's so precious. Apparently he's also only eating yogurt.
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Speaker 2: He's worried someone will spit in his food. Anyway, he's out.
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Speaker 2: He's out after just a few weeks. The Paris court
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Speaker 2: has let him go under supervision while he appeals.
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Speaker 7: What the judge used was a provision called the execution
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Speaker 7: provisois as it's known in France, and usually in most cases,
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Speaker 7: it's used when the accused is potentially a flight risk
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Speaker 7: or is at risk of reoffending, maybe even kind of
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Speaker 7: there are chances that they may mass with the investigation.
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Speaker 7: Now lawyers are arguing that none of these really apply
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Speaker 7: to Sarkozy.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on early edition with r V supersetor explore
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Speaker 2: It'd be nine after five Keen to hear your thoughts
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Speaker 2: on bank profits this morning? Nine nine two the number
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Speaker 2: to text very quickly on psarcozy because he with the cameras.
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Speaker 2: The French media have followed his car being driven from
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Speaker 2: the prison to his apartment in West Paris and it's
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Speaker 2: just been fascinating to watch that this morning. They've had
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Speaker 2: cameras in the sky on the ground tracking the zevery movement.
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Speaker 2: And the big question is whether he's going to have
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Speaker 2: to wear an ankle bracelet. You know it's a former president,
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Speaker 2: not a great look, but apparently he doesn't because of
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Speaker 2: the judicial supervision. That's what he's technically been released on
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Speaker 2: the appeals in March, so he's out. He can't leave France.
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Speaker 2: He can eat more than yogat now that he's out
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Speaker 2: of prison, but he doesn't have to wear an ankle bracelet,
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Speaker 2: so he's happy about that apparently this morning. Now with
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Speaker 2: the bank profits, I sort of feel like this story
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Speaker 2: is to choose your own adventure. There's no one answer
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Speaker 2: that's clear in crystal and everyone can understand and have
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Speaker 2: a very strong view on. It's quite a nuanced story.
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Speaker 2: I know, sounds boring. Here we go, so A and Z.
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Speaker 2: Obviously big bank seventy percent of their business as home loans.
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Speaker 2: They are the biggest home loan lender in the country,
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Speaker 2: so we care about them, right, And the number that
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Speaker 2: came out yesterday was a new record. It was a
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Speaker 2: profit jump four hundred and forty one million dollars or
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Speaker 2: twenty one percent to two point five billion. And you go, wow, gee,
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Speaker 2: that's a massive number. That's terrible. Let's take them to task. Now,
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Speaker 2: what are you comparing. It's a big business. You can't
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Speaker 2: just say a number like that and then go evil.
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Speaker 2: So you look at their margins and a lot of
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Speaker 2: people are focusing on the margins compared to Australia. So
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Speaker 2: if you look at their New Zealand business, two point
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Speaker 2: six percent is their interest margin. The A and Z
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Speaker 2: New Zealand net interest margin tops the one point eight
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Speaker 2: to three percent for A and z's Australian retail unit.
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Speaker 2: And you go, well, that's terrible. One point eight percent
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Speaker 2: margin over in Australia two point six percent in New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: What evil horrible people. And then you listen to them
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Speaker 2: a little bit more and they say, well, actually, you're
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Speaker 2: not comparing apples with apples here, so you need to
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Speaker 2: compare Australia's similar unit, which is retail business private business. Overall,
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Speaker 2: their net interest margin is twenty one basis points below
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Speaker 2: New Zealand's. So okay, well, how do you explain that gap?
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Speaker 2: They say, that's your capital requirement, so there is no difference.
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Speaker 2: They have to keep more capital here in New Zealand
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Speaker 2: and that costs something, right, So that what their argument is,
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Speaker 2: when you're comparing apples with apples, there is no difference
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Speaker 2: in the margin on the same product. And this is
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Speaker 2: where you get into trouble because you have one side
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Speaker 2: saying they're evil and they're an empire and they're ripping
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Speaker 2: us off. And then you have a sort of reasoned
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Speaker 2: argument and clear Matthews from Massive University, who I consider well,
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Speaker 2: she is a banking expert, but she's also impartial on
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Speaker 2: this stuff. She says, actually, you know, a good bank
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Speaker 2: is a profitable showing Bill Jacom on that just after
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Speaker 2: five twenty this morning. It's twelve after now Bryan Bridge
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Speaker 2: Talks said b Nicole McKee is going to make some
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Speaker 2: announcements today about firearms. Will hear what they're likely to
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Speaker 2: be next?
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day Early
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Speaker 2: More than one News talks ab i've fourteen. The markets
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Speaker 2: are liking the fact that the shutdown looks like it
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Speaker 2: could be coming to a close. We're not even quite
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Speaker 2: there yet, but the Senate, it's kind of slipped through
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Speaker 2: the Senate, it goes back to the House. Now s
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Speaker 2: and p up and a Nasdaq up one and one
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Speaker 2: point eight percent, respectively. Foots one hundred over in London. Well,
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Speaker 2: that is a whisker shy of hitting a new all
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Speaker 2: time records in early trading there that sorry, in trading
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Speaker 2: that was earlier this morning time, now I was quarter
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Speaker 2: past five. The other thing we're going to get out
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Speaker 2: of the shutdown, hopefully coming to an end, is a
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Speaker 2: flurry of economic data, which we love on this program.
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Speaker 2: So we're likely to get because all the bureaucrats will
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Speaker 2: be coming back and the statisticians will be coming back,
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Speaker 2: and so we'll actually have information that the markets can
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Speaker 2: chew through, and there'll be a lot of it in
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Speaker 2: the coming days. Quarter past five, Bread Red Shoveman today
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Speaker 2: here back home will announce plans what to do about
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Speaker 2: the guns. Nicole McKey is set to lay out her
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Speaker 2: rewriting of the Arms Act. But what changes do the
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Speaker 2: gun lobbyists hope come through for them. Hugh Devereux mack
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Speaker 2: is with US Counsel of Licensed Firearms on a spokespersonsh you,
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Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning, Ryan. You've just been at a conference.
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Speaker 2: Nicole McKee was speaking there. Did she give you any
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Speaker 2: clues about what they might be doing?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, they gave us to see a few sort of
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Speaker 8: heads up as to what license fims owners should expect
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Speaker 8: from the law. But I wouldn't want to steal aways
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Speaker 8: the Minister's sunder. I think later on today she may
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Speaker 8: be speaking, but I can tell you what we are
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Speaker 8: hoping to hear from. We don't have any details actually
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Speaker 8: as to what's in it yet, but I can tell
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Speaker 8: you what license firearms does, and it's a hoping for
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Speaker 8: it helps.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's start with the non criminal activities thing. What's
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Speaker 2: that about.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, so there's a couple of things that we'd like
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Speaker 8: to see involved in there. License firearms owners have been
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Speaker 8: losing firem's licensees for non criminal activities and so the
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Speaker 8: reason that comes about is because the current Act lacks
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Speaker 8: really clear definitions, including what constitutes a fit and proper person,
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Speaker 8: which is well what we're judged to be. That comes
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Speaker 8: from section twenty four A to two C of the
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Speaker 8: Arms Act, which says when a finning or giving a
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Speaker 8: firearms license, they have to consider it quote any other
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Speaker 8: relevant matters the member of police considers appropriate. Now that's
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Speaker 8: a vague catchel because it's been used for people who
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Speaker 8: have had maybe a negative experience with an X. We've
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Speaker 8: had people have them because of medical reasons that are
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Speaker 8: beyond their control. An individual had his license canceled because
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Speaker 8: he had cancer and then had a seizure. It has
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Speaker 8: nothing to do with his safety around firearms, but as
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Speaker 8: a result of that, he had his license taken off
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Speaker 8: them and his acts to hunting and putting food on
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Speaker 8: the table restricted. So a clear definition of what fit
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Speaker 8: and proper means with a clear checklist, so we all
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Speaker 8: know objectively what rules we have to live by. I
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Speaker 8: think is a really good and fundamental principle for the
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Speaker 8: New Arms Acts. So that would be one of.
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Speaker 2: Them, right, Okay, And so you're saying anything out that,
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Speaker 2: what about mental illness? I mean, if you've been if
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Speaker 2: you've had mental illness, should you be owning a gun?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 8: So mental illness is a really really vague and wide term.
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Speaker 9: Right.
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Speaker 8: We've had people who lose their firem's license for showing anxiety. Now,
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Speaker 8: one of the best things you can do for curing
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Speaker 8: or helping with anxieties getting out into the wide world
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Speaker 8: and hunting with your friends safely, of course, but.
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Speaker 2: All nutbars having guns?
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Speaker 10: Do you?
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Speaker 2: I mean, how do you?
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Speaker 8: Absolutely so?
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Speaker 2: How do you stop that?
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Speaker 8: So the way you stop that is some great work
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Speaker 8: is being done with both the firem Safety Authority and
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Speaker 8: a group called Mental Hunts, which is helping men and
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Speaker 8: firearms owners get better access to mental health and finding
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Speaker 8: the way that they can have their license temporarily taken
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Speaker 8: off them while they get the help they need, and
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Speaker 8: once they're signed off by a psychologist, they can get
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Speaker 8: their license back again. That's currently how the system should work, right. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 8: sometimes it gets a little bit vague and a little
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Speaker 8: bit over the top, and we understand that need to
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Speaker 8: err on the side of caution, but the police are
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Speaker 8: not psychologists. Once a psychologist area has signed off and
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Speaker 8: said you are okay and no longer a danger to
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Speaker 8: yourself or others, then that's when the police should say, look,
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Speaker 8: the doctors and the professionals have said you can have it.
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Speaker 8: It's not our job to stand in your way. But
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Speaker 8: unfortunately at this point they are still doing that.
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Speaker 2: All right, you appreciate your time this morning. Hu deverro
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Speaker 2: Matt counts of licensed firearms and a spokesperson will hear
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Speaker 2: from the Cole mcke ladder today eighteen after five Ryan
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Speaker 2: Bred lying on the bank profits being up again. I
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Speaker 2: suspect the government actually is probably underneath it. All quite
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Speaker 2: glad about this, says Craig, because if a bank is
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Speaker 2: making more profits, then they are paying more tax and
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Speaker 2: taxes what they get. The other thing about A and
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Speaker 2: Z is there the other argument they're making is it's
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Speaker 2: not just like our profits have gone up out of nowhere.
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Speaker 2: We're getting squeezing more juice out of the existing lemon.
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Speaker 2: Their book has gone up. They are you know, it
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Speaker 2: would be the equivalent of a supermarket selling more stuff
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Speaker 2: and then making more money and you saying, well that's wrong.
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Speaker 2: I mean that's business. Nineteen after five.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Brian
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Speaker 1: Bridge and are the supercenter explore r these accessories and
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Speaker 2: Well look at Sparty Marti before six right now, though
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Speaker 2: it's a bank profit watch time. An Z's up twenty
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Speaker 2: percent two and a half billion last week, Westpac thirteen percent,
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Speaker 2: increased to one point one billion. Shimo Jakob is Simplicity
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Speaker 2: chief economist with us this morning. Shama, good morning, good one.
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Speaker 2: Are you buying the lines that are coming out of
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Speaker 2: Antonio Watson's mouth? Are you buying the lines from the banks,
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Speaker 2: the net interest margin is up well slightly, but when
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Speaker 2: you compare Apple with Apples with Australia or their Australia business,
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Speaker 2: actually the difference is explained by capital requirements here.
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Speaker 10: Not really, because that net interest margin has been higher
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Speaker 10: than Australia for a very long time. And the reason
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Speaker 10: why that's high is because they pairs less on own
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Speaker 10: deposits and charges more on our mortgages.
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Speaker 2: If you look through the results for A and Z,
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Speaker 2: their cash profits up by four percent, which is the
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Speaker 2: same amount they've grown their balance sheet by.
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Speaker 10: Exactly, so it's very much a story, but their net
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Speaker 10: interest margins being pretty much the same. A small increase,
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Speaker 10: but it's really been that modest growth in lending and
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Speaker 10: deposits that's driving their profits. Is that aband thing, Well,
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Speaker 10: the bad thing is how much they charge us. So
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Speaker 10: we want our banks to be profitable and safe, but
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Speaker 10: not the charge is an unreasonable amount. That was the
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Speaker 10: reason why we have the the hearing that the club
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Speaker 10: with the statu That's why the Commerce Commission was meant
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Speaker 10: to look at it. We need to get serious about
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Speaker 10: banking competition in New Zealand. The problem for us is
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Speaker 10: that we have a banking sector that's extraordinarily safe, extraordinarily profitable,
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Speaker 10: not particularly innovative, and we don't get products and services.
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Speaker 10: Why are we paying so much for so little?
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Speaker 2: How much more are we paying than the rest of
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Speaker 2: the world.
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Speaker 10: Much higher and so, as you know, when the Commerce
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Speaker 10: Commission did that work, there was quite a lot of
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Speaker 10: argument around those metrics. But the reality is that the
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Speaker 10: New Zealand banking sector is one of the most profitable
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Speaker 10: in the ovciting and it is not one of the
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Speaker 10: most innovative. And the reality is that if we want
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Speaker 10: to if you are to pay higher prices, we should
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Speaker 10: get something in return for it, and we are not.
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Speaker 10: So we need to get serious about having much sharper
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Speaker 10: teeth at the next inquiry of the banking sector. The
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Speaker 10: current one is not doing enough.
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Speaker 2: Everyone goes on about competition. We've got twenty seven registered
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Speaker 2: banks in New Zealand. How many would make good competition.
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Speaker 10: Well, it's not the apples for apples, because when you
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Speaker 10: look at building societies and others, those banks are regulated
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Speaker 10: very differently. They have very small bound sheets and they're
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Speaker 10: not particularly well performing. So we do need to have
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Speaker 10: the kinds of fintech tech companies that are being real
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Speaker 10: challenges in Europe in particular. I think that's the kind
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Speaker 10: of competition we need to see in quite a big way.
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Speaker 10: In New Zealand. We've got the beginnings of that with
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Speaker 10: things like open banking. That's only the beginning and we
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Speaker 10: need to really push ahead on that because clearly New
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Speaker 10: Zealand is a sector where financial services can do very well.
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Speaker 10: Why should not New Zealanders also receive good products and
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Speaker 10: services at the same time.
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Speaker 2: UMU always interesting, appreciate your time and Jakobs simplicity Chief
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Speaker 2: Economists time is twenty four minutes half five year. On
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Speaker 2: Twenty seven after five yews Talk ZIB. A few years ago,
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Speaker 2: we had a bunch of stories about Santa parades getting
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Speaker 2: canceled because of red tape and traffic management, all sorts
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Speaker 2: of horrible stuff. NZTA was the Grinch that stole Christmas?
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Speaker 2: Do you remember this? Guess what? Two years on, despite
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Speaker 2: a change of government, despite a Minister and Ministry of Regulation.
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Speaker 2: Despite the road cone tip line, the Grinch is back.
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Speaker 2: This is one of those stories. It's kind of like
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Speaker 2: the working from home in the public service, you know,
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Speaker 2: one of these stories where the government's almost powerless and
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Speaker 2: the bureaucrats win. This time, it's Peel Pure population around
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Speaker 2: five hundred. It's rural State Highway three, North Island. They
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Speaker 2: want to close the road on the main drag, which
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Speaker 2: is their usual route. They want to close this road
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Speaker 2: from five point thirty pm to eight pm, two and
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Speaker 2: a half hours for you know, kids get to see
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Speaker 2: the Santa Sleigh riding through town. Lollies presumably would be
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Speaker 2: thrown from the floats, or do they still do that
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Speaker 2: if you had a child and you arrest are don't know.
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Speaker 2: I agree, but you get the idea. We've all been
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Speaker 2: to one. They're great fun. Guess how much it was
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Speaker 2: going to cost them because of the Grinch's traffic rules
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Speaker 2: and the resulting bill for traffic management costs. It would
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Speaker 2: normally put them back about one thousand dollars this year,
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Speaker 2: wait for it, between ten and fourteen thousand dollars for
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Speaker 2: two and a half hours. Now you might balk at
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Speaker 2: that and I did. If you're organizing a Sanda parad
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Speaker 2: or an Anzac parade or a community event, don't worry.
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Speaker 2: The NZTA website has a helpful guide for you. It's
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Speaker 2: New Zealand's Guide to Temporary Traffic Management. It's eighty eight
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Speaker 2: pages long. I read it last night. Well, no, I didn't.
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Speaker 2: I read the first page and I thought, this is
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Speaker 2: absolute nonsense. The only thing you need to read is
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Speaker 2: the first sentence of the foreword. Yes there's a fore word. Wakakotahi.
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Speaker 2: New Zealand Transport Agency is committed to Road to zero,
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Speaker 2: a safe for altro in New Zealand where no one
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Speaker 2: is killed or injured on our roads. I hate to
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Speaker 2: be the bearer of bad news, but this is an
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Speaker 2: absolute pipe dream of the goal and will never happen.
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Speaker 2: Aiming for the outcome is mad. What you get as
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Speaker 2: a result is eighty eight pages of BS and a
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Speaker 2: fourteen thousand dollar bill to get Santa on a sleigh
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Speaker 2: for two hours. It's madness, and it continues. The organizers
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Speaker 2: don't worry. They say they have a Christmas meet and greet,
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Speaker 2: but no actual parade. Christmas is the season to be jolly.
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Speaker 2: It is the season forgiving and NZTA is giving grinch
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Speaker 2: vibes and bad attitude in my view. Twenty nine after
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Speaker 2: five Newstalk z MB, it's a party Mardi before six
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Speaker 2: to be bargain.
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Speaker 2: Away from the sexer on news to it Zibe coming
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Speaker 2: up the four six ewer reaction to the Tapati maldis
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Speaker 2: split and we'll here to Australia where this Nazi protest
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Speaker 2: is well. I mean it was narali to begin with.
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Speaker 2: It's a Nazi protest, but it's getting more nari by
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Speaker 2: the day. Hey, lots of your texts coming in this
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Speaker 2: morning on pulpiol and INZTA right because there now it's
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Speaker 2: not the NZTA that's charging the Santa Parade ten to
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Speaker 2: fourteen thousand dollars to traffic management, meaning the parade can
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Speaker 2: no longer go ahead. It's ZTA saying this is what
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Speaker 2: needs you know, these are the rules, and then the
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Speaker 2: traffic management company that you hire, this is how much
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Speaker 2: it costs implement them to keep everybody safe and to
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Speaker 2: take a risk based approach, whatever that is. But many
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Speaker 2: of you have got better ideas. Frankly, Ryan Inzta and
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Speaker 2: pure Piole. This is why the country's broke bureaucrat's adding
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Speaker 2: no value in writing ad eight page documents, says Nancy, Yeah, Nancy.
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Speaker 2: The other thing is Rotor zero was meant to be
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Speaker 2: canceled after the LAS government left office, So why is
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Speaker 2: this document even online? Anyway, here is the good stuff.
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Speaker 2: Ryan Wypoo's bill for the Santa parade two years ago
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Speaker 2: was going to be five grand, So the locals suggested,
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Speaker 2: maybe we put a tractor at each end of the
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Speaker 2: center of the town center. Great idea, Another says Ryan.
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Speaker 2: Does nz TA charge protesters these prices? No, So what
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Speaker 2: another Texter has suggested is don't call it a Christmas parade,
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Speaker 2: call it a Christmas protest. You get yourself a free
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Speaker 2: police escort.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge, twenty.
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Speaker 2: Two minutes away from Sex News Talk SEB. Now let's
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Speaker 2: go to our reporters around the country, and we start
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Speaker 2: with Cullum. Cullum, good morning, Hey, right, and good to
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Speaker 2: have you on the show this morning.
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Speaker 11: What are we talking about, Well, an ancient fossil has
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Speaker 11: been named in honor of a renowned paleontologist here from
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Speaker 11: Otaga University.
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Speaker 2: So this is a big honor.
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Speaker 11: The fifty million year old bill fish fossils been named
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Speaker 11: after the late Professor u and Fordyce here ford Ice
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Speaker 11: was a vertebrate paleon hologistic inspired generations of young researchers
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Speaker 11: in his forty year long career at Otago's Department of Geology.
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Speaker 11: The fossil was one of two billfish skulls found here
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Speaker 11: in Otago. This is a large predatory fish similar to
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Speaker 11: a swordfish. Doctor Seborne Rust has told us that Professor
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Speaker 11: Fordyce brought the subject to life and he was a
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Speaker 11: guiding mentor for many budding palaeontologists.
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Speaker 2: Very cool. How's your weather comem.
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Speaker 11: Cloudy periods, showers early in the staff to earn the
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Speaker 11: high eighteen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Claire's and christ Church this morning. Morning, Claire,
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Speaker 2: good morning. Now I'll get to the weather because it's
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Speaker 2: racing day to day. But first the housing growth in
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Speaker 2: christ Church. We've got a government plan.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, well a government update. This feels like the story
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Speaker 12: that's just gone on and on and on the government
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Speaker 12: wanting to put some housing intensification rules around christ Church
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Speaker 12: as well as elsewhere in the country. But christ Church
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Speaker 12: has been very much against this from the get go.
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Speaker 12: The bid from city Council to opt out of this
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Speaker 12: city wide intensification has now been accepted, effectively sparing us
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Speaker 12: from the entire area of christ Church being intensified. RMA
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Speaker 12: Reform Minister Chris Bishops accepted it, saying that instead it
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Speaker 12: will be limited to certain areas that includes the city center,
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Speaker 12: but also some of our key suburbs like Church Corner, Rickitton,
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Speaker 12: Hornby Lynnwood, Shirley, Merivale, Edgeware and Papa Neui. It will
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Speaker 12: mean overall around a quarter of the city is subject
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Speaker 12: to this higher density. Mayor Phil Major says he's over
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Speaker 12: the moon and it does mean that christ Church Is
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Speaker 12: momentum can continue.
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Speaker 2: And weather today well it's meant to be.
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Speaker 12: Mainly fine eventually, but for now it's raining and very
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Speaker 12: windy out there. We will also get some cloud increasing
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Speaker 12: link this afternoon southwesterly strong turning northeasterly the high.
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Speaker 2: Nineteen after the Lindau breakfast. Will anyone really notice clear?
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Speaker 2: Thank you Max and Wellington, Max, good morning, good morning.
21:47
Speaker 2: Now I see the words Tory, Infarno and shindig and
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Speaker 2: hang on and Bill, you must be excited, hurt yourselves done.
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Speaker 13: She may be gone that she keeps on giving you. Recall,
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Speaker 13: of course, the official portrait of the former mayor that,
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Speaker 13: of course, didn't need to be painted, the more than
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Speaker 13: seven thousand dollar painting that defied a council directive that
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Speaker 13: official mayal portrait should.
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Speaker 2: Instead be the cheaper option of photography.
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Speaker 13: While the post revealing this morning that not only did
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Speaker 13: that happen, but Tory Fano's office then also spent more
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Speaker 13: than one thousand dollars on food and alcohol for a
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Speaker 13: private unveiling to friends and family. You're talking gourmet cannape's,
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Speaker 13: bite sized potato and corned beef gallettes, three hundred bucks
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Speaker 13: for beer and wine. Clearly, at this point, Miss Faro
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Speaker 13: was already one fed out. The door also released internal
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Speaker 13: emails that show Faro pushed very hard for a portrait
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Speaker 13: to be done and personally selected the artist. Subsequently, senior
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Speaker 13: council officials then went into scramble mode to discover why
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Speaker 13: the photography directive was ignored concern of a media fallout,
22:48
Speaker 13: an insight of course, into how pr hacks determined what
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Speaker 13: the official line of messaging should be and they settled
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Speaker 13: upon it was a quote misunderstanding by Kaimahi. Or Stuff
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Speaker 13: would later tell media herself that she only felt it
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Speaker 13: important to support a local artist.
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Speaker 2: I feel sick, Max, I feel sick. So the thousand
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Speaker 2: dollars of food and alcohol, this was a private unveiling
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Speaker 2: that just direct No, okay, So no one from the
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Speaker 2: council was there, No other council is just her friends
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Speaker 2: and family.
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Speaker 13: It seemed it remained a secret up until that point.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, God, all right, how's your weather.
23:23
Speaker 13: Cloudy with some morning showers? Seventeen the Hey, thanks.
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Speaker 2: Max and Neiva's an orcand morning needs good morning Now.
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Speaker 2: Auckland Council cracking down on fly tipping.
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Speaker 1: That was right.
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Speaker 14: Look, what's happened is that this data, fresh data shows
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Speaker 14: more than two thousand tons of waste is illegally dubbed
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Speaker 14: every year and that figure is on the rise. So
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Speaker 14: in the past financial year the council gave out almost
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Speaker 14: six hundred fines that's up to four hundred dollars each,
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Speaker 14: So that's nearly double the amount issued the year before.
23:51
Speaker 14: And the Auckland Council is saying that much of that
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Speaker 14: household rubbish we find dumped could have gone into recycling
23:57
Speaker 14: or food script bins if it had been sorted. But
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Speaker 14: that's the problem, isn't it. People don't want to sort
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Speaker 14: those kinds of things out.
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Speaker 2: People nobody got time for that. How's our weather?
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Speaker 14: Neiva, Okay, cloudy, few shells, but it's going to be fine,
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Speaker 14: clearing to fine weather this afternoon. Twenty one is high
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Speaker 14: here in Auckland, brilliant.
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Speaker 2: Thank you have a great morning. It's eighteen minutes away
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Speaker 2: from six. You're on News Talks Hebb. John Laws is
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Speaker 2: a radio host, not Michael Laws, who is a radio
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Speaker 2: host here, but John Laws, a radio host of some
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Speaker 2: seventy years standing in Australia. You might recognize his voice
24:27
Speaker 2: if you've spent any time across the Tasman listening to
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Speaker 2: talk back. Hello Wild, this is John Lowlands. Hello Wild,
24:35
Speaker 2: this is John Lock. Hello, Well, this is John Long.
24:37
Speaker 2: He's passed away. Leslie Yeomans is our Australia correspondent. She's
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Speaker 2: with us live next News talksb It is quartered to
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Speaker 2: six very quickly. One billion dollars. That's how much Trump
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Speaker 2: is wanting in damages from the BBC for their documentary
24:50
Speaker 2: and to be fair, the Panorama documentary that all of
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Speaker 2: this kicked, all of this off, came out just before
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Speaker 2: the election. It was designed to well, not influence, but
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Speaker 2: paint a picture of him before the election, and they
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Speaker 2: didn't identify the jump cuts in the story. So anyway,
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Speaker 2: he's now saying he wants a billion dollars from them.
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Speaker 2: It's fourteen minute. This will continue, It'll be the gift
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Speaker 2: that keeps on giving, much like Torrifino and Max fourteen
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Speaker 2: away from.
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Speaker 1: Six International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of
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Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
25:23
Speaker 2: Leslie Yeomens is our Australia correspondent. Leslie, Good morning morning Ryan.
25:27
Speaker 2: Now what's going on? So we had this big protest,
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Speaker 2: the neo Nazi rally outside of the New South Wales
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Speaker 2: Parliament at the weekend and now two female MPs have
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Speaker 2: referred threats that they've received at police.
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Speaker 4: Yes, they were death threats and threats of rape and
25:44
Speaker 4: other horrible things against them. The two MPs are a
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Speaker 4: Legraspender who is a federal MP, and Kelly Sloan, the
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Speaker 4: State MP. Both MPs representing people in Sydney and around Sydney.
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Speaker 4: Now at the weekend and they were about just under
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Speaker 4: one hundred people who neo Nats had a Neo Nazi
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Speaker 4: rally outside the State Parliament and they were members of
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Speaker 4: the National Socialist Network. Then on Sunday, after miss Bender
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Speaker 4: and Sloan had spoken out about this rally, they ended
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Speaker 4: up getting all these terrible threats against them. Now they've
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Speaker 4: referred those threats to the police and even the new
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Speaker 4: New South Wales Police Commissioner Lanyon, he's actually looking into
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Speaker 4: why the protest was given the green light by by
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Speaker 4: senior police command.
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Speaker 2: It seemed to be odd, what's the why would they
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Speaker 2: targeted for by the group.
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Speaker 4: Demino because they were the most prominent speaking out about
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Speaker 4: it and also criticizing police about allowing and the state
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Speaker 4: government for allowing this to go ahead. The state government
26:55
Speaker 4: had said that the police had said rather that there
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Speaker 4: was no threat to the to the public, so that's
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Speaker 4: one of the reasons why it was allowed to go ahead.
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Speaker 4: But then they've come out and said that they've had
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Speaker 4: all these threats on social media and they need to
27:11
Speaker 4: be looked into.
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Speaker 2: Now John Laws, some might know him, is the man
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Speaker 2: with the Golden tonsils has died at the age of ninety.
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Speaker 4: Yes, the Golden Tonsils and the golden microphone. He was
27:23
Speaker 4: ninety died. Died at the weekend, seven decades a career.
27:29
Speaker 4: He started his career back in nineteen fifty three in
27:32
Speaker 4: Bendigo in Country Victoria and just became this powerhouse in
27:37
Speaker 4: the broadcasting industry.
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Speaker 6: Here.
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Speaker 4: Yes, a state funeral has been offered by the New
27:42
Speaker 4: South Wales Premier Chris Men's. He said he hasn't had
27:46
Speaker 4: an opportunity to actually speak to the family yet to
27:48
Speaker 4: see what their plans are, but that's what's been offered
27:51
Speaker 4: by the New South Wales government.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate your time. That is Leslie Yeomans with US Australia correspondent.
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Speaker 2: Twelve minutes away from six. He lived straw Laws did
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Speaker 2: to Russell Crowe for twenty years and because he had
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Speaker 2: a farm in rural New South Wales, lived next door
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Speaker 2: to Russell crow. Russell Crowe said he worked hard, played
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Speaker 2: harder and loved completely. A legend in the very best
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Speaker 2: most Australian sense of the word. I loved him and
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Speaker 2: I'll never forget him. It is now eleven minutes away
28:17
Speaker 2: from six. Kakati Mardi is imploding. It'll be no surprise
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Speaker 2: to you, given what's happened over the last month.
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Speaker 5: This decision was not taken lately. Many hope the end
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Speaker 5: would be reconciliation. It could not be achieved. We acknowledge
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Speaker 5: the mummy our people have built, and we think our
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Speaker 5: National Council for upholding our color and the best interests
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Speaker 5: of our movement throughout the.
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Speaker 2: Helmet Modlick is well. By the way Ferris and Kapa
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Speaker 2: king He now become independents and they say that they
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Speaker 2: will fight this. We'll see where that goes. Helmet Modlick
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Speaker 2: is Nat toy E chief executive with me this morning.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Maudena, Good to have you on the show.
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Speaker 2: What is your I mean, obviously it's not a great
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Speaker 2: look for to party Mardi. But what happens with the
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Speaker 2: Maldi electric vote now do you think?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, well, that would depend on what plays out over
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Speaker 9: the next probably the next six months or so. It's
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Speaker 9: hard to state how bitterly disappointing it is for the
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Speaker 9: married community to see the dynamic that's played out so
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Speaker 9: publicly and resulting in this fractious outcome.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, hard's overstate it.
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Speaker 2: Do you know what exactly? You know that Ferris and
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Speaker 2: Coupa King have actually done.
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Speaker 6: Well.
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Speaker 9: I think it's fair to say that the actions and
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Speaker 9: conversations that have gone on initially behind the scenes and
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Speaker 9: then more recently and all two public ways, online as
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Speaker 9: well as over the media, has really been a combination
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Speaker 9: of small and not so small actions that have just
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Speaker 9: irritated each I thought about it, it seems to be
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Speaker 9: pretty orthodox sort of personality power politics type ego actions
30:03
Speaker 9: the common.
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Speaker 15: Well, that's always you're going to have a serious ego
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Speaker 15: if you're going to be in politics, and and it's
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Speaker 15: it seems parallel pretty similarly the sorts of things we
30:14
Speaker 15: should play out in other parties at this At this
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Speaker 15: stage though in the.
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Speaker 9: Electoral cycle, and given the strategic issues and play for
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Speaker 9: to party Maori and the progressive side of the political spectrum,
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Speaker 9: it's it's serious helmet.
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Speaker 2: Does Labor went out of this?
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Speaker 9: You know?
30:30
Speaker 2: Do we get Maori voters on the Maori role going
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Speaker 2: back to Labor?
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Speaker 9: That's that's clearly got to be one of strategic options.
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Speaker 9: And that's so I say, it depends on what plays
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Speaker 9: out over the sixty nine months. The you know, the
30:46
Speaker 9: there's no point when in a battle if you lose
30:47
Speaker 9: the war, and the war at this point in time
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Speaker 9: is seen the Coalition and it's egregious attacks on the
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Speaker 9: Murray community and over the last couple of years seeing
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Speaker 9: them removed from office. There's the war and this battle
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Speaker 9: that's playing out into party. Maldi has been decidedly unhelpful
31:10
Speaker 9: in winning that battle that war.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, helmet model. Appreciate your time this morning, Art Toya
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Speaker 2: Earwchief Executive Time is eight minutes away from six News
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Speaker 2: Six to six on your Tuesday morning. There was talk
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Speaker 2: of maybe a winter election, going back to the polls
31:37
Speaker 2: in Canada, it's not going to have to happen. Carne
31:39
Speaker 2: there has a minority government and he was trying to
31:42
Speaker 2: get his budget through and he had one hundred and
31:43
Speaker 2: sixty nine seats and he was three short, and some
31:46
Speaker 2: conservatives have come to save the day, so budgets passed.
31:50
Speaker 2: That's all fine. But what they're doing, because Trump's tariffs
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Speaker 2: are hitting them hard, what they're doing is doubling the
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Speaker 2: deficit to seventy eight point three billion in Canadian dollars,
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Speaker 2: doubling the deficit five minutes away from Sex, Cray and Bridge,
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Speaker 2: which they say is you know, a pro investment, pro
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Speaker 2: growth thing. Mike's all. That's now morning, Mike, greetings to you.
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Speaker 2: Now who signed? Are you on Trump getting his billion
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Speaker 2: dollars from BBC or BBC saying actually, we're not biased
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Speaker 2: at all. Nothing to see.
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Speaker 16: Oh, I don't think they're going to went on that one.
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Speaker 16: I don't think the I was thinking about it yesterday.
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Speaker 16: Public broadcaster is all over the world. I sided funnily
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Speaker 16: enough with the Prime Minister yesterday. If you read the report,
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Speaker 16: you know, the book Camp report that came out on
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Speaker 16: Friday didn't get enough coverage because it came out Friday. Anyway,
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Speaker 16: Radio New Zealand ran a headline saying that conclusion was
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Speaker 16: it was rushed, yes, which is simply not true because
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Speaker 16: I read the report and it depends on what you
32:45
Speaker 16: call a conclusion or an observation. So there wasn't a conclusion.
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Speaker 16: There were lots of observations.
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 16: One of the observations was it was put together a
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Speaker 16: bit quickly, but there were lots of those observations, so
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Speaker 16: why would you pick the singular one to make it
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Speaker 16: a headline.
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Speaker 2: It isn't the overall issue that you have. You should
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Speaker 2: I mean, there will always be biased in news.
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Speaker 16: I've always said that they will always be honest about it.
33:09
Speaker 2: Well, I agree, So so why don't we just say
33:12
Speaker 2: you have one side represented over there, you have another represented.
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Speaker 2: Do whatever you like and listen to what you want
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Speaker 2: to do whatever you like.
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Speaker 16: And that's the problem has come about because there are
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Speaker 16: people who still argue that they're down the middle, which
33:25
Speaker 16: is simply laughable. True and it's never been true. And
33:29
Speaker 16: all that happened during COVID and all the ensuing years
33:31
Speaker 16: is that that got exposed badly. Yes, the reputation has
33:34
Speaker 16: been permanently damaged.
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Speaker 2: Lost the room.
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Speaker 16: There is no way back, as simple as that.
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Speaker 2: You know, Good luck everybody.
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Speaker 16: Antonia Watson, by the way, Antonio Watson, who runs the
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Speaker 16: bank the afore mentioned that you were talking about this morning,
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Speaker 16: child must be hard work defending success, isn't. It's a weird,
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Speaker 16: slightly weird thing, is you know, you're really success?
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Speaker 2: We can but they're doing are they ripping us off?
33:54
Speaker 2: Or are they just doing more business.
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Speaker 16: They're not. They can't rip us off because you don't
33:58
Speaker 16: have to do business with the day.
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Speaker 2: These were a monopoly sure, twenty seven banks, but they're
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Speaker 2: not anyway. Shues with this way all right, looking forward
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Speaker 2: to it. Mike's with you next, have a fantastic day.
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Speaker 2: See you tomorrow. News Talk to him Be.
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