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Jamie Cleine: NZ First West Coast Tasman candidate and former Buller Mayor hopes for positive response to mining policy · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: New Zealand first making a play for the West Coast.
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  Speaker 1: Over the weekend, Winston Peters in Graymouth campaign policy announced
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  Speaker 1: return fifty percent of mining royalties to the region that
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  Speaker 1: they actually came from. On top of that, former Buller
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  Speaker 1: District may Jamie Klein will be the party's candidate for
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  Speaker 1: West Coast Tessmen. He's with me this morning, Jamie.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, Ryan.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't you just get the boot from voters in the
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  Speaker 1: mineral race.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, very close democratic decision by the electorate here in Buller.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, certainly a lot of good work to be
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  Speaker 2: has been done over the past six years in New Zealand. First,
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  Speaker 2: we're front and center throughout most of that.
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  Speaker 1: What's your play with the mining policy is it? Do
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  Speaker 1: you think that's going to be a vote winner there
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  Speaker 1: for the party vote? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. You know, one of the issues the West Coast
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  Speaker 2: has small population based, huge geographic area and like most
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  Speaker 2: of New Zealand's massive infrastructure needs and ability to pay affordability,
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  Speaker 2: all of those things are affecting our region. So it's
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  Speaker 2: long high time that the minerals royalties scheme gets a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a shakeup. And to hear that there's an
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  Speaker 2: appetite in MW. Zealand First is certainly campaigning on fifty
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  Speaker 2: percent of those royalties coming back to the regions where
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  Speaker 2: the minerals are coming from. As music to my ears.
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  Speaker 2: Alongside that, of course, is you know, we've got an
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  Speaker 2: industry that wants to ramp up and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: that requires several infrastructure to be to be put in
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  Speaker 2: ahead of time to facilitate building and accommodating all the
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  Speaker 2: wave of workforce that are coming, and so an ability
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  Speaker 2: to do that and makes sense to focus that on
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  Speaker 2: the areas where the growth is going to occur in
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  Speaker 2: the mineral sector.
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand. Fir's got fewer votes in the Greens in
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  Speaker 1: the seat in twenty twenty three. Who are you hoping
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  Speaker 1: that policies like this will take votes from? Is it Labor?
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  Speaker 1: Because Net's got about fourteen thousand, Labour got about ten thousand.
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  Speaker 1: You know, who are you going after? Whose vote are
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  Speaker 1: you trying to get?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, clearly Labor Party voters are going to be
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  Speaker 2: more well served under a New Zealand First representation in
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  Speaker 2: this region. Labor have been missing an action in terms
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  Speaker 2: of its support for the workers and genuine support for
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  Speaker 2: what was its traditional heart, which was the mining sector.
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand First are looking to turn that around, and
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  Speaker 2: we've been on the ground this weekend meeting with hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of our community with rousing support for this policy.
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  Speaker 1: All right, appreciate your time, Jamie. Best of luck, Jamie
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  Speaker 1: Klein with US New Zealand First candidate for West Coast Tasman.
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