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Andrew Dickens: These flip flops from the right and the left need to stop · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Now, yesterday I had to chuckle after I interviewed Mr
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  Speaker 1: Abercrombie from the PPTA who grudgingly accepted that improvements to
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  Speaker 1: the education sector by the government is a factor in
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  Speaker 1: teacher registrations being up 40% this year. He had a
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  Speaker 1: wasp in his mouth saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's helped.
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  Speaker 1: Mr Abercrombie, other industry advocates and the Labour-led opposition have
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  Speaker 1: been dead set against many of the changes that Erica
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  Speaker 1: Stanford's brought in, but now they are slowly admitting that
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  Speaker 1: things are getting better. And it makes you wonder why
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  Speaker 1: they were so negative from the get-go. And, of course,
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  Speaker 1: we can only put this sort of thing down to tribalism.
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  Speaker 1: If it's an idea from the right, it has to
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  Speaker 1: be evil and wrong and bad for the kids and
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  Speaker 1: the vulnerable. Now, I say this about the left, but
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  Speaker 1: it's also a weakness for the right. The coalition spent
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  Speaker 1: the first year merrily throwing out any initiatives that came
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  Speaker 1: from the previous government, whether it was good or not.
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  Speaker 1: The us-good-them-bad narrative is childish and expensive and slowing us down.
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  Speaker 1: Three Waters. Sorry. But Three Waters was thrown out. But
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  Speaker 1: it's been replaced with almost the same thing. The only
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  Speaker 1: difference being it's voluntary and there's no governance. The upshot
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  Speaker 1: is that we're even further behind in finding funds to
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  Speaker 1: fix our water supply, which is the main problem. We
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  Speaker 1: need to find the money. I could go on. The
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  Speaker 1: cancelled ferries when the problem was actually the gold-plated ports.
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  Speaker 1: It's cost us time and money. Now, in the leaders'
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  Speaker 1: debate the other day, Chris Hipkin's big mistake was to
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  Speaker 1: threaten to throw out an hour of tuition of the
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  Speaker 1: basics if they get in. a policy that is very
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  Speaker 1: popular with parents. And even Mr Abercrombie from the PPTA
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  Speaker 1: yesterday said it works. So why would Mr Hipkins want
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  Speaker 1: to throw out something that works? Oh, it's because it
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  Speaker 1: was an idea from the right. These flip-flops from both
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  Speaker 1: sides are exhausting. And when National won the last election,
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  Speaker 1: one phrase stuck in my mind. They said, ah, the
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  Speaker 1: adults are back. Well, when is that actually going to happen?
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