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Full Show Podcast: 14 August 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: Earlieritia with one roof love where you live news talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be.
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Speaker 3: Good morning. It is great to have your company. Lots
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Speaker 3: to get through, Brook van Valden before six. She's in
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Speaker 3: charge of the COVID inquiry. Will she change the terms
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Speaker 3: of reference? Can you even change the terms of reference
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Speaker 3: to the inquiry to force Hipkins and Adderned etc. To
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Speaker 3: turn up in front for the public. We'll ask the
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Speaker 3: question NCAA results. We've got the update on those numbers
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Speaker 3: on the property resale profits that we're getting, at least
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Speaker 3: the paper ones. Mitch mccannon. Trump's plan for Putin meeting
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Speaker 3: that's happening this weekend and everyone's going on strike. What
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Speaker 3: are they being paid and what offers are they rejecting.
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Speaker 3: We'll look at that this morning too. Just gone seven
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Speaker 3: after five.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 3: It is Thursday, the fourningth of August. We've had a
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Speaker 3: call between Trump and Zelenski. Zolensky says the US is
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Speaker 3: ready to support Ukraine all.
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Speaker 2: The American presidents.
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Speaker 4: Put In is bluffing, he is striving, Oliver, he is
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Speaker 4: pushing all over the front line.
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Speaker 5: Russia is pretendent occupy and it's not true.
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Speaker 3: Mertz. Meanwhile, this is the German chancellor. He says the
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Speaker 3: focus must be on a ceasefire in Alaska.
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Speaker 6: Security interests of Europe and Ukraine must be protected.
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Speaker 5: That is part of what we discussed with President Trump.
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Speaker 3: Gars are update for you now, Netanya. Who's saying that
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Speaker 3: they will aim for a full hostage release, not just
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Speaker 3: a sixty day truce, which is what they've been talking
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Speaker 3: about up until now. HUMAS leaders are in Cairo right
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Speaker 3: now chatting to the Egyptians in pre talks. Meanwhile, in Europe,
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Speaker 3: firefighters battling hundreds of blazers their temperature's top forty degrees
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Speaker 3: have got family over there. At the moment, it is
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Speaker 3: bloody hot. One hundred and fifty fires are upted in
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Speaker 3: just the last twenty four hours, forcing thousands to evacuate.
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Speaker 7: In the Madrid region.
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Speaker 8: That has been done in the low thirties, which is
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Speaker 8: quite a bit cooler than yesterday. However, done in the
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Speaker 8: south of cities like Seville and Cousma, it is still
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Speaker 8: very hot, around forty one forty two. The heat is
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Speaker 8: still here and we're expecting it to increase again tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: And for this heat wave to continue back home. The
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Speaker 3: man behind the world's most popular YouTube channel bringing a
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Speaker 3: burger chain here. You better come get a beat burger, okay,
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Speaker 3: mister beast Burger. It's called heading Auckland at the end
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Speaker 3: of the month, mainly going to be delivered by a
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Speaker 3: door dash in your Uber Eats, but they will have
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Speaker 3: a takeaway only store in Freeman's Bay here in Auckland.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and One Route Love where You
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Speaker 1: Live News Talk said Beach.
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Speaker 3: I had to look at his Burger's yesterday. I mean,
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Speaker 3: you can't taste them by looking at a photo, can you.
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Speaker 3: But they looked like KFC to me. Anyway, I will
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Speaker 3: try one when they come and let you know how
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Speaker 3: they taste. Nine after five and now apparently he's just
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Speaker 3: worth all well, nearly billions, this guy, at least nearly billions.
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Speaker 3: Speaking of money and lots of it. Teachers making it
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Speaker 3: rain and Sir Brian Roach has come out and this
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Speaker 3: is after they've announced these strike So if you've got
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Speaker 3: kids at secondary school, they will be off outer class
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Speaker 3: staying at home next week. Sir Brian Roach, who's the
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Speaker 3: public Services commissioner. He's having a crack at the unions. Basically,
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Speaker 3: the question is will parents back the teachers, you know,
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Speaker 3: forcing their kids to stay at home for a day.
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Speaker 3: Here's some facts for you. The average income for a
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Speaker 3: secondary teacher at the moment is one hundred grand. That's
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Speaker 3: the average income. That's up from ninety three k three
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Speaker 3: years ago. So what are they actually rejecting, Well, a
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Speaker 3: three percent increase over three years, so that is below
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Speaker 3: current inflation. But that's on top of an annual pay
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Speaker 3: progression of four and a half to seven and a
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Speaker 3: half percent. Now what is annual pay progression. That's basically
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Speaker 3: where you get paid more every year just for being
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Speaker 3: there for you know, staying in the job for a
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Speaker 3: long time. That is two and a half to seven
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Speaker 3: thousand dollars per year for most teachers. Two and a
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Speaker 3: half to seven thousand dollars per year for most teachers
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Speaker 3: at a time when people are out of work, you
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Speaker 3: don't even have a job, or they're struggling, when the
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Speaker 3: government is rightly cutting its cloth. I think it sounds
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Speaker 3: a bit greedy, and I think that the timing of
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Speaker 3: this is off. In support from the public. I don't
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Speaker 3: think there's going to be much of it for teachers,
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Speaker 3: unfortunately for them. Ten minutes after five, I am such
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Speaker 3: a new numbers for you, by the way, this morning
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Speaker 3: on a survey. This is like sentiment and trends in
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Speaker 3: our exporters, and we know that the primary industries are
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Speaker 3: doing very well at the moment. So this is twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty five exporting z DHL Export barometer done every year.
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Speaker 3: Two interesting numbers given the trade war sitch. At the moment,
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Speaker 3: eight percent of our exporters spital Of that, eighty percent
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Speaker 3: about exporters either maintained or grew their export volumes over
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Speaker 3: the past year. Sixty percent expect to increase their exports
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Speaker 3: in the next year. Heavi itt to all of this
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Speaker 3: as the survey was done when the rate was ten percent.
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Speaker 3: Of course now it's gone to fifteen percent. So you
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Speaker 3: have to you know, how much do you send to
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Speaker 3: the US? Can we make up the slack in other markets?
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Speaker 3: There will be more to come on that another survey,
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Speaker 3: I'm sure. Most interestingly, I think the exporters are looking,
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Speaker 3: if we can't do the US, where are we going
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Speaker 3: to go? Most of them are saying either the UK
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Speaker 3: or Japan. Eleven after five news talks, they'd be will
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Speaker 3: give you those n CEO results next.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one Route Love where you Live News Talks.
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Speaker 3: The'd been nine two nine two the number to text
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Speaker 3: this morning. Great to have your company. It is fourteen
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Speaker 3: minutes after five New NCAA achievement data out mixed results.
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Speaker 3: Umber of students achieving NCAA Level one down to the
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Speaker 3: lowest level in a decade, down slightly but still the
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Speaker 3: lowest in a decade. NCAA levels two and three posting
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Speaker 3: the first increase in pass rate since the beginning of
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Speaker 3: the pandemic. So starting to sort of turn the corner
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Speaker 3: and well, all of this systems out the door anyway soon.
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Speaker 3: Andy England is Starfield High School principal with us this morning. Andy,
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Good morning Ryan. What's up with level one
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Speaker 3: do you think?
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Speaker 7: I think it's pretty well known at school. Haven't been
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Speaker 7: prioritizing level one for quite some time, but there are
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Speaker 7: also a few other things been happening there. That's the
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Speaker 7: level where the experimentation happened with new standards. The Ministry
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Speaker 7: was before the decision to change all of the standards.
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Speaker 7: There's a lot of playing with Level one, so I
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Speaker 7: think teachers were getting the head around it, and some
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Speaker 7: of some of the introduction materials were absolutely awful, arrived late,
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Speaker 7: and we're not high quality at all, so that may
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Speaker 7: have affected that. Two. We've also got the CAA, your
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Speaker 7: core exams of literacy and numeracy, and a few students
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Speaker 7: have struggled with those. If you remember, they came in
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Speaker 7: at the highest standard, which is great, but there wasn't
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Speaker 7: there one that there weren't the years of teaching to
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Speaker 7: match the standard, so students were several students were put
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Speaker 7: off by those who we say, so, I think the
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Speaker 7: combination of factors will affected Level one. In areas like ours.
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Speaker 7: There are still there are still jobs in the out
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Speaker 7: there for students who they don't need qualifications. You know,
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Speaker 7: there are people looking for young people to start work
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Speaker 7: without qualifications, and the temptation for somebody who doesn't see
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Speaker 7: an academic future to start getting paid for work is
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Speaker 7: high for a few people, and that's not a high number,
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Speaker 7: but they all add up.
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Speaker 3: So live one actually doesn't really matter that much if
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Speaker 3: you're leaving school. Who cares.
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Speaker 7: Lots of the lots of people have still got role
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Speaker 7: models who are self employed trades. They're driving around with
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Speaker 7: a nice new ut and the boat and they left
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Speaker 7: school at fifteen, and they're quite happy to tell everybody that.
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Speaker 7: So there's certainly some role modeling. What about that happens?
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Speaker 3: What about level two and three is increased? I mean
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Speaker 3: it's a slide increase. But are we finally turning that
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Speaker 3: COVID hangover corner? Do you think?
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Speaker 7: I think it's too early to say that. I think
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Speaker 7: what's happened is we've had a few years, not many,
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Speaker 7: two three years to focus and get some students back
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Speaker 7: up to speed. Their school teachers are pretty good at
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Speaker 7: at wrapping around students, and I guess NCAA does give
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Speaker 7: that sort of flexibility, which is one of the features
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Speaker 7: that's been criticized recently. Think at level two, so yeah,
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Speaker 7: I think students are also realizing that they actually at
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Speaker 7: that level once they've stayed on in.
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Speaker 6: School for a while.
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Speaker 7: I think they understand they need to get a qualification.
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Speaker 7: It's totally anecdotal, but I've noticed over the years, whenever
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Speaker 7: you see a dip in the economy, and there are
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Speaker 7: a fewer of those other jobs around us talking about
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Speaker 7: students realize that they need to get a qualification. So
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Speaker 7: those are the stick in school. I think are focusing
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Speaker 7: a bit better, and that's a really positive thing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, your construction jobs are gone, your heroes, your ambassadors
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Speaker 3: are gone. So they stayed at their compete.
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Speaker 7: Yeah sorry, sorry, Right, they're competing against adults in the
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Speaker 7: late twenties, so they've got to get.
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Speaker 6: It back together.
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Speaker 3: Hey, what about the strikes. I know that's not what
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Speaker 3: we've got you on for, but do you think there's
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Speaker 3: going to be support from pearents for this?
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Speaker 7: Interesting? I think there were limits of support last time,
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Speaker 7: but I think the situations this time. This time, there's
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Speaker 7: been a lot of news obviously about the changes that
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Speaker 7: we're all going to need to make with the education system.
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Speaker 7: I appreciate this talk in the long term, but it's
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Speaker 7: certainly not going to do anything in the next three years.
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Speaker 7: Teachers are going to need to work harder than ever, probably,
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Speaker 7: and one percent we know is a net net sort
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Speaker 7: of decrease in income. So I guess i'd ask you
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Speaker 7: the question, what would you say if your boss says
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Speaker 7: we needed to work harder and more difficult commissions, We're
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Speaker 7: going to pay you less.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but then you've got your pay progression, which according
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Speaker 3: to the Public Service Commission, they reckon that's up four
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Speaker 3: and a half to seven and a half percent on
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Speaker 3: your pay when you when you add that into the mix, yeah.
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Speaker 7: Hey, there's going to be some new answers that they're
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Speaker 7: going to need to do that we'll need to be
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Speaker 7: debated through. I can't deny it. It's a pretty rapid
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Speaker 7: trigger to a strike. And certainly I got a shotgun
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Speaker 7: and saw that yesterday. But I don't think anybody would
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Speaker 7: be expect would be surprised to see some resistance. There
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Speaker 7: are some other layers to the in the offer there,
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Speaker 7: not just pay related that aren't aren't great for teachers.
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Speaker 7: So now I think I think most parents will have
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Speaker 7: some sympathy for teachers at the moment, everybody knows it's
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Speaker 7: a tough place to work in school. When Australia's paying
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Speaker 7: significantly more than what we do. We're not going to
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Speaker 7: do anything to halt the teacher shortage if we're not
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Speaker 7: going to make some conditions better.
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Speaker 3: Andy, appreciate your time this morning, thanks for coming on
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Speaker 3: and they England Darfield High School Principal time is eighten
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Speaker 3: minutes after five coming up next, we got it. Well,
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Speaker 3: I'm going to run you through a couple of numbers.
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Speaker 3: One of them is how often are we swiping our cards?
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Speaker 3: Because that's an indication of how the economy is performing.
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Speaker 3: But also we'll look at property prices, how much on
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Speaker 3: paper profit are people making from selling their homes? All
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Speaker 3: ahead news talksic be.
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Speaker 1: Views and views you trust to study your day. It's
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Speaker 1: earlier this ship with Ryan Bridge and one roof love
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Speaker 1: where you Live news.
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Speaker 3: Talks had me five twenty one morning. Ryan. Obviously the
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Speaker 3: NCAA Level one results are dipping, and the way to
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Speaker 3: fix that is to pay the teachers more for their
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Speaker 3: excellent work. This is ridiculous, says our text. I haven't
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Speaker 3: had a pay rise since the COVID years. I think
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Speaker 3: that's what people are going to think when they look
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Speaker 3: at this. Looks a bit greedy. We had the principle
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Speaker 3: on just earlier, said he was surprised they look a
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Speaker 3: bit trigger happy on the strikes the teachers. Twenty one
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Speaker 3: minutes after five news talk said b Allen says, Ryan,
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Speaker 3: no sympathy for those guys. Let's look at property. Property
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Speaker 3: own has seen the lowest resale profits in over a decade.
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Speaker 3: This is from Cotality's latest Pain and Game report. Eighty
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Speaker 3: nine point four percent of homes sold above their purchase
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Speaker 3: price last quarter. That is the lowest since twenty fourteen,
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Speaker 3: but still means the hell of a lot of us
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Speaker 3: are selling and getting a profit, well on paper. Matt
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Speaker 3: Ball News ill On Property Investors Federation is with us
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Speaker 3: this morning. Matt, Good morning, morning Ryan. It's interesting when
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Speaker 3: you look at the who's you know, which area is
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Speaker 3: christ Church pretty resilient. Auckland's actually the highest proportion of
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Speaker 3: loss makers.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Auckland's doing it a bit tough at the moment.
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Speaker 6: And you know, this is really interesting data. This is
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Speaker 6: hard data based on real sales and real purchases. It's yeah,
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Speaker 6: it's very tough for Auckland. I think a lot of
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Speaker 6: people here bought at the peak, and there may maybe
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Speaker 6: some people who are being forced to sell when they
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Speaker 6: don't really want to and they have to take a loss.
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Speaker 3: For a property investor, what do you do in a
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Speaker 3: situation like that? Do you sit on your property for
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Speaker 3: longer and hold out and wait?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, for a property investor, it doesn't mean a lot
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Speaker 6: to be honest, unless you brought it the peak and
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Speaker 6: you have to sell for some reason, then this is
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Speaker 6: just another cycle and you write it out. If you
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Speaker 6: bought it ten years ago, well it was the COVID
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Speaker 6: blip that sort of shot the market up. And it
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Speaker 6: doesn't really matter. Prices went up too far. Now they're correcting.
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Speaker 6: You just keep holding your property. It's if you're forced
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Speaker 6: to sell then that's when it becomes a problem.
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Speaker 3: Where are Auckland investors buying right now? Are they buying
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Speaker 3: in Auckland because prices are relatively more know either falling
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Speaker 3: or stable, or are they looking elsewhere?
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Speaker 6: Investors are buying in lots of different locations. So I
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Speaker 6: was at one of our associations, the Aukland Associations, beating
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Speaker 6: the other night and people were saying, I've got a
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Speaker 6: great property in christ Church being a great return. You
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Speaker 6: guys should head down there and have a look, and
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Speaker 6: other people were saying different parts of the country. So
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Speaker 6: in Auckland absolutely, but also right around the country.
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Speaker 3: Matt, appreciate your time this morning, Matt Bull, New Zealand
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Speaker 3: Property Investors Federation. On those new numbers and on paper profits.
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Speaker 3: I don't like the word profits when it comes to
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Speaker 3: property because you don't know what people have done to
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Speaker 3: the house. In the interim twenty four minutes after five,
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Speaker 3: Next this whole pilava with COVID and the inquiry and
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Speaker 3: whether Robertson, Adern, Hipkins and Verel should front to you,
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Speaker 3: should they be live streamed beamed into your living room
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Speaker 3: one last time, not with them in control, but with
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Speaker 3: an inquiry in control of COVID information twenty four after
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Speaker 3: News Talks B twenty six minutes after five. What has
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Speaker 3: Hipkins and co? Got to hide over COVID Yesterday? They
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Speaker 3: wheeled out three excuses, not one, not two, but three
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Speaker 3: for not fronting up and answering questions about why they
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Speaker 3: went so hard on lockdowns and mandates, which they then
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Speaker 3: papered over with sixty six billion dollars in spending second
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Speaker 3: in the world only to the US, thereby helping fuel
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Speaker 3: the inflation that we're now paying the price for taming.
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Speaker 3: First excuse we heard they wouldn't attend the public hearing
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Speaker 3: because they were worried about how the public might react,
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Speaker 3: that some might use their videos to spread misinformation. The
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Speaker 3: inquiry itself basically said that nonsense. The public interest in
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Speaker 3: them appearing outweighed the risk of some nutter altering their
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Speaker 3: video and sharing it on Facebook. Number Two, we then
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Speaker 3: had Hipkins front for a stand up with another reason.
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Speaker 3: I already answered these questions on a daily basis, he said,
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Speaker 3: which again makes no sense. If you were worried about
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Speaker 3: videos being docted for misinformation and misinformation being spread, would
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Speaker 3: it not apply as much to those comments in the media,
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Speaker 3: which are of course videoed and published as they would
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Speaker 3: be to the video live stream from a public inquiry. Three.
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Speaker 3: Then there's the excuses provided to the inquiry itself. They
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Speaker 3: were worried about blowback from the public online, that it
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Speaker 3: might turn into some sort of witch hunt. This is
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Speaker 3: perhaps the most egregious and insulting excuse of them all.
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Speaker 3: During the COVID years, they were more than happy to
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Speaker 3: troll us members of the public from the podium of truth.
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Speaker 3: They were more than happy to engage in a little
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Speaker 3: witch hunting of their own. Bit Charlotte Ballast, the border
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Speaker 3: crosses the River of filth. They used the media to
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Speaker 3: hammer their opponents as conspiracy theorists, anyone who disagreed with them.
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Speaker 3: They anointed many a public enemy number one while they
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Speaker 3: were in control of the narrative, and that's really what
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Speaker 3: this is about. Controlling the narrative. The wall to wall coverage,
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Speaker 3: the one PM podium sermons cynically helped secure them a
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Speaker 3: historic majority in twenty twenty. As the old saying goes,
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Speaker 3: you can fall some of the people all of the time,
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Speaker 3: all of the people some of the time, but you
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Speaker 3: can't fool all of the people all of the time.
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Speaker 3: These guys know they've been found out, most recently by
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Speaker 3: that embarrassing Treasury report, and now that they can't control
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Speaker 3: the narrative, it looks like they're running for the hills.
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Speaker 1: Brayam Bridge twenty.
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Speaker 3: Nine after five news talks, there'd be lots more to come.
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Speaker 3: Mitch McCann out of the US on Trump and putin
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Speaker 3: big meeting this weekend, and we have developments on Trump's
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Speaker 3: on Ukraine. Also, we will talk to Brook van Velden.
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Speaker 3: She's the minister in charge of this COVID inquiry and
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Speaker 3: can they can the inquiry force these guys to come
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Speaker 3: and appear. We'll ask her that question later on Good Morning.
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Speaker 3: It is Thursday. You're on News Talks EB.
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Speaker 4: You puzzlector.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on earlier ish Where's one roof Love? Where
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Speaker 1: you live? Used talks B.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, twenty four away from six year on News
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Speaker 3: Talks MB. I'm Ryan Bridge, Brook van Velden, the Minister
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Speaker 3: in charge of COVID inquiries with US just before six
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Speaker 3: the countdown on now to the Trump Putin meeting two
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Speaker 3: days to go and Mitch mccamnon and has insight into
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Speaker 3: Trump's game plan this morning he's with US shortly. Luxon
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Speaker 3: meanwhile is the lead story on CNN this morning. For
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Speaker 3: this comment about Gaza and Nettan Yahoo.
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Speaker 9: I think Netanyahoo has gone way too far. I think
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Speaker 9: he has lost the plot. And I think that you know,
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Speaker 9: what we're saying overnight of the attack on Gaza City
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Speaker 9: is utterly usly unacceptable.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. The problem with that, well, I mean that's all true. However,
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Speaker 3: the problem I think with what he's saying is that
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Speaker 3: he didn't say it from the beginning. You know, if
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Speaker 3: you look at those pictures and you feel a certain way,
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Speaker 3: and this is your personal view, then say it from
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Speaker 3: the outset. Don't wait till Chloe forces your hand, which
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Speaker 3: is what this looks like now twenty three to six. Rich,
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Speaker 3: Just take a look around the country now, Callum Procter
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Speaker 3: and Dnedan Cullum. Good morning morning, right hey, big day
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Speaker 3: for Queenstown Airport today. Yeah, look at it is.
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Speaker 10: It celebrates its ninetieth birthday today. The beautiful Southern Airport
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Speaker 10: one of New Zealand's oldest commercial airports and still operating
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Speaker 10: on its original site of the old Frankton race Course.
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Speaker 10: Since it began in nineteen thirty five. The airport has
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Speaker 10: evolved since then into an international gateway. It welcomes more
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Speaker 10: than two point six million passengers a year, making it
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Speaker 10: the fourth busiest in New Zealand. The board chair Simon
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Speaker 10: Floods told us it's important for them to look back
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Speaker 10: with gratitude for the entrepreneurs who laid the foundations for
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Speaker 10: the airport. This is then how managing its growth to
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Speaker 10: ensure it continues to meet the needs of the people
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Speaker 10: of the Southern Lakes for decades to come.
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Speaker 3: How's the weather for their birthday?
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Speaker 10: You look good for Queenstown today eleven and fine, same
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Speaker 10: for Dunedin. Fine the high thirteen today.
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Speaker 3: Nice Collum, Thank you Clais and christ Church. Hey Claire,
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Speaker 3: good morning. Tell us about this bridge.
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Speaker 11: A bit of an upgrade, Yeah, a massive upgrade for
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Speaker 11: the Pages Road bridge. The Government and council have reached
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Speaker 11: a co funding agreement for this. It's a seventy five
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Speaker 11: point four million dollar job. The Council has been speaking
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Speaker 11: about this bridge for a very long time but have
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Speaker 11: always se that any works or any revamp of it
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Speaker 11: would not be possible without government funds. It's almost one
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Speaker 11: hundred year old. It was very badly damaged in the quakes.
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Speaker 11: It has been patch repaired and strengthened ever since, most
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Speaker 11: recently in twenty fifteen. Minister for the South Island and
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Speaker 11: Associate Transport Minister James Meagher says this revamp will be
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Speaker 11: very welcome used for those in the Cities East. He
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Speaker 11: says it will also come with a package of works,
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Speaker 11: including the roads either side of the bridge, which are
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Speaker 11: very prone to flooding and erosion, which will be upgraded
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Speaker 11: at the same time.
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Speaker 3: All right, how's your weather?
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Speaker 11: Very frosty this morning, but should clear to find northeasterlyes
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Speaker 11: developing and we're on the way to twelve.
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Speaker 3: Have it Creton but still a bit chilly, but have
20:41
Speaker 3: a great day, Claire Adam Cooper's and Wellington Hay Adam
20:44
Speaker 3: willing Ryn. Affordable housing high on the list of priorities
20:49
Speaker 3: for Merril candidate Andrew Little.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, certainly the most high profile candidate in
20:54
Speaker 4: the race. Here what he made one of his first
20:56
Speaker 4: campaign announcements yesterday focusing on making the capital more of
20:59
Speaker 4: afordable for renters, and he's also said working families are
21:03
Speaker 4: a focus for him as well. So he's given this
21:05
Speaker 4: housing affordability policy basically wants to increase the construction of
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Speaker 4: affordable housing right through the city.
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Speaker 3: A few ways.
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Speaker 4: He says he would like to do this speed up
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Speaker 4: consents by giving the Council Chief Executive new KPIs to
21:18
Speaker 4: bring down times to process building and resource consents. And
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Speaker 4: he's used those words red tape. He wants to reduce
21:25
Speaker 4: the unnecessary red tape for developments within the district Plan.
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Speaker 4: And he's pretty much saying that for far too many
21:30
Speaker 4: people right now, Wellington isn't an affordable place to live.
21:34
Speaker 4: Rents are too high, many working people can't even dream
21:36
Speaker 4: of owning their own home in the city. And at
21:38
Speaker 4: the sharp end, we're obviously seeing a growing homelessness crisis
21:42
Speaker 4: on the streets too. So whether that will achieve what
21:45
Speaker 4: he's set out to do, I guess time will tell.
21:46
Speaker 4: All right, how's your weather at him? Fine morning, Frost's
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Speaker 4: around to start things off with north east and also twelve.
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Speaker 3: Nice one and nevas in Auckland. Good morning, good to morning.
21:57
Speaker 3: Let there be liked never.
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Speaker 5: He said, like count Dracula for goodness sake. Yes, and
22:03
Speaker 5: that is right. Because road access ryan to the historic
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Speaker 5: Monaco Heads Lighthouse now that's been restored. This is after
22:10
Speaker 5: two and a half years, so Auckland Transport has been
22:12
Speaker 5: very busy wrapping up the construction. This is on this
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Speaker 5: new section of Monaco Heads Road. It was rendered impassable
22:19
Speaker 5: by landslipe now that happened during cycling Gabrielle back in
22:23
Speaker 5: twenty twenty three. So Monaco Heads Lighthouse Trust sees it's
22:26
Speaker 5: welcoming seeing life return to the site. I've never been there.
22:30
Speaker 5: I've just actually had a look on the website. It
22:32
Speaker 5: looks amazing and you can actually, you know, just for
22:34
Speaker 5: that lighthouse. You can it's you know, like for weekends
22:37
Speaker 5: and you can take a stroll up there. So it's
22:38
Speaker 5: great now that this road is finally, you know, like reopened.
22:41
Speaker 5: It's quite a beautiful part.
22:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, people get obsessed with light. How there's one at
22:45
Speaker 3: Cape Palliser down in Wellington that people go and like
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Speaker 3: do a Sunday drive and go and visit.
22:50
Speaker 5: But is it like you've been to one lighthouse? You've
22:52
Speaker 5: seen them all?
22:53
Speaker 3: I think so it's like churches.
22:55
Speaker 5: I was looking one there.
22:56
Speaker 3: What's that screen lighthouse? Where that one's from? This is
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Speaker 3: in the background of the studio. I don't know where
23:04
Speaker 3: that lighthouse is from. They're all meant to be quite
23:06
Speaker 3: with this, the beehive, there's the skytower and a random
23:08
Speaker 3: lighthouse probably the Monico Heads. Hey how's that weather? Fine?
23:14
Speaker 5: Morning frosts again in shelter places for Auckland fifteen to
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Speaker 5: height Todays one.
23:17
Speaker 3: Neither think you great, to see you as always eighteen
23:19
Speaker 3: minutes away from six. Quick update for you. This is
23:22
Speaker 3: not important, but you know Brad Pitt's house got broken
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Speaker 3: into when he went to he was filming the IF
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Speaker 3: one movie and his house which, by the way, this
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Speaker 3: news article from the US gives us address. I would
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Speaker 3: have thought if you Brad Pitt in the newspapers publishing
23:37
Speaker 3: your address, not a great thing North Edgemont Drive. For
23:40
Speaker 3: anyone who's visiting Los Angeles, that's Brigelibs. Anyway, So these kids,
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Speaker 3: they've arrested for people sixteen to eighteen year olds arrested
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Speaker 3: for breaking into Brad Pitt's house. Mentioned what would be
23:52
Speaker 3: in there? How much stuff you could steal, not just
23:55
Speaker 3: valuable stuff but interesting stuff, collectible items. Anyway, they break in,
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Speaker 3: they've been arrested. But they're part of a criminal gang,
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Speaker 3: street gang targeting, specifically targeting celebrities homes, so they find
24:07
Speaker 3: out where they live. They wait till they know they're
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Speaker 3: away filming a movie, and then bam, they're in there.
24:14
Speaker 3: Eighteen minutes away from six News talks they'll be Mitch mccannon.
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Speaker 1: Is next, International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace
24:21
Speaker 1: of Mind for New Zealand Business.
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Speaker 3: Newtok theb It's quartered to six Brook Van Velden. Next
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Speaker 3: right now, Mitch McCann are US correspondent. Mitch, Good morning, Ryan,
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Speaker 3: how are you very well? Thank you? Trump pooshon meeting
24:33
Speaker 3: obviously Saturday our time, Friday, your time going to be
24:36
Speaker 3: a big one. And we're hearing a little bit about
24:38
Speaker 3: Trump's game plan. Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 12: He's had a meeting this morning with world leaders or
24:44
Speaker 12: European leaders. Rather, they've been trying to get him on
24:46
Speaker 12: the phone to speak among themselves and with Volodi Mezelenski,
24:50
Speaker 12: and they say they hammered out a strategy today with
24:53
Speaker 12: the President before this meeting in Alaska. And one of
24:56
Speaker 12: the things they are really insisting on is they are
24:59
Speaker 12: making sure that before any peace plan happens, or any
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Speaker 12: territory swaps or anything like that, Vladimir Putin has to
25:06
Speaker 12: agree to a ceasefire first. And the other thing they
25:09
Speaker 12: want is that there's going to be no negotiations for
25:11
Speaker 12: land swaps without Ukraine at the table. Now, what is
25:14
Speaker 12: interesting here is the White House is sort of playing
25:17
Speaker 12: down what might come out of this. They called it
25:19
Speaker 12: a listening exercise yesterday, a chance for Trump to really
25:22
Speaker 12: listen to Putin in terms of what he wants. So
25:25
Speaker 12: we're not really expecting a complete peace deal here. But
25:29
Speaker 12: Donald Trump does want to get something out of this,
25:31
Speaker 12: so he's going to listen to Putin and he's hoping
25:34
Speaker 12: for a ceasefire before perhaps a second meeting that involves Zelenski.
25:38
Speaker 12: But he did say today two reporters if there is
25:40
Speaker 12: not an agreement on some sort of ceasefire on Friday,
25:43
Speaker 12: there will be very severe consequences. Without elaborating on what
25:47
Speaker 12: exactly they'll.
25:48
Speaker 3: Be, okay, but cryptic. How are you sweaty, betty right now?
25:52
Speaker 3: I'm just looking at it's thirty one degrees feels like
25:55
Speaker 3: thirty four in New York City. Quite hot in the US.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, bit of a sweaty betty here the UN Office, Ryan,
26:01
Speaker 12: but it's much hotter in Arizona, where it's reported four
26:04
Speaker 12: hundred people may have died from heat exhaustion this year
26:08
Speaker 12: in Maricopa County. Now, get this, it's about I think
26:11
Speaker 12: it's the thirteenth of August today here in the US.
26:13
Speaker 12: Every day in August so far this year in Arizona,
26:17
Speaker 12: it's been at least forty three degrees celsius. So it
26:20
Speaker 12: is scorching hot and they're struggling to keep people safe.
26:23
Speaker 12: They have this problem every year. They set up things like,
26:26
Speaker 12: you know, calling rooms at local councils and local schools
26:29
Speaker 12: and things like that. But at the moment, they suspect
26:31
Speaker 12: up to four hundred people may have died because of
26:33
Speaker 12: the heat.
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Speaker 3: Very hot. Thanks smtch, take care, Mitch, mcan Our, us
26:38
Speaker 3: correspondent thirteen minutes away from six Ryan Bridge, Jacinta Adan,
26:42
Speaker 3: Chris Hoipkins won't be showing face at the Royal Commission
26:45
Speaker 3: of Inquiry into COVID nineteen and now they've decided to
26:48
Speaker 3: shut down the second week of public hearings. Is basically
26:51
Speaker 3: they're no longer justified. Brook van Velden, minister responsible for
26:54
Speaker 3: this inquiry, joins us. Now our good morning.
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Speaker 2: Minister, Good morning Ryan.
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Speaker 3: Can you change the terms of reference to force these
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Speaker 3: guys to turn up?
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Speaker 6: Oh?
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Speaker 2: Look, I'm not changing the terms of reference because it
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Speaker 2: is possible for the Commission to issue a legal summons
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Speaker 2: to them. However, I don't think it's really the fault
27:17
Speaker 2: of the Commission that they've been forced into the situation
27:20
Speaker 2: of needing to make that decision. It would have been
27:23
Speaker 2: much easier if Justinder Iurdourne and Chris Hipkins just do
27:27
Speaker 2: the right thing and turned up to the public hearings.
27:32
Speaker 2: And so, you know, while there might be some focus
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Speaker 2: on the commissioners who have been forced into this decision,
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Speaker 2: this is really about the fact that Justinder Idourne and
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Speaker 2: Chris Hipkins were very willing to stand publicly every single
27:44
Speaker 2: day and make huge decisions on people's lives quite publicly,
27:50
Speaker 2: but are unable to do that or unwilling to do
27:52
Speaker 2: that now. So I think it's quite confusing for many
27:56
Speaker 2: members of the public who are still feeling the effects
27:59
Speaker 2: of the COVID lockdown.
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Speaker 3: It is including Richard who says, yeah, I'm completely flabbergasted
28:04
Speaker 3: by this. They should be forced to be called as witnesses.
28:08
Speaker 3: This is a COVID nineteen Royal Commission of inquiry. Why
28:12
Speaker 3: doesn't the government force them? You know you could do that,
28:15
Speaker 3: couldn't you, Brook? So why not?
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Speaker 2: Well, we cannot as the government force their commission to
28:23
Speaker 2: do any particular thing. It is an independent inquiry, and
28:27
Speaker 2: that's really important because all Royal commissions are independent. My
28:31
Speaker 2: belief is that the terms of reference does allow the
28:35
Speaker 2: commissioners to use a summons if they would wish. However,
28:40
Speaker 2: what they have described in their public minute and in
28:43
Speaker 2: conversations with me is the difficulty of you know, the
28:47
Speaker 2: terms of reference for this commission is not to try
28:50
Speaker 2: and find blame or act like a court of law.
28:54
Speaker 2: It is to be a fact finding mission, yes, to
28:56
Speaker 2: enhance public confidence so that we have better play and
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Speaker 2: for the future of the pandemic ever happened. And now
29:03
Speaker 2: the difficulty that the Register and there I don and
29:06
Speaker 2: cricipns have put the commissioners in is if they are
29:09
Speaker 2: forced to issue legal summons is then obviously it becomes
29:14
Speaker 2: adversarial and legalistic, and I think that's a real shame
29:18
Speaker 2: that they've been forced into the situation.
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Speaker 3: Which is that this is the problem right elling With
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Speaker 3: has said that it is our opinion that the use
29:24
Speaker 3: of summons is to achieve their participation into public hearing
29:27
Speaker 3: would be legalistic and adversarial, which are terms of reference prohibit.
29:31
Speaker 3: So the problem is the terms of reference. I mean,
29:34
Speaker 3: either you want them and it's important for them to
29:37
Speaker 3: be they're publicly facing up, or it's not.
29:41
Speaker 2: Well, I think this is really focusing too much on,
29:44
Speaker 2: you know, the commissioners and the decision that they're needing
29:47
Speaker 2: to land at, whereas we would never be in this
29:50
Speaker 2: situation if they just did what the commission had asked.
29:54
Speaker 2: And I think the difficulty that the commissioners are in
29:56
Speaker 2: is if they are are forcing and using a legal summons,
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Speaker 2: what is it going to be like in the actual
30:03
Speaker 2: public hearing? Is it going to be a fact finding mission?
30:06
Speaker 2: Or is it going to be legalist, is it going
30:08
Speaker 2: to be adversarial? Is it becoming a blame finding a
30:12
Speaker 2: mission where the public hearing may not actually get what
30:16
Speaker 2: it deserves. And I think that's the real difficulty of
30:20
Speaker 2: forcing somebody to appear. Chris Hipkins really should just do
30:24
Speaker 2: the right thing, appear in public like he did every
30:28
Speaker 2: single day at the one pm briefings. And I think
30:32
Speaker 2: the real question is why is it that they are
30:35
Speaker 2: willing to give the commission information in private but not
30:39
Speaker 2: in public like they did during the COVID lockdown years.
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Speaker 3: Brook, appreciate your time this morning. Brook van Valden is
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Speaker 3: the Minister in charge of the COVID nineteen inquiry. It
30:48
Speaker 3: is eight minutes away from six. Mike, by the way,
30:51
Speaker 3: is going to be interviewing Chris Hipkins just after seven
30:54
Speaker 3: o'clock this morning live here on News Talk CEB. He
30:57
Speaker 3: is with us in the studio.
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Speaker 1: Next News you Need this morning and the in depth
31:02
Speaker 1: analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and One Room Love
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Speaker 1: where you Live News Talks.
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Speaker 3: That'd be good morning. It six away from six on
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Speaker 3: News Talks, he'd be David Lammy, who's the Foreign Sectory
31:12
Speaker 3: in the UK, and jd Vance. They had a bit
31:14
Speaker 3: of a mandate, a little bilateral meeting, a bit of
31:18
Speaker 3: summer fishing in Kent in the UK, and they both
31:22
Speaker 3: broke the law. They were illegally fishing. What kind of
31:26
Speaker 3: staffer of David Lammy's didn't sort out the license of
31:30
Speaker 3: fishing licenses that you need. Apparently jd Vance's kids are
31:33
Speaker 3: the only one who actually caught fish. But the Foreign
31:36
Speaker 3: sectary has now had to report himself to the Environment
31:39
Speaker 3: Agency because they failed to get the necessary rod license.
31:44
Speaker 3: There you go, two crooks, six to.
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Speaker 1: Six, Ryan BRIDGEB.
31:48
Speaker 3: And Mike's here next with Chris Sipkins on the show
31:51
Speaker 3: this morning. Yeah, what a thrill.
31:52
Speaker 13: That will be so funny. What do you reckon the
31:55
Speaker 13: process is when you decide to do what he's done,
31:57
Speaker 13: because it's someone in the must have said, yes, this
32:01
Speaker 13: is going to look really bad for you and he
32:04
Speaker 13: and you can't argue it doesn't look bad for him.
32:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you get what they What he did is
32:08
Speaker 3: get on the blower to just We'll get on the
32:10
Speaker 3: blower to Grant and just Cinda and I share and
32:12
Speaker 3: they did a conference call and they decided this is
32:15
Speaker 3: not for.
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Speaker 13: Us, no fair enough but if you're Grant and Cinda,
32:18
Speaker 13: you don't care because you're elsewhere and you're not held
32:21
Speaker 13: accountable anymore. He's got to go back to the public
32:23
Speaker 13: of New Zealand next year and go, remember me last
32:26
Speaker 13: time I was in charge of stuff, Here's what happened.
32:29
Speaker 13: And also, by the way, when they went to ask
32:31
Speaker 13: me some questions about some of that stuff, that didn't
32:34
Speaker 13: really want to turn up.
32:35
Speaker 3: The thing that the number of excuses we heard from
32:37
Speaker 3: them yesterday that they'll Tampa with the video I don't
32:42
Speaker 3: want to be just shouldn't be a witch hunt, which
32:45
Speaker 3: is exactly what they did to people from.
32:46
Speaker 13: The pod percent. The thing is, that's what fascinates me
32:50
Speaker 13: most of all is it's indefensible. There's not an argument
32:55
Speaker 13: to your point. Those excuses are pathetic. We all know
32:59
Speaker 13: they're pathetic, and somebody surely within that party goes, look,
33:03
Speaker 13: I know it could look bad or whatever, but this
33:06
Speaker 13: it's the worst option is not fronting.
33:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the political calculation would be that do
33:13
Speaker 3: people still care? That that's fair point the care factor,
33:16
Speaker 3: Because there was a clip on the news last night
33:18
Speaker 3: a couple of boxes and a couple of them said,
33:20
Speaker 3: oh jeez.
33:21
Speaker 13: That was Yeah, but did you see the people who
33:23
Speaker 13: said it. I mean, if vox pops a representative of
33:27
Speaker 13: New Zealand, then we're all finished. So I wouldn't place
33:31
Speaker 13: any weight on those. But yeah, you're right, so the
33:33
Speaker 13: time thing is. But believe me, if I was running
33:37
Speaker 13: against him, I'd run the capital gains tax. Yeah, I'd
33:40
Speaker 13: run his support for Hamas, and I'd run him not
33:44
Speaker 13: turning up to COVID. And if I can't win an
33:46
Speaker 13: election on that and that alone, then I don't deserve
33:49
Speaker 13: to be the Prime Minister.
33:50
Speaker 3: Well, I'm looking forward to this interview, Mike, Well, what
33:52
Speaker 3: do you do?
33:53
Speaker 13: I mean, it's pathetic.
33:54
Speaker 3: Is there a rare gym? You and Chippy? Me and
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Speaker 3: Chips Dad Don that's at seven o'clock this morning News
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Speaker 3: Talk said.
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