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Full Show Podcast: 08 July 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: early edition with Spark for business technology that keeps business moving,
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Speaker 1: news talks.
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Speaker 2: There'd be had a very good morning in a six
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Speaker 2: after five grade to have your company will head to
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Speaker 2: Turkey where the NATO Summits being held. Gavin is in
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Speaker 2: London for us we'll talk parage, massive TV deal for
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Speaker 2: the NROL, biggest in Australian sporting history plus Sky TV here.
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Speaker 2: It is also today Global Dairy Trade Day and OCR Day.
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Speaker 2: The agenda say the eighth of July up to his
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Speaker 2: neck in Sleees. That's how Stan is describing Farage. Didn't
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Speaker 2: declare the gifts from the rich people and now he
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Speaker 2: is taking the narrative back is old Farage. He has
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Speaker 2: resigned as MP for Clacton. There'll be a by election.
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Speaker 3: This will be a people versus the establishment by election.
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Speaker 3: It's a chance to stick two fingers up to the
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Speaker 3: entire establishment to frankly tell them where to go. And
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Speaker 3: that is why I will be putting my name forward
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Speaker 3: to stand in this by election. I will fight to win.
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Speaker 3: I will fight to continue the political revolution. That reform
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Speaker 3: has stuff.
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Speaker 2: You got to hand it to the guy. He has
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Speaker 2: stamina if nothing else. And NATO summit underway in Turkey's
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Speaker 2: Lensky pleading for more e defenses.
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Speaker 4: While this war continues. Please help us get more ear
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Speaker 4: defense missiles.
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Speaker 2: This is our top priority right now. We are capable
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Speaker 2: of doing everything else ourselves, but when it comes to
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Speaker 2: ear defense, we need our partner's determination. Maybe Trump wants
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Speaker 2: a bit of territory. Where could he possibly be talking
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Speaker 2: about starts with g.
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Speaker 4: That's what hurt my relationship with NATO because Greenland doesn't
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Speaker 4: help Denmark. Denmark doesn't spend money to really help Greenland,
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Speaker 4: but it's an important part for the United States. And
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Speaker 4: when they wouldn't go along with it, and with all
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Speaker 4: the money we spend to help them with Russia and
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Speaker 4: we don't have to spend any money, we could remove
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Speaker 4: all of our soldiers out of Europe.
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Speaker 2: Big day for the hard ride. Actually in Paris, you
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Speaker 2: know Marine le Penn, former president of the far right
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Speaker 2: Prince National Rally Party. Well, the court has found it
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Speaker 2: was an appeals court found that her guilty of misusing
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Speaker 2: EU funds. Has reinforced that sentence but shortened it by
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Speaker 2: a few years. That means that she can run in
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Speaker 2: the presidential election next year.
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Speaker 5: What she has said before today was that in the
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Speaker 5: event of her being eligible but prevented by other circumstances
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Speaker 5: i e. An electronic bracelet from doing the job of
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Speaker 5: being a candidate properly, she would not run. So on
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Speaker 5: the face of it, it looks like she should be
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Speaker 5: saying I'm not going to run now because I'm going
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Speaker 5: to have this electronic bracelet. But there is a possibility
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Speaker 5: that this year of the brecelet might be reduced with
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Speaker 5: good behavior two several months, in which case she wouldn't
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Speaker 5: be able to yes.
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Speaker 2: The new far right fashion accessory of next season is
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Speaker 2: an ankle bracelet. She's going to hold a press confidence
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Speaker 2: in the next hour to tell us whether she will
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Speaker 2: run with the bracelet or whether she won't run with
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Speaker 2: the bracelet. True story. Finally, this morning, Prince Harry's arrived
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Speaker 2: in the UK some unwelcome news on landing. He's lost
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Speaker 2: his High Court case against the Daily Mail and the
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Speaker 2: publishers of the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday,
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Speaker 2: not enough evidence to prove them.
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Speaker 6: It's the best result I think the Daily Mail could
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Speaker 6: have imagined. Ninety seven counts of illegal news gathering have
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Speaker 6: all been dismissed. So it's a complete and catastrophic defeat
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Speaker 6: for Prince Harry and the other claimants.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and Spark for business technology that keeps business moving,
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Speaker 2: Be nine two. The number of text always love hearing
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Speaker 2: from you just gone ten minutes half to five. That
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Speaker 2: court case, the loss of that court case could be catastrophic.
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Speaker 2: I think there's seven in total, including Harry. You've got
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Speaker 2: David Furnish, You've got Elton John, You've got Liz Hurley,
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Speaker 2: a whole bunch of them. Because the Daily Mail might
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Speaker 2: go after legal costs, which apparently now after all said
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Speaker 2: and done, fifty pounds not an insignificant sum, even for
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Speaker 2: the likes of Prince Harry now, so they will probably
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Speaker 2: try and go after and that, by the way they
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Speaker 2: reckon is that that Now it's got to this point
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Speaker 2: quite an emphatic ruling will likely signal the end of
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Speaker 2: new litigation over the whole phone hacking scandal era, so
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Speaker 2: we can put that to bed finally. Now is amazing numbers.
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Speaker 2: The NRL deal that's been done, the Australasian NRL deal
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Speaker 2: that's been done five point three billion. That's Aussie across
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Speaker 2: seven years for Foxtail and for Nine over in Australia.
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Speaker 2: It is the richest sports broadcast deal in Australian history.
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Speaker 2: Here SkyTV has won the rights for another seven years.
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Speaker 2: Good on them. They've got the rugby, they don't have
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Speaker 2: the netball yet. We're gonna talk to Shane Curry about this,
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Speaker 2: but what it tells you is that this competition and
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Speaker 2: competition pushes prices up. Amazon has been wanting the deal
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Speaker 2: the rights over in Australia. Seven has been wanting them.
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Speaker 2: The free network Ten has been wanting them as well.
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Speaker 2: They've been plotting to get a slice of the pie,
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Speaker 2: but clearly haven't, which means that Nine and Foxtail have
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Speaker 2: had to pay and I'm on a leg to get them.
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Speaker 2: But it's worth it for them. Here, Sky and TV
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Speaker 2: Insead have been battling it out. Nine basically had no choice.
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Speaker 2: They Reckon doesn't have the cricket, doesn't have the AFL.
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Speaker 2: They're the other two big sports in Australia. Had no choice.
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Speaker 2: The only thing really that limits you, you know, if
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Speaker 2: you're a Foxtail, if you're a Sky, the Sky is
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Speaker 2: the limit in terms of how much you pay for
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Speaker 2: something like that because of the eyeballs that it brings
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Speaker 2: to you. However, there is a limit to how much
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Speaker 2: you pay and that's how much we are willing to
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Speaker 2: pay in subs to actually watch the thing. Shane Curry
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Speaker 2: with us in about ten minutes.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge job.
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Speaker 2: After five, Nice to have your company. Next we'll do
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Speaker 2: the ocr it is ocr Day today. Do we start hiking? Well,
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Speaker 2: we're split the.
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Speaker 2: Moving US talks B five fourteen. So the Tories have
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Speaker 2: just announced they're not going to stand anyone and for
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Speaker 2: Rger's by election. We're not going to get dirty and
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Speaker 2: play that game. So the calls will grow for people
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Speaker 2: not stand anyway. We'll head to Gavin Gray in London
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Speaker 2: just before six this morning. Global Dairy Trade Action out
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Speaker 2: overnight down almost five percent four point nine. Been coming
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Speaker 2: down from high's earlier in the year. March is when
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Speaker 2: it peaked a third option. Now in a row where
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Speaker 2: it's come down and the stuff we really care about,
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Speaker 2: of course is the skim milk powder. Well, the powders
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Speaker 2: skim milk down seven percent, whole milk down four point four,
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Speaker 2: so that's going in the wrong direction. Cheddar is actually
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Speaker 2: up twelve point three, buttered down five percent. Anyone putting
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Speaker 2: that on their toast this morning. The question is will
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Speaker 2: any of this move the milk price forecast or not?
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Speaker 2: For that we will have to wait and see. Caught
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Speaker 2: a past Ryan Bridge our decision to anyone's guests. Really,
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Speaker 2: minetary policy committee was split almost down the middle on
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Speaker 2: a holder were raised last time. In fact it was
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Speaker 2: the middle and then Bremens decked it in with a
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Speaker 2: casting vote and held the banks for their money. A
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Speaker 2: n z and beans reckon we'll get a high quarter
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Speaker 2: of cents two and a half asb Westpac Kiwi bank
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Speaker 2: they say will hold. Tin Huang is in Zidi, a
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Speaker 2: senior economist with us this morning, Good morning, good morning,
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Speaker 2: So what do you reckon?
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Speaker 7: Thank you? So our latest INSIDAIA monetary policy shadow board
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Speaker 7: actually also show the spirit of FEUs regarding whether the
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Speaker 7: USIA should be at the July meeting today. But the
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Speaker 7: balance of strands of view the shadow boards recommended the
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Speaker 7: Central Bank the US are and hold out two point
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Speaker 7: two five percent today.
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Speaker 2: And why is that because the risk if you raise
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Speaker 2: it now of crippling the economy even further is too high.
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Speaker 7: Sure so, although although on balance of strands of view
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Speaker 7: at the shadow Board recommended the how to keep on
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Speaker 7: hold that two point five two percent, but actually of
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Speaker 7: the other results reflect our Lineboard co in terms of
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Speaker 7: whether the result banks should keep the AUCA unchanged or
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Speaker 7: race it by twenty five basis points. And the rising
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Speaker 7: inflation was actually, in fact was the key reason for
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Speaker 7: those shadow Board members who were in favor for the
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Speaker 7: OUTHR to move towards the neutral rate sooner rather than later.
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Speaker 7: And this is actually in line with our view at
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Speaker 7: end IR.
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Speaker 2: Good to have you on the show. Tin Kwan INSI
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Speaker 2: a senior economists this morning. That'll come out today and
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Speaker 2: may come down to Bremen having the casting vote once again.
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Speaker 2: Sixteen after five Brian Bridge over in America. No funny
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Speaker 2: things happen over there, and other things happen overnight. So
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Speaker 2: there's a guy in Internet sensation. They call him an
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Speaker 2: Internet personality called sneak Ode. This is when Egypt the
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Speaker 2: football game between Egypt and Australia and the Egyptians won,
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Speaker 2: and there was huge celebrations in the streets of New York.
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Speaker 2: And this guy was there streaming live streaming onto his
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Speaker 2: social media and he said something that has angered well
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Speaker 2: pretty much everyone in America. And you'll know why when
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Speaker 2: I play this, but including the navy seal who killed
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Speaker 2: a sum and Bin Laden. He's come out on it.
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Speaker 2: Musk has come out on it, unsurprisingly. Alec Jones has
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Speaker 2: come out on it. This is what he had to say.
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Speaker 4: This is man's Mormon Republic of the rochestant This Lam
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Speaker 4: will be an every household and so there's Muslim welcome.
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Speaker 2: Tom Donies do not now. This guy apparently supported Bernie
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Speaker 2: Sanders back in twenty sixteen, converted to Islam in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty three. Musk wants him deported. Alex Jones wants him deported.
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Speaker 2: Rob O'Neil, the Navy seal who killed some and Bin
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Speaker 2: Louden tweeted, these guys sound way different when you wake
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Speaker 2: them up at two am, because he mean, obviously they
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Speaker 2: shot has Bin Louden early in the morning. That's what
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Speaker 2: that references to. However, the I didn't say, and this
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Speaker 2: is America, remember, and free speech nation. The guy didn't
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Speaker 2: say anything that was inciting violence. The guy didn't say
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Speaker 2: anything that was you know, sounded even remotely like there
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Speaker 2: was violent or a violent intention. Basically just that he
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Speaker 2: wanted more people to mean Muslim now and it country
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Speaker 2: like America. There is nothing wrong with saying that. Five eighteen,
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Speaker 2: News Talks AB Quite a funny one from the Post
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Speaker 2: this morning, five twenty on News Talks at B and
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Speaker 2: this is about to Party Marti in their website. If
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Speaker 2: you've ever visited their adut many if you have, but
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Speaker 2: huge photo of Party Marty MP's on the front page
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Speaker 2: of the well that if you click on it, if
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Speaker 2: you go to the Party Marti website. As of yesterday morning,
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Speaker 2: if you clicked on that image on the main page,
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Speaker 2: it would take you to Ricky Casino. Now, Ricky Casino
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Speaker 2: is a gambling website registered in Costa Rica. It's actually
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Speaker 2: aimed at us. It's aimed at Aussies and kiwis and
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Speaker 2: the url Altro altroho dot co dot nz was the
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Speaker 2: domain name. It was first linked to Party Malti during
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Speaker 2: their campaign in twenty three. So they set up this
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Speaker 2: website and it was a place where you go and
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Speaker 2: it's meant to emulate the hospitality of a Maria this
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Speaker 2: website somehow. Anyway, what's happened is they've to Party Marti said, oh,
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Speaker 2: look this is someone's exploiting our website. But actually what
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Speaker 2: happened is that the domain registration lapsed, they failed to
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Speaker 2: renew it. Someone else steps in, presumably a casino out
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Speaker 2: of Costa Rica and so when you click on that
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Speaker 2: photo takes you straight to a gambling site. Twenty two
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Speaker 2: after five, Bryan breed the Wars and NRL staying on
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Speaker 2: Sky TV here in New Zealand. Seven year deal Sky Sports,
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Speaker 2: Sky Sport now free to air, options to come. Rumored
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Speaker 2: sixty million dollars a year. Big deal across the Tasman too.
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Speaker 2: Shane Curry, the Herald's media inside with us this morning. Shane,
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Speaker 2: good morning, good morning Ryan. Very important for Sky to
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Speaker 2: keep this right.
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Speaker 8: Oh hugely. I mean what they've done essentially now is
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Speaker 8: wrapped up the top three sports for at least five years.
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Speaker 8: So you know, this new NRL deal one of the
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Speaker 8: biggest attractions for Saphie millennium, the Sky Team was the
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Speaker 8: length of it seven years. Normally these deals are kind
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Speaker 8: of sort of two three, five years, so taking it
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Speaker 8: out to two thousand and thirty four wraps up the NRL.
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Speaker 8: So they've got rugby to the end of the two
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Speaker 8: thousand and thirty one and they've got cricket in two
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Speaker 8: thousand and thirty two. So you know, these are all
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Speaker 8: leaks and deals now for those early fan engage in sports,
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Speaker 8: and it's kind of going to leave TAVSS scrambling to
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Speaker 8: pick up whatever it can in terms of its legling
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Speaker 8: digital subscription model that we're starting to see with the
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Speaker 8: Football World Company.
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Speaker 2: How much more do they pay for it this time
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Speaker 2: than they did last time? And is it? Do we
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Speaker 2: know for sure or are we getting well.
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Speaker 8: I've told the market that the price is commercially sensitive.
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Speaker 8: My sources and Australian media are reporting that it's Australian
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Speaker 8: fifty million dollars a year, so that equates to around
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Speaker 8: sixty one million New Zealand dollars and if that's the case,
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Speaker 8: that's around fifteen to twenty million dollars more a year.
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Speaker 8: So that's hefty, But there's a couple of really interesting
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Speaker 8: sort of balances to that. Sky of course has just
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Speaker 8: lost HBO Max entertainment content that's around that contract. They
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Speaker 8: were paying around twenty to thirty million dollars a year
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Speaker 8: for that, so they may have dipped into some of
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Speaker 8: that entertainment funding to help pay for the NRL. But
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Speaker 8: the other thing Ryan, of course, is that they could
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Speaker 8: recoup some of that and most analysts are expecting them
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Speaker 8: to recoup it from you and I are from customers
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Speaker 8: probably around I mean, we've seen some steady increases in
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Speaker 8: Sky Sports subscriptions over the last few years, around sort
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Speaker 8: of ten ten percent. I would expect a similar increase,
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Speaker 8: much more than CPI, for instance, so you'd probably be
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Speaker 8: looking at increases of five to ten percent a year.
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Speaker 8: But that's the thing about Live Sport, you know, that
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Speaker 8: is the one and why the Australian broadcasters have paid
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Speaker 8: so much for those content is that you just cannot
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Speaker 8: replicate it anywhere else. A lot of the entertainment content,
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Speaker 8: a lot of the movies you can get on different
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Speaker 8: stringing platforms.
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Speaker 9: Of course there are. It's always exclusive entertainment content that
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Speaker 9: live sport, which especially that you knowl which is on
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Speaker 9: such a high at the moment, is just so attractive
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Speaker 9: for these broadcasts one.
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Speaker 2: Hundred percent its must watch local television in a way,
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Speaker 2: isn't it. Shane Curry. Appreciate your time, Herald's Media Insider.
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Speaker 2: It is twenty four after five brand Bridge, so there's
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Speaker 2: a bit of an interest to code Insteaded this Morning
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Speaker 2: has a great piece Hail Mary. You know the economic
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Speaker 2: refugees who are fleeing New Zealand or Worthly in New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: Luxt And says that some of them back, but real
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Speaker 2: estate dot co dot z they reckon they're seeing more
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Speaker 2: properties coming on the market for rent. And anecdotally it's
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Speaker 2: families leaving for overseas that don't want to sell because
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Speaker 2: they reckon they want a bolt hole when they return.
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Speaker 2: They don't want to sell their home in Auckland or
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Speaker 2: Rallington or whatever, and they're fleeing overseas. Now, that's one
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Speaker 2: theory and that is anecdotal. But the other more likely
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Speaker 2: reason is the fact that they don't want to sell
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Speaker 2: now because the prices aren't quite what they were, so
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Speaker 2: they might be locking in a loss or a lower
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Speaker 2: price and they are on a hope and a prayer,
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Speaker 2: Hail Mary, going to wait and try and get more.
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Speaker 2: We did point out the other day consensor up migration
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Speaker 2: is well not going anywhere in a hurry, so what's
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Speaker 2: going to happen to prices? Twenty five after five News
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Speaker 2: Talk ZB will do the under sixteen social media ban.
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Speaker 2: Next News talk zeb it is twenty seven minutes half
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Speaker 2: to five. Where is National's social media bill at? We
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Speaker 2: know that Seymour doesn't like it, Winston is apparently having
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Speaker 2: about the wording of it, so Labor might need to
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Speaker 2: step in and save the day by supporting it. From
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Speaker 2: across the aisle. In Australia, half the kids who were
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Speaker 2: on the social media's are still on the social media's here.
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Speaker 2: There's no shortage of famous and even big money backers
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Speaker 2: behind a ban. Erica Stamford's of course in charge of it.
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Speaker 2: Yesterday Jim and mccau was the latest coming out saying
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Speaker 2: she was in support of that part of that group
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Speaker 2: that's wanting a band. Personally, I don't think social media
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Speaker 2: is a net positive for society. I think it's probably
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Speaker 2: on balance as a bad thing, but I don't think
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Speaker 2: we'll ever get rid of it completely. Either doesn't happen
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Speaker 2: really happens. Look at booze, look at cigarettes. You don't
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Speaker 2: ever really get rid of stuff, do you. And it
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Speaker 2: won't happen with social media either, which is not a
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Speaker 2: reason not to do it, of course, but it does
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Speaker 2: seem like Nationals having a hard time getting it across
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Speaker 2: the line, which Luxon won't like. Of course, he wants
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Speaker 2: it wrapped up in a bow by election time so
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Speaker 2: he can go to parents and say your kids will
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Speaker 2: be saved from the perils of the Internet. So the
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Speaker 2: ball really is in Hipkins court. Does he help Luxon
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Speaker 2: out and make himself look more prime ministerial above the fray,
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Speaker 2: as Key did with Helen Clark over the anti smacking wall.
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Speaker 2: Remember that probably depends on the actual wording of the bill,
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Speaker 2: doesn't it, which we haven't seen yet, because you can't
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Speaker 2: back something that won't work or doesn't make sense, no
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Speaker 2: matter how morally or politically worthy it might be. Ryan
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Speaker 2: Bread nine after five key questions this morning, Will Labor
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Speaker 2: UK run against Farage in the by election? Will the
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Speaker 2: pen run with an ankle bracelet? Will Trump give Turkey
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Speaker 2: or sell Turkey fighter jets? All those questions answered. We're
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Speaker 2: in London and we're an anchor. Next News Talks at.
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Speaker 2: News TALKSB twenty four away from six year on News SALTZMB.
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Speaker 2: The psychodrama do we call it the soap opera that
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Speaker 2: is UK politics continues. It's like Coronation Street. The thing
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Speaker 2: just never ends. Forage as quick as an MP. There
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Speaker 2: will be a by election in Clacton. We'll head to
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Speaker 2: our reporter in London. We'll also go to our reporter
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Speaker 2: in Turkey. For NATO summit. Trump is apparently going to
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Speaker 2: turn the tap back on for Turkey. On defense, he
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Speaker 2: is going to apparently support selling F thirty five fighter
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Speaker 2: jets to them again. Is there hosting them in his
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Speaker 2: big palace. Palace is massive, by the way, It's got
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Speaker 2: like a thousand rooms. Cost six hundred million dollars back
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Speaker 2: in twenty four to bill a thing is impressive anyway,
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Speaker 2: All the cars are pulling up, all the leaders are arriving,
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Speaker 2: and Trump is apparently going to gift a little gesture
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Speaker 2: for one on arrival. Of course, he banned selling them
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Speaker 2: anything to do with defense about seven years ago because
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Speaker 2: they bought a bunch of stuff from the Russians. Well,
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Speaker 2: that seems to hatchet seems to have been buried. Twenty
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Speaker 2: three to six, Bryan Bridge, Let's go to odd our reporters.
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Speaker 2: They Cullum and dened Collen. Good morning morning, Ryan. We've
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Speaker 2: got some numbers on Otago UNI doing well.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: Look, Otago continues its long run as New Zealand's number
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Speaker 10: one university and more students ran are sticking at their
19:21
Speaker 10: degrees across the board. We have new Tertiary Education Commission
19:26
Speaker 10: data out. It shows first year attention reached to a
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Speaker 10: decade high of eighty three point three percent. Nationally last year,
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Speaker 10: Lincoln University recorded the biggest lift, while Otago here led
19:36
Speaker 10: the country for qualification completions for a tenth year in
19:40
Speaker 10: a row. So Vice Chancelly Here Grunt Robinson says the
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Speaker 10: consistency comes down to.
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Speaker 2: Strong pastor or care.
19:45
Speaker 10: He says more than eighty five percent of students here
19:48
Speaker 10: come from outside of Dunedin and so they work hard
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Speaker 10: to support them.
19:51
Speaker 2: He says.
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Speaker 10: The scrapping of fees free though, could put these games
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Speaker 10: at risk. He says, it remains to see just how
19:57
Speaker 10: significant those impacts will be.
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Speaker 2: Clearly not yet, Callum, how's your weather?
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Speaker 10: Another heavy rain watch here? Which is an ideal heavy
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Speaker 10: rain developing this morning, easy as though this afternoon suddenly
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Speaker 10: strong at times the hyder state, Thank.
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Speaker 2: You very much, clear than christ it this morning, Claire,
20:12
Speaker 2: Good morning, North Canterbury. Kill the cats, kill the cats.
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Speaker 11: Well, this cat killing competition is once again causing a
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Speaker 11: stir in North Canterbury. It is, of course the North
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Speaker 11: Canterbury Hunting competition. They have a category in there to
20:25
Speaker 11: kill the most feral cats and it was scrapped in
20:28
Speaker 11: previous years. It is back, but animal welfare advocates are
20:31
Speaker 11: not happy about it. Let's say that much. They have
20:33
Speaker 11: got a last minute plea to cull this category from
20:36
Speaker 11: the comp and of course raises money for Rotherham's School.
20:39
Speaker 11: So where it gets messy is that the group has
20:41
Speaker 11: issued a formal liability notice to the Schools Board claiming
20:45
Speaker 11: that it's support for the competition is what's raising animal
20:47
Speaker 11: welfare and child safeguarding concerns. This is a competition that
20:51
Speaker 11: has been embroiled in controversy for years. They did scrap
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Speaker 11: the category in twenty twenty three, but at the end
20:57
Speaker 11: of the day, the organizer, Matt Bailey says the hunters
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Speaker 11: about help control the country's growing feral cat problem and
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Speaker 11: that critics just simply don't understand rural New Zealand and
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Speaker 11: how it works and farming kids often see animals being killed.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with the latter. As for the domestic cats.
21:12
Speaker 2: You know they're saying, oh, well, what if you kill
21:13
Speaker 2: a domestic cat, We'll keep your cat under control in
21:17
Speaker 2: your house anyway. How's your wedther clip cloudy.
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Speaker 11: There is some occasional rain around southerly is developing this
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Speaker 11: morning and we'll make eleven degrees last one.
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Speaker 2: Thank you to Best in Wellington. Morning to best morning right.
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Speaker 12: No rugby this weekend, No rugby across Wellington this weekend,
21:33
Speaker 12: So management from Wellington Rugby they were back in meetings
21:36
Speaker 12: with the Referee Association last night. This is in the
21:39
Speaker 12: cases of referee abuse that we're seeing. So the association
21:43
Speaker 12: decided to withdraw its services from controlling all club rugby
21:47
Speaker 12: across the capital this weekend. There's been nineteen reported incidents
21:51
Speaker 12: of verbal abuse towards referees this season. Already three of
21:55
Speaker 12: those incidents we were just last weekend. So the meeting
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Speaker 12: last night was to discuss further options to align efforts
22:03
Speaker 12: across all the clubs in the capitol for the future.
22:06
Speaker 12: We're not sure where they are with that at the moment,
22:09
Speaker 12: haven't heard, but we do know that the All Blacks
22:11
Speaker 12: are the only action you'll catch this weekend in Wellington.
22:14
Speaker 12: All scheduled fixtures will be recorded as a match not
22:16
Speaker 12: played and both teams will receive three points each. Wellington
22:20
Speaker 12: Rugby yes, still discussing options for the remainder of the season,
22:23
Speaker 12: but say all clubs are unanimous in their support of
22:25
Speaker 12: zero tolerance towards referee abuse. As your weather to bez
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Speaker 12: heavy rain Southerlys gusting up to one hundred kilometers now
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Speaker 12: today eleven degrees in Wellington.
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Speaker 2: Nice one, Thank you never, good morning, good morning. You
22:36
Speaker 2: got the latest on the firefighter strikes yet?
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Speaker 13: Yes, Now, look some volunteer firefighters here in Auckland. They
22:42
Speaker 13: are no longer willing to be the backup during professional
22:45
Speaker 13: firefighters strikes. So fire. An emergency's main contingency plan for
22:49
Speaker 13: emergencies during the prolonged industry election has been to rely
22:53
Speaker 13: on the nearly six hundred volunteer firefighters nationwide, but our
22:57
Speaker 13: newsroom understands it at least one volunteer brigade has officially
23:01
Speaker 13: raised the decision not to respond outside the area during strikes,
23:05
Speaker 13: while some have made themselves unofficially unavailable.
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Speaker 2: Unofficially unavailable, Does that mean that they're doing that because
23:12
Speaker 2: they want to support the professional ones or they're just
23:14
Speaker 2: sick and tired of being the backup? Yeah, I guess
23:17
Speaker 2: we'll find out.
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Speaker 5: We will.
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Speaker 13: Has our weather fine, apart from a few showers early morning.
23:21
Speaker 13: Sixteen is a high here in Auckland.
23:23
Speaker 2: Have a great there. It is eighteen minutes away from
23:25
Speaker 2: six year on news talks there. But by the way,
23:27
Speaker 2: the Russians are probably going to turn out in their
23:29
Speaker 2: hundreds athletes. This is for the Olympics in La. The
23:33
Speaker 2: International Olympic Committee overnight has lifted the suspension on the Russians.
23:37
Speaker 2: It was imposed after they invaded while Putin invaded Ukraine.
23:41
Speaker 2: So could they make a full comeback in La. Well,
23:43
Speaker 2: it's entirely on the possibility list. Now whether they do
23:48
Speaker 2: it under their own flag and under their own anthem, well,
23:51
Speaker 2: that's a question for another day. We are in London
23:53
Speaker 2: next international correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of
23:58
Speaker 2: mind for New Zealand business and it's called sex more
24:02
Speaker 2: off to NATO and Turkey in a sick and first
24:03
Speaker 2: given gray are UK euro correspondent Faraj has resigned there given.
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Speaker 14: He has indeed run yes dramatic announcement about four hours
24:12
Speaker 14: ago in which Nigel Farah said, right, I resign, but
24:15
Speaker 14: I am going to restand as an MP in Clacton
24:19
Speaker 14: in Essex in southeast England, so a by election will
24:22
Speaker 14: be held and he is standing and he says, really
24:26
Speaker 14: this is voters against bureaucracy. And what he means is
24:30
Speaker 14: that effectively he is saying, I have now been accused
24:33
Speaker 14: of two different instances by the authorities, by the media
24:38
Speaker 14: where I have accepted money and they're saying that I
24:42
Speaker 14: have should basically have told the authorities about this money
24:45
Speaker 14: that I received for security and is saying, look, you know,
24:49
Speaker 14: I've done nothing wrong. And to prove he's done nothing wrong,
24:52
Speaker 14: he's going back to the electorate and saying, right, vote
24:55
Speaker 14: for me. Again and we will show all the bureaucrats
24:58
Speaker 14: what is what now. This is going to cost roughly
25:01
Speaker 14: half a million New Zealand dollars to hold another by election,
25:04
Speaker 14: and he is saying I will pay for it. He
25:07
Speaker 14: is determined, I think, to show that he is popular.
25:10
Speaker 14: He's not going to take this nonsense any further, and
25:13
Speaker 14: he has, in his own words says it's nonsense. Is
25:16
Speaker 14: really really putting his neck on the line here. But
25:18
Speaker 14: he's very popular in Essex. It's likely he will win
25:22
Speaker 14: the revote and therefore consequently he will come out of
25:25
Speaker 14: this I think stronger.
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Speaker 6: At least that is his aim.
25:27
Speaker 2: Let's go to France, the farm right there having problems. Well,
25:30
Speaker 2: Marine Lapin, actually it's sort of good news. The quarters
25:33
Speaker 2: upheld the decision about her problems. Who many problems with
25:38
Speaker 2: the EU. However, the question now is bracelett or no bracelet.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, it's really complicated this story, but in essence, Marine
25:47
Speaker 14: Lapin was accused of running a group within her party,
25:51
Speaker 14: the National Rally Party, a right wing party in France,
25:54
Speaker 14: of ripping off the European Commission by claiming her staff
25:58
Speaker 14: working for them, whereas in fact they were working for
26:01
Speaker 14: her own domestic party. So she received a sentence which
26:05
Speaker 14: was non custodial. It was staying at home in electronic
26:08
Speaker 14: tag and was told that she couldn't run for office
26:11
Speaker 14: for five years. Now. She has appealed that because early
26:15
Speaker 14: April next year will be the French elections and she
26:19
Speaker 14: is front runner. And today at the appeal court they said, okay,
26:23
Speaker 14: you're not going to be acquitted, but we will reduce
26:26
Speaker 14: that time that we are not allowing you to run
26:28
Speaker 14: for office, and that means she will be allowed to
26:31
Speaker 14: run from office for this election just under the year time.
26:35
Speaker 14: The difference being Ryan that she is being told that
26:38
Speaker 14: she will have to wear a tag, and she has
26:41
Speaker 14: said in the past, if I have to wear an
26:43
Speaker 14: electronic tag, how can I possibly stand for election. She's
26:47
Speaker 14: due to be on live French television in quarter of
26:49
Speaker 14: an hour and we're expecting a decision as to whether
26:52
Speaker 14: she will run for that next presidential election, where at
26:56
Speaker 14: the moment she is the favorite in the polls.
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Speaker 2: Bracelet well, no, brace that, thank you so much for that.
27:01
Speaker 2: That is Gavin gray Are UK europe correspondent. It is
27:03
Speaker 2: twelve minutes away from six Bridge to Turkey and NATO's
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Speaker 2: summit taking place there, Trump telling the Europeans, you need
27:10
Speaker 2: me more than I need you.
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Speaker 4: We did something in Iran. We don't need anybody's help.
27:16
Speaker 1: I didn't even want their help.
27:18
Speaker 4: But before I asked, they said they wouldn't be there.
27:21
Speaker 2: And in a way, I was testing people.
27:23
Speaker 4: I was testing to see whether or not they'd be there,
27:25
Speaker 4: because as long said that, we help them, but I'm
27:28
Speaker 4: not sure that they'd be there for us.
27:29
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Ruth Michaelson, who is a
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Speaker 2: Turkey based journalist for The Guardian at the summit with us.
27:36
Speaker 2: Nice to have you on the program. Ruth, how's the
27:38
Speaker 2: reaction been so far of what Trump's been saying?
27:44
Speaker 15: Well, I mean, I think it's probably fair to say
27:46
Speaker 15: that a lot of this summit is that the mood
27:50
Speaker 15: is very much it's about keeping gone with Trump happy
27:53
Speaker 15: one way or another, whether it's the very very warm
27:56
Speaker 15: welcome that he received from the Turkish president. Reget Type
27:59
Speaker 15: aired on and you know all the statements we've heard
28:04
Speaker 15: coming from the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutter about his
28:08
Speaker 15: sort of excitement to show Trump the progress towards three
28:13
Speaker 15: point five percent GDP on defense spending for NATO members
28:18
Speaker 15: that progress that he wants to show Trump since the
28:20
Speaker 15: last summit. Obviously, as we're starting to see some reactions
28:25
Speaker 15: from Trump's rather well from some of the statements that
28:28
Speaker 15: we had from Donald Trump when he was sitting next
28:30
Speaker 15: to erdu One at a press conference where he began
28:34
Speaker 15: talking about Greenland and his desire to take control of Freeland. Again,
28:39
Speaker 15: some statements from the Danish leadership basically objecting to what
28:48
Speaker 15: Trump was saying, asking that allies respect Danish sovereignty, saying
28:52
Speaker 15: that Greenland does not for sale. But in terms of
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Speaker 15: the rather warm statements that Trump has made about in
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Speaker 15: his compared to as rather cold statements about later as
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Speaker 15: a whole, I think a lot of the world leaders
29:07
Speaker 15: who are here at the summit have rather christ some
29:10
Speaker 15: of this in.
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Speaker 2: And some of the sentiment is it going to be
29:15
Speaker 2: backed up by action? In other words, is Trump going
29:17
Speaker 2: to sell fire digits to Turkey? That's what someone was
29:20
Speaker 2: riding in the Times this morning reporting that he's going
29:22
Speaker 2: to do. Is it true?
29:26
Speaker 15: Well, he said during this press conference that he would
29:30
Speaker 15: consider selling the S thirty five to Turkey, but that
29:33
Speaker 15: was also couched within a lot of very warm promises
29:37
Speaker 15: on also saying, we don't think that from the Turkey's
29:40
Speaker 15: point of view, they don't think that this is going
29:42
Speaker 15: to be an issue. So Trump certainly did everything that
29:46
Speaker 15: he could in public to say that he would move
29:51
Speaker 15: to have sanctions that have been in place on Turkey
29:55
Speaker 15: since twenty twenty. This is for Turkey's purchase as a
29:58
Speaker 15: Russian the cell system that is, from the US perspective,
30:02
Speaker 15: incompatible with obtaining a plane right there thirty five. Trump
30:08
Speaker 15: has said that he will despite the objections of Congress,
30:11
Speaker 15: he will work to have those sanctions lifted. So certainly
30:13
Speaker 15: everything that he said would indicate that that he wants
30:16
Speaker 15: that sale to go ahead. Whether Congress and Washington will
30:19
Speaker 15: allow that is really another question.
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Speaker 2: Ruth Michaelson, that is our journalist at NATO in Turkey
30:26
Speaker 2: for the Guardian. It is nine minutes away from six
30:29
Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge. A couple of quick numbers for you. This
30:31
Speaker 2: is reform and forage in the seat of Clacton, where
30:35
Speaker 2: there'll be a by election. They reckon could be August,
30:37
Speaker 2: could be early September. Sky is saying probably more likely
30:40
Speaker 2: early September. Whichever party holds the seat gets to decide
30:44
Speaker 2: when the by election is held. Of course that is reformed,
30:46
Speaker 2: so therefore it's in Farage's hands. But the results from
30:50
Speaker 2: the last time, this is the twenty four general election
30:54
Speaker 2: in Clacton reform forty six percent almost half the vote.
30:58
Speaker 2: Conservatives got twenty seven labor down on sixteen, so he's
31:02
Speaker 2: going to win it. The question is how much damage
31:04
Speaker 2: does it do to his party vote. It is eight two.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day earlier
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for business technology that
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Speaker 1: keeps business moving news talks that'd be chime.
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Speaker 2: Is six away from six. If you're following the feet
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Speaker 2: of World Cup Round of sixteen Argentina Egypt games still underway.
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Speaker 2: Eighty eighth minute, very close, still a chance for Messi
31:26
Speaker 2: here scores to nil. Morning Ryan Bridge.
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Speaker 16: Good to see you, Good to see you too, See
31:32
Speaker 16: you good Messi is his goal? Is It's worth even
31:37
Speaker 16: if you have no interest in football, it's worth watching
31:39
Speaker 16: His goal just happened a couple of months ago.
31:41
Speaker 2: He's incredible. Hey, speaking of sport yesterday, the NRL deal
31:46
Speaker 2: talking about endlessly fascinating.
31:47
Speaker 16: I watched the Blandes thing. Did you have they had
31:51
Speaker 16: this press conference and because Foxdale won it they ran
31:53
Speaker 16: it live, blah blah blah. Yeah, the Channel nine guy
31:56
Speaker 16: who hits you and I, he looked like he'd been
31:58
Speaker 16: in the garden and they gone like, we've done the deal,
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Speaker 16: so can you just stick it?
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Speaker 2: I thought, what the hell are you doing?
32:03
Speaker 1: Mate?
32:03
Speaker 2: Everyone's dressed up properly.
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Speaker 16: We're announcing a six and a half billion.
32:08
Speaker 2: Dollar deal, biggest written, richest sporting deal in Australian history.
32:13
Speaker 16: Beats the AFL, which is quite something. And that's that's
32:17
Speaker 16: that's the Landy's he's he's like bordering on being a genius.
32:21
Speaker 2: Fascinating, because what do you do without the right day?
32:23
Speaker 2: Like nine apparently ten was coming for them. Everyone wanted them.
32:28
Speaker 2: This is the problem with the problem, it's the fascinating
32:30
Speaker 2: thing is sort of ties and knitball in this country.
32:33
Speaker 2: So nitball in Australia has gone to free to wear
32:36
Speaker 2: because there's a competitive landscape and the free to wear
32:38
Speaker 2: television market saying where is here there.
32:40
Speaker 1: Is to know?
32:41
Speaker 16: So they've got trouble. Whereas if you look at these
32:43
Speaker 16: situation here, TOD TV and Z go hard for the NRL.
32:46
Speaker 16: You know, rumors are they had a crack, but you know,
32:49
Speaker 16: I don't know.
32:50
Speaker 2: But well to push the price up, I mean, you
32:52
Speaker 2: need competition, don't you did something?
32:54
Speaker 16: Having said that, the numbers i'm hearing around sky here,
32:57
Speaker 16: I mean the real actions overseas. But what's really interesting
33:00
Speaker 16: from the valandis point of view, As he was binging
33:02
Speaker 16: on about design, So you've got Foxtel nine US here,
33:06
Speaker 16: but Dezionne has got four hundred million subscribers globally, and
33:11
Speaker 16: so he's looking to push the game internationally. How he's
33:13
Speaker 16: going to do that, I don't know because league's always
33:15
Speaker 16: been to me a very.
33:16
Speaker 2: Regone foxtail, don't they.
33:19
Speaker 16: Yes, So they're getting it out and he's seeing this
33:22
Speaker 16: Vegas thing is a big deal, and he's going to
33:24
Speaker 16: have a team from America and he's going to he's
33:27
Speaker 16: going global.
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Speaker 2: Well, I like the Amber and we don't know it's real.
33:31
Speaker 2: This leg's getting more teams, isn't it? And the other
33:33
Speaker 2: three is that yeah, well, well we are.
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Speaker 16: But the twentieth is the key because the by twenty
33:38
Speaker 16: twenty nine we're looking for a twentieth team. Where's that
33:40
Speaker 16: twentieth team. The hope, of course is christ and if
33:43
Speaker 16: it's not, then it could be Queensland. And so you
33:46
Speaker 16: know there's a lot to play for, but anyway we.
33:48
Speaker 2: Talk, I just find it fascinating numbers involved and how
33:51
Speaker 2: many broadcasters lives depend on it very much so well.
33:55
Speaker 16: They asked the Foxtel guy about that yesterday and he goes, look,
33:57
Speaker 16: it's amazing. Every time we do a deal, you go,
33:59
Speaker 16: how can you forward it? And every time we can
34:01
Speaker 16: and we didn't. And it's all about growth.
34:03
Speaker 2: Anyway.
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Speaker 16: She's Sophie Maloney who runs Sky is on the program
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Speaker 16: This Morne.
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