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Full Show Podcast: 29 May 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickets on
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  Speaker 1: early edition with Park for Business Technology that keeps business moving,
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  Speaker 2: They'd be well, good morning to you, Welcome to Friday.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Andrew Dickins. I'm here until six. You can text
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  Speaker 2: me ninety two ninety two. Small charge applies. You can
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  Speaker 2: email Andrew d at Newstalks, het B dot co dot
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  Speaker 2: NZ on the program today. Great news for farmers as
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  Speaker 2: Fonterra releases its results. The future looks bright as the
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  Speaker 2: milk comes in. And of course we'll have to look
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  Speaker 2: at the budget when we will look at its impact
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  Speaker 2: on education. And just before six o'clock Ruth Richardson, former
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  Speaker 2: finance minister now with the Taxpayers Union, will give her review.
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  Speaker 2: All this still to come on early edition at seven
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  Speaker 2: after five the Agenda Ali's the twenty ninth of May,
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  Speaker 2: US military has accused Iran of a dangerous violation of
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  Speaker 2: the ceasefire by launching a missile at Kuwait. Now, the
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  Speaker 2: strike was in retaliation for a US strike on Iran. However,
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  Speaker 2: Pea Steele negotiations are still going on.
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  Speaker 3: So far they've insisted that the US strikes in recent
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  Speaker 3: days inside Iran haven't constituted the complete breakdown of the ceasefire.
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  Speaker 3: The language used by Central Command about the missile was
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  Speaker 3: quite careful.
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  Speaker 4: They said.
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  Speaker 3: The US stood ready for measured responses to Iranian aggression,
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  Speaker 3: and President Trump a leaf for the moment, doesn't seem
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  Speaker 3: to think that a return to folk scale combat operations
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  Speaker 3: is necessary.
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  Speaker 2: Right to China, where Timu has been hit with a
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and thirty two million dollar fine for failing
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  Speaker 2: to stop the sale of illegal products. It's the first
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  Speaker 2: part of a wider investigation by the AUS Digital Services Act.
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  Speaker 2: And here is European Commission spokesperson Thomas.
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  Speaker 5: Renier dangerous toys for kids, small electronics without proper label,
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  Speaker 5: clothes and jewelry containing harmful chemicals, to name just a few.
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  Speaker 5: Our message is here. If you want to access our
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  Speaker 5: market of four hundred and fifty million consumers, you have
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  Speaker 5: to respect our rules period.
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  Speaker 2: And everything's too small to Africa. And sixteen children have
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  Speaker 2: died in Kenya today after a fire in the school dormitory.
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  Speaker 6: If I can paint a visual of the dormitory, it's
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  Speaker 6: our one story dormitory and their children who were sleeping
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  Speaker 6: on the fast floor and they had to jump from
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  Speaker 6: that floor down because they couldn't find their way out,
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  Speaker 6: and parents say that that's how some of them broke
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  Speaker 6: their limbs trying to escape. There's not a new thing.
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  Speaker 6: It's part of a pattern from around two thousand and
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  Speaker 6: one when schools were being some of them torched and
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  Speaker 6: some of them getting bunched because of accidents.
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  Speaker 2: And New Zealand makes the agenda just days after the
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  Speaker 2: death of her sister, Jules name Lindatop has delivered an
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  Speaker 2: emotional speech yet last night alter Our Music Awards. In
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  Speaker 2: the speech, she acknowledged the loss of her twinsist it,
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  Speaker 2: but she also took the opportunity to blast the government.
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  Speaker 7: We are not defined by a government. We are not
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  Speaker 7: defined by politicians. We are defined by people and our
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  Speaker 7: culture and our art. I did this be read on
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  Speaker 7: the budget this afternoon. It doesn't appear to be any
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  Speaker 7: money for music, but in big letters two point one
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  Speaker 7: billion toward the fence.
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  Speaker 8: What the fuck?
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  Speaker 1: Hewett at first Andrew Diggins on early edition with spark
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  Speaker 1: for business technology that keeps business moving, news talks that'd be.
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  Speaker 2: That's the first time I've said al Turor Music Awards
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  Speaker 2: and it's not going to be the last. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to play some music from the awards a bit later on.
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  Speaker 2: Please don't text me and say is not the name
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  Speaker 2: of this country. I know that, but it is the
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  Speaker 2: name of that award show. It's their trademark, and that's
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  Speaker 2: what they've decided to call themselves. Anyway, their budget, some
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  Speaker 2: general thoughts. They actually rose taxes, did you realize? But
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  Speaker 2: the victims were banks and charities who have been taking
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  Speaker 2: the mickey and fringe benefits and closing tax loopholes. But yes,
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  Speaker 2: national raise taxes. They are taxing the better off. This
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  Speaker 2: budget is still expansionary and spending and debt. It relies
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  Speaker 2: on a promise of retraction later on, which we'll all
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  Speaker 2: have to keep an eye on. They are still investing
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  Speaker 2: in infrastructure, but they've rationalized their road aspirations, and they've
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  Speaker 2: had to invest in hospitals. And they've invested money in rail,
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  Speaker 2: which is the predictable consequence of ignoring rail for decades.
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  Speaker 2: And I hope this is a lesson in not having
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  Speaker 2: a position on long term planning. They're into a second
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  Speaker 2: round of cutting the public service. They could have gone further,
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  Speaker 2: but that's easy to say, not so easy to do.
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  Speaker 2: They've invested in education, which along with the hospital spend
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  Speaker 2: and no cuts to benefit shows that at the heart
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  Speaker 2: of the station, we're still socialists. No matter what people
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  Speaker 2: like to say, this has been a socialist country for generations.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what else do you call a nation with
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  Speaker 2: free education, free healthcare, acc and social welfare. We're socialists.
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  Speaker 2: We are a socialist nation and the National Party is
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  Speaker 2: a socialist party in world terms. And at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, this is a budget that will not
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  Speaker 2: make anyone perfectly happy, but it's also a budget where
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  Speaker 2: we shouldn't be completely unhappy. So we have to talk
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  Speaker 2: about the budget today and we've got more to come.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk to the Fed Farmer's Chair Carl
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  Speaker 2: Dean and Ruth Richardson from the Taxpayers Union. We know
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  Speaker 2: executly where Ruth will stand on this, fuel say this
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  Speaker 2: hasn't gone hard enough. What we'll find out just before six.
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  Speaker 2: But next we're going to talk about education and the
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  Speaker 2: shift from funding university to funding trades, and we're going
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  Speaker 2: to speak to a principle to see if this is
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  Speaker 2: the right thing for kids. It's twelve after five.
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  Speaker 1: Before the news breaks. Here at first, Andrew Dickens on
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  Speaker 1: early edition with Spark for business technology that keeps business
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  Speaker 1: moving news talks that'd.
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  Speaker 2: Be by fourteen. So the budget good news for high
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  Speaker 2: schoolers and yesterday's budget, but only if they don't plan
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  Speaker 2: to go to university because the government is taking the
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  Speaker 2: funds from scrapping the third year fees free and they're
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  Speaker 2: putting it towards doubling the amount of trade training opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: So they'll now be twenty thousand placements over the next
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  Speaker 2: four years. So joining me now is the principal of
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  Speaker 2: Darfield High School, Andy England. Good morning to you. Andy.
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  Speaker 2: What are so more trade students? Twenty thousand placements? Sounds good?
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  Speaker 9: It does.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, there'll be some students this morning. Kill me for
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  Speaker 10: saying this because they are going to miss out on
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  Speaker 10: the university thing, as you said, But I've been looking
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  Speaker 10: forward for this for a long time. There was a
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  Speaker 10: recent paper by Michael Johnson which advocated for just scrapping
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  Speaker 10: the cap on places because really every student, we want
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  Speaker 10: every student to be able to access what's right for them.
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  Speaker 10: But trade academies are a fantastic model and I am
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  Speaker 10: really excited to see this.
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  Speaker 2: Is it worth it? When you consider that the cuts
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  Speaker 2: two fees free that the university is now a little
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  Speaker 2: less attractive than traits.
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  Speaker 10: Well yeah, I mean the minister's will have their data,
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  Speaker 10: common sense, and a lot of the students I've spoken
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  Speaker 10: to would say that some students who've been sitting on
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  Speaker 10: the fences of going to university are actually really hit
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  Speaker 10: by that. And we obviously do need students going through university.
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  Speaker 10: But I've been one of the people who's looked at
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  Speaker 10: our system and thought, you know, for many years we've
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  Speaker 10: been gearing school towards those people going to university, and
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  Speaker 10: I've often advocated so rebalancing the way that we invest
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  Speaker 10: in students. And I have to say, I think this
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  Speaker 10: is going to really fit for a lot of students
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  Speaker 10: trades academies as they work so well in that senior
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  Speaker 10: school when you've got young people wanting to try out
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  Speaker 10: polytechnics or trades training and still stay in school because
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  Speaker 10: they're still young, and it just really fits that model.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. The first thing I saw, the first criticism I
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  Speaker 2: saw of it was on the Telly last night, and
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  Speaker 2: there was somebody saying there is an absence of polytics
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  Speaker 2: and rural areas. If your poly takes sixty miles away.
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  Speaker 2: You know who's going to train you. So obviously they
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  Speaker 2: said there'll be a need for local trades to take
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  Speaker 2: on early trade education and rural areas. And do you
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  Speaker 2: think those trades need to be upskilled to learn how
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  Speaker 2: to teach the kids who have come straight from high school.
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  Speaker 10: That would be my dream. We're in a rural area too,
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  Speaker 10: not quite sixty ks from polytechnics. And one of the
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  Speaker 10: great things with trades academy systems is that the transport
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  Speaker 10: to the provider is paid for as part of the system,
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  Speaker 10: so it makes it a lot more accessible. It also
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  Speaker 10: means that providers can come to the students who need
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  Speaker 10: the training. By yes, my dream would be that we
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  Speaker 10: actually invest in the trades who are doing the providing
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  Speaker 10: as well. But don't get me wrong, this is a
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  Speaker 10: great way for a great step forward. To be honest,
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  Speaker 10: I'd love to see universities also in captured investment. That's
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  Speaker 10: an entirely different conversation, but as a start, this is great.
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  Speaker 10: The extra places for students who are going to have
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  Speaker 10: left school with nothing. That's also a big advantage. There's
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  Speaker 10: a growing number of those students around the country, so
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  Speaker 10: to see some folks. I'm getting those students into some
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  Speaker 10: form of training. Is excellent.
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  Speaker 2: Andy England, thank you so much for your time this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Andy is the Darfield High School principle. What do you reckon?
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  Speaker 2: You can take to me ninety two to ninety to
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  Speaker 2: some bad news. By the way, you know that New
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  Speaker 2: Zealander who was on board the cruise ship struck by
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  Speaker 2: the hunt of virus outbreak. They've had their quarantine period
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  Speaker 2: in Australia extended for another month. The Australian helped me
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  Speaker 2: in the serphilical Max is the decision with It's made
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  Speaker 2: because two more people from the cruise ship, one from
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  Speaker 2: Spain and one from the Netherlands, tested positive for this virus.
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  Speaker 2: That is a cruise that has gone horribly wrong. Something
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  Speaker 2: going beautifully right is milk and Fonterra. The result released
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  Speaker 2: yesterday and of course the budget as well. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: talk to fed farmers next. It is seventeen minutes after five.
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  Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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  Speaker 1: analysis early edition with Andrew Dickens and Spark for Business
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  Speaker 1: five twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Have you said thank God for dairy lately you should.
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  Speaker 2: Our dairy sector is racking up win after win. Fonterra's
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  Speaker 2: operating profit for its third quarter top one point eight
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars, that's billion with a B, and that is
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  Speaker 2: up one hundred and three million dollars. The long term
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  Speaker 2: outlook is where the real excitement is though. For farmers,
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  Speaker 2: they're they're predicting a farm gate milk price of around
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  Speaker 2: nine dollars seventy five for the twenty six to twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven season, and milk solids might even hit eleven dollars
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  Speaker 2: a kilo. So the fed Farmer's Dairy chair is Carl Dean,
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  Speaker 2: who joins me this morning.
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  Speaker 9: Hello, Hello, Carl, Oh, good morning, Andrew.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very good. How are you? You must be chill?
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  Speaker 2: Gold golden era for dairy.
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  Speaker 9: The definitely feeling like a golden ear fidairy at the moment.
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  Speaker 9: That is, especially after the season. We've just had a
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  Speaker 9: great growing season and a great milk price that are
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  Speaker 9: predicted to end this season at seventy after last year's ten.
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  Speaker 2: Dollars and the world's hunger for protein. So are they
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  Speaker 2: wanting to buy our stuff?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah? Yeah, And normally we see when we've got increased production,
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  Speaker 9: the prices start to ease, and at the moment and
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  Speaker 9: all counts as looking positive for the price for the
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  Speaker 9: coming year.
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  Speaker 2: So is there any more upside? I mean, if we're
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  Speaker 2: producing at great levels and they're buying at great levels,
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  Speaker 2: the question is is there any more growth in there?
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  Speaker 9: I guess the world's population has always got potential growth
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  Speaker 9: for protein consumption. So we hear, I hear. You know,
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  Speaker 9: we're all going to of will Dairy summit. For instance,
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  Speaker 9: in Chili last year they said the amount of the
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  Speaker 9: growth in the dairy protein sector seman to continue for
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  Speaker 9: another fifteen to twenty years as we have more people
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  Speaker 9: move into the middle middle income of society. So yeah,
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  Speaker 9: it doesn't seem to be a pause of that. There
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  Speaker 9: might be some plateauing in the future years, but it
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  Speaker 9: will come back again.
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  Speaker 2: And how will this positive outlook, certainly for the next
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  Speaker 2: twelve months of not eighteen months, if not more, How
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  Speaker 2: will that affect the way farmers are planning the operation
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  Speaker 2: of their farms.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I suppose that at the moment, obviously, films will
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  Speaker 9: be fairly cautious about the spay out because it is
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  Speaker 9: an eight dollars to eleven dollar range. So Montia has
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  Speaker 9: got a bit of easiness in there, and the fact
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  Speaker 9: that it could go down to eight fifty eight dollars
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  Speaker 9: and they have warned the farmers of that. But I
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  Speaker 9: guess the long term average does look good, so that
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  Speaker 9: for farmers means they have confidence to make sure they
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  Speaker 9: keep them vesting in infrastructure, keep them vesting in technology,
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  Speaker 9: in keeping vesting in people.
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  Speaker 10: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And how farmers feeling about the budget, Well, I.
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  Speaker 9: Think farmers are that's wibly okay with the budget. There's
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  Speaker 9: nothing that's amazing in there. You know, it's a pretty
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  Speaker 9: prudent budget, which is what most farmers would expect our
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  Speaker 9: government to be doing when they're indeed.
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  Speaker 2: Good stuff. Carl, thank you so much for getting up early,
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  Speaker 2: though I guess it's not actually early for you. Karl
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  Speaker 2: is the Fed Parmastairy chair. And there's some good news.
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  Speaker 2: There's always a little bit of good news. There's always
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  Speaker 2: a bit of good news, isn't it. It is now
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  Speaker 2: five twenty three. This is News Talks.
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  Speaker 3: It be.
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  Speaker 2: News Talks. It's five twenty five. My name is Andrew Dickens.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here for one day only, but of course Ryan
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  Speaker 2: is away. He's away for two weeks, and so Francesca
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  Speaker 2: Rugan will be your host next week. I saw the
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  Speaker 2: budget once again. The budget. This time I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: do the budget from the point of view of budget
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  Speaker 2: for dummies. So this is the budget for dummies. It's out.
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  Speaker 2: The government's done what it can do with the pickle
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  Speaker 2: we're in. Put simply, we don't collect enough tax to
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  Speaker 2: pay for the services we run and the people we
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  Speaker 2: employ in the government. There are only two fixes to
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  Speaker 2: such a problem. Collect more tax That is the Left answer,
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  Speaker 2: though the last Left government didn't have the guts to
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  Speaker 2: raise taxes even while increasing spending. The other answer is
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  Speaker 2: to cut services and staff and what you're spending, which
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  Speaker 2: is this government's preference. But the thing about cuts and
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  Speaker 2: this sort of spending is its confidence. And then when
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  Speaker 2: the private sector loses heart, tax revenue drops even further,
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  Speaker 2: and then the problem just keeps on going. And remember,
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  Speaker 2: the government is only forty percent of the economy. Our
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  Speaker 2: real future depends on the private sector. That's sixty percent
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  Speaker 2: of the economy. It's where the tax payers actually live.
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  Speaker 2: So they've got to feel good and they've got to
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  Speaker 2: be doing good. So the government is walking a tight
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  Speaker 2: rope and so honestly, this budget is probably as balanced
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  Speaker 2: as they could make it. Some will argue that we
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  Speaker 2: should slash everything until the book's balance, but the last
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  Speaker 2: two years of austerity light has showed that deep cuts
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  Speaker 2: push the private sector into an even deeper funk, and
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  Speaker 2: that's not good. Here is the good news. Treasury is
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  Speaker 2: forecasting ten point eight billion dollars more in tax revenue
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  Speaker 2: over the next five years without raising taxes. So where's
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  Speaker 2: it coming from. Hopefully you and I are earning more
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  Speaker 2: money because we're working better and the economy's going well. However,
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  Speaker 2: spending is still rising, but because it's not keeping pace
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  Speaker 2: with inflation, that's effectively a real terms cut. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's seven hundred and seventy million dollars right, but in fact,
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  Speaker 2: the way inflation is going on and the way we
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  Speaker 2: spend and just how much we spend that's actually less
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  Speaker 2: than inflation. That means it's a real cut. But monetarily
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  Speaker 2: it seems like it's going up anyway. So this budget
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  Speaker 2: says that bit by bit we're inching towards a healthier position.
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  Speaker 2: The only other option is raising taxes. And remember even
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  Speaker 2: Chrishipkins couldn't vote for that last election. Sid just been
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  Speaker 2: reading that Donald Trump, you know about Donald Trump renovating
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  Speaker 2: the Lincoln Reflecting Pool, that amazing pool that was in
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  Speaker 2: Forrest Gump. You know, remember Forrest walked through the pool
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  Speaker 2: and there was a whole lot of arjibargi because they've
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  Speaker 2: decided to paint the thing blue. And when you painted blue,
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  Speaker 2: it starts to look like a David Hockney pool, you know,
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  Speaker 2: from the paintings in California, And that's not what it
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  Speaker 2: was supposed to be. It's supposed to be concrete colored.
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  Speaker 2: So it reflected the big old, big old spirry thing
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  Speaker 2: on the end of the pool. But now Donald says
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  Speaker 2: pools should be blue, so they went to blue. That
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  Speaker 2: was the controversy. Then today it's found that the US
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  Speaker 2: National Park Service analysis has found that there's a bit
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  Speaker 2: of money being made by the firm fixing up the pool.
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  Speaker 2: The Virginia based Atlantic Industrial Coating submitted a that charged
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  Speaker 2: a twenty percent profit margin. Now normally in federal construction
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  Speaker 2: costs it's six to twelve percent, but these guys, they
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  Speaker 2: went twenty percent, and that added at least eight hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty thousand dollars to what a more typical contract
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  Speaker 2: could have cost. So you know, Donald's friends make money.
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  Speaker 2: And of course the pool's going to be blue. Vincent
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  Speaker 2: Macaveni is as our international correspondent today and he's going
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  Speaker 2: to be talking about what's been happening in Iran. The
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  Speaker 2: Islamic Revolutionary Guard has been busy and they've been targeting
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  Speaker 2: Kuwaits and more on that. With Vincent still to come,
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  Speaker 2: we've got Ruth Richardson to appear just before six o'clock
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  Speaker 2: and right after the News and Sport lt about the
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  Speaker 2: LTL Royal Music Awards, who won the big awards, and
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  Speaker 2: we'll play a little bit of Marlon Williams, who's about
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  Speaker 2: to take a bit of a breather, is going to
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  Speaker 2: take a break from music, and so he went out
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  Speaker 2: with a bit of a bang. He's been doing a
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  Speaker 2: concert tour. Now he's gone one all the awards and
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  Speaker 2: now he can sit back and put on his glosses
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: and walk around whatever property he's got where if he's
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: got it, well done, Marlon Williams and more. This is
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  Speaker 2: early edition. I'm Andrew Dickens. This is News Talks, MB
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  Speaker 2: News and Sport US Next.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens on early edition with Spark for business technology
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  Speaker 1: that keeps business moving, Used Talks It b.
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  Speaker 2: Keithab Well, I promise you so Malon Williams, here he is.
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  Speaker 2: This is the song of One, Best Single of the Year.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Marlon dominated the Artil Royal Music Awards last night. It
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: took Best Solo out a Single of the Year and
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Best Album. So well done. I mean, if you go
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: along to a Marlon Williams concert, it's packed. He sells
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: out big venues. He played the Civic the other day
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: in Auckland. He's played Spark Arena, you know. And then
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: you see the love people have for him. So he's
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: very much love. But he's taking a break now for
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: a little while, Flushed with money from his concert tour,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: flushed with success from the awards tour. You enjoy It.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Lord won the Best Pop Artist in International Achievement and
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: said that New Zealand sits in her heart and that
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: inspires her. Can you believe it that hanaud Lafitti might
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: be hit? Clark got an award along with Stan Walker
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: because Stan sampled her Hucker. You may remember the hucker.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: He stumbled it in a song, so she ended up
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: getting award. It was nice to see a Marlon Party
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: person out and about. Actually maybe they might even say something.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I doubt it. And of course Damed Linda Top made
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: an emotional appearance honoring her late sister Jewels and having
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: a huge, big old crack at the government, including blue
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: language as well. And I've had a lot of reaction
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: to all of this, of course, some people calling Linda
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Top of treasure and other people calling her an unhinged lunatic.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: So listen to her crack. She wants more funding for
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: music and she hates war and that's about it. And
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: I think that's every musician ever, if you ever won
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: one of these awards. Congratulations, hope you had a good night.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: It's twenty two minutes to six Z be way around
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  Speaker 2: the country. We go in first to Otago Callum Proctor,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Good morning to you morning, Andrew. So what's happening for
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Otago boaties?
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  Speaker 11: Big changes from today. They're facing tougher rules on the
• 19:45
  Speaker 11: water from the sweekend. The Regional councils adopting new navigational
• 19:50
  Speaker 11: by laws for our Otaga Harbor, our coastal waters and
• 19:54
  Speaker 11: also Lake Dunstan, a busy waterway in central Otago. This
• 19:58
  Speaker 11: is all aimed at improving safety. Of of course, the
• 20:00
  Speaker 11: changes include mandatory tracking systems for larger commercial vessels, new
• 20:04
  Speaker 11: anchoring restrictions in Otago Harbor, and online reporting for maritime incidents.
• 20:09
  Speaker 11: Pete Dryden's our deputy harbor Master. He says requiring automatic
• 20:13
  Speaker 11: ID systems on commercial boats will help prevent mishaps on
• 20:16
  Speaker 11: these busy waterways. And these new by laws coming to
• 20:20
  Speaker 11: force officially on Sunday.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Such such a good harbor anyway. How's your weather?
• 20:26
  Speaker 11: Frosty start again here but fine days fog develops this
• 20:28
  Speaker 11: evening light winds thirteen hour high.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. To christ Jurch we go cleer sure,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: we're good morning to you.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Good morning.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: What's the latest news? How Christiach Airport? Well, it just.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: Keeps coming for Christchurch Airport. We've got China Southern now
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: being the latest dairline to increase capacity for the upcoming summer.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: The airline will operate daily flights between guan Jao and
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: the Garden City from October until March. This is for
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: the first time ever and it will add about twenty
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: thousand seats to the market. It is a week after
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: in New Zealand announced the routes to Tokyo, Perth and
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: Singapore from christ Jurge. The airport's Aeronautical Development General Manager,
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: Gordon Bevin, says there is real momentum building again between
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: New Zealand and China and daily services are great for
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: the South Island's visitor economy. He says, Chinese visitors love
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: what the region has to offer and this will enable
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: more people to experience that.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: When's the snow coming, Oh.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Well, anytime now, according to what it feels like out there.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: I know it's cold, but it's dry and so they're
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: making artificial snow. And I think with June just around
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: the court of people certainly get a bit freaky. Let's
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: get some snow. So let's talk about the whare the
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: house of weather for Canterbury.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: For Christ today find aside from this foggy and frosty
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: start northeast of east developing a bit later and a high.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Fourteen Dwellington we go. Adam Cooper, good morning to you morning.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Andrew.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Tell me about the litany of disaster that was the
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: grounding of the Inter Island Ferry back in twenty twenty four.
• 21:48
  Speaker 12: Yeah, the arty ran aground with forty seven people on
• 21:51
  Speaker 12: board and Pixon Harbor. It was over night in June
• 21:54
  Speaker 12: twenty twenty four. Now the Transport Accident Investigation Commissions release
• 21:58
  Speaker 12: its final report on this. They've ruled it came down
• 22:00
  Speaker 12: to lack of instructions on using a new steering system
• 22:03
  Speaker 12: which had been installed. Investigators have found crews weren't trained
• 22:07
  Speaker 12: in the replacement steering systems, two safety critical operational differences.
• 22:13
  Speaker 12: I mean to the ship's autopilot turned thirty four degrees
• 22:16
  Speaker 12: towards shore instead of the programmed three degree turn the
• 22:19
  Speaker 12: bridge teams expected. And we all know those pictures of
• 22:22
  Speaker 12: where it ended up in the Marlborough Sounds. Interland has
• 22:25
  Speaker 12: since updated training and management processes. In summary, though investigators
• 22:30
  Speaker 12: are convinced that the grounding will not be repeated in
• 22:33
  Speaker 12: New Zealand, and no formal recommendations have been made.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: So if you're driving a ferry, if you want to
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: turn off the autopilot, you hold it down for the
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: button down for five seconds and then everything sweet. It
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: seems pretty simple. Just a man sounds like it. Yeah,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: I know, okay, So how's weather for Wellington morning Cloud
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: and Fogg today then fine and a higher fifteen and
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: walcome we go, never let to mond a good morning
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: to you.
• 22:54
  Speaker 13: Goo's morning, Andrew.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: The Mexican Cafe has been going for forty three years, yes,
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: but now it's it needs a new owner or it
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: might close.
• 23:01
  Speaker 13: That's right, it's in trouble. And most Aucklanders, you and
• 23:05
  Speaker 13: I you've probably been there many many a time. We
• 23:08
  Speaker 13: know the Mexican Cafe very well. It's on Victoria Street West,
• 23:11
  Speaker 13: just opposite Sky Tower. You're quite right, Andrew urgently seeking
• 23:15
  Speaker 13: a buyer after forty three years. So owner Bruce Glover says, Look,
• 23:19
  Speaker 13: the Diners suffered through years of disruption, you know, as
• 23:22
  Speaker 13: we all know, through the City rail Link construction. Now
• 23:25
  Speaker 13: it risks folding just before that project opens later this year,
• 23:29
  Speaker 13: you know. And it's also part of a lot of
• 23:30
  Speaker 13: these restaurants that are closing down a struggling Bruce Glover
• 23:33
  Speaker 13: says that he feels it's the right time to hand
• 23:35
  Speaker 13: over the reins. He's looking for a buyer or investor
• 23:38
  Speaker 13: willing to take it strongly, strongly into the future.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and remember that train station is just about
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: to open it and so you know, a business could
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: pick up quills. But forty three years. Oh, that's excellent
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: in hospitality. No wonder, you're a bit bugger, Bruce, go
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: and take some time off. How's the weather?
• 23:52
  Speaker 13: Never the weather, Well, it's partly cloudy. We've got areas
• 23:55
  Speaker 13: of morning fog. Seventeenth still very mild here in Auckland
• 23:58
  Speaker 13: for this time of year, seventeen the high here in all.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. It's now seventeen minutes to six now.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Texts through Judy says, morning Andrew. Nice to hear you
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: early in the day. Yes, is very early in the day.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: But Andrew, this is about the the Fonterra price. Andrew,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: while this is a great steady result for us dairy farmers,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: we need to wrap some content around it. Back in
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: two thousand and eight in today's money, the milk price
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: was eleven dollars thirty three and of course our costs
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: were lower. So while this has all been very positive
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: news yesterday out of Fonterra, we are just trying to
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: keep pace and we need to put it in perspective. Judy,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: thank you so much for listening, and thank you for
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: that that insight. And then I talked about the reflecting
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: pool and the twenty percent profit margin the contractor is doing.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: And someone says, oh my god, someone makes some money
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: and the pool is blue sharkhara. I'm sorry. This is
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: the major problem affecting Auckland, New Zealand councils, in New Zealand, governments,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: in fact governments all around the world. It's contractors on
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: the taxpayers money taking the piss. This is a twenty
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: percent profit margin. Normally it's eight to twelve percent. This
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: is a twenty percent profit margin. And if you just
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: don't get worried about that, everyone does it and before
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: you know it, your spending through the roof. Ask anyone
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: who makes a raised pedestrian crossing. So yeah, it is
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: actually shock horror. Sixteen to six. We're off to Europe.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: At a few moments time. Vincent mcaveni with the latest
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: details on the strike by Iran on Kuwait. So when
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: it comes to selling property, timing is everything if you
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: want the best return, but then you probably already know
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: that if you're a developer with properties that are ready
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: to go to the market but you want to hold
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: off until the time is right, or if you own
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: unsold property and want more time to sell down on
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: your terms, or perhaps you just want to settle your
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: next property before you sold your existing one. It may
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: be time for a chat with your mortgage advisor about
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: DBR now. DBR is a New Zealand non bank lender
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: who can provide open ended bridging loans two approved customers,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: something that most banks and lenders won't help with. A
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: bridging loan gives you that valuable time to wait for
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: an improving market rather than selling your properly, probably hastily
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: in a soft market. Don't want to do that, knowing
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: you could have got a much bit of return. But
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: DBR only lins via registered financial advisors with a financial
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: advice provider license, So find that person. Find your advisor
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: today and talk to them about whether a bridging loan
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: from dB A might be right for you.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: International correspondence with ins and Eye Insurance Peace of Mind
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: for New Zealand Business twelve.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: To six Europe, we go Vincent Mecavini, Good morning to you.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Good morning, so Kuwait Iran a text Kuwait tell me
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: the story.
• 26:39
  Speaker 14: Yeah, that's right. So overnight we've seen fresh clashes between
• 26:43
  Speaker 14: Iran and the United States despite that tentative peace agreement
• 26:47
  Speaker 14: Iran has tried to strike a US base in Q eight,
• 26:51
  Speaker 14: but they say they managed to intercept hostile missiles and
• 26:55
  Speaker 14: drone threats. But meanwhile the US has also struck drones
• 27:00
  Speaker 14: operating over the Strait of Hormers, but also a port
• 27:04
  Speaker 14: in Iran where they say ships have been leaving and
• 27:07
  Speaker 14: putting down minds in that key strategic straight So things
• 27:10
  Speaker 14: heating up a little bit. And in the past hour,
• 27:13
  Speaker 14: Donald Trump has reported to have sent a draft peace
• 27:16
  Speaker 14: agreement to allies, including Israel, but is still undecided. He
• 27:21
  Speaker 14: says he wants a few more days to think about it.
• 27:23
  Speaker 14: But Pakistan's foreign minister will fly to Washington on Friday.
• 27:28
  Speaker 14: They have been an intermediary between the two sides, so
• 27:31
  Speaker 14: maybe there might be some movement over the course of
• 27:33
  Speaker 14: the weekend.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: It really is very hot in Europe right now. We've
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: hit the news at Simma, who was the hot favorite
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: for the Fringe Open and actually wilted completely in the
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: last three seats and is out of the whole thing.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: He was the number two seed. How hot is it
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: in the UK? Yeah, really hot. So we've broken the
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: record two days in a row here in the UK
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: for the hottest May day on Monday it got up
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: to about thirty four point zero eight degrees, and then
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: on Tuesday at London's Heathrow Airport in Q Gardens in
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: the west of London, he got up to thirty five
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: point one degrees, So a huge milestone that the weather
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: here is still sitting at around sort of twenty seven
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: twenty eight degrees through to Sunday. So the UK currently
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: sort of basking in warm weather. But authorities weather authorities
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: in this country saying this is really now proof that
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: our climate has changed significantly in terms of when we
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: experienced the hot when we experienced the hottest times of
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: year in the UK, it's not so much July and
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: August now it's a particularly sort of May, June and
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: early July. Yes, it's moving and I thank you very
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: much that has been to Megavinni. And it is now
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: ten to six zidby So of course Nicola Willis presented
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: her lovely scramble lists budget yesterday.
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: I know Mini Kiwis are doing it tough right now
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: and I would love to be able to give them
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: the immediate relief that so many want, but I know
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: it is their future selves that would pay for them.
• 29:00
  Speaker 13: With interest.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: The big winners were infrastructure, health and education. Plus he
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: was predicting a return to suplus sooner than expected using
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: some interesting metrics.
• 29:09
  Speaker 9: Though.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Ruth Richardson is a former finance minister, chair of the
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Taxpayers Union and joins you now got boarding to you.
• 29:14
  Speaker 9: Ruth, good morning.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: I'm going to guess you think there's not enough savings
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: in this thing.
• 29:20
  Speaker 15: Well, first things first, New Zealand should breathe a huge
• 29:23
  Speaker 15: sigh of relief that the government has understood the imperative
• 29:27
  Speaker 15: for fiscal responsibility. I mean, this really does face up
• 29:30
  Speaker 15: to our problem and throws down the gauntlet to those
• 29:33
  Speaker 15: who remain addicted to tax, spend and borrow. That's a
• 29:36
  Speaker 15: failed formula.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Where did Nichola go soft when she could have gone hard?
• 29:43
  Speaker 9: Well, I don't think it's a matter of soft.
• 29:45
  Speaker 15: It's the rhetoric is very important. It's got a nice
• 29:50
  Speaker 15: ring to it. Back to black. But does the reality
• 29:55
  Speaker 15: match the rhetoric? And that's the big question that we
• 29:58
  Speaker 15: should ask. I mean, Dickkinton used to rise, the operating
• 30:01
  Speaker 15: allowance continues to rise. Numbers can change. There are a
• 30:05
  Speaker 15: lot of heroic assumptions in those numbers, and it's all
• 30:08
  Speaker 15: on a promise that while they're spending for now, we
• 30:12
  Speaker 15: will have savings later. So there are two big risks,
• 30:15
  Speaker 15: the failure to execute or the reversion to old fiscal habits.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, do you see a surplus in twenty eight twenty nine?
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: As you said, some of the some of the aspirations
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: are somewhat heroic. Do you think the Treasury's predictions are
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: a bit too rosy?
• 30:31
  Speaker 15: Well, reasonable people can disagree, and the Reserve Bank has
• 30:35
  Speaker 15: a different set of numbers. I think the reality will
• 30:37
  Speaker 15: turn out to be different. This is all those shifting
• 30:40
  Speaker 15: sounds of what might happen in the Middle East and
• 30:42
  Speaker 15: the reverberations from that. So I don't think that we
• 30:46
  Speaker 15: should be banking that as a surplus. Slam dunk. I
• 30:50
  Speaker 15: think the direction of travel is important, and that is
• 30:54
  Speaker 15: the commitment at last to try to have a major
• 30:58
  Speaker 15: course correction in the New Zealand for school ships, which
• 31:01
  Speaker 15: quite frankly has been you know, sailing to the rocks.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Excuse me, Nicholas obviously fighting her coalition partners, It's fair
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: to say, is this MMP once again holding us back
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: from making positive and direct decisions.
• 31:17
  Speaker 15: Well, to be fair to the Minister, I think she
• 31:20
  Speaker 15: has taken the leaders she should. Her three associate Ministers
• 31:25
  Speaker 15: of Finance, two of them come from the Coalition Partners
• 31:28
  Speaker 15: Act in New Zealand. First it's their budget as well.
• 31:33
  Speaker 15: But I do worry about reversion. Are you already here politicking?
• 31:37
  Speaker 9: Which is or we.
• 31:38
  Speaker 15: Can go and buy a bank, no problem in that,
• 31:41
  Speaker 15: we can finance that, or we don't need to do
• 31:43
  Speaker 15: anything about superannuation. I mean that's just sheer lunacy.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: That's my final question, Ruth, because Nicola Willis came out
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: and there's a bit of algibarge between between Shane Jones
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: and Winston Peters and Nicola when she actually said we've
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: got to start seriously thinking about superannuation. How do we
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: do that?
• 32:01
  Speaker 15: Well, it's all boils down to leadership and facing the facts.
• 32:05
  Speaker 15: The fact that unless we shrink superannuation it will monster
• 32:09
  Speaker 15: the budget. It needs to be addressed. In my time,
• 32:12
  Speaker 15: we lifted the age of eligibility. That's an obvious first
• 32:16
  Speaker 15: step that we should be taking to shrink the superannuation build.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Ruth, I thank you so much for your time today.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: That is with Richardson Taxpayers Union Chair, former Finance minister
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: and a person who knows about austerity and how to
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: make the hard decisions. Remember always there is retail politics
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: at play here, as this trust found out, sometimes the
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: right thing to do can be the wrong thing to
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: keep the Treasury benches. But I think the balance is
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: about right.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: News and views you trust to start your day. It's
• 32:45
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• 32:49
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• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Last time in a fortnite Mike Hosking is after six o'clock.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: So you're heading up north and I heard before a
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: big debate in your family about whether you're going to
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: buy an e bike for your son.
• 33:04
  Speaker 16: He wants the shortage of bikes in Scotland because everyone's
• 33:08
  Speaker 16: a cyclist in Scotland apparently. So he's in Edinburgh and
• 33:12
  Speaker 16: you can't buy a bike if you wanted to in Edinburgh.
• 33:14
  Speaker 16: You've got to go to Glasgow, which we're not going
• 33:17
  Speaker 16: to do. But so he's been sourced with the task
• 33:20
  Speaker 16: of finding a bike for himself. And when we arrive, well,
• 33:22
  Speaker 16: I don't know, transfer some money and.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: See here you'll pay for When do you stop paying
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: for children?
• 33:27
  Speaker 9: Mate?
• 33:27
  Speaker 16: It's a very good question and well, he's twenty five
• 33:29
  Speaker 16: and the answer is not yet, obviously, and the other
• 33:32
  Speaker 16: one the other day was turning twenty seven and the
• 33:34
  Speaker 16: answer was not yet. So I'm hoping soon just to
• 33:40
  Speaker 16: get that message out there. Willis and Willison Peters for you.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Very good, you know, having a bit of an argie bag. Yes,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: a bit of a fight indeed. Okay, and I thank
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: you very much. I'm Andrew Dickins. I'm not here next
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: week all the week after in fact, because Ryan's gone
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: on holiday too. Will be Francesca Ruggan Johnny for the
• 33:54
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• 33:56
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• 34:00
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