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Full Show Podcast: 17 April 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 Friday morning, six after five. We've got the
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Speaker 2: MTA on the WHAFF changes this morning. Vincent's in the
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Speaker 2: UK for US beneficiary job numbers are up. This is
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Speaker 2: the annual number, although quarterly it's coming down. So is
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Speaker 2: that a sign of hope for the job market. Also,
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Speaker 2: we'll look at eds and nurses getting abused while they're
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Speaker 2: at work. The agenda great to have your company. It's Friday,
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Speaker 2: the seventeenth of April. Trump says Israel and Lebanon they're
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Speaker 2: doing a ten day ceasepy. It starts in a couple
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Speaker 2: of hours. Although there's no mention of Hiszbola.
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Speaker 3: Sources that I've spoken to since this announcement have told
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Speaker 3: me that they are very confident that has Boller will
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Speaker 3: respect this cease file. Why well, because they are being
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Speaker 3: leaned on by Iran. According to sources here in Israel,
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Speaker 3: they believe that Aram thinks that it was a tactical
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Speaker 3: mistake to inflame this conflict, and so they are confident
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Speaker 3: that this ceasefire will hold.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because Iran needs some money because they're broke now.
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Speaker 2: Pete Higgs it he sees the blockade will last as
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Speaker 2: long as it takes.
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Speaker 4: But if Iran chooses poorly, then they will have a
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Speaker 4: blockade and bombs dropping on infrastructure, power and energy. And
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Speaker 4: at the same time, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson and our
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Speaker 4: friends over at Treasury are launching Operation Economic Fury as well,
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Speaker 4: maximizing economic pressure across the entirety of the government to
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Speaker 4: Iran choose wisely.
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Speaker 2: Economic Fury, Dan Kane, this is the chairman of the
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Speaker 2: j Jin Sorry, the Joint chiefs.
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Speaker 5: It is like driving a sports car through a supermarket
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Speaker 5: parking lot on a payday weekend with thousands of kids
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Speaker 5: in that parking lot as you attempt to maneuver through
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Speaker 5: there to get to that ship that would attempt to
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Speaker 5: run that blockade.
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Speaker 2: Describing the Straits blockade at the moment, meanwhile, the Pope
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Speaker 2: and Trump, the drama continues. They'll make a Netflix series
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Speaker 2: out of this one day. Popello says, the world is
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Speaker 2: being ravaged by a handful of tyrants.
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Speaker 6: The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants.
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Speaker 6: The masters of war pretended not to know that it
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Speaker 6: takes only a moment to destroy it. Often a lifetime
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Speaker 6: is often not enough to rebuild. They turn a blind
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Speaker 6: eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent
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Speaker 6: on killing, on devastation, yet the resources needed for healing,
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Speaker 6: education and restoration are nowhere to be found.
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Speaker 2: Mostly heard from the Pope in a long time. Maybe
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Speaker 2: he should detec trump more often. Megan Michael, still in
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Speaker 2: Australia doing the tour, said at a mental health charity
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Speaker 2: visit that she was bullied and attacked the ten years
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Speaker 2: on social media.
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Speaker 1: Two years I've.
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Speaker 7: Been bullied in the cat and I was a true
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Speaker 7: person in the entire world. Man, I'm still here. And
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Speaker 7: so when I think all of you and what you're experiencing,
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Speaker 7: I think so much of that is having to realize
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Speaker 7: that you know that industry, that billion dollar industry that
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Speaker 7: is completely anchored and predicated on cruelty to get clicks.
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Speaker 7: That's not going to change.
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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 Ryan Bridge and Spuck for Business
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Speaker 1: Technology that keeps Business moving News.
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Speaker 2: Talks B nine after five nine two nine two is
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Speaker 2: the number to text a little update for you out
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Speaker 2: of the UK on Mandelsson. Peter Mandelsson, who was the
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Speaker 2: Ambassador to the United States for the UK, you know,
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Speaker 2: only got caught up in the Epstein situation. Well it
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Speaker 2: turns out that he and this is reporting from the
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Speaker 2: Guardian multiple sources, so it hasn't been confirmed, but they
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Speaker 2: are reporting that he was denied a security clearance back
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Speaker 2: in January of twenty twenty five. This is they go
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Speaker 2: through some pretty intense betting, as you can imagine, before
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Speaker 2: you come the ambassador become the ambassador to the US,
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Speaker 2: and apparently he failed the vetting and then the Foreign
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Speaker 2: Office came in and overruled it and then got appointed anyway,
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Speaker 2: so there's another day for Starmer saying you know nothing
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Speaker 2: to do with me, don't know about him and his
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Speaker 2: Epstein links back home. So, you know, the bowl cancer
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Speaker 2: thing young people twenty six percent increase in young people
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Speaker 2: over a decade getting bowl cancer, and everybody's like, why
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Speaker 2: why are young people getting bowl cancer? You know, for
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Speaker 2: the first time in recent or in modern history, the
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Speaker 2: life expectancy of people in advanced economies and rich economies
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Speaker 2: is starting to actually go down rather than go up.
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Speaker 2: It's like, what's going on here? Well, surprise surprise. University
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Speaker 2: of Otago christ Church has done a study into the
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Speaker 2: bowl cancer situation, in particular because there was a period
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Speaker 2: there where microplastics were being blamed for the increase in
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Speaker 2: bowel cancer. And when those stories came out, I was like,
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm no scientist, I'm no doctor, but really
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Speaker 2: are we going to put it on plastics? And why
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Speaker 2: just bowel cancer? And why just young people? You know,
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Speaker 2: old people would surely be eating as many fish that
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Speaker 2: are filled with plastic as young anyway, didn't make sense
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Speaker 2: to me. The University of Otago christ Church has come
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Speaker 2: out and said that this is likely down to wait
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Speaker 2: for it, shock, horror, sugar intake. You are what you eat.
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Speaker 2: I mean, there's these old sayings, these old idiots that
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Speaker 2: make sense and being handed down from generation to generation,
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Speaker 2: like you are what you eat. Turns out they're actually right.
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Speaker 2: So childhood obesity, impaired glucose metabolism and high consumption of
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Speaker 2: sugar sweetened beverages were prevalent among New Zealand youths. You
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Speaker 2: are what you eat? Do we need to pay for
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Speaker 2: a study to tell us that?
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge?
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Speaker 2: Just listen to Grandma nine are sorry? Eleven minutes after five.
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Speaker 2: Now you're on News Talk SeeDB Lots more to come
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Speaker 2: on the program. I'll give you an update on the
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Speaker 2: Live Golf Tour as well.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge Spark for Business Technology that keeps business moving News Talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be fourteen after five. The Saudis don't run out
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Speaker 2: of money because they're just like a money tree that
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Speaker 2: you can keep shaking. But the public investment Fund, Saudi
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Speaker 2: Arabia Public Investment Fund preparing reportedly preparing to pull back
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Speaker 2: its funding for the Live Golf Tour, and earlier this
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Speaker 2: week they missed some contractual payments to players. The interesting
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Speaker 2: thing about this whole situation is that it's the millions
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Speaker 2: and squillions of dollars. It's a lotto money, it's life
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Speaker 2: changing money that some of these players are getting. And
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Speaker 2: when they did the deals and they came up with
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Speaker 2: the headlines of so many million dollars here, so many
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Speaker 2: million there, you thought wow. But actually all of that
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Speaker 2: money is coming in the form of a not a
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Speaker 2: single up front check but quarterly payments. So these guys
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Speaker 2: actually need to get paid. So the threat of it
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Speaker 2: closing down is actually quite real and serious ran for
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Speaker 2: the past five nurses getting punched and yelled at in ed's.
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Speaker 2: This is still a problem here. Seven and a half
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Speaker 2: thousand assaults reported last year. That's no improvement on the
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Speaker 2: year before that Dayavid Wills is Nurses Society Directed with
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Speaker 2: us this morning. David, Good morning, Kira. What sort of
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Speaker 2: assaults are we talking about here?
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Speaker 8: Well, it partly depends, but it's everything from verbal abuse
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Speaker 8: to someone splitting, someoneviting, someone pushing, occasionally effectual assault, the
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Speaker 8: whole gamut. I mean, most of the time it's not
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Speaker 8: causing major physical but of course it's distressing and distracting
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Speaker 8: for staff.
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Speaker 2: Do the nurses just I mean, you must just want
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Speaker 2: to not treat them.
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Speaker 8: That sort of situation does arise, but of course it's not,
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Speaker 8: and in fact, there will be on occasions where treatment
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Speaker 8: will be impacted and people are required to behave and
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Speaker 8: cooperate and treatment might be temporarily. But you can't clearly
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Speaker 8: can't not treat someone in an emergency department, both for
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Speaker 8: ethical and legal reasons, and that's not what hospital staff
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Speaker 8: are about anyhow, that's there to treat people.
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Speaker 2: They're going to bring in facial recognition technology. This is
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Speaker 2: going to stop catch people before they come in. Presumably,
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Speaker 2: are you all right with that? I mean that will help.
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Speaker 8: I can't really speak to that because I don't know
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Speaker 8: the details of it. What has happened, of course, is
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Speaker 8: that and it is a good move. There has been
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Speaker 8: a significant boost in the number of security staff, particularly
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Speaker 8: in hospitally deeds and in the larger ones they have
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Speaker 8: dedicated security staff and that certainly has helped. I think also,
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Speaker 8: although it is an increasing problem and a growing problem,
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Speaker 8: one that's been there for quite a while, I do
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Speaker 8: think that some of the increased particularly showing an EDS,
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Speaker 8: is because staff are no longer tolerating this and they
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Speaker 8: are therefore documenting it better, and that is showing that.
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Speaker 8: I think it's partly explained some of the right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, good David, I'm glad they're doing that. David Wills,
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Speaker 2: Nurses Society directive with us. This morning time is sixteen
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Speaker 2: after five ran Bridge and I got hearts of gold
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Speaker 2: because I know if someone bit me, I wouldn't be
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Speaker 2: treating them for their wound or there whatever they came
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Speaker 2: in with, drunk or high or aggressive or whatever. Albanize
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Speaker 2: is running around like a blue ass fly at the
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Speaker 2: moment putting out fires. Paul thing because he's been over
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Speaker 2: in Malaysia trying to do a deal and get some
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Speaker 2: oil and then meanwhile he's got a literal fire to
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Speaker 2: put out, so he's cut his trip short to Malaysia,
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Speaker 2: off to Geelong to check out. It was a gas
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Speaker 2: leak by the way that caused the explosion at the
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Speaker 2: oil refinery. And he managed while he was in Malaysia
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Speaker 2: to do a deal underwriting of fuel cargos. That's something
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Speaker 2: our government's looking at. He had done a deal with
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Speaker 2: the Malaysians, one hundred million liters of diesel secured. So
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Speaker 2: it's job accomplished and home to fight the fires. Seventeen
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Speaker 2: after five.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology that Keith's Business
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Speaker 2: Talksb It's nineteen minutes after five. Europe might be running out.
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Speaker 2: They reckon they got six weeks left to jet fuel
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Speaker 2: and they are scrambling to replace the supplies that they have,
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Speaker 2: going to the US and Nigeria to get it. Only
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Speaker 2: enough though to replace half of the supplies that they've lost.
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Speaker 2: So they reckon six weeks left in the tank and
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Speaker 2: if you're heading to a summer in Provence in Europe,
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Speaker 2: then you might have some flight cancelations on your way
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Speaker 2: and bread, bread ben if it numbers still heading the
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Speaker 2: wrong way. Job seeker figures are out up nearly two
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Speaker 2: point well almost three percent two point six percent on
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Speaker 2: last year. Government's pointing to thirteen hundred more people in work,
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Speaker 2: but overall numbers are up twenty five thousand since they
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Speaker 2: took office. Susan Saint John, Associate professor Economics at Auckland University,
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Speaker 2: also with the Child Poverty Action Group. Good morning, Susan,
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Speaker 2: Nice to have you on the program.
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Speaker 9: Oh, good morning, Ryan.
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Speaker 2: So the quarterly number is coming down, that's a sign
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Speaker 2: that perhaps things are starting to improve.
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Speaker 9: Well, we're looking at this quarter that's just finished compared
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Speaker 9: to last year, so it doesn't reflect anything that's happened recently.
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Speaker 2: But the oil yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 9: So the minister has milked every ounce of positivity that
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Speaker 9: she can out of the figures and sir, enough, but
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Speaker 9: we're still looking. As you said, it arise overall on
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Speaker 9: a yearly basis, and it's not easy to get onto
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Speaker 9: a job seeker, so this is very worrying.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is worrying. I'm in the economies cooked and
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Speaker 2: has been for a while. That's the problem, isn't it
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Speaker 2: It is?
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Speaker 9: It is absolutely we're suffering.
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Speaker 2: So what do you think we should do about it? Well,
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Speaker 2: don't get a better economy?
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Speaker 9: Well we have to analyze why we've got to where
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Speaker 9: we are. And you can't help but think that many
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Speaker 9: of the policies that we've had have taken us totally
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Speaker 9: in the wrong direction and made the problem worse. So
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Speaker 9: this incessant aim that we must bring down government spending
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Speaker 9: and the deficit and keep debt low when we're in
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Speaker 9: a recession only makes things worse. And I think that
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Speaker 9: until we can recognize that we are in a deep recession,
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Speaker 9: that it is going to keep wise and that we
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Speaker 9: will need government to step up. We were really stuffed.
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Speaker 2: What would more government spending do to inflation, which is
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Speaker 2: already above the band at the moment, What would that do?
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Speaker 9: Well, you know where does inflation come from. It doesn't
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Speaker 9: come in a real declining economy where there is a
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Speaker 9: lack of demand, that's people not able to feed themselves.
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Speaker 2: And yet we've got it, don't it's above the band
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Speaker 2: season well, so explain that to me.
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Speaker 9: Well, we have a slight increase in the inflation rate
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Speaker 9: which had been coming down, and obviously it is going
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Speaker 9: to get whiz under this fuel crisis.
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Speaker 2: Yes, to go through that?
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Speaker 9: No, No, because right, okay.
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Speaker 2: I mean we just we literally have just been here
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Speaker 2: season and we did that and it didn't work. Well, No,
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Speaker 2: that's why we're cooked.
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Speaker 9: When you're in a recession where a you're going to
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Speaker 9: find the demand that is going to stimulate the job growth.
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Speaker 2: That you need, businesses do it, the private sector bounces back.
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Speaker 9: Who does it? And I don't think we're seeing that
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Speaker 9: one bit.
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Speaker 2: Okay, season, Nice to have you on the show season,
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Speaker 2: Saint John. We were until oil twenty three after five.
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Speaker 1: The early edition full show podcast on Iartradio how It
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Speaker 1: by Newstalks AB.
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Speaker 2: News Talks B twenty five minutes after five. There's a
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Speaker 2: lot of hand ringing this week about the fuel situation,
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Speaker 2: and to be fear, some of the hand ringing is
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Speaker 2: actually justified. If you're running an airline, it's bad. If
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Speaker 2: you're paying big Bucks to fill a truck with diesel,
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Speaker 2: four bucks a lead also bad. But we are far
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Speaker 2: from a fuel crisis at this point. In fact, we're
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Speaker 2: not really going to have a fuel crisis. We're not
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Speaker 2: going to have a shortage. We're going to have a
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Speaker 2: price problem more than anything, which is not saying it's
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Speaker 2: saying one day we won't be out of fuel or
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Speaker 2: having to ration it before we get there. That is
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Speaker 2: a possibility. But we've had economists and pundits come out.
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Speaker 2: Pundits come out this week and hit the panic button
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Speaker 2: just a little bit. Oil will start to flow from elsewhere.
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Speaker 2: As I mentioned earlier, look at Europe, they're already replacing
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Speaker 2: half of what they lost. This is jet fuel stockpiles
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Speaker 2: from Nigeria and America and other places. But these things
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Speaker 2: do take time, and as we've spoken about on the
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Speaker 2: show many times, that ultimately means cost. Two things became
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Speaker 2: clear I think this week. One, Carnee and Canada and
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Speaker 2: Albanese and Australia are both on board with oil drill,
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Speaker 2: baby drill more domestic production. They're looking at proposals for
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Speaker 2: more in Queensland. Carne is promising to build roads to
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Speaker 2: oil wells in Canada. Climate's taken a bit of a
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Speaker 2: back seat its needs. Must. Second thing, people I think
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Speaker 2: have confidence in the government's fuel response it's basically a
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Speaker 2: high trust mode that they are operating. Although I spoke
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Speaker 2: to Shane Jones yesterday he said they might look at
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Speaker 2: releasing more of that commercially sensitive information. But it's a
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Speaker 2: high trust model. They say, trust us, we know what
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Speaker 2: we're doing, and I think people do. And if you
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Speaker 2: want evidence of that, it's what you don't see, not
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Speaker 2: what you do see. There is no panic buying, there
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Speaker 2: are no Jerry cans, there's no cues outside mobile and
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Speaker 2: the same can't be said for other countries. Ryan Bridge,
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Speaker 2: twenty seven, after five News talks. You know the James
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Speaker 2: Bond decision that has been years now in the making.
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Speaker 2: They appointed a director a year ago.
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Speaker 1: I ad my your luck, mister Bond, James Bond, Bond,
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Speaker 1: James Bond. My name's Bond, James Bond. My name is Bond, James.
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Speaker 2: So the question is who's the next guy or girl?
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Speaker 2: I mean, it could be anything, really, who knows to
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Speaker 2: say those famous words. Amazon in GM took over the series.
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Speaker 2: It was part of a fourteen billion dollar deal to
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Speaker 2: buy it, and they have announced drum roll please that
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Speaker 2: they still haven't decided and they're taking their time. Quote,
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Speaker 2: we're taking the time to do this with care and
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Speaker 2: deep respect. So there is no decision on James Bond
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Speaker 2: at this point. Let's go to Chair of the Joint Chiefs,
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Speaker 2: Dan kine I, mentioned he was doing a press conference
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Speaker 2: this morning. This is with Pete Higsseeth in Washington, and
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Speaker 2: he had this to say about where they will chase
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Speaker 2: and how far they will go to chase ships that
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Speaker 2: might be dealing with a run.
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Speaker 5: Enforcement will occur inside Iran's territorial seas and in international writers.
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Speaker 5: In addition to this blackhead, the Joint Force, through operations
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Speaker 5: and activities in other areas of responsibility like the Pacific
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Speaker 5: Area of Responsibility, will actively pursue any Iranian flagged vessel
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Speaker 5: attempting to provide material support.
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Speaker 2: PXE specifically name checks the Pacific as well, saying we
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Speaker 2: will chase them through the Pacific Ocean if we need to,
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Speaker 2: just to get them and making the point this is
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Speaker 2: not a blockade of the Strait of hor Moves, this
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Speaker 2: is a blockade of Iran, Iranian ports and the Iranian coastline.
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Speaker 2: So if you're doing deals with them or you're helping
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Speaker 2: their ships will come after you come. Hello. High Water
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Speaker 2: News talksb wel to the UK next and MTA on
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Speaker 2: your wafts.
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Speaker 1: US and views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for business technology
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Speaker 1: that keeps business moving US talks by.
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Speaker 2: Six Friday morning. Great to have your company. We'll head
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Speaker 2: to the UK with Vincent mcavnie in just a few
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Speaker 2: seconds and we'll talk to MTA on the WAFT changes
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Speaker 2: that are coming for your cars. To this story from
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Speaker 2: the Herald this morning, I mean take your pick, Zane,
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Speaker 2: says Ryan lux and his toast. I'm a coalition government supporter,
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Speaker 2: but for the good of the country he should resign.
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Speaker 2: Bob says the Luxeon leadership story, Ryan, I think it's
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Speaker 2: absolute nonsense. Alfie says, your three sources and this NZME
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Speaker 2: story are probably three journalists talking to each other. Your
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Speaker 2: attempted destabilization of this democratically elected government is disgraceful. So
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Speaker 2: basically the story is that the whip of Sir Stuart Smith,
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Speaker 2: who's Cauy colda MP, whip of the party. This is
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Speaker 2: according to sources from Thomas Coglan at The Herald, the
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Speaker 2: whip of the party tried to get in touch with
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Speaker 2: Luxon to say you're doing a bit of a bad job.
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Speaker 2: We want to have a chat about it, and Luckson
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Speaker 2: apparently ghosted him. That's the story. And then there are
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Speaker 2: three sources, Thomas says, three sources that have told him
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Speaker 2: that they are the next two weeks. They may be
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Speaker 2: looking to do a coup or not a coup, but
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Speaker 2: tell him that he's doing a bad job. Hopefully force
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Speaker 2: his hand. Here's the thing about lux and he's going nowhere.
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Speaker 2: The guy is not going to quit. The reason this
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Speaker 2: is a dumb idea. And look, who knows whether it's
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Speaker 2: happening or not. Okay, I don't know that for certain.
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Speaker 2: I've spoken to people with a national who assure me
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Speaker 2: that it's not happening. But the thing is, if you're
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Speaker 2: one of those people who wants it to happen, you
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Speaker 2: don't want people to know that you want it to happen.
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Speaker 2: You know, you have to make it look like, oh well,
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Speaker 2: this is thet all just happened, and here I am,
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Speaker 2: and I'll take the job, including the likes of Chris Bishop.
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Speaker 2: Because Chris Bishop, this is last chance, last roll of
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Speaker 2: the dice for him. The guy is out, assuming he
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Speaker 2: doesn't take huts South and he only has a majority
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Speaker 2: of about fifteen hundred votes. The tie goes out on National,
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Speaker 2: which it looks like it is at the moment in
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Speaker 2: the polling, then he's gone, Okay, he doesn't have a job,
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Speaker 2: so what has he got to lose at this point?
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Speaker 2: You know, that's with stuff gets interesting. Nichola Willis, she's
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Speaker 2: number two on the list. She's going list only this election,
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Speaker 2: so she needs she's number two, so you would assume
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Speaker 2: that she would get back in, but all those party
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Speaker 2: vote spots get taken up by the electorate MPs first,
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Speaker 2: so she would need to have one seat left over
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Speaker 2: in order to take it and to get back in,
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Speaker 2: and that's a stretch too. So anyway, that's why this
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Speaker 2: is interesting, is it coo o'clock? I think they'd be
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Speaker 2: dumb to do it. I think the risk of them
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Speaker 2: looking like the you know, a bunch of school kids
20:36
Speaker 2: cat fighting amongst each other to save their own backs.
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Speaker 2: I think that would do more damage to National than
20:41
Speaker 2: going to the polls with lux and as leader Ryan
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Speaker 2: Bridge twenty one away from six, it's go to our reporters, Collen,
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Speaker 2: good morning morning, right, how's the Hyde Street party looking?
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Speaker 1: Will?
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Speaker 10: It's all go tomorrow the infamous Student Party. About four
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Speaker 10: thousand students expected to pack this street Ryan for what
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Speaker 10: is an annual event. The party has seen its share
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Speaker 10: of controversy over the years, most notably twenty twelve when
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Speaker 10: an overcrowded roof collapsed, but it's been well run in
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Speaker 10: recent times. It's organized these days by the University Students Association.
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Speaker 10: Here gets support from Red Frogs, Campus Watch and volunteers
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Speaker 10: on hand as well to help through the day. Police
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Speaker 10: say they'll have about ten officers there on hand through
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Speaker 10: the day. That's half of what they deploy for Saint
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Speaker 10: Patrick's Day. They say it's been run smoothly the last
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Speaker 10: few years and they're hoping like last year, there are
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Speaker 10: no arrests.
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Speaker 2: Yeah right. How's your weather?
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Speaker 10: A few afternoon showers today, Northery's becoming strong.
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Speaker 2: Seventeen the high cheers, Mate, Clear than christ Church morning.
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Speaker 11: Clear, Good morning.
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Speaker 2: You've got Supercars this weekend?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, well, we've actually got a packed weekend of events
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Speaker 12: here in christ Church. We've got the Supercars Championship here
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Speaker 12: from today for the next three days. There's also home
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Speaker 12: games for knit Ball, for the Tactics and also for
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Speaker 12: the Rams basketball and we have the Wellington Phoenix in
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Speaker 12: town this weekend they get the honor of having the
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Speaker 12: last ever game at Apollo Projects Stadium. This all, of course,
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Speaker 12: leads into next weekend's Super Rugby super Round, which marks
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Speaker 12: the opening of the new stadium Christchurg and z's head
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Speaker 12: of Major Events, Karina Finney, says, our events calendar would
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Speaker 12: normally peak between November and February, so to be able
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Speaker 12: to extend it through to April is really special and
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Speaker 12: something they've been working on for some time. Phinny says
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Speaker 12: Supercars alone, as an example, is expected to inject ten
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Speaker 12: million dollars in visitors spending into christ Church and will
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Speaker 12: attract fourteen thousand people from outside the city.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your wear? The clip should be.
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Speaker 12: Fine for the start of the weekend, at least becoming
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Speaker 12: cloudy a bit later. Westerly's turning strong northerly at a
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Speaker 12: hive twenty.
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Speaker 2: Nice one. Thank you Tobias in Wellington. Morning to best,
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Speaker 2: Good morning Ryan. So what's going on with the food waste?
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Speaker 13: Yes, so this is out of the post this morning.
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Speaker 13: Hospitality Z has been granted just over nineteen thousand dollars
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Speaker 13: from Wellington City Council to try and divert one hundred
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Speaker 13: tons of hospit waste from the city's eateries. So a
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Speaker 13: study by Waste m I n Z found the city's
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Speaker 13: cafes and restaurants they actually throw away twenty four thousand
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Speaker 13: tons of food annually. We also don't have curbside collection
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Speaker 13: for food waste, something a whole lot of cities do,
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Speaker 13: like Hamilton, Auckland and christ Church. So this new initiative
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Speaker 13: will use waste audits and visual surveys to sort in
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Speaker 13: waste scraps and look into a business model for composting.
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Speaker 13: It also provides suggestions which could include things like rethinking
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Speaker 13: your menu, so waste it doesn't apply.
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Speaker 2: Oh okay, how's your weather?
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Speaker 13: Mainly fine this afternoon though chance of a shower and
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Speaker 13: strong northwesterlies seventeen the high in Wellington.
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Speaker 2: Thanks to BS Neihvas and Auckland Morning NEVA Good Morning
23:43
Speaker 2: Tourism leaders Auckland boats that are trying to break into
23:46
Speaker 2: the American market.
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Speaker 14: That is correct. So look, it's the QWE North Tourism
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Speaker 14: Alliance and it's wrapping up a two week US road trip.
23:54
Speaker 14: So they've got their final event. That's happening in Los
23:56
Speaker 14: Angeles today. It's showcasing all what the North Island has
23:59
Speaker 14: to offer for Tartaki organd un Limited says that the
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Speaker 14: pictures have been made to more than about five hundred
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Speaker 14: and fifty travel agents. Apparently there's another further forty key
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Speaker 14: travel and lifestyle media agencies. They are going to be
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Speaker 14: attending today's session and this is all part of this.
24:16
Speaker 14: More than nine hundred and twenty thousand international travelers they
24:19
Speaker 14: came through Auckland Airport last month, which is up eight
24:21
Speaker 14: percent on March last year, but it also includes this
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Speaker 14: four percent increase in US travelers, so really trying to
24:28
Speaker 14: hit that US market.
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Speaker 2: One hundred percent. How's our weather, Harley cloudy.
24:32
Speaker 14: We've got isolated chails but they will clear. This evening
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Speaker 14: twenty is the high here in Auckland.
24:36
Speaker 2: Nice one, Thank you, enjoying your weekend. It is seventeen
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Speaker 2: minutes away from six News talks they'd be We're lying
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Speaker 2: to Vincent and the.
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Speaker 1: UK next international correspondence with ens and Eye Insurance, Peace
24:45
Speaker 1: of mind for New Zealand business.
24:47
Speaker 2: Got it to Sex News talk there. Vincent Macaviney are
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Speaker 2: UK your correspondent. Vincent Israel Lebanon. We're going to cease
24:53
Speaker 2: fire starting very soon.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, that's right. In a few hours time, they will
24:57
Speaker 15: start a ten day ceas fire. That is after there
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Speaker 15: has been a huge amount tens of thousands, not one,
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Speaker 15: hundreds of thousands displaced in Lebanon and over two thousand
25:08
Speaker 15: we believe killed since this conflict ramped up with Israel.
25:13
Speaker 15: The two countries don't actually have direct relations, they haven't
25:16
Speaker 15: had for thirty four years, but they have met this
25:19
Speaker 15: week in Washington, DC, and now Trump has said this
25:21
Speaker 15: deal is in place. He's invited the leaders to the
25:25
Speaker 15: White House next week to substantiate it further. But it
25:29
Speaker 15: comes as a question mark hangs over whether or not
25:32
Speaker 15: hes Buller, who is who are the Iran backed sort
25:35
Speaker 15: of terrorist organization that operates out of Lebanon, whether or
25:39
Speaker 15: not they will fully abide to it. At the moment,
25:41
Speaker 15: they're signaling they will, but that could be the problem
25:44
Speaker 15: that they decide to act unitarily in a couple of
25:47
Speaker 15: days and it could all collapse again.
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Speaker 2: Pope's sort of doubling down, I mean, not naming Trump
25:51
Speaker 2: at the time, but doubling down on us. I sort
25:53
Speaker 2: of thought when this story came out and it got
25:56
Speaker 2: all political that he might sort of pull back, But
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Speaker 2: it doesn't seem like he's doing that at all.
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Speaker 15: No, it doesn't seem so at all. He's on a
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Speaker 15: visit to Cameroon and without naming names, he's criticized leaders
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Speaker 15: who spend billions on wars and said the world as
26:10
Speaker 15: being ravaged by a handful of tyrants. And he said
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Speaker 15: that he blasted those who manipulated the very name of
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Speaker 15: God for their own gain. And he talks about the
26:23
Speaker 15: fact that these leaders are spending so much billions of
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Speaker 15: dollars on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing,
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Speaker 15: education and restoration are nowhere to be found. So, you know,
26:33
Speaker 15: this is a pope that had been quite quiet initially
26:36
Speaker 15: in his first year. It's a year since he was
26:39
Speaker 15: elected at Pontiff, and now it seems that he has
26:43
Speaker 15: founders footing, that he has found his voice, and I
26:46
Speaker 15: think he is going to be more direct and it's
26:48
Speaker 15: maybe not surprising in the world where there is so
26:51
Speaker 15: much turmoil people saying, you know, this is the most
26:54
Speaker 15: kind of kinetic that international relations have been since the
26:58
Speaker 15: sort of pre World War II period that he thinks
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Speaker 15: now is the time to speak out.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate your time this morning, Vincent Macavini, a UK europe correspondent.
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Speaker 2: It is twelve minutes away from six r and Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Motor Transport Association worried about car crashes from new WAFF
27:12
Speaker 2: rules from November. Most cars are going to need checks
27:16
Speaker 2: less often, which is good if you want to save
27:18
Speaker 2: some money. So four to fourteen year old vehicles every
27:21
Speaker 2: two years. If your car is more than fourteen years old,
27:24
Speaker 2: you'll go from six monthly to annual. James McDowell was
27:27
Speaker 2: with the MTA joins us this morning. Hey James.
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Speaker 1: Are you yeah?
27:31
Speaker 2: Good? Thank you? So what is the which part of
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Speaker 2: this is the most egregious one you're worried about?
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Speaker 16: I guess there's a few things and these changes that
27:44
Speaker 16: are concerning from our perspective. And so at NTAUR membership
27:48
Speaker 16: does about eighty percent of the inspections in New Zealand
27:52
Speaker 16: and so we get to see the I guess you
27:54
Speaker 16: could say the condition of cars when you're brought in.
27:57
Speaker 16: We look at the failure rates in particularly because a
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Speaker 16: wolf is a snapshot in time, you're going to have
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Speaker 16: vehicles that are quite marginal that will still get a wolf.
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Speaker 1: It might have.
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Speaker 16: Tires that are say just above the threshold, or breaks
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Speaker 16: that are just above the threshold, and then we'll lending
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Speaker 16: them off for another you know, letting them go for
28:17
Speaker 16: another two years. And if if the owner of that
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Speaker 16: vehicle is not paying close attention to these things, that's
28:24
Speaker 16: when you get problems that simply just get worse to
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Speaker 16: a point where it's very unsafe but also will cost
28:31
Speaker 16: them the long run. And I think that's you know,
28:33
Speaker 16: if you say, what's the most egregious that the government
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Speaker 16: saying this will save anywhere between two and four billion
28:39
Speaker 16: dollars over thirty years promotorists, Well, first of all, that's
28:44
Speaker 16: a very large, wide, disparate number. But secondly, when they
28:48
Speaker 16: talk about things like hold, you know, repairs what need
28:51
Speaker 16: to be done, and you'll save money because of that, actually,
28:53
Speaker 16: I mean that's just nonsense. Obviously. You know, even if
28:57
Speaker 16: your wolf is delayed, you're still going to have to
28:59
Speaker 16: get things of it eventually, and if the problem's worse,
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Speaker 16: it's going to costume more.
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Speaker 9: So.
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Speaker 16: It's both a safety issue, well first and foremost a
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Speaker 16: safety issue, but also just presented in such a such
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Speaker 16: a bizarre way.
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Speaker 2: James, what I think The dumbest thing about all of
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Speaker 2: this is that we do it on time and not distance. Anyway,
29:17
Speaker 2: Surely distance would be the most accurate way of determining
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Speaker 2: how Boggajakar.
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Speaker 16: Is for sure, And there is potentially in the work program.
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Speaker 16: I mean, when we all move to universal world charges,
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Speaker 16: which has been talked about it more recently with the
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Speaker 16: current fuel crosis situation and taxation sayings, when we all
29:41
Speaker 16: were to digital ruck and things are attracted much more cleverly,
29:45
Speaker 16: then there's a good opportunity there to look at distance.
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Speaker 16: We don't quite have the technology at the moment, but
29:51
Speaker 16: I think in the coming years that is something that
29:54
Speaker 16: we could look at.
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Speaker 2: Hey, just wondering because you're I mean, you represent your
29:59
Speaker 2: members are going to lose money, aren't they. We're not
30:01
Speaker 2: getting our walls done as often. Is that why you're
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Speaker 2: against it?
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Speaker 16: If someone is just purely doing vehicle inspections, which is
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Speaker 16: not that many of our membership obviously, like the B
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Speaker 16: ten Deads and some of the others, that's that's their
30:16
Speaker 16: bread and butter. They will see less revenue, I'm sure,
30:20
Speaker 16: and have to pivot and think of ways to you know,
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Speaker 16: but that's a commercial decision. For them, but the repair
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Speaker 16: sector for them. You know, quite honestly, they said, well,
30:31
Speaker 16: in the long runners will probably make us more money.
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Speaker 16: So they're all comfortable with that because you know, at
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Speaker 16: the end of the day, you know, if someone's leaving
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Speaker 16: their brake pads to wear out completely, it's going to
30:42
Speaker 16: destroy the roads as well, and that's an even bigger repair.
30:45
Speaker 16: So they're not concerned about that in this rightist and
30:48
Speaker 16: when I did ask the question very directly, members, they've said,
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Speaker 16: this is about safety at.
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Speaker 1: What we see.
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Speaker 2: James, appreciate your time this morning. James mcdoell, MJHAD of Adcacy.
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Speaker 2: It's eight minutes away from six.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on early edition with Spunk for Business Technology
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Speaker 2: An interesting story for you this morning out of the
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Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal. So you know, Trump wants more manufacturing.
31:11
Speaker 2: He wants more defense manufacturing especially, and he wants more
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Speaker 2: critical minerals, and he wants minerals that you don't have
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Speaker 2: to go through China for. He's done a deal with
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Speaker 2: the Philippines and they're building and details are very vague
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Speaker 2: at this point, but an artificial intelligence powered manufacturing hub
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Speaker 2: on a four thousand acre site in Manila, and the
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Speaker 2: government will occupy the site rent free. It's going to
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Speaker 2: be a special economic zone, first of its kind sort
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Speaker 2: of deal that they've done a two year initial least
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Speaker 2: renewable for ninety nine years. And the reason he's done
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Speaker 2: it with the Philippines is because they have nickel, they
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Speaker 2: have copper, they have chromite, and they have coalbalt Brian Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Fike's here now on your Friday morning morning, Mike Gilby,
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Speaker 2: you'll be stoked about that herald story on that look.
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Speaker 11: But do you know Thomas?
31:59
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't. Well, yes, I mean I've worked with
32:02
Speaker 2: him a little bit in the gallery and I've worked
32:05
Speaker 2: with him sort of remotely from him. Would you stand
32:07
Speaker 2: behind him, Yes, I would. I don't. Thomas is not
32:11
Speaker 2: making up that he has three I agree with that.
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Speaker 2: And that's the interesting part about the story for me,
32:16
Speaker 2: because I heard you talking to Sam outside about it before.
32:20
Speaker 2: But I think for me the interesting part is that
32:21
Speaker 2: three people are talking to Thomas.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, well, yeah, it depends who they are. I was
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Speaker 11: talking to someone literally yesterday who said the opposite, and
32:28
Speaker 11: that person would be as in the loop as anybody.
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Speaker 2: Yes, if it's the person I think you're talking about.
32:36
Speaker 2: They don't want you to know that they want that job.
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Speaker 11: No, oh no, no, it's a different person. No, it's
32:41
Speaker 11: a different person. I don't know, it's completely different person.
32:43
Speaker 11: But here's the interesting thing. If they look to roll Luxon,
32:48
Speaker 11: all they're doing is shooting themselves in the first I've
32:50
Speaker 11: got a theory, and I think I'm going to be
32:52
Speaker 11: proved to be right on this. He's so successful Luxon
32:55
Speaker 11: at running this coalition that you feel safe in supporting
32:59
Speaker 11: news Land First an act, whereas once upon a time
33:02
Speaker 11: under MP, the small guy's vanished in your panicked. So
33:05
Speaker 11: this is a successful collective. The price you're paying is
33:08
Speaker 11: that National bleeds support to the other guys.
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Speaker 2: I have a theory that the closer we get to
33:12
Speaker 2: the election and people realize the coalition government is going
33:15
Speaker 2: to return, all of those labor voters are going to
33:17
Speaker 2: start backing Winston, and Winston's vote will surge even further.
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Speaker 2: I think you're wrong.
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Speaker 11: I think you're wrong. I don't think that I don't
33:24
Speaker 11: think that's impossible. But I'll tell you this, there is
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Speaker 11: not a time in history that New Zealand First has
33:29
Speaker 11: got fifteen or anywhere close to it.
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Speaker 2: And this isn't it. It is the time they will
33:34
Speaker 2: get close to fifteen percent.
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Speaker 11: Do you want to bet? Let's have a bet right now,
33:38
Speaker 11: let's have one hundred dollars, one hundred dollars. Well you
33:40
Speaker 11: make it?
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Speaker 2: Oh your one hundred is my ten?
33:42
Speaker 11: Okay, one hundred and ten. I say he won't get fifteen.
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Speaker 2: You say I said close to? Okay, thirteen, thirteen to fifteen.
33:50
Speaker 11: His original vote, You remember when you started all those
33:52
Speaker 11: years ago was thirteen.
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Speaker 2: Best score ever was thirteen. So it's Winston's year.
33:57
Speaker 11: Well, hey, guess who we've got on after seven Chris
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