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Dame Joan Withers: Warehouse Group Chairperson on the Mood of the Boardroom survey, education being a priority · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: The Herald's annual Mood of the Boardroom is out. CEOs
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  Speaker 2: and directors say they like the Prime Minister, they like
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  Speaker 2: the Finance Minister, they like the Education Minister, Erica Stanford especially,
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  Speaker 2: but they don't like Adrian All, the Reserve Bank governor.
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  Speaker 2: And the thing that they're most worried about in this
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  Speaker 2: country right now is energy prices. The Warehouse Group chairperson
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  Speaker 2: Dame Joan With has took part in a warning.
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  Speaker 3: Joan Morning, Heather.
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  Speaker 2: I'm fascinated by your top three issues because I agree
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  Speaker 2: wholeheartedly with your education and truancy, But why did you
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  Speaker 2: put that in there.
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  Speaker 3: I think living in South Auckland, you know, it's my
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  Speaker 3: entire married life, and just seeing what's happening and operating
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  Speaker 3: a bit more in Central City in terms of my
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  Speaker 3: business and corporate activity, I just see the disconnect and
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  Speaker 3: I think we've got major issues if we don't address this.
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  Speaker 3: I think the government are mapped with some really good moves,
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  Speaker 3: but I think it's got to be an imperative because
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  Speaker 3: it really undercomes the future of New Zealand and not
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  Speaker 3: only in terms of the caliber of what we do
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  Speaker 3: and how we grow as an economy, but I think
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  Speaker 3: by making sure we don't leave people behind as far
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  Speaker 3: as education is concerned, we are doing something to mitigate
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  Speaker 3: the risk of social disruption and disconnect such as we've
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  Speaker 3: seen in other jurisdictions around the world.
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  Speaker 2: There seems to be a general consensus as well, just
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  Speaker 2: on other cabinet ministers, that Chris Luxen and Nikola Willis
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  Speaker 2: are both doing well but sort of still need to
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  Speaker 2: prove themselves. Would you agree with that?
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  Speaker 3: I think they've done incredibly well. I think they have
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  Speaker 3: addressed the key issues up front or tried to do
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  Speaker 3: as much as they can, which is stabilizing the economy,
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  Speaker 3: trying to get gross back, getting inflation down. But I think,
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  Speaker 3: having just had the chance to glance through the article
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  Speaker 3: in this morning's Herald, certain consensus from business people is
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  Speaker 3: right now we need to pivot. We need to get
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  Speaker 3: on with things. We need to start thinking about our
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  Speaker 3: future and get on with maximizing the New Zealand's opportunities
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  Speaker 3: both tomessiply but also obviously yes in terms of our
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  Speaker 3: place in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so are you looking for a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: that big picture stuff about where they take us.
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  Speaker 3: I think that would be good. I totally understand that
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  Speaker 3: the hierarchy of priorities, and you know, the economy is
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  Speaker 3: still doing it really tough and it's interesting reading that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, people are probably more positive about the future,
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  Speaker 3: but a lot of companies are seeing the hero now
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  Speaker 3: is pretty grim. So the government really had to address that.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I think we all want to put our
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  Speaker 3: chins up and say where's New Zealand's place in the
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  Speaker 3: world going forward?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Would you agree with the sentiment which comes through
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  Speaker 2: really strongly that Adrian or has completely overcooked this in
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  Speaker 2: both directions.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not prepared to comment on Adrian's performance as governor
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  Speaker 3: of the Reserved in income a director of ain ZED.
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  Speaker 3: I can understand how difficult it is, and I think
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  Speaker 3: even now, if you read some of the articles, I
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  Speaker 3: think people are saying, yes, maybe for the cycle, we're
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  Speaker 3: on top of we're on top of inflation. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: I can understand that that it was essential that he
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  Speaker 3: got that under control. It's just now about how quickly
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  Speaker 3: people respond to an ocr cut. We've seen one, what
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  Speaker 3: happens next and you're just making sure that we don't
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  Speaker 3: all the momentum now going forward?
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  Speaker 2: What are you looking for, Johan you Ricke, are you
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  Speaker 2: putting your money on twenty five or fifty next week?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm praying for fifty.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we all. J Joan, thank you. I really appreciated
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  Speaker 2: Dame Joan with as the Warehouse Group chairperson.
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