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Full Show Podcast: 13 November 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 3: Morning and welcome to Thursday, just gone six after five
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Speaker 3: coming up? What will it cost us to get rid
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Speaker 3: of Costa? Mitch mccannon is in the US. New Epstein
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Speaker 3: emails from Beyond the Grave Oyster farmer compensation, FENS is
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Speaker 3: cutting jobs and we'll look at what next year could
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Speaker 3: be the overhang.
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Speaker 1: Election, the agenda birth this.
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Speaker 3: Morning, Thursday, the threneth and November we got more Epstein emails,
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Speaker 3: this time ones that referenced Trump.
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Speaker 4: In an April twenty eleven email released by Democrats on
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Speaker 4: the House Oversight Committee, lawmakers say Epstein wrote to his
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Speaker 4: now convicted accomplice, Gilen Maxwell, three years after pleading guilty
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Speaker 4: to sex crimes involving a minor, telling her, I want
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Speaker 4: you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is Trump.
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Speaker 4: Unnamed victims spent hours at my house with him. He
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Speaker 4: has never once been mentioned. According to the released emails,
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Speaker 4: Maxwell response, I have been thinking about that.
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Speaker 3: Now, Gilaine. In the emails, she's referred to as Gmax.
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Speaker 3: So Gmax has been backing up Trump.
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Speaker 5: I never witnessed the President in any inappropriate setting in
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Speaker 5: any way. The President is never inappropriate with anybody. In
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Speaker 5: the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman.
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Speaker 3: Okay, Are you only saying that because you want to
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Speaker 3: be moved to a lower security situation? Possibly rumors are swelling.
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Speaker 3: This is in the UK wishments that Kirs Starmer could
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Speaker 3: be well out of a job, possibly right after the
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Speaker 3: budget that's in two weeks time. The Health sectory with
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Speaker 3: streating might be eyeing his job, although he's denying it.
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Speaker 6: Someone's definitely been watching too much celebrity traitors in Downing Street.
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Speaker 6: I think they should swap it for Country File in
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Speaker 6: the future and calm down a bit. I am a
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Speaker 6: faithful These sorts of silly briefings out of Downing Street
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Speaker 6: are extremely self defeating, not least because they have now
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Speaker 6: given the public the impression the Prime Minister is fighting
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Speaker 6: for his job. No he isn't.
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Speaker 3: Finally approaches at COP thirty in brazila they protesting against
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Speaker 3: climate change for climate chargement.
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Speaker 7: Some of them were waving funners, saying things like our
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Speaker 7: forest is not for sale. There were some classes, as
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Speaker 7: I say, with both un and local Brazilian security as well.
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Speaker 7: That led to a few minor injuries.
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Speaker 3: One news talks, I'd be eight after five. Bad news,
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Speaker 3: you haven't won lotto. Good news, no one's won lotto,
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Speaker 3: so you can do it again on Saturday. Jesus, it's
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Speaker 3: a scam, isn't it? How much money are you spending
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Speaker 3: on lotto right now? I was talking to McKenzie earlier
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Speaker 3: this morning and we were talking about the scratchees, which
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Speaker 3: I used to get when I was I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I think it was sort of like a Christmas thing.
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Speaker 3: You'd get it in your stocking or something like that.
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Speaker 3: But when I was young, like sixteen seventeen, that was
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Speaker 3: the most exciting thing you could do in Why can
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Speaker 3: I but what a scam? That was never won a thing.
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Speaker 3: I must have spent it was probably getting one a
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Speaker 3: week for a while. There Never once did I win
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Speaker 3: on a scratcheet. They are the real scam. But how
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Speaker 3: much are you spinning on lotto? Is it worth it
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Speaker 3: And how much longer can this go on? Well, apparently
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Speaker 3: not much longer. Fifty five million dollars on Saturday and
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Speaker 3: that will be that. Now I want to talk to
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Speaker 3: you about jeven mcskimming because the hero's got a news
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Speaker 3: story out this morning. You know, the woman at the
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Speaker 3: at the center of all of this stuff. She and
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Speaker 3: she was facing a prosecution from police over the mixed
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Speaker 3: skimming emails that she was sending, the so called harassment,
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Speaker 3: that she was doing, the alleged harassment, and then police
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Speaker 3: dropped that charge. Right Well, Jared Savage has a story
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Speaker 3: in the Herald today that woman is still facing charges.
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Speaker 3: She's facing a separate charge in August this year, she
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Speaker 3: allegedly sent abusive emails to the officer in charge of
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Speaker 3: the original prosecution against her. She also allegedly sent emails
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Speaker 3: to this detective's wife, and the court documents, well they
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Speaker 3: say the ten emails were sent with intent to cause
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Speaker 3: serious emotional distress. Now, what's interesting about all of this
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Speaker 3: and this development this morning is the fact that it
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Speaker 3: could drag Costa. It could drag him into court potentially
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Speaker 3: next year, because he could be called to give evidence
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Speaker 3: because what's going to happen, and if this is all
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Speaker 3: alleged at this stage, but what's going to happen is
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Speaker 3: her lawyer is going to come out and say, well,
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Speaker 3: there's abuse going on here, there's abusive process in the prosecution.
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Speaker 3: Exhibit A is the IPCA report, which we've all seen
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Speaker 3: and well, you know we need to call witnesses, and
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Speaker 3: who are the witnesses? Well, look at the report, it's Costa.
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Speaker 3: So that is going to I mean, this thing's just
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Speaker 3: not going to go away in a hurry, is it.
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Speaker 3: Unlike I think Costa, who, as I said yesterday, is
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Speaker 3: bound to lose his job. Now. Interesting question this morning
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Speaker 3: is how much is that going to cost us? And
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Speaker 3: how do you actually do it? We'll talk to Max
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Speaker 3: Whitehead about that just before six this morning, cry Bridge
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Speaker 3: five eleven. So what is a back office staff? What
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Speaker 3: does a front office staff member? That is the question
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Speaker 3: for FORIGN emergency, because they're firing a whole bunch of people.
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Speaker 3: But at what point, you know, obviously a fight, we
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Speaker 3: can all see a firefighter and know what a frontline
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Speaker 3: firefighter looks like and does, But what about the people
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Speaker 3: that support them? Can the frontline do their bit without them?
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Speaker 3: We'll talk to the union about this. Next News Talks vb.
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Speaker 3: It is five poin fourteen on News TALKSB. So here's
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Speaker 3: the email from Jeffrey Epstein to Gmax to Gallaine Maxwell
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Speaker 3: concerning Trump. The Democrats have released us, by the way,
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Speaker 3: from the House Oversight Committee. They're looking into it all.
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Speaker 3: So he says, it's April second, twenty eleven. Epstein writes
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Speaker 3: to Maxwell, I want you to realize that that dog
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Speaker 3: that hasn't barked as Trump. He then mentions a victim's name,
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Speaker 3: and he said so and so spent ours at my
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Speaker 3: house with him, implying that Trump had spent ours at
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Speaker 3: his house at Epstein's house with a victim. X y
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Speaker 3: Z doesn't name it anyway. They are apparently trying to
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Speaker 3: get the full documents released in this will, as you
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Speaker 3: can imagine, play out today. We'll have Mitch McCann from
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Speaker 3: the US A back called to six Brands is proposing
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Speaker 3: to cut more than one hundred jobs, nothing on the
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Speaker 3: front line. They say it needs to save seventy million
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Speaker 3: dollars a year, ten percent of its annual budget eight
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Speaker 3: hundred million. Of this, the majority, vast majority, comes from
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Speaker 3: levies that we pay through insurance. Flurfitt Simon's is the
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Speaker 3: PSA National secretary with me this morning, Flir, good morning,
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Speaker 3: good morning. There's a difference between how many jobs they
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Speaker 3: they say are on the line and how many. You say,
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Speaker 3: what's the difference? Why the difference?
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Speaker 8: So we've counted through their document. There are two hundred
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Speaker 8: and sixty page document. We've looked at the number of
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Speaker 8: roles we think are going and new roles being created.
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Speaker 8: We tried to check those numbers with FINS, but they
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Speaker 8: wouldn't give us confirmation. But actually we say none of
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Speaker 8: these jobs should be going because by reducing these roles,
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Speaker 8: we will make New Zealanders less safe when it comes
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Speaker 8: to protecting us from natural hazards and fires and emergencies.
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Speaker 3: So they say, are net one hundred and forty positions?
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Speaker 3: You're saying how many?
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Speaker 8: We say a net loss of one six y nine.
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Speaker 8: But regardless, New Zealand cannot afford to lose these.
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Speaker 3: Specialists, all right, So what jobs are we talking about?
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Speaker 3: Not frontline? Right?
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Speaker 8: The sorts of jobs that work on prevention operational response,
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Speaker 8: we're seeing them get rid of wildfire specialists. We're really
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Speaker 8: concerned that the people that support the front line, so
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Speaker 8: the people that for example, do the administrative work around
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Speaker 8: volunteer firefighters, are being cut significant. Some of those people
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Speaker 8: have been there for thirty years that have learnt how
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Speaker 8: to do their job very very well. They do it
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Speaker 8: very efficiently. They've given a lot of service to New
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Speaker 8: Zealand and we're just throwing them on the scrap peek.
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Speaker 3: It's unreal how many how many wildfire specialists do we
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Speaker 3: have and how many would be we be reduced to.
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Speaker 8: This is the thing with this proposal. A lot of
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Speaker 8: the numbers are a lot of the roles going are
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Speaker 8: putting jobs into other roles, so littered throughout the proposal
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Speaker 8: is other people will pick up this work, so there
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Speaker 8: will still definitely be a core of people left at FENS.
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Speaker 8: But actually ten percent reduction in a workforce is decimating that.
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Speaker 9: Workforce, Well, you cannot achieve it is.
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Speaker 8: The test of what decimating is It is decimating this workforce.
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Speaker 3: Many of what what's the test of decimating? Sorry, ten
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Speaker 3: percent is considered decimating a workforce?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a military term and it is it is
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Speaker 8: what you can what we do to make something less effective,
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Speaker 8: and that is what they had They are driving down.
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Speaker 3: Effectiveness of size doesn't mean efficiency. Size doesn't mean you're
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Speaker 3: doing a good job. A good job is done when
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Speaker 3: a good job is done. So the question is the
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Speaker 3: question is are these jobs mission critical and FENS seems
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Speaker 3: to be saying they're not.
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Speaker 8: SENS has had this forced on them by the government
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Speaker 8: that is forcing these cuts. FENS doesn't think that it
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Speaker 8: can operate in this way in the document itself.
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Speaker 3: So why is the government forcing these cuts when the
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Speaker 3: vast majority of their funding comes from us through levees.
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Speaker 8: Well, the government refused to let FENDS increase the levy,
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Speaker 8: they are also requiring further cuts. It is a dereliction
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Speaker 8: of duty by Brook van Valden. Her job is to
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Speaker 8: make sure that Fire and Emergency in New Zealand can
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Speaker 8: keep New Zealand as safe from fires and natural disasters.
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Speaker 8: Her job is not to force these kind of cuts
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Speaker 8: that will make it less able to do its core functions.
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Speaker 3: All right, FLU appreciate you times wanting flufit Simons from
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Speaker 3: the PSA time is eighteen minutes after five the water
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Speaker 3: care in Auckland pumping the poo into the water while
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Speaker 3: the oysters are trying to grow. Not great, obviously, compensation
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Speaker 3: is it enough?
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Speaker 3: Talks that'd be twenty past five. Lots of people are
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Speaker 3: texting in about the unions. We just had them on
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Speaker 3: the program talking about fins. Ryan, just shush about this.
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Speaker 3: Let's hear from the other side. This is the problem
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Speaker 3: in a many of you saying when we can hear
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Speaker 3: from fins, where you don't hear from fins because while
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Speaker 3: they consult on a proposal like this, they don't talk publicly.
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Speaker 3: They declined to talk to us because and this is
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Speaker 3: what happens whenever a situation like this arises, because if
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Speaker 3: they go out and talk, then the employees who are
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Speaker 3: being restructured can take a PG. So they're kind of
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Speaker 3: their hands are tied. So it is a one sided
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Speaker 3: These are always a generally a one sided debate. Five
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Speaker 3: twenty one, Brian Bridge water Care is set to pay
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Speaker 3: one million dollars in settlement to ten oyster farmers affected
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Speaker 3: by a sewage spill. Around twelve hundred cubic metres of
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Speaker 3: wastewater entered the Mahuangi River, forcing farmers to halt harvesting
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Speaker 3: for nearly a month and that done. Is chair of
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Speaker 3: the Oyster Farmers Association, Mahudangi Oyster Farmers Association joining me
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Speaker 3: this morning. The net good morning, good morning. So a
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Speaker 3: million bucks, What's how far does that go?
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Speaker 9: It goes between ten farmers. So it's it's basically just
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Speaker 9: to get over this little hunt that we're just going
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Speaker 9: through at the moment. But there's further evaluations that need
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Speaker 9: to be done that need to be sort of finalized
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Speaker 9: with the amount of demage has been done to the
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Speaker 9: harbor and the reputation of the Mahongy oyster farmers over
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Speaker 9: the next two months.
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Speaker 3: Are there only ten farmers in the area or what
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Speaker 3: is Are there others that have been affected that aren't
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Speaker 3: getting compensated.
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Speaker 9: There's ten farmers in the Maharani Harbor that are part
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Speaker 9: of the cost center. We have spent catching farmers that
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Speaker 9: are in the harbor, which they've got big operators. They
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Speaker 9: catch oysters from the Mahari and transport them through to
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Speaker 9: the Corimandel and cleaveden.
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Speaker 3: How much do you reckon this has cost the individual farmers.
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Speaker 9: A really farmers different so like every farmer of farms
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Speaker 9: and their orters in a different way. So I can't
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Speaker 9: really sort of like put an exact pin number on
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Speaker 9: each farmer.
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Speaker 3: What does it do to your your reputation? I mean
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Speaker 3: if you're now I mean I'm talking about Mahadania oysters
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Speaker 3: and I'm talking about sewage.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, well, you know the biggest thing is, you know,
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Speaker 9: like what price do they put on not being able
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Speaker 9: to swim fish and eat delicious oysters?
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Speaker 10: You know?
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Speaker 9: A million is not enough each each and every day
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Speaker 9: the harvest shut their stories about wastewater and the oyster.
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Speaker 9: Our reputation as the marching oyster farmers continues just to
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Speaker 9: be damaged.
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Speaker 3: And I owned, I completely agree with you. And they're
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Speaker 3: not compensating for that at this point, are they? It
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Speaker 3: does seem it does seem to be fair to them
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Speaker 3: that Lake Water Care is genuinely engaged like listening and
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Speaker 3: talking and paying. Is that fair.
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Speaker 9: For this incidence? Yes?
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Speaker 3: But not others? No, how many others.
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Speaker 9: We've had, like I think thirty two thirty five skills.
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Speaker 9: Throughout the last year, we've been open probably about five
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Speaker 9: or six weeks for the whole year, so it's been
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Speaker 9: tougher for every farmer.
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Speaker 3: And this is the only one they're paying out for.
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Speaker 9: This is the one accepting liability for because it supposedly
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Speaker 9: was a power food that their pump stations have failed.
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Speaker 3: Lynette, appreciate your trying this morning. Nette Done, chair of
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Speaker 3: the Mahani Oyster Association. Twenty four minutes after five News
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Speaker 3: It is five twenty six. I've seen a lot of
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Speaker 3: commentary in the last couple of days about our government's
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Speaker 3: debt position. We're up over forty percent of GDP, doubled
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Speaker 3: on pre COVID. You already know all of this, but
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Speaker 3: there are those on the left who say that is
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Speaker 3: way too little. Basically, we should borrow more. Forget about
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Speaker 3: a debt selling, borrow more, throw it at the public service.
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Speaker 3: Create some jobs, any jobs who cares, just get them
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Speaker 3: out there right And that's what Karne is doing in
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Speaker 3: Canada right now. His budget would double the debt position
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Speaker 3: debt to GDP ratio, they've got Trump tariffs coming at them,
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Speaker 3: they've got weak domestic demand. So he's basically getting out
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Speaker 3: the defenb and he's trying to revive the economy. And
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Speaker 3: make no mistake, if a labor lead government were to
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Speaker 3: get and that is exactly what they would be doing here.
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Speaker 3: Maybe not to the same extent. The problem is we
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Speaker 3: don't know. Chrislkins has said, yeah, we need to invest more, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: Knesan economics, et cetera, et cetera, but how much don't know?
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Speaker 3: To party Maldi and the Greens, you know, will make
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Speaker 3: sure that they do more and on spend the money
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Speaker 3: on what that is the question. Now, remember Robertson had
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Speaker 3: a debt ceiling thirty percent of GDP. Well, that didn't
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Speaker 3: go very well. Didn't last very long, did it. The
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Speaker 3: fact is it's quite popular to spend money. It sounds
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Speaker 3: like you're doing something. The more you spend, the more
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Speaker 3: you care. That's the kind of prevalent theory, isn't it. Actually,
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Speaker 3: If you look at average public debt, the ratio to
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Speaker 3: GDP for big economies advanced economies, it's roughly one hundred
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Speaker 3: and ten percent. So we are way under that. But
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Speaker 3: we need to remember we're a small country, we're a
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Speaker 3: trading country. We are exposed and we're in the middle
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Speaker 3: of a trade wall. It's not forget. What we need
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Speaker 3: is headroom. Now, morning Star, they've just given the government
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Speaker 3: the triple A credit rating. They said as much. And
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Speaker 3: as for those banks we've been talking about this week,
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Speaker 3: massive profits and everyone's saying, oh, it's so evil, it's
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Speaker 3: so nasty. Well, turns out in the same morning Star report,
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Speaker 3: it's actually quite important that we have profitable banks. Morning
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Speaker 3: Star says that we've weathered this housing market correction so
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Speaker 3: well because in part of well capitalized banks that are
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Speaker 3: also very liquid, that have strong buffers to absorb losses.
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Speaker 3: So not all is as it seems. Bank profits and
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Speaker 3: a seemingly stingy government insisting on returning the books to
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Speaker 3: surplus not only keep our interest rates down but also
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Speaker 3: help keep us afloat.
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Speaker 10: Bryan Bridge now it's.
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Speaker 3: Staying Afloat's hard for Starmer at the moment over in
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Speaker 3: the UK because there is talk and it's actually coming
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Speaker 3: from they reckon inside Number ten that he's been challenged
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Speaker 3: for the leadership, and he's saying, oh no, no, no, I'm
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Speaker 3: all good. I'm staying in.
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Speaker 11: My team and I are absolutely focused on delivering for
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Speaker 11: the country. I'm lately be clear, of course, mister speaker.
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Speaker 11: I'm never authorized attach on Covenant members. I appoint them
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Speaker 11: to that post because they're the best people to carry
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Speaker 11: out their jobs.
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Speaker 3: Problems problem for Starmer is the numbers that they're getting
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Speaker 3: in the polls. So if you have a look at those,
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Speaker 3: and the backbenches are starting to get nervous. I mean
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Speaker 3: they're only sixteen months into this. They had a landslide victory,
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Speaker 3: but the most recent UGUB survey had Labor in fourth
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Speaker 3: place behind Reform, the Tories and the Greens seventeen percent,
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Speaker 3: the lowest result ever recorded by that Polster. News Talk
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Speaker 3: Twenty four away six News Talk said, be great to
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Speaker 3: cross to the US. There's a new Epstein email from
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Speaker 3: Beyond the Grave. Mitch mccan joins us and before six
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Speaker 3: o'clock we'll look at the best and quickest way to
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Speaker 3: get rid of Costco if that's what they want to do,
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Speaker 3: of course, and that is a still an if at
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Speaker 3: this point. Now instant Key, with so many people have
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Speaker 3: texted him, I just said that, you know, the lotto
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Speaker 3: the scratch is just a bit of a scam. I mean,
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Speaker 3: I'm sure people do win, and clearly they do, because
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Speaker 3: that's what you're telling me, Ryan, scratches are not a scam,
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Speaker 3: says Jan. A friend of mine won forty thousand dollars
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Speaker 3: a couple of years back. Yeah, but Jan, that's one
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Speaker 3: friend a couple of years ago. They're probably the only
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Speaker 3: person who's ever won in the history of the world. Ryan,
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Speaker 3: I buy four lines of Power Bull. It's only six
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Speaker 3: bucks for the ticket, so not that much of an expense.
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Speaker 3: That's probably the better way to do it than the
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Speaker 3: twenty dollars one every time, Ryan, instant keyw we isn't
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Speaker 3: a scam. I won one hundred thousand dollars and twenty
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Speaker 3: thirteen on a five dollars scratch. Okay, great, So now
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Speaker 3: we have two winners over more than ten years. We've
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Speaker 3: got two winners and twelve years sounds like a scam.
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Speaker 3: If it walks as Judas say is, if it walks
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Speaker 3: like a scam, talks like a scam, quacks like as scam,
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Speaker 3: it's probably a scam. Twenty three minutes away from sextular
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Speaker 3: reporters around the country, Calum Propter in Donedian Calum, good morning.
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Speaker 12: Morning Rhyino won ten bucks once?
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Speaker 3: Okay, how long ago, Clum? Oh, within the last year anyway? Okay,
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Speaker 3: all right, so we have three winners in the last
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Speaker 3: twelve years. Okay, great? And how much did the ticket
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Speaker 3: cost you, Colum?
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Speaker 12: Well, the the five dollars one I think I bought,
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Speaker 12: so double my money? Well no, yeah, I got my
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Speaker 12: money back a little bit more.
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Speaker 3: Hey, you've got some water in Dunedin and the plans
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Speaker 3: all signed off.
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Speaker 12: It has the Secretary for Local Governments signed on the
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Speaker 12: dotted line, so we're good to go for the next
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Speaker 12: ten years. Here this plan is required as part of
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Speaker 12: the government's Local Water Done Well reform. It sets out
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Speaker 12: how water services will be delivered and funded for the
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Speaker 12: next decade for duned and it also confirms the Council
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Speaker 12: will retain in house control of our drinking water, waste
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Speaker 12: water and stormwater services. Our Mayor, Sophie Barker says this
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Speaker 12: model will continue to make it easier to coordinate water
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Speaker 12: with other services they also provide. It'll be a staged
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Speaker 12: implementation completed to meet financial sustainability requirements by July twenty
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Speaker 12: twenty eight.
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Speaker 3: All right, how's your where they come? Our chance for
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Speaker 3: shower here today?
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Speaker 12: Hopefully they stay away for the cricket here Southeasterly's fifteen the.
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Speaker 3: Height, brilliant, thank you, clear as the christ It's clear,
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Speaker 3: good morning, good morning, you've got The AMP show.
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Speaker 13: Yes Country comes to the city from today. Thousands are
20:33
Speaker 13: expected at the Agricultural Park. This year it has gained
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Speaker 13: its royal status for the first time since twenty ten.
20:40
Speaker 13: That means the show is known as the Royal Amp
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Speaker 13: Show of New Zealand, hosted by the Canterbury Amp now
20:47
Speaker 13: Canterbury Amp Association Chair Sir David Carter says being a
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Speaker 13: royal show does tend to attract far more entries and visitors.
20:55
Speaker 13: He says there's already good interest, with the likes of
20:57
Speaker 13: trade entries up twenty percent compared to last year. There
21:01
Speaker 13: are some other milestones as well, including having the most
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Speaker 13: entries and many of the competitive animal competitions, and also
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Speaker 13: for the likes of wood chopping.
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Speaker 3: Fun Week for christ Church, Fun Week for Canterbury. How's
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Speaker 3: your weather for this?
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Speaker 9: Oh?
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Speaker 13: Unfortunately, today's the worst of it. We've got rain heavy today,
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Speaker 13: clearing in the evening, but we'll stay cloudy, southerly's and
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Speaker 13: only fourteen degrees. But it gets better tomorrow, much nicer.
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Speaker 13: Mainly find twenty three than sunny both Saturday and Sunday.
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Speaker 3: I'm beautiful. That's the main thing for the weekend. Clear,
21:29
Speaker 3: Thank you Max and willing to Max.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning Royan.
21:33
Speaker 3: Now you're on the phone today because you're two years
21:35
Speaker 3: to sort your Thaie line out. What's happening? What are
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Speaker 3: you talking about? They prompt a warning prompted over the
21:42
Speaker 3: death of a diver, Max.
21:45
Speaker 2: Yes and tech issues. This is Gideon to a Hudu,
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Speaker 2: a very experienced diver who died in the water off Eastbourne,
21:52
Speaker 2: the other side of the harbor, on a simple fishing
21:54
Speaker 2: trip with his brother to look for Kena. The sixty
21:57
Speaker 2: year old went into the water with scuba gear for
21:59
Speaker 2: twenty mine. It came up coughing blood and died. Then
22:03
Speaker 2: and there on the shore. The warning from the coroner
22:05
Speaker 2: is in regard to divers ensuring their medically fit to
22:08
Speaker 2: do so that their equipment is up to date, regularly
22:12
Speaker 2: checked to Hulu's cylinder had not been checked and he
22:16
Speaker 2: had breathed it empty. He was also suffering from heart disease.
22:20
Speaker 2: So all in all a very sad series of events.
22:22
Speaker 2: This is a man who drove the bus for a
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Speaker 2: children at a Lower Hut school where his wife was
22:26
Speaker 2: also principal, gave us time to a community initiative to
22:29
Speaker 2: support the health of Mardy Men as well, a real
22:32
Speaker 2: stalwat of Lower Hut and a sad death and lessons
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Speaker 2: from the coroner.
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Speaker 3: That's very very certain. Mix has the weather in Wellington today.
22:41
Speaker 2: Cloudy periods, isolated showers, strong northerly seventeen today's high.
22:45
Speaker 3: I don't think you Nevers and Auckland this morning. Morning, Neavor,
22:48
Speaker 3: good morning. He just doesn't sound as good on the
22:51
Speaker 3: fine as ease. It's like the BBC has been taken
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Speaker 3: from him, taken out of his voice.
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Speaker 14: Lovely English act and where's it gone?
23:02
Speaker 3: Hey, we've got the Northern business hopes for minimal disruption
23:06
Speaker 3: to Northern businesses.
23:07
Speaker 14: Yeah, now, look, this is the resurfacing works. State Highway
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Speaker 14: One through the Brinduwin Hills closed for the next four days.
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Speaker 10: Now.
23:14
Speaker 14: This is the first of the two extended weekend closures
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Speaker 14: this month for all of these works to be done.
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Speaker 14: NZTA says that what they're going to be doing, They've
23:23
Speaker 14: got the full with s felt surface. They're reinstating the
23:26
Speaker 14: lane markings, the passing lanes, returning the route back to
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Speaker 14: eighty kilometers an hour, so all of that's going to
23:33
Speaker 14: be done. So they're hoping. I think they've got twenty
23:35
Speaker 14: minute you know delays, you know with the for the traffic,
23:39
Speaker 14: but they're just getting all of this done before that
23:41
Speaker 14: busy Christmas.
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Speaker 3: Well good, and I mean that roads closed half the
23:44
Speaker 3: year anyway, isn't it. Hey, how's our weather today?
23:47
Speaker 10: Now?
23:48
Speaker 3: Okay?
23:48
Speaker 14: Well, yes, isolated showers possibly heavy and thundery later in
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Speaker 14: the day. Also hail this afternoon and evening. Twenty one
23:56
Speaker 14: is the high here and.
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Speaker 3: Fantastic neighbor, thank you eighteen minutes away. I've got a
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Speaker 3: lot of tickets for well did you get one for
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Speaker 3: last night? Neva?
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Speaker 14: That was the only reason why I woke up last
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Speaker 14: night was to check my lotto for the forty five
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Speaker 14: million didn't win. I thought, right, I better come to work.
24:09
Speaker 14: That was at like quarter past nine. This was on
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Speaker 14: my app And yes, I sure, I think I'm going
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Speaker 14: to I'm going to buy three tickets, three for fifty
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Speaker 14: five mil.
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Speaker 3: Three twenty dollars tickets.
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Speaker 14: No, not three, twenty two?
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Speaker 3: Good luck?
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Speaker 15: What are you not?
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Speaker 10: Well?
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Speaker 3: I will, yeah you are? What would you buy? I
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Speaker 3: get one of the twenty dollars ones?
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Speaker 14: Oh okay, just one?
24:31
Speaker 3: Just one?
24:31
Speaker 14: Yeah, fair enough?
24:33
Speaker 15: Just one?
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Speaker 3: Neva, thank you. Seventeen minutes away from six Now, Ryan,
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Speaker 3: I won ten years ago, I won ten thousand dollars
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Speaker 3: in lotto, says Heather love your show. See that's again.
24:43
Speaker 3: That's four tally is now four wins in twelve years
24:46
Speaker 3: for the whole country. I mean it is a scam, Ryan,
24:50
Speaker 3: This is getting quite esoterical about it. Loto is an
24:53
Speaker 3: insulation for entertainment to give people with no hope hope. Actually,
24:57
Speaker 3: it's very important for the nation's mental health. It is
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Speaker 3: little thrill, isn't it quite harmlessed? You'd have to say
25:02
Speaker 3: on the whole seventeen to six where state side with
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Speaker 3: Mitch McCann next, it is fourteen minutes away from six
25:08
Speaker 3: news talks. They'd be you know, the overhang in parliament
25:11
Speaker 3: because at the moment you've got three overhang seats basically
25:15
Speaker 3: because you've got to Party Mardi who won the six
25:17
Speaker 3: electorate six of the seven Malori electric seats, but they
25:20
Speaker 3: only get enough party votes for like two or three,
25:23
Speaker 3: well three or four seats, so there's an overhang of
25:26
Speaker 3: seats right and next year it's going to be quite
25:29
Speaker 3: important because the race is so tight. You would have
25:31
Speaker 3: seen that poll yesterday. Will we have an the overhang
25:34
Speaker 3: will act kind of like with lotto, is kind of
25:37
Speaker 3: a powerball for the Left because it gives you and
25:41
Speaker 3: this is assuming that Labour doesn't win and they are
25:44
Speaker 3: probably better off their chances of forming a government are
25:47
Speaker 3: better off if they don't win the Maori electorate seats.
25:51
Speaker 3: They go for the party vote from those electors and
25:54
Speaker 3: then to Party Marty gets the seats and they get
25:57
Speaker 3: the overhang, and that gives the Left more votes and
26:01
Speaker 3: that gets them across the line potentially. My question is
26:04
Speaker 3: what would that feel like if the reason that a
26:07
Speaker 3: Left government gets into powers because of an overhang essentially
26:12
Speaker 3: boot powerballing them, propelling them to power. How would that feel? Legitimate?
26:20
Speaker 1: International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of mind
26:24
Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.
26:26
Speaker 3: So it's anyway from six to let's go stateside with
26:28
Speaker 3: Mitch McCann. Mitch, the latest Epstein from beyond the Grave.
26:32
Speaker 3: These Epstein emails keep coming, and this one mentions Trump
26:35
Speaker 3: quite specifically.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, that's right, Good morning, Ryan. Your allegations this morning
26:39
Speaker 15: that suggest Donald Trump may have known more about the
26:42
Speaker 15: exploits of Jeffrey Epstein than he has led on. Now,
26:45
Speaker 15: the context of this is that the administration has been
26:47
Speaker 15: under a lot appreciative release of all the Epstein files,
26:50
Speaker 15: these documents and emails, which some believe will shed light
26:53
Speaker 15: to the extent of his crimes and may disclose the
26:55
Speaker 15: involvement of other high profile names. Now House Democrats have
26:59
Speaker 15: released emails from Epstein's estate. Now, keep in mind here
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Speaker 15: before I read them, that Donald Trump has always said
27:05
Speaker 15: he wasn't involved or had any knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.
27:10
Speaker 15: This is one email from April twenty eleven, Epstein wrote
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Speaker 15: to Glaine Maxwell. He said, I want you to realize
27:15
Speaker 15: that the dog that hasn't barked as Trump He also
27:19
Speaker 15: added an unnamed victim spent hours at my house with him.
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Speaker 15: He has never once been mentioned, and in twenty nineteen
27:25
Speaker 15: he wrote to the author Michael Wolfe about Donald Trump.
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Speaker 15: Of course he knew about the girls, as he asked
27:30
Speaker 15: Elaine to stop. Now, the White House sees these stories
27:33
Speaker 15: are nothing more than bad faith efforts to distract from
27:35
Speaker 15: his historic accomplishments. The White House is due to speak
27:39
Speaker 15: at a press briefing in about an hour, and you
27:41
Speaker 15: can expect that conversation will dominate the press briefing much.
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Speaker 3: Where are we at with releasing the full files? It
27:47
Speaker 3: hasn't happened yet.
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Speaker 15: Ay, it hasn't happened yet, and the White House says
27:51
Speaker 15: there's essentially no need to do so. But I think
27:54
Speaker 15: this will increase the pressure on them. Caroline Leavitt will
27:57
Speaker 15: be asked about this and Donald Trump later in the day.
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Speaker 15: And you know, one of the big issues for Donald
28:02
Speaker 15: Trump is this just keeps coming up. I think you
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Speaker 15: said beyond the grave. It keeps coming up every couple
28:06
Speaker 15: of weeks, and it's really infuriating Trump and it's really
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Speaker 15: upsetting many of his base because he campaigned on releasing
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Speaker 15: all the files. So I think this increases the pressure
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Speaker 15: to do so.
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Speaker 3: It does, Mitch, thank you for that, Mitch mccanna and
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Speaker 3: US correspondence. It's just going to leave it away from six.
28:21
Speaker 3: Ryan Toss's days in the public service look to be numbered.
28:24
Speaker 3: Sir Brian Roch is investigating him over the IPCA report. Meanwhile,
28:28
Speaker 3: three current police employees are also under investigation over their
28:32
Speaker 3: part in the alleged cover up. Max Whitehead, employment expert
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Speaker 3: with US this morning, Max, Good morning.
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Speaker 10: Good morning Ryan. Yes, it's a messy, messy piece of
28:39
Speaker 10: work here.
28:40
Speaker 3: Isn't it certainly is. What's the quickest way for this
28:42
Speaker 3: to end? Do you think in the Coster situation.
28:46
Speaker 10: In the cost of situation, the employer has to undertake
28:48
Speaker 10: an independent investigation. Now they can present to mister cost
28:53
Speaker 10: of the facts, given him an opportunity to explain, and
28:56
Speaker 10: then once they've received that, then they're free to act.
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Speaker 10: Now the under the there's legislation already developed there that
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Speaker 10: under Schedule seven, the on the Public Service Act, that
29:10
Speaker 10: they can proceed and take an action against the like
29:14
Speaker 10: in his current role a chief executive and terminate his
29:18
Speaker 10: employment for just cause.
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Speaker 3: What's a just cause?
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Speaker 10: Well exactly, bringing the organization to disrepute is very very
29:28
Speaker 10: important for a high profile individual like mister Costa. If
29:33
Speaker 10: he has brought the organization into disrepute, it's a sackable offense.
29:39
Speaker 10: But they have to give him an opportunity to explain
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Speaker 10: his side of the story.
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Speaker 3: So once they've done that and then they sack him,
29:47
Speaker 3: can he take a personal grievance?
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Speaker 10: Absolutely, he is an employee and his employer is the
29:53
Speaker 10: Public Service commissioner.
29:55
Speaker 3: How much do you know? How much do you think
29:58
Speaker 3: the other option courses that he walks and there is
30:01
Speaker 3: some kind of golden parachute, what does that? How does
30:04
Speaker 3: that normally work?
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Speaker 10: Well, if there is a remote chance that he could
30:09
Speaker 10: probably litigate and cause all sorts of embarrassment difficulties for
30:12
Speaker 10: the public service, they are quite often, it happens often.
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Speaker 10: I've got to say, there is negotiations and that's where
30:23
Speaker 10: a parachute can be provided, which to me is pretty abhorrent.
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Speaker 10: I mean, already they've got to undertake another independence investigation
30:31
Speaker 10: just because of him, and because it's a different department too.
30:36
Speaker 10: That does make a lot of sense, But however, there's
30:39
Speaker 10: a cost to that, and there's going to be a
30:42
Speaker 10: cost to the public. Again, we end up paying for
30:45
Speaker 10: lots of things. I mean there's millions and millions of
30:48
Speaker 10: dollars the public are going to have to part with
30:50
Speaker 10: just in terms of investigations and plural many investigations, and
30:55
Speaker 10: that's pretty tough on us taxpayers.
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Speaker 3: Appreciate your time. Max Whitehead employment expert US this morning.
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Speaker 3: By the way, his contract is a two and a
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Speaker 3: half million dollar five year contract, and as Max has said,
31:08
Speaker 3: if we want to get him out of it early,
31:10
Speaker 3: then we might have to pay something for that privilege.
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Speaker 3: I know. Eight minutes to six News Talks.
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Speaker 1: Hed B get ahead of the headlines on early edition
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Speaker 1: with Ryan Bridge and are the Supercenter explore r these
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Speaker 1: accessories and servicing all in one News Talks a.
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Speaker 3: B six on News Talk ZB. We had flur Fit
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Speaker 3: Simon's on earlier from the PSA and Mike as Mike
31:35
Speaker 3: rolls his eyes and she was talking about FENS getting
31:39
Speaker 3: rid of wildfire experts and many of you are not
31:43
Speaker 3: happy that FENS even has wildfire experts. Ryan, fires go
31:46
Speaker 3: the direction of the wind. If stuff's dry, it goes
31:49
Speaker 3: up faster, not rocket science. Five to six Mike, good
31:53
Speaker 3: morning morning, Hey, I thought of you yesterday because I spad.
31:57
Speaker 3: You know a guy, Grant Schofield, who's I want to say, yes,
32:01
Speaker 3: he's You might have had him on the show. He's
32:02
Speaker 3: a public health professor a U T. And I know
32:05
Speaker 3: you public health professor. You think, oh, but he's probably
32:08
Speaker 3: the most palatable one I think out there. Did you
32:11
Speaker 3: tell him that?
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Speaker 10: No?
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Speaker 3: I didn't. I didn't, but I listened to him, which
32:15
Speaker 3: normally I wouldn't do. And anyway, creatine, do you take creatine?
32:21
Speaker 3: Katie does?
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Speaker 16: Yet it's a it's a big thing.
32:23
Speaker 3: Apparently, I've wondered it almost a wonder.
32:26
Speaker 16: Yeah, don't even get me started on this. You come
32:28
Speaker 16: around to our house. I mean, obviously you're not going to.
32:31
Speaker 16: But but if you came round to our house and
32:33
Speaker 16: said stuff like gut health, creatine, all those sort of things,
32:36
Speaker 16: you'd be you'd be in for a multi hour lecture.
32:39
Speaker 3: Because I know that you're big on health. You know
32:41
Speaker 3: you're keeping healthy and fit and stuff like that. So
32:43
Speaker 3: you don't take it personally? No, why not? Because there's
32:46
Speaker 3: no he said, there's no downside.
32:48
Speaker 16: There is no downside. The difficulty is I take so
32:51
Speaker 16: much stuff that there is no downside to that.
32:55
Speaker 3: By the time you finished.
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Speaker 16: At some point, ye, you've got to you've got to
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Speaker 16: gott to draw the line on how much stuff you're taking.
33:02
Speaker 16: But creatine is a major And if you want to
33:05
Speaker 16: read into coffee, good old fashioned coffee, the current research
33:08
Speaker 16: on coffee is there is no downside to coffee, and
33:11
Speaker 16: it's all upside, not just in that kind of it's
33:13
Speaker 16: kind of good for you, it's amazingly good for you.
33:16
Speaker 16: So if you get on creatine and coffee, you're often running.
33:18
Speaker 3: Well, exactly, why don't you just put some creatine in
33:20
Speaker 3: your coffee?
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Speaker 16: That's what Katie does. You basically put creating. Well, you
33:24
Speaker 16: powdered it up and your throat and everything.
33:26
Speaker 3: I went straight to the story yesterday afternoon, bought well.
33:30
Speaker 16: No next, but next problem with all of this, and
33:32
Speaker 16: you'll learn this if you came around to our house,
33:34
Speaker 16: is like, well, that's never going to happen.
33:35
Speaker 3: Of course not.
33:36
Speaker 16: And in most of these things there is creatine and creatine,
33:40
Speaker 16: and there's you know, it's the quality.
33:43
Speaker 3: I said, I said to the moment, she said that's
33:45
Speaker 3: the cheapest, and I said, what's the best the same?
33:48
Speaker 3: That's not true, not true? You know what one I
33:51
Speaker 3: got down of course, I know what one you've got.
33:53
Speaker 3: Come around to our house sometime. Actually, don't have a
33:57
Speaker 3: good day. See tomorrow.
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