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Full Show Podcast: 15 May 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the ins and the inside. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: early edition with one roof make your property search simple
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Speaker 1: news dogs.
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Speaker 2: That'd be good morning, Welcome to your Thursday. Parliament is
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Speaker 2: an absolute shambles. We've got the C word, we've got
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Speaker 2: the one gun salute from Debbie and now a three
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Speaker 2: week suspension. We go to someone sensible in times like these,
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Speaker 2: don't we? So lockwood Smith joins us first up and live.
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Speaker 2: We are looking at the suicide stance. We're looking at
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Speaker 2: the migration numbers. Putin is leaving. Zelensky on Red won't
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Speaker 2: reply to his request for a meeting. He's just sitting
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Speaker 2: there waiting. We'll head to the US as well. And
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Speaker 2: we've got an update on the working for the work
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Speaker 2: from home things still dragging on. I'll update you on
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Speaker 2: that a little later in the program. It is seven
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Speaker 2: after five the agenda, Thursday, the fifteenth of May. Trump's
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Speaker 2: hop from Saudi Arabia to Read and Kata. Another day,
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Speaker 2: another deal, this one for Boeing jets.
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Speaker 3: It's the largest order of jets in the history of Boeing.
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Speaker 3: That's pretty good. Get those planes out there.
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Speaker 2: Get them out there. We told you he lifted sanctions
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Speaker 2: on Syria yesterday, well overnight he's met with its interim leader.
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Speaker 2: He's shaking hands with the guy and this is Ahmid alstra.
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Speaker 4: This is a big breakthrough for Syria and for Syrian
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Speaker 4: President Ahmed al Strada, who is still on the terrorist
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Speaker 4: list of the United States. Meeting with the US president
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Speaker 4: give him a recognition by the international community. But also,
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Speaker 4: you know, lifting sanctions on Syria is going to help
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Speaker 4: him work on the promises that he gave to the
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Speaker 4: Syrian people.
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Speaker 2: Yes, so he's a terrorist and Trump said something funny
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Speaker 2: about him. I'llpli it for you later. That did he
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Speaker 2: trial The ex girlfriend Cassey Venture is giving evidence.
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Speaker 5: That's something that.
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Speaker 6: The defense in this case was actually hoping to address.
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Speaker 6: They asked the judge of it if they could have
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Speaker 6: the witness referring to Cassie Venture at the time in
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Speaker 6: the witness box before the jury was brought in so
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Speaker 6: they could avoid the jury seeing her with her did
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Speaker 6: belly saying that pregnancy is a beautiful thing, but it
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Speaker 6: could also create feelings of sympathy.
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Speaker 2: Yes, so that was referring to the fact she was
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Speaker 2: pregnant now across the coast in California. But then there
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Speaker 2: is the Menindas brothers famous case killed their parents with
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Speaker 2: a shotgun in their living room in Beverly Hills. If
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Speaker 2: you've seen a Netflix special, A judge has reduced their sentence.
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Speaker 2: They're now going to be eligible for parole.
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Speaker 3: Well, we heard from family members. We heard from a
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Speaker 3: cousin who said that the family now has universally forgiven
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Speaker 3: the brothers. The family says thirty five years behind bars
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Speaker 3: is enough. They have paid their debt and they deserve
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Speaker 3: a second chance at life.
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Speaker 2: These guys could be out as early as next month.
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Speaker 2: Nine Ouster five the first.
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Speaker 1: Word on the News of the Day Early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and One Room to make your Property search symbol,
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Speaker 1: News Talk Zippy.
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Speaker 2: So we've got a response from the Privileges Committee to
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Speaker 2: all of this. Debid Arwity and Hannah from Departy Marti
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Speaker 2: will miss the budget. Debbie and Albiti get three weeks suspension.
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Speaker 2: Hannah gets seven days. This has taken ages to get
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Speaker 2: through the Privileges Committee. Six months. It has taken them
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Speaker 2: and part of the problem is the fact that they
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Speaker 2: didn't turn up. So they made all these claims in
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Speaker 2: the media about you know, colonization or we're not being
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Speaker 2: given due process. There's double Jeffarty because Hannah had already
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Speaker 2: been censured with that double jeopety doesn't exist with the
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Speaker 2: Privileges Committee. It's not a court anyway. So finally we
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Speaker 2: have a result from the Privileges Committee. And to be clear,
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Speaker 2: DeBie wasn't given the boot because she performed a hakker.
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Speaker 2: It was because, and this is what Judith Collins said,
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Speaker 2: who held a presser at Parliament last night, it was
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Speaker 2: because she intimidated or had the effect of intimidating other
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Speaker 2: MPs in their workplace.
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Speaker 7: As Narivapaka approached the front of the act Party desks
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Speaker 7: and while performing the harker, pointed at act Party members
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Speaker 7: using a hand gesture similar to a finger gun. At
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Speaker 7: the conclusion of the harker, Miss Naripaka repeated the gesture
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Speaker 7: and simulating a firing motion, said and no will sit down.
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Speaker 2: Now, Judy's been around a while, she reconciates seeing nothing
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Speaker 2: like it.
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Speaker 7: Make no mistake, this was a very serious incident and
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Speaker 7: the likes of which I have never seen before in
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Speaker 7: my twenty three years in debating chamber. I am a
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Speaker 7: robust debater, as many of you will know, but I
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Speaker 7: follow the rule of the Institution. I'm a proud member
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Speaker 7: of and I appreciate and accept that my views are
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Speaker 7: not those of all in the House. That is why
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Speaker 7: we are a House of Representatives. We cannot bring this
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Speaker 7: House into disrepute by ignoring those rules, especially if that
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Speaker 7: results in other members being intimidated or maybe being intimidated.
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Speaker 7: And that is exactly what happened on November fourteenth, twenty
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Speaker 7: twenty four two questions.
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Speaker 2: Do they get full pay while they're off? No, they
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Speaker 2: won't get any pay. Has this happened before? Yes, Lockwood
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Speaker 2: Smith knows all about it. He's with us live next.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one roof Make your property search simple
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Speaker 1: if you talk said.
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Speaker 2: Be don't worry. We'll get to the migration numbers, and
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Speaker 2: we'll also get to the Green Party's what do you
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Speaker 2: even call that? The communist manifesto as Winston would put it.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to that in just a few moments. Right now,
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Speaker 2: thirteen minutes after five so three weeks suspension from parliament
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Speaker 2: without pay for arbit again, Debbie Hanna gets seven days.
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Speaker 2: They'll miss the budget and last night the Malori Party
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Speaker 2: posted on their social media and this is part of
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Speaker 2: the problem that for to party Marti, when you lose,
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Speaker 2: you actually win. I mean, they're not ashamed by any
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Speaker 2: of this they have posted on their social media. This
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Speaker 2: is the worst punishment handed down ever in our history.
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Speaker 2: The worst on record was three days when Tangata Fenua
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Speaker 2: resist colonial powers reached for maximum penalty. This is a
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Speaker 2: warning shot to all of us to fall in line. Lockwoodsmith,
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Speaker 2: Sir Lockwoodsmith is the former Speaker of the House with
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Speaker 2: me this morning, Sir lockwood Good morning.
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Speaker 8: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: Right is this a fair punishment you reckon?
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Speaker 8: Well, you know it's not up to me to comment
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Speaker 8: on whether it's fair or not. But you know, Parliament
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Speaker 8: has to maintain its procedures because it is a control
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Speaker 8: and control of its own law, its own rules, if
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Speaker 8: you like. The privileges that Parliament has are really really important.
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Speaker 8: They make it possible for the lawmakers to do their
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Speaker 8: work and to intimidate another member of the House in
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Speaker 8: the process of carrying out their duties in the House.
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Speaker 8: There's a serious issue and it can't just be taken lightly.
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Speaker 8: So you know, suspension from the service of the House
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Speaker 8: is one of the outcomes the Privileges Committee has a
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Speaker 8: penalty it has to invoke. It can actually imprison people.
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Speaker 8: You know, I don't think. I don't think the Privilegeous
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Speaker 8: Committee or the Parliament New Zealand has ever imprisoned someone
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Speaker 8: for a contempt of the House. But it does have
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Speaker 8: that power. It is the power to find people and
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Speaker 8: the power to imprison people. But this suspension from the
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Speaker 8: service is the reasonably effective, hopefully reasonably effective effective deterrent.
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Speaker 2: Is this the worst punishment? I mean, are they right
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Speaker 2: when they say it's the worst punishment that's ever been
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Speaker 2: handed down? And what about missing the budget?
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Speaker 8: Yeah? Well, I think, you know, people members of the
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Speaker 8: House need to think a little bit before they ignore
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Speaker 8: the rules of the House. I mean, it's for members
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Speaker 8: of the party, Maria, I see no reason why when
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Speaker 8: they're called on to speak. They have freedom of speech
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Speaker 8: and they can express their views in you know, in
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Speaker 8: ways there that they considered culturally appropriate. But to interfere
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Speaker 8: with the voting procedure in the and seet to intimidate
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Speaker 8: the member promoting a bill in the House is quite
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Speaker 8: a serious issue. And as I say, I don't think
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Speaker 8: the Privileges Committee has ever imprisoned anyone, and so this
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Speaker 8: is a pretty pretty severe penalty. Three weeks suspension and
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Speaker 8: missing the budget parts of the budget debate. I think
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Speaker 8: hopefully we'll make some people take notice.
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Speaker 2: It's interesting because the stunt in parliament. You can do
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Speaker 2: stunts in Parliament and we've all seen them. And we
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Speaker 2: had the c word yesterday from Brook van Valden, which
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Speaker 2: I'm sure you've seen, but that was a stunt that
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Speaker 2: was planned like to party Maldis. But Brooke went to
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Speaker 2: the clerk's office and said, can I say, you know,
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Speaker 2: basically ask permission to do the stunt first and therefore
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Speaker 2: avoid censure.
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Speaker 8: I think that's a good point Ryan, that you know,
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Speaker 8: a speaker wants the House fell to proceed in a
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Speaker 8: way that works for members and had to Artie Maori
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Speaker 8: gone to the speaker and said, you know, it would
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Speaker 8: there be a time when we could express our view
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Speaker 8: in an appropriate way with a haka. I can't believe
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Speaker 8: something couldn't have been worked out that would have been acceptable,
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Speaker 8: but just to interrupt the voting, the voting procedure on
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Speaker 8: a bill, and it passed through my mind. Had I
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Speaker 8: been the speaker, I probably would have simply having called
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Speaker 8: on them to express their vote recorded they hadn't voted,
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Speaker 8: and that Pardi Mari failed to vote against the treaty
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Speaker 8: Principal's bill and cleared the galleries. And I wouldn't have
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Speaker 8: suspended the House, so I would have kept the House going.
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Speaker 8: Keeping Parliament going is terribly important. But that's just my
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Speaker 8: personal view, all right.
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Speaker 2: I appreciate your time this morning. So lot with Smith's
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Speaker 2: former Speaker of the House. It's just gone eighteen minutes
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Speaker 2: half to five year on News Talks. Here'd be Boris Johnson. Interestingly,
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Speaker 2: before he left. Had he not left, he was going
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Speaker 2: to be suspended for ninety days the Privileges Committee in
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Speaker 2: the UK, and that would force a by election, which
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Speaker 2: is a much obviously bigger deal, more severe deal. Eighteen
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Speaker 2: after five News Talks said B. We'll get to those
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Speaker 2: migration numbers and a sad stat this morning on suicide.
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Speaker 2: It's all ahead news.
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Speaker 2: V we'll talk potins Zelenski just before six this morning.
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Speaker 2: Five twenty now, so we've got a union. The report
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Speaker 2: out and it's a pretty grim reading. If you're talking
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Speaker 2: about youth suicide in New Zealand compared to the rest
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Speaker 2: of the world, compared to rich countries and the rest
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Speaker 2: of the world anyway. So what it says is pre
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Speaker 2: COVID we had a rate of fourteen point nine per
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Speaker 2: one hundred thousand people. This is for fifteen to nineteen
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Speaker 2: year olds. After COVID it increased to seventeen point one,
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Speaker 2: which means we were the highest in the developed world
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Speaker 2: and almost three times higher than the average the high
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Speaker 2: income countries. Tanya Siwicky Mead is from UNIS with me
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Speaker 2: this morning. Tanya, good morning, Good morning. What do you
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Speaker 2: think pushed that up during COVID.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, Look, what we did see is that across a
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Speaker 9: lot of the countries analyzed in this report that you
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Speaker 9: said wealthy countries or we set e countries, there was
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Speaker 9: quite a significant decrease in life satisfaction for young people.
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Speaker 9: And you know, we could attribute some of that, fascertain
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Speaker 9: to the COVID pandemic, the disruption that that had on
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Speaker 9: everyone's lives, but particularly the disruption that it had on
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Speaker 9: young people's lives. So school being disrupted, routines being upended,
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Speaker 9: the uncertainty, the fear, but you know the impact of
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Speaker 9: that really significant period of time. But for New Zealand,
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Speaker 9: you know, as you as you mentioned in your introduction,
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Speaker 9: we have this really staggeringly high by psuicide rate for
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Speaker 9: young people when compared to other countries, and that hasn't
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Speaker 9: significantly shifted over the period pre or post COVID, but
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Speaker 9: enough to really make it then in the horrific statistics
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Speaker 9: that we have. So there are many other factors I
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Speaker 9: think going on there as to why New Zealand's use
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Speaker 9: suicide rates remain so stubbornly high.
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Speaker 2: And these numbers are just up to twenty twenty two, right,
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Speaker 2: but we have seen although we don't know for sure,
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Speaker 2: but potentially those numbers coming down over the last couple
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Speaker 2: of years.
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Speaker 9: Yes, So how suicide reporting works is that there are
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Speaker 9: confirmed data. So that's where the coroner has confirmed that
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Speaker 9: our death was a suicide, and it takes quite a
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Speaker 9: while for that data essentially to catch up to the
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Speaker 9: present day. So what we have is confirmed data in
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Speaker 9: New Zealand for up to twenty twenty two, and this report,
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Speaker 9: because it's trying to compare like for like with all
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Speaker 9: these different countries, uses data that aggregates a little earlier
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Speaker 9: than that's more like up to twenty twenty one. And
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Speaker 9: so what we do see in New Zealand's own data
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Speaker 9: that it collects on suicide is that there may be
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Speaker 9: some small improvements, but not enough to actually shift the
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Speaker 9: facts that we are still an outline when we compared
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Speaker 9: to those other countries. It's still it may be making
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Speaker 9: small importments, but it's still far too high.
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Speaker 2: All right, Tony, really appreciate your time this morning. Tanya
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Speaker 2: Sawaki meet from UNISEEF. It is twenty three minutes after five.
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Speaker 2: You're on news talks. He be Clive says, I'm pleased
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Speaker 2: that the Privileges Committee has finally handed down some consequence
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Speaker 2: for t Parti Mari. They are radical, their behaviorshould be yeah,
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Speaker 2: And this is the thing they are out there running
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Speaker 2: around saying this is because we performed a hakker, that
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Speaker 2: we're getting the boot from parliament and you know, this
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Speaker 2: is the white man coming down on us. This is
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Speaker 2: the line that they're running. But it's not true. I mean,
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Speaker 2: Debbie Nadiva Paka was not suspended from parliament because she
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Speaker 2: did a hacker. She was suspended from parliament because her
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Speaker 2: behavior I doing the gun salute was seen as intimidating
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Speaker 2: to other members in the House. Twenty four minutes after five,
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Speaker 2: the early edition.
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Speaker 2: News Talks A B it Is twenty six minutes after five.
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Speaker 2: I've a few sea words for you for your Thursday
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Speaker 2: morning Communist coalition and crash. I'm not going to do
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Speaker 2: the other one crash, because that's what would happen to
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Speaker 2: the economy if we lived in this green utopia, complete
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Speaker 2: with the eighty eight billion dollar tax grab announced yesterday.
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Speaker 2: A coalition because that is what you would get if labor,
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Speaker 2: not if really, but when labor shacks up with its
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Speaker 2: neighbors on the far left. Hipkins yesterday first claimed not
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Speaker 2: to have read the manifesto, which no one believes. This
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Speaker 2: is the manifesto of a party he could well be
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Speaker 2: sitting around the cabinet table within a year from now.
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Speaker 2: He then refused to rule out anything in it. Won't
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Speaker 2: rule out the hammer, won't rule out the sickle. The Greens,
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Speaker 2: and this is what this shows us, once again, are
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Speaker 2: by far and away Hipkins's biggest achilles heel, and therefore
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Speaker 2: Luxeon's greatest strength. Remember the hit that they took in
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Speaker 2: the polls. This is labor over the defunded police thing.
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Speaker 2: Here's the thing about New Zealand And is your middle
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Speaker 2: voters that they want these bigger parties. We may not
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Speaker 2: right now be affected by the inheritance tax or the
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Speaker 2: wealth tax that they're talking about and proposing, the higher
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Speaker 2: income taxes, the company tax hikes which would put them
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Speaker 2: amongst the highest in the developed world. But the problem
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Speaker 2: for Hipkins and co Is that we would like to
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Speaker 2: be Kiwi. Families would like to start a business and
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Speaker 2: create a life for their families, an asset and income,
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Speaker 2: a future. They dream of working their way up the
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Speaker 2: latter at work, get that better salary, get into that
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Speaker 2: better house that they've been saving to own. They don't
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Speaker 2: think it's fear for part of mum and Dad's life,
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Speaker 2: work and savings to be stolen and taken from them
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Speaker 2: by the state at their end. The election of John
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Speaker 2: Key showed us that families are ambitious in New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: They believe in themselves to do better. They're quite motivated
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Speaker 2: and they are ready for this recession to be over
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Speaker 2: so that basically we can all just get on with it.
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Speaker 2: I've never doubted that spirit in New Zealand. That spirit
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Speaker 2: hasn't left for Australia. It's just been hiding under a
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Speaker 2: rock for six years. And yes there are social problems
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Speaker 2: here in New Zealand too, But what we learned from
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Speaker 2: the fading days of Hipkin's reign is that voters don't
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Speaker 2: trust that if they give up their hard earned money
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Speaker 2: and assets, that the state has the ability, all the
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Speaker 2: wherewithal to change any of this, to fix any of it.
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Speaker 2: They're like the TMU versions of a Michael Joseph Savage.
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Speaker 2: Many of the houses he built still stand. Building never
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Speaker 2: started on most of Chippy's. And that brings us to
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Speaker 2: the final Seaward communists, because I don't know what else
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Speaker 2: do you call them. The Greens are planning a road
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Speaker 2: show after this pre budget announcement that they've done. My
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Speaker 2: only question for Chloe Mademer and the rest of them,
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Speaker 2: will you be traveling to these towns and cities by
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Speaker 2: bicycle or what? Will you be flying on.
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Speaker 10: An Arab.
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Speaker 1: Bryan Bridge?
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Speaker 2: I think we all know the answer to that, don't we.
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Speaker 2: How many times have you been on a flight to
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Speaker 2: Wellington and seen a Green Imp twenty nine after five
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Speaker 2: News Talk zib we'll talk Putin and Zolensky coming up
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Speaker 2: before sex and get to our reporters around the country.
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Speaker 4: Sometimes I just can't.
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Speaker 1: Bryan Bridge on the edition with one roof make your
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Speaker 1: property surge, simple news Talk, Zibby.
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Speaker 2: Give these twenty four minutes away from sexyer on news Talks.
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Speaker 2: B We're gonna get to our reporters around the country.
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Speaker 2: We're going to get to the US, and before sex,
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Speaker 2: will speak to a Russia reporter about what the Kremlin
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Speaker 2: does now that Zelensky is calling us bluff and has
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Speaker 2: turned up for Turkey. Why we play this song because
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Speaker 2: did you see yesterday? So Trump's doing his big Middle
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Speaker 2: East tour and he's at this Saudi investment summit and
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Speaker 2: they play him. I mean, the Crown Prince is there,
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Speaker 2: Mohammad and summons there, They're all standing around, all these
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Speaker 2: guys standing around him, their thobes and filming Trump and
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Speaker 2: they play this song. It's I mean, it's not the
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Speaker 2: most progressive country, is it, Saudi Arabia? So I know,
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Speaker 2: do they know it's a gay anthem? I don't know,
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Speaker 2: but it's quite a funny sight. Anyway. On Syria, overnight,
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Speaker 2: Trump met with Ahmad al Shabat. Now he's a terrorist.
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Speaker 2: The US lists him as a terrorist. He is the
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Speaker 2: interim leader of Syria. And we told you yesterday that
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Speaker 2: he had stopped the sanctions against Syria, he'd basically go
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Speaker 2: for it, start becoming a prosperous nation. This guy is
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Speaker 2: still technically listed as a terrorist according to America. He
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Speaker 2: has literally had a pr makeover, started wearing suits, changed
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Speaker 2: his name. This is al shah now, the interim leader
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Speaker 2: of Syria. Trump met him, shook his hand. First US
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Speaker 2: president in twenty five years to meet a Syrian leader.
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Speaker 2: And he comes out of this meeting and readd He
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Speaker 2: gets on Air Force one. Somebody asks him what did
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Speaker 2: you make of this guy? And Trump says, oh, he's
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Speaker 2: he's attractive.
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Speaker 6: How did you find the Syrian president?
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Speaker 4: Ray?
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Speaker 1: I think very good, young, attractive, yay, tough guy. Stromp
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Speaker 1: Pass a stromp Pass.
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Speaker 2: Fighter, certainly was a fighter. He's, according to your own government,
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Speaker 2: a terrorists. But he's attractive, so that's okay. Twenty two
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Speaker 2: minutes away from sex News talks, ev Ryan Bridge, Colum Procter,
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Speaker 2: and Denedin for US this morning Colum, Good morning to you.
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Speaker 2: If it's underway to make the gas Works Museum chimney safe.
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Speaker 2: What's not safe about it?
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Speaker 11: Well, it's threatening to topple over Ryan and it's a
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Speaker 11: pretty impressive Structure's been around since eighteen sixty three, this
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Speaker 11: brick chimney twenty five meters high. But the heritage site
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Speaker 11: was closed last month after structural changes were noticed in
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Speaker 11: the chimney during routine inspections, and engineers have now found
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Speaker 11: the situation has worsened and so supports will be installed.
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Speaker 11: In addition to the cracks and movement that they already
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Speaker 11: know about. This damage and the upper section of the
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Speaker 11: chimney that poses a risk of collapse.
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Speaker 2: So the city council says.
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Speaker 11: The focus for them will be on ensuring a safety
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Speaker 11: construction of the chimney. The plan is to bring the
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Speaker 11: bricks down one by one so it can possibly be
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Speaker 11: rebuilt in the future.
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Speaker 2: All right, And how's your weather? Morning?
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Speaker 11: Frost for some parts here, but otherwise fine day head
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Speaker 11: high cloud westerlies and eighteen.
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Speaker 2: Today brilliant, Thanks Callum. Claire is the christ Church Claire,
20:40
Speaker 2: good morning she and christ Church. Yes I'm here, we are, Hey,
20:46
Speaker 2: Claire so you've got a music festival moving closer.
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Speaker 12: Yes, well this is about Rolling Meadows Ryan. This is
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Speaker 12: the festival that has been based in wyp Pitter since
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Speaker 12: twenty twenty one. The organizers not long ago announced a
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Speaker 12: move to come closer to christ Church to Bottle Lake
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Speaker 12: Forest this New Years. But today New Stalk seed Be
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Speaker 12: can reveal they don't have consent to do that just yet.
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Speaker 12: There has been some talk on our local show on
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Speaker 12: zb this week. Basically some of the neighbors are pretty unhappy.
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Speaker 12: They're against the idea of a festival in their area.
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Speaker 12: The organizers did come on air and said, you know,
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Speaker 12: they've done all the things. They've offered alternative accommodation for
21:21
Speaker 12: neighbors because of the noise concerns, they've got plans for
21:25
Speaker 12: rubbish collection. Now there's a stir though about whether or
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Speaker 12: not they have consent, and it turns out they don't.
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Speaker 12: The application for the consent was received by city Council
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Speaker 12: but then withdrawn. A festival spokesperson says council told them
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Speaker 12: to do that. They are confident their second application, which
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Speaker 12: they reportedly did overnight, will be accepted with some minor changes.
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Speaker 12: They do say tickets won't go and sale until the
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Speaker 12: consent has sorted.
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Speaker 2: Okay, do you know, Clear, I've noticed the theme you bring.
21:52
Speaker 2: You make me want to live in christ Church. I
21:54
Speaker 2: mean only a little bit, but you might want to
21:55
Speaker 2: live in christ because you're talking about, you know, the
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Speaker 2: cathedral's opening, We've got the stadium coming, We've got electric avenue, now,
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Speaker 2: we got rolling meadows. I mean, what's not to like?
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Speaker 12: I know, Ryan, Look, we had it pretty rough for
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Speaker 12: a long long time, so now it's the place to be.
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Speaker 12: The trouble is we don't want you all moving here
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Speaker 12: because it's too busy.
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Speaker 2: Well will the weather put us off?
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Speaker 12: No, Well, it is a bit frosty and cold to start. Otherwise,
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Speaker 12: clearing to a fine day with some high cloud northwesterlies
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Speaker 12: and seventeen.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant Thanks clear, Max, and Wellington makes six men vying
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Speaker 2: to be Meya.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I suppose I must be the opposite to that.
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Speaker 10: These are the six likely lads. Andrew Little number one
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Speaker 10: content says Wellington has a crisis of confidence and the
22:34
Speaker 10: first step is to rebuild trust in the council. Center left.
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Speaker 10: He describes himself as we interviewed. Ray Young flat out
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Speaker 10: says the capital dying. He believes better spending be a
22:44
Speaker 10: value for rate payers as needed. Wants to stand apart
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Speaker 10: from party politics. There's this slightly out there social media
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Speaker 10: guy Graham Bloxham says he can bring audiences together cost cutting.
22:54
Speaker 10: Describes himself as green, center left, cafe, ice, businessman, cartiff
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Speaker 10: and bar again rates debt, Kelvin hasty, He's a predator,
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Speaker 10: free champion, history in it and conservation, former copp and
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Speaker 10: soldier Rob Golden works and security centrist. Infrastructure top of
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Speaker 10: the to do list. And you can read these six
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Speaker 10: profiles on the Herald website.
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Speaker 2: I can't wait.
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Speaker 8: It is.
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Speaker 2: I think we should move you and clear so that
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Speaker 2: you're not buttered up against each other, because it is.
23:23
Speaker 2: It is a hard gear. It's like going from a
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Speaker 2: birthday to a funeral very quickly.
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Speaker 10: Well, I am from christ It obviously, I've been driven
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Speaker 10: into despair.
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Speaker 2: Living in Wellington makes move home. Hey, how's it with today?
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Speaker 10: Mainly fine, funnily enough fresh Norwesterly is thirteen the high central.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant, heavy good one. Neighbors are not navor good morning.
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Speaker 5: They creaked me up. Funny so funny.
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Speaker 8: Hey.
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Speaker 2: Auckland Council we're sort of middle of the road here
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Speaker 2: in Auckland, but we've got recent criminal punshment punishments for
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Speaker 2: dog attacks years now.
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Speaker 5: Look, the council says this is going to serve as
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Speaker 5: a wake up call to owners about these recent criminal punishments.
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Speaker 5: So we know that in March last year there was
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Speaker 5: a young boy he was mauled by two American bulldogs,
24:07
Speaker 5: suffering multiple serious injuries. Now the dog's owner was recently
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Speaker 5: sentenced to fifty hours community work, ordered to pay two
24:14
Speaker 5: thousand in emotional harm reparation to the victim's family. Then
24:18
Speaker 5: just last week a woman received a similar sentence. This
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Speaker 5: is after her dog seriously attacked a visitor, and not
24:23
Speaker 5: forgetting the little wee girl that was left scarred after
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Speaker 5: she was a TechEd in a park and techy dungy
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Speaker 5: last month, you know, one of those off leash dogs.
24:31
Speaker 5: So yeah, so it's just that reminder. I'm not a
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Speaker 5: dog person. Well no, I'm not a dog. I shouldn't
24:36
Speaker 5: say that.
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Speaker 2: You don't hate them, I don't hate you, you just don't
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Speaker 2: love them, correct, That's all right, Yes, people need to
24:43
Speaker 2: be respectful of that as well. And when I take
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Speaker 2: my dog to the park. I know there are some people.
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Speaker 2: If she's off leash, I'll grab it because there's some
24:50
Speaker 2: people who's uncomfortable.
24:52
Speaker 5: And I think dogs sense my fair. Oh you've got
24:54
Speaker 5: a lovely little wee dog. See those little ones they
24:57
Speaker 5: don't bother me?
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Speaker 2: No, well, I mean they what do you think this?
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Speaker 2: I just would never trust a dog, no matter how cute.
25:03
Speaker 5: It los okay because they can still buy checking.
25:05
Speaker 2: The still got teeth and then the specially of these
25:08
Speaker 2: kids around.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, you're absolutely right.
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Speaker 2: Hey, weather well.
25:11
Speaker 5: Partly cloudy conditions, A chance of a morning shower. Eighteen
25:15
Speaker 5: is a high here in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Never good to see you're happy Thursday everyone. We'll get
25:18
Speaker 2: to the US next, and we are talking about the
25:21
Speaker 2: Kremlin's next move on Ukraine. Before six.
25:25
Speaker 1: International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
25:29
Speaker 1: for New Zealand Business fourteen to six.
25:31
Speaker 2: Is the Lenski about to get stood up in Turkey?
25:33
Speaker 2: We'll talk Russia in just a second right now. The
25:36
Speaker 2: Menindias Brothers is a famous case in America. They may
25:39
Speaker 2: be released from prison, could be within the next few weeks.
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Speaker 2: Tony Waterman, US correspondent, Feature story News with Me This morning, Tony,
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Speaker 2: Good morning.
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Speaker 13: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: So how has this come about. Why has the judge
25:51
Speaker 2: decided to reduce this sentence.
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Speaker 13: Well, this judge resentenced them to life in prison with
25:58
Speaker 13: the possibility of so this is going to really pave
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Speaker 13: the way for them to be released. The judge didn't
26:04
Speaker 13: outright say that the brothers should be released. That is
26:07
Speaker 13: a decision that's going to be left up for California's
26:10
Speaker 13: governor and the parole board, but he did say that
26:13
Speaker 13: after thirty five years behind bars, that they did deserve
26:18
Speaker 13: a chance to get out. This is really a case
26:21
Speaker 13: that has gripped the United States for decades. It's been
26:25
Speaker 13: the saga that has been playing out, and there have
26:27
Speaker 13: been a number of these docu series, particularly this one
26:30
Speaker 13: that came out last year on Netflix, that have been
26:34
Speaker 13: done on them, which has really brought the story to
26:36
Speaker 13: a younger generation. They have been behind bars essentially since
26:41
Speaker 13: nineteen eighty nine, that is when they were convicted of
26:44
Speaker 13: killing their parents inside their ritzy Beverly Hills mansions and
26:49
Speaker 13: the brother the brothers have always maintained that they killed
26:53
Speaker 13: their parents because they feared their parents were going to
26:56
Speaker 13: kill them first. After years of really horrible sexual ab
27:00
Speaker 13: you set the hands of their father, something that they
27:02
Speaker 13: claim their mother was aware of and that they were
27:05
Speaker 13: trying to keep a secret. So that has always been
27:07
Speaker 13: their claim. Over the years, their family members have come
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Speaker 13: out and advocated for them, including before this decision came down.
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Speaker 13: And as you mentioned, they're going to be potentially could
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Speaker 13: be released as soon as June thirteen, that is when
27:20
Speaker 13: they are scheduled to appear before the Board.
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Speaker 2: Of Paroles and very quickly, Tony, the two hundred and
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Speaker 2: ten Boeing aircraft that Kasan airwise is going to get
27:29
Speaker 2: us part of this deal with Trump.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, so this is actually the biggest Boeing order ever,
27:37
Speaker 13: two hundred and ten Boeing airplanes that was signed as
27:41
Speaker 13: Donald Trump is taking this trip across the Middle East
27:44
Speaker 13: in Kata earlier today. You know, there was another thing
27:47
Speaker 13: that they signed. This is a statement of intent that
27:49
Speaker 13: could lead to thirty eight billion dollars in investments at
27:54
Speaker 13: Qatar's Al Ubi Airbase, which is this vital US military
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Speaker 13: hub in the Middle East.
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Speaker 8: One they they.
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Speaker 13: Didn't talk about it least publicly, is this very controversial
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Speaker 13: offer by Kuta to donate a four hundred million dollar
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Speaker 13: luxury Boeing jet to be the next air Force one,
28:11
Speaker 13: which of course has led to a raft of conflict
28:14
Speaker 13: of interest concerns and foreign's foreign influence concerns, because don't forget,
28:19
Speaker 13: this is the same Kuta where the Trump family business
28:22
Speaker 13: has just struck a deal to build a Trump branded
28:25
Speaker 13: luxury golf resort and villain. And he's been his family
28:28
Speaker 13: has been striking deals like this all across the Middle
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Speaker 13: East right now, his first foreign trip vice president to
28:33
Speaker 13: that very region.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, big deals, tiny, Thanks for you, Tom Tony Wildeman,
28:37
Speaker 2: US correspondent figure Story and news tanaway from.
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Speaker 1: Six Ryan Bridge.
28:40
Speaker 2: Posen's still leaving Zelensky on rid Orsain, still no replies
28:44
Speaker 2: Zelenski and Turkey basically waiting for him to turn up.
28:47
Speaker 2: He now sees he won't meet with anyone butts Posin
28:50
Speaker 2: Babyca senior Russia reporter Olga. If Shana is with us
28:54
Speaker 2: this morning, thank you for being with me. Do you
28:57
Speaker 2: think it's Likelyay Poten will turn up in the fleesh?
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Speaker 14: Well, that's the biggest question now, right And if I knew,
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Speaker 14: if anyone could read put in his mind, for probably
29:08
Speaker 14: that person would be one of the most differential and
29:10
Speaker 14: important people in the world right now. So the trouble
29:13
Speaker 14: with Putting is he follows his own logic, which we
29:17
Speaker 14: have seen precisely in the past three ten years. So yeah,
29:22
Speaker 14: it's quite unpredictable. Russian Russian officials are keeping the polls,
29:27
Speaker 14: that's not not releasing much information. There is an interesting
29:30
Speaker 14: sign that today Brazilian president made a stopover in Moscow
29:33
Speaker 14: and didn't meet with Putting, but it's probably too far
29:38
Speaker 14: to say that. So there is a sign of possibly
29:43
Speaker 14: him Putting preparing for something big, But it's it's it's still.
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Speaker 2: Ago. We've lost you. No, I think we've lost Olga. Unfortunately,
29:55
Speaker 2: it just gone nine minutes away from six Olga you're there. No,
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Speaker 2: we've lost it. We'll have to leave it there. Unfortunately,
30:02
Speaker 2: it was interesting what she had to say anyway. So
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Speaker 2: the problem, I mean, what he will be weighing up,
30:07
Speaker 2: what the Kremlin will be weighing up, is how does
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Speaker 2: it look to the rest of the world if I
30:11
Speaker 2: don't turn up. How does it look to America in particular,
30:15
Speaker 2: if I don't turn up, does that make it look
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Speaker 2: like I'm not keen on a deal?
30:18
Speaker 8: You know?
30:18
Speaker 2: These are the calculations the Kremlin will be making Alg's
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Speaker 2: back with us. I think, Olga, that'll be presumably what
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Speaker 2: the Kremlin's weighing up.
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Speaker 14: Yes, in a way, kremlinly is enjoying this ex tension,
30:30
Speaker 14: as was exactly their strategy for many years now, to
30:33
Speaker 14: keep the tension as much as possible in order to
30:36
Speaker 14: try to provoke cares, provoke confrontation, provoke doubts and discussions
30:41
Speaker 14: within the allies in Europe, in the United States, between
30:45
Speaker 14: Ukraine and the United States, for example. So the tension
30:48
Speaker 14: is actually favorable to Moscow, so we have to wait
30:51
Speaker 14: until tomorrow to get the answers. But Kremlin is enjoying
30:55
Speaker 14: that tension and possible disruptions which it may bring.
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Speaker 2: Aga really appreciate your time. Thank you with the dodgy
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Speaker 2: line for US. BBC senior Russia reporter Olga if Shiner,
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Speaker 2: on whether Putin will turn up in the flesh to
31:08
Speaker 2: meet with the Ntski says, I'm not meeting with lamb Rob.
31:11
Speaker 2: I'm not meeting with anyone else except for Putin. It
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Speaker 2: has just gone eight minutes away from six news talks.
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Speaker 2: Here be MICA's with us.
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Speaker 1: Next, the News you Need this morning and the in
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Speaker 2: He'd be first to six. You're on news talks, you'd
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Speaker 2: be I promised i'd get to the net migration thing
31:32
Speaker 2: very quickly, and I'm a man of my word, so
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Speaker 2: I will net migration gain twenty six four hundred in
31:36
Speaker 2: the year ended March. That's the lowest since twenty twenty two.
31:39
Speaker 2: I mean not surprising because we've seen them trending down.
31:42
Speaker 2: But seventy thousand kiwis left in the March twenty twenty
31:46
Speaker 2: five year, two thirds of them headed for Australia. Basically,
31:49
Speaker 2: migrants don't want to move here anymore, and Kiwis are
31:51
Speaker 2: leaving in their drives. And the Greens say this is
31:53
Speaker 2: because we need to tax everything more, we need to
31:55
Speaker 2: become a socialist state and then everyone will return to utopia,
32:00
Speaker 2: which is nonsense, because the reason they're fleeing here is
32:02
Speaker 2: for higher wages. People. They want to be paid more,
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Speaker 2: not taxed more, which is what would happen. We basically
32:09
Speaker 2: just need some more ocr cuts, according to the economists.
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Speaker 2: Five away from six Bryan Bridge there, Mike, good morning morning.
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Speaker 2: What I no you carryten to your show? The other day. Well,
32:19
Speaker 2: that's the that's why we were just talking about that.
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Speaker 15: You're off there. What you said was, I don't normally listen.
32:25
Speaker 15: I happen to be driving to the city.
32:28
Speaker 2: I don't normally listen at that time, so I would
32:30
Speaker 2: listen time. Do you listen on my way home from here? Well,
32:34
Speaker 2: what's ten minutes? Six minutes? Yeah, Max, exactly, But I
32:38
Speaker 2: don't normally listen in this in the last half hour
32:41
Speaker 2: of your show, and it just struck me that there's
32:43
Speaker 2: just a.
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Speaker 16: Lot of Mike Smack talking for basically then tell you what,
32:48
Speaker 16: tell you what I can do, and you can get
32:49
Speaker 16: some tips for your show office, because after after sixteen
32:52
Speaker 16: slash seventeen years, the numbers don't lie, my friend, whether
32:56
Speaker 16: in revenue or awards or ratings.
32:59
Speaker 2: So people, the Smack people love a bit of me.
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Speaker 15: Mate.
33:03
Speaker 2: I said to him every day, I say what's on
33:05
Speaker 2: your show? And he always just is me. It's like, well,
33:08
Speaker 2: what is there's something more interesting happening?
33:10
Speaker 15: There is nothing more interesting than me, Ryan. I mean,
33:13
Speaker 15: let's call it the way it is. Actually Bill Foley's
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Speaker 15: on This Morning. Bill Foley owns the Vegas Black Knight's
33:19
Speaker 15: ice hockey team, who are in the playoff game today.
33:21
Speaker 15: Also owns more importantly for US Auckland FC and is
33:25
Speaker 15: one of the great success stories on how to build
33:27
Speaker 15: a team, a winning side and all that sort of stuff.
33:28
Speaker 15: They go to the playoffs this weekend, so he's joining
33:31
Speaker 15: us from the States for a bit of an insight.
33:33
Speaker 15: He also runs a lot of hospital here in the country,
33:35
Speaker 15: does a lot of wine, so he's a billionaires.
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Speaker 2: Great success for US.
33:39
Speaker 15: Anyways, US after.
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Speaker 2: It, Mike and a really rich guy coming up next
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