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Full Show Podcast: 13 December 2024 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews US and the inside. Andrew Dickens
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Speaker 1: on the early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture
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Speaker 1: Beds and apply at store news Dogs.
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Speaker 2: It'd be well, good morning to you.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for choosing the show. It is the thirteenth
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Speaker 3: of December. It is a Black Friday and I'm Andrew
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Speaker 3: Dickinson coming up on the program. Today, health targets are released.
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Speaker 3: We're heading most of them. But does hitting the targets
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Speaker 3: mean we're getting good healthcare? I will do that in
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Speaker 3: just a few moments time. The Public Service cracks down
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Speaker 3: on work from home now is that fair? And what
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Speaker 3: should a workplace do about w f H? And there's
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Speaker 3: a review into acc what is rotten in the heart
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Speaker 3: of the world leading scheme. The Minister joins us just
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Speaker 3: before sex. We've got Vincent mcavenni on UK and Europe
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Speaker 3: coming up, and of course of the show correspondens from
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Speaker 3: right around New Zealand. You can text me anytime you
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Speaker 3: like ninety two to ninety two. Remember a small charge
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Speaker 3: does apply. And if you want to do a longer dissertation,
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Speaker 3: you can't send me an email. And that It's Dickens
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Speaker 3: at Newstalk zeb dot co dot NZ.
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Speaker 2: The agenda.
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Speaker 3: So it's Friday, the thirteenth of December. US President Joe
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Speaker 3: Biden is set to commute the sentences of fifteen hundred
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Speaker 3: non violent offenders. This is the largest day of clemency
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Speaker 3: in history.
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Speaker 4: The White House says all of these offenders are quote
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Speaker 4: nonviolent and have been placed on home confinement for at
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Speaker 4: least a year, adding that they had shown quote successful
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Speaker 4: rehabilitation and a strong commitment to making their community safer.
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Speaker 4: And the White House says that we should expect more
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Speaker 4: of this to happen before the President leaves office in
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Speaker 4: just thirty nine days.
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Speaker 3: Now to Australia more exactly Queensland, and they passed some
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Speaker 3: new laws which are quite george dropping. What do you
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Speaker 3: think the new law will see criminal children as young
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Speaker 3: as ten years old jailed like adults.
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Speaker 5: Our number one priority as a government in space is
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Speaker 5: fewer victim numbers and this gives the police the laws
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Speaker 5: they need to be able to do their job.
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Speaker 3: So if you're convicted for a serious crime like murder
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Speaker 3: and your tenth or serious assault and your ten, you
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Speaker 3: will be subject to the same sentences as adults. The
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Speaker 3: laws have been dubbed adult crime, Adult time. What do
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Speaker 3: you think about that idea? In New Zealand, ninety two
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Speaker 3: ninety two is the text number to South Korea and
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Speaker 3: South Korea's president has made another televised address, this time
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Speaker 3: defending his decision to declare martial law last week.
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Speaker 6: We must prevent the forces in criminal groups that have
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Speaker 6: led to the paralysis of government administration and disorder of
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Speaker 6: the national constitution from taking over the state administration and
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Speaker 6: threatening the future of the Republic of career. No matter what,
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Speaker 6: I will fight to the end.
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Speaker 3: And a second impeachment vote is set to be held
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Speaker 3: this weekend after the first one failed. And finally, as
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Speaker 3: you heard with Neva, it's just been announced that Donald
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Speaker 3: Trump has been named Time Persons of the Year for
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Speaker 3: the second time. He won it once after he won
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Speaker 3: the first election. Now he's got one it again for
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Speaker 3: the great comeback. He's beaten Elon Musk, who I thought
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Speaker 3: might have got it because you know, he's been very
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Speaker 3: powerful in the election. Plus he's done some rockets and
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Speaker 3: some cars and some batteries and stuff and X but no,
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump wins. Time Magazine's editor in chief says he
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Speaker 3: won the title for marshaling a comeback of historic proportions,
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Speaker 3: for driving a once in a generation political realignment, for
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Speaker 3: reshaping the American presidency and altering America's role in the world.
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Speaker 3: He first got the Person of the Year back in
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Speaker 3: twenty sixteen after he won the presidential election. Then it
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Speaker 3: is ten after five.
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Speaker 2: Andrew Dickens on the early edition with Smith City, New
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Speaker 2: Zealand's furniture beds and applying store news talk siddy.
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Speaker 3: Now, don't you hate it when the kids fighted? There's
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Speaker 3: a quiet war happening right now between David Seymour and
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Speaker 3: Winston Peters, the coalition partners. It's kicked up a little lately,
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Speaker 3: both boys playing games as they try to win the
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Speaker 3: hearts of the public and then win votes, which will
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Speaker 3: be all important when we finally go back to the
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Speaker 3: polls in twenty twenty six This, of course, is the
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Speaker 3: problem when you're a minor party. You need to make
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Speaker 3: noise to be noticed. You can get swamped so very
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Speaker 3: very easily. And the big noise for a while has
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Speaker 3: been David Seymour, who took conversations by the throat with
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Speaker 3: his treaty principles act love it or hate it, you're
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Speaker 3: all talking about it, which is all the politician wants.
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Speaker 3: Last week, I said when I was doing the drive,
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Speaker 3: so I did an editorial that said that Winston's been
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Speaker 3: a good boy while he's held the Deputy Prime minister job,
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Speaker 3: but that's coming to an end in a few months.
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Speaker 3: He does a swap seat with David Seymour. That will
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Speaker 3: free Winston's hand. You're gonna hear a lot more from him.
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Speaker 3: And look at that he started this week. That's why
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Speaker 3: he's taken over the railways. He wants to be seen
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Speaker 3: as a savior and a solver. The Herald editorial this
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Speaker 3: morning calls the move a Peter's power play. Seymour and
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Speaker 3: Peters have very different views of the railways. By the way,
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Speaker 3: Winston blames past privatizations. David wants to privatize forty nine
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Speaker 3: percent of it. Winston, by the way, also has a
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Speaker 3: treaty principal strategy. Just like David. He's looking to cancel
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Speaker 3: the legislation that already exists that prescribes how the treaty
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Speaker 3: veigels its way into our legislation. It's got a much
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Speaker 3: better chance of success than Seymour's Act and referendum but
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Speaker 3: so far it's flown under the radar since the election.
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Speaker 3: That hacks Winston off, and it's coming and he's going
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Speaker 3: to be free to promote it. So you're going to
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Speaker 3: hear a lot more about that soon. And you've got
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Speaker 3: to remember the difference between Winston and David. Winston is
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Speaker 3: an old school conservative and closer really to those old
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Speaker 3: fashioned socialists. We used to know they cared about the
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Speaker 3: working class, but it didn't have much truck with all
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Speaker 3: that sort of liberal stuff, you know, those guys. David Seymour,
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Speaker 3: though he's part of the new Conservatism and believes in capitalism,
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Speaker 3: markets and winner takes all. Winston doesn't believe that. They
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Speaker 3: are not naturally compatible. So I think it's a good
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Speaker 3: thing that they're starting to fight, even if they are
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Speaker 3: fighting in public. The next eighteen months looks to be
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Speaker 3: increasingly entertaining, and that is also a good thing because
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Speaker 3: you know, what are we about here? A contest of ideas?
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Speaker 2: Andrew Dickens, did you see We've.
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Speaker 3: Got to strike in the military game right now. It's
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Speaker 3: rumbling on. The civilian arm has been on a ghostlow
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Speaker 3: for the nearly a month now after they were offered
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Speaker 3: a wait for this zero percent pay rise. So work's
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Speaker 3: still happening. I've got a few friends who work in
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Speaker 3: the civilian arm. I live than Devenport. For my sins,
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Speaker 3: I have a few friends who work in it. It's happening.
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Speaker 3: They're doing it from home. It is certainly slow, and
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Speaker 3: yesterday the Defenseman of the Judith Collins, had to announce
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Speaker 3: that the military wing who are not allowed by legislation
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Speaker 3: to strike, have had their Christmas and New Year leave
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Speaker 3: canceled so that the military can keep running, which sucks
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Speaker 3: if you're in uniform, but it's another sign that our
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Speaker 3: defense force is woefully underfunded and they're trying to run
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Speaker 3: a truck on what is at five hundred budget. So look,
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Speaker 3: here's the thing. We spend one point one seven percent
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Speaker 3: of GDP on defense spending. That's pretty low. Internet at
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Speaker 3: the Worldwide Convention is two percent, Australia is one point
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Speaker 3: nine percent. These are troubled times. Do you think we
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Speaker 3: should be spending more on defense and so we don't
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Speaker 3: have military strikes? You can text me right the way
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Speaker 3: through the program. Ninety two ninety two is the number
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Speaker 3: news talks thereb so on the way to Fato Aora
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Speaker 3: has released its health targets. Now our health target is
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Speaker 3: a good way to run a health system. Will discuss
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Speaker 3: this in a mo with Debra Powell.
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Speaker 2: The First Word on the News of the Day Early
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Speaker 2: edition with Andrew Dickens and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture
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Speaker 2: Bids and Applying Store Youth talks.
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Speaker 3: It Bey, what do you reckon about queens and day
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Speaker 3: you do a crime you're ten years old, like murder
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Speaker 3: or a serious assault. You do a big crime, they
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Speaker 3: say you now do adult time. Grant reckons here, get
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Speaker 3: tough on crime. I for an eye in my book.
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Speaker 3: And then he says, and I quote a length of
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Speaker 3: rope is cheap, excell Grant. Meanwhile, Paul, thank you so
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Speaker 3: much for contributing to the program.
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Speaker 7: Morning.
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Speaker 3: It is Korea, not South Korea. There is only North
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Speaker 3: Korea and Korea. Good to know. It is sixteen f
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Speaker 3: So tifut to Order has released its health targets for
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Speaker 3: July to September this year, and all but three are
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Speaker 3: on track. Sixty seven and a half percent of patients
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Speaker 3: were admitted, discharged or transferred from an ED within six hours.
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Speaker 3: The target was seventy four percent. So do a bit
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Speaker 3: better there, and that's the big, big failure, but most
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Speaker 3: are on track. This comes after Health New Zealand released
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Speaker 3: its workforce plan. It says we will need three four
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Speaker 3: hundred doctors over the next ten years, and of course
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Speaker 3: critics of the health targets say we need more doctors
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Speaker 3: to meet those targets. But where will the doctors come
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Speaker 3: from and can we reach they four hundred and ten years.
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Speaker 3: So Deborah Powell is the National Secretary of the Resident
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Speaker 3: Doctors Association, joins me. Now, Hello Deborah, Good morning Andrew.
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Speaker 3: So the targets are on track. The government will be happy.
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Speaker 3: They like numbers, they like targets. Is that a true
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Speaker 3: representation of where our healthcare is at? Does it mean
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Speaker 3: we're getting better healthcare?
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Speaker 8: No, it doesn't.
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Speaker 9: I'm afraid our healthcare system is under real stress. Anyone
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Speaker 9: who's been to an ED will see that. And you know,
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Speaker 9: we've got block problems because we simply don't have enough
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Speaker 9: beds or the staff to look after the patients inside
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Speaker 9: our hospitals. We have problems in radiology because we don't
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Speaker 9: have enough radiologists or medical imaging technologists. So people get
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Speaker 9: stuck in d because they can't get an X ray
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Speaker 9: or CT and the volumes, the volumes of patients that
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Speaker 9: we're being asked to look after is just so huge
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Speaker 9: number of factors there. We've got an aging population, so
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Speaker 9: you know there is more demand, but primary care isn't
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Speaker 9: being supported enough, and so people are turning up to
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Speaker 9: ED because they can't get.
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Speaker 8: To a GP.
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Speaker 9: So no, our health system is not doing well. And
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Speaker 9: you know, releasing this at the same time as the
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Speaker 9: workforce Plan, well that was an interesting strategy. I have
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Speaker 9: to say. Well, because the workforce Plan has long awaited,
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Speaker 9: it's overdue of course. And three four hundred more doctors,
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Speaker 9: as you say, but no new medical school. You know, ultimately,
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Speaker 9: if we're going to get more doctors in this country,
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Speaker 9: we need to produce.
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Speaker 8: We need new.
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Speaker 3: Medical They've promised one in way Kato. You can't just
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Speaker 3: rust up a medical school overnight.
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Speaker 9: Well, they've promised one, but then they started talking about
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Speaker 9: the business case and we haven't heard anything further. I
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Speaker 9: understand that promise is possibly a shaky ground and the
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Speaker 9: money all.
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Speaker 3: Right, good, well, you've seen what's happening in to needing.
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Speaker 3: So let's take a look at the targets. You know,
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Speaker 3: for instance, eighty four point six percent of patients received
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Speaker 3: cancer management within thirty one days of a decision to treat.
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Speaker 3: And that's quite good and that means we are well.
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Speaker 3: And what I'm saying, don't the targets focus the mind
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Speaker 3: of all the practitioners and the patients to get their
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Speaker 3: care underway.
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Speaker 10: Oh?
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Speaker 9: Absolutely. But I don't think any of our doctors or
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Speaker 9: allied scientists and technical staff such as our radiation therapists
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Speaker 9: of course, who are treating cancer patients are setting around,
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Speaker 9: you know, not really interested in the next one that
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Speaker 9: rolls up. That's not the case. They're working really really hard.
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Speaker 9: They always have. And yeah, getting patients through, getting patients
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Speaker 9: treated is what health practitioners are there for. And yeah,
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Speaker 9: they're very focused.
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Speaker 8: On doing that. These are general figures, you know.
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Speaker 9: For instance, we've got real problems in Wellington and Palmerston
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Speaker 9: North with a number of radiation therapists we have there.
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Speaker 9: We've had on their accelerators not working during this year
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Speaker 9: something because we don't have enough staff to run them.
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Speaker 9: So they do an amazing job with a really difficult environment.
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Speaker 3: I have to say, very good stuff, Deborah. Enjoy your Christmas.
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Speaker 3: If we don't speak again, we'll get my love to
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Speaker 3: Ian and I thank you for your time today and
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Speaker 3: it is coming up nearly five twenty and this is
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Speaker 3: News Talk's b And meanwhile, can I just say the
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Speaker 3: need to find three four hundred new doctors inside the
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Speaker 3: next ten years is a huge target, and we'll take
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Speaker 3: a huge investment, and we'll take a huge immigration push.
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Speaker 3: And that's a big number. And that's how badly we've
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Speaker 3: fallen down over the last fifty years in providing with
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Speaker 3: our healthcare. So that's a biggie. The other biggie is
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Speaker 3: the acc accounts came out the other day. We are
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Speaker 3: seven point two billion dollars in deficit. We used to
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Speaker 3: be in surplus just a couple of years ago. Matt
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Speaker 3: Doocy just before six o'clock today here on News Talks.
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Speaker 3: There b it is five twenty.
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Speaker 2: Get ahead of the headlines. Andrew Dickens on early edition
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Speaker 2: with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture Bids and Appliant Store
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Speaker 2: Youth Talks.
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Speaker 3: It'd be so post pandemic is certainly the issue for
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Speaker 3: employers and employees to a certain degree work from home.
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Speaker 3: We started working from home, and then of course the
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Speaker 3: pandemic ended and we kept on working from home, and
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Speaker 3: some people are really against it. Elon Musk is going
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Speaker 3: to crack down in America and much to the dismay
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Speaker 3: of Public Service of New Zealand, the Public Service Commissioner
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Speaker 3: yesterday issued new guidance on working from home now. The
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Speaker 3: new guidelines make it clear working from home isn't an
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Speaker 3: entitlement and all flexible work arrangements must be agreed and
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Speaker 3: managed to support a high performance culture. So Jennifer Mills
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Speaker 3: is an employment specialist at Jennifer Mills and Associates, and
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Speaker 3: she joins me now morning.
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Speaker 10: Jennifer, Good morning, Andrew.
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Speaker 3: What do you think of the guidance. I think it's
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Speaker 3: pretty good.
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Speaker 10: Well, you're right to identify that the guidelines don't override
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Speaker 10: any existing contractual arrangements or statutes, and it gives the
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Speaker 10: agencies guidance in terms of what they need to do now.
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Speaker 10: And the whole idea behind the guidelines is just to
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Speaker 10: ensure that there's an alignment between agencies flexible working policies
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Speaker 10: and government's expectations. So they've made it very clear that
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Speaker 10: working from home in the public service isn't an entitlement
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Speaker 10: and there needs to be an express agreement between the parties.
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Speaker 10: Working from home arrangements can only be agreed where they
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Speaker 10: won't compromise performance of employees, teams, and the agencies as
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Speaker 10: a whole. And as you've identified, agencies are now required
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Speaker 10: to monitor and report on these arrangements that are in place.
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Speaker 3: And this is a good lesson for every employer and
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Speaker 3: every employee. I mean, too many people these days have
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Speaker 3: gone well, I don't feel like going, and I think
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Speaker 3: I might do a little bit of the WFH. And
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Speaker 3: they do it without telling their managers, without telling anybody,
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Speaker 3: and so it's a bit ad hoc. You know, if
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Speaker 3: you want to do this, fine, do it, but make
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Speaker 3: sure that you are set up to do it properly,
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Speaker 3: which means agreement between your employer and yourself and everybody
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Speaker 3: you're working on projects with.
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Speaker 10: Well, that's exactly right, Andrew. So as long as there's transparency.
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Speaker 10: The idea is that these guidelines won't cut across those arrangements,
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Speaker 10: but there does need to be express agreement, transparency and
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Speaker 10: just another cheek if you like that these ongoing arrangements
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Speaker 10: are suitable. And we've seen great employee resistance on the
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Speaker 10: return to office directive. Although this guideline doesn't go that far.
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Speaker 10: And in the private space we've seen employees are reluctant
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Speaker 10: to return back to work full time. But it seems
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Speaker 10: that the hybrid model is one that is working well.
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Speaker 10: And study show that there is no productivity issue between
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Speaker 10: those in the office full time and hybrid workers. But
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Speaker 10: the productivity issues arise where employees work from home full time,
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Speaker 10: and I suspect the driver behind this guidance is to
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Speaker 10: have better integration between employee and employer in the public
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Speaker 10: sector and perhaps to stamp out those one hundred percent
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Speaker 10: workers from home as opposed to the hybrid model.
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Speaker 3: Good good stuff. Thank you Jennifer Bills for taking our
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Speaker 3: time well us today it is five twenty six, and
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Speaker 3: I would suggest possibly, if you're an employer, just part
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Speaker 3: of copying what the public service has done and perhaps
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Speaker 3: thinking about instituting it in your workplace as well. Then
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Speaker 3: to Macavanni. Coming up in about fifteen minutes, we'll have
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Speaker 3: All right, here comes the weekend. Here comes a bit
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Speaker 3: of sport. We've got the black Caps playing in Hamilton
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Speaker 3: against England. I'll bother or not. I don't know, because
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Speaker 3: the black Caps have broken my heart over the last
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Speaker 3: two tests, to be fair, but it's good to see
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Speaker 3: Will Young is back playing. Now we've got football this
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Speaker 3: weekend as well. Phoenix play MacArthur, orcand f C plays Melbourne.
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Speaker 3: Hey hold on, I'm talking about football, the round ball game.
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Speaker 3: Who would have thought that in New Zealand football or
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Speaker 3: soccer would command such attention, would sell out twenty five
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Speaker 3: thousand seater stadiums. And the boost has been the arrival
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Speaker 3: of the ork NEFC, all the Black Knights, And the
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Speaker 3: question keeps getting asked, how come Orkande f C got
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Speaker 3: so good, so fast six zip? How good is that?
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Speaker 3: And how come they brought so many fans with them?
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Speaker 3: So here's my theory there, billionaire backer meant that he
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Speaker 3: could afford to get a good rounded squad right from
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Speaker 3: the get go. It's a great squad. There's a squad
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Speaker 3: stuff with all whites, that means stuff with Kiwi's and
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Speaker 3: Orcander's that appeals to the home crowd. We can be
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Speaker 3: proud of them. They hired a great coach and Steve Carriker,
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Speaker 3: He's done it before. Great captain and a Japanese legend.
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Speaker 3: They've tapped into the rising popularity of football amongst younger men,
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Speaker 3: in particular because Sky is finally playing the Premier League.
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Speaker 3: They stipulated that home games are in the late afternoon
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Speaker 3: so families can come, and if you've got kids, you
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Speaker 3: know it. I mean for younger fans as well, it's
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Speaker 3: just part of a night out. They go out after
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Speaker 3: the game, so it's not the bee or an end all,
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Speaker 3: and the ground is full on entertainment because frankly, a
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Speaker 3: ninety minute game is a long game for those easily distracted.
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Speaker 3: So they've learned all this I reckon from the Warriors.
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Speaker 3: And you look at AFC and the Warriors, and then
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Speaker 3: you look at the All Blacks, so you can see
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Speaker 3: the difference the All Backs and the Warriors. Well, no,
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Speaker 3: the Black Knights and the Warriors love their fans and
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Speaker 3: their fans love them back, unlike the All Blacks who
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Speaker 3: demand you worship them and then force you to watch
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Speaker 3: night games in a freezing June and July, who export
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Speaker 3: a home game against the French to America. And now
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Speaker 3: Ford has said the All Backs can't have any four cars.
17:42
Speaker 3: That's a Biggie. That is so all backs. You should
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Speaker 3: be watching The New Boys.
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Speaker 8: I tell you.
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Speaker 3: two Arena the other day with a little half hour
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Speaker 3: Bad delightful boys. Welcome to the program. I'm Andrew Dickins.
18:32
Speaker 3: It's twenty three to six. So we've got Defense Force
18:36
Speaker 3: civilians on strike. They're on a ghost slow. They're happen
18:40
Speaker 3: for about a month. And now the military guys, the
18:42
Speaker 3: guys in uniform, are being told all holiday leave canceled
18:46
Speaker 3: because we've got to keep the military running. And the
18:47
Speaker 3: whole reason for this is we do not have enough money.
18:49
Speaker 3: We do not spend much money on defense. I said,
18:51
Speaker 3: should we do?
18:52
Speaker 10: So?
18:52
Speaker 3: Paul has written to me and said, yes, more on defense.
18:54
Speaker 3: We need to start pulling our weight. It will take
18:57
Speaker 3: two to three years for US to build up and
18:59
Speaker 3: be moore Cape. Australia are preparing for war and if
19:02
Speaker 3: New Zealand finds that it suddenly needs more military defense
19:05
Speaker 3: supplies and they will become in short supply and highly expensive,
19:08
Speaker 3: just like buying stuff during the COVID. And that's a
19:11
Speaker 3: very good point, Paul, so thank you so very very much. Meanwhile,
19:14
Speaker 3: still on defense, and also on sport and in politics,
19:16
Speaker 3: they say sport and politics shouldn't mix, but that's bolderdesh.
19:20
Speaker 10: So.
19:20
Speaker 3: I heard yesterday Papua New Guinea will join Australia's NURL league.
19:24
Speaker 3: They're going to play a rugby league there after signing
19:27
Speaker 3: a deal. So Australia will provide six hundred million dollars.
19:30
Speaker 3: Australia will albo Will Albernizi's giving Papia New Guinea six
19:35
Speaker 3: hundred million dollars over ten years to set up a team.
19:38
Speaker 3: And I went, what the hell has the Australian government
19:40
Speaker 3: got to do with that? Then you go and look
19:41
Speaker 3: at the story and realize that in exchange, Papua New
19:45
Speaker 3: Guinea has signed a separate pact which says it reaffirms
19:49
Speaker 3: its commitment to Australia as its major security partner. Basically,
19:53
Speaker 3: this is a rugby league deal that obligates Papua New
19:56
Speaker 3: Guinea to shun security ties with China. It's twenty two
20:03
Speaker 3: to six. Let's go around New Zealand. Callen Procton joins
20:07
Speaker 3: us from Duneed and Halle Cullen Morning Andrew. We've got
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Speaker 3: the Otager University graduation ceremony and there's going to be
20:14
Speaker 3: a special award and people are going to be honored.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, a couple of the university senior leaders are being
20:19
Speaker 11: recognized at tomorrow's graduation through a prestigious academic award. So
20:24
Speaker 11: this is Stephen Haggs and also Professor Helen Nicholson both
20:28
Speaker 11: being awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws for their twelve
20:31
Speaker 11: and twenty four years of work, which included being as
20:35
Speaker 11: chancellor and acting Vice chancellor. Both of them are helping
20:39
Speaker 11: guide the university through times of change. Are the current
20:42
Speaker 11: chancellors Trish Oakley? She says these awards aren't given out
20:45
Speaker 11: every day and she's delighted to be able to recognize
20:47
Speaker 11: their contribution which extends way beyond just the university.
20:51
Speaker 3: And how is the weather today?
20:54
Speaker 11: Are mostly cloudy, a few showers today, clearing by this evening,
20:56
Speaker 11: though the high seventeenth to crazy.
20:58
Speaker 3: Here we go. Thomas Rice joins me. Hello Tom, Hello, Hello.
21:01
Speaker 3: Krashos Mayor is hoping that Contabrians can get behind the
21:03
Speaker 3: city Missions Christmas appeal.
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Speaker 12: Yeah yeah, and he's even calling the level of need
21:08
Speaker 12: a sad state of of fears. The charity is trying
21:10
Speaker 12: to get one eight hundred food parcels for local families
21:14
Speaker 12: over the holiday period. The partially restored Cross Church Cathedral
21:17
Speaker 12: has even got behind the efforts, with proceeds from public
21:20
Speaker 12: cathedral tours going to the appeal and me at film
21:23
Speaker 12: Major says anyone who can give money should be congratulated,
21:26
Speaker 12: adding that it's surreal to see the cues of people
21:28
Speaker 12: waiting outside the mission, and so much so that even
21:30
Speaker 12: traffic management's needed. Okay, and how's the weather in Canterbury.
21:34
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all right.
21:35
Speaker 12: It's fine at first, cloud and isolated showers developing kind
21:37
Speaker 12: of late morning and claring in the evening with a
21:39
Speaker 12: high of twenty four.
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Speaker 3: Excellent. Thank you so much. Max Toel from Wellington, how
21:43
Speaker 3: are you good? How are you good? We've got a
21:45
Speaker 3: breakthrough for a landmark now what landmark are we talking about?
21:49
Speaker 7: Yeah, so this is the Oriental Bay band Rotunda. Excuse me, Yes,
21:54
Speaker 7: the white whale of the Capital. You might say that
21:57
Speaker 7: it's a large, semi circular building that juts out over
22:01
Speaker 7: the beach. Used to be a seafood restaurant. It's sat
22:03
Speaker 7: empty for more than a decade, I think because it's
22:06
Speaker 7: that dreaded combo of being quake prone and heritage listed.
22:09
Speaker 7: But it's a beautiful building, a beautiful site. I can
22:12
Speaker 7: tell you that tourists who visit Wellington for the first
22:14
Speaker 7: time probably see it on the horizon and get it excited,
22:17
Speaker 7: thinking it's some sort of beautiful restaurant or bar or something.
22:20
Speaker 7: Let's head there, and are sorely disappointed. The good news
22:23
Speaker 7: is a new developer is taking it over, planning to
22:28
Speaker 7: open a spa on the top on the bottom floor,
22:31
Speaker 7: a restaurant and bar off the top. By twenty twenty
22:35
Speaker 7: seven there was an offer approved by the City Council
22:38
Speaker 7: by Watson Group. There behind other residential developments in the Capitol,
22:42
Speaker 7: all going well, quake strengthening to start in the new year.
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Speaker 3: It's good news. When I lived in Willington, I used
22:48
Speaker 3: to go there for a dinner or a lunch maybe
22:51
Speaker 3: every couple of months because it was so good. Yes, seafood, seafood,
22:54
Speaker 3: must eat food. How's your weather?
22:55
Speaker 7: That's right, beautiful views as well. It should be fine
22:58
Speaker 7: today twenty two the high Central very good.
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Speaker 3: And Neiva Rettaman, who is a very happy camper because
23:03
Speaker 3: today is here Friday, last day before she's off on
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Speaker 3: her fest of holiday.
23:08
Speaker 13: Well, I must say I think everyone in the newsroom
23:10
Speaker 13: is very happy about that, because I have been annoying
23:12
Speaker 13: this and I have been saying I've just been running
23:14
Speaker 13: around the newsroom laughing, cackling.
23:17
Speaker 3: I've only been doing the show for a week and
23:18
Speaker 3: you'd be annoying me from Monday. There we go, so
23:22
Speaker 3: Orkan's waterfront footbridge. Is it going to open this morning? Look,
23:27
Speaker 3: there was some doubts, there was some doubt.
23:29
Speaker 13: Well, I think there's a just a we slyther slither
23:32
Speaker 13: of a doubt as well this morning. But everyone outside
23:34
Speaker 13: of Auckland be thinking, oh flipp an Ekre's footbridge again.
23:37
Speaker 13: But we are sending a reporter out there this morning
23:40
Speaker 13: and apparently it should be opened by seven thirty this morning.
23:44
Speaker 13: That's that bridge connecting when you'd caught her. Due to
23:47
Speaker 13: reopen at seven thirty this morning. Our reporters on his
23:49
Speaker 13: way there, so we will give you an update now,
23:54
Speaker 13: you know. The Winnard Pavilion general manager Alex Pearson says,
23:56
Speaker 13: they're so excited. I think there'll be a few people
23:59
Speaker 13: down there. If I wasn't reading the news this morning,
24:01
Speaker 13: I'd be one of those people down there because you know,
24:03
Speaker 13: like we've got sale GP in January, We've got six
24:06
Speaker 13: sixty coming Auckland boat Show over the summer, all these
24:10
Speaker 13: things happening at the viaduct and people do not want
24:12
Speaker 13: to walk, you know.
24:13
Speaker 3: And I ride a bicycle through the viaduct the other
24:17
Speaker 3: day that region and it was basically empty. Yeah, you
24:20
Speaker 3: know absolutely that that bridge has been a disaster. It
24:23
Speaker 3: has our short sighted this and a lack of investment.
24:26
Speaker 3: If it's fixed, that's a good.
24:27
Speaker 13: View, yes, And you know, and for those businesses, really
24:30
Speaker 13: you've got to think about those businesses. You know they
24:32
Speaker 13: will be I mean they've had huge losses and in
24:34
Speaker 13: one of them said they've had losses up to sixty percent.
24:37
Speaker 5: So good stuff.
24:38
Speaker 13: Yes, that will be in the news this morning.
24:40
Speaker 3: So now the bridge is open house. The weather for promenading.
24:44
Speaker 13: Well, can I just say one word, muggy, not a
24:46
Speaker 13: good day for here, Look at your here, don't go
24:48
Speaker 13: down there for you. I mean like it's going to
24:50
Speaker 13: be so hot twenty threes a high. But you know
24:53
Speaker 13: it's just that humidity and it is happening today.
24:56
Speaker 3: Good stuff, and I thank you. At seventeen to six,
24:58
Speaker 3: in a moment, we're talking to Vincent mcaven he's going
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Speaker 3: to talk to us about the latest from Syria. It
25:02
Speaker 3: really sucks to be Syrian. To be fair, you know,
25:04
Speaker 3: you have the euphoria of the freedom of the revolution,
25:09
Speaker 3: and you may have been a refugee and you've gone.
25:12
Speaker 3: There's a million Cyrillians who got into Germany because Angela
25:15
Speaker 3: Merkell welcomed them, and then, wouldn't you know it, the
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Speaker 3: next day, of course, all the countries in Europe started
25:21
Speaker 3: turning around and the rights of the politics started saying
25:24
Speaker 3: things like, well, I think it's time now that those
25:26
Speaker 3: Syrians who arrived in twenty eleven might go home, even
25:31
Speaker 3: though of course they've set up life here and they're
25:33
Speaker 3: running all the jobs that Germans and Hungarians don't want
25:38
Speaker 3: to do. So anyway, it sucks to be Syria. We'll
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Speaker 3: talk about Syria at a moment with Vincent Mcavhenny Well,
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Speaker 8: How are you good morning? I'm well, thanks, how are
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Speaker 8: you very good?
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Speaker 3: About a million people have a Syrian passport in Germany.
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Speaker 3: Most of them came what fifteen sixteen Angel and Mercal
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Speaker 3: invited them in and now what's happened in Syria. A
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Speaker 3: lot of people are saying time to go home.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, millions of others across the rest of Europe as well.
27:20
Speaker 8: There's lots in the UK. I've been speaking to some
27:23
Speaker 8: today and some are incredibly keen to get home. We
27:26
Speaker 8: know that, for instance, the UK has now stopped processing
27:29
Speaker 8: assilent claims from Syria. Some other UK European nations are
27:33
Speaker 8: looking at repatriation schemes, but some are already saying that, look,
27:37
Speaker 8: they're going to go home and do trips, be reunited
27:39
Speaker 8: with family in the coming weeks and then it will
27:41
Speaker 8: take them a few months to figure out how exactly
27:43
Speaker 8: they move home and what they will do when they
27:46
Speaker 8: get there. But many who I've spoken to today very
27:50
Speaker 8: optimistic about the fact that they can go home. They
27:52
Speaker 8: want to try to rebuild Syria. They are, of course,
27:55
Speaker 8: concerned about what's been going on. There's still a lot
27:57
Speaker 8: of confusion at the moment. We know that the rebel leader,
28:01
Speaker 8: they're saying that he'll dissolve security forces, that the interim
28:04
Speaker 8: government will remain in place until March, and that we
28:06
Speaker 8: still got the US and Israel carrying out a number
28:09
Speaker 8: of strikes in the country to take out military installations
28:12
Speaker 8: and also to try and curtail Isis from rerouping.
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Speaker 3: True enough, true enough. But there's also a lot of
28:17
Speaker 3: people who have Syrians who have made their lives in Germany,
28:20
Speaker 3: and these I understand the health Stike DOS very concerned
28:22
Speaker 3: because they've become quite dependent on the cheaper labor.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right. I was speaking actually to a medical
28:29
Speaker 8: association via Zoom in northern Syria today and they are
28:33
Speaker 8: trying to treat those who've come out of prison with
28:35
Speaker 8: all of these severe torture wounds and real sort of
28:39
Speaker 8: psychological scars from this as well. They've been urging Syrian
28:42
Speaker 8: medics who many of them were sort of had to
28:44
Speaker 8: flee the country over the five decades of the ASSAD regime,
28:49
Speaker 8: many of them highly skilled. You've got some top Syrian
28:51
Speaker 8: surgeons here in London for instance. Not for them are
28:54
Speaker 8: wanting to go home, but it could cause shortfalls of
28:56
Speaker 8: expertise here. But it will be a decision for them
28:59
Speaker 8: to make as to whether or not they go back.
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Speaker 2: Six Andrew Diggins.
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Speaker 3: So the ACC Minister has announced an independent review into
29:11
Speaker 3: ACC because of concerns about its performance. Matt Doocey says
29:14
Speaker 3: rehabilitation rates up down, weekly compensation costs and average cost
29:19
Speaker 3: per claim were up. That's not efficient. Not only that
29:22
Speaker 3: there was a seven point two billion dollar deficit, which
29:24
Speaker 3: is a worry. We were in surplace a couple of
29:26
Speaker 3: years ago. Matt Doocy joins, you now goimoing to you
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Speaker 3: Matt at the RIDI Andrew, what are you going to
29:32
Speaker 3: look into?
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Speaker 8: Basically?
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Speaker 14: What I want to do from the external review it
29:38
Speaker 14: will be conducted within six months, is to seek assurance
29:43
Speaker 14: that ACC has the right settings and interventions in place
29:47
Speaker 14: to turn around their declining rehabilitation rates and to address
29:51
Speaker 14: the expansion of the number of people on long term prime.
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Speaker 3: So is the review because you don't know why their
29:57
Speaker 3: numbers said or their heading of targets has falling in.
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Speaker 3: You don't know why they're not rehabilitating better, and you
30:02
Speaker 3: don't know why it's costing.
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Speaker 14: Well, when we look at the deficit that ACC posted
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Speaker 14: in the last year about seven point two billion dollars,
30:12
Speaker 14: it's about a third a third and a third of
30:15
Speaker 14: that has increased costs through inflation and treatment costs. A
30:19
Speaker 14: third of it is to do with court rulings that
30:22
Speaker 14: have opened up entitlements, and a third of that is
30:25
Speaker 14: the declining rehabilitation rates. Now ACC is recently restructured. They've
30:30
Speaker 14: deployed an extra two hundred and fifty people on the
30:33
Speaker 14: front line, moved from a many to one case management
30:36
Speaker 14: approach to narrow one to one. So they're putting their
30:40
Speaker 14: systems and interventions in place. But I want to get
30:43
Speaker 14: experts in. They've got experience of excellent compensation schemes to
30:47
Speaker 14: give me assurance that every lever has been pulled to
30:50
Speaker 14: ensure we turn those declining rehability session rates around.
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Speaker 3: Okay, and we'll good luck with that. Meanwhile, of course,
30:56
Speaker 3: the deficit means that you've announced increasing levees. Levies have
30:59
Speaker 3: are increasing by up to five percent a year for
31:01
Speaker 3: three years. Do you think if you have a successful
31:03
Speaker 3: review you can actually reverse those increasing levees, you could
31:07
Speaker 3: bring the cost down.
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Speaker 14: Well, the advice I've got is that we need to
31:11
Speaker 14: do both at the moment, is increase levees and also
31:15
Speaker 14: turn around the declining rehabilitation rates. What we're looking at
31:19
Speaker 14: the long term ten year horizon as well. But I've
31:23
Speaker 14: been very clear with ACC. I don't want to see
31:25
Speaker 14: the increasing of ACC levees just been used as a
31:28
Speaker 14: default to address their deficit. They need to lift their performance.
31:33
Speaker 14: The advice I've got is even a one percent improvement
31:37
Speaker 14: and rehabilitation rates will have a significant impact in the
31:40
Speaker 14: long term on their deficit. And that's why we really
31:43
Speaker 14: want to drive up those rehabilitation rates.
31:46
Speaker 3: Well, it's the deficit is mind blowing, an eye watering
31:49
Speaker 3: at seven point two more so, anything you can do, Matt,
31:51
Speaker 3: go ahead and do it. It is now seven minutes
31:53
Speaker 3: to six and By the way, levees for evs are
31:57
Speaker 3: going to go up about one hundred bucks, whereas levees
32:00
Speaker 3: petrol vehicles going to go up about fifty. Now, why
32:04
Speaker 3: are the evs more dangerous? Apparently it's because the evs
32:06
Speaker 3: don't pay the petrol tax. But is that necessarily fair?
32:10
Speaker 3: He says as an ev owner.
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Speaker 3: Who would be scamming this thing? Okay? The addresses air
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Speaker 3: another text says, what's the constant use of festive? Are
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Speaker 13: No?
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Speaker 3: We're not your paranoid man. Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, death of Christ.
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Speaker 3: God bless you. Heather bless you two Andrew things. It's Friday.
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Speaker 8: It is Friday.
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Speaker 15: We're going to try to you know what, We're going
33:05
Speaker 15: to try to get into this NRL thing. Have you
33:07
Speaker 15: seen what happened with the NRL overnight?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, today, and they're defeating China by funding a football team.
33:12
Speaker 2: Yeah.
33:13
Speaker 15: So we were never in the running, were we for
33:15
Speaker 15: our South Island football team? Not really, no, because unfortunately
33:18
Speaker 15: it was always going to be given to PNG to
33:19
Speaker 15: try and cut China's lunch. We have a little chat
33:21
Speaker 15: about that. I don't think that this is good for
33:23
Speaker 15: rugby league. Might be good for geopolitics, but if you're
33:25
Speaker 15: a fan of the league, do.
33:26
Speaker 3: You know what last night I heard that story and
33:28
Speaker 3: I heard it in the side and I said, there go,
33:30
Speaker 3: why the hell is Albanesi giving six hundred million to
33:33
Speaker 3: a football side? And it's not till I came in
33:35
Speaker 3: this morning and read the story. I went, oh, and
33:38
Speaker 3: so that was badly reported.
33:39
Speaker 15: Yeah, well, I also wonder what's going on with Albanizi
33:42
Speaker 15: if he thinks that he can win an election by
33:44
Speaker 15: annoying all the Bogans who watch rugby league.
33:47
Speaker 3: I don't think that that's a.
33:49
Speaker 15: By the way, also Una Jegozie, Solicitor General, has done
33:53
Speaker 15: a bit a complete u turn on her prosecution guidelines
33:57
Speaker 15: for you know, giving a free pass to Marti if
34:00
Speaker 15: you know, if the prosecutor wants to.
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Speaker 3: What was it a free past?
34:02
Speaker 15: It was it take into account, take into account, take
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Speaker 15: into account. But if you read the document further, it
34:07
Speaker 15: gets more and more into like free past territory. Actually,
34:11
Speaker 15: So we're gonna have a chat to her just to
34:12
Speaker 15: find out what it is that changed her mind and
34:14
Speaker 15: whether she accepts it is actually a mistake that she's
34:16
Speaker 15: made in Brian roach new public service commissioners telling them
34:19
Speaker 15: how much time they got to spend in the office.
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Speaker 3: Chato, that's a good idea too. I've talked about that
34:23
Speaker 3: this morning. Great idea. Hey, thank you, Heather, Welcome. Thank
34:26
Speaker 3: you to Leo the producer. My name is Andrew Dickens.
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Speaker 3: I'm back again next week haha.
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