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Full Show Podcast: 10 August 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: early edition with Spunk for business technology that keeps business moving,
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Speaker 1: news talks.
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Speaker 2: There'd be a very good morning. Six after five. We
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Speaker 2: will look at the Nets and the Texas this morning
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Speaker 2: Gabons and the UK. For US, Vicky Price does the
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Speaker 2: business and calling one one one. What's actually happening with
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Speaker 2: our paramedics. We'll ask that question this morning too. The
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Speaker 2: agenda of August No surprises Ntuna, who doesn't like Trump's
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Speaker 2: Garza plan. He's not going to pull out until Hermas
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Speaker 2: is fully disarmed.
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Speaker 3: That means a.
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Speaker 4: Heavy weaponry, less heavy weaponry and smaller arms, all weaponry.
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Speaker 4: We're talking about a true dismantling, not fictitious dismantling. We're
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Speaker 4: now speaking with the Americans about this subject. They have ideas,
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Speaker 4: some of them are acceptable to us and some are unacceptable.
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Speaker 2: And from Dubai to Dublin an irishman, Daniel Kinahan's his name.
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Speaker 2: You may not have heard of him, but he's the
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Speaker 2: ring leader of the Family Gang. He's been a red
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Speaker 2: one of apparently the most dangerous cartels in the world,
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Speaker 2: this Irish cartel. So he's currently on a jet from
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Speaker 2: Dubai where he was arrested to Dublin to face prosecutors.
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Speaker 5: So I want to be very strong tribute to on
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Speaker 5: Guardess Hicona, to the Guarded Commissioner and the Minister of Justice.
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Speaker 5: Success of Minister Justice in terms of the Guardi's success
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Speaker 5: and tackling organized crime in a very effective way, and
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Speaker 5: that is evidence of the last number of years in
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Speaker 5: terms of a number of convictions that are secured in
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Speaker 5: the general Ganglaan crime area.
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Speaker 2: Right too, Infantino updates and there've been a couple you
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Speaker 2: might have seen over the weekend, the story about when
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Speaker 2: he was the boss of UEFA. They use some of
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Speaker 2: the money that should have been used for football to
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Speaker 2: pay off a former lover. He apparently promoted this woman
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Speaker 2: who worked at yueper from a secretary into a management
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Speaker 2: role and then they paid for a degree for her
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Speaker 2: to go and study afterwards. This is while he was married.
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Speaker 2: He denies the claims there is.
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Speaker 3: A concerted and ongoing effort by some to undermine FIFA
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Speaker 3: and its president, and says recent reporting has included unsubstantiated
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Speaker 3: assertions and demonstrably false claims.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 2: It'd be eight minutes halfter five nine to ninety two
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Speaker 2: is the number to text. This is from Grant. Good
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Speaker 2: morning Ryan. I'm in London and listening in at the moment.
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Speaker 2: Has the election period already started? It seems the unions
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Speaker 2: are in full campaign mode. No, the election period, Well,
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Speaker 2: no it hasn't officially. I mean the House hasn't risen yet.
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Speaker 2: That'll happen soon. But they're in recess this week, politicians,
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Speaker 2: so we'll probably hear a lot from them. They'll be
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Speaker 2: on the camp they'll be on the hustings, and we'll
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Speaker 2: be hearing a lot about the budget responsibility rules, which
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Speaker 2: National had already announced. So what's actually changed that just
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Speaker 2: before six this morning. But onto the paramedics. I was
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Speaker 2: looking at the press conference yesterday, watching the press conference
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Speaker 2: of Saint John about the paramedics and the ambulance staff.
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Speaker 2: And it's a bit confusing because they say last week
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Speaker 2: we hit the record three times for the number of
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Speaker 2: calls one one one calls that they were having to
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Speaker 2: deal with that part fine, I mean it was cold
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Speaker 2: last week. They did mention the fact it was freezing
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Speaker 2: cold last week, so that might have led to more calls.
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Speaker 2: But also one of the things that they mentioned was
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Speaker 2: just nutjobs and whack jobs and people who are overdosing
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Speaker 2: calling one one one and then your Saint John ambulance
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Speaker 2: staff are having to go and deal with these people
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Speaker 2: and they he made it. The boss made an interesting comment.
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Speaker 2: He said that we are now telling our staff that
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Speaker 2: they don't have to engage if they you know, normally
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Speaker 2: you think of a doctor and they going to a
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Speaker 2: hospital and there's some nutbar who's abusing people and punching nurses,
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Speaker 2: and you think, why do you help them? Just leave them?
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Speaker 2: You know, you've got to have some decorum. But then
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Speaker 2: they are nice people and they care about people, and
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Speaker 2: that's the sort of oath. The paramedics have been told
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Speaker 2: if someone is aggressive, as someone is violent, you don't
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Speaker 2: have to help them. And I think that's a good thing.
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Speaker 2: And Jesus, a lot of nut bars out there at
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Speaker 2: the moment. Have you been walking around. I don't know
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Speaker 2: what it's like where you are, but around Auckland there's
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Speaker 2: some day trippers around and there was a stabbing on
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Speaker 2: Friday by the Skytown. There was a stamming on K
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Speaker 2: Road at the weekend. I was reading about yesterday a
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Speaker 2: friend of mine actually my barber, said he got jumped
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Speaker 2: in the city by three guys and went to the
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Speaker 2: police and told the police and everything and reported it
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Speaker 2: and they said, oh, this sort of thing does actually
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Speaker 2: happen more often than you think. Another friend just last
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Speaker 2: week on K Road at nine thirty am was told
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Speaker 2: they were going to get stabbed by some crazy person.
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Speaker 2: You know, just crazy people out there. So I think
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Speaker 2: it's a good thing that the ambulance staff being told
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Speaker 2: you can walk away, you know. And the move on orders.
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Speaker 2: People say the move on orders will solve this. They're
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Speaker 2: not going to solve the problem. They'll just move it on,
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Speaker 2: won't they. So I don't know what you do. I
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Speaker 2: don't know what you do with people who are so
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Speaker 2: out of it that you really can't reason with them.
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Speaker 2: And then the minute they get a knife or a
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Speaker 2: pair of scissors in their hands, Lord help us. Eleven
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Speaker 2: after five.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: We will do the business with Vicky Price shortly. And
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Speaker 2: I'm quite interested in this that over in the UK
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Speaker 2: they have the same sort of goals that we do
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Speaker 2: about net zero twenty fifty all that stuff labor. The
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Speaker 2: new leader and his new energy secretary are saying, well,
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Speaker 2: maybe we don't need to do it, maybe we can
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Speaker 2: delay it. Vicky Price says that for US shortly, News
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Speaker 2: We had some data out of the US on Friday
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Speaker 2: to catch you up on US non farm payrolls. This
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Speaker 2: is jobs. They went backwards in July and they were
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Speaker 2: expected to add eighty thousand jobs. Actually they were down
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Speaker 2: twenty three thousand. That was the headline number. Worst July
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Speaker 2: result in least a decade. At the same time, you've
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Speaker 2: got inflation or expectations of inflation going up to one
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Speaker 2: year edging ahead from three point six to three point
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Speaker 2: seven percent from June. And all of that makes a
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Speaker 2: very messy picture for WASH and for the feed. Will
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Speaker 2: they cut, will they hold, will they raise? When it
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Speaker 2: comes to their September decision. Markets currently pricing in half
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Speaker 2: a chance of a twenty five basis point cut Ryan
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Speaker 2: Bridge Pike rather news talks B It is just gone
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Speaker 2: quarter past five. Saint John's one on one service has
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Speaker 2: broken its daily call record three times in the last week.
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Speaker 2: Saturday they had two five hundred and sixty two calls.
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Speaker 2: The normal average is nineteen hundred.
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Speaker 4: We're declaring a major incident.
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Speaker 6: This is related to winter, seasonal illness, influenza.
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Speaker 2: Respiratory illness.
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Speaker 7: These are the things that drive our demand.
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Speaker 2: Mark quinn is Ambulance Association National secretary with me this morning. Mark,
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Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning. So people are calling in because
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Speaker 2: they've got colds or it was something more serious. What
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Speaker 2: is driving it?
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Speaker 8: Oh, it's across the board. Obviously the winter stat particularly
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Speaker 8: last week, has driven another amount of winter illnesses to
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Speaker 8: get to this point. But it is across the board,
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Speaker 8: plus increasing medical calls on top of any accidents.
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Speaker 9: But yeah, there is, it's right across the board.
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Speaker 8: But yes, certainly the winter illnesses and flows haven't have
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Speaker 8: also significantly contributed to the increasing calls.
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Speaker 2: And Mark, is there any you know, what percentage of
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Speaker 2: the callers you get to actually need an ambulance. Is
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Speaker 2: there an increase in those or is it genuine illness.
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Speaker 9: Well the data suggests has been overseas, and then you're
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Speaker 9: yelling and showing that you know, the lowercurity calls are
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Speaker 9: sitting around eighty percent, maybe a little bit higher at times,
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Speaker 9: and obviously there's an increase in the callouts again coming
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Speaker 9: in winter with the flues, but it's in saying that
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Speaker 9: mixed up in there there's quite significant serious medical presentations.
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Speaker 2: So eighty percent you're saying, are probably not requiring an ambulance.
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Speaker 9: Well, yeah, This is the hard part is that the
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Speaker 9: pro QA system that is used to triarge the cause
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Speaker 9: as they come in, and that uses common words like
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Speaker 9: shortness of breath and chest pain, So that can relate to.
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Speaker 8: Anything from a chest infection as you can imagine, because
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Speaker 8: people will experience those right through to having a genuine
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Speaker 8: heart attack for instance. So that when the call goes
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Speaker 8: comes in and triage to that system obviously responds under
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Speaker 8: a red would probably likely put it under a red call,
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Speaker 8: and that would determine the response to the endminths.
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Speaker 9: Which would be under lights and sirens. So this is
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Speaker 9: the trouble with the trioges is not to downplay people's
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Speaker 9: illnesses or need for an amblance, but certainly there is
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Speaker 9: a need for there is.
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Speaker 8: Other pathways to address, but those pathways have been overloaded
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Speaker 8: as well as well been well documented.
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Speaker 2: What about violent people, you know, when the paramedics turn up.
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Speaker 2: I was listening to Saint John yesterday. They said they've
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Speaker 2: been told if someone is violent or someone is agitated,
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Speaker 2: you don't actually have to treat them. That happening a lot.
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Speaker 8: Well, that's been well documented over a number of years,
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Speaker 8: and there has increased, certainly at the scenes and then
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Speaker 8: being presented will being a threatened even verbally or physically
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Speaker 8: with violence, and that's been occurring anyway on top of it,
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Speaker 8: and I suppose that the delay and ambulances which has
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Speaker 8: a curred, particularly believe in the last forty eight hours,
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Speaker 8: that only increases the frustration.
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Speaker 9: So you can imagine that well, a lot appropriate people are.
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Speaker 8: Voicing their you know, how they're feeling about the significant
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Speaker 8: delay and getting an amblance to them.
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Speaker 2: All right, got here, Mark, appreciate your time this morning.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Mark Quinn, Ambulance Association National Secretary. Time is
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Speaker 2: eighteen after five. Vicky Price next the Early.
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Speaker 2: welcome rebound for them and services plus over all. In
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Speaker 2: July it's got a Vicky Price our UK our Business
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Speaker 2: correspondent and the UK Vicky Nice to heavy on the program.
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Speaker 2: Those results welcome.
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Speaker 10: No, absolutely, you've seen that in the UK, where interestingly enough,
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Speaker 10: the services sector has rebounded after a few months of
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Speaker 10: really not doing very much at all because consumer confidence
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Speaker 10: was so down. But of course we've had good weather.
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Speaker 10: People have gone out a lot and that may have
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Speaker 10: influenced it, and of course at the same time there've
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Speaker 10: been real concerns about the heat waves. But the interesting
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Speaker 10: thing is that also Europe, the Eurozone in particular, which
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Speaker 10: has seen sort of both manufacturing output going up sort
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Speaker 10: of gently, but also services coming up. They're not doing great,
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Speaker 10: but at least there is a bit of a rebound
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Speaker 10: and I think that's good news.
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Speaker 7: Having said that.
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Speaker 10: There is quite a lot of concern about what happens
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Speaker 10: in Germany. The calm sector is very negatively effective for
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Speaker 10: all sorts of reasons, and there is a real worry
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Speaker 10: for the rest of Europe that are slowing down of
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Speaker 10: growth and demand from particular sectors in Germany is affecting
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Speaker 10: everyone else because there are so integrated in the supply chain.
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Speaker 10: So that's a bit of a worry looking ahead, but
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Speaker 10: for the moment things look a little bit better. Inflation
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Speaker 10: and expectations have also lowered, so having said that, we
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Speaker 10: probably can't see an interest rate increase next time with
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Speaker 10: the European Central Bank meets, but only a small one,
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Speaker 10: so fingers crossed.
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Speaker 2: What about in the UK and Burnham and the twenty
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Speaker 2: to fifty zero target that they've got, they're looking at
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Speaker 2: delaying that a bit.
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Speaker 10: No absolutely, what the new Energy Secretary in other words,
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Speaker 10: the minister in charge of the Energy department in the
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Speaker 10: UK is saying is that the worry that they're having
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Speaker 10: in the cabinet now it's not different really to the
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Speaker 10: previous prime ministers of Kistama, is the cost of living
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Speaker 10: crisis that everyone has been going through, and there is
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Speaker 10: no doubt that energy costs have been identified as a
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Speaker 10: major problem that households face. So what they're looking at
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Speaker 10: is maybe easing some of the restrictions that were out
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Speaker 10: there or other some of the targets, particularly in the
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Speaker 10: car sector, where they were talking about a very small
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Speaker 10: percentage of new cars you know, being powered by fossil
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Speaker 10: fuels in other words, combastion engines as we know them,
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Speaker 10: with a very substantial increase expected in EV's electric vehicles
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Speaker 10: being sold, with various deadlines being set. But the issue
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Speaker 10: now is should those deadlines be moved up a bit?
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Speaker 10: The new Secretary of Energy saying maybe by one or
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Speaker 10: two years, but there is quite a bit of uncertainty
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Speaker 10: around and businesses would like a little bit more certainty
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Speaker 10: to know what they invest in. That's number one. The
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Speaker 10: second one is what we use for electricity. The plan
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Speaker 10: had been under the previous administration that by twenty thirty,
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Speaker 10: so really in just very few years time, ninety five
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Speaker 10: percent of all the sort of energy, the electricity anyway
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Speaker 10: being used was going to be powered by renewables. Well,
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Speaker 10: at present we're at fifty five percent. The chances of
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Speaker 10: getting to ninety five percent unless we do some major
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Speaker 10: investment and then charge households a lot. But to do that,
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Speaker 10: you know, they're not very great and as I think
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Speaker 10: they might ease that as well. So basically they're becoming
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Speaker 10: a little bit more in touch with reality, which is.
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Speaker 2: Always a good thing. That is business corresponding Vicky Price
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Speaker 2: time is twenty four minutes halfter five going in the
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Speaker 2: UK for a second, So you're soon going to be
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Speaker 2: able to go to your testo. Go down to your
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Speaker 2: local supermarket and buy an eight hundred dollars plug in
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Speaker 2: solar panel, and eight hundred dollars gets you two panels
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Speaker 2: and you can put them on your roof, You can
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Speaker 2: put them in your garden, you can put them on
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Speaker 2: the deck anywhere that gets a bit of sun. The
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Speaker 2: problem with them they're not a battery, so you can't
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Speaker 2: store energy. You must use it straight away. So if
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Speaker 2: it's sunny, you go and wash the dishes and put
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Speaker 2: the dish washer on, put the washing machine on. But
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Speaker 2: it has to be done straight away, and if you
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Speaker 2: don't use it. It's not like a traditional solar panel that's
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Speaker 2: professionally installed on your roof where you can sell it back.
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Speaker 2: If you're not using it, you sell it back to
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Speaker 2: the grid and make some money. You can't do that
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Speaker 2: with these plugin ones. There's no compensation, so basically you
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Speaker 2: need to use it or lose it. Twenty five after
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Speaker 2: five News Talks ab Time is five twenty seven. News
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Speaker 2: Talk said b Tony Randall was exactly the type of person,
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Speaker 2: the sort of brain that you wanted sitting around a
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Speaker 2: council table. Is specially given the types who now seem
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Speaker 2: to occupy many of the seats. It's very sad to
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Speaker 2: hear of his passing. My condolences to his family and
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Speaker 2: those in you and well for those who didn't. Tony
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Speaker 2: was a counselor in Wellington. He sat in the northern Ward.
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Speaker 2: He was the guy you would call when you wanted
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Speaker 2: to know the facts of a case, when you wanted
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Speaker 2: to know the numbers. Tony was the guy who found
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Speaker 2: just a wee mistake in the council's modeling when they
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Speaker 2: were lowering speed limits in the Capitol. Remember that not
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Speaker 2: a single counselor or council officer, staff member, council paid
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Speaker 2: Boffin picked up on the mistake. It was out by
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Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty million dollars. Tony did. He consistently
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Speaker 2: complained that the Council wasn't fully funding Wellington waters projects,
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Speaker 2: meaning the pipes weren't getting fixed. He was only there
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Speaker 2: since twenty twenty two. He was analytical and not particularly partisan.
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Speaker 2: Too often you hear of local and national politicians getting
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Speaker 2: into office who probably shouldn't be there. They have no
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Speaker 2: particular skills or background to justify it. They're elected by
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Speaker 2: a margin of a few hundred or even a few
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Speaker 2: dozen votes by a public that doesn't really pay close
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Speaker 2: attention to the details. As a result, you get politicians
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Speaker 2: who also don't pay attention to the details. Tony Randall
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Speaker 2: did and that's what made him special. Voters deserve more
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Speaker 2: analytical thinkers in local government who are across the facts
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Speaker 2: and the numbers, rather than tacking a box on their
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Speaker 2: way into Parliament. All the United Nations where you get
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Speaker 2: the sense that a lot of these guys really wish
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Speaker 2: they could be Bryan Bridge nine minutes after five News
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Speaker 2: Talks heb will head to the UK with Gavin Gray.
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Speaker 2: Next interesting that the Conservatives are going after reform the vote.
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Speaker 2: Obviously they need to with social housing. No foreigners in
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Speaker 2: social housing, that's the plan. Gavin has details. Next News Talks.
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Speaker 2: TALKSB coming up. What taxes might the net's be cooking
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Speaker 2: up for the campaign? I reckon a bid tax will
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Speaker 2: be on the list. We'll talk about that just before
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Speaker 2: six this morning. And we're in the UK with Gavin Gray.
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Speaker 2: You know the fuel excise subsidy that the government, well
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Speaker 2: the fuel excis tax cup that the government announced well
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Speaker 2: more of a subsidy fifty bucks for some families, and
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Speaker 2: they've basically kept extending it even though technically it should
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Speaker 2: have been scrapped already. Well, Albanesi did scrap it last week.
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Speaker 2: And this is the reason why we will probably keep
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Speaker 2: this fuel subsidy going until the election campaign because last
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Speaker 2: week Albanze scrapped it and then in a new Australian
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Speaker 2: poll out last night, they are down in their party
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Speaker 2: vote and in net approval rating for Albanesi. So they've
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Speaker 2: hit twenty nine percent labor in Australia and Albanesi is
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Speaker 2: now minus twenty two after they cut that fuel excise relief.
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Speaker 2: Now that number twenty nine percent is Julia Gillard level unpopular.
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Speaker 2: The coalition's primary vote over there is also at a
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Speaker 2: near record low of eighteen percent, although it's been there
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Speaker 2: for some time, and that is all thanks to Pauling Hanson.
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Speaker 2: In One Nation they're on twenty nine percent. So right
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Speaker 2: now Labor and One Nation equal. Since June, Labour's primary
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Speaker 2: vote is down from thirty three percent to twenty nine percent. Also,
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Speaker 2: everyone's taking a holiday at the moment. Albanize has been
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Speaker 2: on holiday. Taylor, the Nationals leader, has been on holiday
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Speaker 2: midwinter break. Burnham he'd only been in a job for
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Speaker 2: two or three weeks and then took two weeks off,
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Speaker 2: twenty three away from six ran bread and I suppose
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Speaker 2: you need a holiday. But right, let's go to our
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Speaker 2: reporter's color and toned in morning colorm morning.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: So homelessness is on the council's agenda there.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, Look, they're about to put a much bigger focus
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Speaker 11: on the issue. With the number of homeless a lot
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Speaker 11: more visible in Dnedan than ever before. The Council's now
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Speaker 11: appointed to homeless outreach advisors. They called they're about to
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Speaker 11: begin work here in the community. This is new for Daneden,
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Speaker 11: but these are roles that exists in many other cities
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Speaker 11: around New Zealand. These advisors will help connect homeless people
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Speaker 11: with housing, healthcare, mental health and addiction services, etc. They'll
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Speaker 11: also meet with businesses, community groups, government agencies and police
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Speaker 11: in the coming weeks to identify gaps in support for them.
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Speaker 11: The Council says the exact number of homeless and darnedan
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Speaker 11: isn't known, but these new rules or these new roles
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Speaker 11: aim to prevent others from.
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Speaker 2: Ending up on the streets.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 2: What about you weather. We've got a rainy morning here.
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Speaker 11: Occasional rang clears, it clears late afternoon, sudenly dies out
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Speaker 11: the high today.
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Speaker 2: Ten cheers callum and let's go to christ Church. Jamie
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Speaker 2: Cunningham with us, Jamie, Good morning morning Ryan. Now the
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Speaker 2: snow room coming to Ham in the Springs. What's that? Well?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, The Canterbury Tourist Hotspot is giving visitors a new
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Speaker 12: way to cool off after a soak with the country's
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Speaker 12: first snow room. It's today opening the new wellness offering,
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Speaker 12: which combines a custom made snow machine, sauna, steam room
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Speaker 12: and geothermal pools. The experience is inspired by similar ones
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Speaker 12: in Scandinavia. Where fresh powder like snow is pumped into
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Speaker 12: the room. Now Engineer Neil Wilson says the process has
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Speaker 12: been smooth sailing after the team first built a snowmaking
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Speaker 12: system in the workshop to see if the idea would work,
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Speaker 12: and it did, he says since then it's just been
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Speaker 12: about working how much water was needed in the snow
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Speaker 12: room and what temperature to run it at. Wilson says
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Speaker 12: it's unlike anything else on off it and completely different
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Speaker 12: to jumping into a plunge pol.
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Speaker 2: So you go in the sauna to get hot, you
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Speaker 2: own the snow room to get cold, and then you
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Speaker 2: just go between the rooms.
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Speaker 12: That's a chee yeah, like you do with a plungeball.
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Speaker 2: Yep, Okay, very cool. How's your weather.
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Speaker 12: Cloudy with occasional drizzle clearing in the afternoon SOUTHWESTERLYI is
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Speaker 12: dying out at night in a high of twelve.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Jamie and Maxis and Wellington. Good morning, Max,
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Speaker 2: good morning. Hey. This is really sad and quite sudden.
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Speaker 2: Tony Randalls passed away.
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Speaker 13: Yeah no, there was no there was no hint of
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Speaker 13: this coming. Passing away in hospital last night at sixty
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Speaker 13: five last night, Tony Randall an independent sitting councilor for
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Speaker 13: the Takapoo northern ward. Probably I would say one of
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Speaker 13: our few real centrists. He was a details guy, focused
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Speaker 13: on the facts and evidence, as shown by tributes coming
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Speaker 13: in from both signs of the political isle, Chris Bishop
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Speaker 13: calling him a lovely man, passionate about Wellington Andrew Little.
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Speaker 13: What really set him apart was his focus on substance
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Speaker 13: over rhetoric. Randal was the one who discovered a two
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Speaker 13: hundred and fifty million dollar error in council documents, for instance,
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Speaker 13: on lowering speed limits in twenty twenty three. Suddenly announced
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Speaker 13: last night Tony Randall passing away at sixty five.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, very very said, and a very good smart man
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Speaker 2: to have on council too. How should be the max?
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Speaker 13: Mainly fine in the capital with a southerly change this afternoon,
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Speaker 13: I have have about fourteen.
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Speaker 2: All right, thanks mate, neighbors and Wellington morning navor, Good
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Speaker 2: morning Auckland. Rather tell us about the recycling habits of Auckland.
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Speaker 1: Is not right, No, not.
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Speaker 14: Great at all, Just reiterating the advice that you know
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Speaker 14: ratepayers dollars going to waste because of your right, Paul,
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Speaker 14: recycling hibits so what's happened now is that the Council's
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Speaker 14: launched it's let's sort it out campaign and this is
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Speaker 14: to raise awareness again that thirty seven tons of waste
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Speaker 14: being sent to landfill from the recycling facility every year.
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Speaker 14: They're talking to us because we don't do it, do we?
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Speaker 3: So?
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Speaker 14: Richard Hill's counselor says, this amounts to about thirty percent
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Speaker 14: of recycling bin material. It includes the unclean food packaging
23:21
Speaker 14: or non recyclables like electronics and nappies. The flipp and
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Speaker 14: nappies come back again.
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Speaker 2: It's always the parents, isn't it. You always played the
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Speaker 2: parents anyway, you know.
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Speaker 14: Richard Hill's is saying, look, once again, people think about
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Speaker 14: what you're throwing out. Currently, recycling waste being referred to
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Speaker 14: landfill costs about three point five million a year every year.
23:44
Speaker 14: And also too, you're saying too that people they're not
23:47
Speaker 14: cleaning things out like cans. You know you can.
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Speaker 2: You've got to clean it out, clean it out. My
23:51
Speaker 2: mum always is to tell me that with the milk
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Speaker 2: bottle you got to put some water and they're shake
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Speaker 2: it up and then yeah that's right, good, very good.
23:58
Speaker 2: How's our weather fine?
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Speaker 14: Apart from me. There is the morning fog.
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Speaker 13: Sick folk in the city this morning for Auckland.
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Speaker 14: My good.
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Speaker 2: Last week we couldn't see through the ice. This week
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Speaker 2: it's the fog, that's right.
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Speaker 14: What's going to be next sixteen is a.
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Speaker 2: High fantastic It is eighteen minutes away from six year.
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Speaker 2: On News Talk CB we are in the UK next
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Speaker 2: where the concerts are trying to get some ground back
24:18
Speaker 2: against reform with a policy on social housing. We'll tell
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Speaker 2: you details next accarter to six we'll look at the
24:24
Speaker 2: nats and what taxes they might run on the selection
24:26
Speaker 2: In just a second. First, remember when Halen Clark tried
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Speaker 2: to run to be the head of the UN, and
24:30
Speaker 2: this was in twenty sixteen. And then Gauturre's one, who
24:34
Speaker 2: is the current Secretary General of the UN. You get
24:37
Speaker 2: a five year term. He's had his extended by five
24:40
Speaker 2: so therefore he's about to hit ten. Anyway, his term
24:43
Speaker 2: up is up in December and the question now is
24:46
Speaker 2: who will replace him? And they reckon that. Finally, the
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Speaker 2: UN could get its first female boss, a costa Rican
24:52
Speaker 2: diplomat former vice president. Her name is Rebecca Grinspan. She
24:56
Speaker 2: is currently the head of a UN Conference on Trade
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Speaker 2: and Development, and there's been a straw pole of the
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Speaker 2: Security Council. It favors here at this point, fourteen away from.
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Speaker 1: Six international correspondence with INSI eye insurance, peace of mind
25:11
Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 2: Let's got to Gevin gray Are UK europe correspondent given
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Speaker 2: as Spain and Italy, but of a tip for tet
25:19
Speaker 2: on the border controls here.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, and it's a situation that I think is going
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Speaker 15: to be worrying a lot of the senior officials within
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Speaker 15: the European Union. So among the EU there is the
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Speaker 15: Schengen Agreement, and that basically says that once you're in
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Speaker 15: the European Union, you then don't need to show your
25:36
Speaker 15: password when you go from country to country. Now, of
25:39
Speaker 15: course that's fine if you are a legitimate person from
25:42
Speaker 15: the European Union, but of course it's also meant that
25:45
Speaker 15: people there illegally can cross this massive continent and ended
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Speaker 15: up in countries far away from where they actually entered
25:52
Speaker 15: the block. And in Spain we're getting this problem because
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Speaker 15: Spain has an enclave in North Africa, actually you know,
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Speaker 15: almost a little pocket at the side of Morocco. But
26:04
Speaker 15: it is Spanish soil, and what we saw at the
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Speaker 15: end of last week, seventy eight thousand migrants crossed in
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Speaker 15: a matter of a couple of days into Sweat at
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Speaker 15: one of these enclaves. It is said some five to
26:14
Speaker 15: ten percent of them have stayed, but it is being
26:18
Speaker 15: put at slightly less than that by some people. But
26:21
Speaker 15: that meant that some other European countries thought, are we
26:24
Speaker 15: suddenly going to get seventy eight thousand from Morocco trying
26:26
Speaker 15: to come to our country. Italy then said, right, we
26:30
Speaker 15: are going to isolate Spain and anyone, although we don't
26:33
Speaker 15: share a land border with them, anyone coming from Spain
26:35
Speaker 15: is going to have their passport checked.
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Speaker 7: We're going to exclude them from the sheng and arrangement.
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Speaker 15: That stance was supported by other countries, Finland, Denmark, the
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Speaker 15: Czech Republic, all saying that this should be about right,
26:47
Speaker 15: and Spain absolutely furious, saying this is not just our problem,
26:50
Speaker 15: this is an EU problem.
26:52
Speaker 7: And so Spain has hit back.
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Speaker 15: By introducing border controls on all air and sea travel
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Speaker 15: from Italy.
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Speaker 7: Oh, We're going to wait to see where this one goes.
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Speaker 15: But it's reaching its height here, Ryan because on social media.
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Speaker 15: It is being reported that there will be a second
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Speaker 15: mass attempt to enter the enclave in either this week
27:11
Speaker 15: or next week, with some sites with one hundred thousand
27:14
Speaker 15: followers advertising swimming equipment for sale.
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Speaker 2: Oh, for goodness sakes, right, let's go very quickly to
27:19
Speaker 2: moves to try and stop exactly this from happening. And
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Speaker 2: the Conservatives now are on board with not granting any
27:29
Speaker 2: social housing or provision of social housing tendencies to foreign nationals.
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Speaker 2: And there's quite a few actually currently occupying them.
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Speaker 7: Yes, that's right.
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Speaker 15: It's expected this measure can actually open up almost two
27:42
Speaker 15: hundred and twenty eight one hundred and fifty homes. Those
27:46
Speaker 15: homes would be opened up because the Conservatives are saying
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Speaker 15: if we get back into power again, and they lost
27:51
Speaker 15: power about two years ago, of course, if we get
27:53
Speaker 15: back into power again, we will end all new tenancies
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Speaker 15: for all foreign nationals, as well as current terranencies for
28:01
Speaker 15: couples where neither person is either British, Irish or an
28:05
Speaker 15: EU citizen. And they say they reckon, it'll estimate two
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Speaker 15: hundred and twenty eight thousand plus homes will be opened up.
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Speaker 7: Why is this important?
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Speaker 15: It's important because more and more people here in this
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Speaker 15: country say they have been on the housing waiting list
28:19
Speaker 15: for social housing or council housing for years and years
28:22
Speaker 15: and years, and just when they think they're getting near
28:23
Speaker 15: the top, they discover they're moving down the list. Why
28:26
Speaker 15: because some housing has been given they are alleging by
28:29
Speaker 15: migrants who have only just arrived in the country. This
28:32
Speaker 15: has made them angry, despondent and furious. And this new
28:35
Speaker 15: conservative type team mirror something suggested by Reform UK just
28:39
Speaker 15: a few weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: Kevin gray Are UK your correspondent. It is a living
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Speaker 2: away from six nationals said no new Texas on working people?
28:47
Speaker 2: What about the others? Restated it's budget responsibility rules. So
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Speaker 2: surplus by twenty eight twenty nine deep level below forty
28:53
Speaker 2: percent of GDP, government spinning back towards thirty percent of GDP.
28:58
Speaker 2: Here's Nichola willis it we tap more.
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Speaker 3: Than twenty percent of GDP in just under sixty years
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Speaker 3: under the previous.
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Speaker 8: Government Labor the Greens to Party Marian Top will tell
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Speaker 8: you that they can spend more, tax more, borrow more
29:10
Speaker 8: and then it will all work out.
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Speaker 2: To the independent taxics. But Jeff Nightingale with me this
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Speaker 2: morning Jeff, Good morning, Good morning, Ryan. So what are
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Speaker 2: you when they say no new taxes on working people?
29:20
Speaker 2: What do you what taxes? Do you reckon they're going
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Speaker 2: to increase?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's left it open there, but didn't it. I
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Speaker 6: think the way I'd interpret that is that they're not
29:31
Speaker 6: going to change the income tax rates, and they're not
29:35
Speaker 6: going to change the business tax rates, small business tax rates.
29:41
Speaker 6: So I think you know that really if they stick
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Speaker 6: to that, that really only leaves open things like levees
29:48
Speaker 6: and fees and other small charges, and maybe some tweaks
29:52
Speaker 6: to some of the rules around productibility of certain items.
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Speaker 6: But they seem to be ruling out to border tax.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I reckon they'll go with a campaign on a
30:02
Speaker 2: bed tax, that sort of thing. Anyway, let's talk about
30:06
Speaker 2: the actual rules. Well, they're not even rules, aren't they
30:08
Speaker 2: they're just guidelines and goals what they've stated because they've
30:11
Speaker 2: stated them before and we haven't stuck to them.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right. So they're basically a restatement. Each year
30:18
Speaker 6: when the government puts together its budget, it has to
30:20
Speaker 6: buy law by the Public Finance Act, release a fiscal
30:23
Speaker 6: strategy report, and these three rules that yesterday they called
30:27
Speaker 6: them budget responsibility rules. They are already in the Fiscal
30:31
Speaker 6: Strategy Report, despite that we haven't run a surplus since
30:37
Speaker 6: twenty and nineteen. So if we've been in deficits now
30:41
Speaker 6: for seven years and we're forecast to stay and deficits
30:43
Speaker 6: for another three years, it'll be a decade of deficits.
30:47
Speaker 6: Having said that, they are the right rules, and it's
30:50
Speaker 6: good to see them recommitting to them.
30:52
Speaker 2: What about net core Crown dead expected to be what
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Speaker 2: almost forty six percent of GDP at the end of
30:59
Speaker 2: this financial year, and they Treasury when they last looked
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Speaker 2: at this said fifty percent was okay, and National saying
31:05
Speaker 2: actually needs to be under forty. Why the divergence.
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Speaker 6: I think that the thing about debt is that by
31:14
Speaker 6: world standards, we've got relatively low government debt to GDP.
31:18
Speaker 6: But we shouldn't be comfortable with that because we are
31:21
Speaker 6: a small, global exposed economy and we need a lot
31:27
Speaker 6: of balance sheet capacity, debt capacity to respond to shops
31:30
Speaker 6: and so we've used debt to respond to the prist,
31:32
Speaker 6: to Jurith quakes, have used it to respond to COVID,
31:35
Speaker 6: and that's good. We need to hold that capacity to
31:37
Speaker 6: do that. But in the good years. We need to
31:40
Speaker 6: reduce that debt so we have the capacity. So forty
31:43
Speaker 6: seems a sensible target. Of course, you go back a
31:46
Speaker 6: decade the target was twenty percent of GDP, so forty
31:49
Speaker 6: percent is still a big increase.
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Speaker 2: Jeff Nightingale, independent tax expert. Good to have you on
31:54
Speaker 2: the show, was always eight minutes away from six year
31:56
Speaker 2: on News Talk SEB. By the way, the thirty two
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Speaker 2: six percent is where Crown expense care Crown expenses are
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Speaker 2: at the moment, and they want to get that under thirty.
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Speaker 2: It is seven to six.
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Speaker 1: Here it first Ryan Bridge on early edition with Spark
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Speaker 1: for business Technology that keeps business moving.
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Speaker 2: News Talks that'd be Monday morning. It is five to
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Speaker 2: six and Mic is in the studio. He's with the
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Speaker 2: next Mike. Good morning, Agan, good thank you. Unusual way
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Speaker 2: to greet me. Now, good house, we can superb. Are
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Speaker 2: you going to get a snow room? Have you heard
32:28
Speaker 2: about the sign? How much about snow rooms today? I
32:31
Speaker 2: think they're over so what I am from my research,
32:34
Speaker 2: your steam room is a waste of time in terms
32:36
Speaker 2: of what it does for you. So so lovely though,
32:38
Speaker 2: so yes.
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Speaker 16: Your saunas you go to that's your gold star. Things
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Speaker 16: that can adjust your health.
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Speaker 2: Blood pressure comes down.
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Speaker 16: Whole thing. Steam rooms a little bit of a waste
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Speaker 16: of time. But the cold plunge now, and you know
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Speaker 16: Brian Johnson, no guy wants to live forever.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, who's got a terminal ill.
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Speaker 16: Direct So he changed his view. He was doing some
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Speaker 16: research on the saunats, so as this goes to the
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Speaker 16: snow room. So initially with a sauna, what you did
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Speaker 16: was a cold plunge. Afterwards that triggered a nerve system
33:07
Speaker 16: that burnt fat, brown fat. He's now worked out that
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Speaker 16: it's better for you because the cells that clean you
33:13
Speaker 16: up internally are triggered by heat. So once you trigger
33:17
Speaker 16: them in a sawna you don't want to suddenly close
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Speaker 16: them down with a cold plunge.
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Speaker 2: So you don't do it. So you just did the
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Speaker 2: sauna and then.
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Speaker 16: You stay warm, stay warm, so hence your ice room.
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Speaker 2: I jumped in a friend's paul at the weekend. It
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Speaker 2: was freezing cold, and then how do you feel alive?
33:32
Speaker 1: Oh?
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Speaker 2: I felt great, although couldn't feel you know, the things
33:36
Speaker 2: between your legs and didn't. But then they had an
33:39
Speaker 2: outdoor shower, a nice hot outdoor shower.
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Speaker 16: Can't beat it, can't beat it, and you feel alive,
33:43
Speaker 16: don't you. That's why the Nordics and the Fins and
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Speaker 16: the Swedes have been doing it for one hundred you know,
33:47
Speaker 16: having a sauna and a cold l No to a
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Speaker 16: snow room for make no, no to a snowroom, because
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Speaker 16: there's no point to it. I mean apart from have
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Speaker 16: you seen my snow room?
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Speaker 2: Which is you know.
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Speaker 16: Prime Minister this morning on the big question, the big
33:58
Speaker 16: what's the big question?
33:59
Speaker 2: What are you going to text?
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Speaker 16: I mean and I wouldn't?
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Speaker 2: I mean bid text? Remember we had that beat on
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Speaker 2: the bid text, it'll be a text and I said
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Speaker 2: to you they would do it and you said they won't.
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Speaker 16: Well they're not this term. But he said he'll look
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Speaker 16: at a mixed to, which means that suddenly they will or.
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Speaker 2: Maybe there's a windfall text.
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Speaker 16: Do you reckon on the beaks? Anyway, we've got luckso win.
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Speaker 2: We're talking stuff.
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