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Full Show Podcast: 04 May 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: an early edition with Spark for business technology that keeps
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Speaker 1: business moving, news talks.
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Speaker 2: They'd be good morning, Welcome to Monday six half to five.
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Speaker 2: In our lead this morning, we'll talk about Seymour's immigration release,
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Speaker 2: Gavin and the UK for US on NATO. Vicki's here
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Speaker 2: with business and a new retail pulse check for you
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Speaker 2: this morning.
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Speaker 1: The agenda is Monday.
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Speaker 2: The poort have made a massive explosion at a house
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Speaker 2: in Bristol. This is in the UK, not terrorism, but
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Speaker 2: they're unsure at this point exactly what it is.
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Speaker 3: Offices were sent to the scene as shortly before they
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Speaker 3: arrived at just after six thirty am, there was an
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Speaker 3: explosion inside the property. A woman and a man have
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Speaker 3: died at the address and we're treating the explosion as suspicious.
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Speaker 3: Their families have been updated and are being supported by
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Speaker 3: specially trained officers and our thoughts up very much with them.
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Speaker 2: The man and the woman are both deard. These massive
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Speaker 2: evacuations around the.
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Speaker 4: Areage'd to see what was going on. Nothing me it
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Speaker 4: that you could see, but then within minutes the police
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Speaker 4: were raven attending the property.
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Speaker 2: Right to Iran Trump not optimistic, not hopeful about the
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Speaker 2: latest fourteen point Iranian proposal between the war, under.
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Speaker 3: What circumstances would you restart military straps on targets?
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Speaker 2: But I don't want to say that.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I can't tell that to a reporter if
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Speaker 5: they misbehave, if they do something bad.
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Speaker 6: But right now we'll see.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so the plan hasn't been released publicly. The Iranians
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Speaker 2: are reporting on it, though.
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Speaker 7: We do understand it contains several different elements that will
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Speaker 7: be completely unacceptable to America, for example with drawing all
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Speaker 7: their forces to the Middle East reparations and of course
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Speaker 7: delaying the nuclear conversation until later.
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Speaker 2: Finally, this morning if one Grand Prix and Miami is underway.
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Speaker 2: Our on Liam Lawson has been upgraded till eleventh after
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Speaker 2: his former team mate Isaac Hadger fouled a technical regulations
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Speaker 2: and had to start in the pit lane.
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Speaker 8: Let's see, hopefully the condition that creates a bit of
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Speaker 8: kill so I can have a good comeback, you know,
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Speaker 8: Prince of Oopa. Cities can be creative with difficult weather
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Speaker 8: changing conditions. So yeah, let's say.
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Speaker 1: Currett first, Ryan Bridge on early edition with Spark for
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Speaker 1: Business Technology that keeps business moving, news talks be.
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Speaker 2: Great to have your company. Eight after five the Prime
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Speaker 2: Ministers in Singapore today, the finance misters, their whole bunch
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Speaker 2: of CEOs are there as well, a few journalists excluding
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Speaker 2: Mikey Sherman so in Singapore and they'll be signing this
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Speaker 2: agreement on essential supply. Basically, we get fuel off the
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Speaker 2: Singaporeans and they get food off us. That's the gist
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Speaker 2: of it, but there are other bits and the PM's
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Speaker 2: talking points today I can tell you will be about
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Speaker 2: expanding this because it's actually been in operation since October
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Speaker 2: last year, but expanding it to include other things, to
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Speaker 2: include defense, to include business digital relationships. This is the
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Speaker 2: kind of stuff that he's going for. I'll tell you
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Speaker 2: about a slightly worrying update from mrse in about twenty
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Speaker 2: minutes time. Also this morning. Ain Z is promising to
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Speaker 2: keep businesses afloat during these tough economic times. They're not
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Speaker 2: doing anything like the Aussies are doing. So the Australian
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Speaker 2: A and Z Australia that side of their business. On
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Speaker 2: the other side of the Tasman they are administering zero
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Speaker 2: interest loans to businesses. However, and you might think well,
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Speaker 2: that's not fair. Why are they getting zero interest loans
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Speaker 2: and we're not getting that here. That is facilitated by
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Speaker 2: basically funded by the government. Over there, the billion dollar
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Speaker 2: resilience program that's Albanezi is running. So that's why they're
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Speaker 2: doing that over there and not here here. They are
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Speaker 2: not going to do mortgage deferrals, you know during COVID,
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Speaker 2: where you could defer paying back the principle on your
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Speaker 2: mortgage and you could basically anyone could get it because
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Speaker 2: it was tough not doing that this time. Interestingly, it
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Speaker 2: was reading a piece from over the weekend from interest
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Speaker 2: dot co Ben Kallaher, who's ANZ New Zealand's chief risk officer.
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Speaker 2: He said, what we're been talking about and thinking that
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Speaker 2: basically we are on a collision course with stagflation, which
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Speaker 2: is basically low growth, low to no growth environment and
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Speaker 2: then increasing inflation. He says, quote it's feeling like we're
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Speaker 2: heading that way pretty quickly. Something to look forward to
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Speaker 2: for you Monday morning. Also this morning, another little tidbit,
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Speaker 2: this is Trump fast tracking. You know obviously what's happening
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Speaker 2: in Iran, all of the Gulf States, the UA, well
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Speaker 2: Israel as well. Q eight katah All a little low
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Speaker 2: on missile interceptor stockpiles at the moment because the Iranians
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Speaker 2: have been hurtling drones towards them for so long, and
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Speaker 2: so Trump is saying, Demo, I'm here for you. I'm
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Speaker 2: going to sell you a bunch of arms, eight point
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Speaker 2: six billion US dollars worth of arms. And normally you
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Speaker 2: would have to go through Congress to get approval to
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Speaker 2: sell that quantity of arms to foreign countries. Trump has
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Speaker 2: bypassed that using an emergency authorization and says that they
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Speaker 2: need the weapons now, so we're going to give them
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Speaker 2: to them. Ryan Bridge, and they have eleven after five
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Speaker 2: Monday morning on News Talk, said be retailers, did you
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Speaker 2: go shopping at the weekend? What did you notice? Retailers
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Speaker 2: are worried about quarter two? That's next before the news breaks.
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Speaker 1: Here it first, Ryan Bridge on early editions with sparks
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Speaker 1: for business technology that keeps business moving.
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Speaker 2: News Talk sa'd be five thirteen news Talks, said be
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Speaker 2: Gavin Graham in the UK for US in about half
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Speaker 2: an hour's time. But I can tell you already if
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Speaker 2: you've wanted to know how much Prince William Earns always
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Speaker 2: been curious about that. Well, now you know, first time
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Speaker 2: he has revealed his tax returns he pays seven million pounds,
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Speaker 2: so sixteen million, New Zealander. Let's do this all on
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Speaker 2: MZD show. He's sixteen million is what he pays an
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Speaker 2: income tax every year. That puts him in the top
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Speaker 2: zero point zero zero two percent of taxpayers in the UK.
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Speaker 2: The income from the Duchy of Cornwall forty six million
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Speaker 2: a year, so that's what he's bringing in. This is
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Speaker 2: the prime a state, the land of which is worth
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Speaker 2: about two and a half billion dollars. And if you're
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Speaker 2: the year to the throne, this is your hand me down.
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Speaker 2: This is what you get. Charles had it before him.
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Speaker 2: He doesn't actually have to pay any tax, so Queen
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Speaker 2: Elizabeth struck a deal with Treasury back in twenty thirteen.
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Speaker 2: Not legally liable to pay any income tax, any capital
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Speaker 2: gains tax, any inheritance tax whatsoever. However he does it
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Speaker 2: out of the goodness of his own heart. By the way,
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Speaker 2: in case you're interested, he is paying the highest rate
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Speaker 2: of tax forty five percent for the Brits. And I
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Speaker 2: know as you choke on your corn flanks and the
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Speaker 2: capital gains tax eighteen percent, the lower rate twenty four percent,
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Speaker 2: the higher bran bread quarter plast five views talk ZB
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Speaker 2: retailers want Keevy's working from the office, thank you very much,
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Speaker 2: not home. After the latest retail in Z survey, half
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Speaker 2: met or exceeded their sales targets in quarter one, but
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Speaker 2: now just a third think they can do the same
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Speaker 2: for quarter two. This is the war, and nearly a
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Speaker 2: third say they're unsure if they can survive the next year.
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Speaker 2: Carolyn Young, italians in Chief executive joins me this morning. Hey,
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Speaker 2: Carolyn well Eran, how are you doing very well? Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Nice to have you on the program as always. How
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Speaker 2: does this compare to previous surveys, you know, other blips
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Speaker 2: we've had on the radar.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, look, I guess similar in some ways, except I
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Speaker 9: think the one thing we know is that the biggest
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Speaker 9: concerns that retailers have is, you know, one is the economy,
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Speaker 9: and the ninety three percent ninety two point nine percent
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Speaker 9: have said that the broader economy is their biggest concern.
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Speaker 9: That's quickly followed by things like foot traffic, high street vitality,
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Speaker 9: and consumer demand. Now those are all things that are
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Speaker 9: linked to the economic crisis followed, but that's come out
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Speaker 9: on the back of the Middle East crisis, and it's
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Speaker 9: really hard for retailers to influence that. If we don't
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Speaker 9: have people in our cities, if we don't have a
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Speaker 9: vital high street and there's no consumer demand, retailers will
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Speaker 9: struggle and businesses will close. And I think it's the
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Speaker 9: sense of, you know, yet another blow, but also how
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Speaker 9: much it's out of their hands, how little they can
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Speaker 9: control how well their business will do.
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Speaker 2: Are some areas or some types of stores doing better
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Speaker 2: than others. I was out on the weekend hardware store.
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Speaker 2: A whole bunch of stores that I went to were full,
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Speaker 2: But clearly there are problems elsewhere. Who's doing the best,
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Speaker 2: who's doing the worst.
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Speaker 9: Look, certainly, if you look at stores like apparel stores,
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Speaker 9: they've had a really rough eighteen months or so. You know,
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Speaker 9: they were trading down significantly in March, and last year
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Speaker 9: they only had two positive months out of the whole year,
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Speaker 9: So apparel is really struggling. The large household durables have
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Speaker 9: come back quite a bit, certainly electronics. You know, think
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Speaker 9: about laptops and you know stores that sell those sorts
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Speaker 9: of items. You know, people seem to still want to
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Speaker 9: buy the flash new phones and those sorts of things.
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Speaker 9: People upgrading laptops for the use of AI because you
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Speaker 9: need more memory, etc. They are still trading well.
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Speaker 2: Carolyn, nice to have you on the program this morning,
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Speaker 2: Carolyn Young, retail ends Chief Executive. Time is seventeen minutes
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Speaker 2: after five. Now. They'm ask for a bunch of things.
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Speaker 2: And one of the things that they have asked for
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Speaker 2: is for workers to please, thank you very much, still
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Speaker 2: work at the office, go into the office. Don't work
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Speaker 2: from home because you kill CBDs, you kill retail, you
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Speaker 2: kill cafes and restaurants and bars, etc. And I just
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Speaker 2: wonder how many businesses are actually allowing workers because of
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Speaker 2: the price of fuel, allowing workers to stay at home
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Speaker 2: and work from home, or has that operation changed N
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Speaker 2: nine two the number to text. You would hope not,
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Speaker 2: given how bad things got during COVID and how long
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Speaker 2: it takes you to recover something like that, a CBD
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Speaker 2: very dodgy thing to be doing. Indeed, we'll get to Australia.
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Speaker 2: There's a bit of an update on the budget there
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Speaker 2: which is coming in the next week. You're on Newstalk
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Speaker 2: ZVB five eighteen News and.
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Speaker 1: Views you trust to start your day. It's early editions
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Speaker 1: with Ryan Bread which and Spark for business technology that
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Speaker 1: keeps it business moving.
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Speaker 2: Confused talks, it'd be five to twenty news Talks' Billiam
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Speaker 2: Lawson's main and a big crash at the Miami Grand Prix.
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Speaker 2: He's now out of the race started and teen after
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Speaker 2: being upgraded one spot. It's twenty after So Vicky Price,
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Speaker 2: our business correspondent, Vicky good morning, Good morning. So your
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Speaker 2: reflections on those interest rate decisions we had the UK,
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Speaker 2: the ECB and the US.
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Speaker 10: I think it was generally expected that nobody was going
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Speaker 10: to really move until there was a bit more certaintiest
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Speaker 10: to what was going to happen to oil prices because
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Speaker 10: obviously concerns about inflation are multiplying. But we don't know
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Speaker 10: how long the whole conflict will last. Of course, we
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Speaker 10: have a ceasefire, but we still have an issue in
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Speaker 10: terms of whether we can open or they will open
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Speaker 10: Iran and of course the US which is blocking it
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Speaker 10: too from the Iranian side. The Strait of horror moves
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Speaker 10: and whether oil will start flowing again and gas will
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Speaker 10: start flowing again, and lots of other goods which seemed
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Speaker 10: to be stuck there as well, fertilizers and more are
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Speaker 10: worrying everybody. So the general a reaction of the policymakers
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Speaker 10: is let's not do something quickly which might affect the economy. Adversely,
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Speaker 10: let's just wait and see and see whether in fact
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Speaker 10: those trends that we're already beginning to feel in terms
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Speaker 10: of or prices going up generally are going to be
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Speaker 10: transitory or are going to be here for some time.
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Speaker 10: So that's where we are. No change in interest rates
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Speaker 10: for the moments. Quite a lot of speculations. What's going
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Speaker 10: to happen next, certainly for the Europeans. Are the Europeans
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Speaker 10: Center Bank more or less let it be known that
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Speaker 10: it may well be raising rates in June or possibly July,
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Speaker 10: So there will probably be a move just to show
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Speaker 10: that one is on top of it, rather than necessarily
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Speaker 10: believing that inflation is going to be tamed that way.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so at the moment, still a bit of crouch
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Speaker 2: and hold, wait and see, And the indicators and the
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Speaker 2: forecast are all coming down because the oil price staying high.
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Speaker 10: Yes, no, we've seen some of the data coming through.
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Speaker 10: I mean in the UK itself. What we have received
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Speaker 10: just the last few days is confirmation from industry when
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Speaker 10: you look at the CBI, the Confederation of British Industries
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Speaker 10: Industrial Trend Survey, that the mood has changed downwards very significantly.
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Speaker 10: And we've also got information about April retail sales falling
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Speaker 10: quite significantly. That's again from the various surveys that are
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Speaker 10: being done by industry, so that's a concern. And in
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Speaker 10: Europe as well, we've seen, particularly in Germany that the
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Speaker 10: confidence indicators have dropped significantly and also downgrade in forecasts.
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Speaker 10: So again the real worry that the policymakers have is
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Speaker 10: how can they support the economy while all this is happening.
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Speaker 10: And interest rates of course play apart, so if they
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Speaker 10: go up then the economy will obviously suffer. But there
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Speaker 10: are all sorts of interventions that are being made right
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Speaker 10: now in terms of subsidies and cuts in taxes for
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Speaker 10: fuel and other interventions in order to keep costs down
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Speaker 10: for the time being. How long one will be able
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Speaker 10: to afford to do that given the strains that exist
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Speaker 10: in terms of the fiscal side in so many countries
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Speaker 10: right now is a real question mark.
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Speaker 2: Interesting what's happening in the UK with the tank off
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Speaker 2: and landing slots for airlines. Tell us about that.
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Speaker 10: Yes, I think that's really interesting because of course the
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Speaker 10: airline industry is suffering because of concerns about jet fuel.
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Speaker 10: Jet fuel costs have gone up significantly, but for the moment,
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Speaker 10: there's still quite a lot of supply around. The question
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Speaker 10: is what's going to happen when that supply perhaps comes
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Speaker 10: under increased stress, and with the expectation is that we
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Speaker 10: can start seeing that maybe later this month. So what
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Speaker 10: the authorities here have said is that you can announce
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Speaker 10: and cancel various flights ahead without losing your landing slots,
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Speaker 10: and I think that's the important thing. What happened during
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Speaker 10: COVID is that planes still went empty because if they
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Speaker 10: didn't fly, the slots will disappear. So what the government
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Speaker 10: here has said in the UK that that isn't going
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Speaker 10: to happen this time. So there's special treatment which I
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Speaker 10: think will be quite good. But also there'll be a
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Speaker 10: bit more reassurance for anyone who's flying. So the UK travelers,
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Speaker 10: you know that everyone still wants to go abroad, but
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Speaker 10: at least they'll know that a flight is canceled already
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Speaker 10: in advance of them booking anything, rather than having things
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Speaker 10: at the last minute as well, which some airlines may
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Speaker 10: have done otherwise. So there is more flexibility which is
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Speaker 10: allowed right now, and a bit more confidence perhaps also
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Speaker 10: for the travelers that at least they're know in advance
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Speaker 10: what will happen without worrying about flights of the disappearing.
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Speaker 2: Always a good thing to know, isn't that? Vicky Price,
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Speaker 2: Business correspondent with US twenty five minutes after five The
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Speaker 2: Spurity Aligns. Just while we're on the subject, you might
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Speaker 2: have noticed that they we bust in the US if
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Speaker 2: you've not flown on Spurity Aligns. It's like a bus
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Speaker 2: in the sky. It's a low cost carrier and you,
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Speaker 2: I mean, probably a good thing. It's gone. I shouldn't
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Speaker 2: say that, really because there's a lot of people impacted
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Speaker 2: by it. But the and is not just I mean,
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Speaker 2: Jet Fuel was the nail and the coffin. But they
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Speaker 2: had this low cost carrier been filing for bankruptcy. In fact,
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Speaker 2: it was their second bankruptcy filing last year, and they
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Speaker 2: were blocked by competition. Tried to get a merger done
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Speaker 2: with Jet Blue, didn't happen, and then this tipped them
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Speaker 2: over the edge. Twenty five after five, the early.
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Speaker 2: Talks mb AT is twenty seven after five. I have
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Speaker 2: good news and bad news for you this morning. The
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Speaker 2: good news I was out shopping on the weekend, which
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Speaker 2: means I didn't actually buy anything, but drove halfway across
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Speaker 2: town looking for a BedHead, couldn't find it, and then
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Speaker 2: went home empty handed. But the good news is the
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Speaker 2: shops that I visited were full of people spending money.
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Speaker 2: Hardware store full, furniture store less full, but still busy.
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Speaker 2: The Devil wears Prata on Saturday night, I can tell you.
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Speaker 2: I can report was one hundred percent booked out for
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Speaker 2: all of the sessions and they were running almost on
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Speaker 2: the hour, So that is a good thing. I've never
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Speaker 2: really rated Anne Hathaway's acting Chops, but literally thousands of
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Speaker 2: middle aged women Glass of Savvy b in hand clearly
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Speaker 2: did a survey out today says retailers are worried about
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Speaker 2: the fuel shock, but I didn't see much reason to
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Speaker 2: be freaking out over the weekend. Now the bad news,
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Speaker 2: all the stuff we buy in this country comes by sea.
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Speaker 2: All the trinkets, all the furniture, the non perishables come
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Speaker 2: over the ocean. Because we're an island, more than eighty
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Speaker 2: percent of our trade is done on a ship by
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Speaker 2: value and weight. Half of that trade imports and exports,
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Speaker 2: almost half done by the shipping giant MRSK and a
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Speaker 2: little reported note to customers. Friday, MRSK is slapping an
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Speaker 2: almost thirty percent fuel surcharge onto inland transport. The fuel
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Speaker 2: bill for imports is increasing twenty seven percent. The Aussies
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Speaker 2: is going up eighteen percent. This cost gets added to
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Speaker 2: all the stuff that we buy, so anything in country
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Speaker 2: right now will be cheaper than anything that is about
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Speaker 2: to be sent here. They started this new charge rate
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Speaker 2: on Friday, which does my weekend in busy shops and
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Speaker 2: a gay time at the pictures on Saturday night. Felt
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Speaker 2: somewhat like to use another movie analogy. A dinner party
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Speaker 2: aboard the Titanic. Is it listed into the Atlantic Ocean
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Speaker 2: twenty nine minutes after five? You're on news talks, they'd
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Speaker 2: be We're live to the UK next.
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Speaker 11: Excuse what.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on early edition with FUK for business technology
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Speaker 1: that keeps business Moving News talks'd.
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Speaker 2: Be twenty four away from the six News talks. They'd
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Speaker 2: be great to have your company. This Monday morning, we
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Speaker 2: will go to the UK live to London shortly with
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Speaker 2: Gavin talk NATO also reaction to acts immigration plan the
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Speaker 2: announced yesterday. I mean, what's not to like? What don't
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Speaker 2: you like about a six dollars a day infrastructure surcharge
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Speaker 2: to please get us the more hospitals or roads or
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Speaker 2: cop shops or whatever temporary work visas they will pay it,
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Speaker 2: and five year welfare stand down for all residents classes
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Speaker 2: visa holders. Thing about our immigration system, and we've spoken
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Speaker 2: about this many times before, is we don't have huge
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Speaker 2: numbers of illegal migration legal migrants flocking to the country
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Speaker 2: because we're so far away from the rest of the world.
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Speaker 2: So no one's coming here to sit on the doll
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Speaker 2: Are they our migrants? They are hard working people and
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Speaker 2: I think this is a sensible policy from them. We'll
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Speaker 2: get reaction just before six you know the ty point.
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Speaker 2: You might have heard it in the news. The aluminium
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Speaker 2: smelter workers who are going on strike from today two
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Speaker 2: hours a day and they'll do a couple of them
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Speaker 2: over the coming weeks. The union is saying, oh, look,
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Speaker 2: the smelter wants to split us up. They want to
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Speaker 2: separate us. They don't want collective contracts. If you look
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Speaker 2: at the numbers, so one hundred and eighty five workers,
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Speaker 2: the two union members are going taking this industrial action.
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Speaker 2: And if you look at how many people actually work
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Speaker 2: at the smelter, including the employees and contract is, it's
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Speaker 2: about six to seven hundred, so the vast majority actually
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Speaker 2: it two already do want exactly the opposite of what
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Speaker 2: you're saying they do. Bryan Bridge, twenty three away from
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Speaker 2: six News Talks, there'd be let's go to our reporters
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Speaker 2: around the country. Callum and to Eden Callum, good morning morning, Ryan.
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Speaker 2: What do you know about the Hector's dolphin.
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Speaker 12: Well, things are looking good for them in Porpoise Bay.
19:22
Speaker 12: That's an important breeding spot in South and for the
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Speaker 12: endangered Hector's dolphin. Here, Ryan, the university here, Otager University
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Speaker 12: has led the first acoustic monitoring of these dolphins in
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Speaker 12: the bay and they've used echo location equipment to track sound.
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Speaker 12: I've heard dolphins in winter there for the first time ever,
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Speaker 12: which has them excited. Are the researchers say that technology
19:46
Speaker 12: has enabled them to find out when, where and how
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Speaker 12: these dolphins use Porpoise Bay. They've also found the dolphins
19:52
Speaker 12: could be particularly vulnerable in summer when there are swimmers
19:54
Speaker 12: about disrupting their behaviors and possibly their long term effects
19:59
Speaker 12: on survival.
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Speaker 2: How's your with it?
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Speaker 12: Fine, frosty start for sheltered places? This morning, light when
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Speaker 12: sixteen today?
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Speaker 2: All right? Nice one, callum, thank you? Clear and christ
20:07
Speaker 2: this morning clear, good morning. What's going on with the
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Speaker 2: young people in the climate?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 13: Well, Christus is one of three hundred world wide, three
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Speaker 13: hundred cities rather worldwide to receive eight hundred and fifty
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Speaker 13: thousand dollars from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Youth Climate Action Fund.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 13: This supports young people designing and delivering practical climate solutions.
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Speaker 13: The mayor says climate action isn't something councils can do alone,
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Speaker 13: and the whole idea is to back youth led projects
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Speaker 13: means they help grow the next generation of leaders. He
20:36
Speaker 13: says motivated young people are critical to delivering long term change.
20:40
Speaker 13: They bring energy, they bring creativity and a sense of
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Speaker 13: responsibility for the future. So he's really excited about this prospect.
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Speaker 13: Council will open a call for applications for young people
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Speaker 13: to get involved in this through to May next year.
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Speaker 2: How's you wear the clip?
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Speaker 13: We do have some morning cloud add a bit of
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Speaker 13: fog out there at the moment, but that should clear
20:59
Speaker 13: up to be a mainly fine day light winds and
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Speaker 13: a high of seventeen.
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Speaker 2: Mex and will thank you Cley mex and Wellington Morning mechs,
21:05
Speaker 2: Good morning Pase year bill for water meters a bit
21:08
Speaker 2: eye watering.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, getting a good deal for rd payer is not something.
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Speaker 14: Local authorities in Wellington really known for the rollout of
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Speaker 14: water meters across the region. The cost of doing so
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Speaker 14: was estimated one hundred and forty four million bucks in
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Speaker 14: twenty twenty three hundred mili in twenty twenty four four
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Speaker 14: hundred last year, now apparently as high as five hundred
21:27
Speaker 14: and ninety million dollars total according to the Incoming Water Entity.
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Speaker 14: Tiakiy Tiaqui says more planning is still needed. Well you reckon.
21:37
Speaker 14: Obviously water needs reform in the capital. But meter has
21:39
Speaker 14: been talked about here for some time. But that's an
21:42
Speaker 14: average of thousands of dollars per customer for this installation,
21:46
Speaker 14: which was former city councilor Tim Brown says is just nonsensical.
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Speaker 14: He wants metering outsource to an existing body that actually
21:53
Speaker 14: knows what it's doing. How much it should cost. About
21:56
Speaker 14: forty percent of our water still being lost to leaks
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Speaker 14: before it reaches out homes. How's your weather party, cloudy
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Speaker 14: nor the least fifteen?
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Neva and Auckland morning.
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Speaker 6: Neva, good morning.
22:07
Speaker 2: Now these bikes riders are they bike riders or motorbikes?
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Speaker 11: Their bike riders and end well and there were a
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Speaker 11: couple of quad bikes as well. These idiots. So an
22:17
Speaker 11: Auckland driver, he says that a pack of twenty of
22:20
Speaker 11: these riders they jeopardized lives. What they did was that
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Speaker 11: they brought two lanes, they wove through traffic. They were
22:26
Speaker 11: performing stunts on a busy road. There's dash cam footage
22:29
Speaker 11: of it which does show the group and as I
22:32
Speaker 11: said before year two on a quad bike and you know,
22:35
Speaker 11: like mounting foot paths, doing all these wheelies.
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Speaker 14: This is through.
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Speaker 11: Counties Monaco and also Auckland City. One motor is told
22:41
Speaker 11: down newsroom. Many of these riders they're doing this, faces covered,
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Speaker 11: no visible number plates, none appear to be wearing helmets
22:50
Speaker 11: clowns anyway. He also said he saw the riders antagonizing
22:54
Speaker 11: another driver in front of him. So police they are
22:56
Speaker 11: aware of this. They're saying these you know, I don't
22:59
Speaker 11: know what he informal informal riders and you know how
23:02
Speaker 11: they plan all these things over the weekend. So they
23:05
Speaker 11: are monitoring it. They're on the case.
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Speaker 2: Hopefully they do something about it. You know, I think
23:08
Speaker 2: I'm turning into an old person there because the scooter.
23:11
Speaker 2: You know that the people who ride their lime scooters
23:14
Speaker 2: are starting to annoy me on the footpath. Oh what
23:16
Speaker 2: are they doing? It's just dangerous. You can't hear them,
23:18
Speaker 2: you can't see them. And then they passed you and
23:21
Speaker 2: you think, you know, if I was ten centimeters that way,
23:23
Speaker 2: you would have knocked me over.
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Speaker 11: You know, you've got a great point here, because they're
23:26
Speaker 11: starting to annoy me as well. You see them and
23:29
Speaker 11: they're weaving in and out. I'm thinking, look at the traffic, mate,
23:31
Speaker 11: get on the road exactly. And how they're wearing helmets
23:35
Speaker 11: some of them, know, they're just like with your back
23:37
Speaker 11: pegs on.
23:38
Speaker 2: Oh that was a good vent thing oturageous? How's that?
23:40
Speaker 2: With the Oh?
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Speaker 11: Cloudy cloud increasing for the afternoon. Nineteen is the high here.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant eighteen away from Sex and these talks, they'd be bridge.
23:49
Speaker 2: What's happening with Trump and NATO. I mean, this is
23:53
Speaker 2: an ongoing situation, but because he got so upset and
23:56
Speaker 2: totchy with merts over in Germany, he has pulled five
23:59
Speaker 2: thousand US troops that were stationed there. And I told
24:01
Speaker 2: you on Friday this was going to happen, didn't I
24:03
Speaker 2: And thirty six thousand active duty troops of their So
24:05
Speaker 2: you've taken five off that you've got thirty one left.
24:08
Speaker 2: And there's two senior US Republicans have come out now,
24:13
Speaker 2: Roger Wicket and Mike Rodgers. They chair the Senate and
24:16
Speaker 2: House Armed Services committees, respectively, so important guys within the
24:19
Speaker 2: Republican Party. They've come out and said, no dumb idea,
24:23
Speaker 2: because this is a gift to the Russians. You're taking
24:26
Speaker 2: away US troops from Germany. They said, if anything, if
24:29
Speaker 2: you want to take them away from Germany to punishment's fine,
24:31
Speaker 2: but the only place you should move them is further east.
24:34
Speaker 2: Remember we looked at that report from the Dutch spies
24:37
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago. They reckon that once the
24:40
Speaker 2: war in Ukraine is over, Putin will start picking off
24:43
Speaker 2: NATO countries one by one, divide and conquer the Alliance.
24:47
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Speaker 2: An explosion at a house in Bristol legitating the world's
26:10
Speaker 2: media this morning. It's going to Devin gray Are UK
26:12
Speaker 2: europe correspondent Gvin what's happened here?
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Speaker 15: Well, at the moment things are still pretty unclear, but
26:19
Speaker 15: Ron it does appear to be that this is not
26:22
Speaker 15: a terrorist attack. The police were pretty quick to stress
26:25
Speaker 15: that indeed, it's thought they were originally called to this
26:27
Speaker 15: house in Bristol, to the West Country for a domestic
26:31
Speaker 15: related incident and minutes then before that an explosion happened.
26:36
Speaker 15: It was in the morning this morning, six thirty local time.
26:40
Speaker 15: Three people, a man, a woman and a child also
26:42
Speaker 15: taking a hospital for minor injuries. A man and a
26:44
Speaker 15: woman said to have died. So at the moment investigation
26:47
Speaker 15: still going on. There was a press confidence that the
26:49
Speaker 15: police gave didn't really have a huge amount of information,
26:53
Speaker 15: just saying it was a complex and sensitive information. The
26:58
Speaker 15: force says that they haven't confirmed what caused the explosion.
27:01
Speaker 15: Had said it was being treated as suspicious, but as
27:04
Speaker 15: I said, at the start, at least this was being
27:06
Speaker 15: looked at as a domestic incident and not terrorism.
27:09
Speaker 8: Yeah.
27:09
Speaker 2: The Trump administration, we were just talking about how they're
27:12
Speaker 2: pulling some five thousand out of Germany, but now they're
27:14
Speaker 2: threatening the Italians and the Spaniards.
27:18
Speaker 15: Yes, and I think, you know, relations between Donald Trump
27:21
Speaker 15: and the European leaders getting very, very fraught. In the past,
27:24
Speaker 15: Europe's always just turned the other cheek. I think they're
27:26
Speaker 15: a bit fed up and stopping doing that and a
27:28
Speaker 15: beginning to bite back. At the end of last week,
27:30
Speaker 15: the German leader, German Chancellor Friederic Mertz, said the entire
27:34
Speaker 15: nation of the US was being humiliated by Iranian negotiators.
27:37
Speaker 15: Trump hit back, saying he doesn't know what he's talking about,
27:40
Speaker 15: then announced that they were going to remove five thousand
27:44
Speaker 15: troops from the thirty six thousand active duty American troops
27:48
Speaker 15: in Germany. Germany said, well, we kind of expected that.
27:51
Speaker 15: It's going backwards and forwards with this tip for tat,
27:54
Speaker 15: and I'm afraid things now look to have plummeted even further,
27:58
Speaker 15: with Donald Trump saying right now that deal we had,
28:01
Speaker 15: that trade deal which I agreed back in Scotland last year, Well,
28:04
Speaker 15: the EU isn't holding its end up, So I'm now
28:07
Speaker 15: going to charge twenty five percent tariff on the cars
28:11
Speaker 15: and trucks imported from the European Union. The EU says
28:15
Speaker 15: it is unacceptable the way the president is reacting.
28:18
Speaker 2: Kevin Gray are UK europe correspondent eleven minutes away from
28:21
Speaker 2: six Ryan so Simil's new immigration policy reckons the current
28:25
Speaker 2: settings are too weak.
28:27
Speaker 4: Allowing hundreds of thousands of people that led and to
28:30
Speaker 4: have residency and eventually citizenship with no questions asked. That
28:35
Speaker 4: is the rules of many people's dis satisfaction.
28:37
Speaker 2: So the just a six dollar daily levy on temporary
28:39
Speaker 2: work visas, a five year welfare ban and more enforcement
28:44
Speaker 2: on overstays plus English language requirements get a bit tougher two.
28:47
Speaker 2: Marcus Beverage, immigration lawyer at Queen City Law, joins us
28:51
Speaker 2: this morning. Hay Markers morning rowan pretty sensible.
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Speaker 5: No mate, I just see it it's not really worth
28:58
Speaker 5: getting out of bed for this because most of it's
29:00
Speaker 5: already here. Superfluous, it's posturing. Minister Stam is actually tidied
29:06
Speaker 5: most of us up already, and I thought mister Sima
29:10
Speaker 5: could have done much better helping to refine the business
29:12
Speaker 5: categories rather than sort of talking around with something that's
29:15
Speaker 5: already been fixed.
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Speaker 2: We don't have a levy on temporary work visas at
29:19
Speaker 2: the moment to pay for infrastructure, do we?
29:21
Speaker 8: No?
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Speaker 5: But that's just means spirited and shortsighted because we you know,
29:25
Speaker 5: we capture them here before they get citizenship of five years,
29:28
Speaker 5: we're talking about making that ten years before they can
29:30
Speaker 5: go across the ditch with the rest of our best
29:32
Speaker 5: and brightest to the land of milk and honey. But look,
29:35
Speaker 5: it's small money compared to what these people are taxed,
29:41
Speaker 5: and so who cares.
29:42
Speaker 2: Why wouldn't we do it? We need roads, when need hospitals,
29:45
Speaker 2: we need police stations, and the Aussies do this over there.
29:49
Speaker 5: Well, I think it's because we can actually be sort
29:53
Speaker 5: of have a bit more pride about coming to this
29:55
Speaker 5: country than bringing people six dollars a day that I
29:57
Speaker 5: just said, I don't think it'll ever happen.
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Speaker 3: I think it's joke.
30:02
Speaker 2: Do you think we need more infrastructure for the people
30:04
Speaker 2: who do come?
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Speaker 5: Oh, we certainly do. And that's why who's going to
30:08
Speaker 5: pay for that? Well, there's a good answer there. We've
30:11
Speaker 5: got billions of dollars flowing through under the Golden Visa
30:14
Speaker 5: program and there are specialist infrastructure funds that have been
30:16
Speaker 5: set up. And an actual fact, going way back to
30:19
Speaker 5: the days of leand Elzel when she said, you know,
30:22
Speaker 5: business Markerts wanted to contribute to stuff that they can
30:25
Speaker 5: see and feel in touch. It's always been there at
30:28
Speaker 5: this opportunity and it's finally about to be exploited by us.
30:30
Speaker 1: So you know, that's that's the reality.
30:34
Speaker 2: Marcus. Good to have you on the show this morning,
30:36
Speaker 2: Marcus Beverage, Immigration, Laura at Queen's City Law. You're on
30:38
Speaker 2: News Talks THEREB it's nine to six.
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30:44
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30:51
Speaker 2: News TALKSB seven or six on News Talk ZREB. You'll
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Speaker 2: hear a lot about local elections in the UK this
30:56
Speaker 2: week and this is happening on May the seventh, and
30:58
Speaker 2: you might think we're local elections in New Zealand, not
31:00
Speaker 2: even that interesting. Why we don't care about local elections
31:02
Speaker 2: in the UK. It's basically a referendum on Starmer. Two
31:05
Speaker 2: thirds of Brits are going to vote in these elections,
31:07
Speaker 2: and the last time they were tested, properly tested, was
31:10
Speaker 2: in May of twenty twenty two. Back then Labor averaged
31:13
Speaker 2: about thirty nine percent of the vote. And that this
31:15
Speaker 2: is in the nationwide national polls. Four years later. They're
31:19
Speaker 2: now on nineteen percent and a little party called Reform
31:22
Speaker 2: was on four in twenty twenty two, now twenty four percent.
31:26
Speaker 2: So you hear a lot about that this week. Also,
31:29
Speaker 2: do you know these ads? We spend huge money making
31:32
Speaker 2: these ads in New Zealand advertising us as a tourist destination.
31:36
Speaker 16: Within our nuntis, our lakes and our people. Why you'll
31:45
Speaker 16: discover on your June throughout this precious land is that
31:52
Speaker 16: if you're welcome, you make yourself at home.
31:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, all very fancy, all very beautiful, lots of nice scenery.
32:01
Speaker 2: In that these ads will no longer be able to
32:03
Speaker 2: be played or displayed anywhere in Amsterdam on public buildings, buses, trains,
32:10
Speaker 2: you name it. They are doing big max are out.
32:13
Speaker 2: Any meat kind of product is out, gas powered cars,
32:16
Speaker 2: petrol cars out, exotic vacations out. Because of climate change.
32:21
Speaker 2: The council has voted all public land and property will
32:25
Speaker 2: be void of anything that might encourage travel or eating meat.
32:29
Speaker 2: It's five to two Ryan Bridge and Mike is in
32:32
Speaker 2: the studio. Good morning, Mike morning.
32:33
Speaker 6: Last pol I saw was labor. We're going to lose
32:35
Speaker 6: seven hundred councils. Yeah, not great this weekend. By the way,
32:39
Speaker 6: Farah if you're into your democracy. Farah is the by
32:42
Speaker 6: election in Australia, the federal by election Susan Lee's seat,
32:46
Speaker 6: and of course that's the big one nation test as
32:49
Speaker 6: to whether they're going to hold the numbers when a
32:51
Speaker 6: lower seat house, which they don't have, so that'll be
32:54
Speaker 6: worth watching. I hear you say you look for a BedHead.
32:58
Speaker 2: Was that you, Yes, so for a BedHead?
33:00
Speaker 6: So do you here's my thing? Can get a big one,
33:02
Speaker 6: so they say, man, So they say, but the I'm
33:07
Speaker 6: watching you. Two places I'm in the country yesterday popping
33:10
Speaker 6: off like popping off gang Busters, like how do I
33:13
Speaker 6: find a park? This is ridiculous. Come back to town
33:15
Speaker 6: down at the mall popping off. So what's all this
33:17
Speaker 6: I'm reading about you?
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Speaker 2: I said the same thing this morning. Do you reckon?
33:20
Speaker 6: There's something going on?
33:21
Speaker 2: Do you reckon?
33:22
Speaker 6: I might ask you? Is life miserable? Some people are
33:24
Speaker 6: going to go yes.
33:25
Speaker 2: And this is a survey, which is exactly what that is.
33:27
Speaker 6: It's just how that everyone you see spends money but
33:30
Speaker 6: I refusees. And this mall right. You know thousands, I
33:34
Speaker 6: mean literally thousands of people. I'm thinking it, but they're
33:36
Speaker 6: not making money now on a sunny Sunday.
33:39
Speaker 2: When will when you're going to make some money? Devil
33:40
Speaker 2: with Para I went to that on says that note. No,
33:44
Speaker 2: it's not well. Anne Hathaway is not a convincing actress
33:47
Speaker 2: in my mind. But the movie itself is does it
33:49
Speaker 2: look good? It looks good? Fashion is good, you know.
33:53
Speaker 2: So that's the only reason you got full, absolutely full,
33:56
Speaker 2: every screening, absolutely one hundred percent full.
33:59
Speaker 6: Is Stanley good? I love Stanley Stany. Stanley's my favorite.
34:02
Speaker 6: He's fantastic. And the MITC Garla tomorrow of course, how
34:06
Speaker 6: is that? Oh yeah, first Monday, first, what are they wearing?
34:09
Speaker 2: Mic?
34:09
Speaker 6: Well, it's that that's it's it's Artists artist theme or
34:12
Speaker 6: theme as art or something.
34:13
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