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Full Show Podcast: 31 July 2024 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge you
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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
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Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture beds and a play a store News Dogs.
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Speaker 2: It'd be good morning, New Zealand. It is six after
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Speaker 2: five as you are waking up this morning. It's great
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Speaker 2: to be with you coming up on this show in
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Speaker 2: the next hour. They giveth with one hand and they
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Speaker 2: taketh with the other. Tax cuts kick in today, which
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Speaker 2: is great news. But if you are a homeowner, rates
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Speaker 2: rises some more than twenty percent are coming your way
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Speaker 2: and will probably wipe out any benefit from a tax cut.
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Speaker 2: You get local government New Zealand on why before six
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Speaker 2: and medals. They giveth with one hand, the women's sevens
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Speaker 2: this morning. Look to take gold or silver. At least
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Speaker 2: we'll get a medal. We'll keep you up to date
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Speaker 2: with that live throughout the morning. But have they taketh
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Speaker 2: a medal? From Hayden Wild with the Dirty River Sen
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Speaker 2: will have live updates from Paris this morning. It is
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Speaker 2: seven after five the agenda Wednesday, the thirty first of July,
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Speaker 2: New Zealand is just over an hour away from receiving
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Speaker 2: our first medal. In the Olympics. The Kiwi women sevens
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Speaker 2: are facing Canada cheats and the final and just under
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Speaker 2: forty five minutes time after beating the United States earlier
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Speaker 2: this morning.
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Speaker 3: I'm excited we get to play in an Olympic final
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Speaker 3: round sixty five thousand people, which is pretty incredible.
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Speaker 4: And sec you're in New Zealand's first Olympic medal.
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Speaker 3: Oh, it's yeah, that'll be amazing for the team turns.
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Speaker 3: We're going for the one color.
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Speaker 2: The beautiful emotion in that voice. The sevens are guaranteed
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Speaker 2: a silver medal at least gold if they win. We'll
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Speaker 2: have the latest for you live throughout the show. That's game,
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Speaker 2: by the way, starts five forty five this morning. Protests
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Speaker 2: are underway in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas after President
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Speaker 2: Nicholas Maduro claimed victory in the country's election. People around
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Speaker 2: me are on our microphone that they want freedom and
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Speaker 2: that they want to leave the street to until Nikolas
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Speaker 2: Maduro is ousted. The opposition party has disputed the results,
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Speaker 2: saying that their candidate, ed Mondo Gonzalez, has clearly won.
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Speaker 2: The polls leading up to the election indicated a potential
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Speaker 2: win for him. Maduro has been in power since twenty
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Speaker 2: thirteen and in that time, get this, he has overseen
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Speaker 2: an economic meltdown to the point that seven point seven
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Speaker 2: million Venezuelans have left the country looking for work elsewhere.
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Speaker 2: That's a quarter of their population, a quarter back here.
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Speaker 2: Tax cuts are coming into force today for about three
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Speaker 2: and a half million people. We will see less tax
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Speaker 2: going out on our next pays. But whether they will
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Speaker 2: make that will make a difference for households, well, it's
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Speaker 2: to be debated. People are filling the squeeze. Those on
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Speaker 2: the lowest incomes will only be taking in four dollars
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Speaker 2: fifty extra a week. The opposition leader, Chris Hipkins says
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Speaker 2: we should be spending the money on things like health,
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Speaker 2: education and infrastructure.
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Speaker 1: News and views You trust to start your day's Billy
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture
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Speaker 1: beds and a flying store. You's talk said the We'd.
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Speaker 2: Love to hear from you this morning. Nine two ninety
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Speaker 2: two is the number to text very quickly. Everyone's talking
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Speaker 2: about the River Sin and how filthy it is. In fact,
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Speaker 2: I think I just heard Andrew Alderson in Sport call
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Speaker 2: it the filth level of the sin. It's filled with
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Speaker 2: the coal ie because it rained on the weekend essentially,
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Speaker 2: and so they've had to cancel it. They will do
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Speaker 2: another check three o'clock roughly this afternoon our time, and
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Speaker 2: then the men will have to go after the women.
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Speaker 2: So the men go eight am local time and we go.
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Speaker 2: The men would go eight forty five am local time.
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Speaker 2: I'm just wondering, and I know this is probably not
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Speaker 2: the right thing to say, but if you're you're an Olympian,
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Speaker 2: You've been training for what is it now, three years
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Speaker 2: for these games. You've put your heart and your soul
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Speaker 2: and all of your effort into this. And if swimming
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Speaker 2: is your strong suit and they cancel the swimming leg,
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Speaker 2: wouldn't you just swim in the river anyway? I mean, look,
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Speaker 2: it's a bit of a coal lie. You'll be sick
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Speaker 2: for a couple of days. But if it's sickness or
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Speaker 2: missing out on your chance at gold, wouldn't you go
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Speaker 2: for sickness? I think I would. Hey something to watch
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Speaker 2: for tonight the Federal Reserve in the United States, there
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Speaker 2: is a crunch meeting which will happen tonight on rate cuts.
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Speaker 2: Why do we care about this? While the biggest economy
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Speaker 2: in the world and what happens there matters to us.
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Speaker 2: They are expected to hold the rate at five point
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Speaker 2: twenty five to five point five percent. This is the
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Speaker 2: short term rate, but they will set a timetable the
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Speaker 2: pundits reckon for a series of cuts from September, hopefully
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Speaker 2: which will start to push things up. Obviously, they're going
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Speaker 2: to have to look at their inflation rate. The one
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Speaker 2: to watch in the United States tonight and ours, excuse me,
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Speaker 2: our next rate check in with our Reserve Bank is
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Speaker 2: the fourteenth of August. That's exactly two weeks away from now.
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Speaker 2: Now very quickly, I thought I would bring up to
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Speaker 2: speed on Kamala Harris. She has now raked in three
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Speaker 2: hundred and forty million New Zealand dollars in fundraising donations
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Speaker 2: since she got the not well, she hasn't even got
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Speaker 2: the nomination yet. Their Chicago convention is next month, but
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Speaker 2: lots of celebrities have gone and donated money through a
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Speaker 2: zoom call that was called white Duds for Harris. They
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Speaker 2: apparently raised former than US dollars. There's a really interesting
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Speaker 2: guy called Alan Lickman, and I'm hoping to get him
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Speaker 2: on the show tomorrow. He has correctly predicted nine of
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Speaker 2: the last ten US elections using a series of yes,
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Speaker 2: no question answers. Thirteen of them. He calls them his
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Speaker 2: keys to the White House, things like is it the
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Speaker 2: incumbent leader? Is there a third party involved? What does
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Speaker 2: the economy look like? Those sorts of things. Anyway, he
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Speaker 2: correctly predicted the one that was unpredictable, which was Trump
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Speaker 2: beating Hillary in twenty sixteen.
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Speaker 5: It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of
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Speaker 5: Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in
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Speaker 5: our country, because you'd be in jail.
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Speaker 6: Secretary Quinton.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a funny. It was a funny election,
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Speaker 2: and the pole said that she would win. He won.
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Speaker 2: So this guy gets it right. And I'll tell you
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Speaker 2: just after five point thirty this morning what he says
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Speaker 2: about this election. It is twelve after five.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New
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Speaker 1: Zealand's furniture, beds and a playing store. News Talk said.
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Speaker 2: Be fourteen minutes after five on news Talk said, be
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Speaker 2: lots of feedback coming, and already this one from one
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Speaker 2: of our listeners, Ryan It's a bit rich for Chris
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Speaker 2: Hipkins bleting on about government policies when all the hardships
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Speaker 2: we're currently experiencing are wholly caused by their reckless overspending.
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Speaker 2: It has just gone quarter pass now the governments introducing
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Speaker 2: harsh rule for overseas online casinos. This while also allowing
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Speaker 2: them to advertise here. A limited number of licenses will
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Speaker 2: be available for three year terms, and the operators will
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Speaker 2: be required to meet certain standards before they can offer services.
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Speaker 2: Andre Food is with the Problem Gambling Foundation. She's with
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Speaker 2: me this morning, Andrew, thank you for being here. I
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Speaker 2: wonder with online hello, I wonder with online gambling, is
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Speaker 2: it actually just too hard to regulate? Period?
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Speaker 7: But that's a really good question. I know that around
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Speaker 7: the world, you know, regulators have battled with this because
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Speaker 7: there are so many operators out there. But regulation is
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Speaker 7: the right approach, and we totally agree with regulation and
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Speaker 7: having a licensing system.
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Speaker 4: But obviously there's a.
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Speaker 7: Lot more detail to come yet, and we want to
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Speaker 7: make sure that there's really robust harmonimization and consumer protection
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Speaker 7: at the forefront of any approach to this regulation.
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Speaker 2: Because if you are a problem gambler and you really
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Speaker 2: want to gamble online, you I mean, where there's a will,
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Speaker 2: there's a way. Surely you'll get a VPN, you'll work
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Speaker 2: around our laws in New Zealand.
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Speaker 7: Well, it's not illegal for New Zealanders to gamble on
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Speaker 7: these sites. And what people don't generally understand is that
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Speaker 7: they're not protected by New Zealand law. So while they
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Speaker 7: can gamble on these sites, you know, if something happened
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Speaker 7: they couldn't get their money out or whatever the situation
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Speaker 7: might be, they don't they're not protected by our laws
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Speaker 7: and our Gambling Act.
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Speaker 2: And so these changes, they're going to be able to
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Speaker 2: advertise legally in New Zealand. Now, yes, yeah, so, because
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Speaker 2: I mean I get fed ads that are you know,
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Speaker 2: for gambling things, and when you go online. I think
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Speaker 2: everybody gets that through Google or whatever it is. Do
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Speaker 2: you think we're going to see more ads now that
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Speaker 2: it's legal or do you think it will just be
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Speaker 2: the same.
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Speaker 7: Look, we've been absolutely bombarded with ads in this country
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Speaker 7: and a lot of that has been because this market
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Speaker 7: here is largely unregulated. You know, in terms of online
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Speaker 7: gambling regulation. Where about the last country, you know, the
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Speaker 7: last cab off the rank in terms of that, so
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Speaker 7: we have been targeted. Even though it is illegal for
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Speaker 7: the advertising of online of overseas online gambling, at the moment,
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Speaker 7: we've still seen these ads. As you said, you know
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Speaker 7: social media, they're everywhere, so yes, we will see more
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Speaker 7: of it. But what we do hope is well, we'd
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Speaker 7: really like to see the advertising of gambling band completely.
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Speaker 7: But if that's not going to happen, we really really
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Speaker 7: need to see strict measures in place to limit the
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Speaker 7: volume of advertising and put restrictions around the time when
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Speaker 7: gambling can be advertised. I mean it's age restricted. We
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Speaker 7: don't see ads on TV during peak time when children
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Speaker 7: might be watching, for example, with advertising or certainly not tobacco,
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Speaker 7: so gambling is no different and we need to see
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Speaker 7: much tougher restrictions around that.
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Speaker 2: Andrew, thank you very much for your time this morning.
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Speaker 2: That's Andrew Freud, the Problem Gambling Foundation, about the government's
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Speaker 2: introducing introduction I should say of harsher rules for overseas
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Speaker 2: online casinos, but also allowing them to advertise. Here it
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Speaker 2: is eighteen after five. We're live to Paris.
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Speaker 1: Next the first Word on the News of the Day
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Speaker 1: Early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City New Zealand's
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Speaker 1: furniture beds and a player store.
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Speaker 2: News Talk ZEDB twenty outter five News talks zi'd be
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Speaker 2: Ryan councils. This is from Grant Councils need to rein
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Speaker 2: it in. It is disgusting how they just keep putting
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Speaker 2: rates up and up and up. People cannot afford to
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Speaker 2: keep these counselors in jobs. Well. Local government New Zealand
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Speaker 2: is heading back at some of the accusations about overspending
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Speaker 2: and some of the reasons for it, talking to them
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Speaker 2: just before six twenty one after five now the men's well,
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Speaker 2: that means we are less than half an hour away
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Speaker 2: from our first medal at the Olympics. It'll either be
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Speaker 2: a silver or gold from the women's seventeen seven's team
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Speaker 2: the men's triathlon, while meanwhile at the Olympics has been
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Speaker 2: postponed at the last minute due to the water quality.
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Speaker 4: In the river.
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Speaker 2: Senn Hayden Wild and Dylan McCulloch were due to compete
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Speaker 2: forour New Zealand at six o'clock last night our time.
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Speaker 2: That's now moved to eight forty five pm our time today.
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Speaker 2: Hopefully they will be competing, but there are more checks
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Speaker 2: on the river's water quality to come. Joining me now
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Speaker 2: is Herald Sports supporter Michael Burgess, who is in Paris
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Speaker 2: for us. Good morning, good evening, afternoon to you, Michael,
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Speaker 2: tell us what's happening with the river.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's a big question, i'd say for a lot
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Speaker 8: of people, because we really don't know. I mean, what
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Speaker 8: I can tell you is that they've basically got three
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Speaker 8: more days to sort this out. Friday, as far as
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Speaker 8: we know, is the last day they could hold the
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Speaker 8: men's triathlon in the river. That's sort of their final day.
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Speaker 8: If they can't, it'll have to be a duathlon where
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Speaker 8: it's just the bike and the run. So they've got
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Speaker 8: a couple more days to sort it out. But yeah,
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Speaker 8: this morning Paris time is really unfortunate, especially for the athletes.
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Speaker 2: You mentioned.
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Speaker 8: They woke up about five am because they're expecting a
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Speaker 8: race that starts at eight am, and they wake up,
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Speaker 8: set their alarm, and then they get the news on
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Speaker 8: their phone that oh, it's postponed. So that's really tough
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Speaker 8: for them, I imagine, because you know you're wanting to
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Speaker 8: sleep well then to perform. You wake up all excited
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Speaker 8: and the races and on. But basically there's still some
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Speaker 8: worries about the level of bacteria in the river. Even
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Speaker 8: though the French government spent one point four billion euros
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Speaker 8: on cleaning it up, it's not quite meeting the standard
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Speaker 8: of World Triathlon. So organizers are saying, look, there's been
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Speaker 8: a bit of rain, that's the issue. But it's been
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Speaker 8: sunny the last few days, so it should be fine
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Speaker 8: for tomorrow. As you said, the race forty five pm
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Speaker 8: New Zealand time, it should be fine. But we still
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Speaker 8: just don't know.
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Speaker 2: They must be nervous recks. I mean, waking up every
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Speaker 2: morning and we're going to bed first of all, not
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Speaker 2: knowing if you're going to race tomorrow or not. It
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Speaker 2: must be hard. If they do go to a girafthon,
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Speaker 2: would that benefit Hayden Wild is swimming his strong suit
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Speaker 2: or is that one of his weaker parts of the race,
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Speaker 2: And is anyone thinking there to hell with it, let's
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Speaker 2: just swim with the coal II because you know I
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Speaker 2: would rather be sick with a gold medal.
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Speaker 8: That's a good point, actually, right, because you're only going
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Speaker 8: to get sick later, aren't. You're not going to get
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Speaker 8: sick straight away. You know, you get sick a few
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Speaker 8: days later, So I guess there's a point where you
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Speaker 8: could you could always take that gamble. It's a good question,
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Speaker 8: you pose. I asked Hayden about that, you know, before
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Speaker 8: the Olympics, and yeah, it would help him. It would
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Speaker 8: help him if there was no swim, because he is
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Speaker 8: so good on the run and the bike, so he's
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Speaker 8: still good in the water, but he's really good in
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Speaker 8: the other two legs, so you take this warm out,
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Speaker 8: it only helps him. So it's only a good thing
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Speaker 8: in a way. But he also made an interesting point.
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Speaker 8: He said he wouldn't really like, you know, there'd be
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Speaker 8: a funny feeling about competing in a trithon at the
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Speaker 8: Olympics and maybe winning a medal, but it's not a trithlon.
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Speaker 8: Does it always be an asterisk attached to that? So
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Speaker 8: I'm sure he that's definitely not his preference. And as
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Speaker 8: you say, I can't imagine what these athletes are going
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Speaker 8: through because they've waited four years or three years for this,
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Speaker 8: and I'm.
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Speaker 2: Not sure when they're going to compete. No, and after
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Speaker 2: a billion dollars, you've still got a filthy river. Michael,
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Speaker 2: thank you very much for being with us this morning.
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Speaker 2: It's Michael Burgess, the Herald sports supporter in Paris, and
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Speaker 2: I can tell you that the Americans have just taken
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Speaker 2: bronze in the women's sevens competition.
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Speaker 1: Separating the fact from the fiction. Gad's Billing Edition with Smith's,
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Speaker 1: The New Zealand's Furniture Beds and Appliant Store News.
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Speaker 2: Talk ZBI twenty seven after five income tax cuts kicking
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Speaker 2: for us, today, ninety four percent of us will get
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Speaker 2: a few extra bucks. Will it be swallowed up by
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Speaker 2: your mortgage or your insurance going up or your rates? Probably?
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Speaker 2: But better we get the money and decide what to
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Speaker 2: do with it than the politicians. Right. Also, today MPs
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Speaker 2: gets their first pay rise since twenty seventeen. And watch
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Speaker 2: closely watch those particularly who shout the loudest about equality
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Speaker 2: and fairness and justice and all those good things. Do
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Speaker 2: they put their money where their mouth is? Today Chris
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Speaker 2: Luxen for his sins, and I assume it's to stave
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Speaker 2: off the inevitable media storm about he's rich, he's hit,
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Speaker 2: he's got seven houses. He has promised to donate his
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Speaker 2: full tax cut twenty bucks a week to charity. Also,
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Speaker 2: the increase in his pay to Charity Hipkins. What's happening
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Speaker 2: over at Labor HQ. Well, Labor has apparently emailed their
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Speaker 2: supporters asking for the tax cut to be donated. It
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Speaker 2: sounds good not to women's refuge or kids can but
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Speaker 2: to labor. Yes, take your tax cut and give it
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Speaker 2: to labor to quote, really help create the better future
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Speaker 2: altered our needs? Shameless? And what about the Greens? Where
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Speaker 2: do they stand on this? What gesture are they making?
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Speaker 2: By their own estimates, they are the wealthy elite. Many
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Speaker 2: of them own homes. They are on salaries of more
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Speaker 2: than one hundred and seventy thousand bucks a year. They're
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Speaker 2: getting a close to three percent pay rise backdated to
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Speaker 2: last October, I might add, and Chloe Swarbrick, as the
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Speaker 2: co leader, will now get a nice bump to her
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Speaker 2: salary for that too. She'll be on well over two
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Speaker 2: hundred k. Where are the pledges to donate, madam and
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Speaker 2: Chloe fl Where are they? These tax cuts, according to
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Speaker 2: you guys, are cruel and dangerous and a national disgrace.
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Speaker 2: They benefit the wealthy elites. So the question is what
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Speaker 2: are you wealthy el le by your own definition, going
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Speaker 2: to do about it? Ryan Bridge twenty nine after five.
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Speaker 2: Lots more to come here on the show this morning,
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Speaker 2: including our first medal, which will happen. The game starts
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Speaker 2: in fifteen minutes. This is the Women's Sevens. The Americans
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Speaker 2: have taken bronze. We are playing for either silver or gold,
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Speaker 2: and we'll have updates from Paris inside the next half hour.
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Speaker 6: Do I remind you of your daddy in.
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Speaker 9: My form lambdor hanging out the passenger door?
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines, Ryan Bridge you for twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four on Early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's
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Speaker 1: Furniture Bids and a playing store News talk zid B.
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Speaker 10: Where against your truck breaks?
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Speaker 1: Did your put through money? Dider ex fun?
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Speaker 2: Good morning New Zealand. It is twenty four minutes away
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Speaker 2: from six o'clock. Inside the next half hour, we're live
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Speaker 2: to Paris. We are about to get our first medal.
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Speaker 2: Will it be gold? Will it be silver? The Women's
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Speaker 2: Sevens kicks off in about ten minutes time, but we
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Speaker 2: will keep you updated on this program. Don't you worry
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Speaker 2: about that. Also, this morning we've been talking about the
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Speaker 2: River sen and how filthy it is, and lots of
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Speaker 2: you are saying you don't think it would be right
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Speaker 2: to hold the competition as adiwathlon. It just wouldn't be fair.
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Speaker 2: If swimming was your leg and they take the swim
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Speaker 2: out and you beat that person, does that feel fair?
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Speaker 2: Kathy says no. Another says this is a disgusting bureaucratic mess.
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Speaker 2: This is Don Don's fight up. Ryan. It's not bloody
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Speaker 2: rocket science, is it. The river is contaminated. It was
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Speaker 2: before the Olympics. You add the tens of thousands more
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Speaker 2: people and they're sewage populating Paris for the Games. The
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Speaker 2: river can only be filthy. Typical, shiny assed brea ignorance
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Speaker 2: to have the triathlon where it is. Sack the clowns
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Speaker 2: that came up with that idea. Don, you're not minsing
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Speaker 2: your words. Good morning to you. Twenty three away.
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Speaker 1: From sax Ryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: We're going to Dunedin Cullum Proctors with us Callum Queenstown.
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Speaker 2: You're talking about house prices. What's going on?
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Speaker 11: Well, it's more expensive than ever Ryan to buy a
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Speaker 11: house in Queenstown. The new one roof figures are out
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Speaker 11: which show the average property value in Queenstown has hit
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Speaker 11: a new peak of just over two million dollars for
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Speaker 11: the average property value, it's a fifty percent increase on
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Speaker 11: twenty nineteen one. Roof's editor Owen Vaughan says there was
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Speaker 11: doubt the tourist town whatever recover from the price drop
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Speaker 11: after the COVID lockdowns, but he says, apart from a
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Speaker 11: small blit last year, prices have kept climbing in the
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Speaker 11: tourist resort. Meanwhile, the national average has dropped to nine
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Speaker 11: hundred and sixty two.
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Speaker 2: Thousand and weather in Dunedin today Callum chowers ease this afternoon.
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Speaker 11: Easterly is easing as well, but the high still just
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Speaker 11: six today.
19:59
Speaker 2: Thank you. We're in christ Church with Blake. Benny. Now, Blake,
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Speaker 2: how's the reaction been to that news. It's hard to
20:06
Speaker 2: describe it as good news, but that police have found
20:09
Speaker 2: the body of Jan Febaum.
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Speaker 10: Yes, so it's a bit of a sense of comfort
20:13
Speaker 10: for both police and family. So, of course, as you say,
20:16
Speaker 10: human remains believed to be Bowers were found at a
20:19
Speaker 10: green Park property yesterday, discovered in a one hundred and
20:22
Speaker 10: fifty milimeters deep grave along a tree line. So that
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Speaker 10: discovery came after new information led around sixty police searches
20:28
Speaker 10: to the area and of course, follows the one year
20:31
Speaker 10: anniversary of the forty four year old's disappearance just weeks ago.
20:34
Speaker 10: A detective inspector, Nikola Reeves says they will now conduct
20:37
Speaker 10: a scene examination and post mortem. She says it's satisfying
20:41
Speaker 10: and comforting that police can give answers to Bao's family
20:44
Speaker 10: that they couldn't previously. A trial for Boos murder accused
20:47
Speaker 10: remained set for October.
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Speaker 2: Weather Blake, It's.
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Speaker 10: Going to be a rainy day down here in christ
20:51
Speaker 10: Church with fresh southeasterlies, which will eyes this afternoon a
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Speaker 10: high of seven.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Max Tols and Wellington Max. The council chief
20:59
Speaker 2: executives go on.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, from what we've seen during Mayor Tori t Firfano's tenure,
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Speaker 9: perhaps the most important person in local politics and Wellington
21:07
Speaker 9: is quitting at the end of her current contract. Barbara
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Speaker 9: Mcero leaving that chief executive role in March, not to
21:15
Speaker 9: anything specific at this stage, just to pursue other interests.
21:18
Speaker 9: As she says, we did a rip around of councilors
21:20
Speaker 9: last night. No one seems to know why, but there
21:22
Speaker 9: has certainly been increasing pressure on Mcerro this and last
21:26
Speaker 9: year around infrastructure water around the council being perceived as
21:30
Speaker 9: anti business around withholding ratepayer funded information from councilors. Regarding
21:36
Speaker 9: that very controversial airport share sale that she lobbied hard for.
21:41
Speaker 9: That's a vote that could likely be reversed with several
21:44
Speaker 9: councilors changing their mind. She probably would not have got
21:47
Speaker 9: the numbers in a council vote for another term. A
21:49
Speaker 9: good chance she's just had enough.
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Speaker 2: Goodness, mate, heaven't the right payers too mix with it today?
21:57
Speaker 9: Rubbish rain heavy at times strong Southerly's h I have ten.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant thank you. Neither is in the studio. Hey, you're watching.
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Speaker 2: You've got one eye on the seventh smatch, haven't you.
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Speaker 12: I'm so excited.
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Speaker 2: I can see it on his face.
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Speaker 4: Yes, and I.
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Speaker 12: Must go out there in the music. Was going to
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Speaker 12: put the chairs out, get the snacks ready, you've got snacks. Well,
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Speaker 12: we don't have very many snacks, so it's just the
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Speaker 12: special people that will be able to get the nuts.
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Speaker 12: You're one of those special people. You're on my list.
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Speaker 6: It's good to hear.
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Speaker 2: Hey very quickly. Smith and Coey's. It's obviously plans to
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Speaker 2: close it, but there is one green shoot of hope.
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Speaker 12: That's right. There's a bit of a glimmer here. So
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Speaker 12: the company announced it's now weighing up two options over
22:39
Speaker 12: its future. So it does include, as you say, the
22:41
Speaker 12: original proposal this was to shut up shop nearly twenty
22:44
Speaker 12: twenty five, as we all know. But a second one
22:46
Speaker 12: just have a smaller presence in Queen Street, in that
22:49
Speaker 12: Queen Street building with enhanced online offerings from February. It
22:52
Speaker 12: still means that the newmarket shop will close. So what
22:55
Speaker 12: we know now is that the cheer Tony Coey, he's
22:58
Speaker 12: going to make a decision about this. Whether that will
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Speaker 12: happen by the end of next week.
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Speaker 2: Interesting, hopefully they can save something. How weather in Auckland.
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Speaker 12: Today down with a feather. It's a mixed bag today.
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Speaker 3: Mixed bag, I say.
23:08
Speaker 12: We've got fine spells, isolated showers, morning fog pictures, showers
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Speaker 12: increasing from afternoon, heavy thunderstorms possible. Are high of seventeen.
23:17
Speaker 12: Oh my gosh.
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Speaker 2: The Canadians are doing their Is it Canadians, aren't they?
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Speaker 12: It's the Canadians.
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Speaker 2: They're doing their anthem at the moment for the women's
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Speaker 2: sevens over in the Olympics.
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Speaker 12: I must go get my snake, do you they're cheatings,
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Speaker 12: so they are cheating.
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Speaker 2: I'll probably get gold just because they've cheated somehow.
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Speaker 12: Keep saying that because they won't Yep, I think they're
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Speaker 12: going to win just because they're cheats.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Everyone thinks Canadians are so nice, don't they. I don't
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Speaker 2: think they're nice people. I think they're horrible little creatures.
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Speaker 12: Have you been to Canada?
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Speaker 2: Well no, I haven't. To be fair, I've seen enough
23:52
Speaker 2: on the TV to say what you mean. People think
23:54
Speaker 2: they're nice, just but it's because they live next to
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Speaker 2: the Americans. Ah, you know anyone would look good next
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Speaker 2: to them.
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Speaker 2: US election according to Alan Lickman, who has correctly predicted
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Speaker 2: nine of the last ten. I'll get to that in
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Speaker 2: a second right now. Gavin Gray, our UK Europe correspondent,
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Speaker 2: is with us very quickly. What did you say, Leo?
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Speaker 2: Someone scored a try I think we might have scored
25:31
Speaker 2: a try in the women's sevens. Anyway, we'll give you
25:34
Speaker 2: some audio shortly. UK police continue to question that seventeen
25:38
Speaker 2: year old man after three children were killed, seven and
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Speaker 2: others left critically injured after a stabbing Gavin.
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Speaker 13: Best toll increased by one, with one of the young
25:50
Speaker 13: girls dying in hospital this morning, and we now know
25:54
Speaker 13: the names and ages of the three victims, a nine
25:58
Speaker 13: year old, a seven year old and a six year
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Speaker 13: old attacked at this Taylor Swift themed event in Southport
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Speaker 13: in northwest of England. At least five children and two
26:07
Speaker 13: adults also very very seriously injured. They remain in critical condition.
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Speaker 13: Police are saying it's a seventeen year old boy they
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Speaker 13: believe is arrested on suspicion of murder, and it's being
26:19
Speaker 13: reported that the teenage suspect, whose parents are from Rwanda,
26:24
Speaker 13: was born in Cardiff and moved to that area of
26:27
Speaker 13: Southport about a decade ago. Currently, there is a vigil
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Speaker 13: going on at the site, hundreds if not thousands of
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Speaker 13: people attending there with lots of flowers marking the spot
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Speaker 13: where the attack took place, and also Taylor Swift that
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Speaker 13: she's completely in shock after the horror of the knife attack.
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Speaker 13: Her fans have raised more than four hundred thousand New
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Speaker 13: Zealand dollars for the families of the victims.
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Speaker 2: That's just awful, Gevin, thank you for that update. That's
26:53
Speaker 2: our UK in Europe correspondent Devin Gray with us. It's
26:57
Speaker 2: just gone twelve minutes away from six rain Bridge. Right.
27:02
Speaker 2: We have some audio for you now. The black Ferns
27:06
Speaker 2: are competing for well, we hope it's a gold medal.
27:08
Speaker 2: They will definitely get a medal, either silver or gold.
27:12
Speaker 2: Here's the latest from Paris.
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Speaker 14: They're running ball for New Zealand. Poorty Lane that we
27:17
Speaker 14: start a step looking to link up Party Lane, through
27:19
Speaker 14: the line racy Porty Lane. Put the foot down and
27:23
Speaker 14: racy Porty Lane. We'll put New Zealand up five mil.
27:28
Speaker 2: This is the gold medal match. We got the conversion,
27:32
Speaker 2: so currently seven nil to New Zealand. Right and back here,
27:37
Speaker 2: double digit rate rises. You would have seen this. If
27:40
Speaker 2: you live in say, Hamilton, you got nineteen point nine
27:43
Speaker 2: percent increases. Wellington you're getting about sixteen percent to need
27:47
Speaker 2: in seventeen and a half percent. It hurts, right, and
27:51
Speaker 2: there are big issues like infrastructure and climate resilience that
27:54
Speaker 2: need to be paid for. But a new report out
27:56
Speaker 2: this morning from Local Government New Zealand and nzier say
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Speaker 2: is that government policy changes are costing council's millions. They
28:04
Speaker 2: say that one size fit all policies from central government
28:07
Speaker 2: don't consider the impact and the cost for local government.
28:11
Speaker 2: It's death by a thousand cuts. Joining me this morning,
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Speaker 2: Campbell Barry, Vice President of Local Government New Zealand and
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Speaker 2: Lower Hut Mayor Campbell, thanks for being with me. Can
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Speaker 2: you give us an example of one of these issues
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Speaker 2: that central throws onto you and you guys have to
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Speaker 2: pay for.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, good morning. The best example I can give you
28:30
Speaker 4: is the speed restriction changes that were brought in by
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Speaker 4: the previous government for us at a Lower Hut that
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Speaker 4: cost US five hundred and seventy thousand over three years
28:39
Speaker 4: to implement. We're now being told by the new government
28:42
Speaker 4: to reverse that or to go through a process to
28:44
Speaker 4: confirm our position, which will cost another five hundred and
28:48
Speaker 4: seventy thousand dollars over three years to implement. In my mind,
28:52
Speaker 4: that's just the definition of insanity and a waste of money.
28:56
Speaker 2: That's madness. Can you not just why does it cost
28:59
Speaker 2: so much to change speeds? Can you not just rip
29:01
Speaker 2: the old signs down?
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Speaker 4: Basically, the National Policy Statement in that space, or the
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Speaker 4: policy that the government put forward, requires us to go
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Speaker 4: through a certain process and implementation. Then there's a range
29:14
Speaker 4: of different things that's part of it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's incredibly frustrating. I feel immediately annoyed just
29:20
Speaker 2: hearing you say it, and what a waste. So do
29:25
Speaker 2: you what are you asking for that? When government makes
29:27
Speaker 2: changes like this, they actually cost it and then reimburse you.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they should fund it. We need to put an
29:34
Speaker 4: end to unfunded mandates. They are having a serious impact
29:37
Speaker 4: on the bottom line, either they contribute towards the rate
29:40
Speaker 4: increases that we're seeing or simply councils suck it up.
29:45
Speaker 4: They absorbed that cost, and it means that there's an
29:47
Speaker 4: impact on services and other places which communities are expecting
29:51
Speaker 4: us to do things. So another example I could give
29:54
Speaker 4: you is the National Policy Statement on Urban Development seven
29:57
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty thousand dollars for us to employment and
30:01
Speaker 4: also delayed our full district flan review by eighteen months,
30:04
Speaker 4: which had a number of other fly on effects. We
30:06
Speaker 4: could go on all day and councils have been feeling
30:09
Speaker 4: this for decades.
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Speaker 2: Do you have a total figure? Have you worked out
30:13
Speaker 2: how much these death by a thousand cuts changes are
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Speaker 2: costing local government in total?
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Speaker 4: What the report found? It was really difficult to put
30:21
Speaker 4: a number on that, but it undoubtedly is in the
30:25
Speaker 4: tens of millions. We know it's a lot. The reason
30:29
Speaker 4: for not being able to put a number on it
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Speaker 4: is because so often councils just suck it up, They
30:33
Speaker 4: absorbed that cost and it has an impact on other
30:36
Speaker 4: areas of council services. So we don't necessarily we aren't
30:41
Speaker 4: exactly able to point to it, but there are a
30:43
Speaker 4: number of anecdotal examples which councils could give you of
30:47
Speaker 4: this happening over such a long period of time.
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Speaker 2: All right, thanks so much for your time this morning.
30:51
Speaker 2: Campbell Barry with us from Local Government, New Zealand. Eight
30:54
Speaker 2: minutes away from six. Apparently we've just got a yellow
30:57
Speaker 2: card in the women's sevens game.
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Speaker 14: Heaviless Cherry Williams was going low into the tackle play by.
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Speaker 1: New Zealand number eleven.
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Speaker 13: This contact with the head there is mitigation of my
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Speaker 13: recommendation as a yellow card.
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Speaker 14: So yellow cards and New Zealand without portioning Woodmen Whittler
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Speaker 14: for two minutes, closing in on halftime.
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Speaker 2: That's portion Woodman has been given a yellow card. The
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Speaker 2: score remains seven ZERL New Zealand up on Canada. This
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Speaker 2: is a gold medal match back with Mike Hosking in
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Speaker 2: a second on.
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Speaker 1: Your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 2: Be Good Morning New Zealand. It is six minutes away
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Speaker 2: from six. Some bad news. Canada has just scored twice,
31:42
Speaker 2: meaning though we are now he'd had he a listen.
31:43
Speaker 2: This is the first try.
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Speaker 14: Apps gets past Herony, drags off a couple other defenders,
31:48
Speaker 14: pops up a pass and Canada I King of responds.
31:52
Speaker 14: Chloe Daniels scores under the sticks for.
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Speaker 2: Canada, and they got another one after that intercepting a pass. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: so currently the score is Mike Hoskins in the studio,
32:05
Speaker 2: you're able to help me?
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Speaker 4: Is it?
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Speaker 2: Twelve?
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Speaker 5: Fourteen?
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Speaker 2: Seven? Fourteen seven?
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Speaker 5: I think they got the conversion?
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Speaker 2: Okay, fourteen. It's such a random.
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Speaker 5: Game, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Sevens?
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Speaker 5: Have you watched a lot of sevens. I find that
32:15
Speaker 5: I find the whole thing. Hang on, did they get
32:17
Speaker 5: that we'll miss it?
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Speaker 2: This is that we're playing for our first medal here, this.
32:23
Speaker 5: Is this is the unfortunate thing. The unfortunate thing here
32:25
Speaker 5: is medals are so interesting, aren't they. So first of all,
32:28
Speaker 5: we're all down at the moment because we haven't got any.
32:31
Speaker 5: Now we're desperate. Then this unless we get a.
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Speaker 2: Gold, then as we will be pressed, isn't it.
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Speaker 5: So silver's not acceptable in women's sevens, and we were
32:39
Speaker 5: expecting a goal from the men's seven so that's gone
32:42
Speaker 5: TETs up as well. And so but then you get
32:44
Speaker 5: somebody who you weren't expecting scrapes and for a bronze
32:47
Speaker 5: and you go, oh my god, performance of a lifetime.
32:49
Speaker 5: And then we're all collectively together.
32:50
Speaker 2: As a nation.
32:51
Speaker 5: So it just it depends on what the event is.
32:54
Speaker 5: And that's before you get to this trick. We've got
32:56
Speaker 5: the head of triathlon. I w heard you're talking about
32:58
Speaker 5: it earlier.
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Speaker 2: It's unforgivable.
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Speaker 5: It is at the highest level of sport to go.
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Speaker 5: It could be try, it could be due. There's actually
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Speaker 5: quite a bit of a difference there is.
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Speaker 2: And also if you just think about those athletes going
33:10
Speaker 2: to bed every night, the stress of it one hundred percent.
33:14
Speaker 5: This is for many of these people, this is their
33:16
Speaker 5: moment in life and for you to go, look, I
33:20
Speaker 5: know you're used to the five meter board, but today
33:22
Speaker 5: it's it's the springboard. Because you know what I mean.
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Speaker 2: It's pathetic. It is pathetic.
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Speaker 5: Anyway, So who are you talking to. We're talking to
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Speaker 5: the head of triath well, I mean we're calling them
33:31
Speaker 5: the head of triathlon. It might be the head of
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Speaker 5: du Flon by the time, by the time they wake
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Speaker 5: up and make that decision. Anyway, that another matters.
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Speaker 2: Is brilliant and we will have a result in the
33:40
Speaker 2: next few minutes. Currently it is twelve seven Canada up
33:44
Speaker 2: in this gold medal match in Paris.
33:48
Speaker 6: See tomorrow.
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