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Full Show Podcast: 28 April 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Fridge on
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Speaker 1: early edition with Spark for business Technology that keeps business
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Speaker 2: They'd be good morning, it is six hour five. Great
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Speaker 2: to have your company. This Tuesday, we'll look at the
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Speaker 2: red tape being count the regulation's being cut for transport
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Speaker 2: to do with the oil. Donn is in Australia for
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Speaker 2: us this morning. It's a week of Central Bank meetings
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Speaker 2: that fed the ECB. The Bank of England will speak
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Speaker 2: to our business correspondent and a population warning this morning
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Speaker 2: from Sir Peter Gluckman. The agenda Tuesday to twenty eighth
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Speaker 2: of April. Trump's latest would be assassin the teacher will
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Speaker 2: be in court today after failing his mission at the weekend.
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Speaker 3: The system worked, and that we stopped the suspect, that
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Speaker 3: we stopped him as soon as he tried to do
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Speaker 3: what he was trying to do. And the President was safe,
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Speaker 3: his cabinet was safe, and every reporter and every member
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Speaker 3: of the of the press and their guests were safe
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Speaker 3: as well.
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Speaker 2: Trump says, and not wasn't worried about that one.
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Speaker 4: I was.
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Speaker 5: I understand life were living as your world.
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Speaker 2: King Charles and Queen k and Miller still heading to DC.
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Speaker 2: They won't go hungry at the White House either.
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Speaker 6: In total, two and a half thousand sandwiches in total individuals.
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Speaker 7: We're doing two hundred and fifty of each cake.
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Speaker 5: We're doing the toy sandwich cake, Bequat raspberry and almond Gatto,
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Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty scones.
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Speaker 2: They're not eating all that food, by the way, that's
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Speaker 2: for the guests that will be coming. Finally, this morning,
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Speaker 2: the King of Pop is back on top, this time
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Speaker 2: at the box office.
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Speaker 7: I knew you were different than moment you were born.
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Speaker 1: You have a very special minds.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I believe the music kid Chase the World Speller,
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Speaker 4: Joy in Peace.
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Speaker 2: The Michael Jackson biopic has smashed all sorts of records
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Speaker 2: at the box office. On telling you about Them and just.
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Speaker 1: A tick Ryan Bridge on early edition with Spark for
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Speaker 1: Business Technology that keeps business moving News talks that'd be.
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Speaker 2: Here are the numbers highest opening weekend ever for a
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Speaker 2: biopick smashed the record. It was three hundred and sixty
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Speaker 2: million dollars for opening weekend It's New Zealand dollars and
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Speaker 2: the next best was Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen's Musical that was
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Speaker 2: two hundred and nine million dollars. That was the previous
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Speaker 2: record for a musical biopic back in twenty eighteen. And
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Speaker 2: if you look at just biopicks generally Oppenheimer twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 2: well smash that too, that was three hundred and four
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Speaker 2: million dollars. So that makes this Michael, the best weekend
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Speaker 2: for a biopic of any description ever, which is not
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Speaker 2: to be scoffed at. Interestingly, if you look at and
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Speaker 2: this is a theme that's now well established, you look
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Speaker 2: at the ratings by the critics versus the ratings by
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Speaker 2: the audience, and there is a massive divergence. So if
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Speaker 2: you look on Rotten Tomatoes, which is a website that
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Speaker 2: reviews movies, and it's quite popular, to be fair, but
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Speaker 2: thirty eight percent was the average score awarded by the critics.
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Speaker 2: For the audience, for your average punter, ninety seven percent
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Speaker 2: enjoyed themselves. And what does that tell you. It tells
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Speaker 2: you that people, and you know, the critics were saying
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Speaker 2: it's a sanitized version of it, blah blah blah. People
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Speaker 2: don't care. They just want to go to the movies.
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Speaker 2: They want to tap their feet they want to sing
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Speaker 2: along and they want to have a good time and
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Speaker 2: they have. Now what's happening over in the UK is
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Speaker 2: sort of interesting. It's a continuation of the Starma drama.
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Speaker 2: So Starma will face a vote on whether to well
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Speaker 2: in the House of Commons on whether they launch a
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Speaker 2: standards investigation. Basically, he could end up before the Privileges Committee,
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Speaker 2: which is like Parliament's Court. It's where all the naughty
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Speaker 2: kids go and you wouldn't expect to see a prime
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Speaker 2: minister sitting prime minister go there. However, it first has
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Speaker 2: to get through a vote, and the government, the Prime
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Speaker 2: Minister there has just basically said we're going to instruct
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Speaker 2: our whips to instruct our MPs to vote against sending
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Speaker 2: him to the committee. So that will probably fail though
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Speaker 2: does not make him not lame duck, does it. Quick
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Speaker 2: little update for you. Another number. This is from Goldman Sachs.
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Speaker 2: You know, we follow how they estimate the price of
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Speaker 2: oil is going to go in the next wee while.
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Speaker 2: So they now estimate that Brent crude will trade at
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Speaker 2: about ninety dollars a barrel in the last quarter of
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Speaker 2: this year. Now that is an increase from the earlier
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Speaker 2: projection of eighty which is not insignificant. US crude is
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Speaker 2: forecast average eighty three in October December. That's up from
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Speaker 2: seventy five bucks beforehand. And the reason for this is
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Speaker 2: not so much the fact that they think that the
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Speaker 2: Strait will open soon, but it's the slower production recovery
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Speaker 2: coming out of the Gulf. So you turn the machines off,
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Speaker 2: you shut the the production down, it takes a while
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Speaker 2: to start back up again, and that's why they're thinking
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Speaker 2: the price is going to be elevated for a little
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Speaker 2: while longer. Eleven after five. Brian Bridge coming up next.
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Speaker 2: It's a story that we all know about population. We
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Speaker 2: don't have enough young people working to pay for our
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Speaker 2: older people in retirement. So Peter Gluckman's got a new
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Speaker 2: warning out for us this morning. We'll look at it next, said.
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Speaker 1: B The first word on the News of the Day
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Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology
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Speaker 1: that keeps Business Moving.
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Speaker 2: News TALKSB News Talks AB time is thirteen minutes after
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Speaker 2: five on New Tuesday morning. So you know how the
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Speaker 2: government went with a fifty dollars a week boost for
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Speaker 2: if you're getting working for families tax credits extra fifty
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Speaker 2: bucks a week. That's to help you with the consta petual,
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Speaker 2: et cetera. Well, the posters got their hands on the
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Speaker 2: advice that they were given when they were making the decision,
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Speaker 2: and one of the options that they were looking at
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Speaker 2: looking at and obviously didn't look for very long, but
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Speaker 2: was three hundred and fifty dollars for a wider group
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Speaker 2: of people, spread across three payments from August to October.
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Speaker 2: So the price tag for this would have been eight
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Speaker 2: hundred and fourteen million dollars. And you know that the
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Speaker 2: current payment that they've gone with, the more targeted one,
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Speaker 2: would be less than four hundred million dollars. But they
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Speaker 2: said it was basically very complicated for them to deliver
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Speaker 2: this and it wouldn't be ready by the start of April,
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Speaker 2: which is when the current one that they have gone
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Speaker 2: with kicked in. So basically they turned down a more
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Speaker 2: expensive option which would have put us in a bit
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Speaker 2: more debt.
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Speaker 1: To Bryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: So Peter Gluckman, Key's former science advisor's got a population
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Speaker 2: report out this morning tells us stuff we kind of
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Speaker 2: already know, but brings it all together and says we
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Speaker 2: need a population strategy. In New Zealand, fertility has fallen
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Speaker 2: to one point five at one point five y five.
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Speaker 2: This is a record low with a projected labor shortage
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Speaker 2: of two hundred and fifty thousand workers by twenty forty five,
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Speaker 2: so fewer tax payers. Obvious question who picks up the
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Speaker 2: bill for retirement? Sandy low Is, a PwC partner, joins
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Speaker 2: us this morning. Sandy, Good morning, Good morning Ian. The
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Speaker 2: report sort of paints a picture that we've already heard before.
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Speaker 2: What sticks out for you?
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Speaker 8: Yes, So the.
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Speaker 6: Report itself does cover some of the ground that has
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Speaker 6: been discussed as a last week, while in particular the
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Speaker 6: treat both the Treasury and in a revenue actually the
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Speaker 6: published reports which considers the I guess the demographic changes
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Speaker 6: that are going to be facing New Zealand over time.
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Speaker 6: I think put simply as a case of, as you've described,
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Speaker 6: we're just not going to have enough working people working
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Speaker 6: to cover the tax revenue cost that expension is going
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Speaker 6: to be required to I guess sustained a current structure.
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Speaker 2: So we don't have enough people working. Can't we just
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Speaker 2: use AI instead of them?
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Speaker 9: Well?
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Speaker 6: New Zealand's tax base is quite unique in that it
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Speaker 6: does rely a lot on basically taxes on labor and
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Speaker 6: on consumptions, which is tax pays paid by people, and
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Speaker 6: so you know, currently we don't have a specific tax
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Speaker 6: that address the use of AI and things like that.
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Speaker 6: So I guess that's the one question, and then the
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Speaker 6: other pieces. I guess where you potentially could think about
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Speaker 6: AI as around productivity, and that's also something that the
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Speaker 6: government has been discussing for a wee while as well
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Speaker 6: is the ability to lift new Zum's productivity, which as
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Speaker 6: well as economic growth, which again might help with the
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Speaker 6: short stat of the tax revenue that's looming in the future, Sandy.
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Speaker 2: Then there's also immigration, and there's also trying to get
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Speaker 2: people to have more babies. The latter hasn't been I mean,
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Speaker 2: governments have tried that the world over. Not a very
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Speaker 2: successful thing to try and do.
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Speaker 6: Yes, then having more people immigration and things will be
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Speaker 6: a good start. But I think overall we take a
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Speaker 6: step back, and as both in an Revenee and Treasury
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Speaker 6: kind of notes that you know, there's no single lever
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Speaker 6: that's going to be the silver bullet. Probably makes more
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Speaker 6: sense to think about a bunch of things that a
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Speaker 6: government might do to help try and solve that gap
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Speaker 6: with tax revenue gap.
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Speaker 2: Sandy Low, PwC partner. Great to have you on the
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Speaker 2: show this morning, seventeen minutes after five year on News
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Speaker 2: Talks that be next, our business correspondent Vicki Price joins us,
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Speaker 2: We've got a whole bunch of sen Bank meetings this week.
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Speaker 2: What will they tell us about the state of the
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Speaker 2: global economy.
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Speaker 1: We'll ask you get ahead of the headlines on early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology that
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Speaker 1: keeps business moving.
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Speaker 2: News Talks that'd be time is nineteen minutes, half to five.
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Speaker 2: You know Brindon Tarrant in the March fifteen terror attack,
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Speaker 2: and his manifesto was basically treated like mind come. No
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Speaker 2: one dared utter a word of it over in America.
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Speaker 2: Just hours after this latest attack, on a potential attack
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Speaker 2: on President Trump, you had him appearing on sixty minutes
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Speaker 2: and the interviewer reading out bits of the gunman's manifesto.
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Speaker 6: I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist and
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Speaker 6: trader to coat my hands with his crimes.
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Speaker 2: What's your reaction, Well, I was, well, he wasn't happy
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Speaker 2: with that. This was his reaction.
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Speaker 5: I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody. Oh I
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Speaker 5: think you was referring to Excuse me, I'm not a pedophile.
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Speaker 5: You read that crap from some sick person. You should
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Speaker 5: be ashamed of yourself reading there, because I'm not any
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Speaker 5: of those things. Excuse me. You shouldn't be reading that
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Speaker 5: in sixteen minutes.
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Speaker 2: Interesting, isn't it? Just two different countries, two different times,
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Speaker 2: but two very different ways of dealing with things. Twenty
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Speaker 2: after five ran Bridge, Right, let's go to our business correspondent,
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Speaker 2: Vicky Price. Nice to have you on the program. VICKI,
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Speaker 2: as always were going, thank you, big week of Central
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Speaker 2: bank meetings. We've got the feed, we got the ECB
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Speaker 2: and we got the Bank of.
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Speaker 10: England absolutely and the question is what will they do.
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Speaker 10: The general consensus is that they're not going to do anything.
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Speaker 10: They're going to hold rates where they are now and
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Speaker 10: then see what happens with inflation, because of course we
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Speaker 10: don't know how long the conflict would last. Of course,
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Speaker 10: there is a cisfire at present. It's supposed to be
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Speaker 10: extended sort of forever. But of course something needs to
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Speaker 10: happen in terms of opening up those straight off hor
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Speaker 10: moos and oil flowing again, because of course that is
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Speaker 10: what is causing high inflation. So that's worrying the central
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Speaker 10: bank is, of course, but I think there are trying
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Speaker 10: to calm the markets, and the markets, you know, vary
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Speaker 10: from expecting maybe interest rate increases coming fast in the
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Speaker 10: next few months too. Well, perhaps we're not going to
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Speaker 10: see that at all, because things will come down. Real
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Speaker 10: uncertainty right now is the way we describe the situation.
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Speaker 2: And meantime we've got some saying, well, we could have
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Speaker 2: inflationary precious continuing for eight months or more.
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Speaker 10: Yes, what the government here is saying is that even
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Speaker 10: if there is a conflict resolution, so we get everything
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Speaker 10: sort of moving again. First of all, it's going to
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Speaker 10: take quite some time, of course, for a number of
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Speaker 10: the production facilities that are there in the Gulf which
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Speaker 10: have been hit to be able to start producing again.
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Speaker 10: We've had real concerns about whether gas supplies will start
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Speaker 10: again because we've had hits of in Kuwait, sorry in
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Speaker 10: cut out of golf installations and golf refineries. So that's
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Speaker 10: going to be a bit of a problem in terms
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Speaker 10: of things coming out again. And indeed, in all the
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Speaker 10: other countries in the Gulf, there are problems in terms
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Speaker 10: of how to get their oil and gas out of
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Speaker 10: the region, and many many of those production facilities have
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Speaker 10: been hit. So if that is indeed the case, then
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Speaker 10: it could take years. But I think what the concern
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Speaker 10: is more generally is that even if there is better
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Speaker 10: supply coming, what we've seen so far with those high
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Speaker 10: fuel costs with head and impact on prices across the board,
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Speaker 10: so we've even beginning to see that in food prices.
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Speaker 10: There are concerns also that lots of other products are
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Speaker 10: going to be affected because of course they have inputs
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Speaker 10: from oil or the Gulf which have not been coming through,
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Speaker 10: so quite a lot of refined products that are absolutely needed,
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Speaker 10: and of course any delay in getting anything over and
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Speaker 10: higher costs of fuel for the ships that are bringing them.
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Speaker 10: All these things are going to still be felt through
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Speaker 10: the economy for quite some time, like we did our
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Speaker 10: to COVID and really like we did after the invasion
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Speaker 10: of Russia of Ukraine.
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Speaker 2: Interesting stuff. Thicky Vicky Price, chief economic advisor at the
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Speaker 2: UK Center for Economics and Business and our business correspondent.
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Speaker 2: It is twenty three minutes after five Ryan, by the way,
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Speaker 2: the week ahead, we'll get a bunch of earnings reports
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Speaker 2: out of the US on Wall Street. A fifth of
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Speaker 2: sm P five hundred company is going to be reporting, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta,
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Speaker 2: all the big boys releasing their first quarter results. That's Wednesday,
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Speaker 2: and then you've got Apple on Thursday. Overnight in Dali,
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Speaker 2: we've had Todd McLay and his counterparts signing the FTA.
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Speaker 11: This agreement has been concluded at a time of heightened
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Speaker 11: global and regional uncertainty. In this context, strong reliable partnerships
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Speaker 11: matter more than ever before. New Zealand sees India as
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Speaker 11: an essential partner in supporting regional stability, economic resilience and
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Speaker 11: shared prosperity.
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Speaker 12: This agreement is expected to channel twenty billion US dollars
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Speaker 12: into India, fueling agriculture, manufacturing, food processing, innovation and generating jobs.
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Speaker 2: The twenty billion dollar is certainly a headline sort of
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Speaker 2: head scratch of one, isn't it. And remember the government
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Speaker 2: say that they have agreed only to promote the twenty
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Speaker 2: billion dollar figure, not to deliver it. More on that
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Speaker 2: next News Talks heb the Early.
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Speaker 2: Talks hereb it is twenty six minutes after five. Judging
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Speaker 2: by the coverage out of New Delhi overnight, the Indian
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Speaker 2: press are as optimistic about the trade deal with New Zealand,
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Speaker 2: as optimistic as our government. Industry and as of last week,
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Speaker 2: labor are about it here. Their trade department has pointed
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Speaker 2: out that the thing excludes dairy, so that's safe for them,
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Speaker 2: along with other sensitive markets that they're interested in. They
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Speaker 2: like the fact that we have conceded one hundred percent
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Speaker 2: duty free access in key manufacturing labor intensive industries. The
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Speaker 2: Mint news site names checks, textiles, leather, foot where, engineering goods, plastics,
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Speaker 2: processed food, a whole bunch of stuff. Here. Our primary
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Speaker 2: industries are celebrating their wins too, and that's the point
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Speaker 2: that I think has been somewhat lost in the last
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Speaker 2: few months. Both sides win from trade deals. You make
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Speaker 2: some concessions, sure, but you get some gains. Like any deal,
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Speaker 2: it's not all one way traffic. India is set to
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Speaker 2: overtake Germany as the third world's third largest economy. It's
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Speaker 2: an absolute behemoth. It's massive. To not jump on board
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Speaker 2: would have meant missing the boat. Most keybis can see
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Speaker 2: the benefits from the deal that Goff and Clark, to
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Speaker 2: their credit, did and signed with China. Trump may be
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Speaker 2: trying to sully the reputation of free trade, but it
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Speaker 2: hasn't dampened our spirits because we can see the benefits.
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Speaker 2: There's an argument to be made against NAFTA, you know,
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Speaker 2: affecting the ross belt workers in the US, and you
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Speaker 2: see that showing up at the polls. But in this
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Speaker 2: country the benefits have largely outweighed the costs. And there
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Speaker 2: will be costs, like with any deal, but the net
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Speaker 2: benefit is what we should be focused on to realize
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Speaker 2: those benefits. The rains are now firmly in the hands
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Speaker 2: of business to do what it does best. Our exporters,
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Speaker 2: our deal makers, our market specialists are already on the blower,
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Speaker 2: on the plane or in country trying to get a
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Speaker 2: slice of the action. And good luck to them. Bryan Bridge,
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Speaker 2: John News talks EBS So Jimmy Kimmel, the joke didn't
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Speaker 2: age well pre the correspondence and at the weekend did this.
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Speaker 8: And of course our first lady Milania is here. Look
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Speaker 8: at more so, beautiful missus Trump, you have a glow
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Speaker 8: like an expectant widow.
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Speaker 2: I know Clanger right, especially after what happened at the weekend.
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Speaker 2: Now Milania Trump is calling for ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel.
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Speaker 2: She says Kimmel's hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to
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Speaker 2: divide our country. His monologue about my family is in comedy.
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Speaker 2: His words are corrosive and deep in the political sickness
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Speaker 2: with America. Within America, I should say so she wants
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Speaker 2: them five, Well, one ain't gonna happen and two is
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Speaker 2: it a bit rich given the words that fall out
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Speaker 2: of her husband's mouth. You know what I mean. You're
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Speaker 2: on News talks edb twenty nine minutes after five. We're
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Speaker 2: Live to Australia with Donald Demayo.
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Speaker 1: News talks Edby.
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Speaker 2: Tuesday morning, it is twenty four minutes away from six.
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Speaker 2: Right to have your Company. We'll get to before six o'clock.
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Speaker 2: Diesel price going up. Now big trucks will be able
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Speaker 2: to go where big trucks haven't been able to go before.
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Speaker 2: Some government regulations changing, and Donald Demato is in Australia
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Speaker 2: for US the debate about freedom of speech in America.
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Speaker 2: What better place to have a debate like that. But
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Speaker 2: just some text of coming in the last few seconds,
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Speaker 2: because before the news I played the clip of Jimmy
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Speaker 2: Kimmel doing a bit of a skit. This is before
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Speaker 2: the shooting at the weekend, did a bit of a skit. Actually,
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Speaker 2: I'll just play it for you again. Why not. But
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Speaker 2: he did a bit of a skit and he mentioned
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Speaker 2: Milania being a soon to be widow.
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Speaker 8: And of course our first Lady, Milania is here. Look
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Speaker 8: at more so beautiful missus Trump, you have a glow
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Speaker 8: like an expectant widow.
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Speaker 2: Okay, hasn't aged well? Sure? Milania says he should be fired.
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Speaker 2: Pauline says Ryan, the first Lady of America is absolutely
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Speaker 2: correct that Jimmy Kimmel is a pratt and a socialist,
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Speaker 2: as most media are. He should lose his job. Brent
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Speaker 2: says Ryan. No one tries to assassinate Jimmy Kimmel. I'm
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Speaker 2: on her side. He should be fired. If people were
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Speaker 2: to be fired every time they said something slightly you know,
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Speaker 2: off peaced, or that could be interpreted as mean or
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Speaker 2: I mean everyone would be fired. This is the point.
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Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong. The far left would be absolutely
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Speaker 2: losing their rag if this was being said about somebody
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Speaker 2: that they you know, a Democratic president, if it was Biden,
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Speaker 2: or if it was Karmala Harris, they would be losing
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Speaker 2: their shes and they would be asking for the person
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Speaker 2: to be fired too. But that's not the right answer.
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Speaker 2: Is it doesn't matter who's saying. It doesn't matter which side.
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Speaker 2: You can't just cancel people because they say something that
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Speaker 2: you disagree of or that you find distasteful, because then
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Speaker 2: we would have no one left doing anything in the world,
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Speaker 2: would we Twenty two minutes away from six News show
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Speaker 2: Around the Country, Callum and Denedan Callum, Good morning morning, right,
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Speaker 2: what's going on with the penguins?
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Speaker 13: Well, we've got bad news this morning. Recently reported on
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Speaker 13: a record breeding season for the little blue penguins, remember that,
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Speaker 13: Well this morning Tragic News docs received a call yesterday
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Speaker 13: from a woman who has found a group or family
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Speaker 13: of little blue penguins mauled and killed by a dog.
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Speaker 13: These are the smallest species of penguin in the world,
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Speaker 13: and this tragic discovery was at Long Beach, just north
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Speaker 13: of Dunedin. Yesterday this lady reported the six penguins and
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Speaker 13: two chicks were dead in the vicinity of a cave
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Speaker 13: where are known to nest. Doc staff checked the site
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Speaker 13: later in the afternoon, but the dead penguins had been
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Speaker 13: buried or removed already, so they're hoping to get some
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Speaker 13: answers here at Ryan from anyone who may have seen
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Speaker 13: the incident take place, or from anyone involved in burying
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Speaker 13: or removing the penguins.
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Speaker 2: That's no good at all. How's your weather. It's fine today,
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Speaker 2: westerlies easing and nineteen nice one clear than christ it
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Speaker 2: this morning, Claire, Good morning. A great weekend for you. You
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Speaker 2: have fun.
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Speaker 14: Certainly was a great weekend. It was absolutely unbelievable. Seventy
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Speaker 14: five thousand people in christ Church for Super Rugby. Super
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Speaker 14: Around of course, kicked on Friday. I was there, as
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Speaker 14: you can imagine, throughout Friday seemed a little bit more
21:05
Speaker 14: of a quiet vibe, to be fair. I think maybe
21:07
Speaker 14: people were getting used to the idea of being in
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Speaker 14: the indoor stadium and having the roof on top. But
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Speaker 14: then things certainly loosened up from Saturday. Christchurt gen Z
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Speaker 14: reckons that the visitor spend here in the city would
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Speaker 14: exceed six million dollars, and I think that that's probably true.
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Speaker 14: I sat next to some Aucklanders on Friday. We had
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Speaker 14: a done Eden family with us on Sunday. It was unbelievable.
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Speaker 14: CEO of Christchurch, gen z Ali Adams says, they really
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Speaker 14: want this to be a long term economy for the city.
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Speaker 14: We know there's been talk about us securing the Souper
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Speaker 14: round for several years. She says, building a vibrant, buzzing
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Speaker 14: city is what makes it an attractive place for investors
21:41
Speaker 14: to set up, for people to live and for students.
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Speaker 14: I love some of the stats that came through as well.
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Speaker 14: Turns out there were more than two hundred thousand drinks
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Speaker 14: poured over the time, fifty two thousand items of food
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Speaker 14: sold as well.
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Speaker 2: Was it a bit of a greenhouse? Were you there
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Speaker 2: for the day games? Yes? And thing apparently it was
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Speaker 2: a bit hot.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, it was a bit up and down. I have
21:59
Speaker 14: to say, when as sun comes in through that clear roof,
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Speaker 14: it is very hot, but then very quickly as soon
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Speaker 14: as you lose the sun it turns really quite cold,
22:06
Speaker 14: like you needed your puffers on.
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Speaker 2: For example, I mean, people are going to complain. If
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Speaker 2: there's no roof, it's raining, you're complaining. Exactly, if there's
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Speaker 2: a roof and it's hot, you're complaining. How's the weather today?
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Speaker 14: Fine? Today, some light winds, but salvaly for a time
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Speaker 14: in the afternoon at a high of twenty two.
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Speaker 2: Thanks Claire, Max and Mallington. Morning Max, good morning. Now
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Speaker 2: the person who was rescued after going overboard on the
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Speaker 2: Blue Bridge, Yeah, a bit of drama. Yesterday.
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Speaker 15: The Livia was about an hour into its voyage at
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Speaker 15: the head of the Tory Channel when five short toots
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Speaker 15: if the ship's horn rang out across the ship. Passengers
22:41
Speaker 15: were called to immediately assemble in the cafeteria. The ship
22:44
Speaker 15: jolted and stopped. A little bit of Titanic panic ensued,
22:48
Speaker 15: but it was quickly worked out what was happening. When
22:50
Speaker 15: an orange boat was deployed and seen retrieving someone from
22:54
Speaker 15: the water. He was pulled out, alive and safely recovered.
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Speaker 15: It was of course, only a few weeks ago when
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Speaker 15: a person having gone overboard from an inter islander ferry.
23:02
Speaker 15: That happened on a nighttime sailing, so it was unfortunately
23:06
Speaker 15: some time before crew realized what had happened, So good
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Speaker 15: job blue Bridge crew acting quickly saving a life.
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Speaker 2: Fantastic. Do we know how they knew that the person
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Speaker 2: went overboard? It something spotted instantly, right, Yeah, thank goodness.
23:19
Speaker 2: How's your win?
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Speaker 15: The little cloud this morning clearing strong northerly.
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Speaker 2: Sixteen nice one. Thanks Max. Morning, Neva, good morning. Bit
23:26
Speaker 2: of a heads up for Auckland this morning.
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Speaker 16: Yes, with the hope, the hope of more native birds
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Speaker 16: in the city's trees and skies. So apparently a study
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Speaker 16: from last year noted major increases. No, I shouldn't say major,
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Speaker 16: just increases, fake news, Neva. Look, and many species species
23:44
Speaker 16: in the city, so thank you know, birds like touey
23:46
Speaker 16: and kiddy Dooo and gray warbler. Now there's also hope
23:50
Speaker 16: that Kaka will find a permanent place in Auckland with
23:53
Speaker 16: increases as well in recent sightings and this is in
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Speaker 16: all the central suburbs Auckland museums. Josie Galbraith notes it
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Speaker 16: look apparently there was some friction there between that large
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Speaker 16: parrot and Wellingtonians when its population increased there. But she says, look,
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Speaker 16: any interaction with wildlife, it's going to be a good thing,
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Speaker 16: even if it doesn't seem positive at the time.
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Speaker 2: Unless they're in the grill of your car. Oh have
24:14
Speaker 2: you got them at the grill of your car?
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Speaker 16: Yeah, you're quite right, you're quite right.
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Speaker 2: Hey. So what's our weather doing today for those birds?
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Speaker 16: Well, partly cloudy, early folk patches, but just the odd
24:25
Speaker 16: shore until evening. It's still warm though the last couple
24:27
Speaker 16: of days. I've got to say, twenty is the high
24:29
Speaker 16: here in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant Neva. Thank you very much, good to see you
24:32
Speaker 2: as always. Time is seventeen minutes away from six now.
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Speaker 2: The Climate Change Commission has come out and before you
24:38
Speaker 2: roll your rise, they've come out and talked about the
24:39
Speaker 2: emissions trading scheme and they have a point because the
24:42
Speaker 2: price has been all over the shop, up and down,
24:45
Speaker 2: like up the wazoo, down the wazoo, all over the place.
24:48
Speaker 2: And they are saying that because the government sets the
24:51
Speaker 2: price for carbon emissions, right then the polluter is by
24:53
Speaker 2: the credits. That's how it works. But the Climate Change
24:56
Speaker 2: Commission reckns within a couple of years, so by twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty eight you are to have a shortfall of units,
25:02
Speaker 2: so not enough units going around, and the price will
25:04
Speaker 2: spike and The idea is that then all of the
25:07
Speaker 2: big companies who do the polluting will pull back on
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Speaker 2: their emissions. They reckon actually what they could do instead
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Speaker 2: is just close factories, so not reduce emissions, but just
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Speaker 2: close factories, which yes, would reduce emissions, but also lose
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Speaker 2: you a bunch of jobs. They saying the government needs
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Speaker 2: to sort it out, and it's hard to argue with
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Speaker 17: Heard this, precious inheritance.
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Speaker 2: They were booing at an ANZAC commemoration and a right
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Speaker 2: wing group is now denying they were involved. What's going
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Speaker 2: on here? Donna Demayow, Australia correspondent, Donna, good morning, Good morning.
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Speaker 7: This has happened for the second year running, these boos
27:16
Speaker 7: and heckles, and it's been claimed that Fight for Australia,
27:19
Speaker 7: which has just set up recently had encouraged supporters also
27:23
Speaker 7: to contact local RSL branches to ask welcomes to Country
27:27
Speaker 7: be dropped from ANZAC Day ceremonies or that didn't happen,
27:31
Speaker 7: but on its socials the group had said oh things
27:34
Speaker 7: like you know, will you be booing and the how
27:39
Speaker 7: loud will you be this year when it comes to
27:41
Speaker 7: welcome to Country. So we've heard from beck Freedom representing
27:45
Speaker 7: this group Fight for Australia. Now she's publicly denied organizing
27:50
Speaker 7: the booing and interestingly I had an opportunity but did
27:54
Speaker 7: not apologize for the behavior. We've also heard from Uncle
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Speaker 7: Ray Minikan, who was booed at one of the ceremonies
28:01
Speaker 7: in Sydney. And look, he served in the Armed forces
28:04
Speaker 7: and he's just saying, why do people hate us so much?
28:07
Speaker 7: In his words, and he says says that he feels
28:10
Speaker 7: that there's been more or increased hostility towards Indigenous Australians
28:14
Speaker 7: since the Voice referendum was defeated, and that was way
28:17
Speaker 7: back in twenty twenty three. And he says, always saying
28:20
Speaker 7: is that you're in you're on our country. Please just
28:24
Speaker 7: acknowledge it and respect whose land you're on, and he
28:27
Speaker 7: says it's just difficult for him understand why this particular
28:30
Speaker 7: reaction keeps happening.
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Speaker 2: I think it's just a bad look for ANZAC in general.
28:34
Speaker 2: Isn't it having it going going on? What's this Labor
28:37
Speaker 2: Senate that had gotten in a bit of trouble for
28:39
Speaker 2: deleting a post to do with ANZAC Day.
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Speaker 7: Oh look, this serves as a lesson. I think think
28:44
Speaker 7: just the thing before you post on social media. Labour
28:47
Speaker 7: Senator Helen Polo, she's held the seat in Tasmania since
28:50
Speaker 7: two thousand and four. She posted an ANZAC Day photo
28:52
Speaker 7: carousel and there was a marching band and people laying
28:55
Speaker 7: reads and ex service members giving speeches. But the music
28:58
Speaker 7: that accompanied the post was a track by a US
29:03
Speaker 7: rapper and really raunchy lyrics. I don't know if I
29:08
Speaker 7: can say this. One of the lyrics was something like
29:10
Speaker 7: move that ass, excuse me for that offens. But this
29:15
Speaker 7: was accompanying her video. So as soon as The Guardian
29:19
Speaker 7: actually approached Polly's Offers to ask about the clip, well,
29:22
Speaker 7: would you believe it just disappeared? It got deleted. So
29:25
Speaker 7: there's no been It hasn't been an official comment from
29:29
Speaker 7: the Senator's offices yet. But one of the comments online
29:33
Speaker 7: said what everyone was thinking, and it included that's an
29:35
Speaker 7: odd choice of music for an ANZAC day collection of photos.
29:39
Speaker 2: Sounds like it done into Australia Correspondent. It is ten
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Speaker 2: to six Ryan Bridge Shutman's looking to loosen the rules
29:46
Speaker 2: on big trucks. This is in the price of in
29:48
Speaker 2: the face of diesel price increases. It's just as if
29:51
Speaker 2: we move to phase two of the fuel response, which
29:53
Speaker 2: we haven't done yet, it would allow heavy trucks to
29:56
Speaker 2: carry more weight, opening more roads to large trucks and
29:59
Speaker 2: permit off peak travel. Dom Calassie is transporting in their
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Speaker 2: chief executive with us this morning, Dom, good morning, good morning, right,
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Speaker 2: So what can't you do at the moment?
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Speaker 18: In fact, what we're after is not larger trucks, we're
30:15
Speaker 18: after heavier trucks.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 18: So you know government's been after a targeted, temporary, time
30:21
Speaker 18: timely solution, right, and we've given them a case where
30:25
Speaker 18: and this only applies to several thousands, right, it's a
30:30
Speaker 18: few percent of the one hundred and seventy thousand heavy
30:33
Speaker 18: vehicles out there. But we have said, look, if these
30:36
Speaker 18: trucks they've got capacity. They could do this now if
30:39
Speaker 18: they could carry a bit more, we could help the
30:42
Speaker 18: country save several million liters of diesel and we could
30:46
Speaker 18: avoid somewhere around ten million kilometers of truck travel and
30:50
Speaker 18: in fact, in fact dis late last week and talks
30:53
Speaker 18: with officials depending on sort of where they go with this,
30:57
Speaker 18: those would be minimums, right, So it's all about a
31:01
Speaker 18: product of the initiative and their only concern with the
31:06
Speaker 18: announcement yesterday was we're pretty clear now this is a
31:12
Speaker 18: price issue. It's not a supply issue, all right. There
31:15
Speaker 18: is fuel moving around the world and it is getting here,
31:18
Speaker 18: but there's a lot of price volatility. So we do
31:21
Speaker 18: the Urging Government Act. Now it's a logical holding off
31:25
Speaker 18: until we have a significant supply disruptions before we do anything.
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Speaker 2: So don't worry the King and King Charles and Queen
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Speaker 2: and Miller are still going to go to the White House.
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Speaker 2: They're heading to DC. They're going to be there later
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Speaker 2: on today and they'll be greeted by Millennium and they'll
32:02
Speaker 2: be greeted by Donald and they will stay at the
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Speaker 2: White House, I'm told, for a night. Then they'll be
32:07
Speaker 2: heading around the going to New York. They'll do the
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Speaker 2: nine to eleven Memorial. They've got some ceremonial duties to
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Speaker 2: attend to in Washington, and well, by the sounds of it,
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Speaker 2: hav himself a great time despite everything, well the chaos
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Speaker 2: going on around them. Five to six crying for it
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Speaker 2: this morning. Mike, Hey, you Ryan, good weekend.
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Speaker 17: I had a fabulous weekend. And the sky was blue
32:28
Speaker 17: and there was no wind, yes, and the sun was
32:30
Speaker 17: out and it was cool in the morning and it
32:32
Speaker 17: was warm during the day. It's just what you want.
32:35
Speaker 2: Now. What's coming up today?
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Speaker 17: Tom McLay, who I think is about to jump on
32:40
Speaker 17: a plane come back here. Yes, So it's been a
32:42
Speaker 17: busy weekend. So he's signed that, so that's exciting.
32:44
Speaker 2: He's good.
32:44
Speaker 17: Positive, you know. Story to start week we last the
32:46
Speaker 17: Prime Minister about little did you find the I happened.
32:50
Speaker 17: I happen to be watching the Trump thing over the
32:51
Speaker 17: weekend life because I was quite interested to see what
32:53
Speaker 17: he had to say again, and it turns up these
32:55
Speaker 17: things and anyway, they keep talking about his you know,
32:58
Speaker 17: the requestion marks about the security, and I can't work
33:02
Speaker 17: out where where would you like the ring of security
33:05
Speaker 17: to stay, you know what I'm saying.
33:06
Speaker 2: So I did think it was odd that you were
33:08
Speaker 2: able to stay in the hotel and have all the
33:10
Speaker 2: weapons and be staying there at the same time as
33:13
Speaker 2: he is in the building.
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Speaker 17: The bit the bit that was locked off though the
33:17
Speaker 17: but the guy ran past. The moment he ran passed,
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Speaker 17: they shot him.
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Speaker 2: They shot him. So what what else will you expect? Well, well,
33:23
Speaker 2: just not if you're checking in this weekend, leave the
33:26
Speaker 2: guns in the car. Yeah, I mean that's but you could.
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Speaker 17: There's no there's no hotel in the world where they
33:30
Speaker 17: screen you for guns, is there no?
33:32
Speaker 2: But you I guess you would think that if the
33:35
Speaker 2: president is coming to the lobby, you know, you do.
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Speaker 17: Something about the hotel. Well that was this whole thing
33:39
Speaker 17: for the ballroom, wasn't That means?
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Speaker 2: What if we are a.
33:42
Speaker 17: Wonderful opportunity you're saying, you know, I have a look
33:44
Speaker 17: at my ballroom ex Prime Minister Todd McLay and this
33:47
Speaker 17: population thing, which I find moderately interesting. The demographics really
33:51
Speaker 17: dramatically in this country.
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Speaker 2: So will do that for you, Alackman. Fantastic. Have a
33:55
Speaker 2: fantastic Tuesday, everybody, after a beautiful long weekend. Ceed tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: I dropped.
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