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Full Show Podcast: 08 September 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: earlier show with One roof Love where you Live news Talks,
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Speaker 1: there'd be.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Welcome to your Monday. Stuart Nash on the
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Speaker 2: New Zealand first Conference at the weekend. He's with us.
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Speaker 2: We're in London. Mass arrests over Gaza, the blackburns of
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Speaker 2: Thumped Ireland, and Simon Brown has an update on surgeries
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Speaker 2: for us this morning and it's pretty good news. The
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Speaker 2: agenda Monday, the eight of September, great had your company.
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Speaker 2: Russia's biggest air attack on Ukraine since the war began,
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Speaker 2: eight hundred drones and they've hit the Cabinet Minister's offices
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Speaker 2: in Kiev.
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Speaker 3: We've been talking to residents here who were also at
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Speaker 3: home also as sleep when the blasts suddenly came, very
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Speaker 3: rapidly and quick succession. Several blasts. People didn't have time.
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Speaker 3: They told me to get down.
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Speaker 4: To the shelter.
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Speaker 2: To London. Cops have arrested nine hundred Palestinian protesters. This
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Speaker 2: is over the Palestine Action Group. You'll know that Starmer
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Speaker 2: made them a terror group back in July.
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Speaker 5: People turned up with empty placards and big fat felt pens.
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Speaker 5: And then wrote words in support of Palestine action or
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Speaker 5: on the stroke of a clock. And then, of course
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Speaker 5: the police, who'd already warned them that this would be
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Speaker 5: effectively breaking the terrorism laws, then moved in to arrest
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Speaker 5: them on masts. So a big, big operation for the
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Speaker 5: METS used twelve hundred officers to arrest eight hundred plus people.
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Speaker 2: This big unicular crash and Lisbon on Friday. Investigators say
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Speaker 2: a cable snapped, They tried to hit the brakes that
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Speaker 2: didn't work.
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Speaker 4: The statement also said the carriage was traveling at about
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Speaker 4: thirty seven miles per hour when it hit the building,
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Speaker 4: but the investigators said no valid conclusions have yet been reached.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and One roof Love, where you Live News Talks,
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Speaker 1: it'd be good morning.
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Speaker 2: Good to be back with you, and some inconvenient truths
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Speaker 2: for your Monday morning about the prime of groceries. I
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Speaker 2: was in Australia last week and which everybody loves to
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Speaker 2: talk about. Oh Man, so much cheaper over there, and
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Speaker 2: I kept an eye on the news from New Zealand
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Speaker 2: while I was away. Breathless articles you would have seen
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Speaker 2: them about the cost of groceries, and no doubt it's expensive.
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Speaker 2: But one said that your average family of four pays
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Speaker 2: fourteen thousand dollars a year on groceries in Australia, while
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Speaker 2: we pay twenty four thousand dollars, and you think that's outrageous.
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Speaker 2: I put that to some Australians. They laughed at the
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Speaker 2: fourteen thousand dollars figure. No way that is accurate. No
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Speaker 2: mention in the headline either that we pay fifteen percent
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Speaker 2: GST on our groceries and Australians don't, nor does Ireland
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Speaker 2: or the UK. By the way, I was while I
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Speaker 2: was there, bought two hundred and fifty grams of butter
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Speaker 2: because you don't need much when you're on holiday, but
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Speaker 2: you do need a bit. That was four Australian dollars.
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Speaker 2: At Woolworths. You can get five hundred grams for seven
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Speaker 2: dollars fifty New Zealand a pack and safe. So it
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Speaker 2: just depends where your shop, doesn't it. Another thing they
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Speaker 2: don't talk about we pay. This is from the latest
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Speaker 2: Commerce Commission report. We pay three percent more than the
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Speaker 2: OECD average for groceries. Three percent. Now, if we were
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Speaker 2: to take three percent off the cost. Would everyone be happy, No,
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Speaker 2: we wouldn't. We live at the bottom of the world.
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Speaker 2: For goodnessakes, We're on two long islands with five million people.
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Speaker 2: Our land mass is bigger than the UK they have
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Speaker 2: a population seventy million. It costs money to transport goods.
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Speaker 2: We have green tape, we have red tape. We've outlawed
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Speaker 2: cheap battery cage eggs. Remember that for environmental reasons. You
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Speaker 2: can't have your cake and eat it too. There's no doubt.
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Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong. Competition is needed in the grocery sector,
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Speaker 2: and we'll talk about that more later on the show
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Speaker 2: this week. Planning, consenting competition regulations. They are all being
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Speaker 2: given the tweak, been given a tune up. But don't
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Speaker 2: for a second that we can think we can shave
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Speaker 2: ten twenty thirty percent off the cost of a shop.
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Speaker 2: It's delusional. It's a sort of stuff pedal by desperate
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Speaker 2: politicians who don't know really how to crank economic growth.
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Speaker 6: Is government's Ryan Bridge just.
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Speaker 2: One five to ten. Has anyone seen the blood moon yet?
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Speaker 2: Big who are made about this yesterday? Apparently the best
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Speaker 2: time to view it will be when Mike's here at
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Speaker 2: six eleven am. But it started at three point thirty,
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Speaker 2: so you should have a little partial creep over your
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Speaker 2: moon at the moment by five thirty am, So in
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Speaker 2: twenty minutes time, it'll be a total eclipse. Nine two
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Speaker 2: nine two the number to text. Good to be back
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Speaker 2: with you. We'll get to Sime and Brown.
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Speaker 1: Next, news and views you trust to start your day.
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Speaker 1: It's early ediship with Ryan Bridge and one roofe love
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Speaker 1: where you live news talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be five twelve. Iran says is ready to do
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Speaker 2: a deal. This is months now after Trump sent those
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Speaker 2: stealth bombers to unload on the nuclear sites. Foreign minister says,
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Speaker 2: if you lift the sanctions, please lift the sanctions. If
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Speaker 2: you do that, we will allow monitoring of our nuclear program. Basically,
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Speaker 2: you can get guys in there to watch the uranium
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Speaker 2: enrichment happen and then report back to the UN. Now,
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Speaker 2: this is all happening because more UN sanctions are going
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Speaker 2: to kick in at the end of the month. So
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Speaker 2: is this just a tactic from them? Like Putin? They
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Speaker 2: are trying to and hoping that Europe will splinter from
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Speaker 2: the US and they'll be able to divide and conquer
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Speaker 2: its just as a tactic from them. We'll have to
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Speaker 2: wait and see, but certainly they are keen to avoid
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Speaker 2: more sanctions. Thirteen after five Ryan to Andrew Orlison on
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Speaker 2: one and black Fern's results overnight. Shortly first, the government's
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Speaker 2: panning itself on the back for new data showing it
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Speaker 2: smashed its elective surgery targets. Sixteen thousand procedures were done
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Speaker 2: in June by June thirty, I should say that is
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Speaker 2: far above the ten and a half thousand that they promised.
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Speaker 2: It includes more than five thousand cataracts, six hundred and
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Speaker 2: thirty eight hips, and seven hundred and fifty one new knees.
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Speaker 2: Simon Brown is the Health Minister with us this morning. Minister,
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Speaker 2: good morning, good morning. So yeah, you're ahead of target.
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Speaker 2: What does it mean for your overall elective surgery target?
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Speaker 7: Well, overall, too many key are still waiting too long.
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Speaker 7: Those are the number of people waiting on those wait
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Speaker 7: lists grew significantly in recent years and so the elective
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Speaker 7: boost is designed to reduce those targets. Over All, though
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Speaker 7: we've seen a nine percent reduction in the overall number
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Speaker 7: of people waiting and an importantly a twenty two percent
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Speaker 7: reduction in the number of people waiting more than four months,
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Speaker 7: and that's where we're really putting the effort into try
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Speaker 7: and make sure people can get seen in a more
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Speaker 7: timely manner. And that's where this outsourcing arrangements of private
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Speaker 7: hospitals has been able to help support get those people
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Speaker 7: who have been waiting too long getting them seen sooner
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Speaker 7: so we can reduce those weightless.
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Speaker 2: So the target's ninety five percent of patients within four
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Speaker 2: months by twenty thirty. What are you at now, correct?
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Speaker 7: So we're still a long way from that target. So
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Speaker 7: ninety five percent of patient's being seen within four months
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Speaker 7: by twenty thirty. This puts us on track to meet
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Speaker 7: this year's milestone of sixty three percent. So, as I
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Speaker 7: said at the start, too many people still waiting too long,
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Speaker 7: and that's why we've sent another target for this year
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Speaker 7: of twenty one thousand additional surgeries this year to continue
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Speaker 7: making progress so against those targets.
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Speaker 2: So what was sixty three percent now? Is that what
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Speaker 2: you're saying, correct? And what was it when you came in, Well.
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Speaker 7: It dropped down to the Well Unfortunately, the list kept
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Speaker 7: growing until about the beginning of this year, so it
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Speaker 7: dropped down to about fifty eight percent, and so this
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Speaker 7: has helped us to be able to catch up, but
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Speaker 7: we need to make we need to make significant progress
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Speaker 7: in order to give keys that confidence that elective surgeries
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Speaker 7: can be delivered in a timely manner. And that's why
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Speaker 7: we're partnering with private hospitals and making sure we're maximizing
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Speaker 7: what's delivered across both public hospitals and private hospitals so
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Speaker 7: that keys can get the treatment. And as I say,
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Speaker 7: I don't think many people really care who's delivering it.
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Speaker 7: They just want I.
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Speaker 2: Don't think so either. I think you're right on that,
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Speaker 2: But the question couldn't get done. The question has been
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Speaker 2: around the private versus public pulling, you know, the private
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Speaker 2: pulling resources from the public. Has the public kept up
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Speaker 2: its selective surgery rates? So are they dropping as the
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Speaker 2: private picks up the slack?
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Speaker 7: Now what we're seeing is we're seeing is additional surgery
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Speaker 7: is being delivered by making sure we're maximizing what's being delivered.
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Speaker 7: So we're a huge focused internally as well around making
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Speaker 7: sure we're maximizing theater rates sat a utilization, making sure
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Speaker 7: those surgeries are being done internally as well as making
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Speaker 7: sure we're outsourcing and maximizing what's being delivered, so the
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Speaker 7: r the same.
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Speaker 2: Are they doing the same or more surgeries in public
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Speaker 2: as they were previously pre private outsourcing.
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Speaker 7: Well, they're continuing to deliver what they planned within the
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Speaker 7: public system. This is about making sure we're delivering more
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Speaker 7: by utilizing our private hospitals. But also some of the
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Speaker 7: investment we're making is actually into some of Health New
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Speaker 7: Zealand's own surgical elective surgical hospitals as well. So Health
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Speaker 7: New Zealand has some of its own dedicated surgical hospitals
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Speaker 7: which aren't competing with its acute work. They've got two
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Speaker 7: in Auckland, they've got a hom I do on the
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Speaker 7: North Shore. They've got the Manicow Health Park. It's also
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Speaker 7: Burward Hospital in christ Church. As some of those investments,
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Speaker 7: you're going also into our own surgical hospitals to expand
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Speaker 7: what they can deliver, which are dedicated to getting as
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Speaker 7: much elector surgery done through the public system as well.
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Speaker 2: SimMan Brown, I appreciate your time this morning, Health Minister.
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Speaker 2: Sixty three percent targets ninety percent. There's still a way
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Speaker 2: to go, though they've given themselves a few years to
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Speaker 2: get there. It is five seventeen on News Talk ZEBB.
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Speaker 2: Lisa is Ryan. It's turning Red. Lee's from the Why
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Speaker 2: can I River, beautiful river, grew up swimming in that
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Speaker 2: turning red. The moon in why can I on the
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Speaker 2: Covery Coast this morning, So finally this blood moon thing's happening.
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Speaker 2: Eighteen minutes after five News Talks ZB we'll get to
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Speaker 2: Sport with Andrew, next.
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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 One Room Love
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Speaker 1: Where You Live.
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Speaker 2: News Talks EDB NEWSTALK'SZBB. It is five twenty high run.
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Speaker 2: I went to my local New World yesterday a leg
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Speaker 2: of Lamb eighty one dollars last Sunday was seventy one
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Speaker 2: dollars this week, says Tony. So there you go. Are
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Speaker 2: we going to thank Nicola Willis for that? You're on
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Speaker 2: his talks? He'd be Andrew Orlison's here was support Andrew.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Gretting's Ryan Jesus has a lot to get through,
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Speaker 2: So let's start with the All Blacks water performance.
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Speaker 8: Yes, yes, convincing and lived up to the narrative. Really
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Speaker 8: didn't it? Well done? And yeah, it just it was
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Speaker 8: taking us along, taking us for quite a ride. And
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Speaker 8: in the spring.
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Speaker 2: Box, well I thought they were. They were a bit less.
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Speaker 8: Disciplined and there's a few more errors than perhaps usual and.
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Speaker 2: Probably rattled by the All Blacks.
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Speaker 8: And yeah, there's some powerful displays at Artie Savira among
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Speaker 8: them for that New Zealand side and keeping the the
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Speaker 8: Eden Park legacy alive.
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Speaker 2: It was quite funny watching Razor in the box just
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Speaker 2: trying to contain himself. He sort of let himself go
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Speaker 2: a little bit and passionate. There was that, Yeah, there was. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's great and that bodes well.
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Speaker 8: I mean just even if you look at the wider
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Speaker 8: context the rugby championship now, I mean Rugby needed that
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Speaker 8: exhibition is as a I suppose, and Jack's really for
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Speaker 8: the game at the present time. But the wall of
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Speaker 8: the is against Argentina as well, so it's shaping up
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Speaker 8: probably the tightest rugby championship at least in recent memory.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone's getting when everyone's getting a lost kind of thing. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's that they've totally improved the game by speeding it
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Speaker 2: our pay you know, it just night and day. It
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Speaker 2: looks much better. Yeah, Yeah, black Ferns thumping Island last.
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Speaker 8: Year speaking of I mean, that's that's convincing. Forty nierl
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Speaker 8: given that, well, I think Ireland had beaten New Zealand twice.
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Speaker 8: He's beaten them once in the past, Ireland beating them
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Speaker 8: even last year. But New Zealand has turned there around.
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Speaker 8: Peaking at the right time would seem at the World
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Speaker 8: Cup in Brighton today. And yeah, just even to try
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Speaker 8: at the end from Maya Joseph, just length of the fields,
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Speaker 8: I think it must have gone through five or six
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Speaker 8: sets of hands in New Zealand, just looking really really
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Speaker 8: polished at the stage and getting that top seeding into
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Speaker 8: the quarters.
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Speaker 2: I love the black Ferns. I love the characters in
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Speaker 2: the black Ferns and the characters the black Ferns have produced.
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Speaker 2: But being honest, is it great watching when you've got
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Speaker 2: such massive point differentials.
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Speaker 8: I don't think it's been a great advertisement so far. No,
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Speaker 8: although just having seen some of the I haven't seen
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Speaker 8: the whole game of sporting, seen some of the highlights
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Speaker 8: New Zealand. I mean their defense alone was pretty powerful
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Speaker 8: to be able to keep Ireland to score us across
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Speaker 8: the game. But yeah, I think from now on is
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Speaker 8: really the business end of the competition and hopefully we'll
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Speaker 8: see I guess better contests in those games.
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Speaker 2: Update on F one for US this morning.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, not so good for Liam Lawson the strategy, I mean,
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Speaker 8: he had to be was forced to the back of
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Speaker 8: the grid anyway, going on softer tires, so he's finished
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Speaker 8: in fifteenth. Teammate Isaac Hadger getting a point max with
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Speaker 8: Starpan for Red Bull getting the winning or getting the
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Speaker 8: top of the podium with the lader Norris in second
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Speaker 8: and Oscar Piastri in the third for McLaren and McLaren
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Speaker 8: still leading the way in the constructors and getting two
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Speaker 8: places on the podium. But good for RedBull to be
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Speaker 8: able to get that victory for Starvan.
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Speaker 2: Nice one, Andrew. Good to see you. Andrew Ordison a
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Speaker 2: sports right of course. Update US at five thirty and
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Speaker 2: six and throughout the morning. It is five twenty three
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Speaker 2: here on News Talk MB. Just something I wanted to
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Speaker 2: bring to your attention. This is from Friday, so after
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Speaker 2: the show would have come off here, although I wasn't
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Speaker 2: actually here. Odds are on now for a FED rate
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Speaker 2: cut in September. It was tending that way but it's
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Speaker 2: now almost a certainty according to the markets. Twenty five
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Speaker 2: points they reckon, plus they'll get another one by Christmas.
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Speaker 2: The August job numbers, so they were forecasting to add
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Speaker 2: seventy five thousand for August, they actually only added twenty
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Speaker 2: two thousand, So jobs numbers not good, well below forecast.
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Speaker 2: Total jobs added for May, June, July, and August of
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Speaker 2: this year were the same as was added in just
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Speaker 2: August last year. And it gets worse. Manufacturing jobs there
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Speaker 2: fell twelve thousand in August. Now all of this stuff
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Speaker 2: has an impact on us of course, exchange rate, you know,
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Speaker 2: inflation keeping that intation inflation beast tamed. They're currently at
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Speaker 2: two point seven percent over there, and they are tipped
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Speaker 2: to hit three by Christmas. So will this help tip
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Speaker 2: it further if they cut twenty four after which is
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Speaker 2: not a certainty, but markets are pricing in it is
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Speaker 2: five point twenty four News TALKSVB the early edition.
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Speaker 2: Talks v News Talks HEIRB five twenty six. As you know,
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Speaker 2: I've been saying for some time this election is Nationals
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Speaker 2: two years in kiwis like to give incumbents the benefit
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Speaker 2: of the doubt, and I still think this holds true.
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Speaker 2: But as we've been reporting since April, Trump's tariffs, which
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Speaker 2: took everybody, including the markets by surprise, making a bear
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Speaker 2: showing signs of those early green shoots that the pundits
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Speaker 2: loved talking about. This has shortened Luxeon's window for a
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Speaker 2: real economic recovery, which is the platform he's relying on
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Speaker 2: for reelection. Right. Talk of a leadership coup yet again
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Speaker 2: by Christmas is in my view completely daft. Any national
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Speaker 2: MP who thinks they can outpoll Luxon in the current
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Speaker 2: climate's got to be dreaming a short term bump maybe,
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Speaker 2: but there are political costs, namely instability. Remember Muller. Then
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Speaker 2: this newly elected leader has to go cap in hand
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Speaker 2: to Winston and David and no doubt relitigate all in
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Speaker 2: Sundry just after the latter began firing up for a showdown.
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Speaker 2: Winston and Shamer in full flight at the weekend, you
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Speaker 2: would have seen that It's only September twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 2: Timing is everything and That is Luckson's card to play.
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Speaker 2: In twelve months from now, the country will likely feel
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Speaker 2: a much different place to live, and that means a
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Speaker 2: later election. If the Nats are smart, they'll stick with
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Speaker 2: the devil they know and wait for brighter days ahead.
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Speaker 2: The risks outweigh the benefits at this point in the cycle.
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Speaker 2: If needs be, a transition can happen in pretty short order.
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Speaker 2: Just ask just in the Redoon Brian Bridge. It is
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Speaker 2: five twenty eight. How's that blood moon looking? Another update
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Speaker 2: from Lisa is truly amazing. Now, Greta Thunberg, she's on
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Speaker 2: another mission. She's on another adventure with her friends, this
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Speaker 2: time back to trying to get back to Gaza with
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Speaker 2: another floatiller. And there is potentially a meeting happening between
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Speaker 2: Starma and the Israeli president over the in the coming days,
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Speaker 2: though Number ten is not confirming anything and his MPs
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Speaker 2: are saying, don't meet with the Israelis, don't meet with them,
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Speaker 2: and Number ten saying, well, we might, but we might not.
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Speaker 2: We're not sure anyway. This is what she's saying to Starma.
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Speaker 6: These governments, these people in power, have a legal duty
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Speaker 6: to act to prevent a genocide. And specifically to this case,
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Speaker 6: the international arrestaurant that has been issued for Nathaniel. The
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Speaker 6: countries then have a legal responsibility to arrest him, which
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Speaker 6: is not our personal opinion in langon international law.
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Speaker 2: There you go. I was also going to give you,
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Speaker 2: potentially give you a justinder a durn hot take today,
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Speaker 2: but I thought it's too much, Gretta and just send
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Speaker 2: it all on one show. Nope, can't do that. Twenty
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Speaker 2: nine after five, News Talks said, B We're in London
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Speaker 2: more on those protests and Stuart Nash. Before six.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and one Route Love where you live.
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Speaker 2: News Talk said, be well, I love you, good morning.
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Speaker 2: It is twenty four away from six on News Talks said, B,
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Speaker 2: We'll get to London shortly. We're one thousand protests, protests
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Speaker 2: have been arrested. Stuart Nash, this New Zealand first conference.
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Speaker 2: Business is an interesting question. He's with us just before six.
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Speaker 2: It's an interesting question. Jan, Sorry, John is this emailed
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Speaker 2: to say Ryan. The main thing I remember about Stuart
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Speaker 2: Nash is that he endorsed usinta or doing every chance
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Speaker 2: he could get, And so the question that I really
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Speaker 2: want to ask Stuart Nash this morning is what is
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Speaker 2: his understanding of Winston ruling out Labor? Is it just
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Speaker 2: if Chris Hipkins is in charge? Is he the guy
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Speaker 2: that's going to be the bridge between New Zealand first
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Speaker 2: and Labor? Could Winston do it again and go with
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Speaker 2: Labor even though he indicated he wouldn't. Is is it
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Speaker 2: conditional on Chippy being in charge? Can you trust him
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Speaker 2: if you don't want a left lot in power? That's
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Speaker 2: the question this morning. It is twenty three to six.
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Speaker 2: Interesting note from Kelly Ecole. This is at Westpac over
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Speaker 2: the weekend. He says that whoever the new Reserve Bank
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Speaker 2: governor isn't. Apparently they've had strong interest. Whoever it is,
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Speaker 2: they should change a couple of things. One is front
18:52
Speaker 2: of house, have more press conferences, make the Monetary Policy
18:57
Speaker 2: Committee votes public, and hold an extra meeting every year.
19:02
Speaker 2: Now those will sound like pretty sensible things given where
19:05
Speaker 2: the Reserve Bank has been in the last few years,
19:07
Speaker 2: but he also suggests that you know because at the
19:09
Speaker 2: moment their remit is one to three percent, with a
19:12
Speaker 2: goal of two percent, so the midpoint, he says that
19:16
Speaker 2: needs to change. The Aussies target two to three percent.
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Speaker 2: Our average over the last twenty five years is two
19:24
Speaker 2: point six percent. It's been above or below two percent,
19:28
Speaker 2: which remember is our goal fifty percent of that time.
19:31
Speaker 2: So be realistic, he says, allow more relief. This would
19:35
Speaker 2: give you a greater propensity to lower rates and people
19:41
Speaker 2: go out and spend and fix the economic mess. That
19:44
Speaker 2: sort of thing. This is a job for the Minister
19:46
Speaker 2: of Finance setting that rate, which can be done relatively easily.
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Speaker 2: The only question though, is if you say two point
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Speaker 2: five percent, do they drift to three given that at
19:56
Speaker 2: two percent we've drifted to two point six. Ryan Bridge,
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Speaker 2: go to our reporters around the country, Color, Proctor and
20:02
Speaker 2: darned this morning. Color, good morning, morning. Right, you've got
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Speaker 2: an update on this prominent sportsman on trial in Dunedin. Yeah,
20:09
Speaker 2: that's right.
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Speaker 9: Look, this high profile figure is accused of causing thirteen
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Speaker 9: rib fractures and a broken collar bone to an infant in.
20:16
Speaker 2: July twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 9: His defense says the man would never risk a child's
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Speaker 9: safety and insists the baby could have been hurt through
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Speaker 9: a severe vitamin D deficiency or an underlying bone fragility.
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Speaker 2: The court heard both the Crown.
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Speaker 9: And defense's closing arguments on Friday, and Judge David Robinson
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Speaker 9: is set to sum up the case today before it's
20:38
Speaker 9: in the hands of the jury. The man's pleaded not
20:41
Speaker 9: guilty to these charges of injuring with reckless disregard and assault.
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Speaker 2: How's your weather?
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Speaker 9: Frosty, foggy start, Ryan for us, But a fine day today,
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Speaker 9: strong northerly this afternoon, the high fourteenth, Nice one, Thank you,
20:53
Speaker 9: Clais and christ this morning.
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Speaker 10: Claire, good morning.
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Speaker 2: Hey. Mobile emergency alerts we know about them from the tsunamis,
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Speaker 2: but more could be used for missing persons cases.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, well, there certainly seems to be a case for that, Ryan.
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Speaker 2: This week.
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Speaker 11: Actually, four years ago, eighty five year old Shirley Warrington
21:09
Speaker 11: went missing from christ Church. Despite a huge, large scale search,
21:13
Speaker 11: her body was only found eight weeks later. Now it's
21:16
Speaker 11: believed that a mobile emergency alert, which was successfully used
21:20
Speaker 11: to find a missing elderly woman here earlier this year,
21:23
Speaker 11: could have helped to find Shirley. Newstalk Seedb's requested some
21:26
Speaker 11: data from NIMA which shows that the system has only
21:29
Speaker 11: been used five times for missing persons since it was
21:32
Speaker 11: established in twenty seventeen, Shirley Warrington's granddaughter Alisha Hoffman says
21:37
Speaker 11: social media was very helpful as they looked for her grandmother,
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Speaker 11: but it did take a while for people to be
21:42
Speaker 11: able to sort of spread the word. She says, sending
21:45
Speaker 11: a mobile alert would have meant people could have gone
21:47
Speaker 11: out searching quicker.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's I don't have to really have
21:50
Speaker 2: a problem with it because it would only be a
21:52
Speaker 2: specific area you can target, as well as sal sites.
21:54
Speaker 2: How's the weather clear? Fine?
21:56
Speaker 11: A little bit prosty here as well. Southwesterly should turn
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Speaker 11: northeaster bit nighter and twelve degrees.
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Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Mix and Wellington Homes, Good morning.
22:04
Speaker 2: You got a tunnel update. Well, a bit of secrecy
22:06
Speaker 2: about the tunnel.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, that's what the story says. This is a story
22:09
Speaker 12: from our newsroom. Seven million dollars apparently spent so far
22:12
Speaker 12: on consultants and contractors working on these two new tunnels
22:16
Speaker 12: in the central Wellington, the Mount Vick Option, the second
22:19
Speaker 12: Terrorist Tunnel. But what exactly that money is going toward.
22:23
Speaker 12: We're not too sure. A lot of information being withheld
22:25
Speaker 12: for now. What is in the back of everyone's minds
22:28
Speaker 12: is the government's commitment to stunning construction on that Mountvick
22:32
Speaker 12: tunnel before next year's election seven million dollars. Chris Bishop
22:36
Speaker 12: calls it a drop in the bucket ultimately, and he
22:39
Speaker 12: says be patient. The Transport Agency and the Government will
22:42
Speaker 12: announce more in due course once the agency's board looks
22:45
Speaker 12: at these investment cases specialist expertise. He calls the consultants
22:50
Speaker 12: spent labor adamant that this is shaping as a broken promise.
22:53
Speaker 12: Perhaps too early to say that though the suburba Victoria
22:56
Speaker 12: getting a little frustrated. No one knows what's going on anything. Obviously,
23:00
Speaker 12: a majority of probably against a massive construction project currently
23:03
Speaker 12: that traffic skirts around Mount vic Two point two billion
23:07
Speaker 12: in total is the price tag, but it might be
23:09
Speaker 12: difficult to stay under that.
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Speaker 2: I think it will be two. How's your weather?
23:14
Speaker 12: Some early showers clearing to find southerlyast twelve the hay
23:18
Speaker 12: and Neiva's in the studio.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, the morning, Welcome bed.
23:21
Speaker 13: Look at you. This is the first time I've laid
23:23
Speaker 13: eyes on you today, and you are so brown. You're
23:26
Speaker 13: browner than me.
23:28
Speaker 2: Look at you.
23:29
Speaker 13: Top button has undone and your chest is becauseron is
23:33
Speaker 13: your face.
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Speaker 2: Only because id it to show you? Neva? I know
23:36
Speaker 2: you love a hearing chest.
23:37
Speaker 14: I do.
23:38
Speaker 13: So where have you been?
23:39
Speaker 2: I was over in Australia.
23:40
Speaker 13: Oh my, well you deceive that break.
23:42
Speaker 2: Oh man, it's good to sleep. Yes, hey, Penny Henadi.
23:46
Speaker 2: Three thousand votes. Sure it's a by election, Sure it's
23:49
Speaker 2: a moldy electric but three thousand votes that's like local
23:52
Speaker 2: government territory.
23:54
Speaker 13: Look, I tell you, I mean, this is what's happening
23:57
Speaker 13: here now. Like Lara Griefs, she's come out swinging. She
24:00
Speaker 13: said she's the Victoria University political scientist. She said, look,
24:04
Speaker 13: it's important not to extrapolate too far from just this
24:08
Speaker 13: one race, because she said, look, the center left it's struggling,
24:11
Speaker 13: you know, like around the world. So she reckons it
24:13
Speaker 13: a change of technics, maybe on the cards.
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Speaker 4: You know.
24:17
Speaker 13: She's also saying that the young voters and Tamaki Makoto,
24:20
Speaker 13: they're probably looking for more radical policies.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, which, let's remember, is exactly what I said
24:25
Speaker 2: would happen.
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Speaker 13: Oh you're always oh you had to get that one
24:29
Speaker 13: and didn't you.
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Speaker 2: But it's interesting. Yeah. It's hard though for Penny because
24:33
Speaker 2: he also had no policies because Slavery's got this policy
24:36
Speaker 2: of no policies. So you've got a guy out there
24:39
Speaker 2: talking about nothing. Yeah, you know, it's it's a hard.
24:41
Speaker 13: And I think for ordinary kipitter as well, you know,
24:44
Speaker 13: like the it's the young voters, young Mardy you know there.
24:47
Speaker 2: And social media is working so exactly. Hey, how's that weather?
24:52
Speaker 13: I was going to say, how's that blood moon?
24:54
Speaker 2: Have you seen?
24:55
Speaker 1: You're not?
24:55
Speaker 13: Said, well, I mean it's a bit cloudy. I mean
24:58
Speaker 13: I've been listening overnight to the call c B. So
25:01
Speaker 13: in other parts of the country they could see it.
25:03
Speaker 13: I think you can see it here in Auckland, but
25:05
Speaker 13: as you well know, here it enzed me. I've been
25:07
Speaker 13: running around now we don't have any windows, so I've
25:09
Speaker 13: gone from one end of the newsroom say no, no,
25:11
Speaker 13: the blood moons over the side, Neva. So I still
25:13
Speaker 13: can't see it. I think I saw a slither slither
25:16
Speaker 13: slither Ryan.
25:17
Speaker 2: Yeah. Lots of people saying it's now fully dark, bring
25:19
Speaker 2: on the sunlight. Oh okay, so maybe yeah, maybe that's
25:22
Speaker 2: the way you can't see. Thank you, sixteen to six
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Speaker 2: Next. First, almost one thousand arrested demonstrations in London. Gavin Gray,
26:47
Speaker 2: a UK correspondent, Gavin what for.
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Speaker 4: Ryan?
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Speaker 15: This is all for showing support for a group called
26:54
Speaker 15: Palestine Action because the government prescribed them, in other words,
26:58
Speaker 15: identified the more category them as a terrorist group and
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Speaker 15: showing support for or being a member of Palestine Action
27:06
Speaker 15: can mean you spend fourteen years in jail because it
27:09
Speaker 15: comes under terrorism law. The police there said that overall
27:14
Speaker 15: twenty thousand people took part in different gatherings in support
27:18
Speaker 15: of Gaza and Palestine. However, of that this group, Palestine Action,
27:23
Speaker 15: about one and a half thousand people took part in
27:25
Speaker 15: their march simply holding up sains saying I support Palestine
27:31
Speaker 15: Action and also warning of course of the action within
27:36
Speaker 15: Gaza itself. Now, the problem is that of those eight
27:39
Speaker 15: hundred and ninety arrests, police said this time there was
27:42
Speaker 15: intolerable abuse, as they're calling it. They say there were
27:46
Speaker 15: punch kicks, spat on and had objects thrown at them.
27:49
Speaker 15: The organizers of that march said that did not happen.
27:52
Speaker 15: They're disagreeing with the police. But twenty five well, the
27:56
Speaker 15: figures of varying a bit actually run, but roughly twenty
28:00
Speaker 15: people were arrested for assaults on police, and police are
28:03
Speaker 15: saying that these weekly marches are simply getting out of control.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds like a two Gavin, thank you for that.
28:10
Speaker 2: Kevin Gray are UK correspondent. It is eleven away.
28:13
Speaker 1: From six Ryan Bridge.
28:15
Speaker 2: A few things came out of the New Zealand first
28:17
Speaker 2: Annual meeting at the weekend. Winston wants Kiwi Savia contributions
28:20
Speaker 2: at ten percent funded by tax cuts. No detail on that.
28:23
Speaker 2: Also on the wish list they want new migrants to
28:25
Speaker 2: sign a value statement. Stuart Nash, formal Labor Cabinet minister,
28:28
Speaker 2: was there. He was speaking. He's with us now. Good morning, Brian,
28:32
Speaker 2: how are you? Good morning? Very good, thank you.
28:33
Speaker 7: Now.
28:34
Speaker 2: The text machines lit up when I mentioned you were
28:36
Speaker 2: coming on the show. I just wants to get back
28:38
Speaker 2: into Parliament. He's desperate and we can't trust Winston not
28:42
Speaker 2: to go with labor again. Are you the bridge that's
28:44
Speaker 2: going to connect the two.
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Speaker 14: Oh god, I don't know about that, but you know
28:48
Speaker 14: all the stuff that that can't wait to get back
28:49
Speaker 14: into palm in these desk, but people tend to forget that. Well,
28:52
Speaker 14: if they even you in the first place, then if
28:54
Speaker 14: you're a cabinet minister and only get into Parliment to
28:56
Speaker 14: be cabinet minister, because it's how effect changed. It's eighty
28:59
Speaker 14: to one hundred hours a week continuous, that includes you know,
29:02
Speaker 14: that's seven days a week. It's not a job for
29:04
Speaker 14: the faint heart. And you lose contact with your mates,
29:06
Speaker 14: and you know, you don't see much time with your family.
29:08
Speaker 14: So you know, I'm not I want to pay a
29:12
Speaker 14: sub story here, but I do want to say, you know,
29:15
Speaker 14: I've got a business I've started. I'm really enjoying it.
29:17
Speaker 14: I'm loving the fact that I can go ahead and
29:19
Speaker 14: beer with my mates and not have some clown with
29:21
Speaker 14: a cell phone take a photo of them and put
29:22
Speaker 14: it up on social media. So the reason if I
29:25
Speaker 14: get back in department, the reason I am is just
29:27
Speaker 14: un finished business. I think the stuff that needs to
29:29
Speaker 14: be done to make this country better than it is,
29:32
Speaker 14: and you know, and the opportunity to do that exists are.
29:36
Speaker 2: You actually have you officially have you put a submission
29:40
Speaker 2: in to be you know, is there an official consideration
29:43
Speaker 2: actually happening.
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Speaker 14: No, it's with every party. There's a nomination process. They
29:48
Speaker 14: haven't open with the Jilm First yet, so you know
29:51
Speaker 14: there's a process to go through. Obviously, by attending in
29:54
Speaker 14: Gilm first conference, I said the pretty clear message that
29:56
Speaker 14: that's when my politics live these days. And if I
29:59
Speaker 14: have to go back into part but that's it would be.
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Speaker 2: What is your understanding of Winston ruling out working with labor?
30:04
Speaker 2: Is it just on the chippy?
30:06
Speaker 14: Well, he my understands he's never actually ruled out working
30:09
Speaker 14: with labor. He's ruled out working with Hipkins, and so
30:14
Speaker 14: you know it presents an instant dilemma for Labor if
30:16
Speaker 14: they end up with say thirty six percent and zero
30:18
Speaker 14: Thirsty end up with sixteen. But you know that's obviously
30:21
Speaker 14: a discussion way above my pay grade. I mean, I'm
30:24
Speaker 14: not even one.
30:26
Speaker 2: But such an important question, isn't it? Because the right
30:29
Speaker 2: felt they were completely dicked over by Winston Peters when
30:33
Speaker 2: he went with just Sinda return.
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Speaker 14: Well, again, that's that's a question you'll have to put
30:38
Speaker 14: to Winston The bottom line is is that there's a
30:42
Speaker 14: lot of water going to the bridge. I think there's
30:44
Speaker 14: a whole lot of people on the left or no,
30:46
Speaker 14: not the left or the center, which is where my
30:48
Speaker 14: politics sort of stands. That they look at the party
30:51
Speaker 14: marriage they're just a protest movement. They really are. You
30:53
Speaker 14: look at the Greens and what Chloe wants to do,
30:56
Speaker 14: you know, Hipkins, Hipkinsesster come out and say, you know,
30:59
Speaker 14: show some balls and say, okay, am I going to
31:02
Speaker 14: rule out working putting a capital gains text? And am
31:04
Speaker 14: I going to rule out putting a wealth text? In
31:06
Speaker 14: Chloe wants to increase the text rate for corporates at
31:10
Speaker 14: a point in time when our economy needs priming, not stifling.
31:13
Speaker 14: There's a whole lot of questions that hip contested will
31:15
Speaker 14: answer question for voters before anyone would I think even
31:20
Speaker 14: consider the left. But again that's a decision for Winston.
31:22
Speaker 14: There's a lot of water to go onto the bridge
31:24
Speaker 14: at that point.
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Speaker 2: To Stuet, appreciate your times. Stuart Nash, Formal Labor Cabinet,
31:27
Speaker 2: mister potential future in New Zealand First Minister. Time is
31:29
Speaker 2: eight minutes away from sex Ryan. The blood moon is
31:32
Speaker 2: a fizz. This is from Hillsborough. Blood moon is a fizz. Yeah,
31:36
Speaker 2: but it's an eclipse, isn't it? So it does go
31:39
Speaker 2: dark at some point. Mike's next get ahead of the
31:44
Speaker 2: headlines on an early edition with.
31:46
Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one roof love.
31:48
Speaker 2: Where you live, News Talks B, two powerball players. You're
31:52
Speaker 2: on news Talks THEREB in Missouri and Texas have one
31:55
Speaker 2: wait for it, three billion New Zealand dollars. This is
31:58
Speaker 2: a lottery jack and I was over in Australia last
32:02
Speaker 2: week and got a seven of them. I think it
32:05
Speaker 2: was eighty million dollars. Was their Thursday draw anyway, didn't win.
32:08
Speaker 2: Mike's here now, Good morning Mike. You went and bought
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Speaker 2: a ticket. I did. Four people won, so it was
32:13
Speaker 2: eighty million. Four people won twenty million each.
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Speaker 10: Right, that's a massive once you play for your ticket.
32:18
Speaker 2: I think it was twenty five.
32:21
Speaker 10: Australian dollars, so about eighty seven New Zealand dollars.
32:25
Speaker 2: So yes, but I saw eighty million dollar Thursday draw
32:29
Speaker 2: and how can you walk past that?
32:32
Speaker 10: Oh my god?
32:33
Speaker 2: And then I went, actually, you'll love this, Mike. I
32:35
Speaker 2: went online last night and looked at the website to
32:37
Speaker 2: see whether i'd won, because I thought, if I do it,
32:40
Speaker 2: if I went, I don't have to go to work tomorrow.
32:42
Speaker 10: Would you not?
32:43
Speaker 2: No? I would? I would because I loved doing this
32:46
Speaker 2: job for things other than money.
32:48
Speaker 10: But I see that doesn't come across as credible.
32:51
Speaker 2: And it is credible. But I anyway, I was looking
32:54
Speaker 2: at it. And you can actually buy tickets to the
32:56
Speaker 2: Australian Lottery from New Zealand. You did, so.
32:58
Speaker 10: Why are you going to buy some?
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Speaker 14: Now?
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Speaker 13: No?
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Speaker 2: But why would you bother with New Zealand's pitarly one
33:03
Speaker 2: million a week?
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Speaker 10: Or it's a fair point. Did you pick your own numbers?
33:07
Speaker 2: No? Which I think we just got random? Yeah, random
33:10
Speaker 2: they pick.
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Speaker 10: Do you regret it now?
33:12
Speaker 2: I do? Yes.
33:12
Speaker 10: So you spent a lot of money, You're lost and
33:15
Speaker 10: you should have done it differently.
33:17
Speaker 2: Came home unhappy.
33:19
Speaker 10: Un least you came home and the flight flight was
33:20
Speaker 10: on time?
33:22
Speaker 2: Yes, flight was.
33:23
Speaker 10: The airport is an experience.
33:24
Speaker 2: Aukland Airport is a work in progress as always. But no,
33:29
Speaker 2: actually generally you're pretty good. There's a lot of construction
33:33
Speaker 2: still happening obviously, so it's halfway house.
33:37
Speaker 10: I suppose at this point I say something like we
33:39
Speaker 10: missed you. Well, is that what you're supposed to say? Well, no,
33:41
Speaker 10: you don't have again. Disingenuous. Christopher Laxen is with us
33:47
Speaker 10: a smoke and we've got razor on because after you know,
33:50
Speaker 10: you've got to celebrate that, don't you That rugby of old,
33:52
Speaker 10: wasn't it?
33:54
Speaker 2: Great? Results? All right? Looking forward to Mike next see
33:57
Speaker 2: them I over run have a great day.
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