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Full Show Podcast: 19 June 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: an early edition with ex Pole insulation keeping Kiwi homes
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Speaker 1: warm and dry this winter news talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be good morning Thursday. It is six after five.
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Speaker 2: Great to have your company coming up on the show.
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Speaker 2: We've got quarter one GDP out today and we're going
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Speaker 2: to speak to a really successful Kiwi manufacturing business here
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Speaker 2: to see how they're firing, because we've had numbers sort
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Speaker 2: of jumping around a little bit on manufacturing. Be interesting
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Speaker 2: to get an insight this morning. We'll get to a
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Speaker 2: US correspondent before six o'clock as well. Trump's still mulling
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Speaker 2: getting involved in the Middle East acc claims which sports
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Speaker 2: are the worst offenders? Few surprises for you there. Census
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Speaker 2: is gone, it's good, Sleeping drugs are in, that's good.
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Speaker 2: And Erica Stamford on the visa changes, more visa changes
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Speaker 2: for the Chinese. That's ahead.
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Speaker 3: The agenda Thursday to nineteenth June.
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Speaker 2: I may do it, I may not. That's the words
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Speaker 2: of the Trump deciding whether to join Israel's strikes on
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Speaker 2: a run.
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Speaker 4: I mean, nobody knows what I'm going to do.
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Speaker 1: I can tell you there's that Aram's got a lot
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Speaker 1: of trouble, and they want to negotiate, And I said,
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Speaker 1: why didn't you negotiate with me before all this death.
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Speaker 2: To Meani, this is around Supreme Leader warning Trump to
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Speaker 2: back off.
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Speaker 5: Please no, But America's intervention in this matter is one
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Speaker 5: hundred percent to their detriment. What they will suffer in
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Speaker 5: this regard is much greater than what's a run they suffer.
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Speaker 2: Now, the US Supreme Court has ruled that Tennessee can
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Speaker 2: limit or fully ban gender transition care for young people. Basically,
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Speaker 2: banning puberty blockers for under eighteens is not discrimination.
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Speaker 6: It gives a way for other states who are either
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Speaker 6: preparing this type of legislation.
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Speaker 3: Or already have it.
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Speaker 6: And for these people, their voices and their way to
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Speaker 6: be heard was now just cut short back home.
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Speaker 2: A record number of our teachers are working past retirement age.
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Speaker 2: About ten percent of the total workforce are over the
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Speaker 2: age of sixty five. Here is a six eight year
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Speaker 2: old teacher who's been in the workforce for twenty years.
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Speaker 7: I know that in reality we should have for younger
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Speaker 7: teachers coming through the problem is that our younger teachers
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Speaker 7: are getting qualified and disappearing.
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Speaker 2: Not sure, Yeah, plus the young ones can't do maths.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they were brought up in the cities, they
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Speaker 2: were raised in the and taught in the very system
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Speaker 2: that's failing you know. The same system that's starting our
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Speaker 2: kids today is the one that failed them, you know
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Speaker 2: what I mean. So it's good to have some older teachers.
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Speaker 2: Around eight minutes after five.
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Speaker 3: The first word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 3: edition with.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and ex fol Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm
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Speaker 1: and dry.
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Speaker 3: This winter news talk said, be good morning. Now.
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Speaker 2: My alarm goes at one of those unholy hours, like
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Speaker 2: many of you probably if you're awake listening at this time.
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Speaker 2: Most days, it's fine, you know, and you get maybe
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Speaker 2: you get five hours sleep, maybe you get six hours
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Speaker 2: sleep if you're lucky. Maybe you have a nap during
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Speaker 2: the day, you know, lying around the house on the couch,
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Speaker 2: if you get some time. I've never been a good
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Speaker 2: sleeper personally, which is why I'm absolutely fizzing frothing at
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Speaker 2: the mouth about the government gonna basically give us malatonin
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Speaker 2: over the counter without a prescription. I've always found it
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Speaker 2: old that you could get hardcore, proper sleeping pills from
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Speaker 2: the doctor on prescription and they were subsidized. I always
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Speaker 2: found that wed if you wanted malatonin, which is way
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Speaker 2: more natural it's basically the same chemical that your body
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Speaker 2: produces when you go to sleep, you had to not
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Speaker 2: only get a prescription for it, but you also had
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Speaker 2: to pay fifty dollars a pop for the medication instead
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Speaker 2: of paying five dollars or whatever, which for you knock
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Speaker 2: me out cold ones. Wouldn't they prefer you had a
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Speaker 2: more natural one? Anyway? I don't care who cares that's coming.
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Speaker 2: This is good and it's gonna make a massive difference
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Speaker 2: to people. I think. Nothing like a good night's sleep.
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Speaker 2: I actually know. I won't say who, But there was
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Speaker 2: a New Zealand Prime minister who I was traveling on
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Speaker 2: a plane with once on a on a like a
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Speaker 2: trade mission. It was a government plane and an air
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Speaker 2: Force plane, and I saw that they had a stash
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Speaker 2: of malatonin in their bag and it was purchased overseas,
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Speaker 2: and I said, oh, where did you get that from?
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Speaker 2: And this person said, America, And you're not meant to
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Speaker 2: do that. If you import it from America, you can
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Speaker 2: have it taken off you are customs, you know, or
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Speaker 2: if you have it sent over. You can take have
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Speaker 2: it taken off you, or you could have it taken
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Speaker 2: off you at the airport. Now, you don't normally get
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Speaker 2: search when you're on these Air Force on jets, so
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Speaker 2: this particular prime minister didn't. But there you go. Even
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Speaker 2: the prime ministers were breaking the rules. Same thing goes
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Speaker 2: actually for this announcement yesterday about mushrooms and depression, why
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Speaker 2: not give it a go? And then you think, why
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Speaker 2: do we have so many rules, so much red tape,
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Speaker 2: unnecessary nonsense around medications in the first place, And most
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Speaker 2: of the time the answer is simply that nobody has
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Speaker 2: stepped in and questioned it before. So thank god somebody
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Speaker 2: is doing that. And maybe we'll get eight hours sleep
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Speaker 2: out of an evening eleven after five, Ryan Bred coming
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Speaker 2: up next, we'll talk about the census as everybody is
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Speaker 2: celebrating the fact, celebrating its demise. I mean, what a
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Speaker 2: waste of time and they already have enough information. Apparently
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Speaker 2: a couple of fish trucks will get to the.
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Speaker 3: Next get ahead of the headlines on an early edition with.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and ex Fole Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm
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Speaker 1: and dry.
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Speaker 3: This winter news talks a'd.
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Speaker 2: Be five point thirteen nine two ninety two is the
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Speaker 2: number to text We'd love to hear from you this morning.
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Speaker 2: Latest IPSOS New Zealand Issues Monitor. This is basically a
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Speaker 2: survey of one thousand New Zealanders conducted immediately after the budget.
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Speaker 2: And if you're a fan of this coalition government then
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Speaker 2: you might want to close your ears. National has lost
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Speaker 2: New Zealander's confidence in managing inflation in the cost of
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Speaker 2: living according to this, with voters instead trusting labor more
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Speaker 2: to handle what they consider the primary issue. So the
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Speaker 2: issue number one is constant living and they think that
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Speaker 2: labor has the edge over National and taming it. Overall,
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Speaker 2: labor was considered more capable in handling eleven of the
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Speaker 2: top twenty issues health, housing, education, transport, immigration, unemployment, National
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Speaker 2: on top and only three the economy, crime, defense, and
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Speaker 2: foreign affairs. Now you might be scratching your head when
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Speaker 2: you're listening to that, because you think, hang on, a minute,
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Speaker 2: is how short it are people's memories. But when the
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Speaker 2: cost of living is one of those things, it is
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Speaker 2: a politician's worst nightmare because you look at the price
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Speaker 2: of butter and you hate the person in power. It
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Speaker 2: happened to just cinder. It's happening to luxon. I don't
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Speaker 2: think that's going to reflect an election outcome or have
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Speaker 2: any bearing on it. That is a completely different kettle
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Speaker 2: of fish. But there you go. That's the way people
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Speaker 2: are feeling today. Quarter past five, Bryan Bridge should go
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Speaker 2: one of the days of the five year census yesterday
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Speaker 2: it was scrapped by the government and instead agencies will
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Speaker 2: use data they already collect, like ird numbers that will
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Speaker 2: be provided by smaller scale surveys. Rema vy THEA. Nathan
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Speaker 2: is the director of the Center for Social Data Analytics
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Speaker 2: at Analytics at a UT And that's with me this morning. Remember,
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Speaker 2: good morning, good morning man. Did we need the census?
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Speaker 7: Well, not at that price, my goodness. On twenty five
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Speaker 7: million dollars to do a census of two million households.
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Speaker 7: My eyes were watering when I saw that number. So
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Speaker 7: that is incredibly expensive and I think that that needs
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Speaker 7: to be looked at, frankly. But yeah, given the price,
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Speaker 7: given it's every five years, and you know, we can
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Speaker 7: use that been data now to do an annual census
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Speaker 7: and that's much more useful than waiting, you know, for
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Speaker 7: five years to find out what's happening. So I think
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Speaker 7: this is a really good move.
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Speaker 2: Lots of other countries have already done this, haven't they.
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Speaker 2: They're using administrative data, and lots of other countries would
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Speaker 2: only do it every ten years anyway, not five exactly.
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Speaker 7: And you know, it's it's kind of really people think, oh,
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Speaker 7: the census is accurate. Well, it's accurate for you know,
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Speaker 7: the twenty fifth of March twenty twenty three, and then
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Speaker 7: you know what, people left the country, other people were born,
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Speaker 7: you know, people moved house, and it's not accurate anymore.
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Speaker 7: So you know, the degree of accuracy is how close
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Speaker 7: to in time you are to the snapshot of your population.
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Speaker 7: So I think that moving to admin data that can
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Speaker 7: give us real time information. You know, I sort of
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Speaker 7: call the census as if my bank gives me annual
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Speaker 7: bank balances for me to decide on what I'm going
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Speaker 7: to buy and I'm going.
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Speaker 8: To you know what I earn.
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Speaker 7: It's I think it's time has come.
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Speaker 2: Ch appreciate your input this morning. That's Rema Vi, thea
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Speaker 2: Nathan who's with aut There you go again, this is
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Speaker 2: like the malatonin thing. We do things and you know,
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Speaker 2: whether it's regulations or whether it's a census, or whether
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Speaker 2: it's a particular law or a visa. We're about to
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Speaker 2: talk about Chinese visas with Erica Stanford, because we've just
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Speaker 2: always done them, and then every year and then you start,
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Speaker 2: you set up a department and their jobbers to do it,
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Speaker 2: and so every year they do it. But every now
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Speaker 2: and then you need someone to come along and say,
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Speaker 2: why are we doing this? Do we need to spend
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Speaker 2: twenty five million dollars every five years on a census
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Speaker 2: that doesn't mean anything? Clearly the answer is no, So
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Speaker 2: good riddance. Eric Annext seventeen after five, News Talk said, be.
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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 x full Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm
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Speaker 1: and dry this winter.
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Speaker 2: News Talk said b I'll have the acc snapshot numbers
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Speaker 2: for you in a second. It's what sports are causing
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Speaker 2: the most injuries. Also will get to the latest from
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Speaker 2: the Honorable, the right Honorable Winston pieces our foreign me.
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Speaker 2: They've evacuated a couple of our staff out of Tehran
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Speaker 2: overnight just gone twenty after five. Now more visa changes
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Speaker 2: for Chinese visitors on the way from November. Chinese passport
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Speaker 2: holders will no longer be required to obtain a transit visa.
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Speaker 2: We're traveling through New Zealand airports. This means no visa
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Speaker 2: application fees when traveling through to say South America and
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Speaker 2: beyond Erica. Stanford is the Minister and with me this morning.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, minister, good morning, how are you good? Thank you?
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Speaker 2: What do we think this will do? What effect will
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Speaker 2: this have?
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Speaker 4: Although we're a number of great things for New Zealand.
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Speaker 4: I mean, firstly, it'll boost our terrorism numbers. We know
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Speaker 4: that our tourism numbers aren't where they need to be,
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Speaker 4: especially our Chinese visitors. They're still lagging it around sixty
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Speaker 4: five percent pre COVID, So anything we can do to help.
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Speaker 4: But also if you think about our trade as well,
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Speaker 4: I mean, this will significantly increase the amount of freight
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Speaker 4: that will come in and out of China but also
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Speaker 4: across to South America as well. It also bring down
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Speaker 4: freight prices, freight prices which you know are pretty high.
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Speaker 4: The other thing which I think people are probably not
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Speaker 4: thinking about, but I'm thinking about as well as our
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Speaker 4: international education. So if you think about South America, we
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Speaker 4: want more international students coming from South America at the moment,
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Speaker 4: there is I saw them a monopoly on flights. There's
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Speaker 4: only one company doing it. Now you'll have more, so
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Speaker 4: I'll bring that price down of being able to get
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Speaker 4: across from South America. So I'm hoping that we'll also
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Speaker 4: see an increased number of international students out of South
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Speaker 4: America as well.
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Speaker 2: All right, minister, let's talk about the weird thing that's
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Speaker 2: happening with the government. So why is any Why won't
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Speaker 2: anybody just say, you know, China's not on our visa
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Speaker 2: free list? Right, And I've asked. I asked the Prime
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Speaker 2: Minister about this on Monday. I heard him aster about
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Speaker 2: it because he's over in China at the moment, and
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Speaker 2: he won't say why they're not on the visa free list.
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Speaker 2: Can you just say, categorically, what risk do they pipe?
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Speaker 2: Why aren't they on there?
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Speaker 4: Most countries aren't on a visa free list.
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Speaker 8: The reason we have to look at it is because it's.
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Speaker 4: Because there's there's risk with every country. Every country has
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Speaker 4: a certain risk. There's loads of different risks. If you
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Speaker 4: don't China, for example, Well, if you look at China
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Speaker 4: for example, they're our second largest market for asylum seekerds right,
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Speaker 4: and so there are lots of other countries we have
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Speaker 4: asylum seekers from as well, but it's just one of
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Speaker 4: the considerations. But the main thing is also it's a
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Speaker 4: huge piece of work to undertake a big program of
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Speaker 4: looking at whether or not we should make a country
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Speaker 4: visa free, and that would be an immigration piece of work.
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Speaker 4: We are absolutely up to our eyeballs and immigration with
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Speaker 4: our work program. There is literally nothing else we can
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Speaker 4: add it and without me taking something else of a
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Speaker 4: huge piece of work. So I don't have the time
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Speaker 4: to do it. But what I can do is the
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Speaker 4: two things you've seen.
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Speaker 2: We worried just so weakly. We're worried that we would
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Speaker 2: be overwhelmed with asylum seekers if we did visa free
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Speaker 2: from China.
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Speaker 4: You're putting words into my market and say overwhelmed. They
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Speaker 4: said that they are the second largest country that we
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Speaker 4: have asylum seekers from. It's one of the risks.
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Speaker 2: Right, But what is the benefit? What is the benefit though,
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Speaker 2: because we're still only that sixty percent of pre COVID
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Speaker 2: levels for tourism from China, when we're living more than
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Speaker 2: a billion bucks on the table at this point, is
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Speaker 2: it not worth looking at or do we not do
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Speaker 2: we not even want to go there.
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Speaker 4: There are a couple of other things we've done just
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Speaker 4: recently which I think will bring the numbers back that
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Speaker 4: are a lot easier, safer, risk free. If you look
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Speaker 4: at what we've just done recently, we've announced the fact
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Speaker 4: that China, China, these past beholders can come in through
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Speaker 4: Australia visa free. Now we're expecting that to increase tourism
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Speaker 4: numbers by ten to twenty percent. When I say Chinese
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Speaker 4: visitors are back to sixty five percent, that's arrived on sure.
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Speaker 4: The actual figure that's more interesting is eighty five percent
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Speaker 4: of the pre COVID numbers of Chinese visitors have been
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Speaker 4: approved of visa, which means they haven't you sit yet
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Speaker 4: because they're on their way. So if you add that
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Speaker 4: eighty five percent to what we think are going to
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Speaker 4: come to Australia plus this, I think we'll be back
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Speaker 4: to we'll be back to pre pandemic numbers as without
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Speaker 4: me having to do months and months and months of
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Speaker 4: work that we don't have time to do twice.
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Speaker 2: Also, you know, adding I think you have answered the
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Speaker 2: question quite sufficiently. I appreciate it. Thank you, unlike your boss,
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Speaker 2: just spit it out anyway. I appreciate you coming on
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Speaker 2: the show, Minister, have a great day, Eric Stan, thank you.
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Speaker 2: Immigration Minister twenty five after five year on News Talks.
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Speaker 2: He'd be some thoughts on Matadiki week in your head
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Speaker 2: of course the time will you reflect and observe things
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Speaker 2: around you? Basically I'll do a bit of that next.
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Speaker 2: Also the front page of the Hell this morning about
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Speaker 2: the cop who lowered the standards for the physical test.
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Speaker 2: It's a Michael Morrin special and we will get to
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Speaker 2: the US just before six News Talks FB.
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Speaker 2: News TALKSB five twenty seven. Good to have your company.
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Speaker 2: World's a bit of a mess at the moment, isn't it,
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Speaker 2: to say the least. And I'm as guilty as the
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Speaker 2: next person of complaining about the tyranny of distance in
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Speaker 2: New Zealand. But the fact is we're bloody lucky to
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Speaker 2: live this far across the ocean and out of harm's way.
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Speaker 2: We're at least ten thousand kilometers away from the nearest
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Speaker 2: nuclear weapon launch site, which is good to know. Put
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Speaker 2: that on your list of things to be grateful for
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Speaker 2: this morning. Whether it's in shinjong In Province in China
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Speaker 2: or the Pacific coast of the US, doesn't mean we're
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Speaker 2: immune to threats and fallout from conflict, nor should we
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Speaker 2: ignore them. And Foreign Minister Winston Peters certainly isn't. This
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Speaker 2: week he said he had never seen such an uncertain
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Speaker 2: geostrategic set of circumstances as the ones we are currently
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Speaker 2: living through. And that's Winston. We had a report out
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Speaker 2: this week that for the first time since the Cold War,
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Speaker 2: we are replacing old war heads quicker than we are
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Speaker 2: getting rid of them, so, in other words, for the
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Speaker 2: first time, there will be an overall increase in nuclear weapons.
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Speaker 2: This is in the coming years. No matter how far
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Speaker 2: from the front lines we may be and how safe
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Speaker 2: we may feel as a consequence, it doesn't mean we
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Speaker 2: don't or shouldn't care about the rest of the world.
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Speaker 2: We love traveling us Kiwis. We love exploring and experiencing
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Speaker 2: all the complexities and all the difference that the world
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Speaker 2: has to offer, and in doing so we lend to
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Speaker 2: appreciate our own backyard just a wee bit more. This
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Speaker 2: Martiki weekend, I'll be taking a moment to be grateful
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Speaker 2: that when I look up to the night sky, I
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Speaker 2: will see stars rather than incoming missiles and drones. Centy
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Speaker 2: nine after five nine nine two. The numbers of text,
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Speaker 2: lots of your text coming in actually on. That's particularly
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Speaker 2: on the poll that came out earlier, and Erica Stamford
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Speaker 2: and the Chinese visas. We'll get to those after we
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Speaker 2: talk to our reporters. Reporters coming up next. By the way,
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Speaker 2: Winston Peter's put out a release this morning saying we
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Speaker 2: shouldn't be if you're in, if you're a Kiwi in
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Speaker 2: Iran or in Israel, we told you to get out.
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Speaker 2: We won't be able to get you out till after
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Speaker 2: the fighting stopped, and we don't know when that will be.
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Speaker 2: News talks HEB.
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Speaker 3: News and views you trust to start your day.
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Speaker 1: It's earlier this ship with Ryan Bridge at Expol Insulation
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Speaker 1: keeping Kiwi homes Ward and Drey this winter news talk
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Speaker 1: said B.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, it is Thursday morning. Great to have your company.
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Speaker 2: The nineteenth June. Some great news for our horticulture sectly
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Speaker 2: coming your way. The numbers on acc the sports that
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Speaker 2: are worse for us, and getting injured Also we'll get
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Speaker 2: to the UN the United States inside the next quarter
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Speaker 2: of an hour and update on Trump and Iran and
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Speaker 2: all that stuff. Nothing major has happened to inform you of,
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Speaker 2: but some more posturing. Also, lots of texts coming in
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Speaker 2: and the oh, we've got a statement from Winston. I
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Speaker 2: haven't read that to you yet. I'll get that in second. Ryan,
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Speaker 2: the cost of living. This is after the survey came out.
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Speaker 2: The whole result came out from IPSOS this morning. Ryan,
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Speaker 2: the cost of saying. Basically, labor has leap frogged national
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Speaker 2: on the cost of living issue. Ryan, the cost of
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Speaker 2: living is directly caused by Labour's legacy of mismanagement. Leaving
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Speaker 2: the cupboard bit, Ryan, people obviously forget when Cinder got in,
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Speaker 2: I won't say won the election, because she came second
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Speaker 2: and promised to build ten thousand state homes a year.
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Speaker 2: How did that go? Should they get back in? The
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Speaker 2: sign at the airport will read for the last person leaving,
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Speaker 2: please turn the lights off. Best Leo, thanksfully for your message.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I understand what you're saying, but I think people,
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Speaker 2: I just think voters deal with what's in front of them.
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Speaker 2: Cost of butter is high milk's expensive. Hate government. I mean,
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Speaker 2: that's what we did when labor was in. I mean,
19:05
Speaker 2: you could definitely argue their policies, and you should. Their
19:09
Speaker 2: policies caused a lot of that nonsense. But that's just
19:12
Speaker 2: the way voters are. You know, they see what's in
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Speaker 2: front of them and then they fire off blame. That's
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Speaker 2: how it works. That's politics twenty two and I guess
19:21
Speaker 2: that's where you need good communicators to come in and
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Speaker 2: sell a story that contradicts it or gives them hope
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Speaker 2: that you might be able to change something. Twenty two
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Speaker 2: to six. Brian our reporters around the country, Callum Proctor
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Speaker 2: and Dnedan This morning, Callum, good morning morning. Right now,
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Speaker 2: you've got this student bottle store, student in a student
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Speaker 2: quarter and the wowses are coming for it, are they? Yeah?
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Speaker 5: They are.
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Speaker 9: This is Leithlickerland in Doneda. That's right across the road
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Speaker 9: from this university here. The city Council's District Licensing Committee
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Speaker 9: today is considering whether it should close at nine o'clock
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Speaker 9: nine pm instead of ten pm to reduce the risk
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Speaker 9: of alcohol, field violence and off license renewal applications been
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Speaker 9: opposed by the Medical Officer of Health delegate, the delegates saying, look,
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Speaker 9: this could exacerbate existing problems around binge drinking and public
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Speaker 9: submissions if we don't close this thing earlier. There's also
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Speaker 9: an objection from Bid Christani, the father of students Sophia Christani.
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Speaker 9: You'll remember who died at a Dunedin flat party in
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Speaker 9: twenty nineteen. Police have submitted an interim opposition and the
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Speaker 9: hearing four Leath Liquor Land is at ten this morning.
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Speaker 9: All right, and how's your wear that Colum find today?
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Speaker 9: Nor Easterlies and thirteen. Thank you Courtney Winter and christ
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Speaker 9: Church for us this morning.
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Speaker 10: Hey Courtney, good morning Ryan.
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Speaker 2: You are also talking about booze.
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Speaker 10: Yes, so it's d day for christ Church's local alcohol policy.
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Speaker 10: Our city council down here will today decide whether to
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Speaker 10: progress on their draft plan, which includes banning retail sales
20:49
Speaker 10: after nine pm and freezing new licenses and low income communities.
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Speaker 10: It's heard more than four hundred submissions on the matter.
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Speaker 10: Millfilm Majors. There's absolutely an alcohol related harm problem in
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Speaker 10: this city.
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Speaker 8: He says.
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Speaker 10: Forty people a day go through accident emergency on alcohol
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Speaker 10: related things may Jersey's council's got four hours to make
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Speaker 10: a decision today, but downs it looks gonna take that long.
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Speaker 10: As everyone's thinking the plan is on the right track.
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Speaker 2: How's your weather today, Courtney, partly.
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Speaker 10: Cloudy areas of morning, frost, northeasterlies turning northwesterly towards the afternoon.
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Speaker 10: Are high of sixteen.
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Speaker 2: Fantastic. Thank you so much, Courtney. And Max's and Wellington
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Speaker 2: this morning, Max, good morning, good morning, positive news for
21:33
Speaker 2: Sir Peter Jackson. And oh, this is the movie museum
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Speaker 2: down in Lyle Bay.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, well, yeah, it has been Lyle Bay, it's been
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Speaker 11: Shelley Bay, it's been Mirrormit, it's been all over the place.
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Speaker 11: But the good news is it's still alive and there's
21:45
Speaker 11: an active resource consent being sought for Shelley Bay. The
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Speaker 11: plans are all more scaled back than what we've seen
21:52
Speaker 11: in the past. It's obviously now in the council's hands
21:55
Speaker 11: as well. So Peter Jackson owns a lot of land
21:57
Speaker 11: around Wellington, as you say, Lyle Bay's Shelley Bay, around
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Speaker 11: the air on the peninsula. He's also at the same
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Speaker 11: time paying for the renovation of the old barracks where
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Speaker 11: the Chocolate Fish Cafe once stood, very close to where
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Speaker 11: this museum would be along that coastline, close to where
22:11
Speaker 11: Ian Castle's abandoned development would have been. You've got to
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Speaker 11: give it to the guy. He whether you like his
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Speaker 11: vision or not, he's still all in on the capitol.
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Speaker 2: Hey. Can I just take congratulations for a positive news story?
22:25
Speaker 2: How's the weather?
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Speaker 11: I will take it, thank you, cloudy with rain later
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Speaker 11: stronger winds fourteen the high central.
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Speaker 2: All right, thanks, Next, have a good day. I have
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Speaker 2: a good long weekend. I should say neither. Good morning,
22:36
Speaker 2: Good morning? Look at you? Have you hit a new year?
22:39
Speaker 12: Cut and beard trimmed?
22:40
Speaker 2: Got maybe be a done yesterday? Wow, Raphael down at
22:44
Speaker 2: Paris barber and shortened street.
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Speaker 12: Really it's quite different, very handsome, looks good.
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Speaker 2: Quite short, quite short. Yeah. No, I wanted to look
22:53
Speaker 2: because I realized, you know, well, we're both doing this, yes,
22:56
Speaker 2: show that we're on camera. Yes, And it's annoying having
22:59
Speaker 2: to shave more often. So I forge the shorter I
23:02
Speaker 2: can get him to do it right, then the longer
23:04
Speaker 2: I can go between shaves.
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Speaker 1: Good plan.
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Speaker 12: I thought, mum, your mummy might have said something. She oh,
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Speaker 12: I saw you on the Oh no, you're skilled, but I.
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Speaker 2: Thought you were gonna say mum, which was going to
23:17
Speaker 2: shave it. Mum used to cut so I'm one of
23:21
Speaker 2: three boys and mum used to cut out here because
23:24
Speaker 2: excuse to go to the barber for three boys. But anyway,
23:26
Speaker 2: she used to cut it. And you know how normally
23:28
Speaker 2: you do your side burns, they come down beside this, Yeah,
23:31
Speaker 2: they come across and they go back up. She just
23:34
Speaker 2: used to angle above your ear and just trop the
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Speaker 2: whole thing off. Oh wow, most embarrassing thing to go
23:39
Speaker 2: to school with.
23:40
Speaker 12: My dad cut my hair once. He because I used
23:42
Speaker 12: to have really really long hair. And this was when
23:44
Speaker 12: I was, you know, about eight or nine, and my
23:47
Speaker 12: mother plaured my hair and then my father just cut them.
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Speaker 3: There was a plant.
23:50
Speaker 12: It wasn't even strange. I remember going to my room
23:55
Speaker 12: and cry is crying.
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Speaker 2: I remember crying a lot after hair cuts too.
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Speaker 12: On these young people, they don't know how lucky they are.
24:03
Speaker 2: The nose piercings and long hair and colored everyone sharp
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Speaker 2: blue and purple. Anyway, weather weather.
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Speaker 12: Fog before dawn otherwise fine, a bit of a mixed bag.
24:14
Speaker 12: We've got cloudy conditions. Then rain developing tonight. Seventeen is
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Speaker 12: the high, but it should be lovely for the long weekends,
24:21
Speaker 12: and you'll be able to see the star cluster.
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Speaker 2: Honestly, I can see the excitement is a little glint
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Speaker 2: in your eye.
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Speaker 12: No, I don't have to get up at three am tomorrow.
24:32
Speaker 2: I'm so happy, very happy. All right, we'll see you
24:34
Speaker 2: later on. That's Neva for you this morning. It's seventeen
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Speaker 2: minutes away from six. Y're on news Talk. There b
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Speaker 2: are a correspondent out of the United States Donald Trump's
24:42
Speaker 2: how to press conference on Iran. We will get to
24:44
Speaker 2: that shortly plus just before six o'clock this morning. It's
24:49
Speaker 2: completely slipped my mind what we're talking about, but anyway,
24:52
Speaker 2: we'll talk about that. Oh, that's right. It's manufacturing. We've
24:55
Speaker 2: got a we've found a small but mighty manufacturing business Auckland,
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Speaker 2: seventy five staff, three locations. We want to check the
25:04
Speaker 2: pulse because we're getting our quarter one GDP data out today,
25:07
Speaker 2: so we'll do that just before six News Talk SEBB
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Speaker 2: Quarter one GDP data out soon well out this morning.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to that in just a second, just gone
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Speaker 2: fourteen away from six on newstalk seed b Winston Peters
25:18
Speaker 2: has put out a release this morning on Iran. He says,
25:20
Speaker 2: if you are a key we there, we did warn
25:23
Speaker 2: you that you should get out earlier. Anyway, now there's
25:25
Speaker 2: not much of a chance to if you're either in
25:27
Speaker 2: Israel or Iran. Flights obviously affected, airspace affected, but he
25:32
Speaker 2: says they're looking at options for evacuating once it's safe
25:35
Speaker 2: to do so, coordinating with the Australians. By the way,
25:37
Speaker 2: overnight the newslet on embassy in Tehran was closed. Two
25:41
Speaker 2: staff members and their families were evacuated. They went by
25:44
Speaker 2: land to Azerbaijan and they did this because there was
25:49
Speaker 2: basically an opportunity. There was embassy staff from other countries,
25:52
Speaker 2: from other Allied countries who were taking their people out
25:56
Speaker 2: and so we got involved with that and that they
25:57
Speaker 2: are now safe in Azerbaijan's urting to.
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Speaker 1: Sex International Correspondence with ins and Eye Insurance peace of
26:05
Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 2: I Meanwhile, we watch and whites Trump and his comments
26:10
Speaker 2: on the situation in the Middle East. He's done a
26:13
Speaker 2: media staying up a short time ago. Katie for Share
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Speaker 2: our US correspondent well US Caddy what's he saying, Well.
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Speaker 13: He's not doing anything to end this speculation as to
26:23
Speaker 13: whether or not the US is going to go in
26:25
Speaker 13: and help Israel in its strikes in Iran. He basically said, look,
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Speaker 13: I may or I may not. Nobody knows what I'm
26:35
Speaker 13: going to do. He suggested it wasn't too late for negotiations. Still,
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Speaker 13: but the Iran Supreme Leader has dismissed Donald Trump's calls
26:45
Speaker 13: for an unconditional surrender, and he has warned that the
26:49
Speaker 13: Americans should know that any US military intervention will undoubtedly
26:54
Speaker 13: be accompanied by quote irreparable damage. So we still don't
26:59
Speaker 13: have a clear idea of what the US president intends
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Speaker 13: to do, but we do know that it's causing some rift,
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Speaker 13: some divisions within his Republican party, who generally, up until
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Speaker 13: this point in his second presidency, have been completely in
27:14
Speaker 13: lockstep with him, supporting everything that he's done. But here
27:18
Speaker 13: we see some of his right wing cheerleaders like Tucker Carson,
27:22
Speaker 13: who used to be on Fox News, and Marjorie Taylor
27:24
Speaker 13: Green coming out and saying that by going into this
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Speaker 13: Iranian war, it would mean that Donald Trump was turning
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Speaker 13: his back on his America First policy. He promised in
27:35
Speaker 13: his inauguration that he would not be starting wars, he
27:39
Speaker 13: would be ending them, and so this would go really
27:43
Speaker 13: against that. Then you've got others like Senators Lindsay Graham
27:46
Speaker 13: and Ted Cruz who want him to go forward and
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Speaker 13: join as well in this fight against Iran.
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Speaker 2: Katie, thank you for that up there, Katie Fisher, our
27:54
Speaker 2: US correspondent on Trump and Iran. It is living minutes
27:58
Speaker 2: away from six. We get quarter one GDP data out today.
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Speaker 2: We were expecting an increase of point four, that's according
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Speaker 2: to the economists. Now they reckon something more like point
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Speaker 2: seven for the quarter. Manufacturing data looks strong for quarter one,
28:13
Speaker 2: but things are potentially more dicey for quarter two. David
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Speaker 2: Sways is the CEO of Dodson Group. This is a manufacturer,
28:20
Speaker 2: seventy five staff across three manufacturing plants in Auckland and
28:25
Speaker 2: it's with us for the lowdown. David, good morning, Thanks
28:28
Speaker 2: for having me on RAN. Great to have you here.
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Speaker 2: So you're a manufacturer, you're an export. It's a niche market.
28:35
Speaker 2: Can you just give us some idea of what it
28:36
Speaker 2: is you do?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, So with us known for the dating line of
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Speaker 8: our high performance car parts, that we make here in
28:43
Speaker 8: Auckland and we distribute internationally. So those are transmission parts,
28:48
Speaker 8: so they're upgrade parts to they kind of fast cars faster.
28:53
Speaker 8: And then we also manufacture precision components for other New
28:57
Speaker 8: Zealand manufacturers and exports or so things like precision precision
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Speaker 8: metal parts, gears, gearboxes. So we're really kind of on
29:06
Speaker 8: the front end of the economic cycle and we get
29:08
Speaker 8: a get a good look early. We're usually kind of
29:12
Speaker 8: six months ahead of you know, kind of the data
29:14
Speaker 8: that's coming out in the news and what the central
29:17
Speaker 8: banks point notes. We get a good kind of early
29:19
Speaker 8: look at what's happening in the economy.
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Speaker 2: Does that mean right now things are actually okay for
29:24
Speaker 2: you Yeah?
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Speaker 8: I mean look for us, I would say things probably
29:28
Speaker 8: turned a corner in like February March time print, and
29:32
Speaker 8: we actually feel pretty good about what's happening out there.
29:34
Speaker 8: I know, you know, there was the weak print on
29:37
Speaker 8: the p m I last month, and that surprised us
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Speaker 8: a little bit because you know, it hasn't shown up
29:43
Speaker 8: in the order book. I think maybe there was there's
29:45
Speaker 8: been some trepidation on you know, what's coming out of
29:47
Speaker 8: the US. But I think overall I mean, you know,
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Speaker 8: order books are holding up pretty strong, and uh, you know,
29:55
Speaker 8: for the good news out of this GDP print is
29:58
Speaker 8: the you know, wages worked have been about flat and
30:02
Speaker 8: I know that doesn't sound good for workers, but that
30:04
Speaker 8: that implies productivities up and that's good for the economy
30:09
Speaker 8: and that's good for the standard of living of New Zealand.
30:12
Speaker 8: To see that productivity, uh, you know, back on it
30:15
Speaker 8: on the type of curve and type of increases that
30:18
Speaker 8: we want to see. So and I think any business
30:21
Speaker 8: you know who who who you know had their head
30:24
Speaker 8: in the right place over the last two years when
30:26
Speaker 8: things were slow, was investing in the business to try
30:29
Speaker 8: to come out, you know, with a productivity increase on
30:32
Speaker 8: the other side once things picked up. And I know
30:34
Speaker 8: that's certainly certainly where we're at right now.
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Speaker 2: That's fantastic to hear and certainly reflected in that survey
30:40
Speaker 2: we saw from two degrees this week how businesses are
30:44
Speaker 2: feeling about productivity, which is always one of our big problems.
30:47
Speaker 2: David appreciate that. David Swize, CEO of Dodson Group, which
30:51
Speaker 2: is a manufacturer. They do basically precision manufacturing. It's a
30:55
Speaker 2: niche market, but precision manufacturing. It's high horse power, exalted cars.
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Speaker 2: Mike would drive. He's here next News Talk SVB.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on earlier Isha with Xpol insulation, keeping Kiwi
31:09
Speaker 1: Holmes warm and try this Winter News TALKSB six.
31:12
Speaker 2: To six News Talks. Heb just before your Matadiki weekend
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Speaker 2: and one of our listeners, who was Sarah, said, Ryan,
31:19
Speaker 2: you referred to an interesting topic and then you moved
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Speaker 2: on and didn't get to explaining it. Sorry, Kate said that, Kate,
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Speaker 2: I apologized. It was ACC twenty twenty four, ACC excepted
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Speaker 2: two million injury claims, one point six million kiwis covered,
31:32
Speaker 2: cost seven billion dollars. Four point four billion of that
31:36
Speaker 2: went towards rehabilitation expenses. And here's your sports that I
31:40
Speaker 2: was mentioning the most expensive one. Sports and recreation makeup
31:44
Speaker 2: twenty three percent of claims. Fitness training at the gym.
31:47
Speaker 2: That's CrossFit normally rugby union bad, football bad, cycling bad
31:53
Speaker 2: and netball. I would have thought horse riding would be
31:55
Speaker 2: on there, but there are obviously on enough people doing it.
31:57
Speaker 2: The largest group of claims by volume is fitness training
32:01
Speaker 2: at the gym five to six Bridge, might you be
32:05
Speaker 2: doing a bit of that.
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Speaker 14: Well, I don't get injured though. That's the difference. There's
32:08
Speaker 14: something wrong with us, or is there? Do you think
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Speaker 14: those numbers sixteen thousand people, by the way, claims on
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Speaker 14: gardening gardening injuries.
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Speaker 2: Gardening's normally older people and older people are frail. Yeah,
32:21
Speaker 2: But the point is.
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Speaker 14: What's the system for See if the systems for people
32:24
Speaker 14: like you can't work, therefore you need to cover your income.
32:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, for a period of time.
32:28
Speaker 14: So this is the problem with the whole no fault system.
32:31
Speaker 14: So you can do it, I mean you and I
32:32
Speaker 14: must have. I've been at the doctor a number of
32:34
Speaker 14: times and gone, yeah, I've got a bit of this
32:36
Speaker 14: and a bit of that, and they go, well, that's
32:37
Speaker 14: ACC and I've gone, no way, there's no way I'm
32:40
Speaker 14: filing for ACC.
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Speaker 2: You don't. No, absolutely, always claim, always pad of claiming.
32:46
Speaker 2: Have you claimed? Have you been on ACC? Well no,
32:49
Speaker 2: I've never had to claim for getting to work or
32:52
Speaker 2: been out of work, right, but I've claimed on physio
32:55
Speaker 2: for gim injuries. Really, ye, one hundred percent, I'm doing
32:58
Speaker 2: it right now.
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Speaker 14: What's the metal with that limp?
33:03
Speaker 2: The limp is something else? Is that just natural?
33:05
Speaker 14: That a strange gait.
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Speaker 2: I don't have a strange That's not what they're saying here.
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Speaker 2: What people are saying.
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Speaker 14: I just wondered that's an ac seed.
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Speaker 2: Have you seen the inside of a gym?
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Speaker 14: By the way, do you know exactly I've got a
33:17
Speaker 14: gym at home. I've got two gyms. Don't tell me
33:20
Speaker 14: any other weights?
33:22
Speaker 2: Are you using cans of pictures? You know? Have you
33:26
Speaker 2: picked up a dumbbell in your LuFe? Two cans each side?
33:29
Speaker 8: Line?
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Speaker 2: It's four cans?
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Speaker 14: No, it's it's just that what's the point if you're
33:34
Speaker 14: going to be spending billions? Which and the point of
33:36
Speaker 14: the story is we don't have the money. Is the
33:39
Speaker 14: difficult because everybody is injuring themselves and and and a
33:44
Speaker 14: no fault system doesn't seem to work. So you're bringing
33:46
Speaker 14: the roses, you fall over the next thing, you're getting
33:48
Speaker 14: thousands of dollars. It's a weird system. Anyway, You've insulted
33:52
Speaker 14: me enough, your programs, leave the studio.
33:54
Speaker 2: All right, have a great week long weekend everybody and
33:57
Speaker 2: Android might show next.
33:58
Speaker 4: So you day.
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