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Full Show Podcast: 24 July 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: early edition with ex pole insulation, keeping Kimi Holmes warm
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Speaker 1: and try this winter news Talk said, be good morning.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to Thursday, just gone six minutes after five. Coming
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Speaker 2: up on the show this morning, we'll get to the
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Speaker 2: bottom of the transgender guidelines in sport. Is this all
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Speaker 2: a storm and a tea cupnos before six? Vincent mcavnie
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Speaker 2: out of the UK for us this morning? Who's hiking
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Speaker 2: our great walks? You might be surprised to see the numbers.
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Speaker 2: We have a new report on homelessness which will run
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Speaker 2: you through this morning. And you know that ad campaign
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Speaker 2: everyone must go. The government says it's been a stonking success.
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Speaker 2: We'll give you those numbers this morning too.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It is Thursday, the twenty fourth of July. More than
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Speaker 2: one hundred AID agencies saying that a mass starvation event
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Speaker 2: is happening in Gaza humas reckons ten of diet of nutrition.
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Speaker 2: Just in the last twenty four.
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Speaker 3: Hours, I saw children again walking through the streets with
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Speaker 3: empty looking for food, children walking with antea bottles looking
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Speaker 3: for water, children listless, children visibly sen We were at
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Speaker 3: a tipping point in Gaza's I've never seen anything like
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Speaker 3: this in my whole career of over twenty years working
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Speaker 3: in this section.
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Speaker 2: The UN Security Council is going to hold an urgent meeting,
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Speaker 2: so that'll solve things, won't it. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has
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Speaker 2: a trade deal with Japan. They just saying the largest
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Speaker 2: trade deal in history, I think maybe the largest deal
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Speaker 2: of history with Japan.
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Speaker 4: And that was done with Japan.
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Speaker 2: They had their top people here and we worked.
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Speaker 1: On it long and haired and it's a great deal
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Speaker 1: for everybody.
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Speaker 2: So the interesting part about this is Japanese vehicles their
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Speaker 2: tariffs will be cut from twenty five or actually twenty
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Speaker 2: seven point five to down to fifteen percent, so they're
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Speaker 2: very happy. Companies like nis and and Zeki very happy today.
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Speaker 2: Senden thing underway. For Idaho killer Brian Coburger, who stared
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Speaker 2: four university students to death in twenty twenty two, the
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Speaker 2: courtroom has been listening to emotional victim impact statements. This
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Speaker 2: one of the surviving roommates have a listen because.
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Speaker 5: Of him, for it beautiful, genuine, compassionate for.
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Speaker 3: You, pall.
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Speaker 5: We're taken from.
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Speaker 3: This world for no reason.
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Speaker 5: He didn't just take their leaves he took the weight
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Speaker 5: that carried it into every room. He took away who
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Speaker 5: they were becoming in the futures they were going to have.
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Speaker 2: He keeps his life. By the way, he avoided the
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Speaker 2: death penalty because he pleaded guilty earlier this month and
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Speaker 2: never given a motive. By the way, no idea why
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Speaker 2: he did that. Tributes have been flowing in for rock
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Speaker 2: legend Ozzie Osborne. He died yesterday at the age of
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Speaker 2: seventy six. Alton John says he was quote one of
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Speaker 2: the funniest people I've ever met. While rolling stones. Guitarist
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Speaker 2: Ronnie wood his final concert at Villa Park was described
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Speaker 2: as a glorious way to say goodbye.
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Speaker 1: Brian Bridge on early edition with an ex bol insulation
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Speaker 1: keeping Kili homes warm and try this winter news talks'b.
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Speaker 2: Finton mcaviniel have more reaction to that, by the way,
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Speaker 2: after a news at five point thirty this morning. So
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Speaker 2: a couple of things to run you through. I'll just
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Speaker 2: start with this International Court of Justice in the Hague
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Speaker 2: coming out with a ruling overnight. So what happened was
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Speaker 2: there was a group of students, young people from Vanuatu.
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Speaker 2: One of the Pacific Islands who decided they take a
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Speaker 2: case all the way through their government, all the way
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Speaker 2: to the International Court of Justice in the Hague about
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Speaker 2: climate change, and the International Court of Justice will wait
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Speaker 2: for it. You can probably imagine a landmark decision from them.
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Speaker 2: They have cleared the way for countries to do each
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Speaker 2: other over climate change. So I presumably a Pacific island
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Speaker 2: could sue India or China for its coal fired power
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Speaker 2: production that heats the planet. So that's that's they have
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Speaker 2: given the all clear. Yep, you can start suing the
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Speaker 2: hell out of each other. Lawyer up, is what they've said.
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Speaker 2: But here's the problem. How do you prove how do
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Speaker 2: you untangle who calls which part of climate change? Now
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Speaker 2: the ruling non binding could have wide ranging consequences. Well,
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Speaker 2: it's non binding, so let's settle down for a second.
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Speaker 2: It's non binding. And also, how would you ever prove
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Speaker 2: because you know, this is just off the cuff here,
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Speaker 2: but I think we feed something like forty million people
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Speaker 2: with our produce every year, you know, with our meat,
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Speaker 2: with our dairy. Yet we're a country of five million.
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Speaker 2: Do we take on you know, with methane emissions? Do
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Speaker 2: we take on all of that responsibility. What about the
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Speaker 2: forty million people who are eating our food? Are they
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Speaker 2: going to shoulder They're part of that burden. Where do
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Speaker 2: you stop? How do you prove this?
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Speaker 4: So?
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I suppose they've got to decide something
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Speaker 2: in practice. How will that actually work? Eleven after five,
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Speaker 2: news Talks said, be, we've got some new transgender well
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Speaker 2: a cancelation of some transgender guidelines in school, which will
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Speaker 2: interest you. We'll get to that a little later, but
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Speaker 2: next we'll look at these homelessness numbers with Chinese tapsle ondor.
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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 x Fole insulation keeping Kiwi
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Speaker 1: Holmes warm and dry. This winter news Talk said, be.
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Speaker 2: It is thirteen minutes after five. Everyone Must Go was
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Speaker 2: the campaign that we launched at the Aussies. Unfortunately a
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Speaker 2: lot of New Zealanders looked at the ad and left
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Speaker 2: in winter Australia. But in terms of tourism, the government
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Speaker 2: reckons it's been a stonking success. Their press release on
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Speaker 2: this this morning take that tourism campaigner hit with Aussies
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Speaker 2: because they caught some flat fruit, so they reckon they
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Speaker 2: forecast they would get an additional six thousand, seven hundred
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Speaker 2: and fifty tourists to the country, and this is over
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Speaker 2: autumn ended up significantly exceeding expectations. Tourism New Zealand stats,
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Speaker 2: according to Louise Upston, say that they got nine hundred
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Speaker 2: and eighty one visitors, smashing the initial forecast eight hundred deals.
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Speaker 2: Apparently this is how they did it. You get the
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Speaker 2: tourism operators to offer deals, so they had eight hundred
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Speaker 2: deals from four hundred and fifty operators, included accommodation, transport,
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Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. How much did it cost us?
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Speaker 2: Half a million dollars and an additional three hundred thousand dollars.
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Speaker 2: But if those numbers are to be believed and you
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Speaker 2: can attribute them to the campaign, then you'd have to
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Speaker 2: say that it has been successful. Quarter past five Brian.
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Speaker 2: Finally we got some numbers on homelessness and not that
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Speaker 2: pretty Nearly five thousand kiwis a living across the country. Now,
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Speaker 2: we looked at the census data that's the most recent
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Speaker 2: and solidly reliable, a thirty seven percent jump between twenty
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Speaker 2: eighteen and twenty twenty three. Auckland has seen aspite Christ
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Speaker 2: Church up Taranaki up a two hundred and fifty fifty
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Speaker 2: percent in just six months. One of the regions facing
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Speaker 2: homelessness is Rota do Atania Tapsle's the mayor with me now,
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Speaker 2: Hi Tanya, good morning, Good to have you on the show.
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Speaker 2: Do you think it's going up in your area?
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Speaker 6: Well, we've actually had targeted intervention to get it down,
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Speaker 6: but what we have seen is probably there's a lot
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Speaker 6: of transient people across the country, so you know, as
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Speaker 6: emergency house, your motiles, clothes, or they're not able to
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Speaker 6: find accommodation, they're starting to go to other regions. And
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Speaker 6: it's been interesting because we've recently had the local government
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Speaker 6: conference where I spoke with other mayors who were saying, hey,
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Speaker 6: we're getting your homeless or hey, they're coming from Auckland again.
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Speaker 6: So I think it's good that the government's looking at
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Speaker 6: a national approach because you know what blew my mind.
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Speaker 6: At present, over five hundred and fifty million dollars it's
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Speaker 6: spent annually on this half.
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Speaker 2: A billion we're spending on homelessness agencies, multiple agencies, transitional housing,
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Speaker 2: housing first rapid rehousing, other support services. Do you think
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Speaker 2: more because this will inevitably be the call Tanya, we
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Speaker 2: need more money for more wrap around services. Is that
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Speaker 2: going to solve it?
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Speaker 6: No, I don't. And actually what I really acknowledge Minister
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Speaker 6: Bishop and also Minister Pawtucker on is when I looked
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Speaker 6: at their latest report that's come out, they're really focusing
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Speaker 6: on funding what works, so not only about better utilizing
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Speaker 6: existing programs quote, but also funding what works. And this
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Speaker 6: is actually really smart because we've seen this significant waste
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Speaker 6: of money on emergency housing motiles where the motalitias are
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Speaker 6: the only ones succeeding. They're getting really rich millions of
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Speaker 6: dollars a year and actually it's bad for the communities
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Speaker 6: and it's not safe for those in the homes. So
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Speaker 6: definitely the housing Growth program is working. That's why we've
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Speaker 6: seen a significant reduction in it. To do it, we
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Speaker 6: almost finished all of our emergency house emotiles by the way.
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Speaker 7: That's great.
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Speaker 6: But what we really need to do, and what the
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Speaker 6: government has been pretty good at eiven on board, is
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Speaker 6: focusing on how do we stop this like for good.
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Speaker 6: It's not only about addressing the urgent issue, but how
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Speaker 6: do we go Hey, there's a real problem in our country.
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Speaker 6: How do we stop people being at risk of homeless
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Speaker 6: and when they do come up on the systems, how
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Speaker 6: do we assist them appropriately?
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Speaker 2: Tony, you said that at the start of this interview
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Speaker 2: about people coming between Who are these people that go
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Speaker 2: between regions?
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Speaker 6: So it was quite interesting. In the report as well,
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Speaker 6: they looked at the demographic breakdowns of those who are
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Speaker 6: living without shelter, and the median age was actually fifty
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Speaker 6: five years and often the biggest reason was, and I
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Speaker 6: think it was around about sety percent off the top
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Speaker 6: of my head, was people who have had a relationship
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Speaker 6: breakdown or a breakup, And honestly, that's what I was
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Speaker 6: hearing from the people in the motowns as well. So
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Speaker 6: you know, people are living tough, they're going week to
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Speaker 6: week and sometimes there is a genuine need for transitional housing.
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Speaker 6: But what I acknowledge is that there's a clear message
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Speaker 6: that we will end the large scale use of motels
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Speaker 6: for emergency house.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's definitely on the way out, Tony. Thank you, Tonya.
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Speaker 2: Tap swort or through a mere time is eighteen minutes
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Speaker 2: after five. There is interesting stuff in this report, including
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Speaker 2: it talks about insurance. So you've got private landlords who
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Speaker 2: are pulling out of providing community housing and community housing
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Speaker 2: providers pulling out of providing that help because they can't
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Speaker 2: get insurance. Why because the people who are needing the
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Speaker 2: help increasingly on meth anti social behavior, severe mental health,
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Speaker 2: and so insurance companies up the premiums because if you
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Speaker 2: put someone like that in the house, the chances of
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Speaker 2: being destroyed are actually quite big. Just gone nineteen after
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Speaker 2: five news talks there b and we'll talk about the
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Speaker 2: dock huts. Who's staying in our dock huts on our
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Speaker 2: Great Walks. Numbers might surprise you.
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Speaker 1: That's next get ahead of the headlines on early edition
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Speaker 1: with Ryan Bridge and ex Fole Insulation, keeping Kiwi, Holmes
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Speaker 1: warm and Drey this winter news talks.
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Speaker 2: They'd be twenty one after five. Good news for our
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Speaker 2: dock sites this morning. More than six hundred thousand beds
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Speaker 2: were being booked at dock huts, campsites and Great Walks
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Speaker 2: over the summer, bringing in more than thirteen million bucks.
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Speaker 2: Doc says sixty percent of those walk the tracks were
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Speaker 2: domestic travelers. That's up twelve percent on the summer before.
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Speaker 2: Meghan demes Aantos as president of the Federated Mountain Clubs
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Speaker 2: joining me this morning. Hi Meghan, sure to Ryan. Good
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Speaker 2: to have you on the show. So is this just
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Speaker 2: because we've got more kiwis doing it or fewer, you know,
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Speaker 2: foreign tourists here. What's the situation?
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Speaker 8: Well, I think you may have also noticed that doc
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Speaker 8: said that they were back to ninety three percent of
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Speaker 8: their pre COVID level. So I don't think it's because
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Speaker 8: there's there's less international tourists here that I guess. We
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Speaker 8: live in such a beautiful so why not get out
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Speaker 8: in it? But yeah, I guess there's probably a couple
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Speaker 8: of reasons. And I think the ease of getting information
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Speaker 8: to start out in the great outdoors is relatively easy.
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Speaker 8: You know, there's relatively low barriers to entry, and I
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Speaker 8: think I think that's that's one of the main reasons
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Speaker 8: why we're seeing more and more people pick it up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting. This report says that fifty percent of
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Speaker 2: foreigners who come here ahead to a national park, which
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Speaker 2: is great, and also that the tourism on public conservation
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Speaker 2: land is actually worth three and a half billion dollars
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Speaker 2: a year.
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Speaker 8: I know, wouldn't it be great to see more A
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Speaker 8: figure more commensurate to that come through in the budget
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Speaker 8: for doc as well.
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Speaker 6: Well.
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Speaker 2: I was going to ask you do you think we're
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Speaker 2: charging enough for the dock huts, the nightly stay. I mean,
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Speaker 2: we would probably need to subsidize people who couldn't afford it.
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Speaker 2: But do you think if they're always full or they're full,
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Speaker 2: do we charge more so that we can fix the tracks?
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Speaker 8: Yeah. Look, it's a it's an interesting debate to have,
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Speaker 8: and and like you mentioned, it's really important that we
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Speaker 8: don't that we don't price people out of their their
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Speaker 8: own backyard. I think that that probably a question that
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Speaker 8: that should also be asked is whether potentially dock providing
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Speaker 8: an opportunity that's a little bit too elaborate as well.
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Speaker 8: You know, I think that toning down their ever standards
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Speaker 8: would be the equivalent to to charging more and people
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Speaker 8: would still have a great experience.
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Speaker 2: What suit, What do you mean get rid of the
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Speaker 2: toilet paper?
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Speaker 8: No, not really, I mean I mean I think things
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Speaker 8: like you know, if you if you look at the
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Speaker 8: cost of when of of of the build of great
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Speaker 8: wall cuts and tracks, and they have really hyper kilometer
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Speaker 8: cost compared to other types of tracks. But also things
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Speaker 8: like provide gas and hearts, which costs a lot of
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Speaker 8: money because you have to fly in providing split firewood.
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Speaker 8: You know, potentially they could look at providing rounds that
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Speaker 8: people split on site themselves, which is all part of
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Speaker 8: the experience has been in the back country. So I
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Speaker 8: think that there's a few ways that the department could
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Speaker 8: avoid having to keep increasing crisis.
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Speaker 2: Interesting, Meghan, that's really I hadn't thought of that before.
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Speaker 2: But there is always cut firewood, isn't there, And often
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Speaker 2: if it's a busy hout, there's gas. That is Meghan
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Speaker 2: Demos Aantos, the president of Federated Mountain Clubs, talking about
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Speaker 2: those numbers of dock cuts. How would you feel turning
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Speaker 2: up and having to cut your own firewood? I mean
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Speaker 2: you couldn't do it in some conditions, obviously, nine the
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Speaker 2: number to text just gone twenty five after five. Will
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Speaker 2: get to a bit more detail on those homeless figures
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Speaker 2: in a second, and also we'll figure out what's going
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Speaker 2: on with Trump and trade in Japan.
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Speaker 1: The early edition full the show podcast I Am Radio
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Speaker 1: How It by News.
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Speaker 2: Talks IVB News TALKSB twenty seven minutes after five. You've
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Speaker 2: got a text in which is I'm going to speak
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Speaker 2: to you about homelessness, but this is the kind of
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Speaker 2: text that I was wanting to address. So Ryan, the
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Speaker 2: government and Christopher Luxen are proud of the way that
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Speaker 2: they're dealing with homelessness. Are you kidding me? He's a
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Speaker 2: frickin idiot, says this Texter. It's harder to get and
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Speaker 2: keep a benefit, harder to get social housing, and abolishing
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Speaker 2: emergency housing in motels. I wonder what they have to
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Speaker 2: be proud of. Well, there is a new political battlefront
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Speaker 2: opening up on homelessness. Nobody wants to see streets dotted
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Speaker 2: with tents like they do in San Francisco and downtown LA.
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Speaker 2: So we've got this report to Tama Paultucker doesn't nail
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Speaker 2: the problem. There are basically more people living rough, but
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Speaker 2: we can't say for sure how many more, and even
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Speaker 2: if we could, how statistically significant the change might be.
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Speaker 2: But because we had census data, we know it got
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Speaker 2: way worse under labor, up thirty seven percent from twenty
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Speaker 2: eighteen to twenty twenty three. The councils are reporting what
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Speaker 2: your economists might call high frequency data that things are
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Speaker 2: getting worse. So stuff like phone calls and reports are concerned.
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Speaker 2: They're getting from the public the real question, which is
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Speaker 2: the basis of what the opposition's upset about. Did the
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Speaker 2: government's crack down on emergency housing cause a wave of homelessness,
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Speaker 2: you know, homeless refugees camping out on the streets as
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Speaker 2: a result. That's the question. And here's the numbers. The
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Speaker 2: number of households living in emergency motels is down by
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Speaker 2: seventy five percent. Eighty five percent, or at least eighty
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Speaker 2: percent of them went on to some form of housing.
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Speaker 2: So that's great. They managed to smash through the list
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Speaker 2: and get most people housed. That's a success, surely. And
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Speaker 2: this is where Labour's claim gets a bit murky. Declines
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Speaker 2: so people applying for the emergency housing declients are on
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Speaker 2: the increase, but mostly rejected because their client either wasn't
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Speaker 2: eligible or could be helped in another way. Increase in
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Speaker 2: homelessness doesn't necessarily mean the emergency accommodation changes were a disaster.
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Speaker 2: In fact, the numbers would, at least on the face
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Speaker 2: of them, appear to show it's been wildly successful at
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Speaker 2: getting people out of motels and into actual homes, including
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Speaker 2: by the way, two thousand children.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge twenty nine minutes.
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Speaker 2: After five, News Talk SEBB get to Vincent mcavnie out
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Speaker 2: of the UK after news our reporters around the country.
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Speaker 2: News Talk SEBB.
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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 ex Fole Insulation keeping Kili Holmes warm
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Speaker 1: and dry. This winter News Talk set by.
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Speaker 5: The Pumpey.
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Speaker 3: Morning.
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Speaker 2: It is tw twenty four away from six. You're on
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Speaker 2: Newstalk sev B. I've got some numbers for you on renting.
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Speaker 2: It's slightly related to the homeless topic we've done for
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Speaker 2: the last half hour, but this is on renting, so
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Speaker 2: and it's good. It's good results. In fact, the first
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Speaker 2: sort of good news if you're a renter. Potentially since
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Speaker 2: as far back as two thousand and nine, so this
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Speaker 2: is a fall in the amount, well the increase in rents.
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Speaker 2: So New Zealand rental markets started to swing in favor
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Speaker 2: of tenants. This is according to a core Logic Catality
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Speaker 2: report this morning. Obviously your contributors are easing migration, so
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Speaker 2: you've got few people coming in here, You've got an
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Speaker 2: increase in supply of the stock and so as a result,
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Speaker 2: takes the heat out of the rents. So your national
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Speaker 2: median rent in the three months to May was down
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Speaker 2: zero point three percent from last year. Sure it's not massive,
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Speaker 2: but it is the first time that has decreased since
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Speaker 2: two thousand and nine. Auckland Meeting weekly rent dropped two
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Speaker 2: percent to four percent over the past year to six
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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty bucks. Wellington City. Well, no surprise there
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Speaker 2: a decline of point eight down to six hundred and
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Speaker 2: two dollars total. On that christ Church. You're also softer.
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Speaker 2: It is twenty two away from six Bryan, just go
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Speaker 2: to our reporters around the country, Colums and nenedanculum longest
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Speaker 2: running longitudinal study, the Dnedian Study. We like to talk
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Speaker 2: about it and it's set to help international policies now, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it is.
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Speaker 9: This is the Denedan Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, Ryan,
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Speaker 9: it's collaborating with the OECD now to help policymakers around
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Speaker 9: the world understand how early life experiences shape whether we
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Speaker 9: thrive or struggle in the future. The Denedan Study follows
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Speaker 9: the lives of more than a thousand babies born into
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Speaker 9: need in between nineteen seventy two and seventy three. The
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Speaker 9: study highlights the importance of using birth cohort data to
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Speaker 9: improve social policy discussions globally, and so researchers say this
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Speaker 9: study will now help inform those type for social policies.
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Speaker 2: Around the world. All Right, how's your weather.
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Speaker 9: It's another freezer? Fine, but morning frosts this morning nor
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Speaker 9: the least developing the heights today thirteen.
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Speaker 2: All right, thank you Claires in christ this morning, Claire,
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Speaker 2: good morning. Now you've got a new poll, have you
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Speaker 2: the mayors? Yes? So.
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Speaker 10: The Taxpayer's Union Curier poll has revealed that Phil Major
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Speaker 10: has surged nineteen points in popularity this quarter. That makes
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Speaker 10: him the most popular mayor when it comes to big
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Speaker 10: city mayors. Interestingly, though, he is still quite a distance
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Speaker 10: from the best in the country. In fact, he's twenty
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Speaker 10: six on a list of fifty three from right across
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Speaker 10: the country that includes the big cities as well as
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Speaker 10: the small town's. Coming in at number one, though, is
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Speaker 10: another Canterbury name why Muck and Eddi's Dan Gordon. For Auckland,
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Speaker 10: Dwayne Brown's popularity has held steady at sixteen points. Wellington's
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Speaker 10: Torrey Farno's improved, but she's still minus eighteen Now. Taxpayers
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Speaker 10: Union's James Ross says Major's big swing comes in line
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Speaker 10: with his support of rates capping. He says the takeaway
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Speaker 10: for other mural candidates from this poll is that they
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Speaker 10: should follow christ Church's footsteps as clearly something is working.
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Speaker 2: Clearly it is how's you wear the clear?
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Speaker 10: A bit of frost about here too clearing too fine,
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Speaker 10: northeasterlies and the high will be twelve brilliant.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Mex and Wellington Rex good morning. We've got
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Speaker 2: a guilty verdict in the Kendala murder trial.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, this came through last night. This trial really crept
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Speaker 11: into people's consciousnesses in Wellington and indeed nationally. Julia Deloney
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Speaker 11: accused of murdering her elderly mother in her suburban home
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Speaker 11: over reported money problems. Deloney accused of stealing from the
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Speaker 11: seventy nine year old, became a little too obsessed with
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Speaker 11: crypto investments, didn't trust banks, would stash bags of cash
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Speaker 11: around her home, including in her freezer. A jury deciding
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Speaker 11: yesterday evening she did indeed fatally assault her mother Gregory,
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Speaker 11: and then stage the scene, moved the body, tried to
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Speaker 11: make it look like an intruder had come in. Possibly
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Speaker 11: a case of mistaken identity. An audible gasp or cry
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Speaker 11: from the packed public gallery when the verdict was read
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Speaker 11: out last night. The court has been packed all trial long.
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Speaker 11: Deluney herself appeared to be fighting back tears. Sentencing now
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Speaker 11: September five.
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Speaker 2: Okay, how's your wear? The max A cold.
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Speaker 11: Start here as well, but mostly fine today with later.
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Speaker 11: When's thirteen the high Thank you?
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Speaker 2: Neva's in Auckland, Neva, good morning, good morning? Should I
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Speaker 2: say Neva or should I say missus Claus?
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Speaker 12: Actually, people out there set I'd be a great missus Clause.
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Speaker 12: It would be, but I don't like children, so that's
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Speaker 12: not a good star.
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Speaker 2: Plus what do you actually do? For most of the
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Speaker 2: year you're overseeing a factory line, your slave labor.
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Speaker 12: People thinking what are they talking about? It's an early
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Speaker 12: start for center recruitment with the old and new centers
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Speaker 12: jingling and mingling. This is happening over the next two days,
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Speaker 12: starting in Auckland today. So the event is run by
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Speaker 12: talent agencies, Scene to Believe and is going to christ
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Speaker 12: Church tomorrow apparently, so this is where people come together.
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Speaker 12: She had tips and learn new center skills. So the
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Speaker 12: hunt is also one for people to join the growing crew.
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Speaker 12: You need photographers, the ol missus claws. Apparently it's a
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Speaker 12: very lengthy process, so recruit it's got to start now.
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Speaker 2: I don't understand learn new Santa skills. You just sit
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Speaker 2: there but with a beard on and this day and.
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Speaker 12: Age though, you know, like do you sit on the
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Speaker 12: sanded Nana? Do you sit on the label?
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Speaker 2: I don't know. So you think maybe they need a
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Speaker 2: good six months for security checks the background.
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Speaker 12: I think they do and walk and talk and pose
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Speaker 12: as well as work with the children and say, you know,
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Speaker 12: like what do kids say?
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Speaker 1: Do they still say?
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Speaker 12: Can I have this and this and this and this?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they give you a list presumably, but I mean
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Speaker 2: in terms of poses, you're completely covered from here to time. Yeah,
23:38
Speaker 2: give me a smise.
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Speaker 12: Even as a kidn't get Did you go to those
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Speaker 12: big departments stores? No?
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Speaker 1: I didn't either.
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Speaker 2: Well, ours was Coastlin's the rhythm of the coast, and
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Speaker 2: there wasn't much rhythm. How's that? We there? Fine?
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Speaker 12: Morning frosts and shelter places. Fifteen is a high here
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Speaker 12: today in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant. Thank you. That's Neva in Auckland and the rest
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Speaker 2: of our team around the country eighteen minutes away from
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Speaker 2: six here on news, Talk to Bible, get to Vincent
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Speaker 2: Mecavinie out of the UK next. Some reaction, strong reaction
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Speaker 2: from big British pop stars to the death of Ozzie Osbourne.
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Speaker 1: International correspondence with ins and eye insurance, peace of mind
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Speaker 1: for New Zealand business, big.
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Speaker 2: Change on the way, potentially big change on the way
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Speaker 2: for trains, athletes and sports. We'll get to ventness sick
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Speaker 2: and right now though, we're going to Vincent Mecavinie, our
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Speaker 2: UK correspondent, Vincent. A huge reaction outpouring to the death
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Speaker 2: of Ozzie Osbourne. Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 4: About twenty four hours ago the news broke that the
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Speaker 4: legendary rocker had passed away. We're still not sure what
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Speaker 4: exactly happened, but we now understand an air ambulance was
24:41
Speaker 4: to dispatched to his home and paramedics battled for two hours,
24:46
Speaker 4: we understand to try to save him, but sadly he
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Speaker 4: passed away. He had had health struggles in recent years
24:52
Speaker 4: following a Parkinson's diagnosis. The tributes have been pouring in
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Speaker 4: from across the music industry, from not just rock bands,
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Speaker 4: but from the life of Elton John as well members
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Speaker 4: of Rolling Stones paying tribute to him, his musical legacy
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Speaker 4: and him being just a generally funny person, many have remarked.
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Speaker 4: And so in his hometown of Birmingham, which is in
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Speaker 4: the Midlands, the city in the Midlands of the UK,
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Speaker 4: tributes have been laid there, lots of people gathering to
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Speaker 4: pay tribute to him, a city which he had played
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Speaker 4: indeed his farewell show less than three weeks ago.
25:24
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the malnutrition, the mess, starvation of it's being called
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Speaker 2: now in Gaza. Is anyone in Europe seriously sanctioning Israel
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Speaker 2: over at Yeat or are they threatening to No?
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Speaker 4: I mean there was a letter that went out yesterday
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Speaker 4: from about twenty six nations, including the UK, which said
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Speaker 4: that this must be stopped, and today one hundred international
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Speaker 4: aid organizations writing saying that not only are the people
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Speaker 4: of Gaza wasting away, but also NGO workers, doctors, humanitarians
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Speaker 4: in Gaza trying to assist themselves are now suffering little
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Speaker 4: food getting through in the disbursement method having been taken
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Speaker 4: away from sort of the UN to this sort of
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Speaker 4: Israel America backed so called humanitarian foundation where they're the
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Speaker 4: sort of doing instead of multiple small sites, these big
26:13
Speaker 4: sites where we've seen these mass shooting incidents. People now
26:16
Speaker 4: simply starving, not getting enough food and water, and the
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Speaker 4: doctors and nurses themselves trying to help out apparently getting
26:24
Speaker 4: too weak to be able to do so. Something we've
26:26
Speaker 4: heard as well from AFP, the French journalists organization. They're
26:30
Speaker 4: saying that their reporters on the ground are sort of
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Speaker 4: two weak now to carry out their duties because there's
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Speaker 4: just simply not enough food in medicine getting in appreciate.
26:39
Speaker 2: Your time, Vincent make of Any, a UK correspondent, just
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Speaker 2: gone twelve minutes away.
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Speaker 1: From six Bryan Bridge, so.
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Speaker 2: If you're just joining us this morning. The government has
26:46
Speaker 2: told Sport New Zealand to scrap its transgender guidelines. Can
26:51
Speaker 2: like completely scrap them. It was originally ours to review them,
26:54
Speaker 2: now being told just stay out of it altogether. Thank
26:56
Speaker 2: you very much. Individual sports organizations will continue to make
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Speaker 2: the call around gender and community sport. Row Edges from
27:04
Speaker 2: Save Women's Sport joins me this morning, road, Good morning.
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Speaker 7: Good morning Lane.
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Speaker 2: They were only guidelines to begin with. Is this a
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Speaker 2: big deal?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it is because unfortunately Sport you're doing to hold
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Speaker 7: the funding leaders for sports throughout the country, and so
27:17
Speaker 7: they all felt compelled to adopt them. You know, like,
27:21
Speaker 7: we really welcome this decision to dump them because it
27:24
Speaker 7: supported boys and men in the male advantage playing and
27:26
Speaker 7: girls and women's sport, And it was an ideological policy
27:30
Speaker 7: that while the intent I know was honorable, it was
27:33
Speaker 7: obviously injectives to include males who identify as females and
27:36
Speaker 7: women's sport couldn't be done without compromising FeNiS and safety
27:39
Speaker 7: for our female athletes.
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Speaker 2: This is we're talking about community sports here, right, It's
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Speaker 2: not elite sport. Is that is that not a different
27:48
Speaker 2: kettle of fish?
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Speaker 7: It is totally not a different kill of fish. Community
27:52
Speaker 7: sports is all sport up until you represent your country.
27:55
Speaker 7: So it includes regional competitions, national age grade competitions. That
27:59
Speaker 7: is the half way through to allege sport. And you
28:02
Speaker 7: know it's been in safety matters at elite level, it
28:04
Speaker 7: matters at community level too.
28:07
Speaker 2: What happens because it's the individual organizations the bodies that
28:11
Speaker 2: set their own rules. So do you think that they
28:15
Speaker 2: will listen to this or not listen to this, I
28:18
Speaker 2: mean whatever, Have any of them changed their rules based
28:20
Speaker 2: on the old guidelines to begin with.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, they already have transfer on New Zealand and boxing
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Speaker 7: New Zealand have already moved to change their guidelines and
28:28
Speaker 7: they protect the female category, and a lot of other
28:30
Speaker 7: sports have had THEIRS in review. I think waiting on
28:33
Speaker 7: this decision, the landscape of transgender inclusion sport has evolved
28:36
Speaker 7: significantly since those guiding principles were first introduced. At the time,
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Speaker 7: sports did need some help because the IOC had made
28:43
Speaker 7: this announcement which has done the world opening up the
28:45
Speaker 7: female category and treating women as nothing more than men
28:48
Speaker 7: with lower testosterone. But most international sporting federations now has
28:52
Speaker 7: moved to protect the female category and this allows our
28:55
Speaker 7: national federations to follow suits.
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Speaker 2: Okay, right, do you hate trains people? This is whatever?
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Speaker 7: Oh gosh, we want everyone to be included, and but
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Speaker 7: we play sport with our bodies, not our identity, so
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Speaker 7: it needs to be in the category of your biological chech.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate your time this morning, wrote Edge Save Women's Sport Australasia.
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Speaker 2: New Zealand spokesperson just gone ten minutes away from six
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Speaker 2: here on news Talks VB AD a time like this,
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Speaker 2: we're paying down our mortgages. Some interesting numbers out yesterday.
29:22
Speaker 2: Have to know what I'll bring you. But paying down
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Speaker 2: our mortgages at a rate we potentially haven't ever done before,
29:28
Speaker 2: which is well good and bad actually for the economy.
29:30
Speaker 2: It's ten to sex News Talks, VB.
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Speaker 1: News and Views you Trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: earlier this ship with Ryan Bridge at Expol Insulation Keeping
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Speaker 2: News Talks EDB seven to six on News Talks VB.
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Speaker 2: So turns out we're paying down our mortgage, which is
29:48
Speaker 2: good and bad because it means that the money that
29:50
Speaker 2: you're spending you're using to pay down your mortgage is
29:53
Speaker 2: not going into the economy, but it is going down
29:54
Speaker 2: to pay your mortgage, which the banks don't like because
29:57
Speaker 2: then they have to find somewhere to put that money.
29:59
Speaker 2: But for the year to June, this was twenty two
30:02
Speaker 2: point six billion dollars in interest paid on housing loans
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Speaker 2: in New Zealand, which is close to an all time high.
30:08
Speaker 2: June quarter, Borrow has made seven and a half billion
30:12
Speaker 2: in regular payments that you'd expect to make, but then
30:14
Speaker 2: we topped it up. Good on you four point six
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Speaker 2: billion in excess payments, so yes, we will pay off
30:21
Speaker 2: our mortgage is fast. As a result of that, the
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Speaker 2: June level was easily, according to Interest dot Co, the
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Speaker 2: most ever on record. As I say, the banks then
30:31
Speaker 2: have something somewhere to find to put that cash. And
30:34
Speaker 2: as for Donald Trump and his deal with Japan, biggest deal,
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Speaker 2: he says, in the history of the world, certainly the
30:41
Speaker 2: best deal since Liberation Day. And if she been needed
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Speaker 2: this the rumors he would resign, He's stamped on those
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Speaker 2: the US. It's, of course, Japan's biggest export market, and
30:50
Speaker 2: Japan is the fourth largest economy in the world, so
30:52
Speaker 2: this is significant. Tarif's come down to fifteen percent, and
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Speaker 2: the automakers of Japan particularly happy with that number. Just
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Speaker 2: gone six to six in the studio, Make good morning,
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Speaker 2: Good to see you're right great, Toe is always you've
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Speaker 2: been paying down the mortgage, but everybody's been doing.
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Speaker 13: Not a fan of debt, never been a fan of debt.
31:10
Speaker 13: How bad on a scale of one to ten, Let
31:12
Speaker 13: me ask you this question, on a scale of one
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Speaker 13: to ten, ten being shocking, one being no worries at all?
31:18
Speaker 13: How bad was Nichola Willis yesterday post post Milkkake.
31:23
Speaker 2: To be honest, I'm not shocked, So I won't be
31:26
Speaker 2: ticking the shock box because you're not shocked at what
31:29
Speaker 2: but the reaction that she had.
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Speaker 13: You're you're not shocked at the fact she didn't know
31:33
Speaker 13: how butter's made and what it costs.
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Speaker 2: No, she knew that. Obviously she didn't, but she was
31:38
Speaker 2: obviously going into the meeting.
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Speaker 13: You were it was a dumb game.
31:43
Speaker 2: It was a pr exercise.
31:44
Speaker 13: So you think that that it's valuable for the Finance
31:48
Speaker 13: Minister of the New Zealand economy to rack people up
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Speaker 13: and going I'll tell you what. I'm going to get
31:53
Speaker 13: Niles in the office and I'm going to give him
31:54
Speaker 13: a good word and then come out and go, oh,
31:56
Speaker 13: he said, it's not really a scandal.
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Speaker 2: I think it's politically expedient. Do you wrut ultimately a
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Speaker 2: waste of our time?
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Speaker 13: Do you think we can't see through that going going
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Speaker 13: into it? Everybody knows? Does no one know? There's an
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Speaker 13: article somewhere in the paper this morning it goes, we're
32:12
Speaker 13: a nation of cows, so why is butter so expensive?
32:14
Speaker 13: Do you honestly tell me that there are a chunk
32:17
Speaker 13: of New Zealanders, including the finance minister that don't know
32:20
Speaker 13: how butter's made and how it's The.
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Speaker 2: Finance minister knows how it's made, but she's playing to
32:24
Speaker 2: the crowd who perhaps don't know as well. Those people
32:27
Speaker 2: are there, well, I would guess probably the majority who
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Speaker 2: just go to the Nope, no think about it, go
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Speaker 2: to the supermarket and look at the price a butt
32:35
Speaker 2: it and say if you if.
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Speaker 13: That's two different things looking at a price of something
32:42
Speaker 13: and going that's that's expensive. That's fine because we all
32:45
Speaker 13: agree it's expensive. No one argues it's not expensive, but
32:47
Speaker 13: you can understand why it's expensive. Therefore, if you can
32:50
Speaker 13: understand why it's expensive, you can't be upset because there's
32:53
Speaker 13: a rationale behind it. And therefore, as a leader in
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Speaker 13: the community, which is what the finance minister is, you
32:59
Speaker 13: shouldn't be in the busines of I.
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Speaker 2: Don't know what's going on. Yeah, but that's just playing
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Speaker 2: and it's just playing the game. Just send it to
33:05
Speaker 2: the same thing. I mean, but she was useless.
33:08
Speaker 13: I thought Nikola Willis was about credibility.
33:12
Speaker 2: Well clearly, not clearly, not all I'd say, But the
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Speaker 2: question was am I shock fight No? No, sadly not
33:20
Speaker 2: shot fight at all? Hey, have you got it? Shearon
33:22
Speaker 2: on today? I do grace, it's luck would have Ryan?
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Speaker 13: I take it that wasn't a question out of left field?
33:29
Speaker 2: Well no, I heard an ad and I thought we
33:31
Speaker 2: didn't actually tease anything about your show us today, so
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Speaker 2: we why not throw that in there?
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Speaker 13: Well, come on, teach shear and tease more, id Sheeran
33:38
Speaker 13: after Price the Butter and bashing Nikola.
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