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Full Show Podcast: 13 August 2024 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge new
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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four on an early edition with Smith City,
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Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture Bids and a play at store us Dogs.
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Speaker 2: It'd be good morning. It is six half to five.
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Speaker 2: It is August thirteenth. You're with me, Ryan Bridge. Great
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Speaker 2: to have your company. Lots to get through today, as
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Speaker 2: there always is, but we will start looking at this
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Speaker 2: new payment card for beneficiaries. We will take another look
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Speaker 2: at it just before six, particularly looking at young people
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Speaker 2: using this card. Also congestion charging for the rest of
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Speaker 2: us well in the major cities Auckland's, Wellington, christ Church, Todong.
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Speaker 2: It could be coming to a place near you, but
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Speaker 2: where exactly will you drive? I'm so finding it very
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Speaker 2: hard to concentrate this morning. There is a very distinct
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Speaker 2: smell of cologne in the studio. I don't know quite
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Speaker 2: where it's coming from, but we'll get to the bottom
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Speaker 2: of that too. Just gone six five the agenda and
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Speaker 2: it is when stated the thirteenth of August. Evacuations near
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Speaker 2: Athens as we go to air International helpers on the
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Speaker 2: way for Greece where wildfires are moving closer to the
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Speaker 2: capital forty fires have been burning across the country, and
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Speaker 2: just the last day thirty have been contained. More than
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Speaker 2: six hundred firefighters, seventeen helicopters and sixteen aircraft are working
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Speaker 2: to extinguish the blaze, with the army assisting.
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Speaker 3: The situation is chaotic. Our military unit's been here from
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Speaker 3: the beginning and we're trying to help the fire unit
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Speaker 3: and the volunteer teams. We're surrounded by fire here. The
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Speaker 3: night will be very hard.
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Speaker 2: France, Italy and the Czech Republic are all sending firefighting
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Speaker 2: resources to assist. Russia's President Vladimir Putin says there will
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Speaker 2: be a quote worthy response to Ukraine's incursion into the
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Speaker 2: Curse region and a meeting today with security and defense officials.
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Speaker 2: He said Ukraine is trying to put itself in a
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Speaker 2: better position for future peace talk. Russian officials say Ukraine
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Speaker 2: controls about one thousand square kilometers and twenty eight villages
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Speaker 2: in the region, with more than one hundred thousand people
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Speaker 2: now being evacuated. Australian ECE teachers are set to receive
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Speaker 2: a fifteen percent pay rise across two years if the
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Speaker 2: centers agreed to limit fee increases. What does that mean
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Speaker 2: for us, while the NZDI National Secretary of Stephanie Mills,
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Speaker 2: says our sector has had a chronic workforce shortage for
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Speaker 2: a long time and the Ossie pay increase could cause
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Speaker 2: issues for us here though PAI parity introduced under the
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Speaker 2: last government has started to turn things around.
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Speaker 4: But we're very concerned that if their profession gets done down,
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Speaker 4: if the government wants to make it cheaper for employers,
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Speaker 4: that we then worsk losing great people over to Australia.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge New for twenty twenty four on early edition
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Speaker 1: with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store.
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Speaker 2: News talks, it'd be eight after five. Great to have
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Speaker 2: your company this morning, just with cologne gate. Leo is
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Speaker 2: that and has reminded me actually that Mike Hoskin comes
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Speaker 2: to clean the desk in here before I come and
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Speaker 2: so perhaps there's a lingering smell. Anyway, he'll be with
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Speaker 2: us just before six. To clarify this morning lots to
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Speaker 2: get through. Well, we'll start very quickly with putin just
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Speaker 2: the latest from overnight. He says, I will kick the
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Speaker 2: enemy out and obviously referring here to the Ukrainians, that
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Speaker 2: surprise offensive going inside Russia and they are now fighting
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Speaker 2: on a second border region. So this is more humiliation
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Speaker 2: for Putin overnight, and he is upping his rhetoric. They're
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Speaker 2: thirty k's inside Russia. The question now is how does
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Speaker 2: Putin respond to that? What does he do? You know,
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Speaker 2: first of all, what is the Ukrainian's endgame? But you know,
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Speaker 2: are they wanting to use the land and negotiations? As
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Speaker 2: Putin has said? Will it prompt Putin? Will it push
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Speaker 2: him to go for all out war? I mean, remember
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Speaker 2: he's still calling this invasion of Ukraine a military operation,
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Speaker 2: not a war. So does he now have justification to
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Speaker 2: go full war? Will watch that this morning? Also the
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Speaker 2: benefit changes, some are saying cruel. You'll see headlines in
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Speaker 2: the papers this morning, cruel, stressful for beneficiaries. It's beneficiary bashing.
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Speaker 2: There was this exchange on three News last night with
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Speaker 2: Louise Upston, who's the minister take a list, and it's
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Speaker 2: talking specifically about beneficiaries with children.
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Speaker 5: There are kids out there whose households relied on a
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Speaker 5: benefit who no longer have any income.
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Speaker 6: Yep.
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Speaker 7: So I'd say to those parents, it's pretty simple.
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Speaker 5: We've got common sense rules around what you need to
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Speaker 5: do to comply.
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Speaker 2: So the interesting thing about this is you would think,
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Speaker 2: and there have been some beneficiaries with children who have
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Speaker 2: had their benefits cut by up to fifty percent. That
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Speaker 2: has happened, but there are small, apparently small in number. Also,
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Speaker 2: it doesn't just happen out of the blue, you know,
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Speaker 2: they don't just come along wave a magic one and
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Speaker 2: say your benefits. But there are steps before you get there.
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Speaker 2: So even just yesterday looking at this information from the
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Speaker 2: Minister's office, there are options for beneficiaries with specifically for
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Speaker 2: beneficiaries with children, before you go to full sanctions. Option
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Speaker 2: one is you might be asked to do some work
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Speaker 2: experience for example. The other option they've introduced is that
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Speaker 2: half of a person's benefit for a specified period goes
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Speaker 2: on that electronic payment card, so you can only buy
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Speaker 2: groceries etc.
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Speaker 1: With it.
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Speaker 2: Interesting. We've had a text already and from one of
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Speaker 2: our listeners saying that they're on a benefit, I've paid
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Speaker 2: rent power phone, I barely have enough food, let alone
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Speaker 2: money for beer or for cigarettes. I suppose it's about
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Speaker 2: how you prioritize it, isn't it. One would love your
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Speaker 2: feedback on that one This morning nine two nine two,
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Speaker 2: we're going to speak to a youth advocate just before six.
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Speaker 2: It's eleven after five.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Swis City, New
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Speaker 1: Zealand's furniture beds and a flying store.
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Speaker 2: News Talk said be fourteen after five year old. News
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Speaker 2: Talk said be. We are going to speak shortly to AA.
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Speaker 2: This is about the government's congestion charging legislation. It's going
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Speaker 2: to be a couple of years away, so you can
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Speaker 2: relax driving into the cities. This morning, new small business
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Speaker 2: surveys come out. No surprise really, this is five hundred
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Speaker 2: SMEs that have been spoken to surveyed by RFI Global Research.
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Speaker 2: Seventy percent are stressed and burned out and smeezs remember
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Speaker 2: make up ninety seven percent of all businesses in New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: They employ about thirty percent of our workforce. And this
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Speaker 2: is the number you need to worry about. Just forty
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Speaker 2: eight percent the confident about the future. This is over
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Speaker 2: the next year forty eight percent. That's down from fifty
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Speaker 2: three percent on the last survey. Why inflation cost pressures?
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Speaker 2: You know, there aren't people through the door consumers like
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Speaker 2: there were. And ironically, I suppose one of those problems
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Speaker 2: will help solve the other, won't they When you know,
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Speaker 2: interest increase interest rates and you have less foot traffic
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Speaker 2: through your door, hopefully that should take the pressure off inflation.
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Speaker 2: So one will help solve the other. But can you
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Speaker 2: hold on before the rate cut comes? I suppose it's
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Speaker 2: the question that decision remember due Wednesday two pm. Also,
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Speaker 2: just things to note for today. At midday, Elon Musk
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Speaker 2: is going to interview Donald Trump on X so that'll
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Speaker 2: be fun. Elon Musk is going to do a first
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Speaker 2: interview with Trump on X. He backed Biden at twenty twenty,
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Speaker 2: and weirdly he is backing Trump even though Trump hates
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Speaker 2: evs and he owns an EV company. Doesn't make any
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Speaker 2: sense to me anyway, that is happening at midday today.
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Speaker 2: It is quarter past.
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Speaker 1: Five Ryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: So the legislation is on the way to introduce congestion
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Speaker 2: charging on our busiest roads. The bill will be drafted
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Speaker 2: and introduced this year select committee. From early twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 2: local councils will propose what their ideas are for local roads.
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Speaker 2: NZTA will help with the design the farm us supposedly
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Speaker 2: will be ring fence. They must be reinvested back into
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Speaker 2: transport in the area. They were taken from the AA
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Speaker 2: Policy director as Martin Glynn is with us this morning. Martin,
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Speaker 2: good morning, Good to have you on the show. Good morning, right,
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Speaker 2: So is this just local roads that we're talking about.
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Speaker 2: Will this actually help motorway traffic?
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Speaker 8: No, I don't think it's local roads at all. I
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Speaker 8: think there's a very high chance that the food scheme
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Speaker 8: will be on one or more of Orkand's motorways.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so we're not just talking about CBD congestion charging here.
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Speaker 8: No, we're not all the singles we've had Ryan As.
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Speaker 8: It'll be focused on network performance. Utan city centers such
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Speaker 8: a tiny proportion of the traffic, it doesn't it's not
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Speaker 8: sort of unable to have it impact on the whole network.
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Speaker 8: So yeah, we're expecting it'll be beyond the city center,
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Speaker 8: but we'll have to wait and see what finally, what
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Speaker 8: Aukland proposes.
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Speaker 2: Which I guess makes sense that NZTA is involved, right
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Speaker 2: given the the motorway networks run by Central.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it's a combination of that and the
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Speaker 8: government wanting to be really sure whatever's proposed is actually
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Speaker 8: going to it's going to shift the dialogue congestion.
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Speaker 2: In Europe, Asia, the Middle East where they've done this.
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Speaker 2: It only seems to work in those central areas if
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Speaker 2: you have good public transport alternatives. Do we have that
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Speaker 2: on our motorway network.
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Speaker 6: No, we don't.
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Speaker 8: Most of the motorway trips aren't heading to the city
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Speaker 8: center there, all over the place, a public transport is
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Speaker 8: now pretty good. And then out of the city center
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Speaker 8: and an a case of course we'll get a lot
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Speaker 8: better with the city rail length. But generally, yeah, public
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Speaker 8: transport is unable to provide tuns of the motorway trips.
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Speaker 2: What's a reasonable charge? Do you reckon? I saw Wayne
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Speaker 2: Brown saying five bucks a cup of coffee.
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Speaker 8: Yeah. I think it's a hard question to ryt to answer,
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Speaker 8: and it will need to be about that level. Make people,
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Speaker 8: you know, really think about whether they need to be
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Speaker 8: on the network or not. But they're ladd up. Yeah, Like,
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Speaker 8: you know, five bucks a trip for someone who's you know,
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Speaker 8: it doesn't work in the office, and they're not not
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Speaker 8: don't have the kind of work from home offer in
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Speaker 8: a couple of days a week, that's fifty bucks. That's
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Speaker 8: a week. But yeah, so it's a big amount. And
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Speaker 8: that's one of the things we're really concerned about that
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Speaker 8: the charges has got to be affordable because you know,
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Speaker 8: people don't need the alternatives. Know they're still going to drive.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Thanks for your time this morning, Martin. Martin Glenn,
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Speaker 2: the AA policy director for US. And don't forget that
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Speaker 2: those changes, I mean that will be a couple of
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Speaker 2: years before they come into for so for people who
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Speaker 2: are worried right now, I do wonder question if you
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Speaker 2: live close to where this you know district will be.
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Speaker 2: You know, if you live in that area, does that
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Speaker 2: just mean you can't drive your car if you want
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Speaker 2: to go, I don't know, visit a friend at peak hour,
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Speaker 2: you won't be able to do it or you will
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Speaker 2: have to pay five bucks for the privilege. I suppose
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Speaker 2: so eighteen minutes after five, emergency vehicles will be exempt.
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Speaker 2: Importantly for those who are worried about that. Coming up next,
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Speaker 2: we're looking at construction. Almost three quarters of builders believe
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Speaker 2: that the slowdown is going to carry on for at
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Speaker 2: least another year.
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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 Smith City New Zealand's furniture
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Speaker 1: beds and a play at store news Talk Zippy.
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Speaker 2: Twenty one after five new retail crime stats out from
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Speaker 2: Dairy Owners Group this morning. We'll get to that in
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Speaker 2: just a second. Also, we'll have more on these benefit
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Speaker 2: sanctions and exactly what they will mean for beneficiaries just
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Speaker 2: before six. Right now, almost three quarters of builders believe
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Speaker 2: the construction slowdown will carry on for at least another year.
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Speaker 2: According to a new Eboss survey of six hundred and
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Speaker 2: fifty Kiwi builders, sixty seven percent don't have as much
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Speaker 2: work as they did last year. No surprises there, while
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Speaker 2: seventy percent think that industry conditions will decline over the
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Speaker 2: next twelve months. Executive director of their Construction Industry Council
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Speaker 2: is Tommy Honey. He's with me this warning. Hey Tommy, Sure?
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Speaker 6: And Ryan, how are you doing?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Good, thanks mate. I've been looking at a couple
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Speaker 2: of things. Housing can censor down. You've seen those stories
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Speaker 2: about developers going tips up as well. Who's who's this
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Speaker 2: heading hardest?
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Speaker 6: It's heading hardest of smaller builders, so those about half
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Speaker 6: of the builders in the survey generally in the country
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Speaker 6: have zero to five employees, so there are some big
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Speaker 6: companies around that employ a lot of people and do
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Speaker 6: very well, and they're they're they they're probably riding through
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Speaker 6: this this crisis, if you want to call it that
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Speaker 6: better than most. So if you if you look at
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Speaker 6: the smaller builders, there the ones that are being hit hardest.
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Speaker 6: And and this is survey's extraordinary, the EBOS surveys. There's
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Speaker 6: a summary out, but if you're actually look into the detail,
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Speaker 6: there are things that make a real difference of what
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Speaker 6: they call the forward workload or the short shorthand that's
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Speaker 6: pipeline how much work you've got coming towards you, and
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Speaker 6: for what is it thirty percent of builders it's now
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Speaker 6: down to zero to three months, and some of that
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Speaker 6: will be at zero. So people have no work. There's
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Speaker 6: no work out there at the moment, and I'd say
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Speaker 6: there's a sort of a perfect store with them. And
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Speaker 6: once the economic slow down which was hitting us all,
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Speaker 6: you know, the interest rates aren't moving, but also in
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Speaker 6: building the material costs are going up, so it's things
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Speaker 6: are costing more. The second is a kind of flat
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Speaker 6: real estate market, and so people because they can't get
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Speaker 6: to sell their house for what they want, they're just
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Speaker 6: sitting and waiting, and it's the same is true for buildings.
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Speaker 6: So they might want to build a new house, but
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Speaker 6: they've got to sell their old one, so they're not
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Speaker 6: doing anything. So that kills that. No one's renovating their
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Speaker 6: houses to put them on the market because they're waiting
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Speaker 6: for the market to change, So that kills that part
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Speaker 6: of the sector. And the third thing is a change
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Speaker 6: of government, which in itself isn't necessarily a cause of this,
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Speaker 6: but there's a bit of well I call it wait
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Speaker 6: and see their part, the government's part, and therefore on
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Speaker 6: the whole market, everyone's just waiting and the impact of
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Speaker 6: sitting builders.
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Speaker 2: Tommy, thanks for that update, Tommy Honey with us. He
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Speaker 2: is from his executive director at the Construction Industry Council,
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Speaker 2: responding there to a new Eboss survey six hundred and
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Speaker 2: fifty KI builders basically saying, and most importantly, as Tommy
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Speaker 2: pointed out, the pipeline of work isn't there. So if
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Speaker 2: you're a builder, or if you're a trading even and
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Speaker 2: you're looking at these construction sorry developers going under and
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Speaker 2: your pipeline of work isn't there, what do you do?
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Speaker 2: Do you bugger? Off overseas. I mean, if you can,
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Speaker 2: if you're mobile, you don't have kids, that sort of thing.
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Speaker 2: How do you weather the storm when you're you know
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Speaker 2: your runway is looking so short in front of you.
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Speaker 2: Twenty four minutes after five nine two ninety two is
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Speaker 2: the number to text, would love to hear from you
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Speaker 2: this morning. Back in a second the.
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Speaker 2: Twenty six after five, Newstalk said, b there is a
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Speaker 2: real risk to the government's reputation. I mean of every
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Speaker 2: government is thinking ahead to when they next need to
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Speaker 2: be re elected. There's a risk here that the government
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Speaker 2: is taking when it goes for sanctions on beneficiaries, when
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Speaker 2: it goes for tougher requirements and criteria when it comes
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Speaker 2: to social housing, for example. And you're starting to see
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Speaker 2: some kickback already in response to some of these changes. Now,
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Speaker 2: if you're a centrist voter, you might think, well, I
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Speaker 2: think that those are reasonable expectations to put on social
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Speaker 2: housing providers, to put on emergency accommodation criteria, to put
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Speaker 2: onto benefit beneficiaries through sanctions or through obligations. You might
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Speaker 2: think those things are reasonable. On the other hand, you
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Speaker 2: might think that seems a bit cruel, and actually, in
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Speaker 2: an economy like this where jobs are hard to come by,
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Speaker 2: I might find myself in that position. I don't want
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Speaker 2: to have those types of obligations. I don't understand what
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Speaker 2: those obligations are. So there is a political risk to
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Speaker 2: doing this stuff. But it's bread and butter for national
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Speaker 2: and it's bread and butter for act. This is exactly
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Speaker 2: what their base want, what their supporters want, and so
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Speaker 2: they are doing it. But it does come with a risk.
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Speaker 2: It does come with some political risk. One thing that
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Speaker 2: they need to get on top of the government is
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Speaker 2: retail crime. The Dairy Owners Group, this is based on
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Speaker 2: Police STARTA have released new information this morning. So they
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Speaker 2: say that retail crime is up seventeen percent under national
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Speaker 2: seventeen percent. This is the government. Remember the coalition government
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Speaker 2: said we're going to crack down on retail crime. The
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Speaker 2: first five months of this year versus last year. Theft
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Speaker 2: was up, robberies were down interestingly five percent, burglaries down
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Speaker 2: ten percent. But here's the one you need to worry about.
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Speaker 2: Acts intended to cause injury. We're up four percent. That
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Speaker 2: is very bad. And you're seeing it with hammers and
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Speaker 2: all sorts of things being used, weapons and shops that
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Speaker 2: the government needs to get on top of because they
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Speaker 2: made a big promise. Mark Mitchell has talked the big talk.
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Speaker 2: The numbers so far unt tracking in their direction and
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Speaker 2: they need to turn them around. Twenty nine after five,
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge also this morning, this is the reason why
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Speaker 2: you don't go diving. Actually, I think we'll have to
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Speaker 2: come to that story in a second, because we're coming
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Speaker 2: up to the news story out of the company coast
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Speaker 2: in Wellington. Just frightening, you know, imagine going diving, popping up,
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Speaker 2: where's the boat? Boat's gone? What are we going to do? Well,
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you in just a few minutes. On News
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Speaker 2: Talk set B died this.
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Speaker 1: Way on your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition
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Speaker 1: with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds
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Speaker 1: and a playing store.
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Speaker 2: News Talk said, be.
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Speaker 9: As thanks, I'm by myself. You help meself. We care
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Speaker 9: if you don't tell They said.
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Speaker 2: Good morning to get a twenty four away from Sexier.
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Speaker 2: On news Talk said b I'm Ryan Bridge. It is Tuesday,
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Speaker 2: the setting that August is great to have your company. Hello, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: this is I'm just reading this text very quickly. You
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Speaker 2: are obviously new to the station. You have some interesting views.
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Speaker 2: Obviously you're a just sinderporter. It just sent a supporter.
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Speaker 2: It comes across and it's very clear I'd like you
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Speaker 2: to take a more balanced approach. You could understand and
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Speaker 2: bring both sides of the story. You are very very
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Speaker 2: left leaning. No doubt you won't read this out. Ian,
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Speaker 2: I've read it out. I don't know what to say. Really.
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Speaker 2: Lots of other good feedback this morning, Hi, Ryan, No
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Speaker 2: one talks about the one metric that leads to the
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Speaker 2: construction industry downturned consents. They are the intention to build.
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Speaker 2: Architects have seen a significant decline in the last twelve
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Speaker 2: to eighteen months. If we don't draw, builders don't build.
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Speaker 2: It is a good point. It comes after this Eboss
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Speaker 2: survey of six hundred and fifty Kiwi builders saying seventy
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Speaker 2: percent basically most builders think that industry conditions won't improve
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Speaker 2: over the next year. One really good text this morning, Well,
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Speaker 2: lots of them, but this one in particular on congestion charges. Ryan,
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Speaker 2: I have a chronically ill daughter on dialysis. We have
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Speaker 2: to travel on the motorway for appointments and dialysis at
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Speaker 2: busy times. Do you think Simeon Brown has thought of
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Speaker 2: people like us. It's going to be a big expense
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Speaker 2: and she is a beneficiary because she's so ill. Judy,
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry to hear about that situation. It is not ideal.
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Speaker 2: What I can tell you, Judy, is that emergency vehicles
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Speaker 2: are exempt. Beyond that, we have no further detail and
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Speaker 2: it's up to councils to decide on the parameters of
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Speaker 2: these proposals. To begin with duty. Thanks for your text.
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Speaker 2: It is twenty two away from six Brian Bridge. We're
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Speaker 2: going to our reporters around the country and we will
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Speaker 2: have that story of the divers and the company coast
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Speaker 2: in a second. Two Right now the Cullum Proctor as
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Speaker 2: in Dunedin Culum. You've got a story about the Gourd
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Speaker 2: District Council this morning, Ye morning Ryan.
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Speaker 10: The council's defending its approach to protecting Maori cultural sites.
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Speaker 10: They say, look, it's no different from the current processes
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Speaker 10: in place. South and Federated Farmers have expressed concern about
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Speaker 10: these new plans from the council to declare the entire
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Speaker 10: district a site and area of significance to MARII. Federated
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Speaker 10: Farmers believe it could add unnecessary cost and complexity to
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Speaker 10: basic farming tasks. The Council those says when a proposed
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Speaker 10: plan requires resource consent, it may include in put on
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Speaker 10: any cultural impacts. They say it's important to No decisions
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Speaker 10: have been made and the topics raised by Federated Farmers
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Speaker 10: are being considered.
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Speaker 2: All right, And how's your weather today?
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Speaker 10: Early morning shows clearing to find this afternoon westerlies and
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Speaker 10: fourteen today brilliant.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Claire Sheward's and christ Church this morning. Good
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Speaker 2: morning Claire. Interesting you were talking the other day about
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Speaker 2: an expanded Electra Avenue festival and now a scaled back
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Speaker 2: amp show.
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Speaker 11: It's all on here in Canterbury, Ryan Look. Cantabrians are
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Speaker 11: being urged to show their support for this year's scaled
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Speaker 11: back show. Just yesterday a former parliament speaker, Sir David Carter,
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Speaker 11: has been elected the chair of Canterbury Amp Association board
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Speaker 11: that was at the general meeting had called off this
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Speaker 11: Novembers show initially because of some financial struggles. That was
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Speaker 11: before a local company event Higher came to the rescue.
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Speaker 11: In June. Carter says he's getting involved at board level
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Speaker 11: to ensure the show continues for another one hundred years.
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Speaker 11: He says they're now asking the public to purchase tickets
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Speaker 11: early and also for sponsors to sign up so it
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Speaker 11: can return to a strong financial position.
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Speaker 2: That sounds like it's going to be a great show.
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Speaker 2: Clear The weather in Canterbury today.
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Speaker 11: Cold and frosty to start, southwesterlies will turn normally a
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Speaker 11: bit later. The high is twelve with zero overnight.
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Speaker 2: Thank you and Max tollers. In Wellington this morning, the
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Speaker 2: regional Council in a sticky financial spot BEARMX Yeah.
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Speaker 12: One of our reporters found this fifty million dollar budget
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Speaker 12: blowouts at the Greater Wellington Regional Council yesterday which the
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Speaker 12: council reporting that operating deficit is more than thirty million
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Speaker 12: higher than expected and the council is now considering cuts
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Speaker 12: to public transport as a result. No clear reason for
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Speaker 12: why it's so big. When we asked yesterday other than
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Speaker 12: a chair Darren Pont told us a big part of
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Speaker 12: the shortfall is the council shelling out for the previous
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Speaker 12: government's public transport subsidies, so he says conversations are soon
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Speaker 12: beginning on how they can better save, which might include
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Speaker 12: having to trim back bus services and routes.
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Speaker 2: It's less than ideal, isn't it. Max Weather today.
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Speaker 12: Clearing as the day goes on, strong southerly's easing Lyater
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Speaker 12: ten the high Central.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant, Thank you and nineteen to sex neveras in the studio,
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Speaker 2: good morning morning.
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Speaker 13: I heard you say after five about a smell in
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Speaker 13: your studio when you walked in. I thought, oh, I'll
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Speaker 13: have to have a bit of a snake.
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Speaker 2: Can you smell then? Yes, it's thick in the air.
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Speaker 13: It is thick in the air. It smells like the
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Speaker 13: incensey mosque.
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Speaker 2: I was going to say expensive.
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Speaker 13: Oh yes, so then hey, well who this one?
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Speaker 2: Culprit?
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Speaker 13: Oh yes, it'll be Hosking of course, of course, because
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Speaker 13: he would have come and he does as cleaning.
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Speaker 2: It does fine, which I think is really nice. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I'm sure it's not for my benefit that he comes in,
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Speaker 2: and it's because he doesn't want a doty for when
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Speaker 2: when he comes in. But there was but I was wondering,
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Speaker 2: is is it just that he's been in here and
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Speaker 2: gone and the smell has remained, or is he's actually
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Speaker 2: spraying the seat.
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Speaker 11: Well, he could be.
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Speaker 13: What does it say about you saying as we should
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Speaker 13: try and capture that because little we squirre. It is
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Speaker 13: probably worth a thousand dollars. I suppose it's better than
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Speaker 13: the studio smelling a.
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Speaker 2: Bo absolutely, absolutely, which is probably what happens when I leave.
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Speaker 2: Hey very quickly. I know you've got a story for me,
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Speaker 2: but I've got a story for you.
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Speaker 6: Have you tell me?
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Speaker 2: These are the divers and Carpity Coast? Did you read that?
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Speaker 9: Yes?
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Speaker 13: I did, tell me.
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Speaker 2: Tell us this is why you don't dive. This is
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Speaker 2: why I don't dive. Okay, So they're diving. The girlfriends
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Speaker 2: are on the boat, they go in the water. They're
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Speaker 2: diving for a couple of hours. They pop up or
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Speaker 2: they've been dragged south.
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Speaker 13: Oh my gosh.
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Speaker 2: This is before I've even mentioned sharks, of which they
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Speaker 2: there are none. But this is what I would be
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Speaker 2: worried about if I was anyway. Boat's not there, girlfriends
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Speaker 2: five pm, Sunday night. Where are they? I don't know,
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Speaker 2: call the emergency services. Can't find out our partners. They've
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Speaker 2: just you know, gone underwater and haven't popped up. So
24:56
Speaker 2: they're thinking obviously the worst. Anyway, the guys have popped up.
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Speaker 2: They've realized they're too far from the boat. They then
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Speaker 2: swim through currents and tides and all sorts to an island,
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Speaker 2: Fisherman Island an hour away.
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Speaker 13: An hour, an hour in the water.
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Speaker 2: And then they have an emergency pack on them which
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Speaker 2: has got matches. They light a fire on the island.
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Speaker 2: Helicopter sees the fire, boom, stop it, rescue serious. This
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Speaker 2: was Sunday Night and Company.
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Speaker 13: These too, neat two divers, two diskies is over medal
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Speaker 13: is fantastic.
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Speaker 2: And the girlfriends for the imagine the nerves.
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Speaker 6: Ah, the nerves.
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Speaker 13: I mean that's like a movie.
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Speaker 2: It is, isn't it? Oh my god?
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Speaker 1: Well done?
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Speaker 2: What was your story?
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Speaker 13: No, I think your story is way better than that.
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Speaker 13: Mine was about all contransport. But no, but no, you
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Speaker 13: know we'll wait sick of that. No, your story that
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Speaker 13: is that tops it. But I'll do the weather. How
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Speaker 13: about that partly cloudy, isolated light showers early morning Auckland
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Speaker 13: find spellso increasing this afternoon? Fourteen is the high.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant Thank you never get to see sixteen away from sex.
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Speaker 1: I love this international correspondence with ends in eye insurance
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Speaker 1: peace of mind for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 2: Fourteen away from six. We're talking to Shirley Johnson, the
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Speaker 2: Youth Justice Consultant on the beneficiary changes which will do
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Speaker 2: in just a few moments A very quickly a text,
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Speaker 2: this one from Jake making a good point, Hi, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: Nobody will be sanctioned for being unemployed. They'll be sanctioned
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Speaker 2: for not meeting the requirements I having a CV, attending interviews,
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Speaker 2: et cetera. Jake good point well made the text number
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Speaker 2: nine two, nine to two this morning. We're now going
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Speaker 2: to Donna Tomayo, our Australia correspondent. There's a push for
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Speaker 2: a total gambling ad band there, Donna.
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Speaker 5: Yes, there was a certain inquiry in twenty twenty two
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Speaker 5: and it called for a full ban on gambling ads,
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Speaker 5: and it's back in the news because it looks like
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Speaker 5: Lady's going to face some resistance from backbenches and the
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Speaker 5: Greens in regard to what it's said or suggesting that
26:58
Speaker 5: perhaps there won't be a gambling ad ban, a full ban,
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Speaker 5: but there might be some cap imposed on them. So
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Speaker 5: we've heard from the Cabinet Minister Bill Shorten, who says
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Speaker 5: that I'm not sure the blanket bands work. Interesting, right,
27:13
Speaker 5: So the Greens spoken up and we heard from their
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Speaker 5: communications spokespresin Sarah Hanson Young yesterday and she said that
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Speaker 5: the minor party would be trying to amend that bill
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Speaker 5: or any bill that is introduced that would lead and
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Speaker 5: they do definitely want a total ban on gambling ads.
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Speaker 5: It's an ongoing campaign. But what would that mean. They
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Speaker 5: want no ads online, they want none in children's programming,
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Speaker 5: and they definitely don't want any during live sports broadcasts
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Speaker 5: and an hour either side of said sports broadcasts. So
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Speaker 5: it'll be interesting to see what ends up happening. But
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Speaker 5: as Albanezi says, the government is working through the issues
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Speaker 5: and says it is very complex. Now can you imagine
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Speaker 5: media companies, major sporting codes. Well, they definitely don't want
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Speaker 5: gambling at bands because I imagine the impact on their
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Speaker 5: revenue exactly.
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Speaker 2: Hey, one person I wouldn't be bidding on and that
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Speaker 2: that's Raygun the Olympic breakdown. So she's she's spoken, spoken
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Speaker 2: out on what's happened. What she's saying.
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Speaker 5: As we have gone on, Vital has been relentless since that.
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Speaker 5: You just can't unsee that kangaroo move that she that
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Speaker 5: she did at that breakdancing at the Olympics. So Raygun
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Speaker 5: has said that it's all about creativity and originality, and
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Speaker 5: she said she was never going to beat the girls
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Speaker 5: she described them and their power moves, but what she
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Speaker 5: brought to the Olympics and to the breakdancing was creativity
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Speaker 5: and that sometimes her artistry speaks to the judges and
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Speaker 5: sometimes it doesn't, but she is convinced that what she
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Speaker 5: did was art And we also heard from the PM
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Speaker 5: who said the Olympics, well, it's about people participating in
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Speaker 5: sport and she gave it a cry.
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Speaker 2: She certainly did. Donna, thank you very much for that. Donodo,
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Speaker 2: our Australia correspondent. It's eleven to six Bryan Bridge Beneficiary
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Speaker 2: bashing or reasonable Expectations. The government has introduced tougher rules
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Speaker 2: and harsher penalties for beneficiaries. Job Seekers will have to
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Speaker 2: reapply for the benefit every six months, and a new
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Speaker 2: traffic light system which will indicate whether you're complying with
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Speaker 2: the rules that came into a false yesterday. There will
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Speaker 2: also be new sanctions like money management. It means that
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Speaker 2: half of a person's benefit could go on an electronic
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Speaker 2: payment card which you can only use for things like
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Speaker 2: essentials like groceries and clothing, but only if they break
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Speaker 2: the rules to begin with, don't meet the obligations, right,
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Speaker 2: So what does this mean for particularly young job seekers.
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Speaker 2: Youth Justice consultant advocate Sheirley Johnson's with me now, Shurley,
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Speaker 2: good morning.
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Speaker 4: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: So I suppose there's two Well, there's obviously two arguments here.
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Speaker 2: But my question to you you would be what is
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Speaker 2: unreasonable about the expectations.
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Speaker 4: Well, you're right, like, obviously we need some accountability, but
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Speaker 4: there always is a bit of an undertone about people
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Speaker 4: who find themselves on benefits for whatever reason something the
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Speaker 4: people who you can't trust, so therefore you've got to
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Speaker 4: manage their money. And it's a sense that they're sitting
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Speaker 4: at home English and on the money which we are
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Speaker 4: giving them. It's just not the reality. We exist in
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Speaker 4: a recessionary times for adults finding it hard to get
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Speaker 4: to work, and so if you look at adult unemployments
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Speaker 4: going up, young people it's always about double of that.
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Speaker 4: So for them to get it's really tough times at
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Speaker 4: the moment, and I don't think punishments it's the way
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Speaker 4: to activate this in any way at all.
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Speaker 2: So let's be clear, you don't get punished for just
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Speaker 2: being on the benefit. You only get punished if and
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Speaker 2: you don't even get punished if you're on the benefit
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Speaker 2: and you can't find a job. You get punished if
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Speaker 2: you don't meet the obligations, right, and there are levels
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Speaker 2: of punishment and traffic light systems, etc.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think even that idea, like I'd like to
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Speaker 4: believe that every young person has a casework that they're working,
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Speaker 4: how we wouldn't know very clearly how they're going in
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Speaker 4: terms of trying to get a job in supporting them.
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Speaker 4: The idea that every six month saying you've got to
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Speaker 4: reapply it really is a bit of a sense of punishment.
31:42
Speaker 4: Nothing is more terrifying than him to go into an
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Speaker 4: organization like MSD to apply to see whether you've got.
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Speaker 6: Any more money again.
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Speaker 4: And like, I just think some of those steps are
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Speaker 4: just unnecessary because one of the key things that we've
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Speaker 4: found over the years in terms of turning things around
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Speaker 4: for young people, because a lot of young people who
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Speaker 4: are on benefits kind of either don't have the skills,
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Speaker 4: have been through a lot of traumas that have lost
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Speaker 4: tous and confidence both in themselves in the system as
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Speaker 4: quality relationships are really important so that they rebuild themselves
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Speaker 4: and anything that gets in the way of that is
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Speaker 4: quite destructive. And none of this is new, none of no.
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Speaker 6: I know, we have.
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Speaker 4: Tried before where beneficiaries are only allowed to purchase whatever.
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Speaker 4: I've tried before, where you know, you have to work
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Speaker 4: to get the doll and they actually found that it
32:42
Speaker 4: didn't work. So it's kind of feels to me a
32:46
Speaker 4: little bit fullness to go back and redo what we
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Speaker 4: know doesn't work when there are in fact a lot
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Speaker 4: of programs out there that are working incredibly well.
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Speaker 2: Surely thanks for your time. That Shirley Johnson, she's the
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Speaker 2: Youth Justice Consultant Advocate, responding there to the government's changes
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Speaker 2: on penalties and you know, criteria, et cetera, sanctions. I
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Speaker 2: don't know. Sherely mentions that there can be terrifying the
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Speaker 2: thought of having your benefit canceled. Shouldn't that be a
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Speaker 2: little bit terrifying, you know, the thought that perhaps you
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Speaker 2: won't be able to feed and clothe yourself, and therefore
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Speaker 2: it acts as motivation to get work. Nine two nine
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