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Full Show Podcast: 25 August 2026 · 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 sparks for business technology that keeps business moving,
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Speaker 1: news talks, there'd be you're warning six.
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Speaker 2: After five, great to have your company. Scott visit the
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Speaker 2: Treasury Sectary making an announcement right now in Iram. Will
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Speaker 2: get to that in a second before Sex will speak
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Speaker 2: to labor on the smart social media band whatever you
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Speaker 2: want to call it. Should they really be banning social
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Speaker 2: media or should they be going for the smartphones themselves?
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Speaker 2: Donald Demayo in Australia. For us, we'll look at the
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Speaker 2: retail spending and talk about the number of nurses and hospitals.
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Speaker 2: The agenda Tuesday, twenty fifth of August, so Scott Veson
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Speaker 2: Treasury Sectary is announcing the so called Economic D Day
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Speaker 2: Plan for Iran and it's trading partners. He's been speaking
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Speaker 2: to media in the last few seconds. Here's what he
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Speaker 2: said today.
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Speaker 3: In that same spirit, we are launching an economic onslaught
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Speaker 3: against Around's financial connections around the globe. Around the globe,
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Speaker 3: our objective is to sever every economic lifeline this sustains
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Speaker 3: this tyrannical regime until Tran stands alone.
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Speaker 2: About China, a big part of that, of course, they
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Speaker 2: are eighty percent of the oil exports out of Iran
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Speaker 2: go to China. We'll keep you updated on that one
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Speaker 2: as you keep speaking. Now, Iran at the same time
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Speaker 2: is saying we will shut down all regional oil exports
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Speaker 2: if the war continues. And you continue with this.
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Speaker 4: The fact that the United States has once again moved
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Speaker 4: from military threats saying that it will strike and so on,
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Speaker 4: to reviving its old plans shows that they are truly
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Speaker 4: desperate and have no solution when it comes to the
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Speaker 4: Great Iranian nation. Therefore, they keep bringing their old plans
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Speaker 4: back onto the scene.
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Speaker 2: The tip tep between County and Trump continues now Trump
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Speaker 2: going up to cars and car parts that Canada exports
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Speaker 2: to America. County is fighting back.
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Speaker 5: I was recently back in Canada and the level of
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Speaker 5: anger at the US measures. I think there is a
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Speaker 5: great deal of political support the federal government. Provincial governments
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Speaker 5: will be supporting industries that are particularly targeted by these measures,
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Speaker 5: but the US is also going to suffer significantly. Is
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Speaker 5: seen the former Vice President Pence saying this is the
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Speaker 5: last thing that American consumers need right now.
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Speaker 2: Over in Europe, Andy Burnhams met with Zelenski. He went
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Speaker 2: for his first visit to Ukraine and Britain is handing
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Speaker 2: over the blueprints for a British made Scalp missile which
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Speaker 2: they will be able to make locally.
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Speaker 6: I've only been in office a short time, but already
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Speaker 6: in that time Russia has threatened the UK for its
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Speaker 6: support for the Ukraine, and I know other countries here
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Speaker 6: have faced similar threats. It just shows that what we
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Speaker 6: are doing is having an impact.
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Speaker 2: His reaction from the kremelind.
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Speaker 7: Britain is participating in this war on the side of
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Speaker 7: the Kiev regime. Britain is methodically and consistently adding fuel
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Speaker 7: to the fire and methodically and consistently plotting to prevent
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Speaker 7: a peaceful settlement process. Our armed forces are carrying out
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Speaker 7: the necessary work and gathering the relevant day to identify
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Speaker 7: the production sites for such missiles and other military equipment,
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Speaker 7: undertaking measures to destroy these facilities.
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Speaker 1: Here at the first Ryan Bridge on early edition with
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Speaker 1: that'd be.
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Speaker 2: Time is nine after five nine two nine two is
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Speaker 2: the number to text. Always love hearing from you. I'll
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Speaker 2: tell you more about those missiles. By the way, how
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Speaker 2: long it might actually take the Ukrainians to build one
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Speaker 2: of their own. The short answer is it's that it
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Speaker 2: might take a while. Let's talk about the social media
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Speaker 2: ban bit of a stunt from the National Party. If
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Speaker 2: I'm being honest with you, they don't have support for it.
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Speaker 2: It's not going to be read before the election. It's
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Speaker 2: a bit of a box tick before the election campaign.
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Speaker 2: From what I can see, you know, they'll be getting
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Speaker 2: polling that will say parents are worried about their kids
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Speaker 2: being on phones, which, and I've said this in a
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Speaker 2: couple of times, but if you are that worried about
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Speaker 2: your kid being on a phone, why did you them
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Speaker 2: one and why don't you take it off them? But anyway,
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Speaker 2: so the parents are worried about it. Nationals wants to
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Speaker 2: look like they're doing something about it, so they've got
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Speaker 2: a bill that they have put forward, not a government
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Speaker 2: bill because Act doesn't support it. News on First doesn't
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Speaker 2: support it, and they need to get the support of
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Speaker 2: Labor across the line, which they haven't got yet. So
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Speaker 2: no reading before the election. This thing's going to be
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Speaker 2: pushed out to post November. Now. The interesting thing about
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Speaker 2: this is what does Labor do That's really the only
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Speaker 2: interesting thing. Do they come out and say we support it? Well,
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Speaker 2: they have And Mackenzie handed me this morning a whole
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Speaker 2: bunch of questions that Labor has for the National Party
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Speaker 2: and that they sent to Erica's Standard about Erica is
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Speaker 2: Stanford about this saying, you know, we answer these questions
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Speaker 2: and then we will consider doing it. And National hasn't
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Speaker 2: answered the questions. They've gone ahead and announced this done
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Speaker 2: their little press conference. Now what some of the issues
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Speaker 2: that they talk about are actually good ones, like important ones.
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Speaker 2: Is the intention here that your big tech companies will
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Speaker 2: use two checks, you know to verify someone's age, because
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Speaker 2: how do you verify someone's age? And do you want
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Speaker 2: to be giving all of your private information to a
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Speaker 2: social media giant? Probably not wise, even they say they
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Speaker 2: probably shouldn't be trusted with it. You know, you're going
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Speaker 2: to have some kind of photo ID? Are you going
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Speaker 2: to have something scanning your face? All sounds a bit weird.
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Speaker 2: So there's good questions and then there's the sort of
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Speaker 2: weird ones like how does the bill uphold tatidity or
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Speaker 2: white tonguey? And is further engagement or code design with
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Speaker 2: Mildy planned. I mean, what on earth are they talking about.
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Speaker 2: There's seventy more than seventy points that they have made
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Speaker 2: in this document. This is from Reuben Davidson, who's the
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Speaker 2: Labor Broadcasting Media spokesperson. So he's going to be on
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Speaker 2: the show before six. We'll ask him about it. But
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Speaker 2: in my mind, this smarter thing is what David Seymour
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Speaker 2: has said we should do, which is, if you want
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Speaker 2: to ban something, ban the smartphone, because if you look
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Speaker 2: at a kid with a smartphone, you know immediately that
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Speaker 2: they shouldn't have that. If you look at a kid
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Speaker 2: with a phone, how do you know whether they're on
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Speaker 2: social media or not? Half the Aussie kids are nineteen
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Speaker 2: er text twelve minutes after five, Bryan Bridge, we would
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Speaker 2: look at these numbers from Health Endz on how many
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Speaker 2: nurses are on shift and how many should be on shift.
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Speaker 2: News TALKSB five fourteen. David says, Ryan, there is now
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Speaker 2: enough evidence to show that if you are under the
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Speaker 2: age of sixteen, then getting on a social media platform
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Speaker 2: has more cons than it does benefits. They should be
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Speaker 2: off it. Your question is how do you do that? David?
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Speaker 2: Very quickly, retail sales were down half a percent. This
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Speaker 2: is for the June quarter, so quarter two down half
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Speaker 2: a percent. We've had two years basically of spending going up.
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Speaker 2: This is the first decline. It is old data, now,
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Speaker 2: isn't it in fact quite old? It is seasonally adjusted numbers. Basically,
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Speaker 2: the Retail Trade Survey looks at sales and looks at
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Speaker 2: stock of businesses like supermarkets, restaurants, cafes, hotels, your petrol stations,
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Speaker 2: your car yards, all that kind of stuff. So retail
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Speaker 2: sales volumes, fuel down thirteen percent, motor vehicle parts retailing
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Speaker 2: down two point three. Up nine point two was electrical
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Speaker 2: and electronic goods retailing. We'll look at the numbers in
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Speaker 2: closer detail with ASB who were with us. Next, it's
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Speaker 2: called a past Health New Zealand's released after pressure from
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Speaker 2: news talk SETB. I might add staffing levels across the
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Speaker 2: public health system. It looks at basically every single nursing
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Speaker 2: shift in the public system over twenty twenty five. Were
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Speaker 2: they staffed to Health New Zealand's targets that's the question. Well,
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Speaker 2: twenty five percent didn't have enough staff, forty four percent
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Speaker 2: were overstaffed, and thirty one percent were staffed at target.
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Speaker 2: Malcolm mar Holland is patient voice Alter oh Chin and
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Speaker 2: joins me this morning. Malcolm, Good morning, morning, Ryan Health
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Speaker 2: these sentences as data is not actually very useful. What
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Speaker 2: do you make of it?
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Speaker 8: Ah, I tend to believe the nurses to be honest
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Speaker 8: over a bureaucrat. Anybody who's spent time in eding lately
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Speaker 8: or in the hospitals will know that the staff are
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Speaker 8: overrun and there's just not enough of them.
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Speaker 2: Will we ever have enough nurses? Because it doesn't matter
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Speaker 2: who's in power, It doesn't matter who's in charge, it
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Speaker 2: seems like we never have enough nurses.
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Speaker 8: I think it's getting particularly bad though, Ryan. I think
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Speaker 8: you're right. I mean, you know how much is enough?
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Speaker 8: And you could say that both labor and national the
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Speaker 8: guilty of it. But it seems to me over the
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Speaker 8: past two to three years that the situation's become particularly bad.
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Speaker 8: And you only need to take a quick book at
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Speaker 8: media to see the reporting that's coming through about patient
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Speaker 8: harm that's been caused as a result. So I would
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Speaker 8: say that things are getting worse.
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Speaker 2: So what is what are we going to just get
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Speaker 2: more nurses.
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Speaker 8: Get more nurses, pay them so that we can be
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Speaker 8: competitive with Australia. We know that many of our workforce
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Speaker 8: go over there. We need to have a realistic conversation
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Speaker 8: and debate about how much we value our nurses and
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Speaker 8: our doctors for that matter.
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Speaker 2: Malcolm Mahan's patient voice alt oh Chi, good to have
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Speaker 2: you on the show this morning. Seventeen minutes after five,
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Speaker 2: Ryan bred Ryan agreed the social media should be taken
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Speaker 2: away from under sixteen's but is it necessary to stop
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Speaker 2: them having smartphones or other devices, because then they'll look
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Speaker 2: at the smart watches, the iPads, this even smart TVs.
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Speaker 2: This text has said, Yeah, I suppose. But the thing
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Speaker 2: with the difference between TV and a phone is you
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Speaker 2: can't really take a TV and put it in your pocket,
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Speaker 2: you know, and take it to your bedroom and go
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Speaker 2: take it anywhere, out to the park wherever you want
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Speaker 2: to go. And I think if you can see that
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Speaker 2: a kid's like you, you know, the difference between a
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Speaker 2: smartphone and a dumb phone don't you when you look
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Speaker 2: at it? Whereas if a kid is on a smartphone,
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Speaker 2: how do you know whether they're on social media or not,
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Speaker 2: whether they're obeying the rules or not. This is a
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Speaker 2: nice one from Trish. Before we get to the break.
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Speaker 2: Didn't anyone in labor give any thought to the idea
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Speaker 2: that their slogan Better Starts Now is shortened to bs now?
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Speaker 9: Trish?
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Speaker 2: Probably not, I would venture I guess eighteen after five
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Speaker 2: News TALKSB we look at those retail numbers.
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Speaker 2: It is twenty a half to five. So these storm
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Speaker 2: Shadow cruise missiles. This is what we were talking about
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Speaker 2: earlier that the Brits are saying to Ukraine you can
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Speaker 2: go and here are the blueprints. You can go and
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Speaker 2: make them now, which sounds well and good. How we've
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Speaker 2: basically given them the ip to go and make them.
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Speaker 2: They've given them the weapons before which they've used they've
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Speaker 2: actually fired them into Russia and targets and they're good
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Speaker 2: because they go sort of deep underground, they hit weapons stores,
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Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. However, in order for the
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Speaker 2: Ukrainians to make them, they need components, they need parts,
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Speaker 2: and the problem with giving them them the IP to
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Speaker 2: them now is that it's going to take them potentially
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Speaker 2: years before they can actually manufacture any of themselves. Twenty
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Speaker 2: one after five, so we've got Q two retail numbers.
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Speaker 2: They show their rum war starting to hit the hip pockets.
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Speaker 2: Spending fell half a percent follows a year and a
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Speaker 2: half of solid improvement in the retail sales. Jane Turner,
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Speaker 2: asb senior economist, joins me this morning. Jane, good morning,
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Speaker 2: good morning. So what did you make of that, I
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Speaker 2: mean you sort of expected.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, the figures were largely as we had expected. I
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Speaker 10: was in the detail. There is a little bit of
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Speaker 10: a mixed bag. But you know, those massive swings that
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Speaker 10: we saw on steel prices and then the contraction and
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Speaker 10: spending on your volumes really drove those headline results. The
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Speaker 10: higher fuel prices ate out more of household budgets, and
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Speaker 10: so we saw this pullback and discretionory spending. So that
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Speaker 10: was expected. There were a few pockets of strengths. I
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Speaker 10: described these areas as being related to the housing market,
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Speaker 10: and that really reflects the strength and the housing market
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Speaker 10: we saw earlier in the year. So we don't expect
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Speaker 10: back to continue going forward.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, electronics did well.
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Speaker 10: Yes, we have seen quite a surge in electronics, but
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Speaker 10: then electronics has been performing really well for the past
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Speaker 10: at least five six quarters, and we've seen quite similar surges,
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Speaker 10: So we're not one hundred percentra of what exactly by
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Speaker 10: high net. Potentially there was a little bit of upgrade
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Speaker 10: and TV the World Cup, but it's really hard to
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Speaker 10: say without further information. But yeah, we did see really
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Speaker 10: strong housing market during spring and summer, and so I
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Speaker 10: think that's just more of the lagged effect of the
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Speaker 10: strong housing market because we also saw quite strong growth
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Speaker 10: and furniture and hardware house sales have since declined quite sharply.
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Speaker 10: So we expect to see a bit of a pullback
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Speaker 10: in Q three in these areas.
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Speaker 2: Jane, if you look at per capita sales, we're still
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Speaker 2: up on last year, aren't we? This is quarter to quarter.
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Speaker 2: Are we still on track for the recovery? Or is
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Speaker 2: that this is just sort of a blit that the
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Speaker 2: price of oil goes up, we pay more on that,
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Speaker 2: we spend a little bit less on other nice things.
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Speaker 10: There is a bit of hope that there is a
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Speaker 10: bit of a blit if we look at more forward
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Speaker 10: indicators such as consumer confidence. We have seen some recovery
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Speaker 10: come through there, but there are still quite a few
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Speaker 10: headwinds facing the household sector. Fuel prices they have fallen
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Speaker 10: a lot off their peaks, but they are they're still
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Speaker 10: a little bit elevated, cost of living pressures. They're continuing there,
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Speaker 10: and now we're seeing rising mortgage rates. Adding to that,
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Speaker 10: there's the week housing market, and we're seen a bit
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Speaker 10: of a delay to the recovery and the labor market.
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Speaker 10: So we expect that generally consumer spending will remain fairly
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Speaker 10: modest throughout the re sits here before we see and
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Speaker 10: more meaningful recovery probably next year now.
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Speaker 2: Jane GOODTV on the program this morning, Thanks so much
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Speaker 2: for your time. That is from ASB talking about the
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Speaker 2: retail sales numbers. Jane Turner time is twenty four minutes,
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Speaker 2: half to five. Ryan, I get that we have a
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Speaker 2: nursing shortage, and I don't want to downplay that. This
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Speaker 2: is a text from one of our listeners this morning. However,
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Speaker 2: I often feel that nurses in the shortage of nurses
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Speaker 2: is often over reported. The healthcare system always seems to
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Speaker 2: comp bad rap. Having experienced firsthand the healthcare system recently,
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Speaker 2: in my opinion, it was nothing but world class. I
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Speaker 2: think we can all agree that when you are in
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Speaker 2: hospital and when you need it, they nurses do a
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Speaker 2: fantastic job. I don't think anyone's criticizing nurses whether we
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Speaker 2: have enough of them. But then also the question is
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Speaker 2: whether we will ever have enough nurses, you know, and
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Speaker 2: what is a safe number of nurses. It seems like
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Speaker 2: there's a bit of disagreement on that too. Twenty five
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Speaker 2: after five News Talks to be I'll tell you what
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Speaker 2: Scott Besont has been saying in the last a few minutes.
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Speaker 2: Next also will look at Labour in their spending. Five
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Speaker 2: twenty seven News Talk said b Labour's fallen into a
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Speaker 2: cunning weed trap that Nicola Willis set a few weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: She laid the bait releasing their fiscal rules that the
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Speaker 2: party would abide by if re elected, and challenged Labor
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Speaker 2: to basically you do the same. On the weekend, Chippy
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Speaker 2: and Barb took the bait and released their own fiscal strategy.
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Speaker 2: The problem for Labour is that its strategy reveals that
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Speaker 2: it wants to do exactly the things National has been
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Speaker 2: saying they want to do. Tax, borrow and spend more.
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Speaker 2: There is a gap between what they say they're willing
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Speaker 2: to spend and what they have announced that they will tax.
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Speaker 2: There are billions of dollars they want to spend that
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Speaker 2: they haven't yet explained how they will tax, as we've
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Speaker 2: spoken about on the show and asked about on the
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Speaker 2: show many times. The interest deductibility on rental properties is
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Speaker 2: likely to wear its head again for Labor, but even
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Speaker 2: that wouldn't be enough to cover their plans, which plays
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Speaker 2: International's attax and the entire basis of their campaign, which
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Speaker 2: is that you can't trust Labor not to tax the
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Speaker 2: but Jesus out of you and leave you broke in
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Speaker 2: an election campaign unanswered questions. The void is filled by noise.
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Speaker 2: To be in control of a campaign, you want to
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Speaker 2: be making sure that the noise is made by you
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Speaker 2: and not for you by others. To make matters worse,
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Speaker 2: Labour says they won't release their fiscal plan different from
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Speaker 2: strategy which is more detailed and fills in the blanks
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Speaker 2: till the prefeud, the economic update before the election, that's
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Speaker 2: a month away, until they frontless some answers. You can't
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Speaker 2: help but look at this as a successful election bait
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Speaker 2: set trap from Nikola Willis Brian Breadley twenty eight minutes
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Speaker 2: after five loads of texts coming in on the social
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Speaker 2: media and the nurses. We'll get to those in a second,
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Speaker 2: but here is Scott Besson on China. He's just well
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Speaker 2: he's not mentioning China, but he's sort of getting at China,
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Speaker 2: isn't he. It's anyone who's doing any kind of deals
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Speaker 2: with Iran.
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Speaker 3: Every country, every entity should know that they should be
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Speaker 3: prepared to face US sanctions and no one is above this.
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Speaker 3: We are going to hold everyone accountable and this is
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Speaker 3: ex fix the economic exphyxiation of this regime. And Jennifer,
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Speaker 3: as I said, no one should test our result.
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Speaker 2: So not really wanting to say exactly ho, just no one,
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Speaker 2: but probably looking at you China.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: It is news talks itb We're in Australia.
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Speaker 2: Bring go away from six news Talks on your Tuesday
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Speaker 2: morning and a ten minutes will speak to labor. Of course,
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Speaker 2: national needs labor to pass the social media ban, which
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Speaker 2: won't happen to l after the election anyway. We'll talk
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Speaker 2: to Donna. In Australia, there's a guy that delivered a
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Speaker 2: million bucks worth of drugs to jail. Apparently business is
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Speaker 2: booming loads of techs on the social media thing. Here's
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Speaker 2: just a flavor for you this morning. This is from
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Speaker 2: Paul Ryan. This is on parents. Why is everyone looking
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Speaker 2: to the government. How do you access social media using
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Speaker 2: a smart device? Don't buy your kids a smart device
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Speaker 2: that stops access one hundred percent? Why is everyone looking
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Speaker 2: to the government to fix their problems? It's a good question.
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Speaker 2: The other problem with this, Paul, thanks for texting. The
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Speaker 2: penalty for big tech here is up to ten percent
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Speaker 2: of their global revenue. If you look at say Meta,
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Speaker 2: that's three hundred and sixty billion dollars a year. Their
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Speaker 2: global revenue, Tiktoks owner Byte dance around three hundred and
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Speaker 2: eleven billion dollars, So We're talking about the New Zealand
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Speaker 2: government imposing fines of up to thirty six and thirty
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Speaker 2: one billion News dollars on big tech. Is that really
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Speaker 2: going to happen? The Aussies have done this and their
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Speaker 2: fines they had to double to ninety nine million Australian
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Speaker 2: dollars and even then half the kids are getting round it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, how useful is this? Twenty three to six,
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge, right, let's go to our reporters hand effect
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Speaker 2: for Deneed Hannah. Good morning, Good morning Ryan. Steven Spielberg's
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Speaker 2: getting involved in the Bendigo oph mine.
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Speaker 11: He sure is. Steven Spielberg has honored the late Sir
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Speaker 11: Sam Neil with the donation to the Central Otago Anti
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Speaker 11: Mining Group Australian mining company Santana Minerals. They want to
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Speaker 11: develop the bend To Go Oh Far Golden project near Cromwell.
19:38
Speaker 11: Neil was one of the most prominent critics of this,
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Speaker 11: with his final Instagram post opposing the project. Sustainable Tariff
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Speaker 11: says they were deeply touched to receive the donation from
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Speaker 11: Spielberg's Emblem Entertainment in Neil's memory. The pair worked together
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Speaker 11: on Jurassic Park in nineteen ninety three.
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Speaker 2: Do we know how much he gave?
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Speaker 11: No, not at all.
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Speaker 2: Okay, how's your weather?
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Speaker 11: A fine start, there's some cloud increasing with the occasional rain.
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Speaker 11: Later this morning, A high seventeen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Hannah. Now, look, this is not saying anything
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Speaker 2: about Sirs Sam Neil or about his relationship with Steven Spielberg.
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Speaker 2: But does anyone just get a little bit he begbi
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Speaker 2: when Hollywood starts throwing their weight around on issues like this,
20:16
Speaker 2: How many of the actors of those A listers that
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Speaker 2: star and all of Stephen Stielberg's Spielberg's movies fly around
20:23
Speaker 2: the world in private jets anyway. Claire and christ.
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Speaker 9: Church Morning, Claire, good morning.
20:28
Speaker 2: Why markeaeld Eddi's mayor standing firm on saying no to
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Speaker 2: the housing build.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, this is the big housing development at or Hawker.
20:36
Speaker 12: It's the Coltor group behind it. They've lodged a fast
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Speaker 12: track application to convert one hundred and fifty hectares into
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Speaker 12: eight hundred and fifty homes as well as adding a
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Speaker 12: school or retirement village.
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Speaker 13: Now the community, like with Pegasus, are very much against this.
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Speaker 13: They've rejected it. They've handed over a petition to the
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Speaker 13: authorities yesterday at the Orhawk of Domain. The Mayor, as
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Speaker 13: you say, Dan Gordon, is very firmly against it. He
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Speaker 13: says council have never considered aw Hawker suitable for the
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Speaker 13: scale of development. There are concerns there around flooding, around transport,
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Speaker 13: drainage and the wider infrastructure. He says, it's already been
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Speaker 13: declined twice through two independent planning processes and it simply
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Speaker 13: shouldn't be reconsidered through this fast track method.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather, hi clown?
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Speaker 12: Today? Northwesterly is developing this morning gusty for a time
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Speaker 12: the high will be twenty one Thank you clear.
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Speaker 2: Max and Wellington morning Max. Good morning Greg O'Connor. So
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Speaker 2: he's out of one job, he's trying to get another effectively.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, this is the current Lhardio MP Labor a little
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Speaker 14: distance though from Labour Party hierarchy recently and on his
21:39
Speaker 14: way out of Parliament, not on the left. Announced in
21:41
Speaker 14: June ais Cheveril preferred in Wellington North and so Greg
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Speaker 14: O'Connor looking very likely, indeed, I think to contest this
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Speaker 14: northern ward seat. After the very sad sudden death of
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Speaker 14: Councilor Tony Randall earlier this month. O'Connor probably would have
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Speaker 14: announced it by now, but tall as he wanted to
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Speaker 14: wait out of respect for Randall, who he knew personally.
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Speaker 14: We believe it'd also like to run as an independent,
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Speaker 14: but it was the current mayor, Andrew Little in fact,
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Speaker 14: who originally recruited him for labor, so he obviously has
22:09
Speaker 14: the mayor's backing. A by election is required by the
22:12
Speaker 14: end of the year, at a cost of about a
22:14
Speaker 14: quarter of a million dollars to the ratepayer. How's your
22:17
Speaker 14: weather fine, Gustine Northerly's a higher fifteen in the city.
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Speaker 2: Nice one, Thank you very much. Max Neva and Auckland
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Speaker 2: Morning there, morning. What is Auckland University celebrating.
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Speaker 15: Yes, tonight ten years of bringing ideas to bars around
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Speaker 15: the city. So this is the raising the bar. That's
22:35
Speaker 15: you know, the international initiative, So it's bringing lecturers and
22:39
Speaker 15: research out of the university halls. Tonight is Auckland UNI's
22:43
Speaker 15: tenth iteration. So we've got about twenty lecturers and professors
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Speaker 15: delivering talks across ten bars. Peter pepper Janis is the
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Speaker 15: alumni relations manager. He says, because I was thinking what
22:54
Speaker 15: kind of topics will they be speaking about? What will
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Speaker 15: they be talking about? Anything from Disney music to heart health.
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Speaker 15: That you have it and apparently they're sold out.
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Speaker 2: It sounds to me like a great idea, like what
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Speaker 2: better most lectures you'd probably prefer to be listening to
23:09
Speaker 2: over a beer anyway, that's quite right. What's his name?
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Speaker 2: Peter Pepaganas?
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Speaker 15: Isn't it a great night? Or you remember even I
23:15
Speaker 15: just said it once and yeah, great name. So yeah,
23:18
Speaker 15: there you have it, so you know, if you want
23:20
Speaker 15: to head along there you have a drinking poo and
23:21
Speaker 15: ch chat through.
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Speaker 13: The tree lips.
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Speaker 2: Sounds fun. How's our weather?
23:24
Speaker 10: Fine?
23:25
Speaker 15: Cloud developing around mid day? Just the chance of a
23:27
Speaker 15: shower or no? Sixteen the high.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant never, thank you very much, eighteen minutes away from
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Speaker 2: six and video is going to report. We will get
23:33
Speaker 2: this number Thursday morning. It's a big number because it's
23:36
Speaker 2: a big company, you know, biggest, most valuable company. Five
23:40
Speaker 2: trillion dollars. This chip maker is worth. You would have
23:42
Speaker 2: heard the name a million times before. Anyway, they are
23:45
Speaker 2: reporting and they are expected this is four quarter two.
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Speaker 2: They are expected to record sales of ninety two billion
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Speaker 2: for the second quarter, up from a four past seventy
23:54
Speaker 2: eight billion from the start of the year. This is
23:56
Speaker 2: the type of announcement and we will have it Thursday
23:58
Speaker 2: morning that will move markets, not just stocks, not just
24:02
Speaker 2: tech stocks, but entire markets. Eighteen to six News Talks
24:06
Speaker 2: hed B Donna has this kind of random story out
24:09
Speaker 2: of Australian prisons. Next quarter to six, you're on News
24:13
Speaker 2: Talk sereb Ryan Steven Spielberg needs to stay out of
24:15
Speaker 2: New Zealand mining. He's never been a supporter of environmental
24:18
Speaker 2: issues in New Zealand and now throws money at it
24:21
Speaker 2: because he has too much. We need this mining for
24:23
Speaker 2: jobs and revenues. Is this Texter? He should stick to
24:26
Speaker 2: fixing the US issues and leave us where we are.
24:29
Speaker 2: I tend to agree with you, though he's perfectly entitled
24:32
Speaker 2: to donate money if he wants to, not that we
24:34
Speaker 2: know how much.
24:34
Speaker 1: Quarter to six International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance,
24:39
Speaker 1: Peace of mind for New Zealand business.
24:42
Speaker 2: Sonage to May with us live this morning. Our Australia
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Speaker 2: correspondent on a good morning, Good morning to you. Update
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Speaker 2: us this Union corruption probe. We've spoken about it before
24:50
Speaker 2: in Victoria. It's to do with the construction industry. And
24:53
Speaker 2: you've got more arrests.
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Speaker 16: Yes, five arrests in fact, and a union headquarters was
24:58
Speaker 16: raided by police and Victoria yesterday. Now they're investigating these
25:02
Speaker 16: allegations of corruption within the CFMEU, which is a very
25:06
Speaker 16: powerful building and construction union, and they're looking into these
25:09
Speaker 16: allegations of corruption of criminal conduct at construction sites. So
25:14
Speaker 16: six properties were rated, including the CFMEU headquarters right in
25:19
Speaker 16: the heart of Melbourne in the CBD and detectives from
25:22
Speaker 16: Task Force Hawk approbing these allegations relating to you know,
25:26
Speaker 16: secret commissions and so forth. Now they've laid some charges
25:30
Speaker 16: and the charges actually relate to drug possession and firearm storage.
25:34
Speaker 16: Two men face charges and three were released pending further investigation.
25:39
Speaker 16: Now what did they seize during these raids? Mobile phones,
25:43
Speaker 16: are poison laptops, iPads, usp devices, as well as a
25:50
Speaker 16: range of documents. And we're heard from Jamie Walker, who
25:54
Speaker 16: is the acting superintendent, and he said criminal conduct involving corruption,
25:58
Speaker 16: intimidation and isolence within the construction industry is unacceptable. And
26:04
Speaker 16: we also heard from a union spokesman who said that
26:06
Speaker 16: of course the union is cooperating with police. Now we
26:09
Speaker 16: know that earlier, well, just a few days ago, in fact,
26:13
Speaker 16: we heard from the Victorian Premier who announced this Royal
26:16
Speaker 16: Commission into corruption in the construction sector. It's going to
26:19
Speaker 16: cost about fifty million dollars due to report in twenty
26:22
Speaker 16: twenty seven. We're already hearing that it could actually take
26:25
Speaker 16: even longer, maybe eighteen months or even two years for
26:29
Speaker 16: this royal commission to look into what is going on
26:33
Speaker 16: in this industry and then report back to Victorians and Australians.
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Speaker 2: Yeeshe million dollars, Hey the poison? Did they say anything
26:40
Speaker 2: more about the poison?
26:42
Speaker 16: No, No, I knew that you would pick up on it.
26:44
Speaker 7: But it was.
26:45
Speaker 16: Intriguing, Yes, but don't know any more about what exactly
26:48
Speaker 16: what that was.
26:49
Speaker 2: Jron very quickly. This guy who is accused of delivering
26:52
Speaker 2: a million dollars with the drugs to a prison, did
26:54
Speaker 2: he manage to get them in there?
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Speaker 16: Well, officers found a packedge attached to a drone allegedly
27:03
Speaker 16: containing quite a number of drugs, a large quantity of
27:06
Speaker 16: prescription drugs, some methaphidamine syringes, a glass pipe, at mobile
27:10
Speaker 16: phone and a simcard. Yes, so he's facing many many
27:15
Speaker 16: trafficking dangerous drugs charges and is due in a Queensland
27:19
Speaker 16: court today.
27:20
Speaker 2: Donald DeMar, good to see it is twelve orway from
27:22
Speaker 2: six News talk zb that's an Australia correspondent, Rain Bridge.
27:27
Speaker 2: Let's come back home now, Nationals pushing your head. Well,
27:30
Speaker 2: let's call it what it is. It's a national idea,
27:33
Speaker 2: a national bill for a social media band for under sixteens.
27:36
Speaker 8: We won't get every single child off social media.
27:39
Speaker 17: Some will always find ways around it, but frankly it's
27:43
Speaker 17: just way too important not to at least try act.
27:46
Speaker 2: New Zealand first are agreed to disagree. Labor is an
27:49
Speaker 2: open question. They've fired off seventy nine questions before they'll
27:52
Speaker 2: get back at it and back to them. Ruben Davidson
27:55
Speaker 2: as a Labor spokesperson for Technology and Media. Reuben, good morning,
28:00
Speaker 2: good morning, right doing. What do you think? I'm good?
28:02
Speaker 2: Thank you, Nice to have you on the show. What
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Speaker 2: did you think of that yesterday? Was that a bit
28:05
Speaker 2: of a stunt?
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Speaker 6: Oh?
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Speaker 17: Look it was. It was certainly an interesting turn of events,
28:11
Speaker 17: wasn't it. I mean we've been we've been growing really
28:13
Speaker 17: hard to work constructively with the minister and with national
28:18
Speaker 17: and you know, three years into this term and kind
28:22
Speaker 17: of three sitting weeks out from the government wrapping up
28:26
Speaker 17: they put on yesterday's event.
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Speaker 2: Ruben, what I've seen the questions that you have sent
28:33
Speaker 2: to labor, and some of them are fear and good
28:35
Speaker 2: questions about you know, how do the operators actually make
28:39
Speaker 2: the checks for people? But the second issue you raise
28:41
Speaker 2: is how does the bill uphold to titdity or white tongy.
28:45
Speaker 2: What has this got to do with the tidity or
28:47
Speaker 2: white tongey?
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Speaker 17: Well, look, I mean we know that from from our
28:52
Speaker 17: reading of the bill and from knowing how people are
28:55
Speaker 17: reflected by some of the harms that happen on social media,
28:57
Speaker 17: we know that what we need is a is a
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Speaker 17: law that takes some New Zealand specific considerations into account.
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Speaker 2: How would you do that?
29:07
Speaker 17: It would be how would you think what we're seeing
29:11
Speaker 17: is that the bill seemingly hasn't considered that at all.
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Speaker 2: But how would you specif the points that okay? But
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Speaker 2: how would you make a treaty specific proposal or ban?
29:23
Speaker 2: What does it even mean?
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Speaker 17: Sure? So what what you'd do is you would you
29:27
Speaker 17: would give consideration to the treaty and how that bill
29:31
Speaker 17: is prepared, and there's there's a number of other considerations
29:35
Speaker 17: that are that are unique or specific to the New
29:38
Speaker 17: Zealand context that that the bill just has hasn't hasn't addressed,
29:43
Speaker 17: which is but how would many questions different we had
29:46
Speaker 17: on the head on the bill.
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Speaker 2: But how your second one is about the treaty, which
29:49
Speaker 2: I just thought was interesting. How how would it be different?
29:52
Speaker 2: Would you ban only like non Maldi children.
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Speaker 17: I mean, I don't understand, No, I don't think we're
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Speaker 17: talking about that at all. We're talking about is making
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Speaker 17: sure that what we've got is a bill that is
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Speaker 17: not just lifted from what some other countries have been
30:07
Speaker 17: doing with you know, some success, but that will have
30:11
Speaker 17: a bill that is actually designed to work in the
30:14
Speaker 17: very specific New Zealand content.
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Speaker 2: And so the bill that as you currently read it
30:19
Speaker 2: is not that you're saying you will not support what
30:22
Speaker 2: they've put forward. You're going to have to do some
30:24
Speaker 2: talking after the election, presumably.
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Speaker 17: So we have a number of questions remaining, and we've
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Speaker 17: requested to see a number of documents. We sent Moost
30:34
Speaker 17: requests through end of last week, heard nothing from the minister,
30:40
Speaker 17: and then received something late last night, you know, hours
30:44
Speaker 17: after yesterday's big reveal.
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Speaker 2: Oh what did they say?
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Speaker 17: Oh well, you know, it was late last night. Still
30:53
Speaker 17: working through the questions. Please to have answers to some
30:56
Speaker 17: of the issues we raised. Pleased also to have some
30:59
Speaker 17: of their all points that we're raised around, things like
31:03
Speaker 17: tile impact assessments, about privacy impacts and then these are
31:07
Speaker 17: pretty meaty issues. The Minister herself yesterday talked about. You
31:12
Speaker 17: know that these these platforms are designed. They're not designed
31:16
Speaker 17: by accident. They're designed by some of the smartest people
31:20
Speaker 17: on the planet. So what we need to make sure
31:23
Speaker 17: that the legislation is as well.
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Speaker 2: And fair to say, they've given you some documents last night.
31:29
Speaker 2: It's going to take you, guys a while. You're not
31:31
Speaker 2: going to have an answer today, are you.
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Speaker 17: I don't. I don't expect to be able to get
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Speaker 17: through all of all of you know what we got
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Speaker 17: back late last night.
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Speaker 2: All right, on a Tuesday, we'll check back in with
31:45
Speaker 2: the ones you've had a chance. Ruben Davidson from Labor
31:48
Speaker 2: it is eight to six News Talks B.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: for Business Technology that keeps business. This moving news talks,
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Speaker 1: there'd be.
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Speaker 2: It is five six news talks, there'd be Mike, Good morning.
32:06
Speaker 2: Story out of China. I know you'll be across this
32:08
Speaker 2: because you're across everything. Now, story out of China that
32:11
Speaker 2: they have authorities there have launched an investigation reports of
32:14
Speaker 2: formaldehyde being used to preserve the freshness of cabbages for
32:18
Speaker 2: human consumption.
32:19
Speaker 9: Yes, what's wrong?
32:20
Speaker 2: Well, nothing like a bit of formaldehyde to start your day,
32:25
Speaker 2: isn't that crazy?
32:26
Speaker 9: How I'm glad, I'm glad it is good. I'm glad
32:29
Speaker 9: you got to interview Reuben only but random may Honestly,
32:35
Speaker 9: I've got Erica on this morning. And see, here's the
32:38
Speaker 9: interesting thing is it. Let me ask you this question.
32:40
Speaker 9: Do you think that the parliament is offside with the
32:43
Speaker 9: public or the public's offside with the parliament? Because social so,
32:48
Speaker 9: because Erica doesn't have the numbers or anywhere close to it,
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Speaker 9: and listening to Ruben, I mean she could be waiting
32:53
Speaker 9: a very very long that's the thing.
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Speaker 2: That's nothing's going to happen with this. I actually get
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Speaker 2: yesterday it was a stunt.
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Speaker 9: Is that what?
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Speaker 2: Yes, it was because they've done the polling and they
33:03
Speaker 2: know that parents are anxious about their kids being on phones,
33:05
Speaker 2: and they can say, well, look we're doing something about it,
33:07
Speaker 2: and labour needs to follow us.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, but the problem with it is we when you
33:10
Speaker 9: say parents are concerned, which they probably are. I think
33:13
Speaker 9: they probably are. Does that mean the parliament then is
33:15
Speaker 9: off side with the public because they don't have the numbers?
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Speaker 2: But the solution is the problem right, There is no
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Speaker 2: exactly apart from being a better parent and stopping you
33:25
Speaker 2: keep getting a phone.
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Speaker 9: Is the solution in part your hands, yes it is,
33:30
Speaker 9: but that's a purest view. Is the solution in part
33:34
Speaker 9: the government of the Parliament of the day going, Look,
33:36
Speaker 9: we've done the best we can. We may have attempt
33:41
Speaker 9: on your behalf and this is the best.
33:43
Speaker 2: Problem We're We're going to land probably well.
33:45
Speaker 9: It's where everyone else is.
33:47
Speaker 2: The smart phone band thing is probably the smartest thing
33:50
Speaker 2: I've heard out of all.
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Speaker 9: That the practical thing. Anyway, we'll talk to Erica about this.
33:57
Speaker 9: You know Greg Johnson. You like Greg, You're the musician. No, okay,
34:01
Speaker 9: I'll tell him that he's on after eight and the
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Speaker 9: first thing I'll do is I'll go Greg, got a guy.
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Speaker 2: I haven't heard him in a while.
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Speaker 9: Well exactly, that's why we got him on.
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Speaker 2: Well, not that you're.
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Speaker 9: Interested because you don't like him.
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Speaker 2: Cool, Happy Tuesday. See tomorrow S Baby.
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