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Full Show Podcast: 24 October 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 2: That'd be good morning, Welcome to you Friday. David Siemol
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Speaker 2: before six on the strikes, our europe correspondent on new
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Speaker 2: sanctions from the EU. Also a bunch from Trump. This
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Speaker 2: is on Russia. The MPC final showdown is a sellout
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Speaker 2: this weekend. And what will farmers do with their French cash?
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Speaker 2: The agenda Friday, the twenty fourth of October. So Putin's
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Speaker 2: getting on Trump's nerves again because the talks basically go
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Speaker 2: nowhere whenever they do happen. He's canceled the most recent
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Speaker 2: round and he's hit Russia with sanctions overnight.
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Speaker 3: I just felt to his time waited a long time.
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Speaker 4: I thought that we'd go long before the Middle East.
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Speaker 4: What a president is doing to Dare with these sanctions
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Speaker 4: is putting more pressure on Russia. It's all about changing
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Speaker 4: the culcult that this has to be stab Ronna and
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Speaker 4: for him to really accept that fish and to come
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Speaker 4: to the t board.
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Speaker 2: That was Russa Zelenski speaking of the EU. He wants
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Speaker 2: the frozen Russian assets. He wants that money release to
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Speaker 2: help rebuild Ukraine.
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Speaker 5: A Russia root war to our lad and they have
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Speaker 5: to pay for this war. Europe lists may will make
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Speaker 5: this union decision, and of course one of the way
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Speaker 5: he has to use frozen assets and between us not
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Speaker 5: only on humanitarian things. Yes, because they attack us, we
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Speaker 5: need to defend, defend an answer.
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Speaker 2: Quite the scandal in America, the FBI has done a
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Speaker 2: sting on an NBA star and mafia members. Thirty one
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Speaker 2: people arrested in a massive illegal gambling crackdown. NBA players
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Speaker 2: Chancey Phillips and Terry Rosier and Damon Jones all facing
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Speaker 2: charges and separate, but they're all connected cases. One over
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Speaker 2: a quote brazen sport corruption scheme, the other over ridged
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Speaker 2: pofy games.
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Speaker 6: Alledged illegal gambling operation, hustled unwitting victims out of tens
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Speaker 6: of millions of dollars and created a financial pipeline for
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Speaker 6: LaCOSA Nostra to help fund and facilitate their organized criminal activity.
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Speaker 6: Victims were attracted to play alongside well known professional athletes
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Speaker 6: and coaches, only to be unknowingly deceived through rigged shuffling machines.
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Speaker 2: As the piper Catholic, Yes he still is, but he's
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Speaker 2: been praying with King Charles, whose of course the head
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Speaker 2: of the Church of England.
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Speaker 4: Well, God make speed to save us.
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Speaker 5: You are worthy, our Lord and God to receive glory
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Speaker 5: and honor and power.
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Speaker 2: Camilla was there too. They gave each other gifts and
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Speaker 2: planted trees because you know, climate change.
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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 are the Supersitor explore are
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Speaker 2: Be great to have your company on a Friday morning.
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Speaker 2: Flip Mere texts nine two nine two is the number.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about the strike and the unions later on
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Speaker 2: in the show. But one thing that has been grinding
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Speaker 2: my gears for two weeks now is charter schools. Everyone
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Speaker 2: knows that traditional schools have been failing kids. Kids from
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Speaker 2: certain backgrounds don't do as well, right, so don't we
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Speaker 2: want to do something about that. In the past couple
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Speaker 2: of weeks we have had a number of these charter
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Speaker 2: schools announced. Most of them will be starting term one
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Speaker 2: next year. Excellent. There's a high school which was just
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Speaker 2: this week announced for pacifica girls, and they offer traditional
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Speaker 2: languages activities. They break the day up into two parts.
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Speaker 2: They make the morning about learning, the afternoon about following
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Speaker 2: a passion. It's called Sisters United. It's run by who
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Speaker 2: sounds like an amazing woman, Kendall Collins. She was a
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Speaker 2: social worker. She got sick of dealing with problems in society,
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Speaker 2: you know, being the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff.
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Speaker 2: So she's doing something about it, and good on her.
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Speaker 2: She says, this is a blessing. This charter school is
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Speaker 2: a blessing, and she's excited about next year. Excellent. We've
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Speaker 2: had a sports academy. You would have seen David Seymour
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Speaker 2: trying to pump weights. Didn't go well, he's no Stuart Nash.
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Speaker 2: We've had an online school which is going to start
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Speaker 2: next year. And we know the charter schools get results
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Speaker 2: for students that fall outside, fall between the cracks of
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Speaker 2: a traditional school, and if they don't, guess what, they
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Speaker 2: get canceled. Unlike state schools which just carry on with
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Speaker 2: the d grades, these guys get cut. So the opposition
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Speaker 2: to them, in my mind, is mind boggling. It's union
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Speaker 2: ideological nonsense and it's time that people started calling it out.
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Speaker 2: Labor goes along with it, with the exception I must
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Speaker 2: save Willie Jackson, who has said previously these are a
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Speaker 2: great idea, but labor goes along with it because it's
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Speaker 2: the unions, you know. But surely if something is working,
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Speaker 2: if something is getting results, then you have to stick
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Speaker 2: with it. Coming up next to this new report from
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Speaker 2: ASB looks it's the deal which next Thursday. The vote's happening,
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Speaker 2: So we don't know it's a done deal for fon
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Speaker 2: terror and the retail brands yet. But assuming they vote yes,
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Speaker 2: which most seem to think they will, where does the
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Speaker 2: money go? News Talk SETB.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and are the Supercenter explore are these accessories
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Speaker 2: News Talk SEDB five thirteen. You know this argument that
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Speaker 2: we can tackle climate change, that we can cut our
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Speaker 2: emissions and not hurt our economy. I know it's never
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Speaker 2: made sense to me either. And you look at the counterfactual.
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Speaker 2: We're in the doldrums right now and guess what emissions
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Speaker 2: are down? Will the Greens be celebrating this? That'senz numbers
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Speaker 2: out yesterday total emissions down four percent from the same quarter.
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Speaker 2: This is for June this year, down four percent on
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Speaker 2: the same quarter in twenty twenty four. Household emissions down
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Speaker 2: one point five percent, AG sector emissions down one point
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Speaker 2: one manufacture down, electricity and gas down. I know you
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Speaker 2: don't feel happy about that, do you. Yes, you might
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Speaker 2: be saving the planet, but we're all the poorer for it.
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Speaker 2: Five point fourteen and you ASP report out this morning
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Speaker 2: says Fonterra's plan to sell its retail brands could unlock
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Speaker 2: four and a half billion in extra spending across the economy.
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Speaker 2: Half of it two point two would flow into manufacturing,
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Speaker 2: retail real estate. The average farmer return could hit almost
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Speaker 2: four hundred k. Matt Montgomery is full Sith bar senior
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Speaker 2: analyst Equities with me this morning. Matt, good morning, Good morning, rans.
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Speaker 2: Does this sound about right to you?
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Speaker 7: Well, I think if you consider the total payment that
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Speaker 7: farmers are getting, it's around three point two and I
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Speaker 7: think you'd naturally expect some border flow through to the
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Speaker 7: border economy, particularly when you consider it had a time
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Speaker 7: where on farm returns are pretty healthy and possibly at
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Speaker 7: record level. So the clearly things are a little bit
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Speaker 7: tougher in the earth An economy, so hopefully we see
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Speaker 7: some some pull through across broader New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: We're all hoping to bludge off it, an't we. What
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Speaker 2: the argument was all that farmers will take it and
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Speaker 2: pay down debt, is that, you know, how do we
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Speaker 2: figure out what they want to do with it?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it's very circumstantial, to be honest, it's
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Speaker 7: hard to be directly clear. I mean, there definitely will
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Speaker 7: be some repaying debt. There might be some buying a
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Speaker 7: new boat, there might be some renovating the batch. There
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Speaker 7: might be some sort of reinvesting in there in their
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Speaker 7: own businesses, if that's you know, maintenance or expansion. So
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Speaker 7: I think it is difficult to preempt. But you know,
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Speaker 7: it is at a time where as I mentioned on
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Speaker 7: farm profitability, even if you exclude this Fonterra return is
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Speaker 7: sort of at or near record high. So it's certainly
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Speaker 7: good timing for farmers and for New Zealand more broadly.
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Speaker 2: What's your take on the you know, this big argument
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Speaker 2: that this is a short term sugar hat. You know,
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Speaker 2: Winston doesn't like it. I see I saw a piece
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Speaker 2: from sand Stubbs the other day saying it's it's a
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Speaker 2: tactical win, but a strategic loss. You know, we're not
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Speaker 2: looking to the long term. What do you think?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, so I don't necessarily agree with that views. So
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Speaker 7: our view is that we think it's a good idea
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Speaker 7: that focuses Fonterra on what it's done best historically, where
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Speaker 7: it's higher returns are. And I think it's important to
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Speaker 7: recognize essentially the counterfactual here. So what would it take
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Speaker 7: for Fontierra a really unleash his business? And yeah, for us,
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Speaker 7: that would be multiple billions of dollars in investment, and
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Speaker 7: you know Fontira couldn't fund that itself, so you know,
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Speaker 7: it joppling to take the path of returning the capital
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Speaker 7: and you know, I just putting ownership in someone else's
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Speaker 7: hands where they haven't been the highest value of this business.
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Speaker 7: And I think it's important to recognize that, you know,
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Speaker 7: the Frontario has a lack of scale and consumer globally
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Speaker 7: and hints that that sort of investments would be what
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Speaker 7: it would take to really unleash this business, to get
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Speaker 7: it to a return on capital that would likely be
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Speaker 7: not too much higher than what the rest of the
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Speaker 7: business is doing. Currently, so we think it's it's sensible.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate your time, Matt. Thank you. Matt Montgomery for South
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Speaker 2: Bar Senior Analyst Equity. His time is five seventeen News Talks.
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Speaker 2: He'd be Bryan Ryan. Where does the money go from
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Speaker 2: Fronterira sale of the consumer business? Well, I bet the
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Speaker 2: banks come a knock, and the general talk amongst my
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Speaker 2: colleagues at least and other farmers is we'll be cashing
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Speaker 2: in and going on holiday. Craig, Really, I mean.
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Speaker 8: Sure, there'll be the odd ut, there'll be the odd
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Speaker 8: trip to Fiji, There'll be some paying down of debt,
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Speaker 8: but as Matt said, it's kind of hard to figure
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Speaker 8: out exactly what will happen with the proceeds.
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Speaker 4: Ryan.
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Speaker 2: This is from Helen Helen's coming hot this morning. If
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Speaker 2: all those people go going on strike that upset with
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Speaker 2: their pay and workplace, just leave and go get another job. Otherwise,
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Speaker 2: suck it up, buttercup. Except the fact that your employer
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Speaker 2: just has no money.
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Speaker 2: He'd be by I'll tell you what I think about
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Speaker 2: those strikes in just a second. The NPC Final this
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Speaker 2: weekend and it's all Southern decider Canterbury o target. This
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Speaker 2: is at a polo stadium in christ which it's sold out. Zb'
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Speaker 2: sports Nick Bewley is making the call and he's with
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Speaker 2: me this morning. Good morning, neck, good on, it's your right.
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Speaker 2: How's the weather looking?
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Speaker 9: First of all, better than yesterday? Much better.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, we're expecting some light winds, some sort of blustery
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Speaker 10: sort of northwesters tomorrow afternoon for kickoff at four h five,
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Speaker 10: but certainly nothing of the strength we've had over the
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Speaker 10: past few days. So and fine to not not any
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Speaker 10: showers on the forecast.
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Speaker 9: So that's encouraging.
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Speaker 10: Given the sold out sign has gone up for the
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Speaker 10: first time ever at an MPC game at Apollo Project Stadium.
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Speaker 10: What is the last ever MPC game at the stadium
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Speaker 10: before we move into our brand new multi purpose arena
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Speaker 10: in town.
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Speaker 2: It's a lot of last isn't it. Because you've got
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Speaker 2: Marty Burke as head coach, final Tom Christie as captain.
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Speaker 2: So there'll be a few Swan songs.
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Speaker 10: Indeed, Yeah, emotional time for quite a few of the
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Speaker 10: Cannabury contingent. As you mentioned there, the coach is departing.
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Speaker 10: Tom Christie is a real fan favorite. Done here, Ryan,
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Speaker 10: He's heading away to England after tomorrow's game. I think
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Speaker 10: the Otago captain actually Sam Gilbert is heading off to
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Speaker 10: Ireland as well, So that just adds to another layer
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Speaker 10: to the narrative. And look at it just sort of
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Speaker 10: writes itself. Really Cannabury Otaga, there's so much on the line.
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Speaker 10: These two teams met five weeks ago here in christ
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Speaker 10: Church for the ran Philly Shield and Otago got the
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Speaker 10: job done on that day. Thirty eight thirty six was
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Speaker 10: an absolute thriller. So it all shapes up really nicely
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Speaker 10: and well. Like most things, Ryan pretty much run around
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Speaker 10: the country don't want Canterbury to wins.
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Speaker 9: So I think a lot.
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Speaker 10: Of supporters with the Otago outside of the region.
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Speaker 2: There definitely will be I know who my old man
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Speaker 2: is going to be supporting. But Otago haven't actually won
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Speaker 2: since the ninth since you know Cronfield, Tane Randall, Jiff
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Speaker 2: Wilson days of the nineties.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, nineteen ninety eight, I was four, but yeah, like
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Speaker 10: it was a real sort of a great era for
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Speaker 10: Otago rugby.
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Speaker 9: As you mentioned there some of the names.
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Speaker 10: Tane Randall was the captain, Jeff Wilson on the wing,
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Speaker 10: Chainsaw Brendan Laney on the other And it was a
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Speaker 10: real romantic time down there in Carrisbrook where Otago were
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Speaker 10: playing some fantastic rugby. But it has been twenty seven
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Speaker 10: long years since they've won a national provincial championship. And
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Speaker 10: to be fair right, they're playing a brand of rugby
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Speaker 10: this year that probably hasn't excited the people of Otago since.
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Speaker 9: So they've got some really exciting young players.
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Speaker 10: Has been so much shit about this young half back
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Speaker 10: Dylan Pledger and the open side flanker Lucas Casey as
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Speaker 10: while they play real entertaining brand of footy and and
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Speaker 10: if they bring that to christ Church, which I think
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Speaker 10: they will and the conditions will allow. As I say,
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Speaker 10: it all sets up really nicely for tomorrow afternoon to
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Speaker 10: put a cap on a fantastic season.
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Speaker 9: It's yeah, it's been really.
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Speaker 2: Really great to cover, brilliant looking forward to Nick. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Nick Buley Zedb's Sports. He's calling the game and it's
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Speaker 2: five twenty three.
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Speaker 9: Bryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Ryan is a farmer This is from Judy Morning. Judy
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Speaker 2: as a farmer who'll benefit from the sale for once
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Speaker 2: we cannot only catch up on overdue maintenance, but makes
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Speaker 2: some improvements to our farms. Unlike housing, farmers have had
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Speaker 2: almost no capital gain since two thousand and eight. Milk price,
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Speaker 2: farm working expenses, they're all converging and have been, and
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Speaker 2: that has affected profitability. But also, as Judy says, capital
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Speaker 2: gain time now is twenty four. By the way, we
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Speaker 2: should get speaking of capital gains, we should get a
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Speaker 2: labor policy on this, apparently in the next couple of weeks,
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Speaker 2: so you'll be able to find out just how much
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Speaker 2: duty of your farm they're going to come for five
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Speaker 2: News TALKSB five twenty six on your Friday morning. So
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Speaker 2: one hundred thousand workers went on strike. Now what the
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Speaker 2: cost has settle? These claims will surely run into the
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Speaker 2: billions of dollars, easily run into the billions of dollars
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Speaker 2: for all these workers. Nineteen seventy nine, that was the
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Speaker 2: last time we had to strike this big. That was
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Speaker 2: a general strike three hundred thousand people. This was Muldoon days.
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Speaker 2: It was over a dispute with the driver unions and
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Speaker 2: Transport went to arbitration. The unions one well, Muldoon lost.
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Speaker 2: The deal went through this time senior doctors refused binding arbitration.
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Speaker 2: Simeon Brown offered it. They said, nap secondary teachers they've
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Speaker 2: got a few more strikes in them before Christmas though
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Speaker 2: they're lower level. And the primary teachers they say they've
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Speaker 2: now got more dates set down to talk pay conditions,
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Speaker 2: et cetera. Next month. You'd have to say, based purely
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Speaker 2: on a little bit of polling and a little bit
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Speaker 2: of vibes, that the workers win the week they've won
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Speaker 2: the PA battle. I mean, personally, I'm already sick of
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Speaker 2: hearing about how much senior doctors get paid. Parents will
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Speaker 2: be sick of their kids missing school any more delayed
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Speaker 2: hip operations than they'll be hell to pay. If the
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Speaker 2: unions expect strikes to kick off again next year, they
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Speaker 2: might just find themselves falling out of favor worth workers
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Speaker 2: in the private sector. Remember the median wage, median salary
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Speaker 2: seventy thousand dollars a year. Private sector workers haven't been
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Speaker 2: getting the same increases as the public ones, and the
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Speaker 2: offer of these teachers are rejecting right now would have
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Speaker 2: almost eighty percent of them earning more than one hundred
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Speaker 2: k a year base salary base salary. Arguing for more
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Speaker 2: and dragging out industrial action for too long, you risk
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Speaker 2: looking well political what the government said you were, or
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Speaker 2: greedy or both. Given the state of the books and
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Speaker 2: the enormous deficit blowout that this current lot inherited, you
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Speaker 2: have to be careful, don't you. So the unions, I think,
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Speaker 2: have won the battle. The question really is can they
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Speaker 2: win the war? Rambridge eight News Talk VB. Now, the
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Speaker 2: housing affordability thing is interesting because you know, economy is
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Speaker 2: not doing that well. We know this. In fact, I
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Speaker 2: was driving to work this morning and I saw a
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Speaker 2: billboard and I thought, God, this is a sign of
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Speaker 2: the depressing times. That was a Westpac billboard, and it
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Speaker 2: had a woman on the on the billboard who looked
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Speaker 2: a little forlorn. She was obviously a business owner, and
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Speaker 2: it said something like survives the quiet Patches, and I thought, oh,
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Speaker 2: good morning. Anyway, here we are. The good news is
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Speaker 2: that if you are a first home buyer and you're
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Speaker 2: in the market, things are looking good, they reckon. This
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Speaker 2: is from interest dot co dot NZ. House prices for
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Speaker 2: first home buyers the most affordable now in four years.
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Speaker 2: And they look at the lower quartel, which is cheaper
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Speaker 2: homes price on average five hundred and ninety thousand dollars
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Speaker 2: in September. That is down eighty from November twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 2: so that's good. Then you look at your mortgage interest rates.
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Speaker 2: So the average two year fixed now is four point
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Speaker 2: seven to two for September. That's down from seven and
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Speaker 2: November of twenty twenty three. And your incomes are up,
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Speaker 2: So now's the time get in there. Everything else might
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Speaker 2: feel little bit caput, but housing there's your ticket. News
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Speaker 2: Talks MB, we'll get to UK Europe Correspondent after news.
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Speaker 2: Two be far away from six. News Talks MB coming up.
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Speaker 2: David Seymour on the strikes Vincent Macaviny out of the
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Speaker 2: UK Europe for US this morning. Trump last week we
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Speaker 2: spoke about this. He said no to the Tomahawks, to Zelenski,
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Speaker 2: but he is giving them something overnight. Trump has announced
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Speaker 2: sanctions first time since taking office in January. Did a
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Speaker 2: bunch in his last time in the Oval office, but
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Speaker 2: this time these are his first sanctions against two Russian
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Speaker 2: oil companies. Profits from them, taxes go back to the Kremlin.
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Speaker 2: The Kremlin funds the war. The war happens in Ukraine.
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Speaker 2: Trump's trying to stop it. He's basically frustrated with Putin
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Speaker 2: because every time he has a meeting with Putin, and
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Speaker 2: he's canceled the most recent one, but every time he
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Speaker 2: has a meeting with Putin, Putin goes oh yeah, yah,
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Speaker 2: yeah yeah, and then goes back to bombing the hell
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Speaker 2: out of Ukraine. So Trump is now doing sanctions. So
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Speaker 2: this is pretty significant. Half of Russia's oil exports come
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Speaker 2: from these two companies. The UK sanctioned them last week,
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Speaker 2: the EU is likely to do that today. We will
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Speaker 2: hear about that this morning. Question is whether they will
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Speaker 2: actually work. All comes down to enforcement. Interestingly, taxes from
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Speaker 2: the energy industry make up about a quarter of Russia's budget.
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Speaker 2: So what the Kremlin needs to fund the war, A
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Speaker 2: quarter of that comes from taxes from energy companies, and
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Speaker 2: they got big problems over in Russia. Of course, there's inflation,
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Speaker 2: there's a deficit, there's a labor shortage, there's growth problems,
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Speaker 2: you name it. Brent crude futures off the back of
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Speaker 2: this news overnight are up five percent because obviously they're
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Speaker 2: worrying about it shortage. But the big question is what
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Speaker 2: do you do about India, Turkey and China buying the
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Speaker 2: oil from the Russians in the first place. A twenty
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Speaker 2: two minutes away from six Color, Proctor and Needin for
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Speaker 2: us this morning, morning, come morning, right, jeez? But windy
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Speaker 2: for you guys yesterday, Yeah.
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Speaker 11: Very much so, and still feeling the effects today. In fact,
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Speaker 11: hundreds of homes around Dunedin's still without power here this
19:44
Speaker 11: morning after those destructive winds, so residents from Moscule to
19:48
Speaker 11: Port Charmers are still in the dark, as are the
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Speaker 11: people on the Otaga Peninsula. The power has been out
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Speaker 11: since around one thirty yesterday when those gales struck, causing
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Speaker 11: extensive damage to power lines or Energy says they stood
20:02
Speaker 11: down their repair crews last night due to fatigue, so.
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Speaker 2: They'll be back at it this morning.
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Speaker 11: Mosgow and peninsular residents also asked to reduce water consumption
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Speaker 11: due to those outages impacting wastewater pump stations. A number
20:14
Speaker 11: of roads here remained closed due to fallen trees, the
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Speaker 11: wind damaging our railway station and the roof of forsythe
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Speaker 11: bar Stadium. Gusts of up to one hundred and seventy
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Speaker 11: k's recorded at one stage.
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Speaker 2: Ryan, all right, then, what's the forecast looking ahead?
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Speaker 11: Was slightly calm but still gusty westerlies today, possible thunderstorms,
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Speaker 11: early occasional rain this afternoon, the high seventeen.
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Speaker 2: Cheers Claire and christ Church morning. Claire, good mornings. You've
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Speaker 2: got a state of emergency still ongoing there, haven't you.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, we do have the state of emergency here. Although
20:44
Speaker 12: the rare red wind warnings were lifted for Canterbury as
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Speaker 12: well as Southland, Stuart Island and Klothy yesterday afternoon Wellington
20:51
Speaker 12: and wided up as orange warnings were also expired here
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Speaker 12: in christ Church, it honestly did feel a bit like
20:56
Speaker 12: we dodged the bullet. But elsewhere things did get quite
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Speaker 12: scar We had winds exceeding two hundred kilometers an hour
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Speaker 12: in some areas, ripping roofs from homes, and the likes
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Speaker 12: of Oxford, there were trees that came down and blocked
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Speaker 12: a state highways, some of them still blocked. Residents at
21:12
Speaker 12: Hannah Springs were also left watching on as a fire
21:15
Speaker 12: took off on the hillside. Thankfully the wind blowing it
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Speaker 12: away from the township, but real concern there because road
21:20
Speaker 12: blockages meant that no extra crews could get him. We
21:23
Speaker 12: still have power outages very widespread around and some repairs
21:27
Speaker 12: could take more than a week. Last night, the concern though,
21:30
Speaker 12: turned to our rivers. Voluntary evacuation notices were issued for
21:34
Speaker 12: residents in Kaiducky and Pines Beach because the wymuck at
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Speaker 12: Any River was rapidly rising. The at okaiah Hut residents
21:41
Speaker 12: were also told they should evacuate because of a very
21:43
Speaker 12: flooded at Akaia River. The Canterbury Civil Defense Controller James
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Speaker 12: Thompson says this state of emergency will be looked at
21:49
Speaker 12: today and they do hope that it may be able
21:52
Speaker 12: to be.
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Speaker 2: Removed right and the weather looking ahead for.
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Speaker 12: Christ Church looking mostly fine today. Westerly is turning northeasterly
21:59
Speaker 12: will be gusty, but nothing like yesterday.
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Speaker 2: The high nineteenth all right, brilliant and things looking good
22:03
Speaker 2: for that NPC final Apolo Stadium too clear. Thank you
22:06
Speaker 2: mex and Wellington X. Good morning, good morning. Clean up
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Speaker 2: job today.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, look, it was bad yesterday probably is bad in
22:12
Speaker 13: terms of what the wind was as it was Tuesday.
22:15
Speaker 13: What we also had to contend with, thore was some
22:17
Speaker 13: pretty steady showers through the day. There were road closures
22:21
Speaker 13: and no flights in and out of Wellington for a
22:23
Speaker 13: large portion of the day. No trains of course from
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Speaker 13: eight am to six pm buses affected. A lot of
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Speaker 13: businesses closed for the day, probably a reasonable decision considering
22:33
Speaker 13: the whole of the town seemed to be working from
22:35
Speaker 13: home more so than normal.
22:37
Speaker 9: A lot of power.
22:37
Speaker 13: Outages and wided up a handful around upper huts, carpety
22:41
Speaker 13: seen a couple of trucks, trailers overturned, fences blown in,
22:44
Speaker 13: parts of buildings coming loose, threatening to come down. We
22:48
Speaker 13: had a couple of temporary road closes in the CBD
22:51
Speaker 13: because of bits of buildings flapping around, trees uprooted roofs,
22:55
Speaker 13: lifted power lines down, a lot of damage to clean up,
22:58
Speaker 13: I imagine. I'm sure the council we'll have a bit
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Speaker 13: of a large bill after today.
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Speaker 2: How's the forecast locking ahead?
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Speaker 13: Yeah, better, mostly fine, stronger winds not as strong obviously
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Speaker 13: seventeen the hay.
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Speaker 2: All right, brilliant, Thank you Max and NIVA's and Auckland Neva.
23:13
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, and now I have an update
23:15
Speaker 2: for you before you give an update to me.
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Speaker 1: Yes, tell me.
23:18
Speaker 2: This is from Mike. He says, good morning. Tommacky Driver
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Speaker 2: is open with no restrictions. I traveled through the city
23:23
Speaker 2: from Iraqi this morning and it was all good.
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Speaker 14: Oh that is great, great, But so that's breaking news.
23:29
Speaker 14: That's way better than what I was going to say.
23:31
Speaker 14: I thought when you said, Mike Seyes, I thought, what
23:33
Speaker 14: Mike Costking, what's he doing.
23:35
Speaker 9: Down Tommacky Drive?
23:36
Speaker 14: No, no, right, yes, because Auckland Transport they were hoping
23:39
Speaker 14: to make a decision, and there you have it. Obviously,
23:42
Speaker 14: this is as a result of that terrible fatal crash
23:46
Speaker 14: over twenty four hours ago. The bus driver died, another
23:49
Speaker 14: person seriously injured. Fire and emergency have confirmed that the
23:53
Speaker 14: fire started in the engine of the petrol vehicle then
23:57
Speaker 14: spread to the bus. So yeah, set because people were
24:01
Speaker 14: wondering what's out of electric bus? Yeah, things like that.
24:04
Speaker 14: So there'll be more details coming out later on today.
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Speaker 2: All right. And how's our weather today, Neva.
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Speaker 14: Okay, so the heavy rains easing to the odd shower,
24:11
Speaker 14: it's going to clear. Great news, It's going to be
24:13
Speaker 14: fine later today nineteen is a high.
24:16
Speaker 2: Beautiful yes, and a three day weekend day right, excellent?
24:20
Speaker 2: Got any plans?
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Speaker 14: No, I'm going to sleep today.
24:22
Speaker 2: Good so much then, And I know because I've just
24:26
Speaker 2: have no energy.
24:26
Speaker 9: I'm so quite out there.
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Speaker 14: This isn't quite as Neva's been. So I'll spring into
24:30
Speaker 14: action tomorrow.
24:31
Speaker 2: Get some rest. That's neither. Seventeen away from six News
24:34
Speaker 2: Talks B. We'll get to Gavin. Sorry. Vincent mcavney is
24:36
Speaker 2: the UK. You're a correspondent today on the sanction. So
24:39
Speaker 2: Trump's done his the EU is apparently following suit. We'll
24:43
Speaker 2: hear what that's, what's happening with that? Also, David Seymour
24:46
Speaker 2: on the strikes before six News Talk set B five
24:50
Speaker 2: A quarter to six. I should say, lots of text
24:53
Speaker 2: on the strike yesterday. This one from Angela who's a teacher, Ryan,
24:56
Speaker 2: stop the pay narrative. What we want is supporting classrooms
24:59
Speaker 2: for the en increasingly complex needs of a diverse reigns
25:02
Speaker 2: of range of students who this government thinks as one
25:05
Speaker 2: size fits all. All right, Well, I mean it is
25:09
Speaker 2: about pay, isn't it. Because every time I get the
25:11
Speaker 2: unions on, I say, so you're happy with the pay
25:14
Speaker 2: and then we can deal with the other stuff, and
25:15
Speaker 2: they go on, no, it is about pay too, So
25:17
Speaker 2: you can't ignore the paything, Angela. But I will put
25:19
Speaker 2: that to David Seymour. He's on the show in a
25:21
Speaker 2: couple of seconds.
25:23
Speaker 1: International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, peace of mind
25:27
Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.
25:29
Speaker 2: So I got these Trump sanctions on Russia. Now the
25:31
Speaker 2: EU set to follow suit. Zelensky's been in Brussels. Vincent
25:34
Speaker 2: mcaviny are, UK europe correspondent, Vincent, Welcome to the show.
25:37
Speaker 2: What's Selensky been saying?
25:39
Speaker 3: Good morning? Well, Zelensky has been in Brussels today meeting
25:42
Speaker 3: with EU leaders. They announced a nineteenth package of sanctions
25:47
Speaker 3: on Russia. They follow President Trump's quite big decision yesterday
25:51
Speaker 3: to impose sanctions of his own on Russia's two biggest
25:55
Speaker 3: oil companies. President Zelenski's forces have been really targeting the fire,
26:00
Speaker 3: including overnight on oil refineries and electricity operations in Russia.
26:07
Speaker 3: Real damage to the economy, so he's feeling pretty buoyed
26:10
Speaker 3: by the continued support, even though he didn't get those
26:12
Speaker 3: Tomahawk missiles. He's also been doing an agreement with Sweden
26:17
Speaker 3: at one hundred and fifty of their fighter jets paid
26:20
Speaker 3: for using frozen Russian assets from across Europe as well.
26:24
Speaker 3: So quite a good trip of for President Zelenski as
26:27
Speaker 3: he prepares his country for their fourth winter at war.
26:31
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, we've heard King Charles and Pope Leo have a
26:34
Speaker 2: nice priya.
26:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is quite a remarkable moment if you know
26:38
Speaker 3: much about British history, I mean, the Church of England,
26:41
Speaker 3: which King Charles is the head of his ancestor Henry
26:44
Speaker 3: the Eighth, broke off from Rome famously five hundred years
26:47
Speaker 3: ago with the Reformation. A lot has happened since then,
26:51
Speaker 3: the in terms of sectarian tensions in this country, but
26:55
Speaker 3: there has been this remarkable moment, King Charles going to
26:58
Speaker 3: the Vatican to press for the first time since that breakaway,
27:03
Speaker 3: with a pont the two men sort of being seen praying,
27:09
Speaker 3: and this is something that Charles has been quite clear
27:12
Speaker 3: on in his reign and in his time as Prince
27:15
Speaker 3: of Wales as well, that he wants to be seen
27:17
Speaker 3: not just as the leader of a church, but a
27:20
Speaker 3: defender of all faiths and those who worship. So quite
27:24
Speaker 3: a big moment for him today in the Vatican.
27:26
Speaker 2: Brinceton brilliant, I should say Princeton, Princeton brilliant. From Vincent mcavinie,
27:31
Speaker 2: Our UK. You're correspondent twelve to six Bryant Bridge. So
27:34
Speaker 2: the mega strike's been gone. What happens now? David Seymour's
27:37
Speaker 2: Deputy Prime Minister, Associate Health and Education. Good morning minister,
27:41
Speaker 2: Good morning Ryan. What's your take on the public sentiment
27:44
Speaker 2: because from where I'm sitting, it seems like the unions
27:48
Speaker 2: might have won the battle on this one.
27:52
Speaker 15: Well, you can talk about sentiment, but we need to
27:55
Speaker 15: stick to effect. The pay request that are being made
28:01
Speaker 15: just sustainable given the government's finances, and they are disconnected
28:06
Speaker 15: from the reality that the New Zealanders who actually pay
28:10
Speaker 15: the taxes to funds any increase have had themselves.
28:15
Speaker 2: You know, you look at teachers, fourteen and a.
28:18
Speaker 15: Half percent in the last three years, sixty six percent
28:23
Speaker 15: or two thirds of teachers paid over one hundred thousand dollars.
28:27
Speaker 15: In the case of nurses, starting on seventy five, under
28:31
Speaker 15: the office. They've had someone who starts today as a
28:34
Speaker 15: nurse will be on eighty six thousand dollars by next
28:38
Speaker 15: year as a graduate. That's after a year's step, and
28:42
Speaker 15: the raise that's being offered that nurse would top out
28:47
Speaker 15: at over one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars a year.
28:50
Speaker 15: I don't think that that reality has really hit, but
28:56
Speaker 15: certainly those conditions are pretty attractive compared with what most
29:00
Speaker 15: of the people actually paying the taxes and who had
29:02
Speaker 15: to rearrange their day yesterday if they have children or
29:06
Speaker 15: who need needed surgery yesterday, are getting themselves.
29:09
Speaker 2: Given that, will you then rule out reevaluating a fiscal
29:14
Speaker 2: envelope to up an amount that might be offered by
29:17
Speaker 2: the Public Service Commission or Health n Z.
29:20
Speaker 15: Well, I'm not going to make a decision like that
29:22
Speaker 15: on the radio right now, but there are certain realities
29:26
Speaker 15: that you know, there's a series of dominoes that fall
29:30
Speaker 15: and you have to put them back up. We had
29:33
Speaker 15: huge government spending that led to huge inflation, that led
29:36
Speaker 15: to high interest rates that led to a recession.
29:40
Speaker 2: So that we are now getting any more. They know
29:42
Speaker 2: you won't give them any more than what you will.
29:43
Speaker 15: Well, well, I'm just well, the negotiations underway. I'm not
29:48
Speaker 15: going to negotiate, but we are now controlling the spending,
29:51
Speaker 15: we know, with half the inflation, with half the interest rates,
29:54
Speaker 15: and we're now getting the economy back on its feet.
29:58
Speaker 15: I mean, that's the practical real that New Zealand faces
30:01
Speaker 15: after the last five years. Now, you know, there seems
30:04
Speaker 15: to be a disconnect between that reality and some of
30:07
Speaker 15: the rhetorican demands from the Union organizers.
30:10
Speaker 2: Hey, minister, we headed a Trump going with sanctions against
30:12
Speaker 2: Russia and oil companies overnight. Good news.
30:17
Speaker 15: Yeah, Look, it's it's pretty simple. There are some people
30:20
Speaker 15: that fudge this, but you need some moral clarity. This
30:24
Speaker 15: is an illegal war by Putin, who was a dictator,
30:28
Speaker 15: and it's important not just for the Ukrainians' lives, but
30:33
Speaker 15: for all of our freedom that Ukraine succeeds and pushes
30:38
Speaker 15: Russia out. So that's been by personal position for a
30:41
Speaker 15: long time. It's also our government's position.
30:43
Speaker 2: What about the you know, the Turkey, China, India buying
30:48
Speaker 2: the oil. That's the real problem, isn't it. Well, I agree.
30:53
Speaker 15: I mean the intention of our government and our allies
30:56
Speaker 15: is that Russia is not supported. If people want to
30:59
Speaker 15: do that, then obviously we don't approve of it. But
31:03
Speaker 15: you know, everyone has to decide what sort of world
31:05
Speaker 15: they want to live in. If you'd like one with
31:08
Speaker 15: the rule of law and strong international borders where people
31:11
Speaker 15: can live peacefully, that's one option. The other is that
31:15
Speaker 15: some states can alter their borders and brutalize people by force.
31:19
Speaker 15: So that's another type of world, but not the one
31:22
Speaker 15: that we want.
31:23
Speaker 2: David Semi appreciate your time this morning. Thank you, Deputy
31:25
Speaker 2: Prime Minister Associate Health and Education. It's eight to six
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Speaker 2: Talks EDB six minutes away from six. You know the
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Speaker 2: Mike's there on a Friday morning morning. Mike, Joy to
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Speaker 2: see you, Ryan. When if you say these things, you
32:37
Speaker 2: know there's a sitting hint of sarcasm in your voice.
32:41
Speaker 16: Mike, only if you want to receive it that way.
32:43
Speaker 2: You know you're not going to see me until next Tuesday.
32:45
Speaker 2: Now that's correct. What are you going on strike? No,
32:48
Speaker 2: I'm not going on strike. I wouldn't go on strike.
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Speaker 9: But a slash.
32:51
Speaker 2: Ell, we've got a day in lou Well, we've all
32:54
Speaker 2: got a day off on Monday. That's actually true. That
32:57
Speaker 2: is true. Five days off the teachers of course.
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Speaker 16: Wellactly, I've got I've got Joseph Parker on the spot. Great,
33:02
Speaker 16: I love Joseph Parker. Do you love Joseph Parker?
33:05
Speaker 2: Yeah?
33:05
Speaker 9: I did a real soft spot for Joseph.
33:06
Speaker 16: I don't know why, but I remember when I first
33:09
Speaker 16: started talking to him many years ago, and he was
33:10
Speaker 16: that very very shy.
33:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, a likable guy, but you know, didn't have a.
33:14
Speaker 16: Lot to say, and you thought, I wonder where he's going.
33:15
Speaker 16: But now he's just so every time he comes and
33:17
Speaker 16: here he hugs me. Yeah, and it's the.
33:20
Speaker 2: It's a bold move.
33:21
Speaker 9: It is a but it's also it's also.
33:25
Speaker 2: Try to not even get close.
33:26
Speaker 16: Have you seen how big he is?
33:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's massive, and when he envelops me, there's there's
33:31
Speaker 2: nothing left. He lets go. He's one of those sweet guys,
33:38
Speaker 2: isn't he when you talk to him off camera and star, Yeah.
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Speaker 16: He's one of the most likable guys in the world
33:43
Speaker 16: and then suddenly gets into the.
33:45
Speaker 2: Ring and hugging one of the most unlikable guys in
33:47
Speaker 2: the world.
33:49
Speaker 16: When you know, Ryan, when you say that anyway, Joseph
33:54
Speaker 16: and Justin Marshall's on as well this month.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant. All right, Mike's here with your next see you
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Speaker 2: next Tuesday. Everybody have a fantastic.
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Speaker 9: Friday, So tell me an it kicks in.
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