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Full Show Podcast: 16 May 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: Welcome to Friday, good morning, just gone six after five.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk the government spending to target the kids who've
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Speaker 2: got the worst lives in New Zealand. We're talking kids,
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Speaker 2: one of whom their parent is likely in jail, one
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Speaker 2: of their parents will likely be on a benefit. These
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Speaker 2: kids have the worst lives in New Zealand and the
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Speaker 2: government says that their new plan is going to do
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Speaker 2: something about it. We'll talk about there. Just before six
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Speaker 2: this morning, we're live in the Ukraine. Is this all
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Speaker 2: just talk? This potential meeting that's happening the UK. Vincent
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Speaker 2: mcavanne will join us Starma and bit embarrassed in Albania
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Speaker 2: today and we've got Auckland FC in the semifinals this
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Speaker 2: weekend in Melbourne. Then they will be coming to Auckland.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk to the CEO about ticket prices when they
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Speaker 2: return to our shows in a week's time. Seven after five.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It is Friday, the Sea exteenth of May. Zolenski now
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Speaker 2: a no show and estanbul Too Putin was a no show.
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Speaker 2: Of course Trump was a no show, Zelensky sending his
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Speaker 2: defense minister instead, but not holding his breath.
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Speaker 3: If there is a signal from Russian Federation that we
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Speaker 3: heard that unconditional cease fire and such things must be
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Speaker 3: decided during the direct talks or between the leaders, I
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Speaker 3: am here. We are ready for a direct negotiations.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, typical Trump fashion, he says nothing will happen until
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Speaker 2: he's there.
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Speaker 3: Nothing's gonna happen until Putten and I get together.
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Speaker 1: Okay, he wasn't going if I wasn't there, and I
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Speaker 1: don't believe anything's gonna happen.
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Speaker 3: With your lankat or not until he and I get together.
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Speaker 4: But we're gonna have to get a show up because
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Speaker 4: too many people to day.
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Speaker 2: It's like when you go to the bar and with
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Speaker 2: your friends, is you know, is Sally going? Oh well,
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Speaker 2: I don't want to go. If Sally's not going, if
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Speaker 2: Tracey is coming, I'm not coming. Just get on with it,
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Speaker 2: would you? Today? Did his ex girlfriend Cassy Ventura gets
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Speaker 2: the cross examination? Yesterday? She detailed the alleged abuse.
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Speaker 5: We have a very difficult task of trying to discredit her,
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Speaker 5: but also not riling her up too much to get
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Speaker 5: her visibly more upset, and that would lend itself to
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Speaker 5: her being more sympathetic to the jury.
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Speaker 6: So it's a top.
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Speaker 2: It's the topause the UK and talks with other countries
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Speaker 2: about sending the failed asylum seekers abroad.
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Speaker 7: We are in talks with a number of countries about
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Speaker 7: return hubs and I see them as a really important innovation.
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Speaker 2: He's saying that standing to the Albanian President, who then says,
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Speaker 2: we're not going to be a return hub. No, thank
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Speaker 2: you don't want your failed asylum seekers. We'll talk to
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Speaker 2: Vincent mcavenny about that later in the show. Eight minutes now,
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Speaker 2: nine minutes after five.
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Speaker 1: The News you Need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: Analysis Early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof Make
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Speaker 1: your Property Search Simple News Talks.
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Speaker 2: It'd be is Friday. If anyone's an Auckland f C fan,
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Speaker 2: you are going to have to pay probably double the
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Speaker 2: ticket price. But we'll talk to the CEO of the
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Speaker 2: team just before just about five twenty this morning, that's
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Speaker 2: Nick Becker about why they have to double their ticket prices.
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Speaker 2: If the I mean to be fair, you would expect
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Speaker 2: to pay more for a semi final game than you
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Speaker 2: would a regular season, wouldn't you. But there's a good
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Speaker 2: reason why they're charging more. We'll tell you about that
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Speaker 2: at five twenty. Now, before you roll your eyes when
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Speaker 2: I say ordering a tamadiki and criticized. And another report,
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Speaker 2: This one's actually quite interesting. This is John Ryan, the
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Speaker 2: Orders General. He did a report. Remember when the government
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Speaker 2: told everybody last year to find savings, you know, go
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Speaker 2: and get us six and a half percent from behind
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Speaker 2: the couch. Well, ordering a tamidiki did that. But according
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Speaker 2: to Ryan, they basically went too far, too fast, didn't
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Speaker 2: give the providers enough of a heads up, so the
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Speaker 2: process was flawed. That's the problem. The process was flawed, which,
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Speaker 2: let's face it, this is ot we're talking about. Au surprised, no,
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Speaker 2: But the actual theory behind it, I think was the
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Speaker 2: right one. To make savings to invest in other arguably
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Speaker 2: better services. They decided to fully recover unspent costs from
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Speaker 2: contract providers. So up until this change, any provider comes
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Speaker 2: in and says, ah, do XYZ for you five million
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Speaker 2: bucks a year. Okay, great, go away and do that.
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Speaker 2: If they only spent four million, they kept the rest
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Speaker 2: of the money. They kept the other million. Anyway, even
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Speaker 2: if they didn't meet their targets, they kept the money.
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Speaker 2: And what business or even on what planet would that
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Speaker 2: be a sustainable or a responsible way to operate? So
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Speaker 2: fair cop to them from Ryan, they moved too quickly
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Speaker 2: with this. The providers basically got a big surprise. They
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Speaker 2: weren't financially prepared for the shortfall. That is fair, But
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Speaker 2: the idea was I think the right one. I mean,
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Speaker 2: how long can you go on throwing money, our money
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Speaker 2: at problems with little or no result before someone takes
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Speaker 2: the credit card and chops it up with a pair
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Speaker 2: of scissors. It might have happened too quickly, but it
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Speaker 2: was a long time coming in my mind. Ryan Bridge
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Speaker 2: given after five on news Talk sad B. So we're
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Speaker 2: going to talk to Jimmy Rushton next. He's in Kiev.
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Speaker 2: He's a security analyst there. I mean, is this all
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Speaker 2: just talk? Do we stop paying attention to what's going
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Speaker 2: on in estand Bull now because the big dogs, the
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Speaker 2: big players aren't in town, or are we actually expecting
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Speaker 2: that slowly, inch by inch we are creeping closer to
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Speaker 2: some sort of deal with Russia and Ukraine. That's next.
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Speaker 2: Good morning. It's five point thirteen. We've had retail sales
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Speaker 2: data out of the United States which is starting to show,
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Speaker 2: just a little bit by bit, starting to show the
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Speaker 2: impact of those tariffs on the US consumer. This is
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Speaker 2: you're spending on shops and restaurants and stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: So retail sales rose zero point one percent in April
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Speaker 2: from a month earlier. Sales that electronic and appliance stores
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Speaker 2: were up point three percent, gaining one point five percent
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Speaker 2: in the previous month. Sales of cars fell to zero
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Speaker 2: point one percent, this after they rose five point five
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Speaker 2: percent in March, and that was people front loading. I
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Speaker 2: better get my car now before the tariffs come. So
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Speaker 2: you are starting to see a bit of that trickle
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Speaker 2: to the numbers, but it's going to take they reckon
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Speaker 2: another few months before you see the full effects. Fourteen
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Speaker 2: after five now, so surprise, surprise, person didn't turn up
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Speaker 2: for peace talks in Ukraine. Kremlin confirming Russia's delegation is
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Speaker 2: instead being led by Presidential aid of Vladimir Medinsky. Zelensky
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Speaker 2: is also pulled out sending his Defense minister Russia.
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Speaker 3: Allfored in the media that Puttin is ready for Iraq negotiations,
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Speaker 3: and then are there information rules that it's not decided yet,
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Speaker 3: So it's it's just stocks.
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Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, what does that mean? Jimmy Rushton is and
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Speaker 2: Kiev's a foreign policy and securely security analyst with me
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Speaker 2: this morning. Jimmy, good morning, Welcome to the show.
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Speaker 8: Hi, good morning.
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Speaker 2: What does what does he mean Zelensky? By now they're
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Speaker 2: just talks?
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Speaker 8: Actually, what Putin had said in this rather hasty press
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Speaker 8: conpence that he arranged about a week ago was that
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Speaker 8: he challenged Zelensky to come to Turkey and have a
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Speaker 8: conversation face to face. As Zelensky took him up on
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Speaker 8: the offer, he turned up in Turkey, but obviously Putin
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Speaker 8: has not, and he sent Medinsky, who is a very
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Speaker 8: low level official really in the Kremlin. He's also the
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Speaker 8: same Russian official that led the peace talks in early
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Speaker 8: twenty twenty two, and to be honest, peace talks is
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Speaker 8: a generous term because at that point Midinsky was essentially
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Speaker 8: saying that the Ukrainians should unconditionally surrender. So it's really
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Speaker 8: seen by the Ukrainian side as a slap in the
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Speaker 8: face and a sign that Russia continues their maximalist goals
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Speaker 8: of subjugating Ukraine and making it into a Russian puppet state.
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Speaker 2: Is there anyone No one's preparing, even in the background,
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Speaker 2: behind the scenes, for there to be some kind of
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Speaker 2: serious ceasefire or peace agreement. I mean, Russia's still building
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Speaker 2: new explosives facilities to build more drug build more bombs.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely, I mean it's clear that the Russians are planning
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Speaker 8: for this war to continue for some time. And it's
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Speaker 8: pretty clear if you look at some of their recent
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Speaker 8: build ups is that they're you know, they're building up
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Speaker 8: forces along the Finnish border, and they're building up forces
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Speaker 8: along the Estonian board and some of the other Baltic
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Speaker 8: states as well. So it's pretty clear that they're not
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Speaker 8: ready for any sort of sustainable peace with Europe. They're
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Speaker 8: alone Ukraine.
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Speaker 2: Jimmy, what do Ukrainians think of Donald Trump's you know,
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Speaker 2: he's come out today over night and said nothing will
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Speaker 2: happen until I'm in the room with Persian. What did
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Speaker 2: Ukrainians think when he's stuff like that.
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Speaker 8: Well, initially, Ukrainians had a relatively favorable or at least
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Speaker 8: a more generous opinion of Trump. Around forty percent of
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Speaker 8: Ukrainians back in November of last year we're willing to
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Speaker 8: give him a chance, and that's dropped around seven percent
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Speaker 8: of Ukrainians having any form of positive opinion of him now.
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Speaker 8: I mean, he's largely viewed as as someone who's definitely
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Speaker 8: not favorable to Ukraine and probably more favorable to Putin
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Speaker 8: and of a strong man, you know, people like Kim
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Speaker 8: Jong mun President she of China, and he's he's not
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Speaker 8: recent as is kind of a friend of the Western
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Speaker 8: democracies at all. I think for Ukrainians they feel that
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Speaker 8: they need to manage him as best they can. Kind
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Speaker 8: of placated as ego. That was one of the reasons
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Speaker 8: why they signed this mineral steal, to give him something
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Speaker 8: that he could boast about. But yeah, I think they're
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Speaker 8: really taking it day to day, trying to keep him
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Speaker 8: on side as best they can. But they're aware that he's,
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Speaker 8: you know, incredibly temperamental and he can change his opinion
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Speaker 8: pretty much on the spot.
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Speaker 2: He's a hard dog to keep on the porch. Jimmy,
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Speaker 2: appreciate your time, Jimmy, Rushton, Kiev based foreign policy security
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Speaker 2: security analyst with us this morning seventeen minutes after five,
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Speaker 2: We're going to get to Nick Becker, CEO of aucklandy OFC.
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Speaker 2: Next big semi final match for them in Melbourne this
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Speaker 2: weekend on.
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Speaker 2: Be imagine there'll be a few planes full of key
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Speaker 2: We's particularly Auckland is DApp is heading over to Melbourne
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Speaker 2: this week in Auckland see the semi final clash against
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Speaker 2: Melbourne victory on Saturday. Simmis are played over two legs,
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Speaker 2: so you have an away game and then we will
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Speaker 2: have a home game. The team that scores the most
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Speaker 2: goals across both matches we'll move on to the grand
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Speaker 2: final that's coming at the end of May. Auckland FC
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Speaker 2: CEO Nick becket with me this morning. Nick, Good morning morning, right,
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Speaker 2: How you doing really good? Thank you? You must be
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Speaker 2: feeling pretty good about yourself right now. Tell us how
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Speaker 2: important this first league is because it's two legs you've
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Speaker 2: got to get through, right.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, absolutely so, Yeah, we're away first and then and
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Speaker 10: finishing first. Then we should have a home semi final
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Speaker 10: on the second leg. But you know, we want to
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Speaker 10: go go there and tomorrow night and really kind of
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Speaker 10: like lay down, you know, our intentions. You know, the
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Speaker 10: boys aren't going to take anything for granted, I don't
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Speaker 10: want to speak too many sporting cliches, but they know
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Speaker 10: that they've kind of they've kind of you know, beaten
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Speaker 10: victory in the last time.
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Speaker 6: That we met them.
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Speaker 10: Know what they do, we did it there at Avia Park,
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Speaker 10: So they're going to go in with a bit of
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Speaker 10: confidence there and hopefully but of a muscle memory reminds
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Speaker 10: them of how to win there. And you know, if
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Speaker 10: we get at least a draw or preferably a win,
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Speaker 10: we'll be in a good position for the following week when.
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Speaker 6: We're at home.
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Speaker 2: How do you get a group of people to come
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Speaker 2: together and perform like this in such a short space
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Speaker 2: of time.
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Speaker 10: I think this comes very much from our ownership group,
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Speaker 10: you know, sort of right at the start, we sat
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Speaker 10: down myself, trim at Form, the football director, and Steve
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Speaker 10: Corok and the coach and talked about, you know, the
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Speaker 10: type of players that we wanted to time for what
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Speaker 10: we wanted to play, but Bill was really clear with us,
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Speaker 10: and he sort of said, you know, like obviously get
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Speaker 10: the right technically the right players, and make sure that
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Speaker 10: they are good humans. I think that's a really good
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Speaker 10: point to how we've managed to build up a good
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Speaker 10: culture in the dressing room. We've we've managed to get
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Speaker 10: players who they go out and play for each other
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Speaker 10: rather than there's no real sort of individuals. There's no
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Speaker 10: egos in the dressing room. So there's this really great
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Speaker 10: team spirit and it just comes out of the fact
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Speaker 10: that they're all good humans, right, And we've been We've
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Speaker 10: been really lucky in that sense. And I think, you know,
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Speaker 10: we intentionally went out to get good people and we've
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Speaker 10: been really lucky and getting a bunch of Greig guys.
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Speaker 2: Some people, and I want to emphasize some, but some
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Speaker 2: on social media have been complaining in the past week
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Speaker 2: about the ticket prices. This is for the second League,
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Speaker 2: obviously at go Media Stadium at double twenty seven dollars
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Speaker 2: fifty to forty five dollars upward. I'm assuming the league
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Speaker 2: is taking a cut here are they?
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Speaker 6: They're taking one hundred percent cut?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 6: So yeah, So how the A League works.
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Speaker 10: Is once you get to the final stage, and this
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Speaker 10: is an ideal for us. The league actually take control
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Speaker 10: of the game so they they can control of the
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Speaker 10: ticket price. I mean, they did consult with us, and
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Speaker 10: their position was that they wanted to keep it. Our
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Speaker 10: requests to keep it at go Media. They supported us
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Speaker 10: on this and they and I think they set their
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Speaker 10: ticket prices posted accordingly. We didn't have any real input
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Speaker 10: into into what they could charge of than sort of saying, look,
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Speaker 10: you know, don't go crazy with it. I appreciate it
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Speaker 10: from a fans point of view, they are more expensive
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Speaker 10: than your regular season. I guess the league's position on
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Speaker 10: it is it's a big game, it's a semi final,
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Speaker 10: it's a knockout match, and you know they I guess
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Speaker 10: they believe in and they're rightly so that the tickets
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Speaker 10: have been flying off the shower. So we've already sold
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Speaker 10: well over twenty thousands, and I imagine that the whole
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Speaker 10: stadium will be sold out by probably the end of
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Speaker 10: this weekend. So I guess they got that bit right.
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Speaker 10: But yeah, I hear and I can sive both sides
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Speaker 10: of the stories.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can, having seen some of those fans up
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Speaker 2: close and personal. I don't think you have any trouble
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Speaker 2: filling out the stadium. Nick, thank you very much and
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Speaker 2: best luck for this weekend.
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Speaker 6: Thanks very I appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: It's Nick Becker Hazy Aukland, their c' ceo. The semi
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Speaker 2: final clash in Melbourne on Saturday. Very cool. I mean,
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Speaker 2: how do they? How did they do it? The number
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Speaker 2: of records they've broken in one season and to take
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Speaker 2: out the regular season. They're on their way to Glauria.
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Speaker 2: Surely it has just gone twenty four minutes after five
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Speaker 2: your on News Talks heb So the America's Cup. We're
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Speaker 2: not getting it? Are you sad this morning? We're not
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Speaker 2: getting the America's Cup? But it is going somewhere. I'll
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Speaker 2: tell you where. And what a guff about that?
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Speaker 1: Next the Early Edition Full Show podcast on iHeartRadio powered
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Speaker 2: Twenty six News talksb bonjul No. Italia is going to
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Speaker 2: host the thirty eighth America's Cup in summer twenty twenty seven.
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Speaker 2: At least that's when they think it will happen. The
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Speaker 2: old Mug again heading to European waters. The first time
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Speaker 2: the Italians will play hosts. I've had the World Series before,
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Speaker 2: but never the big one before. So it'll be Mount
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Speaker 2: Vesuvius in the background, not Range Tooto. It'll be pizza
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Speaker 2: in the balleys of fans, not fish and chips. Auckland
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Speaker 2: missed out, which we already knew. Athens missed out. Georgia
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Speaker 2: Maloney very excited, Luna Rossa obviously pumped. But the question
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Speaker 2: for you this morning, do you wake up feeling jealous?
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Speaker 2: Is there a pit of disappointment in your stomach? Do
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Speaker 2: we lambassed our measly stingy government for not prioritizing a
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Speaker 2: sailing race. My feelings, well, it's nice that they have
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Speaker 2: somewhere to sail, and good luck to them, but I
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Speaker 2: feel zero fomo. We were on the hook for tens
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Speaker 2: of millions of dollars Waigino hasn't got his bed tax yet.
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Speaker 2: Politically it was the right call too. Imagine with this
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Speaker 2: announcement coming a week out from budget day, Imagine the
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Speaker 2: outcry from the unions and the opposition and the media.
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Speaker 2: You're spending how much money on men sailing around the
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Speaker 2: harbor while cutting women's pay. Can you just imagine that?
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Speaker 2: Plus when we debated all of this a few months back.
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Speaker 2: We didn't know at that point that Dalton was quietly
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Speaker 2: walking away from contract negotiations with Peter Burling, So we
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Speaker 2: would have spent millions on a race for a boat
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Speaker 2: with an Aussie at the helm, not our beloved Burling.
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Speaker 2: Not that that matters. That is fine, We've had one
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Speaker 2: before in glen Ashby, but there's no The preference was
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Speaker 2: for Burling to continue. Grant Dalton told me that at
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Speaker 2: the time. But there's a bigger point here. When times
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Speaker 2: are tough, when the kitties running low, you can't afford
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Speaker 2: the nice to haves. For Team New Zealand, that was Burling.
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Speaker 2: For us, it was the competition itself. And if you're
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Speaker 2: worried that Dalton has regrets about Auckland failing to get
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Speaker 2: a look in, take a look at the press release
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Speaker 2: for today's announcement come out overnight. He says Italians, not
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Speaker 2: us Kiwis. Italians are quote the most passionate and engaged
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Speaker 2: America's Cup audience in the world. This city is the
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Speaker 2: best option for growing global audiences. It's a summer in Europe,
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Speaker 2: so if you're a sailing mad person then it might
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Speaker 2: be time to book some flights little midwinter get away.
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Speaker 2: Some difficult captain's calls have to be made and have
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Speaker 2: been made. But for us and for Team New Zealand,
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Speaker 2: it sounds like they were the necessary ones and the
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Speaker 2: necessary three choices are pretty much always the right ones.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge said.
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Speaker 2: Twenty nine minutes after five, and Nicola Willis and her
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Speaker 2: Social Investment Agency will look at that before six and
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Speaker 2: we'll get to our reporters around the country.
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Speaker 2: Simple News Talk said, be by, good morning, Welcome to Friday.
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Speaker 2: It is twenty four minutes away from six. Year on
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Speaker 2: News Talk said, b you know, we had those numbers
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Speaker 2: out on migration this week and everyone went, oh, but
18:02
Speaker 2: you know, why is everyone leaving to Australia. Well, we
18:05
Speaker 2: had data out of Australia yesterday that tells you why.
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Speaker 2: They've got jobs, heaps of them. The job market they're booming,
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Speaker 2: growing much more than expected in April, so total number
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Speaker 2: of employed people increased by eighty nine thousand, almost ninety thousand.
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Speaker 2: They were expecting twenty thousand. So it's going gang bus
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Speaker 2: is the participation rate at sixty seven point one percent
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Speaker 2: of the economy now, putting it within spitting distance of
18:29
Speaker 2: historic highs. This means the Reserve Bank may not need
18:33
Speaker 2: to cut interest rates, or may not have to cut
18:35
Speaker 2: interest rates, or maybe silly to do so. They've got
18:38
Speaker 2: a meeting next week. It's interesting because yes, the economic
18:42
Speaker 2: growth there is slowing, but the labor market is really ted.
18:47
Speaker 2: Inflation is coming down back there. They've got a meeting
18:50
Speaker 2: on that next week. But that answers your question, why
18:52
Speaker 2: is everyone going there? Well, your wages are high and
18:54
Speaker 2: you've got more jobs. It's quite simple, isn't it. Twenty
18:56
Speaker 2: three to six Bryan Bridge, our Reporters Around the Country
18:59
Speaker 2: column in Dneedin this morning. Calm, good morning. We've got
19:03
Speaker 2: a developed Dunedin developed app that is helping people with dementia.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, and it's about to get a big funding boost.
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Speaker 6: Ryan.
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Speaker 11: This is an app by social enterprise Ali Keres Ali
19:17
Speaker 11: Keres Ebleli. That's what you search for in on your
19:20
Speaker 11: phones for this app. It's active in forty countries. It
19:23
Speaker 11: offers personalized reminders, caregiver alerts and location tracking tools. The
19:29
Speaker 11: Selwyn Foundation has just an out significant funding for it,
19:32
Speaker 11: saying it's the country's first ever impact investments in the
19:35
Speaker 11: older person's well being market. The founder of ali Keres
19:39
Speaker 11: is Angela Edwards from Dunedin. She says this investment will
19:41
Speaker 11: help scale up their technology and reach, as well as
19:44
Speaker 11: supporting their role out of AI driven engagement tools.
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Speaker 2: That's what was it called again?
19:50
Speaker 11: Ali cares search for el Ali cares.
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Speaker 2: Downloaded writting it down for Mike Costking now has either
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Speaker 2: today callum it's.
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Speaker 11: Good here fine apart from Morning Cloud nor Westeries in eighteen.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant, Thank you. Let's go to Clear and christ Church Clear,
20:06
Speaker 2: good morning, always a good morning in christ Church.
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Speaker 12: Ah, a bit of a grumpy morning in christ Church
20:11
Speaker 12: from this morning script.
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Speaker 2: Ryan, Oh what's going wrong?
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Speaker 12: Well, the residents here are very annoyed, well, at least
20:17
Speaker 12: on the east side, very annoyed at council's decision to
20:20
Speaker 12: reject a petition which was calling for a ban on
20:23
Speaker 12: freedom camping around New Brighton Beach. So in the space
20:27
Speaker 12: of two weeks, eight hundred and sixty six people signed
20:29
Speaker 12: to this petition saying we're sick of it. They say
20:32
Speaker 12: that these car parks are overrun with freedom campers. Day
20:35
Speaker 12: and day out. They say it puts pressure on facilities.
20:38
Speaker 12: The public bathrooms there are getting wrecked. There's always rubbish
20:41
Speaker 12: left behind, and it's really hard to find a park
20:43
Speaker 12: that was handed to council. It was, unfortunately for them,
20:46
Speaker 12: rejected by the Chief Executive. Now, Council says they believe
20:49
Speaker 12: the current systems are sufficient. There's also these nation wide
20:53
Speaker 12: changes coming in next year, meaning the vehicles will have
20:56
Speaker 12: to comply to a higher standard, which they say will
20:59
Speaker 12: help Hostal Community Board member Joe Zervos, though, says residents
21:03
Speaker 12: are frustrated. They feel ignored and not heard, and they
21:07
Speaker 12: say that it's a case of council not listening to
21:09
Speaker 12: the community.
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Speaker 2: All right, okay, well that is a bit of a
21:13
Speaker 2: depressing end of the week from crashes. Hey how about
21:15
Speaker 2: your weather?
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Speaker 12: Clear great for freedom camping, fine, northerlyist and a high
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Speaker 12: of twenty brilliant.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Have a great day anyway, Max,
21:23
Speaker 2: I've just been told as awell, Max, what are you doing?
21:27
Speaker 2: He's maybe he got so depressed giving yesterday's Wellington update
21:30
Speaker 2: that he's decided to just throw in the towel today. Anyway,
21:33
Speaker 2: We'll come to him if we find him. Neva's here
21:36
Speaker 2: in the meantime, Neva, good morning.
21:38
Speaker 7: I'm a little bit upset that Mex isn't here for
21:40
Speaker 7: a fun Friday.
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Speaker 2: I know he's always fun, but first time he's missed one.
21:44
Speaker 7: I think, Yes, maybe he's not happy with you from yesterday.
21:47
Speaker 7: He's probably no, I'll get it down. Tools he's some
21:50
Speaker 7: technical issue. I mean, do we tell him to press you.
21:53
Speaker 2: Know, he'll be at his microphone on. He'll be at
21:55
Speaker 2: one of the few He'll be at one of the
21:57
Speaker 2: few cafes left in Wellington having breakfast.
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Speaker 4: Yes, they will be too.
22:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, He's always at some sort of cafe or restaurant. Now,
22:05
Speaker 2: the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is going to be marching
22:07
Speaker 2: on Eden Park.
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Speaker 7: Exciting times next year. So this military showcase bands, dancers, performers.
22:14
Speaker 7: It draws in more than about two hundred and thirty
22:16
Speaker 7: thousand spectators. This is in Scotland every year, but for
22:20
Speaker 7: the first time it's going to Grace Auckland in February
22:23
Speaker 7: for seventy fifth anniversary. Now don't know this is huge,
22:27
Speaker 7: but yes, and so Jason Barrett, he's the CEO. He
22:31
Speaker 7: says it's quite ambitious because they're going to fly about
22:33
Speaker 7: one thousand performers around the globe. They will perform at
22:36
Speaker 7: Eden Park for thirty thousand people. This is over four nights.
22:40
Speaker 7: I remember when I was growing up in a Vicago,
22:43
Speaker 7: my auntie was huge into marching and they used to,
22:46
Speaker 7: you know, like fundraise with the tattoo every year and
22:49
Speaker 7: so you know, go round, you know what regional New Zealand's.
22:53
Speaker 7: I'd go around selling Leamington's door knocking and those cheese
22:56
Speaker 7: rolls in Southland. So she'd get me into it. I'd
22:59
Speaker 7: do it, but she'd you wouldn't pay me, but in
23:00
Speaker 7: cheese roles. That's why I said, Yes, it's like it's kilts,
23:04
Speaker 7: and yes, bagpipe kill bag pipes and much get you
23:08
Speaker 7: into that marching.
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Speaker 2: If it's here, you be silly not to go and
23:12
Speaker 2: see it because it's such a phenomenon. I know, you know,
23:14
Speaker 2: I've got friends and family who love it. Yeah, so
23:17
Speaker 2: you'd be silly not too. I think, how's our weather,
23:19
Speaker 2: Neva for our weekend?
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Speaker 7: Well, cloudy periods. That's a good day for marching.
23:22
Speaker 2: I have twenty oh excellent. Apparently he's here Max.
23:29
Speaker 7: Well, actually I'm going down to Wellington tomorrow. I'm there
23:31
Speaker 7: for the weekend, so maybe I should go find.
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Speaker 2: It a wealthy check I will, I will Max Max,
23:36
Speaker 2: Are you there? No, I'll find him tomorrow. Go find
23:40
Speaker 2: them please. That is Neva in Auckland, No, Max and Wellington,
23:44
Speaker 2: Clear in christ Church and callumenton Eden. It is eighteen
23:47
Speaker 2: minutes away from six year on News Talks. Here'd be
23:49
Speaker 2: we'll talk about the social investment thing because Bill England.
23:52
Speaker 2: This was Bill English as Big Baby. It's going to
23:55
Speaker 2: target those you know, you find those children who've got
23:58
Speaker 2: these you know, these five indicators. One is a parent
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Speaker 2: who's in jail, one is a parent who's on a benefit.
24:04
Speaker 2: Another is an interaction with sefzor ordering a tamadiki. Now,
24:08
Speaker 2: you know, you find those children who've got all of
24:10
Speaker 2: those red flags and you pump the money in the
24:13
Speaker 2: support around them. And the theory is that in years
24:18
Speaker 2: from now, a decade from now or more, that investment
24:24
Speaker 2: will pay off if you do it right. Is Nikola
24:27
Speaker 2: willis doing it right.
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Speaker 1: That's before six International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance,
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Speaker 1: Peace of Mind for New Zealand business.
24:36
Speaker 2: And it's called it to six News Talk to b
24:38
Speaker 2: We'll get to the social investment stuff in just a second,
24:41
Speaker 2: right now, Vincent Macaviny our UK europe correspondents in good morning,
24:45
Speaker 2: Good morning, great to have you. So the UK is well,
24:49
Speaker 2: economy growing by more than expected. That's a good thing.
24:52
Speaker 2: But the Starmer getting a bit of a hard time
24:54
Speaker 2: about this Albania trip. Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 4: It's the next day for the prime so but definitely
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Speaker 4: some good news. The UK now has the fastest rate
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Speaker 4: of growth in the G seven group of developed economies.
25:07
Speaker 4: That's ahead of the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, in Japan.
25:10
Speaker 4: And that's because the figures for the first three months
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Speaker 4: of the year have been revised up from point six
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Speaker 4: to point seven percent growth. Now that might not sound
25:17
Speaker 4: a lot, but it's better, as I said, than those
25:18
Speaker 4: other countries are doing. But it's also a sign that
25:21
Speaker 4: things are shifting here in the UK. The sort of
25:23
Speaker 4: stagnation that we've seen after the pandemic years is somewhat
25:26
Speaker 4: going away. We've got inflation falling, we've got interest rates
25:29
Speaker 4: coming down as well. Now this figure is actually from
25:32
Speaker 4: before the Trump tariffs came into effect, but already we
25:36
Speaker 4: have a tariff deal with the US. It's still not
25:38
Speaker 4: as good as you know, trading terms as we had
25:42
Speaker 4: when these figures were calculated, but it's better than a
25:44
Speaker 4: lot of the rest of the world. And we're also
25:46
Speaker 4: seeing early signs that the UK is actually benefiting from
25:49
Speaker 4: what's called product dumping, so a lot of stuff that
25:52
Speaker 4: was on its way to the US which is now
25:54
Speaker 4: being rediverted to Europe is coming in here, which means
25:57
Speaker 4: prices are also falling slightly because there's more availability of
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Speaker 4: product coming from for instance, China. So some economic good
26:04
Speaker 4: news for the government. But on that key issue of immigration,
26:07
Speaker 4: the Prime Minister is in Albania. He's there, he says
26:10
Speaker 4: he wants to do talks about sending failed asylum seekers
26:14
Speaker 4: to other nations in what are called return hubs. Albania
26:17
Speaker 4: says it's not interested in that, but most we think
26:20
Speaker 4: of the gangs involved with people smuggling across Europe are
26:23
Speaker 4: Albanian based, and he's managed to get a new deal
26:26
Speaker 4: with Albania in terms of sort of prosecuting and intelligent
26:29
Speaker 4: sharing to try and crack down on this horrible trade.
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Speaker 2: Can you discive us so the failed asylum seekers people
26:35
Speaker 2: to try to seek asylum in the Britain right now
26:38
Speaker 2: that aren't being seen, you know, because there's no deals
26:39
Speaker 2: going abroad at the moment. Where are they staying right now?
26:43
Speaker 2: Where where are they well?
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Speaker 4: At the moment, the UK is spending millions every day
26:48
Speaker 4: in fact housing asylum seekers in hotels up and down
26:51
Speaker 4: the country. This was actually a legacy policy though inherited
26:54
Speaker 4: from the Conservatives. They signed these long term agreements until
26:58
Speaker 4: about twenty twenty nine people in hotels and it's had
27:01
Speaker 4: a huge impact right across the country. A lot of
27:04
Speaker 4: people in small towns and villages across the country angry
27:08
Speaker 4: that their local hotel, which you know, used to host
27:11
Speaker 4: functions or bring in tourists, is now being taken up
27:14
Speaker 4: by people coming across some small boats from France, but
27:17
Speaker 4: thens again anger. There's been more video in the last
27:19
Speaker 4: few days of French authorities, despite the UK now paying
27:22
Speaker 4: them tens of millions of pounds, not doing anything to
27:26
Speaker 4: stop these boats launching from the north of France. So
27:30
Speaker 4: it's a tricky situation. But the government still thinks if
27:33
Speaker 4: it cracks down on the gangs themselves, that people doing
27:35
Speaker 4: the trade, that they'll be able to stem the flow.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an interesting one, isn't it, Because you pay them.
27:40
Speaker 2: You British textpayers are paying the French police to basically
27:44
Speaker 2: do the border patrolling for them on the other side.
27:46
Speaker 2: But then those very sign police officers, yeah, they're.
27:49
Speaker 4: Basically standing there with cigarettes saying I feel sorry for you.
27:52
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly. They have a national self interest in not leading.
27:58
Speaker 2: Are stopping the boats letting them go across the the channel.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for your time this morning. That's Vincent macaviney a UK.
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Speaker 2: You're a correspondent just gone eleven away from six Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Social investments getting a boost. This is billinglish Is Baby
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Speaker 2: now carried by Nikola Willis pre budget announcement two hundred
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Speaker 2: and seventy five million dollars. One hundred and ninety of
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Speaker 2: that goes to the new Social Investment Fund.
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Speaker 12: It will invest in services that deliver measurable improvements in
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Speaker 12: the lives of those.
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Speaker 8: Who need our help, guided by data and evidence.
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Speaker 2: You contract directly to providers for you contracts the idea
28:32
Speaker 2: you target problems earlier for better results long term. Belinda
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Speaker 2: hem Hemiwana is the social services provider out he at
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Speaker 2: our CEO with me this morning. Blinda, good morning, oh
28:43
Speaker 2: good morning. Good to have you on the show. Can
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Speaker 2: you just tell us what is the main difference? Is
28:48
Speaker 2: it the length of the contract here? What is the
28:50
Speaker 2: main difference for you with how this will work?
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Speaker 6: Oh?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, sure. So we're really heartened by this announcement and
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Speaker 9: I think definitely the the vision to have longer term contracting,
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Speaker 9: sustainable funding with community sector organizations to work together to
29:08
Speaker 9: develop outcomes framework so we all know that we are
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Speaker 9: delivering the best for the kids INFARNO that are receiving services.
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Speaker 9: Just an example, I represent over two hundred and fifty
29:19
Speaker 9: community based providers and they work over seventeen government departments.
29:26
Speaker 9: So you can just imagine all of the separate contracting arrangements,
29:30
Speaker 9: the different reporting. There's some inconsistency in how providers need
29:35
Speaker 9: to report on results in timeframes. So we're really hoping
29:38
Speaker 9: for some good administrative burden reductions.
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Speaker 2: One, so one provider might have to deal with seventeen
29:46
Speaker 2: different government agencies.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, or you know at least five to six. We
29:52
Speaker 9: often have multiple year and many of.
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Speaker 2: You renewing every year, so you're having to go through
29:57
Speaker 2: these proces, jump through these service So admin up the
30:00
Speaker 2: I'm imagining for you with this new scheme. Do you
30:04
Speaker 2: have have do they set KPIs you have to meet, yes, and.
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Speaker 9: I think most contracting relationships at the moment there are
30:12
Speaker 9: performance indicators and volumes or expected outcomes or outputs. Well,
30:21
Speaker 9: I think this really pushes it to the next level.
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Speaker 2: Though what how does it push it to the next level?
30:25
Speaker 2: Because the problem with the word tamade thing and I
30:28
Speaker 2: know we've had that report from the Order to General,
30:30
Speaker 2: but the problem was that the providers were not meeting
30:35
Speaker 2: KPIs but still getting all the money and even when
30:38
Speaker 2: there was an underspend, we're keeping the underspend too.
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Speaker 9: Yes, So I think there's obviously the so I just
30:46
Speaker 9: answered answer the first part of the question I think,
30:48
Speaker 9: which is about how will this be different from the
30:51
Speaker 9: kp and then we can move into some of those
30:53
Speaker 9: observations from the Amadikey process. I think one of the
30:58
Speaker 9: really valuable spect of social investments. You'll take it out
31:02
Speaker 9: of one government agency, so we know kids in Faro
31:05
Speaker 9: are complicated. You don't just have a health issue or
31:09
Speaker 9: an education issue or a well being issue. Often these
31:13
Speaker 9: are quite interconnected. And what I like about the model
31:18
Speaker 9: is it will allow cross government results and indicators, so
31:23
Speaker 9: you can really tackle those hard cases and not just
31:27
Speaker 9: be in in one contract dealing with one aspect like
31:30
Speaker 9: a health or an education and another dealing with the
31:33
Speaker 9: counseling or the youth work. So it's a really nice,
31:37
Speaker 9: elegant way to tackle these big issues. So we really,
31:41
Speaker 9: you know, we think it will work. We want to
31:43
Speaker 9: see it on the ground obviously, and we would have
31:46
Speaker 9: liked to see more than one hundred and ninety million
31:48
Speaker 9: because that's spread over four years. But the Minister has
31:50
Speaker 9: talked about scaling it up. So this is a good chance.
31:53
Speaker 9: Just to your point about do we know what's working
31:55
Speaker 9: and are we funding it? This is a great chance
31:57
Speaker 9: to put the results on the table into in partnership
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Speaker 9: with government to do things that are really impactful.
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Speaker 2: Which is exactly what we want to happen all of us. Belinda,
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Speaker 2: appreciate your time, keep up the good work. Belinda Hemi
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Speaker 2: one O with us this morning. Social Service Providers altered
32:10
Speaker 2: our CEO on the changes the government's and out well
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Speaker 2: the funding boosts the governments and now it's for social investment.
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Speaker 2: Seven minutes away from six on your Friday morning, we'll
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Speaker 2: get to mic next.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of property just gone five minutes away from six
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Speaker 2: Core Logic data out yesterday, nine percent of sales nationally
32:34
Speaker 2: made a loss, as in, they sold for less than
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Speaker 2: they were purchased for. Fourteen percent in Auckland making a loss.
32:40
Speaker 2: So the seller's coming to meet the market. Finally, Mike's
32:44
Speaker 2: here now, Mike, good morning morning.
32:45
Speaker 13: Our numbers out this morning actually from the Real Estate Institute.
32:48
Speaker 13: Prices are up, still a buyer's market. And look by
32:53
Speaker 13: how much for the month of April zero point I'm
32:57
Speaker 13: guessing zero point six I think a month. Annualize it out, Yeah,
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Speaker 13: you're talking over six percent a year.
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Speaker 2: Now, I've got something at present for you today.
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Speaker 13: Okay, what is that? Is that one of those things
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Speaker 13: you rip off at the bottom? Did did you find
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Speaker 10: Now?
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Speaker 2: I found it on the way to the men's toilet,
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Speaker 2: so it hasn't been in a bathroom. Okay, So this
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Speaker 13: From who who is this?
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Speaker 2: So you're gonna give me a compliment. I'm going to
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Speaker 13: Okay, what's the compliment?
33:28
Speaker 2: Well, you got well, you got to.
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Speaker 13: Oh you don't even think of your own compliments for
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Speaker 2: They're prepared for you. Because we're not capable anymore.
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Speaker 13: There's only two left.
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Speaker 2: One is you are strong, which I think you. You're
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Speaker 1: Is that?
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Speaker 2: You're neat all right because you are a next person
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Speaker 2: as a tidy go away. Have a great day, everyone,
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Speaker 2: See you Monday.
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