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Jenee Tibshraeny: NZ Herald Wellington business editor unveils some new details surrounding Adrian Orr's resignation · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Brian Bridge back to the juicy details around Adriannall's resignation.
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  Speaker 2: Jane to Striney is The Herald's Willington business editor. She's
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  Speaker 2: been looking into this. Jane, good evening. Hi, Ryan's so
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  Speaker 2: best Oia You've got back in a week while what's
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  Speaker 2: what's the gist?
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  Speaker 3: Was a pretty juicy day for me. We got some
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  Speaker 3: documents back from Nikola Willis's office. They showed a couple
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  Speaker 3: of things. Firstly, they showed that Adrian the Reserve Bank
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  Speaker 3: had planned to announce Adrianall's resignation on March ten.
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  Speaker 1: That would have.
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  Speaker 3: Been after the Reserve Bank hosted a massive conference with
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  Speaker 3: international economists from around the world, but that announcement actually
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  Speaker 3: ended up being made on March five, the day before
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  Speaker 3: the conference. So I remember on March five, it was
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  Speaker 3: all a scramble. The Reserve Bank ended up calling a
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  Speaker 3: press conference late in the day and this was all
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  Speaker 3: happening as economists were arriving in New Zealand from around
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  Speaker 3: the world ready for this big conference. The following day
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  Speaker 3: to Mark thirty five years of inflation targeting. So what
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  Speaker 3: we don't know is why was that announcement brought forward?
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  Speaker 3: And you know what prompted that, because it's pretty embarrassing
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  Speaker 3: for New Zealand to host a big conference and for
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  Speaker 3: the big news of the day to be the governor
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  Speaker 3: of the Reserve Bank has just resigned. So that was
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  Speaker 3: one little nugget. The other one was that the documents
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  Speaker 3: show that Nicola Willis's press secretary prepped her and said, look,
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  Speaker 3: here's a list of questions that journalists might ask you
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  Speaker 3: about Aw's resignation. A couple of the questions the Press
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  Speaker 3: sect said might be asked were around meetings that Nicola
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  Speaker 3: Willis had with Adrian or specifically a question he said
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  Speaker 3: media might ask is, did or raise his voice with you?
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  Speaker 3: And we're their disagreements with you. So we don't know
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  Speaker 3: if a meeting that happened before he resigned. You know
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  Speaker 3: how feisty it was, whether people raise their voices or not.
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  Speaker 3: But the fact that the Press Sects has prepared Nichola
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  Speaker 3: Willis for questions around that, you know, it tells us
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  Speaker 3: somewhat juicy and interesting story.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it is interesting because it's not like, and
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  Speaker 2: we can't say where that adrianal raised his voice in
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  Speaker 2: that meaning because we were there and clearly Nichola Willis
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  Speaker 2: is not telling us. But you would ask the question,
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  Speaker 2: do the pre sects prepare for every meeting that the
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  Speaker 2: minister has? Do they say, Hey, someone might ask you
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  Speaker 2: where the voices were raised? You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: You can kind of make your own inference. I suppose,
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  Speaker 2: can't you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's the thing. And you know, we did ask
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  Speaker 3: Nichol Willis at the time. I asked, actually was Adrian
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  Speaker 3: or sick? And I asked was the misconduct involved? So
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  Speaker 3: these were fair questions that we did ask. My biggest
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  Speaker 3: sort of my guess as to why he resigned would
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  Speaker 3: and this is just a guess, would be that he
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  Speaker 3: clashed with Nicole Willis over the amount of government funding
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  Speaker 3: the Reserve Bank would receive. And also they clashed over
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  Speaker 3: the amount of capital that the Reserve Bank requires banks
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  Speaker 3: to hold to make them strong. So those are two things.
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  Speaker 3: It's probably about that. But you know, I feel like
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  Speaker 3: details will just keep trickling out over.
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  Speaker 2: Time, slowly but surely. A couple of big issues, couple
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  Speaker 2: of big personalities, and maybe some raised voices Jena, thank
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