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Full Show Podcast: 17 February 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues is the interviews and the insight.
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Speaker 2: Andrew Dickens on early edition with one roof make your
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Speaker 3: It'd be it's well, good morning to you, welcome to
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Speaker 3: the program. Thank you so much for choosing us. I'm
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Speaker 3: Andrew Dickens in for Brian Bridge on the program today.
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Speaker 3: Apparently Kiwi Saber is still investing in fossil fuel shares,
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Speaker 3: so how.
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Speaker 1: Are they doing that?
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Speaker 3: And should we be worried? Europe is organizing emergency summer
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Speaker 3: says the US abandons the Ukraine. Gavin Gray with the
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Speaker 3: latest and a new campaign tells Ozzie's that they must
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Speaker 3: come to New Zealand, and the question is why is
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Speaker 3: this new. Louise Upston, the Tourism Minister, is joining us
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Speaker 3: just before six. We'll have correspondence from right around the
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Speaker 3: world and right around New Zealand. Will have news as
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Speaker 3: it breaks. You can text us as well if you
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Speaker 3: have anything to say. And the number is ninety two
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Speaker 3: ninety two. A small charge applies. It's seven after five.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 3: It's Monday, the seventeenth of February. To the Middle East
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Speaker 3: and Israeli prim Mienist of Benjamin Netanyah, who says he's
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Speaker 3: working in full cooperation with the United States on a
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Speaker 3: common strategy for Gaza. After his meeting with US Secretary
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Speaker 3: of State Marco Rubio, speaking at a news conference in Jerusalem,
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Speaker 3: Rubio and Nettaja who outlined their areas of agreement, including
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Speaker 3: a desire to eradicate harmasa's governing capacity, prevent Iran from
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Speaker 3: gaining a nuclear weapon, and to monitor developments in post
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Speaker 3: assad Syria.
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Speaker 4: I thanked Secretary of Rubio for President Trump's assistance and
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Speaker 4: helping us secure the release of another three hostages yesterday.
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Speaker 4: These are hostages that Hamas refused to release only a
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Speaker 4: few days earlier, and I also thanked him for America's
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Speaker 4: unequivocal blacking for Israel's policy in Gaza.
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Speaker 3: In moving forward, Meanwhile, Marco Rubio says Trump's Gaza takeover
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Speaker 3: plan took courage for him to propose.
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Speaker 5: It may have shocked and surprised many, but what cannot
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Speaker 5: continue is the same cycle where we repeat over and
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Speaker 5: over again and wind up in the exact same place.
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Speaker 3: Meanwhile, European leaders will gather in France tomorrow for an
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Speaker 3: emergency summer tomid US efforts to agree on a deal
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Speaker 3: with Russia to end the war in Ukraine. In the
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Speaker 3: coming days, US Secretary of State Micro Rubio is expected
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Speaker 3: to meet with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia, but Ukrainian
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Speaker 3: President Vladimir Zelenski has said he was not invited to
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Speaker 3: those talks, and there's concerned the White House could strike
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Speaker 3: a deal which damages European security.
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Speaker 6: Eventually, at some point, the Americans will realize that the
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Speaker 6: Europeans have to be part of this deal. The one
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Speaker 6: thing that Donald Trump wants to avoid is this becoming
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Speaker 6: another Afghanistan. In other words, the whole thing going south
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Speaker 6: a conflict restarts seeing everybody blaming each other.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't want to.
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Speaker 6: Get the flag for that, so he will want the
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Speaker 6: Europeans on board. So the argument goes to make sure
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Speaker 6: that this stays a durable settlement.
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Speaker 3: And finally, the stars of the big screen are arriving
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Speaker 3: as we speak at London's Royal Festival Hall for the
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Speaker 3: annual BETHDA Film and TV Awards. Now leading this year's
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Speaker 3: nominations religious Drama Conclave, followed by Emilia Pevez and the
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Speaker 3: architecture film The Brutalists with Adrian Brody now Here is
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Speaker 3: a clip from Conclave, which dominates the awards tonight. It's
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Speaker 3: got twelve nominations that the nominations include Best Film Director
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Speaker 3: and Leading Actor.
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Speaker 1: Discuss with the Holy Father in that final meeting arrangements
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Speaker 1: we're made in Paris. I shall pretend this conversation never
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Speaker 1: took place, but.
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Speaker 7: It has taken place. This is a conclave, but it's
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Speaker 7: not a war.
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Speaker 3: It is a war and you have to commit to
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Speaker 3: a side. Yeah, that's definitely Tucci and Ray finds acting
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Speaker 3: their chops off. It is ten minus after five.
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Speaker 1: News and Views you Trust to start your day.
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Speaker 3: The New Zealand Economic Forum has ended in Hamilton and
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Speaker 3: all week in we saw the analysis about what was
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Speaker 3: discussed and for me what was fascinating was what we
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Speaker 3: didn't hear about rather than what we did. New Zealand
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Speaker 3: I think we can all agree is at a critical
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Speaker 3: time we have an economy that is fundamentally flawed. We
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Speaker 3: the taxpayers, in one way or another, have failed to
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Speaker 3: deliver the revenue to the government to pay for the
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Speaker 3: services that we need and we demand. We got deficit
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Speaker 3: enough to deficit means we live on borrowings. Meanwhile, bills
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Speaker 3: that have been kicked down the road are coming back
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Speaker 3: to hurt us and to solve the problems. We heard
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Speaker 3: from our current leaders who have to fix up the
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Speaker 3: problems theyf not just by the last government, which are numerous,
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Speaker 3: but by all governments since the advent of Rogeromics. We
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Speaker 3: have people there like Finance Minister Nicola Willison, just a
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Speaker 3: point of Public Service Commissioner Bryant Roach, and just appointed
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Speaker 3: Treasury Secretary Ian Renny, And they said, we must increase productivity,
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Speaker 3: we must encourage more foreign investment, we must slash the
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Speaker 3: public service, we must improve savings, all of which we
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Speaker 3: can agree on. But what they didn't talk about was
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Speaker 3: things like taxation, whether it's corporate tax or capital gains tax.
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Speaker 3: They didn't talk about fixing housing and the fundamental force there.
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Speaker 3: They did not talk about affording superannuation, and they did
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Speaker 3: not talk about affording healthcare. So we seem to be
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Speaker 3: putting all our hope in some foreigners riding in to
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Speaker 3: save us with their capital, which even with the best
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Speaker 3: will we can muster, will take years to bear fruit.
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Speaker 3: Meanwhile slashing the public service to the bone, which hurts everyone.
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Speaker 3: And I just thought at the end of the weekend,
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Speaker 3: if that was the best our brightest can bring to
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Speaker 3: the table, we're in for a long and painful ride.
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Speaker 3: Just do something. It appears that we only ever consider
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Speaker 3: half the solutions because we're also politically correct to whatever
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Speaker 3: politics we follow. Now, the antidote to all that economic
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Speaker 3: gloom is the sporting riches we're enjoying right now. Elise
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Speaker 3: Andrews said a world record in cycling, Alice Robinson got
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Speaker 3: a World championship silver in alpine skiing. Some guy I'd
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Speaker 3: never heard of, Filled Melville Ives got himself a gold
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Speaker 3: in the half pipe yesterday. Orka, the FC continues to
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Speaker 3: win the only side who have ever humbled them. We've
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Speaker 3: got Joseph Parker preparing to take a heavyweight world championship
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Speaker 3: this coming weekend. And then we had the rugby in
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Speaker 3: the league over the weekend, and we'll talk all about
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Speaker 3: this soon with Andrew Ordison. But what impressed me over
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Speaker 3: the weekend was the crowd attendances at our sporting events.
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Speaker 3: Good on you, Hamilton, that was a bumper crowd for
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Speaker 3: the Warriors. It was a real event Catergory at Auckland.
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Speaker 3: Crowds turned up for the rugby. There was even a
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Speaker 3: big crowd for the red Bull trolley Darby. It seems
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Speaker 3: like in the middle of all this economic doom and gloom,
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Speaker 3: we're up for having a bit of fun at sports.
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Speaker 3: And I have to say that was I thought uplifting
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Speaker 3: over the weekend. So we've got new research revealing that
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Speaker 3: Kiwisaver funds have significantly increased their exposure to fossil fuel investments.
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Speaker 8: Do you care?
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Speaker 3: I've got a text already. As long as my money
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Speaker 3: is making money, I'm not bothered where it's invested. Thank
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Speaker 3: you Donald, Thank you for listening. We're going to talk
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Speaker 3: about this in a moment with Barry Coates, the man
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Speaker 3: who did the survey that found the facts.
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Speaker 2: Andrew Dickens on the early edition were the one room
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Speaker 2: to make your property search simple, youth dog Zibby.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, good one to you. The time is now five fifteen.
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Speaker 3: Just some of those facts and figures out from the
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Speaker 3: key we Saver funds, Can we save your investments in
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Speaker 3: fossil fuels jump to four point four to two billion
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Speaker 3: in September twenty four that's up from three point seventy
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Speaker 3: five billion in March twenty twenty four. So that's quick,
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Speaker 3: and that's an awful lot of money in fossil fuels
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Speaker 3: put in by Kei Wei Savers, and I asked a
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Speaker 3: question do you care? And many people are saying no.
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Speaker 3: Steve says, can we save it? Investment type should not
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Speaker 3: be restricted, and thank you Steve. Wherever the money is
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Speaker 3: being is being put that as long as it's making money,
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Speaker 3: that's all right. Number of texts saying that. So we'll
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Speaker 3: talk about this shortly. But first look, who's in the
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Speaker 3: studio is Andrew Orderson. I've coming as it's all right,
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Speaker 3: hold on, hold on a second. We'll just turn up
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Speaker 3: your channel right there and so we can hear you,
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Speaker 3: and then you are am.
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Speaker 9: I there now, I've comeing as you're Anethis said, you know, yes.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Barry's not up, but we'll get him up. In
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Speaker 3: the second, theory goes very good, gosh, Super Rugby. You know,
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Speaker 3: during the week I was thinking Super Rubby, too soon,
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Speaker 3: too hot, and then of course what happened. I watched
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Speaker 3: all of it over the weekend and the crowds were big,
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Speaker 3: and the footy was great, I think a compelling start
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Speaker 3: and also those closest games as well. I think it
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Speaker 3: had really helped with keeping you, I guess, entertained and
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Speaker 3: engaged in all those fixtures. So yeah, it got starne.
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Speaker 9: I mean, you know when you see that the Blues
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Speaker 9: are kept on the bottom of the table at the
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Speaker 9: moment depending champions up the first week, Well there you go,
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Speaker 9: you've got addical competition.
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Speaker 3: That's because some father called Damian McKenzie, who had a
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Speaker 3: funny old season last year he was either genius ordatrocious,
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Speaker 3: shows that he's learned something over the off season.
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Speaker 9: Well that's right, and you know he's got I guess
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Speaker 9: some py of incentive still to go Dami McKenzie to
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Speaker 9: be in the mix et centa for the All Blacks
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Speaker 9: later on and those sorts of things. So yeah, it's
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Speaker 9: I mean, whine A Pacific are putting up a good
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Speaker 9: show as well.
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Speaker 3: They traveled halfway around the world and took the Western
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Speaker 3: Force to town and only lost by one gosing is
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Speaker 3: it a forty five four? So yeah, yeah, I mean
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Speaker 3: that's all part of it is that.
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Speaker 9: But I think most people would be quite entertained by
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Speaker 9: that first week and just your boats. Well for the competition,
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Speaker 9: because I'm always reluctant as well. I think I mid February,
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Speaker 9: is that really the time to be starting rugby? But
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Speaker 9: yeah and warm, Yeah, and it made for some running
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Speaker 9: rugby exactly exactly and the harder grounds, et cetera.
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Speaker 3: So that definitely helps two things. Yannick Simmer, the the
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Speaker 3: Italian tennis player, doping and all that sort of thing.
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Speaker 3: Tell me about what's happening with that band.
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Speaker 9: Well not, it's it's a bit of a sweetheart deal
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Speaker 9: and what will be a two year band has been
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Speaker 9: reduced to three months. Probably some good lawyers involved there,
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Speaker 9: but it's the fact that it really is wet bus
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Speaker 9: ticket type type punishment and he's not even going to
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Speaker 9: miss the French Open, so it's not three months. So
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Speaker 9: it's kind of negotiated and it looks like he's had
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Speaker 9: more power than actually the institutions involved in running the sports. Yeah,
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Speaker 9: that he's able to negotiate that.
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Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm sorry, the excuse seemed flimsy.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, exactly exactly so, And I just think doping stoping,
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Speaker 9: and you've got it. You've got to be so vigilant
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Speaker 9: about that. And others have gone for skates for probably
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Speaker 9: lesser crimes.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, yeah, and that remember, well the other was lucky.
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Speaker 3: He is lucky. I think so truly. Meanwhile, Shane van
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Speaker 3: Gisberg is doing the Dayton of five hundred the super
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Speaker 3: Speedway and I was hearing that over the news. You know,
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Speaker 3: this is a very even competition. I actually think he's
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Speaker 3: going to be quite good because he's an elbows out driver. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I always I don't like that description.
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Speaker 9: Actually, yeah, it's and and of course with the Dayton
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Speaker 9: and five hundred, I think they'd reduce the horsepower down
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Speaker 9: at least from what correspondents telling us, and that means
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Speaker 9: you get more pack racing involved in it. And I'm
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Speaker 9: sure we'll become experts on Dayton five.
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Speaker 3: Across the course of the morning.
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Speaker 9: But you know, it's it's another for a by New
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Speaker 9: Zealand motorsport driver into the top echelon of a certain
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Speaker 9: discipline and I think we're going to look back on
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Speaker 9: this as a real golden era for New Zealanders and
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Speaker 9: most across the board.
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Speaker 3: So you've seen Liam Lawson playing the guitar. No, it's
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Speaker 3: on social media, came out of the last week. He
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Speaker 3: just sits he's amazing and he can sing. I mean,
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Speaker 3: is that right? Is there nothing? This is what we
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Speaker 3: can't do? Is no end to his talents?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: A look.
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Speaker 3: And also I really loved all your skiing, your skiing commentary,
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Speaker 3: just the tricks and the names of the tricks. It's
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Speaker 3: like you're speaking another language it is.
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Speaker 9: I've got no idea what I'm saying, but there I
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Speaker 9: felt like putting allegedly in front of it. And sick
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Speaker 9: work Andrew and with words they say sport all morning long.
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Speaker 3: It's five twenty.
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Speaker 3: It's five twenty two. The new researchers revealed keep Saber
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Speaker 3: Funds have significantly increased they're exposure to fossil fuel investments
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Speaker 3: between March and September last year. There was an eighteen
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Speaker 3: percent increase nearly four and a half billion dollars. Is
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Speaker 3: what we put in from our Keiwi saver into fossil
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Speaker 3: fuel investments, and that continued investment into coal, oil and
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Speaker 3: gas companies stands and start contrast to public sentiment. A
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Speaker 3: recent survey found that seventy seven percent of New Zealanders
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Speaker 3: say they want to avoid fossil fuel investments. That may
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Speaker 3: be so, but not this morning. When I ask you
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Speaker 3: the question, what do you think? John has written saying
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Speaker 3: Andrew I left a Keywi saver provided due to their
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Speaker 3: ethical investing policy. The world is going to need oil
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Speaker 3: for a long time yet, and we need to make money.
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Speaker 3: And here here's the thing. I think you have a point, John.
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Speaker 3: Surely our exposure will naturally shrink as the carbon sector
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Speaker 3: naturally sinks as we promote renewables. And therefore you have
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Speaker 3: to ask a question, is a key We saver's role
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Speaker 3: to force a future change or is a Keiwi saver's
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Speaker 3: role to look out for our money in the best
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Speaker 3: way possible. That debate will happen all day. Meanwhile, another
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Speaker 3: debate happening is about what Destiny's Church got up to
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Speaker 3: over the course of the weekend. And I have to say,
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Speaker 3: the haka is a funny thing. The harker is something
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Speaker 3: New Zealanders do as a sign of respect. Though yes
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Speaker 3: it started life as a war dance, but it was
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Speaker 3: a respect for war dance. But we do it as
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Speaker 3: respect I'll never forget the solo Hukker performed at a
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Speaker 3: funeral of a friend of mine by his son, was
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Speaker 3: so moving, respecting the man and the rugby. The rugby
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Speaker 3: haker is mostly about respect for our opponent, but at
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Speaker 3: its heart it is about battle. And so the Harker
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Speaker 3: performed before the Pride parade and Aukland over the weekend,
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Speaker 3: I have to say, was not about respect. There was
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Speaker 3: no respect there at all. It was about standing up.
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Speaker 3: It was about a battle. It was about a division.
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Speaker 3: It was about we don't like you. It was about hatred,
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Speaker 3: it was about we don't respect you. And this from
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Speaker 3: members of a church, and Brian Tummicky appears to be
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Speaker 3: in all for it. And Brian Tummicky seems to have
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Speaker 3: forgotten the basic ethos of a church, which is respect
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Speaker 3: for the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. It's
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Speaker 3: a bit like that Catholic bishop who got worried about
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Speaker 3: the health of transgenders and that was considered to be political,
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Speaker 3: when in fact that's his faith. It is her faith.
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Speaker 3: I should say. It is five twenty five. It's News talksb.
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Speaker 3: it is now five twenty two twenty seven, I should
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Speaker 3: say five twenty seven. The government's new tourism campaign targeted
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Speaker 3: at Australians, I think is a no brainer. A simple
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Speaker 3: test is comparing how many New Zealanders have visited Australia
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Speaker 3: compared to how many Australians have come here. I remember
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Speaker 3: being at a conference a while back in Sydney and
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Speaker 3: we were asking around the room how many of you
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Speaker 3: who have been to New Zealand. There were none, and
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Speaker 3: yet I then asked how many of you guys have
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Speaker 3: been to Queensland? What they all had been including me?
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Speaker 3: You see, for Kiwi's it's a right of passage to
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Speaker 3: visit Australia, but it's not a right of passage for
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Speaker 3: Ossie's to come here. So imploring everyone to come here,
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Speaker 3: in fact, saying everyone must come here, I think is
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Speaker 3: a good thing. Shame on the Labor spokesperson who was
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Speaker 3: on the Telly last night who seemed to think such
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Speaker 3: a plea was desperate. I'm sorry, that's not desperate. It's
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Speaker 3: just got a bit of energy about it. If we
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Speaker 3: can imbue the belief in Australia that a visit to
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Speaker 3: New Zealand is a must, then that will continue to
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Speaker 3: pay its way for generations. It's the same for European visitors.
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Speaker 3: The people I know who came here from Europe for
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Speaker 3: their oe and became my friends here are now the
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Speaker 3: parents of kids who then returned. The kids, having heard
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Speaker 3: the legends from mum Zoe and New Zealand are the
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Speaker 3: ones who come back. My partner Zoe was in Germany
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Speaker 3: and her friends' children's are the ones who have come
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Speaker 3: to New Zealand find more found out more about the
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Speaker 3: exotic foreigner who landed in their parents' mints. So it's
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Speaker 3: important to remember that every time we go overseas and
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Speaker 3: meet others, we go as ambassadors and we promote repeat
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Speaker 3: business of inbound tourism here. But for everywhere aside from Australia,
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Speaker 3: we are still a major trip with big journeys and
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Speaker 3: big bills. So Australia is very cheap and very important
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Speaker 3: for Australians. We're a three hour flight. We're just like them,
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Speaker 3: we speak the same language as them, but we're exotically different.
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Speaker 3: Our scenic delights are delightful, and thanks to our stuttering
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Speaker 3: economy and DOMMA, we're relatively cheap as chips. Of course,
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Speaker 3: everyone there must come here, and their children and their
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Speaker 3: children's children and so on. In fact, this is our
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Speaker 3: campaign that should never stop, and in fact this is
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Speaker 3: a campaign that we need to renew year after year
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Speaker 3: after year. So it's coming of five twenty nine. Europe's
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Speaker 3: all of it tis was right now about the American president.
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Speaker 3: Tony Major, the former UK Prime Minister, who rarely offers
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Speaker 3: direct opinion on contemporary politics, used an interview with the
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Speaker 3: BBC Radio over the weekend to call the Trump administration
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Speaker 3: unlike anything he'd ever seen and to warn that Washington
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Speaker 3: might live to regret ceding the world stage to a
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Speaker 3: more autocratic person. And he condemned JD Vance, the US
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Speaker 3: Vice President, as hypocritical and not statesmanlike, for lecturing Europe
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Speaker 3: on free speech while also cuddling Vladimir Putin's Russia. He
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Speaker 3: went off, Meanwhile, the Europeans are having an emergency summit
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Speaker 3: meeting to discuss what to do about all of this,
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Speaker 3: and we'll have details of that summit coming up very shortly.
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Speaker 3: With Gavin Gray out of Europe right here on News Talks, heb.
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Speaker 3: Morning, Welcome to you. Monday. Normal transmission has resumed. I'm
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Speaker 3: doing early edition wy and Bridge. It's going to be
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Speaker 3: doing the drivetime show while of course Heather is on
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Speaker 3: maternity leave and so it's all good. So we talked
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Speaker 3: about Brian Tommicky's Destiny Church's stunts over the course of
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Speaker 3: the weekend. I'm sure mister Tommicky thinks that New Zealanders
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Speaker 3: are all behind him, but not the listeners to this show. Well,
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Speaker 3: Texan already. Destiny Church writes a text to Judge, not
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Speaker 3: lest you yourself be judged. Kathy writes that Brian wats
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Speaker 3: his face, breaks rules, his church and judge and I
18:43
Speaker 3: wouldn't want to be in their circle. Thank you, Kathy
18:45
Speaker 3: the Kiwi and another textasys equally, Destiny is not a church.
18:49
Speaker 3: It's a classic example of how far Christianity has fallen
18:52
Speaker 3: as our egos become bigger and bigger, in our collective intelligence,
18:55
Speaker 3: smaller and smaller. Thank you for contributing to the show
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Speaker 3: ninety two ninety two. It's a small charge does apply.
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Speaker 3: I have to say this is a very petty little
19:02
Speaker 3: point and I already apologize for it. But for it
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Speaker 3: churchly that who lives on tithing and donations from his followers.
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Speaker 3: I'm not sure whether it is a good look that
19:12
Speaker 3: Bryan turns up on the telly wearing a very very
19:16
Speaker 3: expensive Emporio Amani T shirt. It's twenty two to six.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Dicka is around the country.
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Speaker 3: We go Callum Proctor, good morning from Dunedin.
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Speaker 5: Yes, morning, Andrew.
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Speaker 3: Why is it one I can reserve closed?
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Speaker 5: Oh, it's just too dry and the fire risk is
19:32
Speaker 5: too high. I think this is a sign of just
19:35
Speaker 5: how extreme conditions are right around the region. The Queenstown
19:38
Speaker 5: Lakes District Councils shut the Mount Iron Reserve because of
19:42
Speaker 5: the fire risks brought on by the spell of hot
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Speaker 5: and dry weather.
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Speaker 4: Here.
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Speaker 5: Fire and emergencies providing guidance to the council, so the
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Speaker 5: reserve and the tracks closed from midday to six am
19:51
Speaker 5: now each day. It can only be excessed in the
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Speaker 5: mornings when that risk is low and the temperatures are down.
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Speaker 5: That Council says conditions are being closely monitored. They'll reopen
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Speaker 5: the area as soon as they can when it's safe too.
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Speaker 5: At the Mount Iron Reserve, yeah, there.
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Speaker 3: Was a big fire on Mount Iron a while back.
20:06
Speaker 3: In fact, that made of mine almost lost his house,
20:08
Speaker 3: so that is a danger. Now, how is your weather fine?
20:11
Speaker 5: For most of the regions today For to need an
20:13
Speaker 5: occasional rain, this evening or easterly is easing and twenty
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Speaker 5: four today.
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Speaker 3: Claire Sherwood joins me from christ Church Hell Claire, good morning.
20:20
Speaker 3: So christ Church is hot for students.
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Speaker 10: Yes, So I'm nervous about telling everyone about this, Andrew,
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Speaker 10: because everyone will want to move here. But Other Institute
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Speaker 10: of Technology has seen a thirty four percent increase in
20:31
Speaker 10: international student enrollments for this year. That's up from two
20:35
Speaker 10: hundred and fifty four last year to three hundred and
20:38
Speaker 10: forty now. Domestic enrollments rose by one percent to just
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Speaker 10: over fivey two hundred. The international director, Deana Anderson, says
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Speaker 10: Other's approach is targeted as students have a huge amount
20:48
Speaker 10: of choice across the country. She says there's been an
20:51
Speaker 10: increase in international students re enrolling as well, meaning people
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Speaker 10: are choosing to stay in christ Church and continue studies further.
20:58
Speaker 10: Anderson says the tracking to reach pre COVID numbers by
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Speaker 10: the end of this year fantastic.
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Speaker 3: And I always liked Elam University, always liked it every
21:05
Speaker 3: time I visited there. Question which is just lovely, especially
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Speaker 3: on a nice day. And how's your weather?
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Speaker 10: Pretty nice day here, mainly fine, there will be some
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Speaker 10: occasion wearing This afternoon northeasterlies a high of twenty three.
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Speaker 3: Next toll joins us from Wellington home X. Good morning,
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Speaker 3: So investigators are looking at a fire. This fire was
21:23
Speaker 3: in a multi story building.
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Speaker 7: Yeah. So for those who know Wellington fairly well, these
21:29
Speaker 7: are the blue and white apartment to complex the Brooklyn
21:34
Speaker 7: Road end of the year of Willis Street. They had
21:37
Speaker 7: the circular porthole windows, quite notable for their distinct architecture.
21:41
Speaker 7: As specialist fire investigators are going to be there today
21:44
Speaker 7: trying to work out what caused this fire. They are
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Speaker 7: council run flats. They were called fire an emergency about
21:51
Speaker 7: two thirty yesterday afternoon. Thankfully no one was in the
21:54
Speaker 7: flat where the fire started. Everyone was able to be evacuated.
21:58
Speaker 7: Firefighters got in quickly could extinguish the fire and ventilate
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Speaker 7: the building without anyone being heard. So now the matter
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Speaker 7: turns to finding out what caused it.
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Speaker 3: Very good, how's your weather?
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Speaker 7: I shall be partly cloudy today with some isolated showers
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Speaker 7: developing later twenty six the high Central.
22:17
Speaker 3: And you've already man who joins us from walk and
22:18
Speaker 3: hello neither good morning. So Brian Tammocke's Destiny Church antics
22:23
Speaker 3: over the course of the weekend are causing worries.
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Speaker 8: Yes, this is one of the big stories of the weekend.
22:28
Speaker 8: So you're absolutely right, Andrew. The worries anti LGBTQ protests
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Speaker 8: and auckland over the weekend could have deadly consequences. So
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Speaker 8: the groups linked to Destiny Church, as we know, they
22:39
Speaker 8: stormed the children's drag event and that was at a
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Speaker 8: Westalkland library on Saturday. Then obviously they later disrupted the
22:45
Speaker 8: Pride parade with a hiker that was down Ponsonby Henderson.
22:48
Speaker 8: Messy local board cheer Chris Carter says, look, you know,
22:51
Speaker 8: struggling with sexual identity is already a leading factor in
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Speaker 8: youth suicide. And he says that you know Tamaky's preaching
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Speaker 8: about love of the family, but you know he's spreading
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Speaker 8: a message of hate and prejudice.
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Speaker 3: Okay, how's the weather.
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Speaker 8: The weather occasional rain, which is probably welcome to you
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Speaker 8: in Auckland at the moment because it's been so muggy.
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Speaker 8: Twenty five is the high.
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Speaker 3: It was supposed to rain yesterday and it did not.
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Speaker 8: Yes, it did, probably not in your area.
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Speaker 3: I'll tell you why, rain. I tell you why. I
23:17
Speaker 3: knew it was going to rain. So I went to
23:19
Speaker 3: watch The Brutalist, which is three and a half hours long,
23:24
Speaker 3: and I went in and it wasn't rainy. And I
23:25
Speaker 3: came out it wasn't raining, and I went, oh my god,
23:28
Speaker 3: to fall asleep. No, no, I'll tell you how many
23:30
Speaker 3: tor it breaks did jev. I'll tell you that's a
23:32
Speaker 3: very good point, and I'll tell you more about that
23:35
Speaker 3: very shortly. But thank you so much. Okay. It is
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Speaker 3: seventeen to sex. European leaders have caught an emergency summit
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Speaker 3: this week to discuss America's abandonment of the war. Meanwhile,
23:44
Speaker 3: we never really report on the war. The war grinds on.
23:47
Speaker 3: Russia has the military advantage. Its troops, however, inexperienced and
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Speaker 3: badly trained, so they're easily defeated if Ukraine can come
23:54
Speaker 3: up against them. Meanwhile, Ukraine has a similar problem with
23:57
Speaker 3: what they've done is have concentrated its best fights into
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Speaker 3: army corps that then run brigades. They are regularly swapped
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Speaker 3: out to give them rest time and also time to
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Speaker 3: train new fighters. But the whole conflict is on a
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Speaker 3: knife edge. And we'll have more with Devin Gray in
24:11
Speaker 3: just a.
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Speaker 2: Moment International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of
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Speaker 2: mind for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 3: It is according to Sex of the Moment Louis Upston
24:22
Speaker 3: on the push to get Australians to come to New
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Speaker 3: Zealand to have a holiday. But first to the Europe
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Speaker 3: we go, Gavin Gray, good morning to you.
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Speaker 1: Good morning.
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Speaker 3: So we've got the emergency summit on the war in
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Speaker 3: Ukraine tomorrow or in days in France.
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Speaker 11: Yes, it hasn't all formerly been announced, but it looks
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Speaker 11: like very little in Europe happens quickly. But it does
24:44
Speaker 11: look like this is going to happen pretty quickly, and
24:46
Speaker 11: that's because the Europeans are now pretty terrified frankly about
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Speaker 11: being left out of the negotiations about ending the war
24:54
Speaker 11: in Ukraine, which is on the doorstep of Europe. They
24:57
Speaker 11: fear that this is going to be put together by
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Speaker 11: America and Russia without even Ukraine being involved, let alone
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Speaker 11: anybody from Europe, and so they want to attend this
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Speaker 11: summit in Paris, going to be hosted by Emmanuel Macron.
25:11
Speaker 11: Sekire Starmer is likely to go, and interestingly, Sakire Starmer
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Speaker 11: already then has a meeting with US President Donald Trump
25:19
Speaker 11: at the White House at the end of this month,
25:21
Speaker 11: so it looks like there is some sort of a
25:23
Speaker 11: schedule for this. But of course, I say the end
25:25
Speaker 11: of this month, that's still two weeks away. Donald Trump
25:27
Speaker 11: doesn't tend to wait two weeks to announce things. So
25:30
Speaker 11: there is this real fear that in some way Donald
25:33
Speaker 11: Trump and Vladimir Putin are going to agree something which
25:37
Speaker 11: neither Ukraine nor Europe agree with, and I think that's
25:41
Speaker 11: going to be very difficult. So there are not going
25:42
Speaker 11: to be calls. President Zelenski has started this for the
25:45
Speaker 11: creation of an army of Europe amid to the rising
25:49
Speaker 11: concern that the US may no longer come to the
25:51
Speaker 11: continent's aid.
25:52
Speaker 3: Yes, so there's an army outside of NATO, another army,
25:54
Speaker 3: another sort of organization. So some are for and some
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Speaker 3: are against. That's what they'll be discussing as this emergency summit.
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Speaker 3: Kids underway tell me about commuter cat.
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Speaker 11: Ah Well, I love this story. So there is this
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Speaker 11: cat from a village or small town outside London and
26:12
Speaker 11: it was just turned up at somebody's door and it
26:15
Speaker 11: turns out that these people have adopted it. It's a
26:17
Speaker 11: family cat now, so to speak. And this cat is
26:21
Speaker 11: incredibly adventurous. He's already gone on buses and managed to
26:24
Speaker 11: find his way home. He's actually ended up going behind
26:28
Speaker 11: the bar at the local pub and just sort of
26:30
Speaker 11: sitting there for lunch and so forth. But I think
26:33
Speaker 11: the biggest shot came quite recently when the owners had
26:37
Speaker 11: a call from Waterloo Railway Station, which is a London terminus.
26:42
Speaker 11: The cat had got on the coach on the train carriage, rather,
26:46
Speaker 11: had got on the train carriage at Weybridge and conducted
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Speaker 11: a thirty kilometer trip right into the heart of London, unaccompanied,
26:55
Speaker 11: completely unannounced. Who knows how he got to the station,
26:58
Speaker 11: Who knows how he got on the train? The owner said,
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Speaker 11: I was absolutely stunned when somebody from the ticket office
27:03
Speaker 11: at Waterloo Station said, your cat is here. It's got
27:07
Speaker 11: your labor on. He said, what the hell is my
27:09
Speaker 11: cat doing in Waterloo getting on to trains and going
27:12
Speaker 11: for a ride?
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Speaker 1: What a good question.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, if he doesn't watch out that cat, we'll get
27:16
Speaker 3: to some pancras and before he knows that, you get
27:18
Speaker 3: a call from France. We got your care here, Gavin
27:21
Speaker 3: or the best. Thank you so much for your time today.
27:22
Speaker 3: It is now eleven minutes to six. So the government's
27:27
Speaker 3: announced a new campaign for encouraging ousies to come here
27:30
Speaker 3: for the next holiday. The campaign is called Everyone Must Come. No,
27:34
Speaker 3: so I got that wrong. Everyone must go. Everyone must
27:37
Speaker 3: Go because it's aimed at the Gaussies. Everyone must Go.
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Speaker 3: It's costing us half a million dollars. It will be
27:42
Speaker 3: followed by more campaigns targeting other places. Tourism Minister Louise
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Speaker 3: ups And announced the marketing will go live across the
27:48
Speaker 3: Ditch next week. She announced us yesterday. She's with me now,
27:51
Speaker 3: Hello Louise, good morning to you. How are you very good?
27:55
Speaker 3: So how effective do you think this could be?
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Speaker 12: Well, this is the first of several tourism boost announcements
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Speaker 12: that we're planning over the coming weeks and The important
28:05
Speaker 12: part with this is it's very much supported by industry.
28:08
Speaker 12: So what we will see is accommodation providers, airlines who
28:13
Speaker 12: are supporting this push to get Aussies to come over
28:18
Speaker 12: and visit with their own deals. So it means that
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Speaker 12: every dollar of taxpayers ben goes that much further.
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Speaker 3: The question I had and I raised us earlier this
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Speaker 3: morning is why haven't we been doing this since the
28:29
Speaker 3: beginning of time. I mean, they're right there, it's cheap
28:32
Speaker 3: for them to come here, it's easy for them to
28:34
Speaker 3: talk and commute and to get around. They've got friends here.
28:37
Speaker 3: This is something we should have been doing forever.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, So Tourism New Zealand are already doing campaigns into Australia.
28:44
Speaker 12: They've got an autumn campaign that's underway at the moment.
28:47
Speaker 12: This is on top of so we wanted a short,
28:49
Speaker 12: sharp injection to make sure that Australians know that they
28:56
Speaker 12: can come over straight away. We wanted some urgency in
28:59
Speaker 12: it and a fresh campaign to really work with the
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Speaker 12: industry on. So this is in addition to what Tourism
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Speaker 12: New Zealand is already doing into Australia.
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Speaker 3: I see that in Australia we're already their number one destination.
29:13
Speaker 3: There was a piece on the news actually last week
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Speaker 3: saying we're number one for Australians leaving and coming here.
29:19
Speaker 3: So is there more upside that we can get?
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Speaker 4: Yes?
29:23
Speaker 12: Absolutely So if you look at our twenty nineteen numbers,
29:25
Speaker 12: we're only sitting at eighty eight percent of that. This
29:29
Speaker 12: short boost we're aiming to bring another five thousand visitors in,
29:34
Speaker 12: which would take us up to ninety three percent, so
29:37
Speaker 12: there's still lots of potential. You know, we're a long
29:39
Speaker 12: way off where we were in twenty nineteen, so job
29:42
Speaker 12: number one is getting those numbers back. And you're right,
29:45
Speaker 12: Australians can make the decision quickly and hop over the pitch.
29:49
Speaker 12: So this campaign is all about saying we're open for business.
29:52
Speaker 12: We welcome you with open arms, so get on, make
29:55
Speaker 12: the decision and come over.
29:57
Speaker 3: Very good. Any other sovereignties that you wanted to do
30:01
Speaker 3: a campaign like this in any other places.
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Speaker 12: Well there'll be other parts of the Tourism Boost campaign.
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Speaker 12: But if you look at other big markets, obviously China
30:10
Speaker 12: numbers are down at sixty percent of where they were
30:13
Speaker 12: in twenty nineteen, which is concerning, and there's emerging markets
30:18
Speaker 12: like India, so we will be making sure that we
30:22
Speaker 12: have campaigns into existing markets to get numbers back to
30:26
Speaker 12: where they were in twenty nineteen, as well as some
30:29
Speaker 12: other parts of our Tourism Boost campaign which will be
30:32
Speaker 12: coming out in the next few weeks.
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Speaker 3: Okay, we wish you only success with that one and
30:36
Speaker 3: putting your other hat on there. You were on the
30:38
Speaker 3: telly last night as well twice. A recent one News
30:41
Speaker 3: vary In poll found forty six percent of New Zealand
30:44
Speaker 3: has thought the issue of homelessness was getting worse. And
30:47
Speaker 3: you're the minister in charge of worrying about that sort
30:48
Speaker 3: of thing, are they wrong?
30:51
Speaker 12: Lock Homelessness has been a challenge for many, many years
30:54
Speaker 12: and so it is something that people worry about. What
30:57
Speaker 12: I'm incredibly proud of to Pawtucker and Minister Bishop and
31:01
Speaker 12: I have had a real focus on emergency housing and
31:05
Speaker 12: getting children out of living in motels. Nineteen hundred fewer
31:10
Speaker 12: children living in motels than a where a year ago.
31:13
Speaker 12: So we have taken a real focus to this issue,
31:17
Speaker 12: focusing first and foremost on children, and the number of
31:21
Speaker 12: people living in emergency housing now is significantly below where
31:25
Speaker 12: it was We've also seen five thousand fewer people on
31:30
Speaker 12: the social housing Register. So while there's always more work
31:34
Speaker 12: to do, we have made some incredible inroads into some
31:39
Speaker 12: of these long standing housing challenges.
31:41
Speaker 3: Louise Upstin, Minister for Social Development and Minister for Tourism.
31:45
Speaker 3: Two portfolios, two parts that interview. Thank you so much
31:47
Speaker 3: for your time. News talks here it is coming up
31:50
Speaker 3: seven to six.
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Speaker 2: talks it'd be it.
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Speaker 3: Tex through the corporate I worked for, brought three hundred
32:04
Speaker 3: Australians over last week and Orca was absolutely exceptional and
32:07
Speaker 3: they loved it, so that's quite good. Meanwhile, the Baptis
32:09
Speaker 3: are happening as we speak in London and they're all
32:11
Speaker 3: filing in. And the big films there are Conclave and
32:14
Speaker 3: the Brutalists. Now I've seen Conclave. It's Ray Fine and
32:17
Speaker 3: Stanley Tucci. I actually found the film to be strangely bloodless,
32:20
Speaker 3: but very nice costumes. But that's more about being the
32:23
Speaker 3: pope as opposed to being the actors. And the other one,
32:25
Speaker 3: the Brutalist I saw yesterday. It's three and a half
32:28
Speaker 3: hours long. But the wonderful thing about The Brutalist is
32:33
Speaker 3: it has a fifteen minute intermission in the middle of
32:35
Speaker 3: it with a countdown timer, so they suddenly say, off
32:38
Speaker 3: you go, go to the Loup, Go get yourself another
32:40
Speaker 3: glass at bin A Noirs. It's all good. You've got
32:42
Speaker 3: fifteen minutes to come back. You come back and see
32:44
Speaker 3: part two. And I loved it. Reminded me of the
32:46
Speaker 3: old days. Before you know it, they'll be playing God
32:49
Speaker 3: Save the King and we'll stand up and look at
32:50
Speaker 3: the guys with the funny fairy hats on my cosking,
32:53
Speaker 3: Good morning morning. I saw the trailer for that yesterday
32:56
Speaker 3: or the day before, and it was an epic trailer.
32:59
Speaker 5: It looks like an epic movie.
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Speaker 13: It's a movie, and I would, do you drink at
33:03
Speaker 13: the movies?
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Speaker 4: Yes?
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Speaker 1: I do?
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Speaker 4: Do you?
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Speaker 3: I got myself another Pinot Noir at the halftime break,
33:07
Speaker 3: and that was the thing. Instead of getting one to
33:09
Speaker 3: go in, I got it at the halftime, so I
33:11
Speaker 3: knew there was something to look forward to.
33:12
Speaker 13: So I'd rather not have a half time. I'd rather
33:15
Speaker 13: immerse myself drink, immerse myself in there and get stuck.
33:18
Speaker 13: And they say, Conclave's very good, Conclave's good, and the
33:21
Speaker 13: Brutalist is good good reviews.
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Speaker 3: I think I could have taken an hour out of
33:27
Speaker 3: the I think there was you know, there were the
33:29
Speaker 3: moments when you look at clocks ticking and you're going.
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Speaker 13: So I'm waiting for the streaming. Obviously, because I'm nowhere
33:34
Speaker 13: in the world, I'm going to the movies.
33:35
Speaker 5: So of the.
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Speaker 3: Two, I'd go to a Brutalist. The Brutalists.
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Speaker 13: Would you watch that one?
33:40
Speaker 5: It looked good to.
33:41
Speaker 3: Melicity Jones is good in it, and of course Adrian Brody,
33:44
Speaker 3: who looks remarkably like me. It's quite good.
33:47
Speaker 13: It's a similar thing. What do you doing today? You
33:53
Speaker 13: got David, I got David Timo. I'm going to try
33:55
Speaker 13: and avoid that. This thing that Erica Stampard said yesterday,
33:59
Speaker 13: it seems to be increasingly a pile on. So anyway,
34:02
Speaker 13: while I'll find other things to talk to him about.
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Speaker 3: Great Stuf. My name is Andrew Dickens. Kenzie was our
34:08
Speaker 3: producer LID He helps as well, And I'll see.
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