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Full Show Podcast: 20 August 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 1: earlier ishow with one Route Love where you Live News talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be good morning, Welcome to Wednesday six after five,
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Speaker 2: coming up on the show before six. The ocr cutting
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Speaker 2: continues today? Will this result in further cuts? What are
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Speaker 2: we going to see next? That's the question. We've got
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Speaker 2: Kellya Cold on before six this morning and tinkering to
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Speaker 2: the electricity sector. Will it lower our prices? Most of
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Speaker 2: our kids can't write to standard. Gavin Gray in the
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Speaker 2: UK for us and an update on Ukraine for you too.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, the agenda. It's Wednesday, the twentieth of August.
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Speaker 2: Elensky and Staras seemed pretty happy with the way things
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Speaker 2: went at the White House.
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Speaker 3: The Coalition of Willing Countries that's thirty countries already working
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Speaker 3: together on security guarantees, will now work with the US
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Speaker 3: on those guarantees.
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Speaker 2: Crucially, Trump is ruling out boots on the ground, but
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Speaker 2: maybe maybe air support.
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Speaker 4: When it comes to security. They're willing to put people
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Speaker 4: on the ground, are willing to help them with things,
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Speaker 4: especially probably if you could talk about bay Air, because
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Speaker 4: as nobody has the kind of stuff we have. But
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Speaker 4: I think if a deal has made I think Russia's
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Speaker 4: had it. They've all had it, and for a very
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Speaker 4: extended period of time. I don't think there'll be a problem,
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Speaker 4: but so there'll be some form of security.
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Speaker 2: Of course, there's a war on. But everyone's looking at
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Speaker 2: Zelensky's suit. Remember last time he was ripped out for
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Speaker 2: not looking formal enough. Well he's had the take ticke
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Speaker 2: of approval from the White House. Priss Peck, you look
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Speaker 2: fabulous in that suit. Yeah, look you look good. I
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Speaker 2: said the same thing. Yeah, I said one that attacked
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Speaker 2: you less. I remember that. I apologize honestly to La
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Speaker 2: we Go. Now where the Kiddamine queen is pleading guilty
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Speaker 2: to supplying the drugs that killed Matthew Pierrey. This is
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Speaker 2: the Friends star. She's facing five charges.
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Speaker 5: She was expected to go on trial next month. She
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Speaker 5: was one of five individuals that were charged in connection
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Speaker 5: to Perry's death.
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Speaker 2: And she was the one that was holding out, that
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Speaker 2: was not accepting a plea deal.
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Speaker 6: But now she has.
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Speaker 2: And finally this morning, the sorry saga that was Trevor
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Speaker 2: Mallard representing US in Ireland as ambassador is over. He's out.
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Speaker 2: Gonski early not sure why yet, but probably shouldn't have
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Speaker 2: been there in the first place.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and one Route Love where you
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Speaker 1: live news.
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Speaker 2: Talks, I'd be eight after five great to have your company.
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Speaker 2: Nine two ninety two is the number to text. You've
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Speaker 2: got secondary teachers on strike today, about twenty thousand of them.
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Speaker 2: Union recons governments stingy and mingy, government reckons. Unions are
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Speaker 2: just having a tantrum. If you're a parent in the
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Speaker 2: middle of all of this, you really don't care, do
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Speaker 2: you. You just want your kid going to school and learning.
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Speaker 2: Exams are in November. Problem is it may not end here.
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Speaker 2: Of course, the union is threatening more striking, more rosted strikes,
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Speaker 2: even closer to exam times. So does missing a day
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Speaker 2: or two actually matter depending on which union you ask,
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Speaker 2: on which day you ask them, and what they're upset about.
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Speaker 2: Yes and no. Yesterday we had those woeful results for
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Speaker 2: primary kids. This is writing. Most of them can't write
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Speaker 2: to the new standard. And so Eric Stanford comes out
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Speaker 2: and says, we'll give you some extra training, extra training
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Speaker 2: for teachers. Teachers then say even taking a day one
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Speaker 2: day off class will disrupt the kids learning. Okay, all right,
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Speaker 2: I hear that message. But then we have a principal
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Speaker 2: come out on the strikes for secondary school students saying no,
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Speaker 2: don't worry. One day off won't make a difference to
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Speaker 2: their exams. Which is it. Surely both things can't be
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Speaker 2: true at the same time. Nine minutes after five yr
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Speaker 2: own News Talk said B. Coming up next the electricity
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Speaker 2: Authority report. Is this tinkering or is this transformational?
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and one roof Love where you Live, News Talk
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Speaker 1: said B.
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Speaker 2: It is just gone. Twelve minutes after five news Talks there, B,
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Speaker 2: we've got your global dairy trade oction numbers from overnight
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Speaker 2: down slightly down three percent and butter down one percent,
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Speaker 2: which would be good for those who are struggling to
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Speaker 2: put it on their toast. Sadly for us, we look
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Speaker 2: at the milk powder and that's down. Whole milk powder
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Speaker 2: down point three percent and skim milk powder down one
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Speaker 2: point eight percent. Your mozzarella is down two point seven percent,
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Speaker 2: So yes, it is down, but it is down only
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Speaker 2: slightly overall. It's twelve after five Ryan brig More tweaks
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Speaker 2: for our electricity sector. As you've struggled to warm your
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Speaker 2: home up this morning, juice is freezing out there. Big
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Speaker 2: four gentailors have to sell power everyone at the same price,
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Speaker 2: not just themselves. Energy Minister Simon Watts reckons it'll level
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Speaker 2: the playing field and bring prices down. Eventually we'll see.
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Speaker 2: Margaret Cooney is Octopus Energy chief operating officer with us
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Speaker 2: this morning, Margaret, good morning, good morning. Will this lower prices?
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Speaker 7: Look?
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Speaker 6: I think the idea behind this, which is that the
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Speaker 6: big four gent tailors need to deal with competing terms
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Speaker 6: on a level playing field, is really important that what
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Speaker 6: we're concerned about is how it's executed. So the idea
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Speaker 6: at the moment is to put this in as principles.
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Speaker 6: I know from dealing with my four year old that
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Speaker 6: I final leave a bag of lollies in front of him,
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Speaker 6: he'll eventually go and grab the lollies. So I think
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Speaker 6: we need more than just principles. We need some robust
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Speaker 6: rules to ensure that discrimination doesn't keep happening, because ultimately
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Speaker 6: that really damages competition, which leads to a lack of
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Speaker 6: responsiveness in the market, which leads to a lack of investment,
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Speaker 6: which ultimately impacts the prices for end consumers.
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Speaker 2: Do they need to grow some balls, Margaret?
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Speaker 6: There's one way of putting it. But I think there
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Speaker 6: are some solutions that they can pick up quite easily
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Speaker 6: and implement. But it requires some decisiveness and it also helpful.
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Speaker 2: Because the thing is, I mean, you look at the
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Speaker 2: super peak hedge contracts that they've talked about. Yesterday in
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Speaker 2: August they came out and they said, let's do this
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Speaker 2: voluntary thing. Didn't work now that gent tailors must offer
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Speaker 2: minimum quantities. But then if that doesn't work, then they
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Speaker 2: might face regulation. I mean, it all sounds a bit
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Speaker 2: Spider's Ways, doesn't it. Well.
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Speaker 6: I think this is the thing. We've had lots of
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Speaker 6: small iterative steps and I think it would be good
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Speaker 6: to get to the nub of some of these issues,
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Speaker 6: and something which addresses the structural elements would be helpful.
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Speaker 6: And so I think with the frontier of you going on,
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Speaker 6: there's this opportunity for government to use that to make
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Speaker 6: sure that the settings work really well rather than doing
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Speaker 6: lots of little tinkers are here and there.
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Speaker 2: What's the big nuclear option? Is it splitting up the
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Speaker 2: gen Taylor's.
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Speaker 6: So I think one of There won't be a single
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Speaker 6: silver bullet to this, but one of the things that
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Speaker 6: we've suggested is basically requiring these large players to operate
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Speaker 6: their retail and generation businesses at arms link because part
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Speaker 6: of the problem at the moment has been a real
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Speaker 6: lack of transparency around the trading behavior, and so that
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Speaker 6: would help resolve that, and then if those businesses are
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Speaker 6: behaving in the market, it will help stimulate all of
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Speaker 6: that investment that's sitting in the pipeline with independent generators
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Speaker 6: and things. Additionally, we think we're in such an acute
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Speaker 6: energy shortage that actually the government should look at doing
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Speaker 6: something immediately, like a tender for new generation to come
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Speaker 6: into market more quickly. We think there needs to be
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Speaker 6: this comprehensive set of actions and rather than the access
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Speaker 6: conditions for the market, is one ingredient for.
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Speaker 2: It, rather than more tinkering around the edges. Margaret, appreciate
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Speaker 2: your time this morning. Margaret Kearney, Octopus Energy Chief operating Officer,
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Speaker 2: reporting to that Aletris. The authority report out yesterday just
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Speaker 2: gone sixteen minutes after five on News Talks, B Can
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Speaker 2: the kids write, read and write? We'll look at that
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Speaker 2: next On.
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Speaker 2: Five eighteen on News Talk, said b Ryan the teacher's
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Speaker 2: unions a disgrace, what a terrible example to our kids.
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Speaker 2: Says Steve. This is on the strikes. Ryan, as a
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Speaker 2: parent of four school aged children at three different schools. Oh,
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Speaker 2: that's confusing. How do you get them there? I suppose
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Speaker 2: I just get themselves there? At that point the absence
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Speaker 2: from school is compounding all having teacher only days over
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Speaker 2: the last week on different days, and now the strike
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Speaker 2: for our secondary school child today. I was under the
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Speaker 2: impression this government was to move all professional development days
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Speaker 2: into turn breaks to short good point. It is nineteen
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Speaker 2: and a half to five showing with education only a
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Speaker 2: quarter of year eights that's age eleven or twelve can
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Speaker 2: write at the level the new curriculum expects, which is
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Speaker 2: pretty bleak, sixty one percent more than a year behind.
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Speaker 2: Education Minister Erica Stanford's plan well fund a teacher in
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Speaker 2: every school to upskill on structured literacy. Question is is
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Speaker 2: that going to be enough? Will it work? Kyl Bruton
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Speaker 2: is the remu weer intermediate school Principle on the phone
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Speaker 2: this morning, Carl, Good morning, Good morning, Ryan. Pretty shocking numbers.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, as a sector, we're struggling to make sense of
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Speaker 7: those figures.
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Speaker 2: At the moment.
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Speaker 7: We obviously have a relatively new curriculum. We're still transitioning
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Speaker 7: to the new curriculum. We don't have access to the
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Speaker 7: specific metrics that they're using to assess that writing, and
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Speaker 7: we don't have exemplars of what that writing looks like.
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Speaker 7: So it's it's hard for us to really sort of
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Speaker 7: have confidence in those numbers. We're not disagree necessarily, but
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Speaker 7: it's just really hard to.
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Speaker 2: Have that confidence. Who marks them.
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Speaker 7: So, you know, well, it's done through a study basically
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Speaker 7: that's been run for many, many years. And teachers, if
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Speaker 7: you like a trained up, they go into this, into
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Speaker 7: the study, they go into schools, they work with kids,
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Speaker 7: and then they take that marketing that that work back
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Speaker 7: and then they market. But as I say, the sector
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Speaker 7: as a whole doesn't see that marketing schedule, doesn't see
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Speaker 7: the exemplars that that's been aligned against.
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Speaker 2: I think we're all mean to you that does that mean, Kyle,
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Speaker 2: that you teachers have never seen that before? So then
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Speaker 2: you've never trusted them or never known the detail on
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Speaker 2: the numbers.
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Speaker 7: We've known that there's an issue in literacy, and no
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Speaker 7: one's disagreeing with that. It's just the degree of that
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Speaker 7: need that's been sort of highlighted. To your point about
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Speaker 7: the marketing schedule or the you know, whatever you want
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Speaker 7: to call it. No, we don't have access to that
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Speaker 7: particular one because it's an evaluation study that's done across
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Speaker 7: the country, So to give it sort of so's they're
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Speaker 7: sort of trying to avoid people almost like if you like, test,
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Speaker 7: teaching to the test, but without knowing exactly what it
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Speaker 7: is that is being sort of measured against it. As
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Speaker 7: I say, it's just hard for us to be able
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Speaker 7: to align what we're seeing at our schools with what
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Speaker 7: we're being told.
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Speaker 2: Does how is it that you can be kids are
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Speaker 2: almost going backwards? You've got forty one percent of year
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Speaker 2: three students that expected curriculum benchmark, thirty three percent in
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Speaker 2: year six, and then just twenty four percent in year eight. Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Well, I mean the bottom line is if those numbers
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Speaker 7: are accurate, and that is indeed the case, there's a
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Speaker 7: pretty compelling reason for it. When you look at the
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Speaker 7: way our school system is designed, we put the least
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Speaker 7: amount of resource and we have our highest class sizes
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Speaker 7: in years four to eight. So we start off reasonably well,
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Speaker 7: and then we suddenly ramp up everything up. We have
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Speaker 7: these big classes, we have very little in the way
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Speaker 7: of staffing, and then sort of we get to high
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Speaker 7: school and think, oh my gosh, we need to sort
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Speaker 7: this out, and we start to increase all our staffing. Again,
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Speaker 7: we reduce the class sizers and we put a lot
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Speaker 7: more resource in. So common sense would suggest that if
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Speaker 7: this has been a long standing issue, why are we
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Speaker 7: not keeping our resourcing quite high in those junior years,
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Speaker 7: getting that foundation rock solid, getting those kids to where
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Speaker 7: they need to be so they can really really thrive
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Speaker 7: in high school.
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Speaker 2: Kyle, appreciate your time this morning. Carl Briton remu are
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Speaker 2: intermediate school principal. On those numbers. Yesterday, twenty two minutes
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Speaker 2: after five, you're on News Talk SEBB. We just talked
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Speaker 2: about the Electricity Authority report. What does that tell us
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Speaker 2: about the future for supermarkets. We'll look at that next.
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Speaker 2: Also Todd McLay today, he's a busy man. He's been
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Speaker 2: in Saudi Arabia and He's now on his way to
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Speaker 2: the United States. He's going to meet with his He's
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Speaker 2: been invited by the Trade Rep. Jamison Greer, and he's
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Speaker 2: going to meet with a whole bunch of other industry leaders.
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Speaker 2: He's going to talk agriculture. There's going to some think tanks.
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Speaker 2: He's doing a whole bit. He's talking to Secretary of
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Speaker 2: Agriculture Brook Rollins while he's over there. Big issue, obviously,
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Speaker 2: is the fifteen, big, fat, juicy fifteen percent tariff that
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Speaker 2: they've slapped on our goods andy. Is he going to
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Speaker 2: turn it around? He's going to make the argument about, well, yes,
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Speaker 2: we might have a surplus or a deficit in trade now,
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Speaker 2: but it varies and you know, over the long run,
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Speaker 2: she's pretty even. Do we expect you'll get much out
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Speaker 2: of this? I know Mike's talking to him later on
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Speaker 2: during breakfast. It is twenty three after five News Talks VB,
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Speaker 2: News TALKSBB twenty five minutes after five. Electricity and groceries
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Speaker 2: are your two big ticket inflation targets. Punters want to
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Speaker 2: pay less for both, and there are nuclear options available.
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Speaker 2: Cut the gent tailors in half by force. Those who
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Speaker 2: are pro wrecking ball argue, if you force them to
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Speaker 2: separate out the generation side of the business from the
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Speaker 2: retail side, you'd create more competition, lower prices. You could
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Speaker 2: do a similar thing with the supermarkets. You force Foodstuffs
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Speaker 2: and Woollies to sell one hundred and twenty supermarkets sell
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Speaker 2: two of their six distribution centers to a third player,
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Speaker 2: and haypresto, that giopol is dead. Long live Queen Nicola.
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Speaker 2: Now we're still waiting to see exactly what cat she's
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Speaker 2: going to pull out of her shopping bag on this.
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Speaker 2: She has advice, considering the options all that stuff. Here's
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Speaker 2: what I think she will do. We can get clues
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Speaker 2: from the way that they're handling electricity, the regulators and
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Speaker 2: the government, which is basically minor changes to bits and
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Speaker 2: pieces around the edges on stuff like these super peak
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Speaker 2: hedging contracts, and if things don't change, look out, we'll regulate,
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Speaker 2: will be meaner, will be tougher. There's still the Frontier Report,
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Speaker 2: of course, which Cabinet is considering right now, and we'll
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Speaker 2: decide on by the end of the month. In other words,
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Speaker 2: you tinker and you threaten you sound tough enough that
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Speaker 2: voters know you serious, but not actually go deaf con
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Speaker 2: one and risk spooking mark in which you're actually trying
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Speaker 2: to attract investment and particularly offshore plus. Chris Quinn told
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Speaker 2: my show the other day, they would lawyer up to
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Speaker 2: high heaven and fight anything like this, so it gets messy.
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Speaker 2: So I reckon they'll tinker on supermarkets options on the cards.
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Speaker 2: You can put supermarkets on the fast track list, get
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Speaker 2: them built quicker. You can ban pocketbook pricing. You can
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Speaker 2: empower the existing franchises to be more independent, buying their
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Speaker 2: stock from wherever they like, setting their own prices, et cetera,
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Speaker 2: et cetera. Slap a threat to legislate for the nuclear
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Speaker 2: option across the headline of your press release. If the
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Speaker 2: tinkering doesn't happen or isn't working, throw the ball back
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Speaker 2: in the duopolies court. This would simultaneously satisfy ACT which
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Speaker 2: hates the nuclear option, and the politics of perception. It
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Speaker 2: goes further than Labor went, but doesn't risk the court
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Speaker 2: battles the potential for major changes not actually working and
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Speaker 2: bringing down prices, which is the whole point right things
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Speaker 2: certain whether it's electricity bills or check out prices. The
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Speaker 2: chances of a return to the good old days of
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Speaker 2: pre COVID prices when we could butter the toast and
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Speaker 2: fire up the heated towel rail with gay abandon Well,
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Speaker 2: they're slim to none, Bredi, there'd be twenty eight minutes
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Speaker 2: after five, quick update for you on Gaza. So twenty
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Speaker 2: hostages left in Gaza and sixty two thousand Palestinians killed.
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Speaker 2: Those are the sad numbers for you. Now Hummas has
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Speaker 2: accepted this new cease fire deal sixty days, half the
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Speaker 2: hostages swapped for one hundred and fifty Palestinians in jail
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Speaker 2: right now. Then there'd be a second phase and the
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Speaker 2: remainder of the bodies. Israel has come out overnight and
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Speaker 2: said they will tell us. They will give us their
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Speaker 2: answer now that Hummas has agreed by Friday. However, just
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Speaker 2: remember that Netanya who has said he's not interested in
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Speaker 2: partial deals. He wants to go after Gaza city this
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Speaker 2: big new offensive. So we will hear from the Israelis
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Speaker 2: on Friday. But I wouldn't be holding your breath. Twenty
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Speaker 2: nine minutes after five news talks Hebb We'll get to
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Speaker 2: our reporters around the country. Gavin Gray is in the
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Speaker 2: UK for US and a big OCR decision today. How
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Speaker 2: many more of those will we get this year? US
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Speaker 2: Talk set b Gams for new person on Over.
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Speaker 1: Again News and Views you Trust to start your day.
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Speaker 1: It's early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof Love
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Speaker 1: Where you Live News Talks edb all this Cleveland talking.
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Speaker 7: On it.
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Speaker 2: It is twenty four minutes away from six year on
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Speaker 2: News Talks, heb. We'll get to Kelly you Cold from
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Speaker 2: Westpac on THEBNZ rate cut expected today. It'll be a
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Speaker 2: full rundown from them. Won't just be the announcement of
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Speaker 2: a twenty five basis point cut, which is what we're expecting.
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Speaker 2: We'll also get some meat on the bones. Gavin Graham
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Speaker 2: the UK for US shortly too. Did you know across
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Speaker 2: the world sperm counts have been declining for the past
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Speaker 2: fifty years one percent per year. Collectively, our sperm count
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Speaker 2: is down at a rate of about one percent a
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Speaker 2: year for the past fifty years. We're way less fertile
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Speaker 2: than we used to be. Our swimmers wouldn't make it
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Speaker 2: to the Olympics, would they? And what happens in another
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Speaker 2: fifty years, is what is there anything left? It's a
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Speaker 2: bit grim, it's a bit bleak. And you ask why,
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Speaker 2: and the scientists say, well, obesity. We're basically all getting
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Speaker 2: fat and aging because you don't get to produced as
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Speaker 2: much the older you get because you don't need it.
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Speaker 2: So those are two reasons. But there's a scientist by
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Speaker 2: the name of doctor Sharmas Swan, professor of Environmental Medicine
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Speaker 2: and Public Health at the Aiken University of Medicine in
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Speaker 2: Mount Sinai in New York City, and they say it's
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Speaker 2: environmental factors, largely but not entirely, due to the toxins
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Speaker 2: in the environment. In other words, plastic So the microplastics
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Speaker 2: when you eat the fish, and the fish have got microplastics,
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Speaker 2: and then when you drink the water, and the water's
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Speaker 2: got microplastics and them it gets into your system and
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Speaker 2: nothing comes out at the other end. Twenty three to six, Brian,
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Speaker 2: We's go to our reporters around the country, color proper
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Speaker 2: and dneed in this morning color, good morning morning right.
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Speaker 2: This mother the case of a sportsman at the center
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Speaker 2: of an assault on a baby in Dunedin. The mother
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Speaker 2: is adamant that this person didn't injure her baby.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's what has been heard in the Deneed and
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Speaker 8: District Court here Ryan, this trial is underway. The defendants
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Speaker 8: accused of allegedly causing multiple rib fractures to an infants
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Speaker 8: in July twenty twenty three, and he has named suppression.
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Speaker 8: The jury has been played a recording of a police
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Speaker 8: interview with the infant's mother. This was recorded a month
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Speaker 8: after the incident. During that interview, the woman was adamant
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Speaker 8: the was not intentionally injured, and she expressed frustration in
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Speaker 8: the doctors who initially claimed the injuries were caused by trauma.
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Speaker 8: And this trials scheduled for up to three weeks here.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather? Are mostly cloudy?
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Speaker 8: Chants of a shower today, sou Easteries and thirteenth, all right.
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Speaker 2: Have a good day there, Calum and Claire's and christ
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Speaker 2: Church Claar, good morning.
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Speaker 3: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: What's the story you're talking erebus memorial this morning?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 9: Well, christich to the counselors are going to discuss it
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Speaker 9: today at their meeting. This is a memorial that would
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Speaker 9: commemorate the two hundred and fifty seven people who died
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Speaker 9: in the plane crash at Mount Erebus back in nineteen
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Speaker 9: seventy nine. Now the Ministry for Culture and Heritage has
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Speaker 9: laid out several options for a memorial here in christ Church.
20:42
Speaker 9: This is after years of contention over possibly having a
20:45
Speaker 9: memorial site in Auckland. Interestingly, more than half of the
20:49
Speaker 9: families of the Arabis victims say they don't actually want
20:53
Speaker 9: it here in christ Church. But nonetheless, our counselors will
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Speaker 9: be deciding today on whether or not we will offer
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Speaker 9: Craycroft Reserve, which is in Cashmire near the sign of
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Speaker 9: the taka Hey, as a place to house a memorial.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather?
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Speaker 9: Clear, cloudy, more showers today, southwesterlies and eleven degrees.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Max is then going to Max, good morning,
21:13
Speaker 2: good morning. Now, well, this plan for a new bus
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Speaker 2: depot bit dubious.
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Speaker 10: Yes, story in the post this morning the Greater Wellington
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Speaker 10: Regional Council spending sixty four million dollars on a new
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Speaker 10: mostly uncovered bus depot that's going to use a massive
21:28
Speaker 10: amount of power getting electricity to the site. It's in
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Speaker 10: Merramar on the peninsula near the airport. Not really fame
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Speaker 10: for its still dry conditions, but that's okay. You'll have
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Speaker 10: to bring a brolly while you're waiting for a bus.
21:40
Speaker 10: And all this power that's going to be needed, it's
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Speaker 10: equivalent to the amount of electricity needed to power all
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Speaker 10: of the surrounding three suburbs that's Mirra, mar Strathmore Seatoon.
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Speaker 10: It's equivalent to all of the power needed to run
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Speaker 10: Fielding as a town, massive, massive amount, and that's just
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Speaker 10: to charge the buses, the electric buses. The they're going
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Speaker 10: to be housed there. Wellington Electricity even warning that at
22:03
Speaker 10: some point it may need to invest in a new
22:05
Speaker 10: high voltage cables and a new substation. But there's also
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Speaker 10: some fear with the tender process for new bus operators.
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Speaker 10: The last time around the Regional Council did this, it
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Speaker 10: was completely slammed. It was criticized for letting down commuters.
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Speaker 10: So plenty of weight to see in this case.
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Speaker 2: So when people are waiting for the bus, they won't
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Speaker 2: be under shelter, that is my understanding.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, ridiculous that you would build something from scratch and
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Speaker 10: not consider that.
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Speaker 2: Maybe they saw the public reaction to those stupid toilets
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Speaker 2: in Courtney Place and went to the other way, Well.
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Speaker 10: There's there's a sense of naivety in Wellington. Let's introduce
22:43
Speaker 10: everyone's going to eat outside all year round. Let's have
22:46
Speaker 10: everyone bicycling to work. But if you've lived in Wellington,
22:50
Speaker 10: it's forty k wins and it's a good conditions, maybe
22:53
Speaker 10: two weeks out of the year.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, you need courage shoes just not to be
22:57
Speaker 2: blown off the ground. How exactly. Speaking of how's your
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Speaker 2: weather bad?
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Speaker 10: Very strong Southerly's a bit of snow as well to
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Speaker 10: five hundred meters showers high of just ten central.
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Speaker 2: Keep on keeping on, Max Neivas and Auckland, Hey, Neva, greetings,
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Speaker 2: much beter up here, of course, but not a few're
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Speaker 2: paying rates.
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Speaker 5: Oh correct, the rural rate pays up and arms rural
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Speaker 5: rate pays here on the war path against Auckland Council.
23:22
Speaker 5: Now this is after being blindsided by steep rate rises.
23:25
Speaker 5: So what we know is that the council offices they're
23:27
Speaker 5: scrambling to contain the anger. Now there's going to be
23:31
Speaker 5: an online session planned with rural sections of the supercity.
23:35
Speaker 5: This is happening tomorrow. One of the councilors is calling
23:38
Speaker 5: for a camp on rates hikes. Look In the past fortnight,
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Speaker 5: our newsrooms reported complaints of the staggering rate increases. They
23:45
Speaker 5: include a seventy two percent jump on a family home
23:48
Speaker 5: in Audeirwa which was rezoned for new housing that basically
23:51
Speaker 5: can't be developed for several years. So apparently there's a
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Speaker 5: Rodney Rates shock action Facebook page set up. It was
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Speaker 5: set up ten days ago and it's already retreated about
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Speaker 5: eight hundred and fifty members, so you can imagine that'll
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Speaker 5: just keep climbing.
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Speaker 2: They're on the wallpath.
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Speaker 11: Correct.
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Speaker 5: How's our weather mainly fine morning frost and shelter places
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Speaker 5: are high of thirteen here in or you don't have to.
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Speaker 2: Say before you go, Neva, lovely matching of the lippy
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Speaker 2: with the blazer today.
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Speaker 4: Thank you?
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Speaker 6: Can you are.
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Speaker 5: The only one future would you call this my blazer fushure?
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Speaker 2: You can say purple or oh ye?
24:23
Speaker 5: Well you you are the only one who mentioned that.
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Speaker 5: I'll be running.
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Speaker 2: Around and I wonder why that is, but you refashion easter.
24:32
Speaker 2: That's why good to see Neva. It has just gone
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Speaker 2: seventeen minutes away from six. You're on news talk. Creb
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Speaker 2: so Zolenski quickly embraced the idea of the three way
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Speaker 2: Fifteen away from six we'll talk the ICR and a
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Speaker 2: second first. Gaven Gray are UK europe correspondent. The Coalition
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Speaker 2: of the Willing phone call that our Prime minister ditched
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Speaker 2: but we had officials on has obviously been held. Given
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Speaker 2: what's come of this call, Ran.
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Speaker 11: We don't have a huge amount of details, but I
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Speaker 11: think very significantly a group from the so called Coalition
26:23
Speaker 11: of the of the Willing will now meet their US
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Speaker 11: counterparts over the coming days to prepare for the deployment
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Speaker 11: of a so called reassurance force were hostilities to come
26:34
Speaker 11: to an end. So, in other words, if a peace
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Speaker 11: is declared, Ukraine would have a security blanket of knowing
26:41
Speaker 11: that there is a reassurance force. Now. Boots on the
26:44
Speaker 11: ground will not be coming from America. We know that,
26:47
Speaker 11: So that looks like France, Germany, probably the UK will
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Speaker 11: have those boots on the ground but this is a
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Speaker 11: reassurance in a sense like NATO, but it'll mean that
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Speaker 11: Ukraine won't join NATO. That please Russia. And what Europe, however,
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Speaker 11: is disappointed with is that they've given up really on hope,
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Speaker 11: I think of a cease fire. So they're moving straight
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Speaker 11: onto trying to get the peace underway. And I think
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Speaker 11: as well, they're hoping that the idea that Ukraine could
27:16
Speaker 11: be secure will mean that a lot of missilins can
27:19
Speaker 11: be slightly more flexible when it comes to perhaps giving
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Speaker 11: up some of the land which Russia has so far invaded.
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Speaker 2: And we just heard from the White House that pos
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Speaker 2: has agreed to meet with Zelenski, which has obviously progress.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, very much so. And Europe been really pushing this
27:36
Speaker 11: bilateral trilateral idea where Ukraine is front and center of
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Speaker 11: those negotiations.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate your time this morning. That's Kevin Gray at UK
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Speaker 2: Europe Correspondent. Time is twelve away from six Bryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: The cutting cycle continues this morning. Economists expecting the Reserve
27:53
Speaker 2: Bank to cut the OCR twenty five basis points that
27:55
Speaker 2: will get us down to three percent. We'll also get
27:57
Speaker 2: a deeper look into inflation, unemployment, do we get a
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Speaker 2: monetary policy statement, which basically means you get a bit
28:03
Speaker 2: more meat on the bones. Kelly Ekolda's Westpac chief economs
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Speaker 2: with me this morning, good morning, good morning. So yes,
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Speaker 2: we will get a twenty five basis point cut today,
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Speaker 2: say most economists, how far? How many more you reckon?
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Speaker 12: Well, after that, I think they're going to be a
28:19
Speaker 12: bit more cagey. I think they'll have a bias towards
28:23
Speaker 12: looking at another interstrate cut. But I think that's probably
28:27
Speaker 12: about it for now. There might be another one in them,
28:32
Speaker 12: depending on how the data rolls between now and Christmas,
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Speaker 12: but I think that's probably about all we should reasonably
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Speaker 12: expect for now.
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Speaker 2: They don't want to go too low and then and
28:43
Speaker 2: risk over cooking later.
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Speaker 12: Well that's right. I mean, if you've looked at the
28:47
Speaker 12: commentary in the Reserve Bank the last couple of meetings,
28:50
Speaker 12: you've said, there's been arguments on both sides of this.
28:54
Speaker 12: There was somebody who didn't even want to do the
28:55
Speaker 12: last cut, and then there's a couple of others talking about, well,
28:59
Speaker 12: if we do a little bit more cutting and we
29:01
Speaker 12: put a bit more guard rails against weaker growth, we
29:05
Speaker 12: know when you've got those sort of debates going on.
29:07
Speaker 12: It isn't a slam duck that you just keep on
29:09
Speaker 12: getting our rates.
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Speaker 2: That's the fact that we've got a temporary you know,
29:13
Speaker 2: the Reserve Bank, and we've got Christian hawksby and there
29:16
Speaker 2: the fact we haven't got a permanent replacement. Does that
29:17
Speaker 2: mean that they'll be more cautious or is that just talk?
29:21
Speaker 12: Well, I think you should probably reasonably assume that they
29:25
Speaker 12: can't tie themselves into a future strategy too much, because
29:30
Speaker 12: you know, if there's a new boss coming in a
29:31
Speaker 12: couple of months, well they need to tell our a
29:33
Speaker 12: little bit of room for them to work out what
29:35
Speaker 12: they want to do. But you know, the data itself
29:38
Speaker 12: also doesn't lend it as being too committed about what
29:41
Speaker 12: happens next, because you don't know how things are going
29:44
Speaker 12: to evolve. So hence that's why I think they should
29:46
Speaker 12: be just a bit cagy.
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Speaker 2: We've had positive signs from manufacturing and services just in
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Speaker 2: the last week, and they are you know, the high
29:55
Speaker 2: frequency data that you talk about. Do you think these
29:58
Speaker 2: are positive enough? Are we finally cracking the back of
30:02
Speaker 2: this blip in our recovery?
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Speaker 4: Oh?
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Speaker 12: I think it's encouraging. I mean, what we sort of
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Speaker 12: saw was some actually pretty decent growth right at the
30:10
Speaker 12: start of the year. If you sort of were talking
30:13
Speaker 12: to me about six weeks ago, would have looked a
30:15
Speaker 12: lot more negative than that. Probably looks like it's somewhere
30:19
Speaker 12: in the middle now, So we're expecting to be back
30:22
Speaker 12: onto that kind of path of trend growth quite soon.
30:26
Speaker 12: This sort of indicators have seen the last month or
30:28
Speaker 12: so encouraging science that that's still a good view to have.
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Speaker 2: Was reading yesterday that in order to hit the Reserve
30:37
Speaker 2: Bank estimates for growth this year, the manufacturing and the
30:41
Speaker 2: services indicators need to be fifty three. I mean, obviously
30:44
Speaker 2: fifty and above is growing, and we had services still
30:48
Speaker 2: below fifty, but improving manufacturing finally cracked it. To hit
30:51
Speaker 2: those we need to hit fifty three. Is that true?
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Speaker 12: Oh, I think that's a pretty rough estimate, to be honest, right,
30:58
Speaker 12: I don't really abide by those numbers. A few draw
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Speaker 12: graphs of these sorts of things against growth, you'll see
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Speaker 12: that it's a rougher relationship with that. I mean, if
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Speaker 12: I look at where those purchasing manager in the seas
31:11
Speaker 12: are there, if you average them out, then they're probably
31:15
Speaker 12: not too far short of where they were in the
31:17
Speaker 12: first quarter, and we got zero point eight percent growth
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Speaker 12: in that quarter, which is enough. Basically right now.
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Speaker 2: Good stuff, Kelly, appreciate your time this morning, Kelly echoled
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Speaker 2: Westpac teap economists. That decision all about two o'clock This afternoon,
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Speaker 2: it is eight to six News Talk s MB the
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Speaker 1: This morning and the in depth analysis early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one Root Love Where you Live News TALKSB.
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Speaker 2: Loads of good text from parents this morning six away
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Speaker 2: from six morning, Ryan, but ironic that the teachers are
31:45
Speaker 2: saying there won't be much of an impact on learning
31:47
Speaker 2: from the strike. Here's the message that we get from
31:50
Speaker 2: Long Bay College if our child is late by even
31:53
Speaker 2: a minute, and the dramatic impact that it can have.
31:56
Speaker 2: I'm sorry it's a bit long, she says, but here
31:58
Speaker 2: it is. You might think it's only five minutes. Here's
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Speaker 2: the full impact. Five minutes late every day equals twenty
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Speaker 2: five minutes every week, four hours of miss school every term,
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Speaker 2: three full days of a school year. After ten years,
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Speaker 2: that's thirty days, which is six complete weeks of school.
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Speaker 2: One hour of lateness daily equals five hours of school
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Speaker 2: the equivalent of a full school day every week over
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Speaker 2: one term. This equates to ten school days. Two weeks missed.
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Speaker 2: Over a full school year, this equates to eight weeks.
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Speaker 2: Go figure cry bread. Later, six news talks, he'd be
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Speaker 2: and Mike saiy, Hey.
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Speaker 3: Mike, i'd have to say, I mean, one percent isn't
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Speaker 3: a lot, is it?
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Speaker 2: What are you talking about pay rises? Oh no, no
32:37
Speaker 2: it's not.
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Speaker 3: That's what they've been off.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, I was thinking about times. And also we
32:41
Speaker 2: mentioned sperm count. We're losing one percent of our sperm
32:44
Speaker 2: count every year, which we've just reported on too. One
32:48
Speaker 2: percent is not inflation, No, no, it is not.
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Speaker 3: Hey, listen, trade minister you mentioned earlier on he's he's
32:58
Speaker 3: literally in Saudi as we speak, so we'll ring him
33:01
Speaker 3: and he's on his way to Washington. And so I
33:03
Speaker 3: don't I would have thought me, let me put this
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Speaker 3: to you as an idea. So there's a surplus, right,
33:08
Speaker 3: So their whole mechanism, First of all, they don't know
33:10
Speaker 3: who we are and nor do they care, right, So
33:12
Speaker 3: they just had a big long list of countries that
33:14
Speaker 3: had a surplus. We have a surplus because you know,
33:17
Speaker 3: et cetera. So we sell more to them than they
33:19
Speaker 3: sell to us. Why don't we just buy something? Just
33:22
Speaker 3: go up and say the surplus is a couple hundred
33:24
Speaker 3: million dollars, will buy a plane.
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Speaker 2: Funly you say that this was a suggestion I made
33:28
Speaker 2: quite early on Mike, the one because we need in
33:31
Speaker 2: New Zealand needs some planes. We've got some engine issues.
33:33
Speaker 3: Why don't we just go buy some brow a couple more, order,
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Speaker 3: a couple more, balance the ledger. Everyone else's slice the
33:39
Speaker 3: tariff down from fifteen to ten. How hard can it be?
33:41
Speaker 3: Why is it us running the country? Righty? Why is
33:44
Speaker 3: it us running the country?
33:45
Speaker 11: Well?
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Speaker 2: Do you know what? Who would buy them? In New Zealand?
33:49
Speaker 12: Oh?
33:49
Speaker 2: Buy the government?
33:50
Speaker 3: Government need a new planes up and down the country.
33:53
Speaker 2: Government doesn't want to spend money on anything big.
33:56
Speaker 3: Save your money from the money you didn't give to
33:57
Speaker 3: the teachers. Put it into planes.
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Speaker 2: Oh there's an idea. Todd McClay on with Mike today,
34:05
Speaker 2: Have a great day. Run See tomorrow.
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