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Andrew Dickens: Let's stop with the announcement of announcements · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm a bit of a policy wonk. I
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  Speaker 1: like policy. I don't care which party it is. If
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  Speaker 1: they come up with a policy, I like to break
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  Speaker 1: it down and see if it makes sense. And I'll
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  Speaker 1: support any policy from anybody if it's a good one.
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  Speaker 1: I also know that politicians are addicted to announcements and
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  Speaker 1: attention at media coverage, which means they sometimes say the
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  Speaker 1: very first thing in their heads that sounds like it
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  Speaker 1: might get votes, no matter if it's deliverable or not.
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  Speaker 1: Now we'll all remember that Labor had a very bad
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  Speaker 1: case of it last term. Phill Twiford in his one
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand ki We Build fantasy Michael wood I thought
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  Speaker 1: was the absolute champion based on five minutes on the
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  Speaker 1: back of an envelope. He announced a nearly nine hundred
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  Speaker 1: million dollar bike bridge and then face with a backlash
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  Speaker 1: from dominion row businesses. He then casually stuck a light
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  Speaker 1: rail system underground, tripling the price to an unaffordable eighteen
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  Speaker 1: billion dollars. Now it seems to me that the National
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  Speaker 1: Led Coalition has a case of the same disease. Paul
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  Speaker 1: Goldsmith has it bad. This week he announced to change
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  Speaker 1: to citizens' arrest rules, but had no idea of what
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  Speaker 1: the changes are going to be. The policy has been
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  Speaker 1: greeted with confusion and a mixed reaction. It's an idea
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  Speaker 1: that needs a lot more work. That's what he was announcing.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he was doing a classic Labor Party announcement
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  Speaker 1: of an announcement. But the king of wishful thinking in
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  Speaker 1: the coalition is the Prince of the Province's Shane Jones.
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  Speaker 1: This week he proposed a special economic zone for mars
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  Speaker 1: and Point, begging the question why not turn the whole
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  Speaker 1: country into a special economic zone? Shane? The whole place
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  Speaker 1: needs a hand. And then he proposed repairing Marsden Point refinery,
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  Speaker 1: which is a fanciful idea. It was shot down in
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  Speaker 1: hours as they realized the enormous cost of nearly eight
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  Speaker 1: billion dollars. Didn't Shane already know that? And the reason
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  Speaker 1: why no government has repaired the refinery ever since it
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  Speaker 1: was sold forty years ago is because it's impossible and expensive.
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  Speaker 1: Did Shane not know that? But he said it anyway.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing I think about leadership is that you
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  Speaker 1: need to make adult decisions and proposals, and if you're
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  Speaker 1: a cabinet Minister, you can't just let the first Walter
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  Speaker 1: Mitty like Thoorpe bubble pop out of your mouth when
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  Speaker 1: you know that there's nothing there now. That is the
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  Speaker 1: lesson labor should have learned from last term, and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: the government we have right now figures it out as
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  Speaker 1: well and figures it out soon. For more from Early
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