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Full Show Podcast: 14 March 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew dickens on
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Speaker 2: It'd be good morning and welcome to the end of
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Speaker 2: the week. You made it. Coming up in the next hour,
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Speaker 2: International students are getting hit big bucks for a mandatory
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Speaker 2: course in Tikanga Maori. Now is this necessary? And as
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Speaker 2: it a rat We'll have that story for you in five.
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Speaker 2: The Melvin Grand Prix revs up this weekend and we
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Speaker 2: have a dog in the fights. Is Liam Lawson ready?
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Speaker 2: We'll have that story in ten. And the investment conference
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Speaker 2: wraps up today and the question I have is labor
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Speaker 2: in the waka. These stories plus correspondence from right around
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Speaker 2: New Zealand and the world. Vincent Macaveni's joining us a
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Speaker 2: bit later on. We'll have news as it breaks and
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Speaker 2: you can have your say by texting me anytime you like.
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Speaker 2: Ninety two ninety two is the text number of small
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Speaker 2: charge applies. It's eight minutes after five. The agenda, It's Friday,
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Speaker 2: the Think, the marchin and breaking news. Vladimir Putin has
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Speaker 2: been meeting with Belarus's leader Alexander Lukashenko in Moscow and
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Speaker 2: he says it will be good for Ukraine to achieve
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Speaker 2: a thirty day ceasefire, saying that Russia is in favor
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Speaker 2: of it. However, he says they need to negotiate with
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Speaker 2: the Americans, including a possible phone call with President Trump.
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Speaker 2: At Donald Trump's envoy Steve wickcoffers in Mexico, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 2: Moscow is a moscow to meet with Putin for talks
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Speaker 2: on the deal.
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Speaker 3: We agree with the proposal to ces hostilities, but we
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Speaker 3: have to bear in mind that this says far must
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Speaker 3: be dolgas aimed at a long lasting piece, and it
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Speaker 3: must look at the root causes of the crosis.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's nice to hear from Ladimir. You can say
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Speaker 2: that at least right the trade war and the escalation
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Speaker 2: is slowing down anytime soon now. Donald Trump has threatened
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Speaker 2: a two hundred percent tariff on alcohol from EU countries
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Speaker 2: unless it stops a fifty percent tariff on whiskey shares
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Speaker 2: in Some European alcohol producers have already fallen after the threat.
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Speaker 4: Whatever they charge us, we're charging them. Nobody can complain
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Speaker 4: about that. Whatever it is, it doesn't even matter.
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Speaker 5: What it is.
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Speaker 4: If they charge us, If they charge us twenty five,
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Speaker 4: twenty percent, ten percent or two percent or two hundred percent,
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Speaker 4: then that's what we're charging them. And so I don't
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Speaker 4: know why people get upset about that, because there's nothing
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Speaker 4: more fairer than that.
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Speaker 2: And to Australia, where their Prime Minister Anthony Alberizi has
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Speaker 2: been the latest to criticize a US influencer who posted
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Speaker 2: a video of her taking a wild baby wom bat
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Speaker 2: away from its distressed mother. The woman, Sam Jones, who
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Speaker 2: calls herself an outdoor enthusiast and hunter, was filmed picking
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Speaker 2: up the joey by the road, running across to a
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Speaker 2: car while his mother ran after them, and man filming
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Speaker 2: can be heard laughing, you're making jokes.
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Speaker 5: Is to take a baby wombat from its mother and
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Speaker 5: clearly causing distress from the mother is just an outrage.
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Speaker 5: And you know, I suggest that this so called influencer
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Speaker 5: maybe she might try some other Australian animals take a
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Speaker 5: baby crocodile from its mother and see how you go there?
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Speaker 2: And isn't one bat such a satisfying word to say?
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Speaker 2: It's ten out five.
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Speaker 1: News and views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 6: New thoughts.
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Speaker 2: It'd be goodbody to you and thank you for choosing us. Look,
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Speaker 2: I really don't get the fluoride debate. I've had fluoride
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Speaker 2: in my water ever since I arrived in Auckland at
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Speaker 2: the age of two. I have had no so called
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Speaker 2: side effects. My teeth are in a lot better shape
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Speaker 2: than my grandparents. It seems to me to be a
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Speaker 2: health intervention that works. It's been looking for a long
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Speaker 2: time and scientists keep telling me that that's all true.
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Speaker 2: But a fluoride battle has broken out in fung Array.
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Speaker 2: They've chosen not to fluoridate, while Health New Zealand says
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Speaker 2: you must. Now the High Court is involved. Furthermore, it's
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Speaker 2: all got political, as New Zealand First leader Winston Peters
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Speaker 2: has described, ordering fung Array to fluoridate its water supply
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Speaker 2: is a despotic Soviet era disgrace. So I understand that
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Speaker 2: some people view their body as a temple and they
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Speaker 2: don't like chemicals in their water supply or chemicals in
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Speaker 2: their bread. But then again, chemicals are everywhere and you
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Speaker 2: are ingesting them through your mouth, your lungs and other
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Speaker 2: holes in your body. And there's so much science and
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Speaker 2: so much empirical data about fluoride that I just don't
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Speaker 2: get the uproar. And I didn't appreciate Winston Peters who
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Speaker 2: could spot a headline grabbing contrarian view a mile away
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Speaker 2: knowing that there might be a vote in it. So
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Speaker 2: this whole rear guard action being undertaken by fung Array
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Speaker 2: seems to me to be a waste of ratepayers money
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Speaker 2: and of counselor's time. It's twelve half to five right now.
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Speaker 2: Here's atruism. There's always inflation. Nothing ever goes down in
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Speaker 2: the battle of against inflation. The debate is always how
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Speaker 2: much is going to go up? And inflation is core
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Speaker 2: conquered if it doesn't go up too much. But it's
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Speaker 2: always there. The latest inflation is the price of SkyTV.
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Speaker 2: Sky is to lift the price of its sports package
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Speaker 2: by twelve percent in May. The package will go from
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Speaker 2: forty two dollars a month to forty seven bucks. And
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Speaker 2: this is after a similar price rise in February of
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. So we are in a period of
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Speaker 2: sports rights inflation. Headline sports are doing well, that's attracting
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Speaker 2: eyeballs as we seek to distract ourselves from all the
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Speaker 2: awful stuff around us. And look at all the hype
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Speaker 2: over this weekend's Melvin Grand Prix. We're talking about that
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Speaker 2: in the moment. Association football is rising in this country.
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Speaker 2: Look at the attendances for AUCKLANDEFC League seems are parennally
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Speaker 2: popular despite it never being the Warrior's year. Super Rugby's
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Speaker 2: enjoying a purple patch. So we like to watch the sports,
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Speaker 2: but it all costs, particularly as other players stick their
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Speaker 2: nos in liked zone, which is ferreting around the rugby rights.
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Speaker 2: We don't realize in this country just how easy it
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Speaker 2: has been having Sky so dominant in sports coverage. One
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Speaker 2: sub to watch them all. But those days are changing
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Speaker 2: and I feel a subscription audit coming on because there
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Speaker 2: comes a limit. It's thirteen minutes after five. So if
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Speaker 2: you're an international student, you come to the New Zealand
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Speaker 2: and you have to do a compulsory course in learning
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Speaker 2: how to live in this country, and most of it
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Speaker 2: is all about ti kanga maori or you know how
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Speaker 2: Mali like to undertake stuff. It costs a lot of
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Speaker 2: money and there's a bit of Argibardi about it from
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Speaker 2: the ACT Party. We're going to talk about this in
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Speaker 2: a few moments time with a student's association president, just
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Speaker 2: to see whether this is a rout, whether this is necessary,
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Speaker 2: and whether it's turning off international students. This is News
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Speaker 2: It's sixteen out of five reaction to the breaking news
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Speaker 2: that Putin has talked. Textas says Putin is the root
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Speaker 2: cause of the underlying crisis and he won't live up
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Speaker 2: to the end of his deal. He's a two face
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Speaker 2: backstaving serial killer. I thought USA policy was we do
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Speaker 2: not negotiate with terrorists, which Putin definitely is. Thank you
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Speaker 2: for your text and another person rights. Do you think
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Speaker 2: Trump will get any praise for ending this war? I
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Speaker 2: doubt any media will. Well no, if it's fair and equitable,
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Speaker 2: he definitely will. And can I say he's already achieved
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Speaker 2: more than anyone else Right ACT Parties palme Jit palm
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Speaker 2: Mah has called for Auckland UNI to scrap a wipe
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Speaker 2: up a tomato course now what's that in English? It's
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Speaker 2: a course that teaches us about New Zealand life and
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Speaker 2: traditional knowledge to international students. Seven thousand of them have
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Speaker 2: been forced to do the course in twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 2: It's compulsory and here is the rub. It's expensive. It
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Speaker 2: costs five seven hundred and thirty dollars. So I got
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Speaker 2: the president with the of the Yakland University Students Association
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Speaker 2: with me right now, Gabriel Boyd, welcome to the showmate, A.
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Speaker 7: Thank you for having men Joe.
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Speaker 2: Why is this thing so expensive and why is it mandatory?
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Speaker 7: I think it's a little unfair to single out the
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Speaker 7: WTR course being particularly expensive. It's pretty in line with
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Speaker 7: the standard prices for international students, which they're well aware
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Speaker 7: of before they come to the University of Auckland. And
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Speaker 7: even with those prices, we're still by far the most
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Speaker 7: attended university by international students, which hasn't been changing. And
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Speaker 7: why is it mandatory? It's an essential knowledge course for
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Speaker 7: all incoming first years. I don't set the course requirements
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Speaker 7: for students, but looking at the course description and the
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Speaker 7: course reviews of the science class that was piloted last year,
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Speaker 7: it was incredibly popular with the first year students.
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Speaker 2: Does this happen in universities around the world or is
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Speaker 2: this just a New Zealand thing.
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Speaker 7: This being teaching cultural competency.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I think it does happen around the world. Obviously,
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Speaker 8: it is going to be university specific as to which
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Speaker 8: what localized to knowledge is taught. I think part of
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Speaker 8: what makes New Zealand so special is the focus that
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Speaker 8: we do have on indigenous studies, coming from the United States,
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Speaker 8: where our indigenous populations are largely ignored. I think this
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Speaker 8: is the course I would have loved as a first
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Speaker 8: year and I would have gotten a lot more out
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Speaker 8: of it than my genet which I just took the
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Speaker 8: easy course option.
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Speaker 2: Even though it would have cost you five thousand, seven
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Speaker 2: hundred and thirty dollars extra on top of what you're
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Speaker 2: already paying, and already international students are paying a lot, so.
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Speaker 7: Again, it is replacing a jed ed requirement which they
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Speaker 7: would also be paying a similar amount for. So this
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Speaker 7: isn't going to add another five seven hundred on top
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Speaker 7: of what they were already paying.
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Speaker 2: So you believe that this is going to increase and
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Speaker 2: enhance the university's reputation or will it infect turn international
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Speaker 2: students away.
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Speaker 7: I can't say for sure what it'll do. Obviously we're
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Speaker 7: piloting the full roll out this year, or the university
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Speaker 7: is piloting the full roll out this year. I would
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Speaker 7: hope it would be appealing to international students, many of
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Speaker 7: whom do want to learn about New Zealand, even if
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Speaker 7: they're only here just for their degree. But I guess
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Speaker 7: we'll see with time.
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Speaker 2: All right, Gabriel, I thank you for your time. More
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Speaker 2: on This is the Mike Hosking Breakfast Show with leader
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Speaker 2: David Seymour talking about this text already from Adrian. It's
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Speaker 2: a ripoff. Come on, we all know it and someone
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Speaker 2: else is. Of course, these students coming should be given
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Speaker 2: the option. Why is it mandatory?
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Speaker 9: Good question?
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Speaker 2: How will Liam Lawson do? That's another good question which
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Speaker 2: we'll try and answer the next here on News Talks.
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Speaker 2: Here'b it's five twenty the first.
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Speaker 1: Word on the News of the Day Early edition with
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Speaker 2: It'd be twenty two. It's the Formula one Grand Prix
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Speaker 2: and Melbourne this weekend and our own Liam Lawson is
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Speaker 2: on debut. It's his first Grand Prix in the main
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Speaker 2: seat instead of driving in somebody else's car. He's driving
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Speaker 2: for red Ball and he's been on the telly this week.
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Speaker 10: It's more excitement than anything. More excited for this and
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Speaker 10: I've been really for anything. It's quite a hard track
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Speaker 10: this weekend. It's meant to be thirty eight degrees on Saturday,
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Speaker 10: which to start the year like that is quite tough.
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Speaker 10: Like normally we go to those races later in the
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Speaker 10: year and it's you sort of a bit more race
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Speaker 10: fit for that because you've done a lot of Grand Prix.
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Speaker 10: But to start the year with a really high downforced track,
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Speaker 10: high G track, hot it's going to be very, very tough.
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Speaker 2: So motors Boar commentator James Allen, we had a New
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Speaker 2: York right now, Hella, James, Hey, how you doing this?
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Speaker 2: I'm doing great. This hypeer is huge, this event to
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Speaker 2: sell out and Liam seems to be the center of attention.
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Speaker 2: How are you expecting him to go?
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Speaker 11: It's a really good question. I mean, you know, there's
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Speaker 11: no question he's got the talent. He's definitely earned his opportunity.
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Speaker 11: He's been very, very patient over the last couple of years.
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Speaker 11: I was incredibly impressed with him. When he deputized for
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Speaker 11: Daniel Ricardo at the back end of twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 11: He put in some stunning performances, particularly remember one in Japan.
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Speaker 11: I think you and I spoke around that time actually
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Speaker 11: about it, and he showed he's got the minerals. As
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Speaker 11: Mark Webber would say, to cut it at the top
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Speaker 11: end of a Formula one, so as I say, he's
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Speaker 11: had to be very patient, and that doesn't mean just
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Speaker 11: doing nothing and kicking his heels. He's obviously been able
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Speaker 11: to get on the simulator a lot of these. What
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Speaker 11: makes these young drivers ready and so prepared nowadays is
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Speaker 11: they have the time at the race track, at the
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Speaker 11: race factory, team factory to get on the simulators which
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Speaker 11: are very very realistic, and really learn how everything works,
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Speaker 11: how the controls work, and how to improve the car.
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Speaker 11: Of course, it's not the real thing, it's not the
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Speaker 11: same as the real thing, but the best drivers are
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Speaker 11: able to narrow the gap between the virtual world and
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Speaker 11: the real world. And so a lot of Liam's preparation
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Speaker 11: is there, and I'm sure he'll do fine this season.
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Speaker 11: I wouldn't judge him too much on how he performs
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Speaker 11: his first time out in the big team, as you
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Speaker 11: put it, because Melbourne is a unique circuit, has very
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Speaker 11: very strange characteristics and it doesn't reflect anything really of
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Speaker 11: the season ahead. It's just a great place to start
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Speaker 11: the new Season's colorful, it's a huge crowd. The Aussies
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Speaker 11: love their and the Kiwis love their racing. But I
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Speaker 11: think you know, you judge him after three or four
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Speaker 11: races as to how he's getting on.
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Speaker 2: What I loved about the quote that I just played
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Speaker 2: is that he already knows exactly what's ahead of him.
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Speaker 2: He knows it's going to be hot, he knows there's
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Speaker 2: lots of heavy breaking in the whole thing. He knows
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Speaker 2: it's going to be very, very physical. So the question
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Speaker 2: is do you think he's fit and really enough for it?
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Speaker 7: Oh?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely, these guys, like I said before, you know
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Speaker 11: he's one of I mean, I still think Liam's a rookie.
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Speaker 11: He'd done twelve races, but he's not done a whole season,
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Speaker 11: and in my book, that makes him still a rookie.
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Speaker 11: And you've got six rookies in the field this year.
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Speaker 11: It's unprecedented. Why is twenty twenty five the year that
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Speaker 11: Formula One trusts in rookies for the reasons I just
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Speaker 11: said that they are so well prepared now in the
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Speaker 11: virtual world and with testing the two year old cars
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Speaker 11: that they can come in. Oliver behn And jumped into
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Speaker 11: the Ferrari in Saudi Arabia last year with no practice
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Speaker 11: and finished seventh in the Grand Prix. That made everybody
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Speaker 11: in Formula One, the team bosses look it again and say,
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Speaker 11: hang on a second, We've got this great talent in
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Speaker 11: are cheaper, you don't have to pay them as much money.
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Speaker 11: And so you've seen people like Botas leaving the sport,
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Speaker 11: the more experienced drivers who cost more and perhaps past
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Speaker 11: their peak, and they're bringing in these rookies who are faster, exciting,
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Speaker 11: and Liam is right amongst them, and it's up to
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Speaker 11: him now to show he's obviously got the most along
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Speaker 11: with Antonelli and the Mercedes. He's the rookie with the
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Speaker 11: most competitive car in the field, and I think you
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Speaker 11: have to judge him as a rookie, not as someone
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Speaker 11: who's going to go toe to toe with probably the
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Speaker 11: best driver in the world right now. His teammate match
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Speaker 11: for Staffan if Liam's smart, he'll just focus on himself
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Speaker 11: and not worry about what Steffan's doing.
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Speaker 2: Great stuff, and I thank you James James Allen joining
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Speaker 2: us about a sport commentator. It appears as though New
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Speaker 2: Zealanders also in the headlines because McLaren at the moment
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Speaker 2: we know Bruce McLaren has a really good car, and
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Speaker 2: Lando Norris appears to be on fire. It's going to
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Speaker 2: be a great weekend. This is Newstalks it B. It's
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Speaker 2: five twenty six.
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Speaker 2: So Barbara Edmunds from the Labor Party, the Finance spokesperson,
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Speaker 2: is in front of the Investment conference today representing the
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Speaker 2: Labor Party who may or may not be in charge
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Speaker 2: of Treasury benches in the future. Now the conference will
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Speaker 2: be waiting to see if Labor is on the infrastructure bus,
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Speaker 2: if they will support the projects the National League government
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Speaker 2: are into and proposing right now, and if they're on
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Speaker 2: board with foreign investments in our infrastructure plans. Barbara's is
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Speaker 2: actually the critical address of the weekend, because yesterday we
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Speaker 2: heard The big concern is pipelines, the pipelines of work overseas.
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Speaker 2: Investors don't want to set up shop in New Zealand
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Speaker 2: for a project only to find that we back out
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Speaker 2: later and there's no more work for them, leaving them
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Speaker 2: with a big investment and nowhere to go. And to
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Speaker 2: be fair, National has done that with the cancelation of
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Speaker 2: big projects like the ferries. Labor also did it with
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Speaker 2: a moratorium on road development. So look, it is time
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Speaker 2: for a bipartisan accord on what we need to do
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Speaker 2: in this country. But that will be hard to find
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Speaker 2: as our parties have used infrastructure as a way to
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Speaker 2: differentiate between themselves and that's done. For instance, roads are
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Speaker 2: neither left wing nor right wing. Labour's anti road sentiment
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Speaker 2: has been based on faulty logic. Somehow they think that
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Speaker 2: building roads means more missions, which is ridiculous. It means
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Speaker 2: the same emissions but on bad roads. In fact, it
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Speaker 2: means more emissions as traffic gets stalled. A good road
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Speaker 2: is an efficient road, and an efficient road helps with
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Speaker 2: both emissions and productivity. And I wonder whether the Labor
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Speaker 2: Party sees this. So today all eyes on Barbara to
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Speaker 2: see if she's logical or ideological.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens all.
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Speaker 2: Right, Putin has spoken just a few moments ago, and
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Speaker 2: he's in support of this. He is far, but there
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Speaker 2: are conditions. We'll talk more about this with Vincent mcavenny
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Speaker 2: in a few moments time. This is early edition. I'm
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Speaker 2: Andrew Dickinson for Yan Bridge.
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Speaker 9: Good by to you.
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Speaker 2: Put some Mazie.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition. Andrew Dickens
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Speaker 4: It'd be.
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Speaker 12: Want you made it?
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Speaker 13: Mean to see tonight go crazy?
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Speaker 1: Are you gonna do?
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Speaker 13: Is this meet me at.
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Speaker 2: Good morning to you and welcome to your Friday. I'm
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Speaker 2: Andrew Dickens and for Ryan Bridge. You made it now.
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Speaker 2: A couple of warnings for you.
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Speaker 9: First.
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Speaker 2: Cameron Bagriy, the economist, is warning that the drums are
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Speaker 2: beating for a credit rating downgrade. Writing a business desk,
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Speaker 2: he says it's been coming for a while. He also
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Speaker 2: says it's not something to be worried about. He considers
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Speaker 2: it a margin of excellence tweak. Now S and P
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Speaker 2: have already downgraded credit ratings for local authorities. Cameron reckins
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Speaker 2: it will be ironic if we got one. Given the
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Speaker 2: ballooning debt levels and so many other OECD nations such
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Speaker 2: as the United States and the UK, everybody's in the
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Speaker 2: same boat. But that's here. If it does happen, it
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Speaker 2: we'll have repercussions on our debt repayments, making life more
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Speaker 2: expensive for a government that prides itself on getting on
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Speaker 2: top of the cost of living crisis. So we'll wait
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Speaker 2: to see what happens there. And here is a friendly reminder,
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Speaker 2: your local opshop is not a tip. An Orcand woman
18:43
Speaker 2: could face a four hundred dollars fine after Augand Council's
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Speaker 2: CCTV cameras caught a leaving a box of donations outside
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Speaker 2: an opshop a charity store, unaware that out of opening
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Speaker 2: ours donations are considered dumping. Galena from Meadow Bank is
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Speaker 2: monthly donated to the GLEAR in a Salvation Army family store,
19:02
Speaker 2: and at the end of February she left a box
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Speaker 2: of glassware and some clothes in a shopping bag on
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Speaker 2: a ledge next to the store entrance, out of the way.
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Speaker 2: She said, it wasn't dumped, it wasn't in the walking area,
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Speaker 2: and it wasn't a mess. But that's not the point
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Speaker 2: Galina from Meta Bank. When you dump like that, stuff
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Speaker 2: gets nicked, stuff ends out strewn across the footpath. And honestly, Gallina,
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Speaker 2: who really wants some glassware that's spent the night on
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Speaker 2: the street. So here's the morning. Don't do it. There
19:28
Speaker 2: are rules and consequences are four hundred dollars fine. And
19:31
Speaker 2: also you should consider if your stuff actually has any value. Frankly,
19:34
Speaker 2: glassware does not. Holy shirts do not. So drop your
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Speaker 2: stuff off during shop hours and do not be offended
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Speaker 2: if the shop doesn't actually want your crap. After all,
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Speaker 2: you're throwing it out, so why would anyone want it?
19:47
Speaker 2: The op shop is out of dump and the people
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Speaker 2: there are not refuse workers, sickens. It's twenty one to six.
19:53
Speaker 2: Let's go right around the country. Callum Proctor joins us
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Speaker 2: from duned and Halle Callum, good morning. We all know
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Speaker 2: that South Dunedin has flood prone, so what are they
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Speaker 2: doing about it?
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Speaker 12: Well, the Council yesterday released seven options to protect South
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Speaker 12: Donedan from flooding and climate change impacts. The city and
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Speaker 12: regional councils combining here to release two reports analyzing the
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Speaker 12: risks facing the low lying area of South Donedan. There's
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Speaker 12: a lot of details in these reports, but basically they
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Speaker 12: include keeping the land dry, allowing space for water or
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Speaker 12: letting the water in, and retreating heavy rain calls flooding.
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Speaker 12: You'll remember up to half a meter deep in South
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Speaker 12: Donedan last October.
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Speaker 9: That's just the latest of.
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Speaker 2: The floods program.
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Speaker 12: Manager Jonathan Rose says implementation could cost up to seven
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Speaker 12: billion dollars. The costs spread over seventy five years. It
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Speaker 12: won't necessarily fall on ratepayers, and consultation begins in the
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Speaker 12: coming weeks. How's your weather, Callum, fine but cloudy periods
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Speaker 12: easteries and eighteen today.
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Speaker 2: And we go to chrasts now and Blake Betty joins
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Speaker 2: us for one of the last times because he's after
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Speaker 2: another job.
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Speaker 13: Hello Blake, and good morning Andrea, and.
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Speaker 2: Congratulations to you.
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Speaker 7: Thanks.
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Speaker 2: So we've got a coroner verdict on a death of
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Speaker 2: a guy in Gloria Vale.
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Speaker 13: Yes, so the coroner's rule the sudden death of young
21:09
Speaker 13: Glorivale man Sincere Stantrue was an accident. Now we can't
21:14
Speaker 13: actually report the specifics of his death, but coroner Alexandre
21:17
Speaker 13: Cunningham says it was caused by blacking himself out and
21:21
Speaker 13: wasn't actually a suicide. So Stantru was found with critical
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Speaker 13: injuries at the Christian community in November twenty eighteen. The
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Speaker 13: twenty year old was deaf and suffered other physical and
21:31
Speaker 13: intellectual challenges. The coroner found young people at Gloria Vale
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Speaker 13: played what she described as blacking out games, which Standre
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Speaker 13: had actually mentioned in the year before his death. In
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Speaker 13: light of this, the coroners urged the community leaders to
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Speaker 13: take action so similar incidences can be prevented in the future.
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Speaker 13: Standrew's sister Rose says the inquest overlooked the religious doctrine
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Speaker 13: in Gloriavale, and she's actually considering legal advice about options
21:56
Speaker 13: to take in this space going forward.
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Speaker 2: How's your weather.
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Speaker 13: It's a fine Friday here northeastill is in the afternoon
22:02
Speaker 13: and evening. HI have eighting.
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Speaker 2: If we don't speak again, good luck, Congratulations and I
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Speaker 2: thank you now to Adam Cooper and Wellington. Hello, Adam, morning, Andrew.
22:10
Speaker 2: We got Homegrown Festival happening this weekend and it's a
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Speaker 2: bit bittersweet it is.
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Speaker 14: Indeed, more than twenty thousand people expected to head to
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Speaker 14: the Wellington waterfront tonight and all day tomorrow to hear
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Speaker 14: the country's top local artists perform. Now it's been running
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Speaker 14: in Wellington since two thousand and eight, right across the waterfront,
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Speaker 14: but festival director Andrew Tuck says he's made the hard
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Speaker 14: decision to leave Wellington after this year's event. He says,
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Speaker 14: when the final curtain comes down tonight, there will bear
22:34
Speaker 14: tomorrow night, I should say there will be some tears.
22:37
Speaker 14: Now it's been increased to a two day festival for
22:40
Speaker 14: the final time, so tonight's Stan Walker and the orchestra
22:43
Speaker 14: dance music collab Synthhony will take to the stage. Then
22:46
Speaker 14: tomorrow there are five stages right across the waterfront, headlined
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Speaker 14: by Shape Shifter, said Dave Dobbin, local boys Drax Project,
22:53
Speaker 14: but the big one is Sheehad's final ever performance. They
22:56
Speaker 14: started in Wellington at high school back in nineteen eighty five,
23:00
Speaker 14: so they'll bring the curtain down at home growing tomorrow
23:02
Speaker 14: in their hometown. As for where the festival is heading
23:05
Speaker 14: to next, no confirmation from organizers yet, but Hamilton's name
23:09
Speaker 14: is getting thrown around a bit, so watch the space there.
23:12
Speaker 2: I thank you so much. And John too Good, the
23:14
Speaker 2: lead singer of she Had is on with Mike Hosking
23:16
Speaker 2: a bit later on that band's on fire and now
23:19
Speaker 2: to Auckland. Never reach to mind and good morning to you.
23:21
Speaker 2: Good morning. So Auckland Transport is being told to pull
23:24
Speaker 2: its finger out about lowering speed limits.
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Speaker 15: Yes, that's right. So look what's happened is that there's
23:27
Speaker 15: a coalition of transport groups and it's calling on Auckland
23:30
Speaker 15: Transports stand up for its award winning safety program. So
23:34
Speaker 15: this is Bike Auckland Break, Living Streets Altered or and
23:38
Speaker 15: all aboard alti ad or. They're saying that reversing the
23:40
Speaker 15: speed limits it's going to lead to more debts and
23:42
Speaker 15: less safe streets. That's the raising the speed limits from
23:45
Speaker 15: thirty to fifty k. Living Streets Altered Or says that
23:49
Speaker 15: the government obviously has a lot of control over Auckland
23:51
Speaker 15: Transport President Tim Jones says that doesn't mean that AT
23:56
Speaker 15: can't make its position clear. So he says, you know
23:58
Speaker 15: what they need to advocate for the safety of.
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Speaker 2: Alfrind is more very good. There is there's a motorway
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Speaker 2: offram where I come screaming off at eighty k which
24:05
Speaker 2: is a limit, and immediately I have to get down
24:07
Speaker 2: to thirty and you said they're going, Wow, that's pretty heavy.
24:09
Speaker 9: But there we are.
24:10
Speaker 2: How's THATU with it?
24:11
Speaker 14: Fine?
24:11
Speaker 15: Apart from some evening clouds, still warm here in Auckland,
24:14
Speaker 15: al High today twenty five have.
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Speaker 2: A great big Kim leav Thank you so much, babe.
24:19
Speaker 2: Now on the opshop dumping, I've cat Texture and Nelson
24:22
Speaker 2: clothes are left outside the Salvation Army family store. They
24:26
Speaker 2: get used as a toilet for the homeless. I feel
24:30
Speaker 2: sorry for the two ladies who have to come to
24:32
Speaker 2: work and clean this up every morning. Don't dump your
24:36
Speaker 2: stuff and don't go to the loo on the stuff.
24:40
Speaker 2: It is sixteen to six. Vincent mcavenny from Europe on
24:44
Speaker 2: the big stories, including the breaking news that Vladimir Putin
24:48
Speaker 2: has taught and he's taught in favor of a seas
24:50
Speaker 2: fire but with the whole heap of conditions. And later
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Speaker 2: we'll be talking the investment conference which wraps up today,
24:56
Speaker 2: which all our hopes are on sixteen to six.
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Speaker 1: International correspondence with INSI inn Eye Insurance Peace of Mind
25:03
Speaker 1: for New Zealand.
25:03
Speaker 2: Business at the time is now fifteen to six. I'm
25:08
Speaker 2: Andrew Dickens. So there's meetings in Moscow. Putin has spoken.
25:14
Speaker 2: He says he supports a ceasefire, but he sees a
25:16
Speaker 2: whole lot of other stuff. We're joined now by Vincent mcavinie. Hello, Vincent,
25:20
Speaker 2: good morning. What's going down.
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Speaker 6: Well, we're having to decrypt what exactly I Vladimir Putin means.
25:26
Speaker 6: In the past twenty four hours, he's visited the Cursk
25:29
Speaker 6: region of Russia, which has been held for several months
25:33
Speaker 6: by Ukrainian forces, but they seem to be struggling to
25:36
Speaker 6: keep the territory. Putin appeared very rarely for him, addressed
25:39
Speaker 6: in military uniform, saying that now Russia had control of
25:44
Speaker 6: its own territory. This was thought to be a sort
25:45
Speaker 6: of key bargaining chip that Zelensky had in negotiations for
25:50
Speaker 6: territory which Russia controls. Now, what we've heard in this
25:54
Speaker 6: press conference, we know that this US envoy, having got
25:57
Speaker 6: agreement from the Ukrainian team, was on its way to
25:59
Speaker 6: moss Putin has said that he agrees with peace proposal,
26:04
Speaker 6: but says it needs to lead to an enduring peace.
26:07
Speaker 6: There was some sort of diplomatic circus sire acts going
26:11
Speaker 6: on in this press conference, talking about the need to
26:15
Speaker 6: make sure the underlying causes of the crisis are resolved
26:18
Speaker 6: for that enduring peace, So it'll be up to the
26:21
Speaker 6: Trump team to try to unpick what exactly that means.
26:25
Speaker 6: But for now, the bombardment between the two nations continues,
26:29
Speaker 6: big strikes on Moscow this week by the Ukrainians.
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Speaker 2: It's such a process, isn't it. You have to negotiate
26:34
Speaker 2: the negotiations, then you have to negotiate a ceasefire, and
26:37
Speaker 2: then you can go and negotiate a possible lasting peace.
26:40
Speaker 2: Is Putin asking for too much too soon?
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Speaker 6: Well, I think he feels pretty emboldened at this point.
26:46
Speaker 6: He's drawn barely a word of condemnation from the Trump
26:49
Speaker 6: administration versus the treatment that presidents Lensky and the Ukrainians
26:53
Speaker 6: have faced. That's always worth reistrating that if Bladimir Putin
26:58
Speaker 6: wanted to end this today tomorrow, he could do. He
27:00
Speaker 6: could pull his forces out. It was his fault. He
27:03
Speaker 6: invaded the territory, it was an act of war. They've
27:06
Speaker 6: committed war crimes in the territory. So maybe once PC
27:08
Speaker 6: he could simply pull his troops back. But he's not
27:11
Speaker 6: doing that, So we'll see where this goes now.
27:14
Speaker 2: Now, Meanwhile, Donald Trump has written the EU with a
27:16
Speaker 2: two hundred percent tariff. It's a big number. It's on alcohol.
27:21
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right. So the EU was hit earlier in
27:24
Speaker 6: this week by the latest round of Trump tariffs, particularly
27:27
Speaker 6: on steel and aluminium are twenty five percent tariff. They
27:33
Speaker 6: got hit by that, so they have struck back with
27:35
Speaker 6: sort of retaliatory tariffs, but particularly citing sort of US
27:40
Speaker 6: good So those were for instance, Harley Davidson motorbikes and
27:44
Speaker 6: Bourbon of course, which is you know, American whiskey. So
27:48
Speaker 6: the Donald Trump has now sort of responded to that
27:51
Speaker 6: particular front saying he's going to put a two hundred
27:54
Speaker 6: percent tariff on alcohol from EU countries and of course
27:57
Speaker 6: that will be you know, wines from France and Italy,
28:00
Speaker 6: champagne as well, spirits. I mean, it would be absolutely drastic,
28:04
Speaker 6: so the prices of those products which are big EU exports,
28:09
Speaker 6: but also there is you know, high demand and great
28:11
Speaker 6: love for in America as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, and I thank you for your time today.
28:15
Speaker 2: Vincent mcavenie bringing the time to ten to six.
28:18
Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens.
28:19
Speaker 2: All right, it is the last day of the Investment
28:22
Speaker 2: Conference where the Government has been trying to impress foreign
28:25
Speaker 2: investors at the summit. We had some announcements already doing
28:29
Speaker 2: up christ Jurich Men's prison, maybe building some new courthouses
28:34
Speaker 2: the Northern Expressway. They're asking for registrations of interest theres.
28:37
Speaker 2: The Italians are quite interested. It all wraps up today
28:40
Speaker 2: and Jason Walls is covering it. Are you there?
28:44
Speaker 16: I am indeed. Good morning, Andrew.
28:46
Speaker 2: I mean, are you there at the conference?
28:48
Speaker 16: Oh right, not quite yet. I'm heading along later this morning,
28:52
Speaker 16: but yes, I'll be there today.
28:53
Speaker 2: How do you think it's going?
28:54
Speaker 14: You know, it's hot.
28:56
Speaker 11: I'll tell you what.
28:57
Speaker 16: It's hard for us to kind of say. We're locked
28:59
Speaker 16: in a little room. I think little media room is
29:01
Speaker 16: actually quite a nice media room, but we're locked in there, nonetheless,
29:05
Speaker 16: and we can't actually get access to the delegates or
29:07
Speaker 16: anybody on the floor of the actual venue. We have
29:11
Speaker 16: this little TV screen that we watch everything going in from.
29:14
Speaker 16: But we get ministers coming in fairly regularly to give
29:18
Speaker 16: us little updates of how things are going, and you know,
29:20
Speaker 16: it does seem to be going well. We've had a
29:23
Speaker 16: couple of investors come in and tell us how keen
29:25
Speaker 16: they are to invest in New Zealand assets. We had
29:28
Speaker 16: the Italians come in, for example, and say that they're
29:31
Speaker 16: keen on the Northern Expressway. So you know, it's looking
29:35
Speaker 16: good for the government in terms of the amount of
29:37
Speaker 16: investment they're going to receive. Chris lux And telling us
29:40
Speaker 16: yesterday he's expecting all he's hoping for tens of billions
29:43
Speaker 16: of dollars worth of investments. So we'll have to wait
29:47
Speaker 16: to see if the proof is in the pudding.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and the one thing that came out of yesterday
29:51
Speaker 2: is that all foreign investors are worried about the pipeline
29:54
Speaker 2: of work. They don't want to sit up shop here
29:57
Speaker 2: and then run out of work and then have to
29:59
Speaker 2: re trench and leave the place again. And so the
30:02
Speaker 2: big question about that is what Barbara Edmund, the Labor
30:05
Speaker 2: for that spokesperson, is going to say today and whether
30:08
Speaker 2: she supports a pipeline of work.
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Speaker 16: Well, it's going to be interesting to see what Labour
30:13
Speaker 16: say because they've already come out and said that they
30:15
Speaker 16: don't support public private partnerships and places like prisons. And
30:20
Speaker 16: that's a big deal because obviously the government wants work
30:24
Speaker 16: to be done in those areas and one of the
30:25
Speaker 16: big themes in the summit is bipartisanship. In the past,
30:29
Speaker 16: we've had so much shopping and changing of governments, and
30:32
Speaker 16: it means that key infrastructure projects are being green lit
30:35
Speaker 16: and then cut, and then green lit again and then cut.
30:38
Speaker 16: And that's just not very good for business consistency. So
30:41
Speaker 16: having labor there is good because it means that there
30:44
Speaker 16: is some sort of semblance of consistency to say that
30:47
Speaker 16: that both parties are going to be working together for
30:50
Speaker 16: the long term to get these in infrastructure pipeline developed.
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Speaker 2: All right, well, Jason, we look forward to your coverage today.
30:58
Speaker 2: We look forward to hearing what Barbara Edmond has to say,
31:00
Speaker 2: and let's hope something works from all of this and
31:02
Speaker 2: this news talks here B is coming up seven minutes to.
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Speaker 1: Six on your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition
31:11
Speaker 1: with Andrew Dickens and one roof Make Your Property Search
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Speaker 1: Simple Youth Talk, said B.
31:17
Speaker 2: It's five to six. Dave sent me a text after
31:19
Speaker 2: Adam and I talked about Seahard briefly at Homegrown this
31:22
Speaker 2: weekend that Dave says, I'm going to miss Sheehart, but
31:25
Speaker 2: the concert area for them is far too small at Homegrown,
31:27
Speaker 2: which is their very last concert in their hometown, and
31:30
Speaker 2: so Dave sees crowd issues and Dave says it should
31:33
Speaker 2: have been at the TSB Arena, and I think I
31:36
Speaker 2: have to agree with you. I mean, tonight they play Spark.
31:39
Speaker 2: They've sold that out, twelve thousand tickets, biggest gig they've
31:41
Speaker 2: ever done, and I'm sure they could have sold out
31:44
Speaker 2: the TSB. But still farewell to Seahard and Mike Hoskin
31:47
Speaker 2: joins me, and you're talking to John Tug.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I am. He's a nice guy, isn't it. I
31:50
Speaker 9: mean you I assume you know, yeah, very likely he's
31:53
Speaker 9: on fire.
31:54
Speaker 2: I saw the band in a paddock in the Coramandel
31:56
Speaker 2: three weeks ago and I've never heard them better.
31:58
Speaker 9: Oh good.
31:59
Speaker 2: I don't know why to quit.
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Speaker 9: What does that mean? That means you've never heard them better?
32:02
Speaker 9: What does that mean?
32:02
Speaker 2: That means?
32:03
Speaker 9: Okay, well you're saying it. You're getting a vibe.
32:05
Speaker 2: Okay, you would have the vibe. They were technically magnificent,
32:07
Speaker 2: and the sound mix was awesome, The light was amazing.
32:09
Speaker 2: It was a full, full stadium experience, and it's had
32:12
Speaker 2: a really, really good and I took people who normally
32:15
Speaker 2: like cold chisel, and I said, be warned, it's heavy,
32:18
Speaker 2: and they loved it.
32:21
Speaker 9: You know, he's on the program today. We're also talking
32:23
Speaker 9: about the there's a bloke. I don't know if you
32:26
Speaker 9: followed the story, but it's sort of there are two
32:28
Speaker 9: stories in one. So there's a health crisis in this country.
32:30
Speaker 9: There was a report out a week and a bit ago,
32:32
Speaker 9: right Deloitte wrote at seventy seven pages, and what it
32:35
Speaker 9: says is like so worrying. It's embarrassing that doubtails him
32:41
Speaker 9: with a bloke who was a senior manager within Health
32:43
Speaker 9: New Zealand who's been stood down for other issues unrelated
32:47
Speaker 9: to a contract that was not advertised, and it was
32:52
Speaker 9: not advertised and it was a two million dollar contract.
32:54
Speaker 9: This bloke who's been stood down had a connection with
32:57
Speaker 9: the company in Britain wasn't ad ties because they claimed
33:02
Speaker 9: the company was the only one in the world who
33:05
Speaker 9: could provide the services that they needed, which is complete
33:08
Speaker 9: and upper crap. And so you've got this bloke stood down,
33:12
Speaker 9: you've got a contract that wasn't tended for, and you've
33:14
Speaker 9: got millions of dollars worth of our money floating about
33:17
Speaker 9: and the whole thing's just just a shambles and a
33:19
Speaker 9: scandal anyway, Health Minister front size for us this morning.
33:22
Speaker 2: Increasingly a slight taint of corruption.
33:25
Speaker 9: There's it gets worse and worse it does, like you
33:29
Speaker 9: could you get an insight into the extent of what
33:31
Speaker 9: they've actually had to pick up and run with as
33:33
Speaker 9: part of is part of the problem. And we'll look
33:34
Speaker 9: at the speak to which that investment thing today is.
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Speaker 2: Awesome, very good, and I thank you and I think
33:38
Speaker 2: producer Kenzie and my name's Andrew Dickens, and I'll see
33:40
Speaker 2: you on Monday and have a great weekend.
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