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Full Show Podcast: 22 August 2024 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside Ryan Bridge New
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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
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Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture vans and a play at store.
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Speaker 2: US Talk said, be good, ay, good morning. How are
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Speaker 2: you It is six after five. News Talks said, be
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Speaker 2: great to be with you on this Thursday morning. A
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Speaker 2: lot to get through today. Two thirds of children apparently
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Speaker 2: a starting school. This is after being at an ec
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Speaker 2: starting school. Struggling with language, as in they can't speak
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Speaker 2: as well as they should. We'll look at that before
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Speaker 2: five thirty. Big move expected this morning at eight thirty
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Speaker 2: from trans Power. Looks like they're going to dip into
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Speaker 2: emergency hydro water to try and to alleviate some of
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Speaker 2: the problems we're seeing. We'll tell you all about that
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Speaker 2: just before five thirty. Mitch McCann's in the USA and
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Speaker 2: strong reaction to Chris Luson's local government telling off yesterday
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Speaker 2: the agenda. It is Thursday, the twenty second of August.
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Speaker 2: An update on that Sicily storm and the four bodies
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Speaker 2: that have been pulled from the wreckage of the Baysian yacht.
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Speaker 2: Authorities have been using a remote operated underwater drone to
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Speaker 2: see inside the wreckage, which is about forty five meters
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Speaker 2: below the surface. Divers have also been down and say
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Speaker 2: it's not an easy task. The biggest difficulty is being
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Speaker 2: able to get into the ship.
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Speaker 3: Once inside, following the path, we can begin searching room
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Speaker 3: by room.
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Speaker 2: Two people remain missing. Residents of Russian Russia's border regions
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Speaker 2: have been asked by authorities to stop using online dating
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Speaker 2: apps and watch their social media use. This is after
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Speaker 2: concern that Ukrainian forces who are making an incursion into
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Speaker 2: those areas are using online resources to help with that incursion.
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Speaker 2: There's concern that the soldier's geolocation data could be revealed
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Speaker 2: and troop movements could be given away. The Ukrainian military
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Speaker 2: chief says they have made it thirty five kilometers into
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Speaker 2: Russian territory, capturing ninety three settlements. The incursion is now
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Speaker 2: into its sixteenth day. Back here, a year's long report
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Speaker 2: reveals ongoing inequities and treatment by police based on race, sexuality, gender,
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Speaker 2: and mental health. It recommends police urgently analyze their interactions
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Speaker 2: with diverse communities. Aut Law professor Carlei Quince says frontline
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Speaker 2: off officers were actively engaged with the research.
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Speaker 4: They've been able to provide us with insights from the
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Speaker 4: frontline and also test the recommendations as the workers progress.
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Speaker 4: That is a globally significant model that many other agencies
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Speaker 4: could learn from.
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Speaker 5: Bryan Bridge New for twenty twenty four on early edition
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Speaker 5: with Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and a Playing
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Speaker 5: Store News Talk Ziby.
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Speaker 2: I should point out, just with that research that was
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Speaker 2: done into police that the director of that research, Catherine Lennard,
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Speaker 2: has said it was such a small sample size that
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Speaker 2: findings cannot be used to make generalization. So, in other words,
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Speaker 2: you can't take just the word of you know, one
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Speaker 2: or two or a small group of people who were
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Speaker 2: arrested for particular crimes as gospel and make generalizations about
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Speaker 2: the whole police force and say, well, therefore all police
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Speaker 2: officers are racist. They said that there were some patterns
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Speaker 2: based on offenders saying they felt that they were unfairly treated.
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying there's not racism within the police, or
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Speaker 2: systemic racism, institutional racism, etc. Just that the research is
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Speaker 2: quite limited and what you can say about it just
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Speaker 2: got nine minutes after five. Well, wasn't it fun watching
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Speaker 2: the DNC in Chicago yesterday because it was Obama Day yesterday,
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Speaker 2: and I think and I spoke to Leo, my producer,
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Speaker 2: on the phone yesterday afternoon, and I think he just
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Speaker 2: wanted to get off the phone. But I was just
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Speaker 2: saying that genuinely was one of the best personal, emotional
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Speaker 2: political speeches that I've heard in ages. And I'm not
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Speaker 2: talking about Baraque, I'm talking about Michelle. It was sharp,
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Speaker 2: it was, as I said, very personal. She talked about
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Speaker 2: her mom who had just passed, and she really had
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Speaker 2: something to get off her chest. And people responded on
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Speaker 2: their feet in that in that venue, in that arena yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Yes she spoke about her mom. She spoke about Hope
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Speaker 2: making a comeback.
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Speaker 6: He listen, it's up to us to remember what Kamala's
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Speaker 6: mother told her. Don't just sit around and complain.
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Speaker 5: Do something.
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Speaker 6: So if they lie about her, and they will, we've
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Speaker 6: got to do something. If we see a bad pole,
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Speaker 6: and we will, we got to put down that phone
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Speaker 6: and do something. If we start feeling tired, if we
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Speaker 6: start feeling that dread creeping back in, we got to
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Speaker 6: pick ourselves up, throw water on our face.
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Speaker 5: And what.
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Speaker 2: She's pretty good. She was pretty good. You don't have
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Speaker 2: to agree with what she's saying or anything like that.
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Speaker 2: I'm just saying from a from an oratory point of view,
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Speaker 2: from a you know, balm storming, get them chanting, get
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Speaker 2: them excited. It was pretty good. Eleven minutes after five,
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Speaker 2: News Talks ab actually just very quickly. Harris has raised
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Speaker 2: four times as much as Trump in July, two hundred
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Speaker 2: million dollars she has raked in versus his forty eight
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Speaker 2: million dollars. Today Tim Walls takes the stage and you
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Speaker 2: can expect a tax from Trump's team on his liberal
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Speaker 2: voting record. They say they're also going to go after
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Speaker 2: his military service, which they reckon is light about Bill
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Speaker 2: Clinton there today as well.
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Speaker 5: The first Word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 5: edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture
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Speaker 5: Beds and a play at store News Talk Zidy.
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Speaker 2: Thirteen after five. Just a quick update from the US
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Speaker 2: on the job stata we spoke about earlier in the week.
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Speaker 2: It's worse than we had originally thought for much of
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Speaker 2: the past year. Apparently they've revised the stats and there
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Speaker 2: were eight hundred thousand fewer jobs than estimated in March alone.
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Speaker 2: It's not a major They reckon the Federal Reserve, boss though,
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Speaker 2: Jerome Powell is going to give a speech on Friday.
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Speaker 2: They have this thing in the Rocky Mountains at Jackson Hole.
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Speaker 2: This is the Federal Reserve where they get all the
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Speaker 2: central bankers together. It's like Davos for central bankers. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: they're all gathering on Friday. So no doubt these revised
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Speaker 2: numbers will inform the decision on whether they cut rates.
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Speaker 2: Ban Bridge just gone fourteen after five. The Education Review
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Speaker 2: Office has found that too many kids are starting school
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Speaker 2: without the language skills that they need and remember, before
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Speaker 2: you read or write, you speak. Nearly two thirds of
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Speaker 2: teachers in ecees and new entrant classes say COVID is
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Speaker 2: to blame. Meanwhile, RO found half of parents don't get
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Speaker 2: updates on where their kid is at with language development.
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Speaker 2: Kelly Seaberg is with New Shoots Children's Center. She's the
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Speaker 2: director there and she's with us this morning. Hi Kelly, morning, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: how are you really good? Thank you? Thanks for being
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Speaker 2: with me. Is this what you're seeing that kids are
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Speaker 2: increasingly struggling with the language part thanks to COVID.
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Speaker 7: That's a little bit I mean, I think what's interesting
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Speaker 7: is the report does confirm that eighty percent of children
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Speaker 7: are doing well, but there are twenty percent of children
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Speaker 7: who are struggling with oral language. And I think we
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Speaker 7: can say over time, you know, since COVID nineteen, we
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Speaker 7: have seen the impact on oral language development. I think
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Speaker 7: with sometimes the use of screens, which a lot of
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Speaker 7: us had to use, a lot of people needed to use,
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Speaker 7: over that time, we do see that there does seem
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Speaker 7: to have been a bit of an impact. And that
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Speaker 7: is why ECE has a really strong place to play
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Speaker 7: in and parents, you know, it really is around as
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Speaker 7: us working together to ensure children's oral language has improved.
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Speaker 7: Because what we know is that oral language at two
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Speaker 7: is a strong predictor of their literacy and umracy achievement
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Speaker 7: at twelve. So it's really really critical totally.
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Speaker 2: It's literally the well not quite literally, but it's the
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Speaker 2: learning to crawl before you can walk, right. Is it
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Speaker 2: when the kids were in lockdown? Is it the fact
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Speaker 2: they were on screens or is it the fact that
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Speaker 2: they weren't talking to their buddies at the ECE centers.
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Speaker 7: That's right, it's all of that together. So I mean
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Speaker 7: it's you know, they were more isolated from each other.
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Speaker 7: Parents are probably trying to work from home. So all
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Speaker 7: of that engagement and that interaction and that we have
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Speaker 7: when we're talking with our teachers and with our peers
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Speaker 7: that definitely reduced significantly. And so you know, this is
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Speaker 7: the issues that we had with the ongoing impact from
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Speaker 7: COVID nineteen. But what is I think what's important is
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Speaker 7: we've got some really great tools and I think having
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Speaker 7: a focus on it just means that we can really
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Speaker 7: hone in on this area because it's really deserving of
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Speaker 7: our attention given the impact that we know it has
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Speaker 7: long term.
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Speaker 2: Why are parents being updated on where their kids are at?
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Speaker 7: I think we haven't had. What happens in early childhood
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Speaker 7: services is that we have most services report using these
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Speaker 7: learning stories and it's a really great way of capturing
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Speaker 7: the filsomeness of a child and looking at their development
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Speaker 7: against what we call Tafartakey, which is our New Zealand
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Speaker 7: curriculum for early childhood. And in that teachers will read,
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Speaker 7: you know, the language that children are learning. So whether
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Speaker 7: or not the parents are seeing that being reported to
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Speaker 7: learning stories may be different.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, vector Kelly what's learning story? Is that like an
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Speaker 2: app you use or something to update.
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Speaker 7: No, it's a way it's it's so parents will be
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Speaker 7: familiar with it is a story about their child. So
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Speaker 7: it's a nice way of saying the way a teacher
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Speaker 7: is writing up about that child's learning development, what this
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Speaker 7: seeings they're observing a child, for example, and how the
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Speaker 7: learning is coming through their play. So it is a
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Speaker 7: teacher's re.
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Speaker 2: Is it where they said, Johnny likes playing with Sarah
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Speaker 2: and Tom and but maybe is struggling to speak properly?
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Speaker 2: Or is it that specific?
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Speaker 7: It can be it can be really looking at hey,
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Speaker 7: looks you're seeing a child interacting so with blocks, and
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Speaker 7: they're saying what is actually going on here? And they're
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Speaker 7: showing actually the child's developments through Look at how they're
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Speaker 7: actually using their different pieces together and that's actually maths
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Speaker 7: as well as building construction. But at the same time
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Speaker 7: they're interacting with their friends and we look at the
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Speaker 7: language development. Look how they would negotio getting how to
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Speaker 7: build that power. So that's how it's really trying to
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Speaker 7: show parents the learning that's going through play.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, do you think that's that's good? And I mean
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Speaker 2: I'm I would probably be confused as a parent. I
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Speaker 2: would think about where my kid was that if it
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Speaker 2: was through a learning story.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, And I think there are some areas that can
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Speaker 7: be improved and some ways in which it makes it
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Speaker 7: more explicit for pearance. And I think that's a real
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Speaker 7: area for early childhood where we can look at how
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Speaker 7: can we make this more accessible for parents. So what's
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Speaker 7: really great is over the last couple of years, the
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Speaker 7: Ministry of Education has been working on a framework and
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Speaker 7: its court FETYSUCCUPY and part of that has been we've
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Speaker 7: had the social and emotional strand and I understand the
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Speaker 7: Minister is going to have some announcements shortly because they've
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Speaker 7: been working on the literacy which is or language as
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Speaker 7: well and numeracy streams for the last couple.
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Speaker 2: Of years, right, So there's a lot of work to
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Speaker 2: be done in the space to try and improve that reporting.
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Speaker 2: And it sounds like Kelly, you're up to the challenge,
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Speaker 2: which is good. Kelly c Berg with us the director
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Speaker 2: of News shoots Children Center just gone nineteen AUF to five.
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Speaker 5: Get ahead of the headlines. Ryan Bridge You for twenty
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Speaker 5: twenty four on Early Edition with Smith City, New Zealand's
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Speaker 5: furniture beds and a playing at store News Talk.
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Speaker 2: Zi'd be twenty one after five, Welcome to your Thursday morning.
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Speaker 2: At least two hundred and thirty jobs are on the
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Speaker 2: line in one region our Kei Wei exporters competitiveness is
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Speaker 2: under threat and the cost of lots of stuff that
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Speaker 2: we buy and sell will have to go up. Why
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Speaker 2: all because of our power shortage. Fletcher Building yesterday the
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Speaker 2: latest company admitting its power bill is up three million
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Speaker 2: dollars a month in just the last few years. Big manufacturers,
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Speaker 2: several of them now are either pausing or shutting operations altogether.
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Speaker 2: But today Transpower, in just the next few hours, is
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Speaker 2: going to make a big call, excuse me, on whether
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Speaker 2: generators can dip into what is essentially emergency water from
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Speaker 2: hydro lakes to try and fight back against this shortage.
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Speaker 2: John Harvard is with the Major Electricity Users GROUPIE is
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Speaker 2: to share their John, good morning, Good morning. Do you
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Speaker 2: think Transpower will do this today?
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Speaker 8: Look, I'd be surprised if they don't. As you said,
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Speaker 8: we have this water set aside for emergencies, and I
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Speaker 8: don't think there's any doubt that the crisis we're in
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Speaker 8: with large employees, shutting down operations and hundreds of people
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Speaker 8: losing their jobs. As anything but a critical issue for
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Speaker 8: our communities.
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Speaker 2: How haven't we pulled this lever already? I'm surprised to
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Speaker 2: hear there is water that we could take.
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Speaker 8: Well. I mean, we do keep it in reserve for emergencies,
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Speaker 8: but I do think there is a very legitimate question
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Speaker 8: around why have we not acted sooner? Why have we
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Speaker 8: not put in place sort of as a program of
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Speaker 8: conservation to just make sure people are using the electricity
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Speaker 8: they need, but that they're not necessarily using electricity that
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Speaker 8: they could do without, just to help us through this period.
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Speaker 8: Because if transpower does tap into the sort of emergency reserve,
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Speaker 8: it's important to realize that this is not going to
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Speaker 8: solve the problem. It's going to provide a bit of
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Speaker 8: temporary relief, but the issues are still going to be there.
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Speaker 2: Some lakes have already reached their resource consent limits. Should
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Speaker 2: we give them a pass to go lower? And what
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Speaker 2: does it actually what does it do? What is the
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Speaker 2: implication of going lower?
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Speaker 8: Look, the question about how sort of deep into the
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Speaker 8: hydro lakes we go is a very technical one, So
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Speaker 8: I don't think I'd get into that, but I think
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Speaker 8: the critical, a critical issue for us to remember is
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Speaker 8: that unless we get a lot of rain between now
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Speaker 8: and the end of this year, then potentially we're setting
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Speaker 8: our salves up for or we're going to experience the
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Speaker 8: same situation wherein now will experience next year because the
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Speaker 8: lakes will still be a bit too low next year
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Speaker 8: and we're unlikely to find a lot of gas in
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Speaker 8: the next sort of six to twelve months to sort
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Speaker 8: of bridge the energy that we don't have.
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Speaker 2: Give us a sense, John, how critical is this morning's
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Speaker 2: decision from Transpower.
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Speaker 8: Look, I think it's really important, and it sits alongside
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Speaker 8: the decision of Method X to cease their production to
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Speaker 8: free up the electricity that they use and to provide
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Speaker 8: the gas that they normally use to actually help us
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Speaker 8: with gas fired generation. And it also sits alongside the
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Speaker 8: very significant reductions in production at the t y point
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Speaker 8: and your midium smelter. So I think the three things
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Speaker 8: need to be seen together because they all free up
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Speaker 8: electricity for other people to use or help provide generation
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Speaker 8: for other people to use, but they are all sort
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Speaker 8: of short term fixes to get us through sort of
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Speaker 8: the next few months, and they're all very important, but
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Speaker 8: they don't solve the underlying issue or problem that we have.
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Speaker 2: John, thanks so much for your chime this morning. John Harbor,
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Speaker 2: the Major Electricity Users Group chair, and just repeating that
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Speaker 2: at eight thirty this morning, the Transpower told producer Leo
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Speaker 2: yesterday they will announce their decision on whether they can
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Speaker 2: tap into those emergency reserves and our hydro lakes to
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Speaker 2: try and alleviate some of the problems that we're seeing.
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Speaker 2: Twenty five after five the early.
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Speaker 2: Talks at Me. The reactions overnight to Luckson's broadside to
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Speaker 2: the mayors and the local councils in Wellington yesterday will
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Speaker 2: be telling him, or should be telling him, that he's
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Speaker 2: pretty much on the right track. He got stuck in
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Speaker 2: over spending on dumb stuff his words, not mine, like
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Speaker 2: convention centers, at the expense of basic stuff like leaky pipes.
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Speaker 9: I think the building that we're in today is a
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Speaker 9: classic example with pipes bursting, and quite literally this morning,
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Speaker 9: pipes bursting on the streets not far from here. And
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Speaker 9: it looks very nice and it's great and It's very
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Speaker 9: nice for US politicians to have a wonderful space to
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Speaker 9: make some great speeches in, but can anyone seriously say
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Speaker 9: that was the right financial decision.
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Speaker 2: It was the spin doctor's wet dream yesterday was the
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Speaker 2: birth pipes outside. Contrast between all of the mayors and
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Speaker 2: the councilor is sitting in one hundred and eighty million
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Speaker 2: dollar gold Placer Convention Center while you know, ordinary Joe
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Speaker 2: and Jane, like you and me, are trudging through lakes
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Speaker 2: to reach the bus stop. It was pretty good from
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Speaker 2: a pr perspective. Not good for the Tory Finos of
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Speaker 2: the world. The Wellington mayor, she said overnight Luxen was
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Speaker 2: punching down on meors. The Green councilor Thomas Nash called
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Speaker 2: it monna diminishing for those gathered. Really, what about the
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Speaker 2: manna of rape payers. Who's literally whose pooh floats in
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Speaker 2: the ocean when it rains, whose streets become lakes when
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Speaker 2: a pipe bursts, and whose driveways streets are littered with potholes?
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Speaker 2: I mean, what about the manna of the rape payers?
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Speaker 2: Rather than just thinking about yourselves in your nice, cushy
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Speaker 2: little convention center in Wellington. Anyway, Luxon will know that,
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Speaker 2: and it's pretty much what he knew going in. This
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Speaker 2: wasn't a speech for the mayors and for the counselors,
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Speaker 2: but rather it was aimed over their heads to the
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Speaker 2: rate and more importantly for him, the taxpayers. Ryan Bridge,
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Speaker 2: it's gone twenty nine minutes after five o'clock. We're going
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Speaker 2: to speak to Local Government Business Forum chair Matt Cowley
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Speaker 2: just before six for his reaction to what lux And
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Speaker 2: had to say. Also, Mitch McCann is in the US.
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Speaker 2: He's a US correspondent. He'll talk about the DNC what
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Speaker 2: we can expect from today. Bill Clinton will be there
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Speaker 2: today as well. Do are reminding you of your daddy
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Speaker 2: in my form.
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Speaker 3: Labord or hanging out the Parson Law.
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Speaker 5: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition with
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Speaker 5: Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and
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Speaker 5: a Plying Store News talk z be.
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Speaker 1: Good Mornings.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to your Thursday. It is the twenty second of August.
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Speaker 2: It is twenty four minutes away from six. If you're
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Speaker 2: just joining us, Transpower is going to make a call
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Speaker 2: in the next couple of hours about whether to dip
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Speaker 2: into emergency hydro well emergency water from our hydro lakes.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure the news team will be across that later
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Speaker 2: on in the morning for you right now. Lots of
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Speaker 2: feedback on early childhood education. The Education Review Office has
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Speaker 2: a report out saying that because of COVID and the lockdowns,
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Speaker 2: kids weren't talking to each other at the early childhood center,
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Speaker 2: so their language skills aren't as good. This one says
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Speaker 2: the issue with kids watching screens and not talking to
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Speaker 2: each other has continued post COVID as well because they're
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Speaker 2: more reliant on them, So it's not just a COVID thing.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for that, Carol says. I've been an EC
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Speaker 2: teacher for more than twenty years, and I don't think
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Speaker 2: you can blame just COVID for these language problems. It's
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Speaker 2: quite sad, actually, Carol says, at early childhood centers, because
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Speaker 2: some of them are so overcrowded, there are kids who
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Speaker 2: don't talk to anyone. Isn't that sad? I mean, and
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Speaker 2: all the parents are watching on them because they've got
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Speaker 2: cameras in those places. Now parents are like either at
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Speaker 2: home or at work watching their kids on these screens,
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Speaker 2: just sitting there, not talking to anyone. It's sad this
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Speaker 2: one on energy. How will all these evs be charged
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Speaker 2: in the green revolution given our power crunch. I'm not
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Speaker 2: hearing any answers. Interestingly, actually, I think that was from James. Interestingly.
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Speaker 2: Over in the US overnight, Ford has announced that they're
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Speaker 2: canceling their new electric suv. It's like the Ford Explorer Range,
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Speaker 2: canceling that and offering a hybrid instead, while it's demand
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Speaker 2: and cheap evs from China pushing the price down for them.
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Speaker 2: Just gone twenty two to six, rich Our reporters around
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Speaker 2: the country color practice in to needing for us. Come
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Speaker 2: good morning Police targeting illegal white baits.
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Speaker 10: Morning, Ryan, Yes, the white baiting season is about to
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Speaker 10: begin here. So police conducted a bit of a surprise
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Speaker 10: joint operation on Tuesday night at the Wyo Rivermouth, popular
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Speaker 10: spot for white baters. They were looking to target any
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Speaker 10: illegal activity and the police to report that there were
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Speaker 10: no issues, but they say they hope that this continues
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Speaker 10: into the season. Police say that they'll work to continue
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Speaker 10: or will continue to work with the Department of Conservation
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Speaker 10: to monitor any unlawful fishing, social behavior or in peered driving.
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Speaker 10: The season, Ryan begins September first, It runs through to
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Speaker 10: the end of October. White baiting only permitted during the
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Speaker 10: hours of five till eight through the day or six
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Speaker 10: am to nine during daylight saving right weather today fired
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Speaker 10: at first but becoming cloudy. Chants for shower this afternoon
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Speaker 10: and sixteen today.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Claire Sheuwerod is in christ Church for US
20:53
Speaker 2: clear crash. Each city councils approved work on streets around
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Speaker 2: the new stadium. Is this work that lucks and would
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Speaker 2: be down with?
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Speaker 11: Well, they're still waiting on the NDTA funding for these
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Speaker 11: streets upgrades, Ryan, but councils decided they'll push ahead in
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Speaker 11: the meantime with the hopes that that money does land.
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Speaker 11: They voted yesterday to begin these upgrades on the streets
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Speaker 11: including Chewin, Barbados and Madras streets. They'll be doing things
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Speaker 11: like widening foot paths, freshening, some landscaping. They'll be improving
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Speaker 11: pedestrian crossings and access to They come after some water
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Speaker 11: infrastructure improvements which are being done at the moment, so
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Speaker 11: there's already loads of roadworks around there. The Mere Film
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Speaker 11: Major says doing them in succession will minimize the commuter
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Speaker 11: impact and also make sure they're ready to go on
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Speaker 11: day one, which is still expected to be April of
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Speaker 11: twenty twenty six. He says making the stadium accessible, easy
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Speaker 11: and safe will be key to cementing the city as
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Speaker 11: a place for big events.
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Speaker 2: I think that gets the tech. That sounds pretty infrastructury
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Speaker 2: to me. Clear your weather today.
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Speaker 11: Frosty to start clearing, to find a bit of cloud
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Speaker 11: about later. Some northerlies could be strong at times. The
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Speaker 11: highest sixteen.
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Speaker 2: Great, thank you Max and going to mix. Two bars
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Speaker 2: are closing. Where are you going to drink?
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Speaker 3: Well, well, luckily I didn't drink at these bars. But
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Speaker 3: two more victims of Courtney Place, sugar Woods and Rubik's
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Speaker 3: names that might not sound instantly recognizable even to Wellingtonian's.
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Speaker 3: That's because they just opened in the past year two years.
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Speaker 3: Sugar Woods is where the old East stab Establishment bar was.
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Speaker 3: Rubiks is at the old Malhouse bar side. Both have
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Speaker 3: the same owner, Jose Ubianga, who also owns Dakota and Residence.
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Speaker 3: He appoints to high levels of homelessness, decreasing foot traffic,
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Speaker 3: the street being in a terrible state. He also says
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Speaker 3: generally it's getting very difficult to own and run a
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Speaker 3: bar on Courtney Place. Police have been fighting his license
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Speaker 3: for residents, for example, they're trying to get these places
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Speaker 3: shut or stop them from opening in the first place.
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Speaker 3: A little ironic that this is our entertainment precinct. And
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Speaker 3: of course you know what certain council people will say, oh,
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Speaker 3: just wait for the Golden Mile. But Ubianga, alongside many others,
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Speaker 3: fears the disruption from that is going to end up
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Speaker 3: closing what he's got left.
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Speaker 2: How's your weather max cloudy.
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Speaker 3: Periods with a possible shower some stronger norther east thirteen
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Speaker 3: the High Central.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, and Wendy Petris in Auckland this morning. Good morning, Bendy.
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Speaker 2: You've got an update on the Deval group.
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Speaker 12: That's right, Yeah. The government has stepped in on the
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Speaker 12: Auckland department developer do Vowel Group placing in statutory management.
23:19
Speaker 12: It follows do Vowel Capital Partners and related companies being
23:22
Speaker 12: placed into interim receivership by the High Court. The change
23:25
Speaker 12: means one team of people will now handle the processes,
23:28
Speaker 12: rather than multiple insolvencies unfolding at once. Commerce and Consumer
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Speaker 12: Affairs Minister Andrew Bailey says it's a large and complex situation,
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Speaker 12: so urgent action was needed to prevent broader harm. But
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Speaker 12: one hundred and twenty investors have put money into the entities.
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Speaker 2: Goodness May. How's the weather today, Wendy, Well.
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Speaker 12: That's looking all right actually fine day, cloud increasing this afternoon,
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Speaker 12: light winds and sixteen degrees. Do you feel like spring's
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Speaker 12: coming or something?
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Speaker 2: It does feel a lot like that. You're warming up, Wendy,
23:55
Speaker 2: thank you. Eighteen minutes away from six Ryan Bridge and
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Speaker 2: motels issue huge issue, obviously, in one that worries people were.
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Speaker 2: Yesterday in the house we got more context around one
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Speaker 2: of the main lines of attack that's been leveled at
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Speaker 2: Tama Pawtucker, who's the Social Housing minister. So they've managed
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Speaker 2: to reduce the number of kids living in motels, which
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Speaker 2: is great news, but instead of celebrating that, they've been
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Speaker 2: criticized because they don't know where twenty percent of them
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Speaker 2: have gone. So when they move out of the motels,
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Speaker 2: most of them go to emergents, our social housing or
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Speaker 2: private landlords. But twenty percent of them we don't know
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Speaker 2: where they go. However, yesterday Tama Pawtucker revealed this.
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Speaker 13: When we arrived in government, we found that the data
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Speaker 13: did not show where over fifty percent of people exiting
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Speaker 13: emergency housing had gone to. But as a result of
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Speaker 13: the hard working members of our team, we now know
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Speaker 13: we're nearly eighty percent of all those that exit emergency
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Speaker 13: housing go to, including the one one hundred and ten
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Speaker 13: children who have gone from emergency housing into warm, safe,
24:59
Speaker 13: dry homes.
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Speaker 2: So context matters, really, doesn't it. It doesn't sound great
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Speaker 2: that you don't know where twenty percent are going, but
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Speaker 2: it's better than not knowing where fifty percent are going.
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Speaker 5: International correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of mind
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Speaker 5: for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 2: It is fourteen away from six. If you're just joining us,
25:16
Speaker 2: welcome to early edition. I'm Rayn Bridget's Thursday, the twenty
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Speaker 2: second of August. An interesting press release from Nicole Mckee'll
25:22
Speaker 2: get to that shortly. Right now. Mitch mccannon is in
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Speaker 2: the US, Bill Clinton, and Tim Wolls at the DNC
25:27
Speaker 2: in Chicago today.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, that's right, Ryan, It's going to be a big
25:31
Speaker 14: night in Chicago for Day three of the Democratic National Convention.
25:35
Speaker 14: Last night saw a few unexpected names during the state
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Speaker 14: role call. People on Rapper Lil John performed and the
25:43
Speaker 14: film director Spike Lee was there as well. But last
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Speaker 14: night it was really about the speeches from Doug m Hoff,
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Speaker 14: the husband of Kamala Harris, as well as Barack and
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Speaker 14: Michelle Obama. Now, all of those speakers really spoke about
25:55
Speaker 14: their own personal stories before laying and heavily to Donald Trump.
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Speaker 14: Speaking of Trump, Doug Imhoff said, of Kamala Harris, she
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Speaker 14: knows the best way to deal with the coward is
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Speaker 14: to take him head on. Michelle Obama took aim at
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Speaker 14: Donald Trump over his comments referring to black jobs in
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Speaker 14: recent weeks, saying, who's going to tell him that he's
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Speaker 14: currently seek the job he is currently seeking might be
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Speaker 14: one of.
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Speaker 2: Those black jobs?
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Speaker 14: And Barack Obama described Donald Trump as a seventy eight
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Speaker 14: year old billionaire who hasn't stopped whining about his problems
26:25
Speaker 14: since he rode down his golden escalator. But as you say, tonight,
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Speaker 14: we're going to hear from Tim Walls, Nancy Pelosi, and
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Speaker 14: the former President Bill Clinton.
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Speaker 2: It's interesting listening to Kamala Harris's husband talk about her
26:37
Speaker 2: laugh because you know people, well, the Republicans like to
26:40
Speaker 2: make fun of her laugh. He's saying that it's you're
26:44
Speaker 2: not calling her a laugh but her joy. They're trying
26:46
Speaker 2: to reframe that whole thing, aren't they.
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Speaker 14: They've tried to reframe a lot of these criticisms people
26:51
Speaker 14: have had of her online, particularly You'll remember the joke
26:54
Speaker 14: about you know, she was talking about her mother and
26:57
Speaker 14: she said something like, did you think you just fell
26:59
Speaker 14: down from a coconut tree? And a few weeks ago
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Speaker 14: that was a mean going round online where people were
27:04
Speaker 14: making fun of Kamala Harris. She's reframed it. She's now
27:07
Speaker 14: giving away free coconut water at her rallies and become
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Speaker 14: part of her whole kind of shtick for this election.
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Speaker 14: So they're good at reframing these things. One of the
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Speaker 14: other things I've been doing is kind of thinking about
27:19
Speaker 14: what they're going to be criticized for. And one of
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Speaker 14: the things was Doug im Hoff, her husband his previous marriage,
27:26
Speaker 14: so that fell apart, and there were some stories that
27:29
Speaker 14: came out about that the other week. But they had
27:31
Speaker 14: kind of statements preprepared, so they know what Donald Trump
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Speaker 14: and the Republicans are going to attack them with, and
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Speaker 14: they're ready to take them on.
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Speaker 2: A nice update. Mitch McCann our US correspondent. It is
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Speaker 2: twelve minutes away from six Bryan Bridge. Luxeon ripping the
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Speaker 2: meyors and the counselors at the Local Government conference in Wellington,
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Speaker 2: a new one yesterday saying stop wasting your money on
27:54
Speaker 2: dumb stuff.
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Speaker 9: I think the building that we're in today is a
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Speaker 9: classic example with pipes bursting and quite literally this morning,
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Speaker 9: pipes bursting on the streets not far from here. And
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Speaker 9: it looks very nice, and it's great, and it's very
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Speaker 9: nice for us politicians to have a wonderful space to
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Speaker 9: make some great speeches in. But can anyone seriously say
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Speaker 9: that was the right financial decision?
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Speaker 12: In some way?
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Speaker 2: That was lux and yesterday The conference continues today for
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Speaker 2: day two. We did actually try to get someone on
28:21
Speaker 2: from Local Government New Zealand, but not available. I suspect
28:25
Speaker 2: there are a few drinking poops last night and maybe
28:28
Speaker 2: people didn't want to get up. I don't know, I'm speculating.
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Speaker 2: But luckily this morning we have Matt Cowley, who is
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Speaker 2: with the Local Government Business Forum. He's the chair. Matt,
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning Ryan. Thank you for being with me.
28:40
Speaker 2: I really appreciate your time. What did you make of
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Speaker 2: Luckson's comments.
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Speaker 15: I think he's getting ahead of the announcements which will
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Speaker 15: possibly be made today around the city and regional deals,
28:53
Speaker 15: and that it's not going to be a free lunch
28:55
Speaker 15: for councils. The government is wanting to address some of
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Speaker 15: these big industry structure deficits, but racpayers will need a
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Speaker 15: chipping as well. And yes, so basically wanting to make
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Speaker 15: sure that councils are focused on some of the big
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Speaker 15: issues that they want to address.
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Speaker 2: Do you agree that they haven't been.
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Speaker 15: Well? Evidence will prove that the infrastructure deficit has been
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Speaker 15: really big and some councils have been focusing more on
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Speaker 15: some water and core assets than others.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's true, and to be fair, he
29:30
Speaker 2: did say that too, they're not all bad. What do
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Speaker 2: you think of this idea of revenue caps on the
29:37
Speaker 2: nice to have things.
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Speaker 15: I think he's particularly looking towards those reflecting on the
29:45
Speaker 15: rural communities and the farmers and those that are shifting
29:49
Speaker 15: to maybe capital valuation and even where some councils are
29:53
Speaker 15: even looking at capitalizing on kiwi fruit licenses so that
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Speaker 15: they can gain more revenue out of the primary sector
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Speaker 15: to boost into some urban areas when you're looking at
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Speaker 15: some rural areas that are actually removing their tasia roads,
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Speaker 15: putting them back into gravel because it's unaffordable. And that's
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Speaker 15: backwards in terms of comparing to some nice to have projects.
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Speaker 15: There are some projects that can stand up on their own.
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Speaker 15: But yeah, a real focus needs to go on those
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Speaker 15: councils to make sure they're focusing on this peak into
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Speaker 15: infrastructure deficit.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, basically the whole revenue model needs a total rethink.
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Speaker 2: And that's quite innovative one that you mentioned for rural areas,
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Speaker 2: but they need it basically just because you've got a
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Speaker 2: fifteen percent average rates increase at the moment for across
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Speaker 2: the country for anyone who's paying rates, which is really
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Speaker 2: hard to stomach. And you know, as we mentioned the
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Speaker 2: other week, adding to the infation problem as well has
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Speaker 2: been Matt, Thank you very much for your time. Matt
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Speaker 2: Cowley with US Local Government Business Forum chair. That Local
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Speaker 2: Government conference continues today and we had I did hear
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Speaker 2: some comment from Tory Farno, the willing to mayor, saying
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Speaker 2: that she thought he Luxan was punching down on the
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Speaker 2: mayors yesterday.
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Speaker 8: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I just think they kind of they kind of needed it,
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Speaker 2: didn't they. You know, it's not personal either. It's not personal.
31:17
Speaker 2: It's not saying that you did something wrong with you
31:19
Speaker 2: as a as an individual, just that as a collective
31:23
Speaker 2: perhaps they have been looking in the wrong direction. Just
31:26
Speaker 2: gone eight minutes away from six News and Views.
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Speaker 5: You Trust to start your day. It's early edition with
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Speaker 5: Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and
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Speaker 2: Six minutes away from six News Talk, said b Mike
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Speaker 2: Hoskings in the studio.
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Speaker 16: Good morning morning police commissioned this morning. Oh good, and
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Speaker 16: the big report on to all the racism that pervades
31:49
Speaker 16: the landscape in that particular part of the world. Well,
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Speaker 16: I couldn't work out yesterday is nobody asked the question?
31:54
Speaker 16: So so, first of all, racisms were broad based thing
31:57
Speaker 16: to accuse somebody of. Second of all, if you had
31:59
Speaker 16: looked at the place force in this country lately, it
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Speaker 16: is probably the most multicultural group of people I've seen
32:05
Speaker 16: in a very very long period of time. Thirdly, if
32:08
Speaker 16: you know, and we know for a fact, that Maria
32:10
Speaker 16: disproportionately represented in statistics criminally speaking, right, So then when
32:16
Speaker 16: they come up with the accusation that Mariya are more
32:19
Speaker 16: likely to be charged. How do you drill down on that?
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Speaker 16: How do you come to that conclusion if the person
32:24
Speaker 16: and the other thing we know for a fact is
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Speaker 16: that most people are criminals or recidibus, so in other words,
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Speaker 16: very few.
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Speaker 2: But are they being profile? Is the reason that they're
32:32
Speaker 2: being arrested?
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Speaker 16: Because that's the separate part. So the separate part is
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Speaker 16: one of the claims is that Maria more likely to
32:38
Speaker 16: be pulled over? So how did they get to that?
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Speaker 16: No one seem to ask that.
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Speaker 2: Quich you said the other day, You've never been pulled over,
32:45
Speaker 2: I've never been looked at you. You're a white, wealthy man,
32:47
Speaker 2: and that'll be it, won't it.
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Speaker 16: I've driven right past them waving. But once you get
32:53
Speaker 16: these people in the system, why are you more likely
32:55
Speaker 16: to be charged? Surely the answer would be if you're
32:57
Speaker 16: known to the constabulary already there before you go, there's
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Speaker 16: old Bob Bob's back, are you more likely to get charged?
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Speaker 8: Yes?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so because they know you.
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Speaker 16: At what point has the race come into it?
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Speaker 2: Well? Good question. See what I'm saying that The lead
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Speaker 2: of the research said it was such a small sample size.
33:14
Speaker 2: You shouldn't make generalizations based on an agreement. Agreement did
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Speaker 2: say that herself.
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Speaker 16: So what are we trying to achieve here? We're trying
33:21
Speaker 16: to go there's the police. It's good old racist police
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Speaker 16: again without asking enough questions around the specifics of how
33:28
Speaker 16: they came to that conclusion. And is it you know,
33:31
Speaker 16: can you stand it up as opposed to is this
33:33
Speaker 16: a vibe? But is this a status good?
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Speaker 2: That's the question. Yeah, but it's still a question worth asking,
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Speaker 2: isn't it. Don't you think it's.
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Speaker 16: Worth asking if you can come up with an answer
33:42
Speaker 16: that you can lock down and go, here are the stats,
33:44
Speaker 16: here are the facts, and this is the conclusion we've
33:46
Speaker 16: come to because of it, as opposed to tell you
33:47
Speaker 16: what we think has happened to here anyway. That's why
33:50
Speaker 16: that's why we've got a police commission, and that's why
33:52
Speaker 16: it's on the program.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant all right. Have we had a little not a
33:54
Speaker 2: scrap but debate before about which Obama was better yesterday? Yeah?
33:59
Speaker 16: I just the record, I was right on that. You
34:01
Speaker 16: thought Michelle was being She was brilliant, She was brilliant,
34:04
Speaker 16: but he was he had the edge.
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Speaker 2: There was her line about it all black job.
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Speaker 16: You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: He heard it all before from him Mike Sworthy. Next,
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Speaker 2: I'll see you tomorrow. Have a great day.
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