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Full Show Podcast: 02 May 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 2: Good morning, you're on news Talks. He'd be just gone
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Speaker 2: six after five. Great to have your company this morning.
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Speaker 2: We're going to talk to an independent a Deeal out
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Speaker 2: of Australia as they go to the polls tomorrow. Vincent
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Speaker 2: Mcavannie's in the UK for US. Apparently Harod's is under
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Speaker 2: a cyber attack right now. A cyber attack right now.
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Speaker 2: I don't know who from, but somebody who likes nice things.
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Speaker 2: We're also going to talk to our reporters right around
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Speaker 2: the country. Obviously the weather has been affecting the South
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Speaker 2: Island over the weekend over the last twenty four hours,
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Speaker 2: and also the wind in Wellington meth We'll talk to
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Speaker 2: Mike Saber, remember he used to be a National MP,
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Speaker 2: former Detective Mike Saban up north about the myth not
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Speaker 2: just in the wastewater, but what they're seeing coming out
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Speaker 2: of hospitals is truly shocking. All ahead on your Friday morning,
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Speaker 2: the second and May of course, signal gates getting scalps
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Speaker 2: this morning. Reports that Trump's going to fire national security
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Speaker 2: advisor Mike Walls, the Boss was standing behind him as
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Speaker 2: recently as last week.
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Speaker 3: Do you think that Mike.
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Speaker 4: Walt made in the state and doesn't.
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Speaker 5: Need to apologize.
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Speaker 6: No, I don't think he should apologize. I think he's
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Speaker 6: doing his best. It's equipment and technology that's not perfect,
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Speaker 6: and probably he won't be using it again.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Levitt's boasting about the minerals deal that I've done
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Speaker 2: with the Ukraine looks as the one we told you
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Speaker 2: that they would sign yesterday and they did.
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Speaker 7: His partnership establishes a fund that will receive fifty percent
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Speaker 7: of royalties, license fees, and other similar payments from natural
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Speaker 7: resource projects in Ukraine. President Trump has been clear from
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Speaker 7: the beginning he wants the killing in this brutal war
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Speaker 7: to end. This agreement shows how invested the President is
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Speaker 7: and securing a truly.
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Speaker 2: Lasting piece to the UK We go the football association
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Speaker 2: there in England football and have come to Ingham Netbulo,
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Speaker 2: I could say, have banned transgender women from competing in
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Speaker 2: their local competitions.
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Speaker 8: I get a lot of my access to part community
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Speaker 8: being connected to my local kind of chiety. I've got
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Speaker 8: friends say to the team that I currently play for
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Speaker 8: and that's been taken away very very quickly.
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Speaker 2: Apparently Cricket's going to be doing the same thing later
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Speaker 2: today or tomorrow. BENJAMINETTNYA who declaring a state of emergency
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Speaker 2: in Israel and its wildfires causing this. Thousands have been
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Speaker 2: evacuated forrests are being threatened along the main Jerusalem Tel
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Speaker 2: Aviv Highway and Harrod's as I said, the latest retail
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Speaker 2: victim of cyber attacks. The luxury stores had limited Internet
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Speaker 2: access after an attempt to gain access to its systems.
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Speaker 2: More with Vincent mcavenie later in the hour.
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Speaker 1: News and Views You Trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 9: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: It is nine after five. I noticed that the act
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Speaker 2: Party has taken a leaf out of my book. This
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Speaker 2: is about the size of not the size of the cabinet,
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Speaker 2: but the number of portfolios that we have in our cabinet.
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Speaker 2: It is outrageous and just so confusing and unnecessary. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: I did a piece for the Herald about this back
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Speaker 2: in February, and I basically argued, why is it that
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Speaker 2: New Zealand has eighty one portfolios? You look at someone
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Speaker 2: like Ireland, similar size population, they've got seventeen. We have
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Speaker 2: eighty one portfolios. In fact, Ireland, Norway, Singapore, Finland they
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Speaker 2: all have fewer than twenty. The UK, Canada, United States, Korea,
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Speaker 2: they all have fewer than thirty. We have eighty one.
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Speaker 2: What on earth is going on here? Australia's population five
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Speaker 2: times larger than ours, but even they have almost half
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Speaker 2: the number of portfolios the Aussies now, way back in
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Speaker 2: nineteen twenty five, Prime Minister William Massey presided over a
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Speaker 2: cabinet of ten ministers and thirty portfolios. So in that time,
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Speaker 2: in the last one hundred years, we've gone from we've
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Speaker 2: doubled the size of the cabinet, sure, but we have
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Speaker 2: gone from thirty portfolios to eighty one. Too much overlap,
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Speaker 2: too much duplication.
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Speaker 5: MB.
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Speaker 2: For example, if you work at MB and you're listening
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Speaker 2: to this this morning, you'll be shaking your head because
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Speaker 2: you have to answer to seventeen ministers. Imagine having seventeen bosses.
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Speaker 2: No one wants one, let alone seventeen. What a nightmare.
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Speaker 2: It's portfolio overload basically, and how useful and effective are
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Speaker 2: some of these portfolios anyway. I mean, do we need
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Speaker 2: a minister for women? Do we need a minister for
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Speaker 2: veterans of fears? Do we need a minister for rural
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Speaker 2: e do we need a minister for ethnic communities? The
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Speaker 2: problem with these types of identity portfolios is that eventually
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Speaker 2: we'll all have one. Take women, for example, no question
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Speaker 2: there are disparities between men and women that warrant government attention,
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Speaker 2: no question about that. But there are also disparities that
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Speaker 2: go the other way. Men get sick more often and
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Speaker 2: die earlier than women. Four out of five Aucklanders living
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Speaker 2: without shelter and Auckland are male. Did you know that
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Speaker 2: men are three to five times more likely to die
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Speaker 2: by suicide? If we follow the logic of having a
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Speaker 2: ministry for women, should we not also have a ministry
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Speaker 2: for men? Where does the stop? The answer is it
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Speaker 2: doesn't and it should never have started. So what do
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Speaker 2: you do about it? Here's another example for you before
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Speaker 2: I finish. We have four portfolios covering Mardi Issues, Treaty
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Speaker 2: of White Tonguey Far No Order, Maldi Development and Maldi
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Speaker 2: Crown Relations. We have three portfolios for young people, children,
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Speaker 2: child poverty, child poverty, reduction and youth. You know, shouldn't
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Speaker 2: veterans affairs sit under defense is family and sexual violence
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Speaker 2: not the purview of the police. If Luxon is serious
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Speaker 2: about getting his house in order, then he should do
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Speaker 2: it and start at the top.
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Speaker 1: Brian Bridge here on News Talks.
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Speaker 2: You'd be now the PSA has come on to talk
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Speaker 2: about this, which I find it slightly unusual because it's
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Speaker 2: not really their area of expertise. But if I was
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Speaker 2: the PSA, I would come on and I would say, yeah,
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Speaker 2: get rid oficent ministers, you know, put the show on
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Speaker 2: the other foot, give them the boot and clean their
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Speaker 2: house up. Anyway, was hear what further Simon's has got
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Speaker 2: to say? Next?
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 2: Quarter past five. Got numbers from GM and McDonald's international
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Speaker 2: for you in a second. Right now, Seymour wants to
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Speaker 2: clean out cabinet. We've got eighty one portfolios for ministers. Ireland,
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Speaker 2: similar sized country to US, has seventeen. Why do we
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Speaker 2: need a racing minister, a minister for Auckland, a minister
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Speaker 2: for child poverty, reduction flurfit Simon's PSA National secretary with
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Speaker 2: me this morning for good morning, good morning. Now, I
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Speaker 2: think you're going to agree with Seymour here. I think
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Speaker 2: you're going to come on here and you're going to say, actually,
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Speaker 2: there's too much double up. It's making life difficult for
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Speaker 2: public servants. Cut them back.
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Speaker 10: Not this morning. I actually just think it's a typical
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Speaker 10: ACT Party attack on the public service. And really our
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Speaker 10: populist dog was still not a serious proposal. He himself
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Speaker 10: recognizes that it's not something that he's actually proposing. He's
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Speaker 10: really just floating it.
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Speaker 2: Be hand on, Helen, Well, how is this an attack
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Speaker 2: on the public service When he's saying the line there
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Speaker 2: are too many lines of communication, too many reporting lines.
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Speaker 2: It's making life harder for the public service to know
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Speaker 2: which master they're serving.
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Speaker 10: He's also saying we should get rid of a whole
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Speaker 10: range of existing public service agencies. He's very clear about that,
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Speaker 10: and that's because the X Party don't actually believe in
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Speaker 10: proper funded public services that deliver for all New Zealanders.
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Speaker 10: They prefer a privatized model of delivery of public Sitting
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Speaker 10: behind them.
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Speaker 2: Let's look at what he's saying he's saying, we have
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Speaker 2: eighty one portfolios for our cabinet of twenty ministers or
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Speaker 2: whatever it is. How many do you do you know
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Speaker 2: how many? Island has.
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Speaker 10: A lot less seventeen not saying.
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Speaker 2: Do you know how many? Nay has fewer than twenty?
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Speaker 2: Finland's the same, The UK and Canada, for good mistakes,
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Speaker 2: and the US all have fewer than thirty. How does
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Speaker 2: this make sense?
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Speaker 10: Those portfolios are political calls which are up to prime
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Speaker 10: ministers and leaders, and I'd say it's a bit hypocritical
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Speaker 10: for David Seymour to be saying he wants to reduce
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Speaker 10: the Both Times Act the being in government. Recently they've
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Speaker 10: created agencies, firstly the Productivity Commission and more recently the
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Speaker 10: Ministry for Regulation. But actually, if we think about this
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Speaker 10: problems facing New Zealand, do we need to invest more
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Speaker 10: in public services like health and education, law and order
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Speaker 10: and defense or do we need to invest less? They
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Speaker 10: are investing significantly less. On top of job cuts that
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Speaker 10: they imposed last.
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Speaker 2: Year, They're putting more into health. They're putting more into
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Speaker 2: health than labor promise to.
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Speaker 10: They are not putting more into health than previous governments.
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Speaker 2: They are not putting more into health than labor promise to.
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Speaker 10: Everyone puts more. That is not correct. They already cut
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Speaker 10: jobs and how health already.
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Speaker 2: Tell that to a.
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Speaker 10: Worker that's lost their jobs. That to somebody, I'm not
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Speaker 10: vacancy feel I'm not saying true.
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Speaker 2: So I'm not saying people aren't losing their jobs. Money
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Speaker 2: is being reprioritized. You cannot tell me yes it is.
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Speaker 2: You cannot tell me that the health.
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Speaker 10: Budget that people are buying on to fun text cut.
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Speaker 2: Okay, tell me what his borrowing. Tell me what flir.
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Speaker 2: Tell me what the health budget is, and tell me
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Speaker 2: how different it is to what labor promised.
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Speaker 10: Our health budget has been cut by the skin.
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Speaker 2: No, no, tell me tell me how much the health
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Speaker 2: budget is and how different it is to what labor promised.
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Speaker 2: Because you said that it's different. You said that it's
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Speaker 2: lest Okay, I.
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Speaker 10: Will tell you first of all, if I've impost cuts
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Speaker 10: on data and digital on all of them.
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Speaker 2: I want a number, Flur, I want a number. You can't.
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Speaker 10: I don't know today, okay, how the problem is, but
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Speaker 10: I can tell you it's okay.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's going on a hope and a dream where
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Speaker 2: we have to leave it there because I'm running out
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Speaker 2: of time. But that's first that Simon's from the PSA
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Speaker 2: see you next time for eighteen minutes after five News Talks,
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Speaker 2: It is twenty one minutes after five News Talks. There
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Speaker 2: be so new charta from Health New Zealand release to
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Speaker 2: News Talks. There be patients being discharged from hospital with
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Speaker 2: meth as part of their diagnosis has quadrupled in the
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Speaker 2: last decade. The amount of the waistwater testing doubled, but
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Speaker 2: since twenty nineteen as well, which is obviously not great.
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Speaker 2: Mike saban Form, a detective and drug educator on the
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Speaker 2: show Mike Good Morning. Ll Right, where's it all coming from?
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Speaker 9: The mess? Yeah, Southeast Asia and now South America.
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Speaker 2: And then does it go to the five oh one
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Speaker 2: gangs and then to Northland.
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Speaker 9: Well, we've had a triple tripling in the last twelve
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Speaker 9: months in actual effect, so a fair bit of it
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Speaker 9: will be. But I think the five ones have had
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Speaker 9: certainly had a hand to play. I think that's probably
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Speaker 9: largely where the American South American connections now come in.
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Speaker 9: But we're a country that has a large empetype for
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Speaker 9: a drug that we pay a lot more for than
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Speaker 9: anyone else. So it's not surprising that, you know, the
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Speaker 9: problem with bad bubbling away for the last twenty five
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Speaker 9: years is continuing on with a heat esteem.
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Speaker 2: Now, are you confident in those wastewater numbers that they
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Speaker 2: I mean they're terrible, but are they accurate?
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Speaker 9: Well, they're much better indicator than probably what we've had before,
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Speaker 9: But in a place like Northam, for example, there's a
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Speaker 9: lot of people obviously that are on septic tank, so
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Speaker 9: it's not picking them up, so it's not entirely accurate.
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Speaker 9: But if you look across a number of the other
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Speaker 9: indicators that certainly because they're pretty good indication that usage
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Speaker 9: is just steadily increasing and now exponentially increasing in recent years.
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Speaker 2: So what do you do about it? I mean, we've
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Speaker 2: been banging our heads against the wall trying to stop
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Speaker 2: us at the border. Clearly we're not stopping it. I
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Speaker 2: mean we're doing all we can and we're spending a
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Speaker 2: lot of money trying to do it, but it's not working.
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Speaker 9: What do we do well, I guess The question is
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Speaker 9: if there's a demand, will always be a supply. It's
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Speaker 9: like any other commodity. It's just that this particular commodity,
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Speaker 9: you know, people get addicted to the stuff. They can't
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Speaker 9: not use it, and so you know, for the suppliers,
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Speaker 9: it's a really really made customers that just keep buying more.
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Speaker 9: So demand reduction really is the key. I mean, fundamentally,
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Speaker 9: you've got to turn the tap off on the supply
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Speaker 9: because otherwise people are going to keep supplying it, and
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Speaker 9: we don't really address that, haven't done so for the
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Speaker 9: twenty five years. We've had the problem largely because our
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Speaker 9: policy is centered around the notion of harmonimization or problem limitation,
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Speaker 9: which accepts that use is going to happen and tries
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Speaker 9: to manage it, which is the wrong way to go
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Speaker 9: about it. Anywhere that's seen any reductions has really had
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Speaker 9: a focus on prevention, which we do with tobacco, we
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Speaker 9: do with you know, diabetes and other health issues. I'm
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Speaker 9: not sure why drug use we say, well, let's just
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Speaker 9: try and manage the problem instead of preventing it from
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Speaker 9: starting an affairs.
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Speaker 2: Interesting, Mike, appreciate your time this morning. Mike Sabin Form
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Speaker 2: a detective drug educator of course nationally MP as well.
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Speaker 2: News Talks HEB twenty six minutes after five. All Right,
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Speaker 2: it is Friday, and it is Friday confessional time with
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Speaker 2: all the pope passing away and focus on Catholicism. I'm
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Speaker 2: feeling quite repentant this morning. There are two things I
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Speaker 2: predicted would happen last December as I was signing off,
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Speaker 2: merely signing off for Christmas here at News TALKSB. One
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Speaker 2: of those things hasn't happened, and the other one is
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Speaker 2: about to not happen. Yev winning the Canadian election and
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Speaker 2: Elbow losing Australia's We all know who's to blame. You
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Speaker 2: know who it is, the wild card, the Camick, Carzee,
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Speaker 2: the outlaw. It was the Trump bump that did it
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Speaker 2: for these guys. Carney, while he's won, will have a
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Speaker 2: very tough term in office given the whole rally around
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Speaker 2: the Flagpole effect and support of the Canadian sovereignty movement,
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Speaker 2: will fizzle out as quickly as just Sinda's COVID election
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Speaker 2: high did. The underlying problems Canadians felt before this month
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Speaker 2: long lovin' will remain, will persist, and this will surely
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Speaker 2: be his high tide mark. But that's no excuse I
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Speaker 2: got it wrong, fair cop. And as for Dutton, who's
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Speaker 2: now been well looking behind the couch, looking under every
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Speaker 2: rock and every nook and cranny he can for something
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Speaker 2: relevant to say, he's now beating up on the return
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Speaker 2: to country, which during a cost of living crisis people
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Speaker 2: want not really to hear about, Thank you very much,
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Speaker 2: sort of like when Judith Collins went on the attack
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Speaker 2: about fat people and that ill fated twenty twenty election campaign.
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Speaker 2: Remember that if you want to lose weight, then eat less.
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Speaker 2: Actually not unreasonable thing to say for most people. But
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Speaker 2: it's the timing, isn't it. It's the timing in the
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Speaker 2: middle of an election campaign. It's the focus on that
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Speaker 2: when you should be talking about bigger things. And that
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Speaker 2: brings us to the elephant in the White House. Trump.
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Speaker 2: While I predicted he would win last November, I think
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Speaker 2: most of us underestimated just what America First would mean
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Speaker 2: for the rest of the world. When somebody comes first,
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Speaker 2: somebody loses, and both Elbow and Karney have been the
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Speaker 2: benefactors of that. His power, of course, has swung global
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Speaker 2: political pendulums before. Remember his rise and international the rise,
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Speaker 2: i should say, an international star power of Jasinda Adern
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Speaker 2: that was really born out of an anti Trump backlash
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Speaker 2: from his first term. The liberal, young female prime minister
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Speaker 2: banning assault weapons and a country post mass shooting becomes
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Speaker 2: the darling of the global left, just the tonic for
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Speaker 2: those who not only dislike but actually despise Trump and
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Speaker 2: his band of Mary Maga supporters. So the political lesson
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Speaker 2: is don't underestimate the Trump bump or the Trump dump
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Speaker 2: on any foreign election. The question is what does this
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Speaker 2: mean for our election next. We're less affected by the
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Speaker 2: tariffs unless China implodes. We're not yet being threatened with invasion,
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Speaker 2: though don't rule that out. And unlike the Aussies and
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Speaker 2: the Canadians, our incumbents aren't bent to the right. So
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Speaker 2: the risk of a Trump bump getting chippy over the
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Speaker 2: line here if you start singing from Phil Gof's songbook,
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Speaker 2: is perhaps more limited, but not nonexistent. When Washington cofts
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Speaker 2: somebody gets a cold. How Luxeon and Winston to an
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Speaker 2: extent navigate the next eighteen months will determine whether it's them.
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Speaker 4: That catches it.
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Speaker 2: Twenty nine after five.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early editions with Ryan
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Speaker 3: Me good morning.
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Speaker 2: It is twenty four minutes away from six year old.
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Speaker 2: News talkszb will get your across the weather in just
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Speaker 2: a few moments or with our reporters. Loads of feedback
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Speaker 2: to Furfit Simon's from the PSA, Ryan, your guest was outrageous,
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Speaker 2: screaming words and false claims like Ginny Anderson. Ryan, the
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Speaker 2: PSA is part of the problems with the portfolios. Would
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Speaker 2: you perform prefer more at the top or more people
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Speaker 2: on the front lines? Which is it? It's a good point.
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Speaker 2: Another here just says linking the meth story. Should they
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Speaker 2: test the bee hive wastewater for me? Right? It is
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Speaker 2: twenty four minutes away from six. We'll get to Australia
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Speaker 2: on good poll Out of Australia, get to the teal
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Speaker 2: candidate with us before top of the hour, Bridge shin
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Speaker 2: out to our reporters around the country and calum is
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Speaker 2: with US first and Junedin clum the time might soon
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Speaker 2: run out for changing at Saint Clair, Espinard and Dunedin. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's right.
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Speaker 11: Look, the surf is here in particular won't be too
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Speaker 11: happy about this news. All day parking space is at
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Speaker 11: the popular beach front and also nearby roads or remarks
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Speaker 11: have become time restricted space. This is under a council proposal.
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Speaker 11: It's all day free parking there at the moment, but
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Speaker 11: the time restrictions are now being proposed, ranging from five minutes,
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Speaker 11: two hours and four hours. The council says a lack
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Speaker 11: of restrictions in the past has limited the amount of
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Speaker 11: short term parking available for visitors especially. They say changes
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Speaker 11: aim to increased turnover and availability to help businesses at
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Speaker 11: the esplanade. Public submissions on this are open until May
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Speaker 11: twenty third.
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Speaker 2: Excellent. How's your weather? Shall is clear to find this afternoon?
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Speaker 10: Here?
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Speaker 11: For US South Esterly's the high fourteen.
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Speaker 2: Claire Surewood with a state of emergency in place for
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Speaker 2: christ Church Banks Peninsula and Selwyn. How is the weather clear?
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Speaker 12: Good morning, Ryan, Well, most of the actual weather warnings
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Speaker 12: have been lifted late last night however, we do still
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Speaker 12: have some in place for the south Island, more near
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Speaker 12: Kaikoda Way and then of course a lower north But
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Speaker 12: despite that, we still have rain here in christ Church
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Speaker 12: this morning. It is a little later, but the remnants
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Speaker 12: of the bad weather are still well and truly with
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Speaker 12: us confirming at the moment with Met Service, but it
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Speaker 12: looks like this rainfall event has been a record breaker
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Speaker 12: for christ Church. It looks like it's in the top
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Speaker 12: five wettest days recorded since Met Service records began. We
20:12
Speaker 12: still have localized flooding. The Avon River is particularly bad,
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Speaker 12: while councils also keeping a close eye on the Heathkeet River.
20:20
Speaker 12: The Salwyn River has also been of concern. We've started
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Speaker 12: to see some slips as well. Three homes evacuated in
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Speaker 12: Akadowa due to the threat of one last night, while
20:29
Speaker 12: there was a slip in a street in Littleton. The
20:32
Speaker 12: residents of one home self evacuated there. We've also had
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Speaker 12: a request for residents in Old Tai Tapu Road to
20:39
Speaker 12: begin voluntarily evacuating due to river levels. So for many
20:42
Speaker 12: others it's sort of more about mop up, but some
20:45
Speaker 12: concern today as well about the potential contamination of the floodwaters.
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Speaker 12: Plumbing systems are struggling, and of course the rain's continuing,
20:53
Speaker 12: but it will start to eat throughout the day. Souther
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Speaker 12: Lees with it two and a high.
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Speaker 2: Twelve stay so clear, maxis and willing to max. Good morning.
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Speaker 13: The wind for you guys, yeah, exactly, Not so much
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Speaker 13: the rain but the wind. Thankfully that def Con wind
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Speaker 13: red wind warning we had yesterday has been downgraded to orange,
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Speaker 13: but that still means that the wind is very strong today.
21:13
Speaker 13: It is going to slowly ease, but people should still
21:16
Speaker 13: be cautious. Steady rain this morning as well. Still some
21:20
Speaker 13: cancelations at Wellington Airport in and out. The ferries are
21:23
Speaker 13: still not running this morning. Power is back to most homes,
21:27
Speaker 13: but there are still some outages, for instance up the
21:30
Speaker 13: coast in Carpeti Foxton, a few dozen homes in wided
21:33
Speaker 13: Upper Cape Palliser was badly affected yesterday. Road closures overnight
21:37
Speaker 13: as well, mostly coastal roads where the worst of the
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Speaker 13: surface flooding was Unsurprisingly, they're aim to reopen this morning hopefully,
21:45
Speaker 13: still be careful on the roads around trees, power lines,
21:48
Speaker 13: debris may still be flying around. Very strong southerly and
21:51
Speaker 13: check transport as well. Bus replacements are likely on the
21:54
Speaker 13: hud Valley and wided app rail lines. There was a
21:56
Speaker 13: track washout near Pittawney Pets as well, to take care
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Speaker 13: of them. The worst has passed, but caution the key today.
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Speaker 2: All right, take care out there, everybody, Max, thank you
22:06
Speaker 2: for that. Neihvas and Auckland never good morning, good morning.
22:08
Speaker 2: The Auckland Council voting on this Western Springs thing and
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Speaker 2: the public going to have a say.
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Speaker 14: Yes now we've got the stormy conditions indoors. So the
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Speaker 14: Auckland Council it didn't endorse either the Orkan FC back
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Speaker 14: proposal or the joint effort by Pons and b Rugby
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Speaker 14: Club and the music promoter c S Records. You know,
22:26
Speaker 14: like yesterday there was a lot of discussion on whether
22:28
Speaker 14: the speedway could be revived there as well. So all
22:32
Speaker 14: three of these options are on the table for consultation.
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Speaker 14: There was a debate on this motion alone that talk.
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Speaker 2: Can you believe it?
22:39
Speaker 14: Four hours saw two amendments shot down, multiple heated clashes
22:43
Speaker 14: between the councils everyone. There were a few people yelling
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Speaker 14: there loud objections support us from both sides, you know
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Speaker 14: of the Auckland f C proposal and that included Elie
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Speaker 14: Williams and those who wanted to save the speedway.
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Speaker 2: Wayne Brown walked out at one point too. I did yeah,
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Speaker 2: all on for young and old, Oh for goodness now.
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Speaker 14: With her yea we much come and competer the rest
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Speaker 14: of the country rain no possible thunderstorms, but it will
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Speaker 14: be fined by the afternoon. Eighteen is a high.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant Nava, thank you, loving to see your happy Friday.
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Speaker 2: It is nineteen minutes away from top of the nineteen
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Speaker 2: minutes away from six year on News Talks. Herb next
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Speaker 2: Herod's the subject of a cybertech house correspondence.
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Speaker 1: Live international correspondence with Insigne Eye Insurance Peace of mind
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Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 2: Sixteen away from six news Talks, Heb. Vincent Mecavini a
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Speaker 2: UK europe correspondent. Vince and welcome to the program. European
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Speaker 2: leaders cautiously welcoming this minerals deal. This is the one
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Speaker 2: between the US and Ukraine.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Yeah, this breakthrough through deal between the US
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Speaker 3: and Ukraine, which comes after the two leaders, Vladimirzelenski and
23:46
Speaker 3: President Trump met here in Europe in the Vatican for
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Speaker 3: the Pope's funeral on Saturday. This deal has now been
23:53
Speaker 3: struck many months in the making, it was meant to
23:55
Speaker 3: be signed, remember in that disastrous Oval Office meeting. It
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Speaker 3: has now been signed, and European leaders are cautiously optimistic
24:03
Speaker 3: about it. They think that Ukraine has been able to
24:05
Speaker 3: negotiate a good deal. Some of the demands that the
24:08
Speaker 3: Americans had about repaying all the money that had been
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Speaker 3: three hundred and fifty billion dollars spent trying to help
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Speaker 3: Ukraine defend itself, that is now gone. There's no hindrance
24:19
Speaker 3: to Ukraine joining the EU. That was another concern that
24:23
Speaker 3: they had, but that still seems fully open. And indeed
24:25
Speaker 3: there are provisions saying that when they come to joining
24:29
Speaker 3: the EU things need to be looked at. In this deal.
24:31
Speaker 3: The Americans are happy to do that, and that the
24:34
Speaker 3: profits will be potentially of it will be reinvested in
24:38
Speaker 3: Ukraine without anyone who's been cooperating with Russia over the
24:41
Speaker 3: past couple of years able to help in any way
24:45
Speaker 3: with the reconstruction. So the EU seems pretty happy so
24:49
Speaker 3: far with what they're seeing.
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Speaker 2: What about this lockdown, sorry, the Sir cyber attack that's
24:54
Speaker 2: hit Herod's in London.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is the latest cyber attack on big retailers
24:59
Speaker 3: here in Britain. It's taken out Marks and Spencer this week.
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Speaker 3: The sort of famous co supermarket here. They've been left
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Speaker 3: with their website offline, shelves going empty, warehouses shut because
25:11
Speaker 3: this ransomware attack on their operations, which is costing them
25:15
Speaker 3: millions of pounds a day. Another supermarket here, the Cooperative,
25:19
Speaker 3: They've also been attacked but have managed to fend some
25:21
Speaker 3: of it off. And now Harrod's struggling as well. It's
25:25
Speaker 3: had to lock down its computer systems because it detected
25:28
Speaker 3: a similar attack was going on. It seems like its
25:30
Speaker 3: operations are still ongoing, but they think that they are
25:33
Speaker 3: still under attack. And what's really interesting about this is
25:36
Speaker 3: that the co Op, one of the supermarkets attacked, has
25:40
Speaker 3: brought in a new measure where when anyone goes onto
25:43
Speaker 3: a Zoom or team's call, they have to have their
25:46
Speaker 3: cameras on and identify themselves. There's a suspicion amongst the
25:50
Speaker 3: IT experts here in the UK that hackers have been
25:54
Speaker 3: able to lurk in the background of Zoom and teams
25:57
Speaker 3: calls and find out crucial data and get access into
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Speaker 3: the systems that keep these stores going creepy.
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Speaker 2: You need a pass code or something, a safe word
26:07
Speaker 2: when you go on a zoom call. Vincent, thank you
26:09
Speaker 2: for that, Vincent mcavenie, our UK europe correspondent. It is
26:12
Speaker 2: thirteen away from six Ryan Bridge. So the Aussies going
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Speaker 2: to the polls tomorrow. It was close, was close, elbows
26:19
Speaker 2: now pulled ahead. Will he lose his majority though? Will
26:22
Speaker 2: he need the Greens? Does he need to do some
26:24
Speaker 2: kind of deal the Tials? Who know about the Tills?
26:26
Speaker 2: A very big movement over there, the founding member Zarlie Steegel,
26:30
Speaker 2: she took the seat from Tony Abbtt, remember that who
26:33
Speaker 2: had it for twenty five years. Azarie's with me this morning,
26:36
Speaker 2: Good morning.
26:37
Speaker 5: Good morning, line.
26:38
Speaker 2: So how do you think this is going to play out?
26:39
Speaker 2: What chance do the Tills have? Do you think of
26:41
Speaker 2: holding the balance of power after this?
26:43
Speaker 5: Ah, that's a million dollar question. Many journalists go asking, Look,
26:47
Speaker 5: I think what we can see is in austrange politics,
26:50
Speaker 5: the confidence in the major parties keeps decreasing. People are
26:54
Speaker 5: frustrated and over the old you know, politics for power.
26:58
Speaker 5: They want to see a focus on policy on people
27:00
Speaker 5: and communities, and so that primary vote keeps dropping for
27:04
Speaker 5: the major parties, and we're seeing the rise of community
27:06
Speaker 5: independence you know, sometimes labeled teals, but all around the
27:10
Speaker 5: country in many, many communities. And I think it's about
27:13
Speaker 5: thirty five candidates around the country now that have really
27:17
Speaker 5: decent shots at changing the narratives in those people.
27:21
Speaker 2: Who would you be most comfortable dealing with.
27:24
Speaker 5: Look, I'm not particularly open to a deal per se.
27:28
Speaker 5: I think I will look obviously the will of the
27:30
Speaker 5: australand people. I will look at. An essential element for
27:34
Speaker 5: me is stability, making sure we have good function in government.
27:37
Speaker 5: The Australian people have very real issues they need dealing
27:40
Speaker 5: cost of living, climate risk, insurance, you know, our national security,
27:45
Speaker 5: all these issues need a stable hand. So I think
27:48
Speaker 5: transition is really important to look for stability, but ultimately
27:52
Speaker 5: I will tackle the issues as they come and on
27:55
Speaker 5: their merits. So I have a very clear pitch to
27:58
Speaker 5: my community around the issues that I will check right
28:00
Speaker 5: from fiscal discipline and integrity, climate risk, and these are
28:05
Speaker 5: things that I will continue to look to legislation from
28:09
Speaker 5: either major party to how we can best progress that Now.
28:14
Speaker 5: Obviously convention in Parliament has evolved towards this by you know,
28:18
Speaker 5: polarized system of the two party politics. But our convention
28:21
Speaker 5: doesn't talk about political parties. It actually talks of a
28:24
Speaker 5: health of representatives. So the constitution actually allows for a
28:28
Speaker 5: very different model of politics to evolve. And I think
28:31
Speaker 5: that's what a mature Australian Parliament can look like, is
28:35
Speaker 5: actually having more genuine debate and genuinely looking at the
28:40
Speaker 5: big issues we need to do for the best interest
28:43
Speaker 5: of austrange people.
28:44
Speaker 2: So you don't actually want to do a deal with anyone,
28:47
Speaker 2: You don't want to be in a coalition. You don't
28:48
Speaker 2: want to do confidence and supplier. You basically want to
28:51
Speaker 2: sit on the cross benches and vote by vote.
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Speaker 5: I will tackle legislation on its merits looking at those issues. Obviously,
28:57
Speaker 5: the question of supply and confidence will come down to
29:01
Speaker 5: numbers as a result of the election capacity to pass
29:04
Speaker 5: legislation from one side or the other. When it comes
29:07
Speaker 5: to money bills, there's a lot of I guess convention
29:10
Speaker 5: that is not actually required Constitutionally. A party can go
29:14
Speaker 5: to the Government General to form government without having a
29:17
Speaker 5: signed deal per se. It is just a question of
29:20
Speaker 5: whether they would be able to survive a no confidence motion.
29:24
Speaker 5: Now again I would not for me. You know, it's
29:28
Speaker 5: very important to have stable operating government, and I think
29:31
Speaker 5: that again will be part of the consideration post the election.
29:35
Speaker 2: Just give us a sense of who the teals are.
29:37
Speaker 2: You're fysically conservative, but you obviously got a climate leans
29:41
Speaker 2: on you. What does your voter base want from you?
29:44
Speaker 5: Look, I guess we're very representative of our communities, but
29:48
Speaker 5: what it is is actually communities frustrated with old style politics,
29:52
Speaker 5: you know, the old school of the major parties slanging
29:55
Speaker 5: it out against each other, a lot of negative advertising,
30:00
Speaker 5: always really spreading smear and fear, but very little vision
30:05
Speaker 5: or positive proposals for our community. So we are not
30:09
Speaker 5: a party, so we vote very independently of one another.
30:12
Speaker 5: That we're very aligned on values around merit based policy,
30:17
Speaker 5: around fact base, around sound and good law, around integrity, equality,
30:23
Speaker 5: addressing the big issues, having political courage to talk about
30:28
Speaker 5: the things that are hard to do but that currently
30:30
Speaker 5: our political system are just kicking the can down the
30:33
Speaker 5: road and not addressing.
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Speaker 2: Can you just make this really clear for key, we's
30:37
Speaker 2: listening to this this morning. If it's really tight and
30:40
Speaker 2: you've got Labor and the Greens on one side, and
30:42
Speaker 2: you've got the Coalition on the other, and neither of
30:45
Speaker 2: them can actually govern them without support from some tialsome independence.
30:48
Speaker 2: Who do you go with?
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Speaker 5: Well, again, I don't think that will be the question.
30:53
Speaker 5: Keeping in mind coalition is already an agreement between the
30:56
Speaker 5: Liberal Party and the National Time so that is already
30:59
Speaker 5: a coalition itself. I want to understand the terms of
31:02
Speaker 5: that agreement. I think there'll be a question of is
31:05
Speaker 5: there a mandate for change of government or not, depending
31:08
Speaker 5: on the will of the Australian people. And I will
31:11
Speaker 5: be guided by the numbers and there are so many
31:14
Speaker 5: variations of what could be possible.
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Speaker 2: But however Australians support more, you would lean.
31:20
Speaker 5: Towards I would because again that shows a capacity for stability,
31:25
Speaker 5: which I think is an essense, That is an essential aspect.
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Speaker 2: All right, Zali, appreciate you coming on the program. That's
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Speaker 2: Zali Stegel. She's the MP for w Ringer. She replaced
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Speaker 2: Tony Abbott who had the seat for twenty five years.
31:37
Speaker 2: She's a teel and independent. And since that interviewed is
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Speaker 2: a u gav bol poll and if you believe the
31:42
Speaker 2: polls and certainly that wasn't the case when scomo Surprise
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Speaker 2: Surprise one in twenty nineteen. But it has the Coalition
31:50
Speaker 2: on track for their worst result in eighty years. Elbow
31:53
Speaker 2: actually expanding his majority eighty four seats in the Parliament,
31:57
Speaker 2: well above, of course, the seventy six that you need
31:59
Speaker 2: the Coalition and drops seventy forty seven seats, a net
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Speaker 2: loss of eleven. You're on news Talk, said B seven
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Speaker 2: Britain's factories are in trouble, so the Bank of England's
32:22
Speaker 2: going to come in and cut the rates. Next week
32:23
Speaker 2: they reckon the slashing begins. So this is for April
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Speaker 2: British factory activity, fastest slump in export orders in five years.
32:32
Speaker 2: This is the S and P Global Survey of Manufacturers.
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Speaker 2: That's not really a surprise. Mike is here with you
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Speaker 2: next on your Friday morning. Good morning, Mike morning. You
32:39
Speaker 2: gripped by the mushroom case. I gripped ish because I
32:44
Speaker 2: think we all know what happened.
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Speaker 4: See That's what's funny. You should say that because I'm
32:48
Speaker 4: not gripped by crime in any way, shape or form.
32:50
Speaker 4: You know how the media fascinates themselves with trials, most trials.
32:55
Speaker 4: You know what happened, Yeah, don't you. And it's a
32:58
Speaker 4: very very rare day that to genuine who done it?
33:01
Speaker 4: This doesn't as strike me as a who done it
33:03
Speaker 4: because we know we know who.
33:05
Speaker 2: Just look at the plates, you know, it's got different
33:07
Speaker 2: colored plates. I mean, that's a dead give a detail.
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Speaker 4: Yesterday on the phones she was googling death cap mushrooms.
33:14
Speaker 4: On the phone tracks her to the death cap mush
33:17
Speaker 4: I mean.
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Speaker 2: And also she doesn't normally have that number of plates
33:21
Speaker 2: in the house, correct, somebody was.
33:23
Speaker 4: Unusual, didn't have a lot of plates, and she spent
33:26
Speaker 4: a fortune quote unquote on beef Wellington.
33:30
Speaker 2: I mean, look at her.
33:33
Speaker 4: Her estranged ex husband to dinner or lunch would have been,
33:38
Speaker 4: whatever the case was. You know, I was just checking
33:40
Speaker 4: out that. It just seems this is hard to lose. Yeah,
33:43
Speaker 4: I'm thinking anyway, the David Seymour thing, I suppose if
33:47
Speaker 4: you don't want to get exercised about, we've got the
33:49
Speaker 4: CEO salary thing out this morning, and I don't you're
33:53
Speaker 4: not on it. I know you're not a CEO, but.
33:56
Speaker 9: I'm not on it.
33:57
Speaker 4: I know what you were, and it's there there with
33:59
Speaker 4: the big boys. Might up there with the big boys.
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Speaker 4: Why anyway?
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Speaker 2: More shortly, have a great day to run. See you
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Speaker 2: on Monday. Stay safe out there.
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