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Full Show Podcast: 23 January 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: News, soalks here be good morning to you and welcome
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Speaker 1: to early edition. My name is Andrew Dickens. Thank you
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Speaker 1: so much for choosing the program and what we've got
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Speaker 1: coming up for you over the next hour. It's inflation
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Speaker 1: day today and around the world inflation is being sticky.
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Speaker 1: So next Cameron Bagriy on what our numbers might be.
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Speaker 1: Acc has a twenty six billion dollar deficit and in
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Speaker 1: ten minutes time we'll talk about how they plan to
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Speaker 1: cope with it. Vincent mcavenny comes to us from the
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Speaker 1: UK on the latest from Davos and Prince Harry against
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Speaker 1: the papers and just before six the tragedy consuming our nation.
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Speaker 1: We'll be talking to turling A mayor Mahi Drysdale as
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Speaker 1: a hunt continues for people trapped in the landside in
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Speaker 1: Mount Monganui. We'll have correspondence from right around New Zealand.
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Speaker 1: We'll have news as it breaks and you can have
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Speaker 1: your say on the text machine. And the number is
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Speaker 1: ninety two ninety two that's ZBZB at seven a half
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Speaker 1: to five. The agenda, Well, it's Friday, in the twenty
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Speaker 1: third of January. Trump and Zelenski have had a one
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Speaker 1: hour chinwag at Davos. Here's what Zelensky had to say about.
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Speaker 2: Or are nearly ready and that really matters.
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Speaker 3: Ukraine is working with.
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Speaker 2: Full honesty and determination and that brings results, and Russia
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Speaker 2: must become ready to to finish this war, to stop
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Speaker 2: this aggression.
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Speaker 1: Meanwhile on Greenlands, Elensky says, everyone's waiting for America to,
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Speaker 1: as he says, call down.
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Speaker 4: Europe looks lost.
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Speaker 2: Trying to convince the US president to change, but he
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Speaker 2: will not change. President Trump laughs who he is, and
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Speaker 2: he says he loves Europe, but he will not listen
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Speaker 2: to this.
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Speaker 1: Kind of Europe now too. America and former Special Council
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Speaker 1: Jack Smith has arrived before the US House Judiciary Committee,
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Speaker 1: where he will testify about his decision to bring criminal
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Speaker 1: charges against President Trump in two separate cases.
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Speaker 4: Jack Smith was the one pushing to have the hearing
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Speaker 4: be public, which is quite remarkable.
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Speaker 2: Typically it is not the witness who wants to public.
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Speaker 4: Hering, but Congress who does so it can make a
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Speaker 4: big hill about it. So expect a lot of fireworks today.
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Speaker 1: So finally to a little bit of fun out of
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Speaker 1: Hollywood's and the Oscars vampire horror film, Sinners has said
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Speaker 1: a new Oscars record. It picked up sixteen nominations.
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Speaker 5: The things that I've seen, I mean seeing old deans.
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Speaker 4: Ucles, you manill.
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Speaker 1: Now Best Performance from an undeaed person. Sinners was a
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Speaker 1: one hundred million dollar movie. Man He predicted it would
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Speaker 1: be a disaster, but instead it became one of the
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Speaker 1: highest grossing original films in recent years now. Other films
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Speaker 1: nominated for the Oscars include Bigonia, Frankenstein, One Battle After Another,
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Speaker 1: Marty Supreme, which I saw on Monday and is quite
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Speaker 1: a rollicking ride, and the f one Film, which I
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Speaker 1: think is in the comedy sector. It is nine half
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Speaker 1: to five.
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Speaker 6: The News you Need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 6: Analysis Early Edition with Andrew Dickens and one Roote Love
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Speaker 6: where you Live News talks.
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Speaker 1: That'd be so Yesterday, the Otago Daily Times ran an
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Speaker 1: article about what a fellow called Grant Kitto thinks now.
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Speaker 1: Grant is a former Doctor Without Borders worker mat Son
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Speaker 1: Frontier and Grant Kitto argued that showcasing the US Air
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Speaker 1: Force F twenty two raptors at the Warbirds over Wonker
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Speaker 1: effectively legitimizes US military power and the weapons systems that
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Speaker 1: have been used in conflicts where civilians were killed, and
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Speaker 1: he would like it if they were stopped from actually
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Speaker 1: performing now. The Raptor is made by Lockheed Martin, and
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Speaker 1: back in twenty fifteen, a US Air Force gunship, also
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Speaker 1: built by Lockheed Martin, attacked the Doctors Without Borders Hospital,
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Speaker 1: killing forty two people, including fourteen Stars members. So you
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Speaker 1: can see where grank Kato is a little bit upset
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Speaker 1: about the United States Air Force. Obviously, he also worries
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Speaker 1: about the huge emissions from the planes, so he just
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Speaker 1: thinks it's just a bad idea. A local councilor echoed
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Speaker 1: his concerned and said that the current global environment was
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Speaker 1: not good for a display of US military power right
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Speaker 1: now in beautiful Wanica. And he said, because this plane
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Speaker 1: is in current use, that makes a difference compared to
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Speaker 1: the older planes which will be at the event. But
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Speaker 1: I thought, what a load of tosh. Firstly, I guess
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Speaker 1: the giveaway is the name of the event. It's always
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Speaker 1: been war birds. These are all warplanes. This is a
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Speaker 1: celebration of war machines, but more so the ingenuity of
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Speaker 1: the people who built the amazing planes and what they
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Speaker 1: can do in the air, not what they can do
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Speaker 1: to kill. No one's firing off any missiles here, And
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Speaker 1: I wonder where all the descent was back in the
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Speaker 1: day when the American F sixteen's visited, which were also
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Speaker 1: on act of duty, or the Australian F one to eleven's,
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Speaker 1: Or how about the Soviet era MiGs which at the
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Speaker 1: time with the height of the weapons of mass destruction?
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Speaker 1: What about the British Vulcan bombers that killed thousands in
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Speaker 1: their career, or even dare I say it, the mighty
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Speaker 1: spit Fire. Does Grand Kitto also have a problem with
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Speaker 1: shooting at the Olympics or artery? Does he have a
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Speaker 1: problem with the javelin, which of course is based on
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Speaker 1: spear work, the ultimate and original weapon of mass destruction? Look,
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Speaker 1: I understand his concern, but I think I'd say maybe
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Speaker 1: it's better to understand the weapon rather than to ban it.
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Speaker 1: And of course it's not the plane that did all
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Speaker 1: the killing, it's the people who controlled it. This plane
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Speaker 1: is coming to fly and to show what it can
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Speaker 1: do in the air, And the F twenty two Raptor
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Speaker 1: is a mind boggling good piece of kit. Used talk
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Speaker 1: said they strive after five The tailing incident of Abount
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Speaker 1: Monminuary incident, of course, is heartbreaking, and you're getting all
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Speaker 1: sorts of advice about all sorts of things. I can
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Speaker 1: tell you that the police are not actually doing any
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Speaker 1: stand ups at the moment to confirm or not confirm numbers,
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Speaker 1: and that if you do hear about any numbers, these
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Speaker 1: are unconfirmed. And so this is why you're getting several
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Speaker 1: different reports about how many numbers are involved. What we
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Speaker 1: do know is that there are people, and they're still
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Speaker 1: there and they're still hunting for them. And so Mahi
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Speaker 1: Dreisdal will be joining us just before six. This is
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Speaker 1: also the day when the inflation number comes out again,
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Speaker 1: and so in a few moments time Cameron Bagriy will
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Speaker 1: be joining us to get his pick. And as I
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Speaker 1: said right at the beginning of the program, inflation is
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Speaker 1: sticky in all sorts of places. England came out with
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Speaker 1: a worse than expected inflations figure yesterday. So how are
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Speaker 1: we doing in New Zealand? You know, Gautvielle, I think
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Speaker 1: we all would say, the cost of living crisis is
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Speaker 1: going on. Yeah, the inflation is certainly still there, it's
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Speaker 1: still very sticky. But Cameron's the guy really looks at
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Speaker 1: it in detail, and he's next.
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Speaker 6: The News you Need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 6: analysis early edition with Andrew Dickens and one Root Love
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Speaker 6: where you Live news talks that'd be.
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Speaker 1: Yes, everybody is supporting me, they're not. Grant Kitto on
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Speaker 1: the war Birds of a Wonica. Having the raptors down
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Speaker 1: here in Wontica is a great draw card, plus will
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Speaker 1: tape people's minds off the recently announced McDonald's opening in
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Speaker 1: three parks. And as Karen rightly says, you can't e
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Speaker 1: raise history. These are planes. They're just planes. Yes they
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Speaker 1: are warplanes as well, but they have just planes. Now.
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Speaker 1: Later today we're going to get our official inflation number
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Speaker 1: for the year twenty twenty five and economists are picking
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Speaker 1: three percent or above, which would come in above the
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Speaker 1: Reserve Bank's forecast of two point seven percent. So independent economists,
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Speaker 1: Cameron Baggery joins, are now good wanting to you, Cameron,
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Speaker 1: h good morning. What's your pick?
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Speaker 7: I think we honestly a number round point four one
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Speaker 7: percent point five percent are on the quarter of the
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Speaker 7: year on year to the Reserve Bank expecting number a
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Speaker 7: little lower, and when numbers tend to come a little
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Speaker 7: bit high on what the reserve Bank expecting on the
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Speaker 7: inflation front. Markets tend to pull back from the expectations
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Speaker 7: that ESUA moving down. The markets now starting to think
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Speaker 7: the ACA is going to be moving up in two
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Speaker 7: thousand and twenty six.
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Speaker 1: Did you say you think it will be moving up there?
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Speaker 7: Well, that's what markets participate at the moment. That's also
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Speaker 7: my own sort of personal view. Inflation is looking to
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Speaker 7: be a little bit sort of sticky towards the top
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Speaker 7: end of the targets, the target zones one to three scent.
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Speaker 7: We got down to two point two, we've bounced back
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Speaker 7: up to three. You've got an economy that's turning in
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Speaker 7: the corner that suggests that the disinflationary pressure to take
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Speaker 7: it back down to two percent is not quite going
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Speaker 7: to be there. So it looks like the OCR this
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Speaker 7: stage is probably a little bit too low for where
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Speaker 7: the economy is and where inflatatory pressures are so extect
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Speaker 7: the ACR at some stage, and an extort of twelve
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Speaker 7: months to go a little bit higher, emphasis on a
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Speaker 7: little bit higher, not a lot higher.
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Speaker 1: Now, the big pressure is from things that are non tradable,
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Speaker 1: you know, things like electricity and rates and stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: That's always distorting everything, isn't it.
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Speaker 7: Here it is in terms of the year and year
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Speaker 7: the numbers. If you go back and you have a
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Speaker 7: lot at inflation repressure. For most of the two thousand
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Speaker 7: sort of error, we managed to keep inflation pretty low
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Speaker 7: to low two percent, and a lot of that was
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Speaker 7: because of the low non low platable inflation, imported goods,
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Speaker 7: cheap stuff out of China. If you look at where
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Speaker 7: we are at the moment, obviously we've got the impact
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Speaker 7: of the lower New zeal On dital which tends to
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Speaker 7: push up import prices. Your export prices were obviously pretty
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Speaker 7: good for the farmers, not so good for people are
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Speaker 7: buying red meat with the supermarket. And what we're also
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Speaker 7: seeing there is your administrative charges you're from central and
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Speaker 7: love of government. They're running pretty hot. You've got rates
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Speaker 7: that are running pretty hot. You've got out of pity
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Speaker 7: of gas prices that are running pretty hot as well.
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Speaker 7: So you've got a certain persistence stickiness for non trade
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Speaker 7: of inflation or parts of non trade of inflation. But
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Speaker 7: your strip goes out your non trade of inflation, your
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Speaker 7: housing prices, your rent, you know, those sort of things
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Speaker 7: are pretty soft wide because the economy has been pretty weak.
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Speaker 7: When the economy has been pretty weak, firms can't tender
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Speaker 7: pass on price in places. So it's a real too
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Speaker 7: dead story out there in regard to what we're seeing
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Speaker 7: in regard to the place.
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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the election as coming up. We've got three hundred
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Speaker 1: days before we head to the polls once again, and
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Speaker 1: obviously the economy is going to be front and center
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Speaker 1: in terms of all the parties and what they debate.
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Speaker 1: So what do you think is going to happen over
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Speaker 1: the year and which party will be in the best
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Speaker 1: position to you know, to take advantage of it.
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Speaker 7: Well, it depends what you look at. If you look
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Speaker 7: at traditionally, a stronger economy tends to be good for
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Speaker 7: the incumbents. And obviously the economy if you look at
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Speaker 7: just about the audo economic indicators is you we can
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Speaker 7: pencil and they twenty six is going to be a
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Speaker 7: hell of lot better than twenty twenty five. I don't
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Speaker 7: think the clonomy is going to be knocking the ball
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Speaker 7: out of the part, but we've certainly got fourth pulsion
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Speaker 7: and motor in part Land, we're probably going to be
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Speaker 7: running along the motorway about third year, but we'd like
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Speaker 7: to be in four or fifth, and I don't think
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Speaker 7: we've got quite going to be the year. But third
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Speaker 7: year is an awful lot better than reverse within them,
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Speaker 7: so that's good for the incumbents of the sticking fourteen incumbents.
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Speaker 7: I think it's going to be inflation, Yeah, a number
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Speaker 7: one issue out there across you see on at the
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Speaker 7: moment's cost of them yea. And inflation sort the money
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Speaker 7: out of people's pockets. And I think inflation is going
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Speaker 7: to end up settling in the two and a half
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Speaker 7: to three percent to design in places sad As and
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Speaker 7: the two and a half three percent of design. I
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Speaker 7: think that's going to be a problem for the incumbent
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Speaker 7: governments of there's a glass fall and there's a glass
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Speaker 7: uppy story in regard to what the economic immigrate is
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Speaker 7: going to be telling bloss up there.
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Speaker 1: Fascinating Cameron Bakree, I thank you for your insight. That
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Speaker 1: is Cameron. He is the interpendent economist, and he's quite right.
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Speaker 1: If it's inflation is high, that's been for labor, they'll
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Speaker 1: complain about the cost of living. Of course, if national
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Speaker 1: can pull off a recovery with low inflation. Well, they'll
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Speaker 1: be told that they're fantastic physical managers and have another crack.
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Speaker 1: So we'll wait to see. Three hundred days ago, it
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Speaker 1: is five twenty News Talks mp ACC has a twenty
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Speaker 1: six billion dollar deficit. We know about this, but we
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Speaker 1: just don't talk about it for some time. You kind
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Speaker 1: of forget about it. So how are they going to
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Speaker 1: change things to cope with that? New report's out? We'll
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Speaker 1: talk about this next.
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Speaker 1: That'd be So the ACC, it's got a twenty six
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Speaker 1: billion dollar deficit by twenty thirty. That's now now released
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Speaker 1: a plan about how they get to cope with all
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Speaker 1: of this. The plan focuses on quicker rehabilitation for claimants
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Speaker 1: and getting the agency back to basics. And under the
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Speaker 1: new plan, the agency projects it will bring in a
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Speaker 1: two billion dollar surplus by twenty thirty instead of a
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Speaker 1: twenty six billion dollar deficit. That will be a remarkable turnaround.
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Speaker 1: So Warren Forster is an ACC lawyer and researcher. Enjoys
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Speaker 1: you now, Hallo, Warren, good morning. The fact that the
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Speaker 1: plan came out yesterday came as a bit of a surprise, you.
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Speaker 7: Did it not.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we've been waiting for this to be released for
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Speaker 4: probably five months and it just got thrown yesterday afternoon,
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Speaker 4: so it's quite a surprise. And the other thing that's
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Speaker 4: missing is that ACC was given the draft plan about
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Speaker 4: eight months ago and the optrint to respond to it
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Speaker 4: than they did, and the draft plan in a SEC's
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Speaker 4: response hasn't been released. From what we generally see with
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Speaker 4: these things is that they get watered down in the
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Speaker 4: final process, So it'll be interesting to see if they
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Speaker 4: actually are going to release that.
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Speaker 1: Why are they doing this? So they just trying to
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Speaker 1: hide everything they don't want scrutiny.
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Speaker 4: That's effectively what the problem is is that you had
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Speaker 4: this external review done, the only people they talk to
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Speaker 4: is ACC and then halfway through their realize, well we
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Speaker 4: better talk to Treasury as well. But they didn't actually
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Speaker 4: talk to anyone on the ground. They didn't walk to
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Speaker 4: people who are external to a SEC, who actually understand
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Speaker 4: the situation in detail. So yeah, that's really what they're
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Speaker 4: trying to do. They're trying to avoid scrutiny and they're
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Speaker 4: trying to control the narrative, which they've effectively done by
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Speaker 4: releasing the report along with their plan.
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Speaker 1: What did you think of the plan?
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Speaker 4: Look, to be honest, the whole report and the plan
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Speaker 4: just completely misses what the Act is actually about. And
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Speaker 4: what the Act says is that anyone who's going to
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Speaker 4: be off work for more than three months need to
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Speaker 4: have an individual rehabilitation plan that gets the employer, the
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Speaker 4: treatment provided the person and ACC together to make a
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Speaker 4: plan for that person. And what's been happening is because
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Speaker 4: ACC has got this big book you do visiting digital system,
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Speaker 4: they've completely ignored that. So people been exited from ACC
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Speaker 4: in many parts of New Zealand about four percent of
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Speaker 4: them have a plan that through the South you go
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Speaker 4: to higher the rate and more people have a plan.
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Speaker 4: But the idea that they're not doing what the Act requires,
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Speaker 4: and then they're reinventing the wheel, which is effectively what
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Speaker 4: they're doing. They're building a square wheel where they've got
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Speaker 4: one in the legislation that just forgot it exists. And no,
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Speaker 4: we're in the plan that ACC is released, No we're
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Speaker 4: in the report. Do they actually say what's happened here
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Speaker 4: is ACC has actually failed to fulfill its statutory obligations.
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Speaker 4: That's created this big blowout that stopped people getting back
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Speaker 4: to work. And the responsibility is of the ACC and
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Speaker 4: what we're actually going to do now is make them
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Speaker 4: do what it says on the box of ACC, which
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Speaker 4: is to provide individualized reabilitation. What they've done is effectively said, oh,
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Speaker 4: there's a whole lot of problems here, don't really know
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Speaker 4: what they are. We think the heirs are symptoms. So
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Speaker 4: they've described the symptoms of the problem and then said
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Speaker 4: it's going to cost us lots of money. We're going
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Speaker 4: to have to sort of crack down on ACC. So
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Speaker 4: that's the narrative of that creating that It's to be honest,
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Speaker 4: it's pretty surprising that we're at a critical junction now
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Speaker 4: for ACC. We don't need to swing backwards and forwards again.
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Speaker 4: We need to make a sustainable plan.
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Speaker 1: Whyren I thank you so much for your time. That's
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Speaker 1: It Be News Talks, It Be. What a horrific day
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Speaker 1: yesterday was the area the Bay planning at the wettest
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Speaker 1: down record with two and a half months worth of
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Speaker 1: rain in twelve hours, and that created these slips in
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Speaker 1: Papa May that took two lives, and the ongoing situation
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Speaker 1: at the Mount and rescue services were rushing into dangerous
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Speaker 1: places that civilians are fearful of. And this is why
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Speaker 1: we thank those rescue services and we pay them, and
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Speaker 1: it's all over the papers today. They've been praised for
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Speaker 1: their bravery. Of course we don't pay them overly. Well,
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Speaker 1: And I'm watching all of this, and I'm hearing all
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Speaker 1: of this, and I'm listening to the news, and then
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Speaker 1: right in the middle of it, suddenly I get a
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Speaker 1: new story that says the Firefighters Union has confirmed that
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Speaker 1: members of the New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union are still
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Speaker 1: scheduled to strike for one hour to day Friday from
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Speaker 1: twelve to one. I found that quite jarring in the
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Speaker 1: middle of watching the rescue workers actually work, to then
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Speaker 1: be told by the way they're having a one hour
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Speaker 1: strike tomorrow. Imagine if yesterday was today and the firefighters
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Speaker 1: walked off the job in the Mount in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the rescue attempts. The last strike meant a very
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Speaker 1: nice Lebanese family paid the price of losing their lifetime
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Speaker 1: of work. And you know what, I think that sets
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Speaker 1: some New Zealanders against the firefighters and they don't need that.
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Speaker 1: They already have the high moral ground. Why would you
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Speaker 1: risk that again? I'd cancel this strike personally and point
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Speaker 1: out once again how much you're needed, how much danger
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Speaker 1: you put yourself in every day, and how you're not
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Speaker 1: paying what you're worth. Because you proved that once again yesterday.
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Speaker 1: These strikes are not helping the negotiating position. Now I'll
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Speaker 1: rephrase that they've done all they could possibly do already.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't go on strike today, to be honest, but
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Speaker 1: that's just me.
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Speaker 7: What do you think?
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Speaker 1: Ninety two ninety two? All right, the police we'll be
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Speaker 1: making an update at nine o'clock this morning. We've just
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Speaker 1: heard on the situation at the Mount. Mahe Dreiser will
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Speaker 1: be joining us bore before six, Vincent Macavetti from the
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Speaker 1: Boders of the program, and it's about twenty four minutes
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Speaker 1: to six, and I have to make it apology. Apparently
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Speaker 1: the firefighters did call off their strike last night. Apparently
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Speaker 1: read about nine to fifteen at night. Well, I don't
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Speaker 1: know about you, but I woke up at three o'clock
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Speaker 1: in the morning and I was well in bed by
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Speaker 1: nine fifteen last night. I came in this morning, I
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Speaker 1: found no mention of the cancelation of the firefighters striking
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Speaker 1: our news channels as yet. The only thing I did
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Speaker 1: find just now was a Facebook post about it from
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Speaker 1: four hours ago. So it took them for all day
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Speaker 1: and a long time to decide to cancel it. So
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Speaker 1: that's a good thing, isn't it. I guess I have
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Speaker 1: to say. Yesterday when I heard it, it was jarring.
18:41
Speaker 1: Some people are texting saying, well, isn't that proving just
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Speaker 1: how valuable these people are and therefore they should be
18:45
Speaker 1: given their pay rise.
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Speaker 7: I don't know.
18:47
Speaker 1: I really don't know now the why Katta Regional Theater
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Speaker 1: is a major new performing arts venue in Hamilton, and
18:54
Speaker 1: it opened its doors just the other day with a
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Speaker 1: big old function for the High and Mighty in Hamilton
18:59
Speaker 1: and It's designed to become the White Katto's flagship cultural hub,
19:02
Speaker 1: and it's a brilliant building. It took five years to
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Speaker 1: build and money was raised for from the private sector
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Speaker 1: from the community as opposed to council money. It's on
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Speaker 1: the site of the old Heritage Hamilton Hotel, so they've
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Speaker 1: kept that facade. It looks good. It's right there by
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Speaker 1: the riverside, it's right by the eating precinct, it's right
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Speaker 1: by the museum. It's in a perfect location. Its seats
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Speaker 1: thirteen hundred odd in a steep enormous, old fashioned manner.
19:28
Speaker 1: I mean they've got boxes and balconies. I mean it
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Speaker 1: looks incredible. And of course the whole thing is state
19:33
Speaker 1: of the art. And so this theater is going to
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Speaker 1: host international acts and national tours and community performances and
19:38
Speaker 1: a full week of opening celebrations, and tonight it's having
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Speaker 1: its first ever public event and the first event is
19:45
Speaker 1: Kiwi Krohner Teaks. I adore I've seen Ticks a couple
19:50
Speaker 1: of times before, great voice, and guess what I got
19:53
Speaker 1: invited along to look at the building and to see Teaks,
19:56
Speaker 1: who I believe has the potential to be an international star.
19:58
Speaker 1: Just as big as Marlon Williams, even better. So watch
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Speaker 1: out way, kaddo, We're coming your way. We're coming to
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Speaker 1: your new theater. We're going to see TIGS and I'll
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Speaker 1: give you a full report on how good the theater
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Speaker 1: is and what I noticed there on Monday morning when
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Speaker 1: I'm here for Mike, because Mike's taking the day off,
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Speaker 1: it is twenty one to.
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Speaker 7: Six z me.
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Speaker 1: So around the country we go. Callum Proctor from Otaga,
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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, morning Andrew. Finally Wonica has a McDonald's.
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Speaker 10: Yep, that's right, the golden arches will go up and Wonica,
20:31
Speaker 10: after all, the fast food giant has secured approval finally
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Speaker 10: to open its first restaurant in the town. It comes
20:37
Speaker 10: almost a year after that earlier proposal to open near
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Speaker 10: Mound's Iron on the entrance to the town was rejected
20:43
Speaker 10: after ninety percent of submissions opposed the idea, the majority
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Speaker 10: siting concerns about lizard traffic, visual impact ceture on the
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Speaker 10: preservation of Wonnica's natural landscape. But now McDonald's has consent
20:55
Speaker 10: for a new site and it'll be in the town's
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Speaker 10: three parks commercial area. This time it was approved without
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Speaker 10: public consultation, but it's been granted for a single story
21:04
Speaker 10: restaurant and a twenty four hour drive through.
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Speaker 1: It's the right place for There's a supermarket there, there's
21:09
Speaker 1: a mountain warehouse there, there's a Bunnings there. I mean
21:11
Speaker 1: it's the light industrial area. It's a fine place for it.
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Speaker 1: How's your weather?
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Speaker 10: Heavy showers for walkat today nineteen and eating showers today sixteen.
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Speaker 1: All right, class here were joined us from Crassers. Good
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Speaker 1: morning you, Claire, Good morning. We're going to talk about
21:25
Speaker 1: the future of food packaging.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, this is neat for a Friday, So the future
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Speaker 5: of food packaging may be growing in our oceans. Andrew.
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Speaker 5: This is the mastermind of a Canterbury University student, Olivia Cooper,
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Speaker 5: who's launched green Shift Packaging. This is a startup which
21:40
Speaker 5: will turn surplus seaweed into compostable packaging designed to replace
21:45
Speaker 5: our single use plastics. She's eighteen. She's already in talks
21:49
Speaker 5: with some local bakeries here to trial this seaweed based wrap,
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Speaker 5: which will break down naturally after being used. Cooper says
21:56
Speaker 5: seaweed's a unique plant with many benefits for the environment
21:59
Speaker 5: as doesn't need soil it's very fast growing and climate
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Speaker 5: positive because it actually sucks up carbon from the atmosphere.
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Speaker 5: She came up with this idea after seeing a US
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Speaker 5: company making seaweed bioplastic on YouTube. Cooper then gave it
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Speaker 5: a try in her own kitchen and the project has
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Speaker 5: taken off from there.
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Speaker 1: Good stuf. How's your weather.
22:19
Speaker 5: Cloudy and Drewsley again today. Some thundery and hail possible
22:24
Speaker 5: later tonight as southerly's developing early afternoon as we make
22:28
Speaker 5: our way to twenty have a great.
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Speaker 1: Weekend and I thank you to Wellington we go Max
22:31
Speaker 1: told good morning to you.
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Speaker 7: Good morning.
22:33
Speaker 1: Who's the Wellington businessman who's in trouble and what did
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Speaker 1: he do?
22:38
Speaker 4: Well?
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Speaker 9: I assume that his name is going to become public
22:41
Speaker 9: very soon, but for the meantime he's been granted interim
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Speaker 9: name suppression. It is a prominent Wellington businessman. I should
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Speaker 9: specify charge with posting a harmful digital communication. The names
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Speaker 9: of both parties suppressed when the case was called in
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Speaker 9: the District Court here in Wellington yesterday. This fifty seven
23:01
Speaker 9: year older charge with posting something on Facebook that would
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Speaker 9: cause harm to an ordinary reasonable person and communication causing
23:09
Speaker 9: serious emotional distress to that journalist, so he went after
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Speaker 9: a journalist. The charge related to a post on January thirteen,
23:16
Speaker 9: no plea ended. The businessman remanded on bail to reappear
23:20
Speaker 9: in court next week. Conditions include not using social media
23:24
Speaker 9: or having anyone upload anything on social media on his behalf,
23:27
Speaker 9: so a technology blackout for this businessman. Police asked for
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Speaker 9: the other party's name also to be suppressed that journalist
23:35
Speaker 9: because publishing the name would put him in a tricky
23:37
Speaker 9: spot of having to answer questions that he shouldn't have to.
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Speaker 1: Very good stuff. And I think the whole town knows
23:43
Speaker 1: exactly who we're talking about, So oliba, it's Wellington for
23:46
Speaker 1: we now how's Willington's.
23:47
Speaker 9: Were drizzley today again with stronger northerlyes about twenty the high.
23:52
Speaker 1: Good stuff and I thank you and to walk and
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Speaker 1: we go. NEI a little MANU, good morning.
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Speaker 11: You haven't even said a thing yet. What what am
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Speaker 11: I talking about today?
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Speaker 4: Wow?
24:03
Speaker 1: The trains are not running again exactly.
24:07
Speaker 11: I thought, let's put that one in there again for
24:09
Speaker 11: Aucklander's shock me to the core, the on and off
24:11
Speaker 11: again trains. So look the parts of the Auckland train network.
24:15
Speaker 11: They were just open over a week ago. Closing again.
24:18
Speaker 11: Why why Auckland Transport's going to close the entire network
24:22
Speaker 11: for two days now? This is following Auckland Anniversary day.
24:26
Speaker 11: This is to test the city rail link timetable.
24:29
Speaker 1: Why don't they test necessarily railing with people on board?
24:33
Speaker 11: You know, I know, I know, I'm this is all comedy.
24:38
Speaker 1: I don't want to tell you. Yeah, I don't want
24:40
Speaker 1: to talk about it anymore. All I'm going to say
24:42
Speaker 1: is once you open this goddamn tunnel, you better have
24:44
Speaker 1: the service that operates right NonStop for twenty years.
24:47
Speaker 11: Well funny you should say that injury because Auckland Transport
24:49
Speaker 11: is saying their words the test will ensure reliable Steamers
24:53
Speaker 11: services from day one. How can you believe it?
24:55
Speaker 12: No?
24:56
Speaker 1: How's Hawkin's weather showers.
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Speaker 11: Mainly late afternoon early evening where they maybe heavy. Oh
25:01
Speaker 11: my goodness, Wine needs some good news. Westerly is gusting
25:04
Speaker 11: in the afternoon. Okay, Well it's going to be warm,
25:07
Speaker 11: tropical twenty fours a high.
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Speaker 4: Is that good?
25:09
Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 11: That's fine, Happy anniversary day. But we shall both be
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Speaker 11: back here on Monday anyway, Yes.
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Speaker 1: We will, because we work all the time, and because
25:16
Speaker 1: you know, seventy percent of the country will be on holiday,
25:18
Speaker 1: but thirty percent won't. And we're here for you, the
25:20
Speaker 1: thirty percent who are working and keeping this place going. Now, okay,
25:25
Speaker 1: it is sixteen to six silt. Come Mahi Drysdale. I
25:28
Speaker 1: just need to say something. I have a family, Batch
25:31
Speaker 1: and Tyler on the Corrimandel. Yesterday the reservoir at the
25:35
Speaker 1: top of the Paku Mountain failed. A whole heap of
25:38
Speaker 1: water came screaming down. It's completely blocked off Montehole Road,
25:42
Speaker 1: which is how I get to my batch. And then
25:44
Speaker 1: actually on my side of the mountain, a whole lot
25:46
Speaker 1: of water, rocks and mud came all the way down,
25:49
Speaker 1: came all the way down our drive and guess what,
25:51
Speaker 1: missed my house by three meters, but slammed into my
25:54
Speaker 1: neighbor's house who got inundated with mud while they were
25:56
Speaker 1: asleep upstairs. I'm not looking for sympathy, but I can't.
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Speaker 1: I was going to go there this weekend after going
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Speaker 1: to Hamilton, but I can't because the road is closed
26:04
Speaker 1: two hundred meters around the road for me. Heather and Parry.
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Speaker 1: They don't know what's with their house because they can't
26:10
Speaker 1: get up there at the moment. This was a big
26:12
Speaker 1: weather event. It's affected the Cromdal immensely. We are going
26:16
Speaker 1: to talk to Mahi Drysdale before six, we will say,
26:19
Speaker 1: but I can tell you about Mount Montanui. Search crews
26:22
Speaker 1: have been working overnight and update is now expected from
26:25
Speaker 1: the authorities at nine am from the commander on site.
26:30
Speaker 1: We had three excavators digging overnight. Around about one thirty
26:33
Speaker 1: those excavator stopped digging, which suggests a spades we're doing
26:38
Speaker 1: the work. Mordicam New Stalks EB International Correspondence with Ends
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Speaker 1: We're off to the UK right now with the time
26:51
Speaker 1: at twelve minutes to six events. Macavenny, good morning to you.
26:54
Speaker 1: What's the latest out of Diavos.
26:57
Speaker 8: Good morning. While President Zelenski is currently speaking at the
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Speaker 8: Big Summers and I think he's trying to win back
27:03
Speaker 8: some points with President Trump, who has been siding more
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Speaker 8: with Vladimir Putin because he's been criticizing Europe. President Zelenski
27:11
Speaker 8: saying that Europe loves to discuss the future but avoids
27:14
Speaker 8: taking action. Today. It's saying that the continent has to
27:16
Speaker 8: do more to protect itself, particularly those Balkan nations, from
27:20
Speaker 8: Russian aggression, because he thinks unless Ukraine can get a
27:24
Speaker 8: peace deal soon that keeps some of the majority of
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Speaker 8: its territory, that Russia will be emboldened and will strike
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Speaker 8: Europe again.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 4: So.
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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, we had the big court case which is hppening
27:37
Speaker 1: with Printerry against the Daily Mail, and now we've got
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Speaker 1: Liz Hurley coming in to the doc.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: I've been in court for this case all week. It's
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Speaker 8: expected to go on for some eight weeks and it's
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Speaker 8: incredibly rare that it's got here because for the past decade,
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Speaker 8: every court case like this to do with the kind
27:54
Speaker 8: of practices of the tabloids in the nineties and two
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Speaker 8: thousands has been settled out of court because of kind
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Speaker 8: of quirks in our law basically that kind of force
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Speaker 8: the claimants to do so. But Prince Harry Elton, John,
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Speaker 8: Liz Hurley, Sadie Frost among those who have taken The
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Speaker 8: Daily Mail, the biggest tabloid newspaper in Britain, all the
28:12
Speaker 8: way to this trial. Yesterday, Prince Harry was there talking
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Speaker 8: about the ways that journalists had harassed him about what
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Speaker 8: they had done to his state of mind. Today it
28:21
Speaker 8: was the turn of Liz Hurley, who was also very
28:24
Speaker 8: emotional upset, talking about microphones being placed on her home
28:28
Speaker 8: windows to get stories, brutal invasions of privacy. Journalists doing
28:33
Speaker 8: something called blagging, which is kind of faking who you are,
28:35
Speaker 8: so pretending, for instance, to be someone's assistant to get
28:38
Speaker 8: information about them, some of its sensitive, even health records.
28:41
Speaker 8: So this trial will go on and it's going to
28:43
Speaker 8: be pretty blockbuster.
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Speaker 1: Did Liz have any evidence of the microphones, like photographs
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Speaker 1: or you know, any physical evidence or just what she seen.
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Speaker 8: No, it was her testimony on this which she said.
28:55
Speaker 8: She also talks about having conversations around you know, her father,
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Speaker 8: the father of her son, Damien, and those conversations only
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Speaker 8: being shared with the likes of Elton John and David
29:05
Speaker 8: Furnish and ending up in the tabloid. So the defense
29:09
Speaker 8: says that they deny all this. They say that people
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Speaker 8: around these people were leaking to them. But this case
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Speaker 8: we're going to hear more from Sadie Frost, who was
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Speaker 8: the wife of Jude Law. Politicians as well and victims
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Speaker 8: of crime about what they say happened the papers. You know,
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Speaker 8: we're using a lot of private investigators at this time.
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Speaker 1: All right mcavinnie, I thank you. With just ten to six,
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Speaker 1: does it be we're joined now by the turdag Mahi
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Speaker 1: drives da. Good morning to you, Mahi. Good morning the
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Speaker 1: other day for you yesterday and your entire region. We've
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Speaker 1: had the workers working over the night. We're getting reports
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Speaker 1: that they're now using spades.
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Speaker 12: Look, we've said, yeah, they're doing a lot of good work.
29:52
Speaker 12: You know, they've moved a lot of overnight. Unfortunately, we're
29:58
Speaker 12: still to identify or find any anyone. It is still
30:04
Speaker 12: very much a rescue effort. So you know, I think
30:08
Speaker 12: when when they find a place of interest, they will
30:13
Speaker 12: use spades. But the diggers are very much continuing with
30:17
Speaker 12: with the search.
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Speaker 1: Have you spoken to the families who might have people
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Speaker 1: that are unaccounted for?
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Speaker 12: Yes, Look, we focused most of our day yesterday on
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Speaker 12: on trying to support the families. You know, you can
30:32
Speaker 12: imagine how how tough a time that is when you're
30:36
Speaker 12: not sure of of you know, what what is happening
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Speaker 12: and where your your loved ones are. So look, it's
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Speaker 12: it was a pretty emotional data to be honest, you know,
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Speaker 12: but but we're doing what we can. There's the family
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Speaker 12: in liaison, officers from the police that are supporting them.
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Speaker 12: And look, I can just just say the community have
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Speaker 12: been absolutely amazing with you know, the care packages they
31:03
Speaker 12: brought down, the the support they give along with fa
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Speaker 12: the volunteers, you know, the surf life savers and fans
31:10
Speaker 12: and police. So look, it's a it is a tough time,
31:13
Speaker 12: but you know, getting through it and the right people
31:16
Speaker 12: are doing the right things, so we just need to
31:20
Speaker 12: support that.
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Speaker 1: Is the weather stable and is the land stable or
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Speaker 1: still in the stable?
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Speaker 12: Oh look, the weather at the moment is still stable.
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Speaker 4: The land is not.
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Speaker 12: And you know, they did have to pull back a
31:37
Speaker 12: bit during the night as as they brought in a
31:42
Speaker 12: specialist search team to to you know, put the dogs
31:47
Speaker 12: over again, and as they were stopped. While that was happening,
31:51
Speaker 12: they could hear further tree cracking around the slips, so
31:55
Speaker 12: you look, we also have the rescue people to to
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Speaker 12: make sure that they also stay safe. So you know,
32:03
Speaker 12: it's it's a very tricky balance in a in a
32:06
Speaker 12: very tricky situation to to try to balance the safety
32:10
Speaker 12: of the rescue workers along with you trying as quickly
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Speaker 12: as as possible to rescue the people that are unaccounted for.
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Speaker 1: Did you get any sleep that night.
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Speaker 12: I've got a couple of hours. You know, as you
32:25
Speaker 12: can imagine, it's it's pretty hard, you know, knowing that
32:29
Speaker 12: that there are people missing and and we want to
32:33
Speaker 12: find them as as quickly as possible. But you know,
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Speaker 12: as I say, we've we've got really good teams. Everyone's
32:39
Speaker 12: doing an amazing job and and uh, you know, just
32:42
Speaker 12: just thank you too to everyone that's that's involved and
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Speaker 12: doing the work that's required.
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Speaker 1: All the best, mate, and pass on our regards for
32:51
Speaker 1: everybody concerned. It is six to six on.
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Speaker 6: Your radio and online on iheard Radio Billy Edition with
33:00
Speaker 6: Andrew Dickens and one roof Love where you live News talk.
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Speaker 1: Se'd be a four to six holiday we can for
33:06
Speaker 1: seventy percent of the country this weekend. But it's not
33:09
Speaker 1: really a holiday mood right now, is it, Mike? After
33:12
Speaker 1: what happened yesterday, Intel rateful business.
33:13
Speaker 3: We'll get the Mark Mitchell update. He's there up to
33:16
Speaker 3: seven o'clock. Inflation's out today, So fingers crossed on all
33:19
Speaker 3: of that. Tell you what that will be assuming interesting
33:21
Speaker 3: year because it becomes a little bit hotter than they've
33:24
Speaker 3: been predicting that. Of course, so your cuts are over
33:27
Speaker 3: because last year was all about the cuts, So the
33:29
Speaker 3: cuts are almost certainly over. And then the conversation the
33:32
Speaker 3: election year becomes do the Arby get back in bold
33:35
Speaker 3: and a possible hike?
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Speaker 1: Well, Baggery was on with me today. He reckons there's
33:38
Speaker 1: going to be a hike, and he sees this year, yeah,
33:41
Speaker 1: coming up over twenty six and he also sees he
33:43
Speaker 1: also sees the problem with US is because its election year.
33:46
Speaker 1: If the infation goes up, then of course labor says
33:48
Speaker 1: cost a living crisis. However, if the infation comes down
33:51
Speaker 1: or stays still, Nashville can say we're in the great fiscalship.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's what makes them election year so interesting. Also,
33:57
Speaker 3: acc you've got a turn around. I didn't realize that
33:59
Speaker 3: what I knew, I knew it was a boat in
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Speaker 3: realism is bad. They're in the hole at the current
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Speaker 3: rate of twenty six billion dollars by twenty thirty, so
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Speaker 3: they've got to turn around.
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Speaker 9: Plan.
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Speaker 3: So we'll work our way through that and see.
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Speaker 9: If it's possible.
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Speaker 6: That's very good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I had a fellow on today, and he said
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Speaker 1: they've missed actually doing their job in the first place.
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Speaker 1: But I'll tell you about that while the news is on.
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Speaker 1: Mike All very good. Producer Kenaick, thank you.
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Speaker 6: See you Monday for more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge.
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