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Full Show Podcast: 03 September 2024 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge new
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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
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Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture beds and a play a store us Dogs.
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Speaker 2: That'd be good morning. It is six after five. I'm
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge. Great to be with you this morning. Roads, roads, roads,
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Speaker 2: Sorry cyclists. We'll talk about the government's latest roading plan.
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Speaker 2: Consumers are paying off their debts, but not in time
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Speaker 2: for some businesses who are going to the wall. I'll
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Speaker 2: tell you how many before five point thirty this morning.
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Speaker 2: Customers are up twenty percent in the past ten years.
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Speaker 2: Normally that's great news for a business, but not if
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Speaker 2: you're a GP. We'll ask why. Also, Leslie Yeoman's out
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Speaker 2: of Australia this morning. Why was there a woman in
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Speaker 2: a cage with a tiger getting bitten? Seven after five.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It is Tuesday, the third of September. Thousands of people
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Speaker 2: have taken part in a nationwide strike in Israel. Protest
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Speaker 2: is calling for a big spy and a hostage deal.
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Speaker 2: It comes after the deaths of six Israeli hostages in Gaza.
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Speaker 2: And I'm here to pay your respect, to resist, to
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Speaker 2: shout out and say this is not the way it
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Speaker 2: should be. Israel's labor court has ordered the strike to
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Speaker 2: end earlier than planned. We'll get to ntnya Who's response
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Speaker 2: in a second. If true, and it's just reported comments,
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Speaker 2: but if true, it's pretty damning for him. Two US
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Speaker 2: researchers have found the possible launch site for Russia's new
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Speaker 2: nuclear missile. It's located about five hundred kilometers north of
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Speaker 2: Moscow at an existing missile storage facility, where they noticed
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Speaker 2: the construction of nine launch pads taking place. Putin has
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Speaker 2: touted the weapon as invincible, saying it has unlimited range
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Speaker 2: and can escape US defense systems. Happy Tuesday, everybody. Physical
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Speaker 2: works to reopen the Corimandal Peninsula's Cathedral cove have started.
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Speaker 2: It's been inaccessible by foot since February last year after
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Speaker 2: landslides because of cyclone Gave. It should be ready in
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Speaker 2: time for summer.
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Speaker 3: The more exciting stage around the repair and the construction
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Speaker 3: of the tracks.
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Speaker 4: That part will take through a vast majority of October
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Speaker 4: and November this year.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines, Ryan Bridge you for twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four on Early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's
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Speaker 1: furniture beds and a player store.
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Speaker 2: News Talk said Bee. Apparently they need to cut down
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Speaker 2: thirty dangerous trees in order that you can access Cathedral
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Speaker 2: Cove again. And interestingly, part of that money is that's
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Speaker 2: doing the job is coming from the International Visitor Levy,
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Speaker 2: which seems like a reasonable use of that money. I
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Speaker 2: would have thought. I was just thinking the other day
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Speaker 2: how many things haven't been fixed since cyclone? Gabrielle. On
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Speaker 2: my street there was a sinkhole, no pothole. What is
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Speaker 2: the difference between a sinkhole and a pothole? I mean
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Speaker 2: the size of it, obviously, but at what point does
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Speaker 2: a pothole become a sinkhole? Anyway, they put a metal
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Speaker 2: about a two by three meter metal plate across the pothole.
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Speaker 2: Slash sinkhole still there? This is after cyclone, Gabrielle, still there?
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Speaker 2: What's not being fixed at your place? Nine to nine
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Speaker 2: two is the number to text I saw the other
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Speaker 2: day there's a beach in Gisbon where they had finally
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Speaker 2: burnt all the slash off the beach from cyclone? Gabrielle.
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Speaker 2: What is still not fixed where you are? Nine two
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Speaker 2: ninety two is the number to text? Ryan nine minutes
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Speaker 2: after five the cost of crime. This is a Michael
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Speaker 2: Hill result and you can rarely start to measure in
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Speaker 2: terms of dollars how much crime is costing New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: Michael Hill's international performance is down for twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 2: They've released their results. Revenue was up four point two percent,
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Speaker 2: but there was a net loss of almost half a
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Speaker 2: billion Australian dollars for the financial year twenty three. That's
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Speaker 2: the global picture. Look at New Zealand. The New Zealand
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Speaker 2: crime played a factor in the New Zealand market, the
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Speaker 2: company saying investment in security measures across the year had
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Speaker 2: a five million dollars direct impact on earnings. And that's
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Speaker 2: before you take into account the force closure of two
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Speaker 2: of its retail locations within a year because of crime.
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Speaker 2: So I mean, you know, five million dollars at least
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Speaker 2: for the New Zealand arm of Michael Hell. For every
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Speaker 2: dollar you put into police, you know, how many do
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Speaker 2: you get out? That's the question. I suppose just gone
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Speaker 2: ten minutes after five, you're on news talk saidb Lots
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Speaker 2: more to come, including what Netanyahu is reported to have
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Speaker 2: said about the strikes in Israel. Also the autopsy results
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Speaker 2: on those six hostages after reports actually they weren't shot
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Speaker 2: in the hours before they were rescued. All that coming
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Speaker 2: your way here on news Talk ZB five still find.
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Speaker 1: Much low news and views. You trust has done your day.
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Speaker 1: It's early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New
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Speaker 1: Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store.
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Speaker 2: News Talk SIBB thirteen after five News Talk said, b
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Speaker 2: you might have seen in the news yesterday there was
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Speaker 2: some suggest in those six hostages whose bodies were recovered
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Speaker 2: from Gaza that they may not have actually been shot
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Speaker 2: in the hours before the bodies were recovered as was
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Speaker 2: initially reported. Well the autopsy this according to the Times
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Speaker 2: of Israel, the autopsy has found that the six hostages
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Speaker 2: were shot multiple times at close range in the last
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Speaker 2: forty eight to seventy two hours. Another bit of information
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Speaker 2: from the Times of Israel for you. This is about
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Speaker 2: reported comments, so not confirmed comments, but reported comments by
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Speaker 2: Benjamin Nettanna who in a cabinet meeting after the general
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Speaker 2: strike yesterday where you know half the country took the
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Speaker 2: day off and protested. He apparently said the protests we're
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Speaker 2: a disgrace and in effect showed support for humas, the
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Speaker 2: terror group that despite the families of some of the
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Speaker 2: hostages taking part in the very protest that he is condemning.
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Speaker 2: Fourteen minutes after five, Bryan Bridge, now, let's talk about
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Speaker 2: your healthcare. Nine out of ten family doctor clinics clinics
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Speaker 2: are planning to increase their fees if they haven't already.
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Speaker 2: That's according to a survey from the General Practice Owners Association.
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Speaker 2: They're calling it a crisis. The Health Minister, doctor Shane
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Speaker 2: st says he's trying to sort it out, including looking
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Speaker 2: at the funding model. Angus Chambers is with the GP
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Speaker 2: Owners Association. He is with us this morning. Good morning,
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Speaker 2: good morning, thanks for being with me. Now, one of
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Speaker 2: the things I found interesting the customer numbers or patient
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Speaker 2: numbers are up twenty percent over ten years for GPS.
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Speaker 2: Shouldn't that be good for business?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not actually correct. The number of times people
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Speaker 3: attend to each each person attends is up twenty percent.
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Speaker 3: So what that means the same money you get paid
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Speaker 3: for that person goes quite quite quite a bit less
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Speaker 3: because they're coming more often, they've got more complicated health
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Speaker 3: care needs. So no, it actually is it's more taxing
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Speaker 3: on the business.
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Speaker 2: So is that part of the problem that the funding
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Speaker 2: you get from the part you get from the government
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Speaker 2: only covers the patient, not how many times they come.
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Speaker 3: That's correct, so it certainly as putting a much bigger
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Speaker 3: strain on the services.
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Speaker 2: Why are they coming so much?
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Speaker 3: Well, healthcare is changing over the years. The big part
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Speaker 3: of it is actually the aging population. So aging people
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Speaker 3: have more health problems and they come more often. There's
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Speaker 3: more tests that we can do, there's more treatments that
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Speaker 3: we can do. Mental health issues significantly on the rise,
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Speaker 3: which means people will thankfully come a bit more for that,
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Speaker 3: but that's also quite a burden on the system.
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Speaker 2: How much can you charge because there's a copayment that
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Speaker 2: we pay and we go to see a GP, how
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Speaker 2: much can you charge? Can you increase that exponentially?
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 3: Hey, look, some people we've signed contracts to have fixed fees,
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Speaker 3: whether it's zero or for community services cards nineteen dollars fifty.
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Speaker 3: For the rest of the people, Yes, you can increase
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Speaker 3: your fees, but there's a kind of a threshold that's
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Speaker 3: set and if you increase it by more than that,
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Speaker 3: the system that the Health New Zealand can refer you
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Speaker 3: to something called a fees review. Committee, which is an expensive,
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Speaker 3: bureaucratic involved process, and they check whether you should be
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Speaker 3: allowed to increase your fees or not.
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Speaker 2: How much of this problem it comes down to exactly
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Speaker 2: what you've described. You're not paid for every time at
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Speaker 2: a patient visits versus there is a shortage of labor
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Speaker 2: and a shortage of staff that you just can't get
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Speaker 2: your hands on. Or does one problem cause the other?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're interrelated.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 3: The system of getting paid a certain amount per patient
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Speaker 3: is actually an essence not a bad one. But the
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Speaker 3: increase in our costs to provide that service have not
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Speaker 3: been kept pace with either through government funding or having
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Speaker 3: our fees restricted as we talked about, and so that
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Speaker 3: means that you can't generate the income required to pay
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Speaker 3: people more attractively, such as our nurses or gps, both
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Speaker 3: of whom both groups of whom are being either attracted
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Speaker 3: by the hospital systems or overseas. What's the solution then, well,
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Speaker 3: there's a number of things that have to be done,
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Speaker 3: but the immediate thing is we need to retain some
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Speaker 3: of our general practice and nursing staff and that comes
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Speaker 3: down to increasing funding to be fair. I mean, in
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Speaker 3: the end, the patients are the ones who are suffering
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Speaker 3: for this. They're paying a lot more to come and
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Speaker 3: see us, they have to wait for prolonged periods or
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Speaker 3: they're not even able to enroll. Our services are closing
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Speaker 3: around the country, especially after our services from Northland to Southland.
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Speaker 3: We've had services closed in the last twelve to eighteen
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Speaker 3: months and it's going to get work. Communities are going
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Speaker 3: to lose their access to their general practice team.
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Speaker 2: Just to be really clear, angus, do you want the
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Speaker 2: funding to increase in line with how many extra visits
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Speaker 2: people are making or by what measure.
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Speaker 3: That would be a factor in it. But the government's
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Speaker 3: actually commissioned a number of independent reports that have looked
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Speaker 3: at this quite de deeply, and the most recent one
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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty two, and they had recognized that the
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Speaker 3: system doesn't pay for complexity and deprivation and they have
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Speaker 3: worked out a formula to suggest what's fair to just
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Speaker 3: sustain the practice, not to increase and get the enhancements
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Speaker 3: we need to provide better care. And that was around
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Speaker 3: about fourteen percent increased funding.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Angus, thanks you very much for your time. Really
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Speaker 2: appreciate it. I really appreciate it. This morning, Angus Chambers,
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Speaker 2: the gen pro chare. That's the GP Owners Association, just
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Speaker 2: repeating that nine out of ten family doctor say they
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Speaker 2: plan to increase their fees if they haven't already. So
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Speaker 2: more great news. Happy Tuesday, just gone nineteen after five.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge new for twenty twenty four on early edition
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Speaker 1: with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a playing
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Speaker 1: store news Dogs.
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Speaker 2: It'd be good morning twenty one after five. Centric started.
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Speaker 2: This is for July month on months shows consumer areas,
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Speaker 2: how many are behind on payments falling by nine thousand
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Speaker 2: to four hundred and fifty six thousand, So that's good.
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Speaker 2: But company liquidations are up. Monica Leces, the centric's chief
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Speaker 2: operating officer. Good morning, Monica, morning Ryan. Let's start with
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Speaker 2: the bad news first, the liquidations, three hundred and eighty
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Speaker 2: three liquidations for the second quarter. Where are they? What
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Speaker 2: types of companies?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Look, I think businesses have had a really rough rise,
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Speaker 6: you know, if you think about COVID and IM packs
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Speaker 6: of that head on them. And then now obviously we're
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Speaker 6: in this recession where consumers are doing the right thing
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Speaker 6: and going back spending, which we're seeing the results of
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Speaker 6: on the consumer areas front. But what that does mean
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Speaker 6: is that businesses are impacted because people just aren't out
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Speaker 6: there spending money like they would have been otherwise. So
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Speaker 6: naturally we're seeing a larger number of these liquidations fall
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Speaker 6: in the Auckland region because of course that's our biggest
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Speaker 6: business sector in the country, and it's impacting the traditional
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Speaker 6: market seed expects for construction, hospitality and retail.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so that's the bad news, the liquidations going out,
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Speaker 2: But what about the consumers getting on top of their debt?
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Speaker 2: But you know, is that significant of the drop of
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Speaker 2: nine thousand to four hundred and fifty six thousand.
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Speaker 6: We have seen some volatility this year from months to months,
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Speaker 6: but the really pleasing news is that the overall trend
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Speaker 6: is trending down, So I think that that's really positive.
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Speaker 6: I mean, we're talking about four hundred and fifty six
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Speaker 6: thousand New Zealanders in some state of areas and eighty
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Speaker 6: till of the eighty two thousand or in alquency, so
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Speaker 6: ninety days or more overdue. So it's quite a low
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Speaker 6: number by comparison to the population. So overall New Zealanders
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Speaker 6: are doing a quite a good job of managing the
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Speaker 6: financial position.
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Speaker 2: What do you read into the five percent increase in
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Speaker 2: credit card applications for July? What does that tell us?
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Speaker 2: Are people poised to I don't know, get a new
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Speaker 2: couch or is it for basic things to fix a car?
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Speaker 2: What's the general vibe there.
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Speaker 6: I don't really have that's behind what's beending that on.
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Speaker 6: But I can tell you that the Responsible Lending Code
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Speaker 6: that directs lenders on how they should be assessing individuals
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Speaker 6: appries protections to consumers. That gives us some comfort that
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Speaker 6: you know they can actually afford to pate that back,
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Speaker 6: so I think they'll be okay.
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Speaker 2: Monica, thank you. That's Monica Lacey. The Centric's chief operating officer,
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Speaker 2: Ryan Titsdangy is still like a war zone after the
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Speaker 2: big rains eighteen months ago. They really need to get
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Speaker 2: on with it and start getting the place fixed up.
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Speaker 2: So many things not fixed after Cyclon Gabrielle the Auckland
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Speaker 2: Anniversary floods. Slots of your text coming and we'll get
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Speaker 2: to them shortly.
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Speaker 1: The early edition full the show podcast on iHeartRadio, how
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Speaker 1: It by News.
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Speaker 2: Talks at me Health New Zealand is the country's largest
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Speaker 2: organization by far, it employs more than eighty thousand people.
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Speaker 2: Roughly the same number of teachers are employed by state
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Speaker 2: schools in our education system. And these numbers dwarf any
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Speaker 2: private enterprise that's currently operating here. Fletcher Building's got about
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Speaker 2: eighteen thousand staff, will worse about eighteen thousand, Fonterra about
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Speaker 2: sixteen thousand. The warehouse in New Zealand, Camart they're up
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Speaker 2: there too. Here's a question for you, which of these
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Speaker 2: organizations provides a quality or even adequate service to us?
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Speaker 2: When a private airline says they'll fly you somewhere on
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Speaker 2: a certain date at a certain time, it generally happens.
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Speaker 2: When you go to the supermarket, you generally know you
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Speaker 2: can reliably leave with some milk and some bread in
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Speaker 2: your hand. And when you go to kmart, are you
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Speaker 2: ever told you must wait eighteen months for that twelve
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Speaker 2: dollars lamp that you've being eyeing up in the latest catalog?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 2: So why does this happen with our healthcare system? Why
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Speaker 2: are we constantly told you must wait, you must line up.
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Speaker 2: It's never good enough. Is there a reason we have
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Speaker 2: students failing exams, teacher shortages, low pay, hospital wait times
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Speaker 2: and a lack of access to quality care is the
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Speaker 2: reason for this because they're all run by the state.
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Speaker 2: I know, big question for a Tuesday Ryan settled down.
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Speaker 2: The workforces are never happy, but they heavily unionize too.
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Speaker 2: Is that part of the problem or is that an
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Speaker 2: attempt at a solution. Don't get me wrong, big corporates
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Speaker 2: have their own issues. We hate to see them profit,
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Speaker 2: and I don't imagine that we would stomach big profits
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Speaker 2: off our kids' education or grandma's hip replacement. We consider
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Speaker 2: these things to be basics, right, and international examples of
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Speaker 2: privatized healthcare don't exactly scream success. Get America. But if
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Speaker 2: we're paying taxes an adequate service for basic needs is
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Speaker 2: not being provided. Is it not fair to ask whether
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Speaker 2: the fact that their public entities might just be part
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Speaker 2: of the problem. Rain Bridge twenty eight minutes after five
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Speaker 2: Glad I got that off my chest. Hey, Sydney, brand
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Speaker 2: new metro. Everyone's crowing about it. How flash? How fancy
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Speaker 2: you know? There's no chewing gum on them pavements, yet
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Speaker 2: no graffiti on them walls. Beautiful, pristine looking thing. But
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Speaker 2: how do you get to the Metro in your car?
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Speaker 2: If you live in Australia. And big problem this is
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Speaker 2: at Tullawong Station. They've got a thousand car parks. They
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Speaker 2: are all full by seven thirteen am in the morning
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Speaker 2: because everyone drives to the train. The traffic apparently gridlocked
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Speaker 2: around the station. That's the problem with public transport, I suppose,
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Speaker 2: isn't it. It doesn't go right to your front door,
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Speaker 2: does it. Anyway, we'll catch up with the Australia Correspondent
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Speaker 2: after the news.
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Speaker 1: Long the news you need this morning and the in
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Speaker 1: depth analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City,
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Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture bids and applying store news talks.
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Speaker 7: It'd be one can see it's last in the memory,
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Speaker 7: arguest love doing.
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Speaker 4: It's a moment inside.
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Speaker 2: Twenty four away from the six year old news talks,
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Speaker 2: here'd be we're going to lose the Yeoman's our Australia
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Speaker 2: Correspondent in about fifteen minutes from now. We're also going
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Speaker 2: to Allen McDonald Employees and Manufacturers Association reaction to the
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Speaker 2: new roads that the government wants to build, the ones
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Speaker 2: they want to fix, and the cycle ways that they won't.
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Speaker 2: That's all coming your way before six this morning. Some
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Speaker 2: of your feedback right now, this is on healthcare. Why
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Speaker 2: is it we just can't get it right? Is it
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Speaker 2: because it's all run by the government. You know, if
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Speaker 2: our healthcare system was fully private, would we have better service?
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Speaker 2: I guess it is the question nine two ninety two, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: healthcare here is a never ending cap in hand. You
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Speaker 2: can see why America is holding off on Medicare for all.
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Speaker 2: It's a pit. Insurance should be the answer. See, the
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Speaker 2: problem is how do you how can we afford insurance
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Speaker 2: and taxes? You know, if we're going to go down
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Speaker 2: the private route, then you have to you have to
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Speaker 2: cut taxes otherwise, I mean, how do you survive? Ryan.
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Speaker 2: We don't hate to see small or big companies profit.
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Speaker 2: That's jealousy and is the preserve of socialist economies. Says Peter.
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Speaker 2: It's good for companies to make profits. This is talking
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Speaker 2: about whether if we privatize healthcare. All I was saying,
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Speaker 2: Peter is look at how we complain and moan about
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Speaker 2: in New Zealand making a profit, about supermarkets making a profit.
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Speaker 2: Can you imagine what the public and the journalists would
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Speaker 2: write about if it was profits of healthcare, profits off education.
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Speaker 2: That's the point I was making. I completely agree profits
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Speaker 2: are entirely necessary. A lot of them reinvested back into companies, etc.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 2: Plus otherwise, if you didn't make a profit, what would
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Speaker 2: be the point Why would you do it? Nine two
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Speaker 2: nine two the number to text twenty two away from
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Speaker 2: six Bryan Bridge. Get to our reporters around the country
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Speaker 2: in just a second. You know, when you're driving a
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Speaker 2: car and it makes a noise, you don't really know
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Speaker 2: what it is. You've got no idea, and you ask
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Speaker 2: your passenger maybe it's your wife, your husband, whatever, do
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Speaker 2: you did you hear that? Listen, slow down? Can you
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Speaker 2: hear that? And they say no, I can't hear that.
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Speaker 2: In anyway, You start to worry. You start to fret.
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Speaker 2: What's wrong with the car? I hope it's just a
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Speaker 2: stone and the tire that happened in space. To a
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Speaker 2: NASA astronaut called Butch, excuse me, Butch willmore, he asked
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Speaker 2: mission control about the strange noise. This is inside the
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Speaker 2: Boeing Star Line of spacecraft, which is due to fly
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Speaker 2: home on autopilot in a couple of days. By the way, anyway,
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Speaker 2: Butch is up in space. He can hear a noise.
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Speaker 2: You can hear a noise, and he asked mission control
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Speaker 2: have a listen.
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Speaker 3: This is a strange noise coming through the speaker.
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Speaker 2: And I didn't know if you could connect into the
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Speaker 2: starliner and let me here. I don't know what's making it.
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Speaker 2: So doesn't know what's making the noise. And annoyingly, mission
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Speaker 2: control can't hear it at negative.
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Speaker 6: Butch, we did not hear anything, all right, Butch, that
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Speaker 6: one came through.
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Speaker 2: So finally they hear exactly what's going on. So this
20:49
Speaker 2: Boeing star Liner, this is the two astronauts are stuck
20:53
Speaker 2: in space. Anyway, that star liner is going to come
20:56
Speaker 2: back down to Earth in a few days. It'll come
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Speaker 2: on its own without the astronauts. Obviously, they're staying there
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Speaker 2: because they just don't trust that the starline and will
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Speaker 2: land safely or hit the Earth the ocean safely enough
21:10
Speaker 2: for the astronauts to be in it. They still don't
21:13
Speaker 2: know what that noise is. By the way, just gone
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Speaker 2: twenty six. Ryan Bridge now reporters around the country. Jamie
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Speaker 2: Cunningham is in Dunedin this morning. Jamie, good morning. Bus
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Speaker 2: safety are focus for the Otago Regional Council.
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Speaker 4: Yes, good morning.
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Speaker 6: That is right.
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Speaker 4: There is a new campaign down there. It's Cool to
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Speaker 4: be Kind, encourages users to be considerate of everyone at
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Speaker 4: stops on the bus and of bus drivers in Doneda
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Speaker 4: and Queenstown. It's also urging people to report bad behavior.
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Speaker 4: The campaign, of course, comes after a sixteen year old
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Speaker 4: was fatally stabbed at Dunedin's bus hub in May. Transport
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Speaker 4: manager Lorraine Chains says most users are respectful, making most
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Speaker 4: of the seventeen thousand trips a day go without incident. However,
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Speaker 4: she says they have seen problems with behavior.
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Speaker 2: And your weather in Dunedin today, Jamie.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's raining this morning which will become a few
22:05
Speaker 4: hours later with a high of eighteen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you have a great day. Claire Sherewood is in
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Speaker 2: christ Church this morning. Clear prohibited. Fire season declared in Canterbury.
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Speaker 8: Yes, this has been declared by Fire and Emergency because
22:17
Speaker 8: of strong winds that have whipped up a forest blaze
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Speaker 8: that wipe it in North Canterbury. Bryan, that's the one
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Speaker 8: that started on Thursday. It was under control until Sunday
22:26
Speaker 8: when strong winds caused a flare up and it did
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Speaker 8: jump the containment line.
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Speaker 6: It's more than.
22:30
Speaker 8: Eighty five hectares in size. The good news is it's
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Speaker 8: not threatening any homes at the moment, but Canterbury's acting
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Speaker 8: District Commander David Key says while the fire danger itself
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Speaker 8: is currently at the lower end, the strong winds are
22:43
Speaker 8: of major concern. He says banning all outdoor fires is
22:47
Speaker 8: the best way to avoid further blazers. It does come
22:49
Speaker 8: as we have an orange strong wind warning in place
22:52
Speaker 8: for the high Country with gusts up to one hundred
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Speaker 8: and twenty kilometers per hour.
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Speaker 2: All right, good to get that up back clear. Thank
22:58
Speaker 2: you Max Toles and Wellington Max. We'velin more about the
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Speaker 2: emergency plane landing at Wellington Airport. What happened, Yeah, well,
23:05
Speaker 2: still a.
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Speaker 9: Lot we don't know, but the take has commented at
23:10
Speaker 9: least briefly on what was reported from the cockpit, and
23:13
Speaker 9: that was low oil pressure warning which was followed by
23:18
Speaker 9: an engine fault than an engine fire warning, so that
23:21
Speaker 9: was what prompted the emergency landing. Of course, this Christchurch
23:25
Speaker 9: to Wellington plane landed on Sunday with smoke appearing from
23:29
Speaker 9: one of the engines. Passengers had to disembark outside the
23:32
Speaker 9: emergency doors, effectively jumped to the tarmac in the cabin.
23:36
Speaker 9: It was one of the passengers who, of course your
23:38
Speaker 9: worst fear, looked at the windows, saw flames coming coming
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Speaker 9: out of the engine and yelled fire. Another person on
23:45
Speaker 9: the plane tollas. Everyone stayed pretty calm, though with one exception.
23:49
Speaker 9: One person had a quite a noticeable panic attack on
23:51
Speaker 9: the plane. Take investigators were at the scene yesterday. They've
23:56
Speaker 9: been collecting statements from passengers, looking through old maintenance and
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Speaker 9: performance records.
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Speaker 2: So more to come, All right, Max, thank you? Has
24:03
Speaker 2: the weather today not great?
24:05
Speaker 9: Showers getting heavier this morning, very very strong norwesterlies as
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Speaker 9: well today fifteen the high Central.
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Speaker 2: Thanks Max. Neighbors in the studio, Would you take, Big,
24:16
Speaker 2: you take?
24:17
Speaker 7: Would you take your hand?
24:18
Speaker 5: Big?
24:19
Speaker 7: You're not supposed to.
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Speaker 2: Know, but imagine being the only one on the plane
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Speaker 2: freaking out.
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Speaker 7: I know I shouldn't love because I read somewhere too.
24:27
Speaker 7: There was someone you know, hit the headphones on, so
24:30
Speaker 7: when everyone was they didn't know what was going on.
24:33
Speaker 7: They were just sitting there quietly listening to music.
24:36
Speaker 2: Woman having a meltdowns.
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Speaker 7: The other one, if I can I just take my
24:42
Speaker 7: hand big? I just got a lipstick in there.
24:44
Speaker 2: I suppose you could take your hand big. I mean,
24:46
Speaker 2: it's not it's not like you're taking a huge bit
24:50
Speaker 2: of carry on luggage with you.
24:52
Speaker 7: Many people have those big carry on luggage bags, so
24:54
Speaker 7: don't they I don't take those ones. But you could
24:57
Speaker 7: just imagine people like, oh here here, leave me take
25:00
Speaker 7: that bit.
25:01
Speaker 1: Out the door.
25:01
Speaker 2: Well that's the thing. I mean. You shouldn't you start
25:03
Speaker 2: bringing your bags and your carry on off and you
25:06
Speaker 2: are taking the place of passengers who could be jumping
25:08
Speaker 2: to safety. Right exactly. How's the weather looking today? The
25:11
Speaker 2: weather cloudy.
25:12
Speaker 7: We've got more patchy morning fog, I have to say
25:15
Speaker 7: in Auckland, but it's not as bad as yesterday. But
25:18
Speaker 7: we've got rain from late afternoon, very warm because we've
25:21
Speaker 7: got the northerlies whipping through. It sound like a whop
25:23
Speaker 7: for the Met Service. Twenty one is the high here
25:25
Speaker 7: in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant neither thank you. Always take your handbag. Sixteen away from.
25:30
Speaker 1: Six International correspondence with ends in eye insurance Peace of
25:36
Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
25:39
Speaker 2: Right, We're going straight to Leslie Yeomans, who's our Australia correspondent.
25:43
Speaker 2: This morning, wild weather stretching from Hobart to Sydney, causing
25:46
Speaker 2: havoc there. Leslie, Good morning morning Ryan.
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Speaker 10: Yes, it has been a challenge the last few days
25:53
Speaker 10: to say the least Hobart and north of Hobart right
25:58
Speaker 10: up to Devenport, and it's just been horrific the rain
26:03
Speaker 10: and the strong winds. They've brought down, brought down buildings,
26:07
Speaker 10: They've brought down trees and power lines, and the heavy
26:11
Speaker 10: rain has actually caused some major flooding. The Duin and
26:14
Speaker 10: Styx River have overflowed in some spots down and farmers
26:20
Speaker 10: have had to move their livestock to higher ground. Some
26:24
Speaker 10: farms have been cut off altogether. Some properties have been
26:28
Speaker 10: severely damaged. Even into King Island between Victoria and Tasmania,
26:36
Speaker 10: there wire winds there of over one hundred and fifty
26:39
Speaker 10: k's an hour and that was just horrific on King
26:43
Speaker 10: Island as well in Victoria, around Melbourne and Gippsland, horrific winds.
26:50
Speaker 10: Power still out for a lot of people. I mean
26:52
Speaker 10: I lost power for nearly twenty four hours. It's just
26:56
Speaker 10: been terrible. A woman actually sadly has died when a
27:01
Speaker 10: tree fell on a cabin she was in up at
27:03
Speaker 10: noammor on the New South Wales Victoria border. She was
27:06
Speaker 10: holidaying there with her husband. He was taken to hospital.
27:10
Speaker 10: He's still in hospital. Unfortunately she passed away. And in
27:14
Speaker 10: New South Wales we've had flights canceled because of the
27:17
Speaker 10: strong winds. Only one runway at Sydney Airport has been
27:22
Speaker 10: able to operate and a lot of the flights that
27:24
Speaker 10: were canceled were actually between Sydney and Melbourne. The flights
27:27
Speaker 10: just couldn't take off at all.
27:29
Speaker 2: Goodness mean leslie very quickly. This animal handler dream World
27:32
Speaker 2: Gold Coast bitten by a tiger. Was the handler feeding it?
27:36
Speaker 2: Or do we know why they were in the England?
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 10: Dream World hasn't actually said what actually happened. All we've
27:44
Speaker 10: said is that it's under investigation. And what happened was
27:48
Speaker 10: that she was in the enclosure with the tiger, a
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Speaker 10: forty seven year old, a very experienced animal handler, and
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Speaker 10: there were other tigers in the enclosure as well, and
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Speaker 10: this one mauled her and she's got puncture wounds and
28:04
Speaker 10: lacerations and she's still in hospital. She's okay, but she's
28:09
Speaker 10: obviously pretty shaken up. But they're still investigating.
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Speaker 2: All right, Leslie, thank you very much for the update. Leslie,
28:15
Speaker 2: yeomans with us our Australia correspondent. I looked up that
28:19
Speaker 2: enclosure this morning at Dreamworld, the only location in Queensland.
28:23
Speaker 2: They say where guests can tongue feed a tiger. You
28:26
Speaker 2: put some meat in a tongue, you stick it through
28:29
Speaker 2: the fence and fifteen minutes later fifty five dollars. It
28:33
Speaker 2: will cost you through the cage. You obviously don't get
28:35
Speaker 2: in the cage with the tiger fifty five dollars, so
28:39
Speaker 2: it really will cost you an arm and a leg.
28:42
Speaker 5: Rain bridge.
28:44
Speaker 2: Right, it is ten minutes away from six now sorry cyclists.
28:48
Speaker 2: Roads for cars and trucks are getting the lines here
28:50
Speaker 2: of transport money through to twenty twenty seven. By the way,
28:54
Speaker 2: we tried to get Labor on about this to see
28:56
Speaker 2: whether they would sing Kumbaya with the government, but no
28:58
Speaker 2: response from them. However, thirty three billion dollars announced yesterday
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Speaker 2: over three years Auckland a big winner. Seven billion for
29:05
Speaker 2: state highway improvements, five point five billion for pothole prevention,
29:09
Speaker 2: yes just prevention, six point four million on new public transport, walking, cycling.
29:15
Speaker 2: The funding has been harved Alan McDonald is the Employees
29:18
Speaker 2: and Manufacturers Association head of Advocacy and strategy. Allan, good morning,
29:23
Speaker 2: morning Roll. I mean, you'll obviously be pleased about the
29:26
Speaker 2: spending on some of these roads, and particularly some of
29:29
Speaker 2: these routes the alternative to the Brinduans. How important is that?
29:34
Speaker 5: Oh, that's very important for unlocking the potential. It's a
29:37
Speaker 5: Northland but also just getting some of those exports to
29:42
Speaker 5: and from not just Auckland but through to Tower as well.
29:46
Speaker 5: And as we've seen with the terrible weather events in
29:49
Speaker 5: the recent couple of years, that road there's just such
29:52
Speaker 5: a vital link and it's basically at times falling down literally.
29:57
Speaker 2: Can you are you confident that we can get the
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Speaker 2: work done for the price that is being claimed, just
30:03
Speaker 2: given cost blowouts on writing projects, I mean, do you
30:06
Speaker 2: have faith when this is plans like this, I'd.
30:10
Speaker 5: Like to have faith that they'd get underway the costs themselves.
30:15
Speaker 5: Like any major project anywhere around the world, the subject
30:19
Speaker 5: to cost pressures. So it's not something that's unique to
30:22
Speaker 5: New Zealand. You tend to see these things as well.
30:27
Speaker 5: That's roughly what it costs today, but by the time
30:29
Speaker 5: we get it done what's it going to cost?
30:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, the National Land Transport Program is what they've announced.
30:34
Speaker 2: As we mentioned, it's thirty three billion and it just
30:37
Speaker 2: lists the priorities in terms of, you know, where they
30:40
Speaker 2: want to start and get the shovel and the ground,
30:43
Speaker 2: that kind of thing. Are you disappointed that there's not
30:48
Speaker 2: more agreement between political parties on what needs funding.
30:53
Speaker 5: I think we're getting to that point where everybody agrees
30:57
Speaker 5: that we need some kind of not a consensus because
31:01
Speaker 5: you're never going to get that, but some kind of
31:02
Speaker 5: broad agreement on what the main priorities should be. And
31:07
Speaker 5: I think it's critical really if we're going to extract
31:10
Speaker 5: the value that we want from these projects and help
31:13
Speaker 5: keep some of the costs down, that we do get
31:16
Speaker 5: some kind of broad framework agreed and we stick to it,
31:20
Speaker 5: because it's the constant or the consistent, Oh we're going
31:25
Speaker 5: to do this, but we're coming and we're not going
31:27
Speaker 5: to do that. And it's that kind of flip flopping
31:30
Speaker 5: and direction or even wiping out projects that costs the
31:35
Speaker 5: country more money and frustrates people that want to use
31:38
Speaker 5: these things.
31:39
Speaker 2: To know end Allen, thank you for that. Alan McDonald's
31:42
Speaker 2: who's the I should say, the Employees and Manufacturers Association.
31:46
Speaker 2: He's the head of advocacy and strategy. They're big transport
31:49
Speaker 2: plan announced by the government is they do this every
31:52
Speaker 2: three years. They announce what the priorities will be, how
31:54
Speaker 2: much they're going to spend. That kind of thing. A
31:57
Speaker 2: shame that we don't have consensus, but as anyone actually
32:00
Speaker 2: surprised by that. Seventy six, the first word on the
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Speaker 2: News of the Day early edition with Ryan Bridge and
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Speaker 2: Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and a playet store
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Speaker 2: News Talk Sibby just gone five to six News Talk said,
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Speaker 2: b we're just talking about the Queensland's dream World attraction
32:19
Speaker 2: where a staff member has been hospitalized after being bitten
32:22
Speaker 2: by a tiger. Mike's in the studio. Good morning, Mike morning.
32:25
Speaker 2: Why there's some Martron and Bengal tigers in there? One
32:28
Speaker 2: on earth would a staff member need to go into
32:30
Speaker 2: the enclosure.
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Speaker 11: Because they interact. I've seen a lot of footage, not
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Speaker 11: the first of all that did. It's got that old
32:37
Speaker 11: world nineteen seventies vibe about it, doesn't it Queensland attractions,
32:42
Speaker 11: you know, go to water World, the thing doesn't work,
32:44
Speaker 11: Go to the Tiger Show, someone gets bit and it's
32:46
Speaker 11: got that kind of that sad kind of vibe. But
32:49
Speaker 11: they haven't you seen you know the footage where they
32:51
Speaker 11: you know, they feed them something and then they stand
32:53
Speaker 11: up in the eighties.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yah, yeah, no, no, no, that's still a thing.
32:56
Speaker 2: Like I went online. Apparently the only location Queensland. We
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Speaker 2: guess can tong feed a tiger through the cage?
33:04
Speaker 11: See that answers the question. fIF why don't we get
33:08
Speaker 11: too feed the tiger family? Great day on the Gold Coast. Hey,
33:12
Speaker 11: guess who we got on today after rape?
33:15
Speaker 2: Oh? Someone to do with formula one good.
33:18
Speaker 11: Quick no, no, good answer, fair answer, fair answer. The
33:21
Speaker 11: second question would have been somebody to do with country music.
33:24
Speaker 11: So if you're not doing formula and you do country music,
33:26
Speaker 11: got Luke Combs.
33:26
Speaker 2: On, So yeah, it's a big name. He would be
33:29
Speaker 2: the biggest name in country music at the Beautiful Voice.
33:31
Speaker 11: Yeah, fantastic And one of the great stories. I've got
33:34
Speaker 11: to find out whether it's true. The story is he
33:37
Speaker 11: quit college, learned to play the guitar, taught himself to
33:40
Speaker 11: play the guitar, goes to Nashville, gets discovered next thing
33:45
Speaker 11: he's playing the oti credit.
33:47
Speaker 2: But anyway, he's with this after eight o'clock see him everybody.
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