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Full Show Podcast: 29 August 2024 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interview and the inside Ryan Bridge New
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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four on an early edition with Smith City,
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Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture bands and a play at store US Dogs.
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Speaker 2: It'd be good morning. It is six after five. Great
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Speaker 2: to be with you this morning. Is the Infrastructure Agency
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Speaker 2: Plan the one that the government announced yesterday to much fanfare?
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Speaker 2: Really worth the paper that it's written on? Look? What
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Speaker 2: is the priority going to be for them? Will it
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Speaker 2: be Climate change reducing CO two? Will it be GDP?
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Speaker 2: Nick leg at the Infrastructure New Zealand CEO. Just before
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Speaker 2: six thirty thousand out of fifty thousand teenagers failed n
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Speaker 2: CEO math tests this year. Why that may not be
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Speaker 2: as bad as it sounds. That's after five point thirty
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Speaker 2: Mitch McCann and the US Trump's staff are in a
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Speaker 2: scuffle at a cemetery. I shouldn't laugh, but what is next? Also,
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Speaker 2: Darlene Tana, where is the sympathy from Chloe? It is Thursday,
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Speaker 2: the twenty ninth, off August. At least ten people are
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Speaker 2: dead after Israel launched raids and air strikes and four
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Speaker 2: cities in the West Bank. The IDF says it's a
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Speaker 2: counter terrorism operation, alleging that Iranian funded weapons are coming
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Speaker 2: through the border.
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Speaker 3: There are refugee camps that are near those cities as well,
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Speaker 3: which are often considered by the Israelis as being the
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Speaker 3: center's of violent resistance.
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Speaker 2: Hamas has responded, calling for a mobilization of its fighters
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Speaker 2: and supporters. Two people have been killed and another injured
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Speaker 2: after a tire reportedly exploded at Hartsville Jackson Atlanta Airport
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Speaker 2: in the US. The Delta Airline workers were basically taking
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Speaker 2: apart bits of a wheel that was not on an
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Speaker 2: aircraft at the time when the incident occurred. This is
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Speaker 2: an investigator.
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Speaker 4: The taire itself very often doesn't disintegrate. It's the rim
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Speaker 4: that let's go, and those boats go around the rim.
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Speaker 4: If they were to fail outward, it's like a projectile.
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Speaker 2: It is day one of the Paralympics in Paris today.
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Speaker 2: The opening ceremony starts in just under an hour. Twenty
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Speaker 2: five power athletes from our team eight sports will be
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Speaker 2: competing in eleven days of competition. The Cheff the mission
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Speaker 2: railing Baits, says, it's been three years of hard work
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Speaker 2: to get here.
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Speaker 5: They're just really grateful to be here and in an
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Speaker 5: environment that's so different to Tokyo, where they're able to
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Speaker 5: embrace people and actually celebrate being here and feel the love.
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Speaker 6: News and views you trust.
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Speaker 1: To start your day, It's Billy Edition with Ryan Bridge
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Speaker 1: and Smith City New Zealand's furniture beds and a flying store.
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Speaker 2: News Talk said, be great to have you on the
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Speaker 2: show this morning, just gone eight after five. We'll have
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Speaker 2: an update on Darling Tanner in a second. Also, Mercury
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Speaker 2: is a little miffed, a little peeved about Windstone Polt,
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Speaker 2: the closure of the processing operations in pay Who. We'll
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Speaker 2: get to that in a second. Two Plus Woolwors the
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Speaker 2: result the one you probably won't hear much about because
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Speaker 2: it's not good for Wolworst, which means it's not great
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Speaker 2: for a headline. We'll get to that in a second too.
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Speaker 2: But first, Ginny Anderson fudging the numbers again. Ginny, aren't
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Speaker 2: you on One News last night? So there was a spike.
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Speaker 2: You know, police go out and do foot patrols and
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Speaker 2: on the beat. Everybody likes a bit of that because
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Speaker 2: it makes them visible and reduces crime. She's given numbers
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Speaker 2: saying under National they've gone down, they've dropped, but there's
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Speaker 2: a spike in December, and she's compared December to June,
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Speaker 2: and she's saying, look at that, and the reporter to
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Speaker 2: his credit, points out, actually, there's always a spike in June, Ginny,
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Speaker 2: and she says, Nope, the trend is up.
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Speaker 5: We've seen a consistent decline and there's a concern that
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Speaker 5: particularly rural areas are seeing a decline.
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Speaker 6: Nonsense, the cher the cherry picking numbers.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the trend is down, is what she claimed. But actually, no,
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Speaker 2: the trend is up, and there is always a spike
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Speaker 2: in December. So what on earth is Ginny talking about?
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Speaker 2: Giny won't say. Ginny, when she was asked repeatedly, you
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Speaker 2: know that the December spike thing, December spike, she just
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Speaker 2: kept repeating the same thing. Ten after five, Brian Bridge,
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Speaker 2: lots more to come here on the show this morning.
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Speaker 2: We're going to talk about Darling Tanner because who's footing
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Speaker 2: the bill? There's more legal action. Who's going to foot
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Speaker 2: the bill? Undoubtedly we will pay some of that, I
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Speaker 2: am sure. Actually I'll do will worse now while we're here.
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Speaker 2: So this is the news you won't hear much about. Basically,
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Speaker 2: their earnings have halved. They've dropped one hundred million dollars
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Speaker 2: a year on year, lowest result in ten years. They
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Speaker 2: say wage costs are up. These are the reasons why
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Speaker 2: competition is up. Basically, people are shopping around because of
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Speaker 2: the cost of living, which makes sense. You know, you
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Speaker 2: don't have as much money to throw around on basic things,
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Speaker 2: you go look somewhere else for it. I guess the
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Speaker 2: question here is is this public pressure, is this threats
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Speaker 2: from the ComCom that's making them more competitive, or is
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Speaker 2: this just the market working and behaving as it should.
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Speaker 2: When people have less money, they are more discerning with
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Speaker 2: their choices. Coming up next, we're going to look at
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Speaker 2: our police, all emergency responders and how they're talking to
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Speaker 2: each other. Eleven after five.
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Speaker 6: News and Views you Trust to start 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 6: News Talk said.
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Speaker 2: Be Ossie inflation dart a three point five percent for July.
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Speaker 2: That is down. It was three point eight percent in June,
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Speaker 2: four percent in May. So we are obviously seeing a trend.
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Speaker 2: Inflation is dropping in Australia, which is great. Electricity and
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Speaker 2: petrol price falls are behind it. Looking at the December quarter,
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Speaker 2: they reckon. That's when the Reserve Bank there, the Central
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Speaker 2: Bank will start to cut rates by a quarter of
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Speaker 2: a percent. They have been in The retailers are having
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Speaker 2: a hard time. They've been in a retail recession for
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Speaker 2: at least eighteen months. They reckon, and that will continue
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Speaker 2: until Santa comes at Christmas, Bryan Bridge, a new radio
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Speaker 2: network has been set up for our emergency services. It'll
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Speaker 2: see police, fire and ambulance all move to the same
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Speaker 2: digital system for the first time, replacing the aging and
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Speaker 2: sometimes failing analog system. It follows a trial in Canterbury.
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Speaker 2: Steve Ferguson's the director of Next Generation Critical Communications and
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Speaker 2: he's with me this morning, kidday Steve.
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Speaker 7: Sure right, how are you good?
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Speaker 2: Thank you? What will this actually change for our first responders?
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Speaker 2: Will Will they be able to talk to each other
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Speaker 2: through this system?
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Speaker 8: Yeah?
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Speaker 7: Beever, the technology we've got today has done a great
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Speaker 7: job over thirty years, but it's old and they cannot
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Speaker 7: communicate together in an emergency situation. They can't coordinate responses.
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Speaker 7: So you've got police via emergency h to hones Sir
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Speaker 7: John wanting to they cannot communicate cat across the network together.
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Speaker 7: This will give them that opportunity. But more than that,
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Speaker 7: it's digitized, as you said in your intro there and
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Speaker 7: today the public can listen into their comms and so
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Speaker 7: can the bad guys. So it creates all sorts of
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Speaker 7: challenges for first responders trying to save PEB life.
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Speaker 2: Well, so, because I know that there's some journalists who
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Speaker 2: like to listen in and find out where the you know,
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Speaker 2: where the drama is happening. Will they not be able
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Speaker 2: to do that either? Is it totally encrypted?
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Speaker 8: Yeah?
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Speaker 7: The good news for first responders and key users, it
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Speaker 7: is totally encrypted. We're dealing with people's lives, We're dealing
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Speaker 7: with personal situations, and it's important we've got the first
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Speaker 7: responders pools so they can communicate well and simply an easily.
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Speaker 7: Today's net we won't do that. So no, going forward,
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Speaker 7: it will be encrypted and it will give the first
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Speaker 7: responsibility to communicate much more easily. Today because of the
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Speaker 7: situation we have with this whole technology, they've got to
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Speaker 7: get quite innovative of how to communicate and not signal
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Speaker 7: to people that shouldn't be listening as to what they're.
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Speaker 2: Doing using lots of codes and stuff like that. How
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Speaker 2: many radios do you actually need to replace, Well.
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Speaker 7: We're replacing the whole network, Brian. We're replacing five hundred
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Speaker 7: radio towers and somewhere in the order of fifteen thousand
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Speaker 7: units that for first responders, we've already this is part
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Speaker 7: of a complementary set of services. So we've already rolled
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Speaker 7: out roaming service on cellulars for first responders. Last year,
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Speaker 7: a world first. Actually were teed up the two mobile
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Speaker 7: network operators and we've rolled out fifteen thousand SIM cards
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Speaker 7: for the first responses they communicate across that network. So
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Speaker 7: we're doing the same with the radio networks.
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Speaker 2: Fascinating stuff, Steve, Thank you for that. Steve Ferguson, Director
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Speaker 2: of Next Generation Critical Communications. It does seem strange, doesn't it.
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Speaker 2: We're not strange, but a little antiquated that our ambulance officers,
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Speaker 2: our police officers are buyer service, can't actually talk to
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Speaker 2: each other when they are coordinating on an emergency. Thankfully,
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Speaker 2: that will be coming to an end seventeen 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 talk.
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Speaker 2: Z it be nineteen after five great to have your
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Speaker 2: company nine two ninety two the number to text. Fifty
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Speaker 2: five thousand teenagers have sat new n CEA tests in May.
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Speaker 2: Here are the pass rates. Reading fifty nine percent past
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Speaker 2: writing fifty six percent pass numerously, forty six percent pass
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Speaker 2: not great, And you must pass these tests in order
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Speaker 2: to get ENCEEA qualifications. On this result, tens of thousands
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Speaker 2: wouldn't That's what it appears on the face of it. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: this year and next year there is a workaround for
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Speaker 2: the students, so it's not an immediate problem for us.
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Speaker 2: Chris Abercrombie's the PPGA president, Chris, good morning, Good morning.
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Speaker 2: Is this as bad as it sound? Because is this
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Speaker 2: students who are sitting the test from fifth form or
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Speaker 2: year eleven up or is it even year nine s
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Speaker 2: who are sitting these tests?
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Speaker 8: So most of the students that are sitting in the
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Speaker 8: section in year ten the OLGA fourth form, So that's
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Speaker 8: where most of the students have been sitting this, some
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Speaker 8: of year eleven fifth form, but the vast majority are
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Speaker 8: in year ten.
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Speaker 2: And do you need do you need to pass it
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Speaker 2: in year ten in order to get your ncas in
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Speaker 2: year eleven and onwards. Or could you, in theory actually
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Speaker 2: sit your incas and then sit this these tests in
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Speaker 2: your final year and pass it all sort of retrospectively.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely, So there's no sort of time limit on this.
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Speaker 8: You could do this in your last year at school,
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Speaker 8: you could do it in year twelve. There's no real
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Speaker 8: time little bit on this. And as you mentioned, there's
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Speaker 8: still dual pathways open for young people to be able
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Speaker 8: to get there INCA literacy and numeracy, but the options available.
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Speaker 2: Do we know what percentage of year elevens are failing
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Speaker 2: these tests?
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Speaker 8: Not off the top of me, heait I don't know that,
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Speaker 8: and say the vast majority are in year ten. So
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Speaker 8: some of these students potentially would have been their third
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Speaker 8: times didn't it. They would have sat it twice in
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Speaker 8: year ten, and they could have set it in year
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Speaker 8: eleven as well.
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Speaker 2: And nz QA is saying basically, if you if this
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Speaker 2: child is not ready, don't make them sit the tests
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Speaker 2: because you're stressing them out and it's doing untold damage
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Speaker 2: to their psyche. Well, at least that was what one
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Speaker 2: principle said, is that the right approach shouldn't you be
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Speaker 2: sitting it and failing and learning and trying again, getting
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Speaker 2: up and trying again.
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Speaker 8: Well, there's definitely an element to it, but also you've
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Speaker 8: got to make sure students are ready for the assessment,
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Speaker 8: So they should school should be using other factors such
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Speaker 8: as the ASTOL or PAT tests to make sure students
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Speaker 8: are sitting at that level ready to say. For some
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Speaker 8: of these students could be the third time they've failed it,
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Speaker 8: and so it is really demoralizing. So you want to
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Speaker 8: make sure students can pass the assessment before they do this.
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Speaker 2: One of the issues this is with NUMEROSCY is that
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Speaker 2: they needed students who were either borderline or failing, needed
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Speaker 2: to take a position on questions and then justify the
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Speaker 2: positions rather than just restating the claim that they'd made.
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Speaker 2: And I remember at school, I'd say, show you're working,
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Speaker 2: Show you're working, you know, explain yourself. Why is that
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Speaker 2: more of a problem with students struggling with that more
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Speaker 2: now than ever before.
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Speaker 8: Well, it seems to be the case at the moment.
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Speaker 8: And this is one of the sort of wider picture
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Speaker 8: of educational reforms that it's a really long term process.
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Speaker 8: You know, if you think of a five year old
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Speaker 8: student in school, by the time we see them in
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Speaker 8: secondary it's ten years almost and so you know, the
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Speaker 8: education reforms a real long term, ten year process, and
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Speaker 8: we've seen what sort of outcomes the short term thinking.
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Speaker 8: And that's one of the here is they're sort of
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Speaker 8: changes in curriculum changes and teaching practice, et cetera.
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Speaker 2: Are we not teaching kids how to think anymore for themselves? Critically, well,
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Speaker 2: that was.
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Speaker 8: One of the real positives of our sort of curriculum,
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Speaker 8: was it was. It was so open even thinking was
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Speaker 8: a big part of it. Now there's at least need
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Speaker 8: to go back with a bit or where a scripted
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Speaker 8: the curriculum to make sure certain things are done, and
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Speaker 8: so the same, we're in little bit of a fucks
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Speaker 8: at the moment in education.
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Speaker 2: Chris, thank you so much for your time. Chris Abercrombie,
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Speaker 2: the PPGA president with us this morning. So not quite
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Speaker 2: as bad as the headline might sound. You know, when
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Speaker 2: you look at numerously in particular, thirty thousand out of
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Speaker 2: fifty thousand kids failing. But you can sit the test
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Speaker 2: any time. It's not like you get to fifth form
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Speaker 2: you have to pass it.
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Speaker 8: Then.
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Speaker 2: However, from twenty twenty six, Your child will need to
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Speaker 2: pass these three tests in order to get their NCEA qualifications.
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Speaker 2: Just gone twenty four minutes after five, Mitch McCann out
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Speaker 2: of the US. There's been a scuffle between some of
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Speaker 2: Trump's campaign staff at a military cemetery. We'll tell you
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Speaker 2: more about that. Mitch has all the details. Plus we're
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Speaker 2: going to talk to Nick Leget just before six. This
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Speaker 2: new Structure Commission, sorry, infrastructure agency that they're proposing with
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Speaker 2: a thirty year pipeline, et cetera, et cetera. Is it
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Speaker 2: really going to work?
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Speaker 2: You're on News Talk, said b. At the Auckland High
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Speaker 2: Court this morning at ten am there is a Darling
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Speaker 2: Tana is seeking an interim injunction. It's been sought to
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Speaker 2: stop the Greens from meeting to try and walk a
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Speaker 2: jump her. That meeting is meant to go ahead this weekend.
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Speaker 2: There's also going to be a judicial review. The saga continues.
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Speaker 2: And we all know why this is happening, don't we
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Speaker 2: Because her husband's business is in the whole, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: The creditors are owed money. I think there was around
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Speaker 2: one hundred dollars in the till when they went in
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Speaker 2: there and tried to clean things up. So let's think
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Speaker 2: like the Greens for a second and take a step back.
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Speaker 2: Here is a Wahani Maldi. She has fallen on hard times.
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Speaker 2: She's made mistakes, sure, though not proven in a court
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Speaker 2: of law, just party report at this stage, A party
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Speaker 2: with white privileged elites at the top of it, including
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Speaker 2: close Warbrook, a party with resources a power imbalance. Her
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Speaker 2: actions may have resulted from structural racism for all we know.
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Speaker 2: This is how the Greens generally approach issues like this.
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Speaker 2: And what does Chloe and co. Do to this victim?
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Speaker 2: What do they do? They boot her out on the street.
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Speaker 2: Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
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Speaker 2: Despite Chloe saying this.
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Speaker 8: We are being careful about the statements that we are
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Speaker 8: making publicly. We have continued to follow process as best
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Speaker 8: as we possibly can to center our Green Party.
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Speaker 2: Co pepper Green Party co pepper. If this is the
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Speaker 2: co puppa of the Green Party, I don't recognize it.
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Speaker 2: Number one, it doesn't sound very greeny and doesn't sound
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Speaker 2: very in line with how they approach other victims. And
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Speaker 2: number two and this is the kicker for us. I
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Speaker 2: think we're on the hook for the legal bills here,
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Speaker 2: aren't we. Twenty eight after five rain Bridge Winstone Pulp,
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Speaker 2: So the two hundred plus jobs that are on the
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Speaker 2: line there and it will pay who. They had a
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Speaker 2: meeting about it yesterday. You might have seen that in
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Speaker 2: the news. So Mercury Energy is upset at some of
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Speaker 2: the media reporting about this and they're blaming that. Well,
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Speaker 2: they say they're being blamed in the press unnecessarily. So
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Speaker 2: obviously there's the closure of the wood processing operations that's
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Speaker 2: going on. They're consulting on it at the moment, and
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Speaker 2: the reports have been saying that high spot prices or
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Speaker 2: wholesale rates are to blame. Now, Mercury has a contract
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Speaker 2: which helps set the price of half of the power
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Speaker 2: that the Windstone Pulp US uses, and Mercury says, actually
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Speaker 2: the rates are significantly lower than the spot prices. So
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Speaker 2: the implication from these media stories, according to Mercury, is
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Speaker 2: Mercury bad charging these spot prices initry saying actually, for
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Speaker 2: the portion that we look after, the prices we're charging
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Speaker 2: are much lower. So whatever has led to Winstone's downfall
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Speaker 2: with the rest of the power allocation is on them.
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Speaker 2: Mitch McCann out of the US.
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Speaker 9: Next, What'll be next to?
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Speaker 6: Next? To get ahead of the headlines?
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge you for twenty twenty four on early edition
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Speaker 1: with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture bids and a playing store.
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Speaker 6: News talk said be food time.
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Speaker 9: Job the.
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Speaker 8: Juice line loose said line.
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Speaker 6: Come down now.
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Speaker 2: Pretty four away from six years, so it said the
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Speaker 2: We're going to get to Nick Leggett on the new
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Speaker 2: Infrastructure Agency which is hopefully going to so magically solve
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Speaker 2: all of our infrastructure problems over thirty years just before
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Speaker 2: six this morning. This is not important, but did anyone
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Speaker 2: see Luxan on the news last night? And he was
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Speaker 2: wearing an open collar shirt. Normally he's all suited up,
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Speaker 2: suited and booted, but he had an open collar shirt
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Speaker 2: sort of like a seventies flat collar if you can
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Speaker 2: picture what I'm talking about. Obviously hasn't seen any sun
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Speaker 2: on his chest, so and he has quite a red face,
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Speaker 2: so it was like a two tone car, white on
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Speaker 2: the bottom, red on the top. Anyway, that's not important,
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Speaker 2: because what he does and says is more important than
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Speaker 2: what he looks like. Isn't that right twenty three Way
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Speaker 2: from six. Lots of texts coming in on education. Ryan
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Speaker 2: stopped protecting kids if they fail, held them to work harder.
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Speaker 2: Life is not a constant success story. Jake says, Hey, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: how many teachers could pass the NCEEA exams? My guess
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Speaker 2: not many, if any. Carmala Harris, here's some great news.
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Speaker 2: Mitch McCann's with us shortly. She is finally going to
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Speaker 2: do her first sit down interview with Dana bashm CNN tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: We will hear about it. She promised one by the
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Speaker 2: end of the month, so she had to do it
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Speaker 2: thirty eight days no interview. But there's a catch. She's
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Speaker 2: bringing a friend to work. She's bringing old mate Wall
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Speaker 2: to her running mates to the interview, so it'll be
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Speaker 2: a double header. Twenty two to six, Bryan Bridge, He's
19:42
Speaker 2: got reporters around the country Callen Proctors and Need and Clum.
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Speaker 2: A successful return for war Birds over Wonka. Yeah, morning, Ryan.
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Speaker 10: The air Show's taken out the People's Choice Award this
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Speaker 10: week's New Zealand Events Awards, so celebrations for all involved.
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Speaker 10: Event manager Adrena Davi says they were thrilled to win
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Speaker 10: the same award for their last year show in twenty eighteen,
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Speaker 10: but of course couldn't defend the title until this year
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Speaker 10: due to COVID, so she says it's great to come
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Speaker 10: back and know that they're still in New Zealand's favorite event.
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Speaker 10: Christ Church is Electric Avenue won best Music Event of
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Speaker 10: the Year and the Garden City edition of Sale GP
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Speaker 10: took out Best Marketing or Creative.
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Speaker 2: There you go and weather in Dunedin today come.
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Speaker 10: Early rain clearing to the odds shower, northerlyes easing and
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Speaker 10: sixteen today.
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Speaker 2: So was the awards that you're talking about? Were they
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Speaker 2: nationwide awards or just South Island on that People's Choice award?
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Speaker 10: Warbirds Overwonica coming out on top of quite a lot
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Speaker 10: of other big events that were in the running.
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Speaker 2: From very cool calm, thank you for that, Clarice Sheerwards
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Speaker 2: and christ Church this morning. High emotions at an Environment
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Speaker 2: Canterbury meeting.
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Speaker 5: Claire yes from both Manafenwa and councilors. Yesterday Ryan the
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Speaker 5: Regional Council voted to keep its NITA WHO representation at
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Speaker 5: the council table, goes against Local Government Minister Simeon Brown's
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Speaker 5: recommendation to cut that Knight Tahoo Act. Chirpter Scott says
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Speaker 5: it was emotional for all, especially given the context of
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Speaker 5: the government's recent changes to MALDI wards and engagement in general.
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Speaker 5: He says it came from a place of knowing that
21:16
Speaker 5: Council aren't giving up their support and believed the position
21:19
Speaker 5: gives an opportunity for engagement. He says he will send
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Speaker 5: a letter to the Minister to confirm e Can's decision.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather today, Claire should be.
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Speaker 5: Nice here mainly find with variable high cloud northeasterly turning
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Speaker 5: north west and the high as nineteen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Max Toland Wellington. Max. Another exorbitant Council spend
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Speaker 2: on consultants.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, more than half a million dollars in fact, spent
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Speaker 11: on lawyers consultants to work on the disastrous Reading Cinema deal,
21:47
Speaker 11: which is of course now defunct. The vast majority to
21:50
Speaker 11: Bell Gully Law firm PwC as well. Our newsroom has
21:55
Speaker 11: the figures a commercial assessment of the proposal, which was
21:58
Speaker 11: thirty two million dollars to allow the multinational company to
22:02
Speaker 11: lease but lease back this Courtney placed Land a deal
22:05
Speaker 11: that seemed doomed from the beginning, which is the point
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Speaker 11: the mayor grilled at the time on news talks, I'd
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Speaker 11: be for apparently endorsing corporate welfare. The Posts reported back
22:14
Speaker 11: in February as well how the council schmoozed Redding owners
22:17
Speaker 11: to come to the city his free dinner booze in
22:21
Speaker 11: a ratepayer funded trip. The site is back up for sale.
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Speaker 11: No word yet on who could or would want to
22:28
Speaker 11: buy that site.
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Speaker 2: Absolute shambles with it today in the capital max.
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Speaker 11: Periods of rain, possibly heavy this afternoon, some very strong
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Speaker 11: northwesterlies as well higher fifteenth central.
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Speaker 2: All right, take here, thank you, and Neva's in Auckland
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Speaker 2: this morning.
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Speaker 12: Good morning, Neva, good morning, very very chilly and brisk
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Speaker 12: in your studio this morning. What's going on?
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Speaker 2: I changed nothing, but it is freezing.
22:51
Speaker 12: I can just tell you. I can confirm that it
22:53
Speaker 12: is warmer outside. But I think it's the hosk. I
22:58
Speaker 12: think he must have come in any tinkered with the
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Speaker 12: temperature before he starts at six. So I don't want
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Speaker 12: to move it because I've just looked at it. It
23:05
Speaker 12: says eighteen eighteen.
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Speaker 2: He doesn't normally go that low. I don't think, no, no,
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Speaker 2: so I think someone else has been missed then actually
23:13
Speaker 2: was it Leo?
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Speaker 9: Leo?
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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, right, what's going on was what's went happening
23:17
Speaker 2: with the weather today?
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Speaker 8: The weather.
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Speaker 2: So let's start with the weather.
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Speaker 12: So we've got showers this morning, then rain this afternoon.
23:22
Speaker 12: Apparently could be heavy squawly thunderstorms about the west coast.
23:26
Speaker 12: But I can tell you it's going to be very
23:28
Speaker 12: warm here in Auckland. High have nineteen. Spring is coming.
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Speaker 2: Is that lovely? Right? Tell us about the birds?
23:33
Speaker 8: Yeah?
23:33
Speaker 5: The birds?
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Speaker 12: Well, is this this bit of a spring story as well? Look,
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Speaker 12: the Auckland Council stop, take this is the bird population
23:39
Speaker 12: here identifies we've got two hundred and thirty species in
23:42
Speaker 12: the region. So of these, thirty four native species are
23:45
Speaker 12: deemed regionally critical while twenty others are classed is at risk.
23:49
Speaker 12: So we've got the black petrel, the New Zealand storm petrol,
23:52
Speaker 12: the Northern coxs petrel. Now they're uniquely found here in Auckland,
23:56
Speaker 12: so therefore they need conservation efforts. Enough exactly, So the
24:01
Speaker 12: council says it's going to use all of these findings
24:03
Speaker 12: and guide that's by diversity objectives, and you know, they
24:07
Speaker 12: just want these boots to thrive. Good bood story. Really,
24:09
Speaker 12: if you're a bird person.
24:10
Speaker 2: If I'm not watcher, Hey, a lot of people saying, look,
24:14
Speaker 2: I'm giving Chris Lackxon too much of a hard time.
24:17
Speaker 2: I just said, did you see him on the news
24:18
Speaker 2: last night? But tell me I just heard you.
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Speaker 8: I mean.
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Speaker 2: It had an open ship, was there a medallion? Medalian?
24:26
Speaker 2: But it was just very pale. I mean, you know,
24:28
Speaker 2: as most most people a chest out.
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Speaker 12: I would have been looking at that. You know, fake
24:33
Speaker 12: tan man use the fake te do you reckon?
24:35
Speaker 2: He should have done it?
24:36
Speaker 12: Yeah, Anda's head.
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Speaker 2: Maureen, who says, Ryan, look in the mirror before you
24:40
Speaker 2: slag off others?
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Speaker 12: Why you you you're quite look at you? You're quite tenned.
24:45
Speaker 2: No, but I've just got a lot of hair on
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Speaker 2: my chest so it would be really white underneath.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's just really hary.
24:53
Speaker 2: Because he hasn't got the chest here. But Maureen, I'm
24:55
Speaker 2: not slagging him off. I was just you know, you
24:57
Speaker 2: just think things when you see that.
24:59
Speaker 6: That's right, that's all.
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Speaker 12: We're going to have to go back and have a
25:01
Speaker 12: look at the video footage.
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Speaker 2: The blinding light. Neither already maney with us than seventeen
25:07
Speaker 2: to six. Mitch McCann out of the US.
25:09
Speaker 1: Next international correspondence with ends and eye Insurance, Peace of
25:14
Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand Business.
25:17
Speaker 2: Fourteen to six are going to Mitch McCann, a US correspondent.
25:20
Speaker 2: Now there's been a cemetery clash apparently, but with involving
25:25
Speaker 2: members of Donald Trump's campaign team. Mitch, what's going on here?
25:30
Speaker 13: Yeah, that's right, Good morning, Ryan. Donald Trump arrived at
25:32
Speaker 13: the Arlington National Cemetery just outside Washington, DC earlier this week,
25:37
Speaker 13: where he was paying respects to service members who had
25:40
Speaker 13: died during the withdrawal of Afghanistan a couple of years ago. Now,
25:43
Speaker 13: it allegs that two members of Donald Trump's campaign staff
25:47
Speaker 13: had a verbal and physical altercation with an official at
25:50
Speaker 13: the cemetery. Now, it's reported this confrontation happened because the
25:54
Speaker 13: cemetery official tried to prevent Donald Trump's staff from filming
25:58
Speaker 13: and photographing and as section where recent US casualties are buried.
26:03
Speaker 13: Now law prohibits any political campaigning at the National Cemetery,
26:07
Speaker 13: and Arlington had provided their own photographer so photos could
26:11
Speaker 13: be taken. Now there's conflicting stories here because Donald Trump's
26:15
Speaker 13: team says there wasn't a physical altercation, saying we are
26:18
Speaker 13: prepared to release footage if such defamatory claims are made.
26:22
Speaker 13: I Meanwhile, the cemetery says there was an incident and
26:25
Speaker 13: a report has been filed. Soin some troubling news for
26:28
Speaker 13: Donald Trump there at the cemetery.
26:29
Speaker 2: Goodness, Carmla Harris finally sitting down for an into but
26:33
Speaker 2: she's bringing a friend.
26:35
Speaker 6: That's right.
26:36
Speaker 13: It's taken some time for Kamala Harris to agree to
26:38
Speaker 13: do an interview. She's agreed to do one now with CNN,
26:42
Speaker 13: but it won't be just her and the correspondent. It
26:45
Speaker 13: will be her alongside her vice presidential candidate, Tim While
26:49
Speaker 13: so the two of them will be on CNN. It'll
26:51
Speaker 13: be nine o'clock Eastern time tomorrow night, which will air
26:54
Speaker 13: around one o'clock Friday afternoon, New Zealand time. Donald Trump
26:57
Speaker 13: has put out a press release Ryan with suggested questions
27:01
Speaker 13: for seeing in if they were having trouble coming up
27:04
Speaker 13: with them themselves. He wants to know did Kamala Harris
27:08
Speaker 13: know about Joe Biden's cognitive state, why she decided to
27:11
Speaker 13: stop building the border wall, and why has she abandoned
27:15
Speaker 13: quote her radical liberal positions. So it's going to be
27:17
Speaker 13: an interesting interview of Kamala Harrison toon.
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Speaker 2: Waals certainly sounds like it. Mitch, thank you, Mitch McKenna,
27:23
Speaker 2: US correspondent. Great to hear you. People. Republicans, i should say,
27:27
Speaker 2: already tweeting saying Biden, you know, can barely get up
27:30
Speaker 2: a flight of stairs or in a car without a handler,
27:33
Speaker 2: and now Carmala can't talk to CNN without one too.
27:38
Speaker 6: Bryan Bridge quickly on.
27:40
Speaker 2: Karmala Harris actually and the wall, because Republicans are saying
27:43
Speaker 2: that she is now supporting building the wall between the
27:46
Speaker 2: US and Mexico, not quite making Mexico pay for it.
27:49
Speaker 2: But you'll remember this has been Trump's catch cry for years.
27:52
Speaker 1: Now, build that whah, build that whah build that wha
27:57
Speaker 1: build that whah, build that wha build that wha.
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Speaker 2: All right, build that. I think we get the message.
28:04
Speaker 2: So he wanted to build the wall, right, and Karmala
28:06
Speaker 2: Harris has said, no, it is a racist idea, it
28:09
Speaker 2: is a bad idea, it's not going to solve the problem,
28:12
Speaker 2: and it's Unamerican. A vanity project is how she described it.
28:15
Speaker 2: Trump's vanity project. Now, Republicans claim she is supporting the
28:20
Speaker 2: building of the construction of new walls between America and Mexico.
28:24
Speaker 2: Now it's a nuanced story. She's not come out and
28:27
Speaker 2: said build the wall herself. But she is reviving an
28:31
Speaker 2: immigration bill that was bipartisan, So it was agreed between
28:34
Speaker 2: Biden's lot and the Republicans in Congress, and it includes
28:38
Speaker 2: as part of that, which is what the Republicans wanted,
28:40
Speaker 2: hundreds of millions of dollars for new wall construction. So technically,
28:45
Speaker 2: Karmala Harris is technically now on board with the wall
28:50
Speaker 2: and bridge. Rich back home now and we're talking infrastructure.
28:54
Speaker 2: A new infrastructure agency and a National Infrastructure Plan will
28:57
Speaker 2: be established on the first of December. He will serve
29:00
Speaker 2: as the shop front for PPPs, public private partnerships and
29:04
Speaker 2: any other private investment in infrastructure. Nick leg Gets, the
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Speaker 2: Infrastructure New Zealand Chief Executive. He's with me this morning.
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Speaker 2: Hey Nick, Hi, right, good to have you with us
29:12
Speaker 2: this morning. So I want to know the most important
29:16
Speaker 2: thing here surely is well two things. One is whether
29:18
Speaker 2: the politicians can agree. But who's going to run this
29:22
Speaker 2: this new agency and what will their priority be? Is
29:26
Speaker 2: it climate emissions or is it economic development.
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Speaker 14: Well, the agency won't be stood up until the first
29:34
Speaker 14: of December, and it's going to be rolled from an
29:37
Speaker 14: existing agency called Crown Infrastructure partners which has done a
29:42
Speaker 14: lot of really good work around the country, sourcing finance
29:45
Speaker 14: for communities, administering government infrastructure funding, actually getting stuff built,
29:51
Speaker 14: so it does have a good history. But the new
29:55
Speaker 14: National Infrastructure Agency, which will be the name of the
29:59
Speaker 14: new organized we'll do that additional work and that is
30:02
Speaker 14: be the shop front for private public private partnerships, which
30:08
Speaker 14: will be back on the agenda. And that's important not
30:12
Speaker 14: because every project that New Zealand builds will be a
30:16
Speaker 14: public private partnership, but rather because we just need that
30:19
Speaker 14: as an additional tool in our toolbox. We can get
30:22
Speaker 14: benefits from those. I think that probably we've got some maturity,
30:27
Speaker 14: We've got to mature of the model a little bit
30:29
Speaker 14: improve them. But the truth is that we've got some
30:33
Speaker 14: challenges with infrastructure in this country. I think most krews
30:36
Speaker 14: know that we rank bottom or near the bottom on
30:40
Speaker 14: the OECD for the value that we get when we
30:43
Speaker 14: spend a dollar, and which means you I think we're
30:46
Speaker 14: fourth from the bottom. So we just we just don't
30:49
Speaker 14: extract the value because our system takes too long. Things,
30:54
Speaker 14: you know, we stop start the pipeline and politicians come
30:58
Speaker 14: in and change stuff up.
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Speaker 8: And it's important.
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Speaker 2: So that's the funding. But in terms of the prioritizing
31:04
Speaker 2: what we need to fund, you know, won't it be
31:09
Speaker 2: critical how they set this agency up and what its
31:12
Speaker 2: task is is it is it reducing climate carbon emissions
31:16
Speaker 2: or is it economic development? You know what's the overriding.
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Speaker 14: Well that that direction will come, I mean the government
31:23
Speaker 14: obviously you have to give that direction. The government are
31:27
Speaker 14: very focused on productivity and economic development. Carbon emissions will
31:33
Speaker 14: be part of that, the Minister made Reducing carbon will
31:36
Speaker 14: be part of the Minister made that clear. But the
31:38
Speaker 14: overall direction will come from the thirty year Infrastructure Plan.
31:42
Speaker 8: And this is the problem.
31:43
Speaker 14: I mean, it's you know, having five minutes with you
31:46
Speaker 14: talking about it is really important. But there's there's a
31:48
Speaker 14: lot going on here. And what we're saying about this
31:52
Speaker 14: is the system that builds our infrastructure is the thing
31:55
Speaker 14: to get right and it's the thing that we shouldn't
31:58
Speaker 14: have the ting and throwing over between the you know,
32:01
Speaker 14: a change of government. What we need to do is
32:03
Speaker 14: you know, the priorities might change between one government to
32:06
Speaker 14: the next, but the system needs to be sound and
32:09
Speaker 14: pretty secure because when you change stuff, and we know
32:12
Speaker 14: that through health and we know through vocational education, when
32:17
Speaker 14: you change things, you actually stop progress. And the government
32:20
Speaker 14: were really clear here they said, oh, we could have
32:21
Speaker 14: pushed a few more things together, but we actually wanted
32:24
Speaker 14: to keep momentum so we can deliver infrastructure in our
32:28
Speaker 14: first term. And I think that's really important because the
32:33
Speaker 14: stuff shouldn't be party political right, that these agencies should
32:36
Speaker 14: be able to go ahead and do their work and
32:40
Speaker 14: get stuff built for New Zealand.
32:42
Speaker 2: And clearly we haven't actually been doing that very well,
32:45
Speaker 2: as you've outlined, Nick Leget Infrastructure New Zealand Chief Executive
32:48
Speaker 2: just gone seven minutes away from six o'clock. It's interesting,
32:51
Speaker 2: isn't it, because when you say it shouldn't be politicized,
32:54
Speaker 2: and you know what, if one government has announced something,
32:57
Speaker 2: then we should just build it. You know, should we
32:59
Speaker 2: have just tinued with light rail just because it had
33:02
Speaker 2: been announced and you know the Harbor Bridge cycle wave
33:05
Speaker 2: thing they can at themselves, I suppose labor, but it
33:09
Speaker 2: is it is difficult to see how you get consensus
33:12
Speaker 2: on some things. Nick, I appreciate your time. It has
33:14
Speaker 2: just gone six to six.
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Speaker 2: To six on News Talks. They'd be very cold in
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Speaker 2: the studio this morning. Neva reckons that Mike was it
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Speaker 2: was you turning the aircon down?
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Speaker 15: What you don't know because you're still newish here is
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Speaker 15: there we go the Neva is disreputable, doesn't have a
33:42
Speaker 15: particularly good reputation round here, comes across initially superficially is
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Speaker 15: quite nice.
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Speaker 2: This is lovely, but.
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Speaker 15: Yep, and you're still under that, you know, Paul of
33:52
Speaker 15: being sucked in. But Macavelian behind the well, my few
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Speaker 15: as soon as look at you. So temperatures is perfect.
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Speaker 15: Ryan and the mic Hoss breakfast to sit to go
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Speaker 2: What's on the show today, Andrew get us by the way,
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