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Full Show Podcast: 18 November 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickens on
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  Speaker 1: early leadership with r V Supercenter, explore r V successories
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  Speaker 2: Be well, good morning to you, Welcome into your Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Andrew Dickens coming up over the next sixty minutes.
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  Speaker 2: It was a landmark decision that will affect the gig economy.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk to the uber driver who took
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  Speaker 2: on the company and one. He's next. We've hit phase
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  Speaker 2: three of the process to take police out of mental
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  Speaker 2: health responses.
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  Speaker 3: Where are we at?
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about that in ten Australian schools join Kiwi
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  Speaker 2: schools in closing down over asbestosphears. We'll go to Australia
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  Speaker 2: and what are the changes to the rules over importing cars?
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  Speaker 2: Will it make for a cheaper drive? We'll have that
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  Speaker 2: just before six o'clock. We're going to have correspondence from
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  Speaker 2: right around New Zealand and around the world of news
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  Speaker 2: as it breaks and you can have your say by
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  Speaker 2: sending me a text at The number is ninety two
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  Speaker 2: ninety two and its small charge applies and it's seven
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  Speaker 2: after five. The agenda it's Tuesday, the eighteenth of November
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  Speaker 2: to Bangladesh and their former Prime minister. Sheikh Hasina has
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  Speaker 2: been sentenced to death in absentia over the last year's
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  Speaker 2: deadly student protests where fourteen hundred people were killed. She
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  Speaker 2: denies the charges, calling the trial political.
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  Speaker 4: For protesters here, the death penalty is not enough. They
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  Speaker 4: want more, even if that means marching towards the abandoned
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  Speaker 4: family home of Sheikh Hasina's father, Sheek Mujibur Rahman and
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  Speaker 4: demolishing it. They want to remove any remaining signs of
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  Speaker 4: that family. That's the kind of public anger among many
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  Speaker 4: over here.
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  Speaker 2: To the United Kingdom and the government there has announced
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  Speaker 2: a big asylum shakeup. It's pushing faster deportations. Even approved
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  Speaker 2: asylum seekers could be sent home if their country becomes safe,
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  Speaker 2: and three African nations are on notice help with the
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  Speaker 2: removals or say goodbye to UK visas.
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  Speaker 5: I think this is a small step in the right
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  Speaker 5: place direction.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to need.
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  Speaker 6: A whole series of actions.
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  Speaker 7: You know, our borders plan is very very comprehensive.
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  Speaker 3: We just want to.
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  Speaker 7: Fan all asylum claims completely. We need to be out
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  Speaker 7: of the ECHR, out of the ECAP need.
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  Speaker 3: A removal spurce.
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  Speaker 2: What we have at the moment isn't going to do that.
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  Speaker 2: And finally to the United States of America, where Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump has done a u turn on his position on
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  Speaker 2: the Epstein files. He's now urged lawmakers in his own
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  Speaker 2: party to vote in favor of releasing the files because,
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  Speaker 2: as he says, he's got nothing to hide.
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  Speaker 5: This is truly a manufacturer hoped by the Democrat Party.
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  Speaker 5: For now, they're talking about it all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 5: because President Trump is in the overlack.
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  Speaker 2: They're using Jeffrey Epstein as a deflection from the tremendous
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  Speaker 2: success that we're having as a party. It's nine after five.
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  Speaker 3: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Andrew
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  Speaker 3: Dickens and.
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  Speaker 1: Our the Supercenter, explore our these accessories and servicing one
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  Speaker 2: It'd be Oh, when times are tough, blame the government.
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  Speaker 2: That's the truest thing in politics. If you're in charge
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  Speaker 2: of the books, as the economy tanks, then people are
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  Speaker 2: going to take the chance to spit in your face,
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  Speaker 2: which we can see happening right now with polls suggesting
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  Speaker 2: that the National Led Coalition is useless at managing the economy.
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  Speaker 2: And even more surprisingly, the same poll says the previous
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  Speaker 2: lot who did their part in tanking the economy, it's
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  Speaker 2: trusted more so, of course, the left is smiling because
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  Speaker 2: they feel the ground is moving their way. They see
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  Speaker 2: that a capital gains tax doesn't cause widespread revulsion, and
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  Speaker 2: so they're starting to reckon that in a year they
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  Speaker 2: just might be back in the driving seat. But of
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  Speaker 2: course that would be very naive. Think about Australia. In Australia,
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  Speaker 2: before the last election, Peter Dutton and the Coalition were
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  Speaker 2: polling just great for two years before that election, and
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  Speaker 2: they entered the campaign assuming they were the favorite and
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  Speaker 2: Labor was vulnerable. That led to complacency, that led to
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  Speaker 2: late policy announcements that left voters unconvinced about the party's
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  Speaker 2: readiness to govern. And so what happened, Even though Peter
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  Speaker 2: Dutton was the favorite, Albernizi swept home. So this next
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  Speaker 2: election is not necessarily swinging Labour's way and assuming National
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  Speaker 2: as a dead duck would be foolish. The election has
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  Speaker 2: to happen before December next year, and things can change
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  Speaker 2: immensely in that year's time. In fact, I reckon the
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  Speaker 2: real possibility exists that no one votes for anyone because
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  Speaker 2: on the performance of the past two regimes.
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  Speaker 3: Who would Ryan Bridge.
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  Speaker 2: Andrew Dickins in fact, and thank you now, big decision,
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  Speaker 2: and it took a long time to come through, four
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  Speaker 2: years to come through. But the Uber drivers won the
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  Speaker 2: right to call their job a real job, which means
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  Speaker 2: they get all the rights that real jobs have. So
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  Speaker 2: what does this mean. It's got big implications for the
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  Speaker 2: gig economy for everybody who works in this way. Now,
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  Speaker 2: one of the drivers who actually took Uber to court
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  Speaker 2: is also a Wellington City councilor and he joins me next.
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  Speaker 2: His name is Neurdadena abdu Ahmen. And this is early
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  Speaker 2: Fourteen out to five. Uber has run out of road
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to appealing their driver's rights. A group
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  Speaker 2: of four drivers has taken their dispute with the global
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  Speaker 2: company to the Supreme Court and one the court recognized
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  Speaker 2: that drivers are employees and should be given the same rights,
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  Speaker 2: and that potentially means things like guaranteed minimum wage, sick
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  Speaker 2: leave and annual leave. Two it was a five mil decision.
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  Speaker 2: Nurdadena abdur Rahman is a driver who took Uber to
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  Speaker 2: court and is also the Wellington City councilor and joins
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  Speaker 2: me now Nurdaden, good morning.
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  Speaker 8: To you, Good morning Andrew.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a long four year fight for you through
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  Speaker 2: three courts and in every court it's been in your favor.
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  Speaker 2: This must be a very satisfying result.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, it's a very long fight, but it's I'm very
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  Speaker 8: pleased and yeah it's I'm beyond proud of all the
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  Speaker 8: three other drivers. And it's a union and first union
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  Speaker 8: for the hard work.
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  Speaker 2: So once you read on the final reading, what will
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  Speaker 2: it mean?
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  Speaker 8: Well, it means basically drivers are like any other employees.
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  Speaker 8: They would have equal rights and they were, they were
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  Speaker 8: to have human rights, and the fight was about employment
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  Speaker 8: right as much as it was a human right.
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  Speaker 2: But what are the ramifications? I mean, will Uber prices
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  Speaker 2: suddenly sky rocket? What is the meaning for the wider
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  Speaker 2: gig economy which has a reason for existing?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I don't, I don't believe so I think Uber
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  Speaker 8: and the last year they make about four hundred million
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  Speaker 8: dollars and then how much they paid in tax i.
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  Speaker 8: Think those are the kind of things they need to
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  Speaker 8: do openly with the community, and it's not going to
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  Speaker 8: be much increase for the for those who use Uber.
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  Speaker 8: I think it's about fairness.
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  Speaker 2: Will this have an international impact on the gig economy model?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I think it should and it will. What it
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  Speaker 8: means it's in a positive way. And look, drivers are
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  Speaker 8: in this case, they're saying they know what it is
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  Speaker 8: good for them, and instead of Uber telling them why
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  Speaker 8: it's good for drivers and the drivers they say they
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  Speaker 8: want to have sickly, they want to have a minimum wage,
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  Speaker 8: and they want to have most importantly, a decent way
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  Speaker 8: of dealing when they get dismissed for reason, they believe
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  Speaker 8: it's not the right one. And I think this is
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  Speaker 8: a very simple question to ask.
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  Speaker 2: Well, many have said, if you want these better benefits,
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  Speaker 2: these better wages, and you want to drive a taxi,
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  Speaker 2: then dry dry, you know, join a taxi company. What
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  Speaker 2: do you say to that.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I think I myself I used to drive taxi
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  Speaker 8: before I joined Uber. But that's the whole system was
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  Speaker 8: check injur doing Uber joined the business and the business
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  Speaker 8: model has changed since then in a big way, and
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  Speaker 8: no one wants to be driving Uber until driving Uber
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  Speaker 8: becomes like kind of the only way to survive. And
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  Speaker 8: if you ask me, I wouldn't be driving Uba. I've
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  Speaker 8: had just still got an opportunity to do better than taxi.
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  Speaker 2: But I've heard there's currently too many drivers, not enough rides.
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  Speaker 2: So there's more than enough people who still want to
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  Speaker 2: work under the Uber model.
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  Speaker 8: Well, look the system we currently have. There are so
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  Speaker 8: many drivers who what There are so many people who
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  Speaker 8: are looking for work and they need a job. And
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  Speaker 8: then Uber is using the human resource that we have
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  Speaker 8: to exploit for their own benefit. And that is why
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  Speaker 8: we need a loan in this country. The load that
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  Speaker 8: just says no, it doesn't matter how many people are
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  Speaker 8: out there looking for a job. They deserve right like
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  Speaker 8: everyone else. And that is why the Supreme Court agree
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  Speaker 8: was the drivers in the scars.
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  Speaker 2: Well, congratulations new Adena and thank you so much for
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  Speaker 2: joining us new abdul Ahman, the Uber driver who took
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  Speaker 2: Uber to court, also a Wellington City councilor as well.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, Brook van Velden is the Employment Minister and
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  Speaker 2: she hasn't read the judgment, but she respects the ruling
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  Speaker 2: of the court, and she says the case highlights the
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  Speaker 2: existing gray area in employment and contract law that the
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  Speaker 2: Employment Relations Amendment Bill aims to address, which she says,
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  Speaker 2: will clarify the boundary between being an employee or a
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  Speaker 2: contractor and cract more certainty for parties to a working arrangement.
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  Speaker 2: And that's currently before solect Committee and Brook van Velden
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  Speaker 2: will be joining Mike Hoskin after six o'clock this morning. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: I've had a text from Zane, and Zane says, I'm
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  Speaker 2: a part time gig worker and I disagree with the
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  Speaker 2: Supreme Court ruling. It completely misses the point. The freedom
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  Speaker 2: to work when I want is the whole reason gig
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  Speaker 2: work exists. These four drivers might have meant well, but
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  Speaker 2: they have now put that free and the whole gig
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  Speaker 2: economy at risk for the rest of us. Gig work
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  Speaker 2: works because it's flexible. Don't break what is not broken.
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  Speaker 2: And I have personal experience here. My son is trying
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  Speaker 2: to make a life of Melbourne right now and he's
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  Speaker 2: been doing a little bit of Uber Eats delivery on
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  Speaker 2: his bicycle and every now and then when he's sort
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  Speaker 2: of a bit of a bit of cash, he goes
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  Speaker 2: out and does two hours of delivery, gets himself fifty
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  Speaker 2: bucks and he says, it's not a real job, it's
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  Speaker 2: a bit of fast, flexible money and that's the point
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  Speaker 2: of it. So yeah, we'll see where we go with
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  Speaker 2: all of this. What do you think you can text me?
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  Speaker 2: Ninety two? Ninety two is the number to text now.
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  Speaker 2: It is nineteen minutes after five. And the police, of
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  Speaker 2: course is slowly withdrawing from responding to mental health emergencies.
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  Speaker 2: They're into phase three. What does this mean? We'll talk
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  Speaker 2: to the police next.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens on early edition with r V Supercenter explore
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  Speaker 2: By twenty one. So Police and Health New Zealand are
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  Speaker 2: pressing ahead with Phase three of their mental health response changes,
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  Speaker 2: shifting more responsibility onto health teams and away from police.
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  Speaker 2: And it means that police will no longer be involved
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  Speaker 2: in mental health callouts eventually unless there is an immediate
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  Speaker 2: safety risk. So I'm joined now by Steve Watt, who
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  Speaker 2: is the Police Association Present GADATA.
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  Speaker 9: Steve Marina.
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  Speaker 2: Is this whole scheme working the slow withdrawal.
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  Speaker 9: Look, it absolutely is, and it's a good news story
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  Speaker 9: for not only our members, but members of the public
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  Speaker 9: and also those that are suffering from mental health issues
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  Speaker 9: about getting the response that they need, which is mental
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  Speaker 9: health clinicians. And that's alleviating the pressure put being put
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  Speaker 9: on place so we can spend more time out there
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  Speaker 9: doing what we do best.
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  Speaker 2: The fear is that we're going to end out with
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  Speaker 2: some people being left behind.
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  Speaker 9: Are they No, not at all, And that's why this
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  Speaker 9: has been a phased approach to allow Health New Zealand
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  Speaker 9: to head the services available so that as we slowly
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  Speaker 9: withdraw from the mental health arena, the services are in
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  Speaker 9: place so that no one's getting left behind.
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  Speaker 2: Our officers relieved at the changes.
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  Speaker 9: Oh absolutely. You know, it frees up roughly half a
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  Speaker 9: million police hours each year that we're spent responding to
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  Speaker 9: mental health call outs, So that's time that can be
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  Speaker 9: better spent elsewhere within the community doing what we do best.
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  Speaker 2: So what happens the first time someone harms himself and
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  Speaker 2: police weren't there to respond, Do you think that responsibility
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  Speaker 2: should rely on the police?
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  Speaker 8: No?
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  Speaker 9: Look, we'll always turn up to those jobs where life
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  Speaker 9: is in danger or being threatened, So there's no you know,
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  Speaker 9: there's a reduced risk that we are still there to
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  Speaker 9: respond to those jobs that require us, all right.
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  Speaker 2: And police are now not automatically involved in missing persons
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  Speaker 2: from mental health facilities. So does that pose a risk
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  Speaker 2: to the community.
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  Speaker 9: No, not at all. Look, and it's not actually withdrawing
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  Speaker 9: from that. There's still a process in place where those
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  Speaker 9: missing persons from mental health can be reported to us
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  Speaker 9: will make an assessment as to whether our services are
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  Speaker 9: required or not, So there is still the ability there
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  Speaker 9: to have police respond in those circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, Steve, carry on with the good work,
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  Speaker 2: and I thank you for your time today. Steve. What
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  Speaker 2: is the Association? The Police Association President? And this is
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  Speaker 2: News Talks B and it's five twenty four and more
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  Speaker 2: texts coming in on the Uber scenario, Andrew, I'm an
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  Speaker 2: Uber driver and I disagree with the ruling. I'm wondering
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  Speaker 2: if the Wellington City councilor that spoke to you realizes
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  Speaker 2: that under the employee model, most drivers will lose the
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  Speaker 2: ability to work for them, plus most or all of
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  Speaker 2: the flexibility will be lost, which is the critical part
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  Speaker 2: of the gig economy model. What do you think? Ninety
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  Speaker 2: two ninety two is the text. It is five twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Talks BI twenty six Andred Dickinson for Ryan Bridge. So
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  Speaker 2: the latest plan to fix central Wellington traffic has been
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  Speaker 2: released for consultation and it's a big old monster of
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  Speaker 2: a thing. There's a couple of tunnels, a new one
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  Speaker 2: at the Terrace end of the motorway and another new
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  Speaker 2: tunnel through Mount Victoria Land and houses will be taken
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  Speaker 2: out of the town belt at Mount Victoria and parkland
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  Speaker 2: will be taken at the Terrace. There will be a
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  Speaker 2: major redesign of the Basin Reserve roundabout and a bridge
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  Speaker 2: maybe near the airport. And the price tag three billion dollars,
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  Speaker 2: ironically the same sort of cost for two ports and
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  Speaker 2: two ferries to cross Cork Strait that was thought to
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  Speaker 2: be wildly expensive at the time. So the immediate reaction
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  Speaker 2: to this plan is that it's wildly expensive, which it
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  Speaker 2: is wildly expensive and totally predictable. The Rongatai Airport, Wellington's
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  Speaker 2: airport was opened to nineteen fifty nine and from day
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  Speaker 2: one to get to it you would dependent on the
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  Speaker 2: Mount vic Tunnel, which opened in nineteen thirty one two
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  Speaker 2: lanes and that's it. It should have been expanded when
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  Speaker 2: they build the airport. The Mountvick Tunnel is Wellington's Auckland
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  Speaker 2: harbor Bridge moment, a piece of insufficient infrastructure that has
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  Speaker 2: only got worse. And you could argue the same thing
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  Speaker 2: about the Terrace Tunnel that was built ending abruptly in
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  Speaker 2: a tiny urban streets designed before the rides of the automobile.
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  Speaker 2: And meanwhile, of course some of Mount Vick's funky houses
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  Speaker 2: are going to be destroyed and that will get right
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  Speaker 2: up the nose of the inner city residents, the ones
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  Speaker 2: who don't have to drive far at all. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: console consultation is open now and what am I expecting.
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  Speaker 2: I'm expecting it to be rancorous because it's expensive and
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  Speaker 2: houses are being disappeared. But you know, it's the bed
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  Speaker 2: Wellington chose to lie in when building an inner city
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  Speaker 2: airport and not making the hard cause earlier. And that
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  Speaker 2: also means strife for the good people of Candala who
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  Speaker 2: are complaining about the plane noise over their suburb. After
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  Speaker 2: the flight paths changed in twenty twenty two, of course
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  Speaker 2: they would prefer the flights when over Newlands where they
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  Speaker 2: used to go. Well, the people of Newlands are loving
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  Speaker 2: the change fight path. But as soon as you put
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  Speaker 2: your airport at wrong attide, this was bound to happen.
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  Speaker 2: So on all of this, you can't really complain about
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  Speaker 2: the bill that you've inherited from your forebears who lacked foresight.
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  Speaker 3: News Talk said, be.
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  Speaker 2: So we're talking to the guys from the Uber who
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  Speaker 2: took the company to court, and now I'm just getting
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  Speaker 2: reaction after reaction from Uber drivers who are in this
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  Speaker 2: gig economy. Matt writes, I'm a part time Uber driver.
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  Speaker 2: This court decision is wrong. Many Uber drivers are on
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  Speaker 2: multiple platforms, Uber Bolt, and some even double as taxi
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  Speaker 2: company drivers and own their own retail businesses like dairies
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  Speaker 2: and such. So, for instance, Abdu Rahman, the fellow we
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  Speaker 2: talked to, he's also a Wellington City councilor. The thing
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  Speaker 2: is that he's asking if they have a sick day,
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  Speaker 2: which company pays and what about the flexibility this allows?
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  Speaker 2: And another one, Henry says, you'll call one of the
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  Speaker 2: rights of an employee of a taxi company, but working
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  Speaker 2: for a taxi company was less lucrative them working for Uber.
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  Speaker 2: I don't get the logic of them destroying the Uber
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  Speaker 2: model to make it more like the taxi model, bringing
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  Speaker 2: everybody down to the same level. So a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the Uber drivers are not thankful for this action. We'll
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  Speaker 2: have more on this with Book van Velden, who's joining
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  Speaker 2: Mike Hosking after six o'clock this morning. Australia has the
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  Speaker 2: asbestos problem as well. We'll go to Australia shortly and
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  Speaker 2: before six. What about these new rules about clin car standards?
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  Speaker 2: Will it be in a cheaper car? This is early edition.
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  Speaker 2: It's US talks HEB.
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  Speaker 2: Why did you welcome to your Tuesday morning the eighteenth
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  Speaker 2: of November. Want to do a congratulations of course to
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  Speaker 2: Andrew Oldison who, in talking about cricket and voodoo and
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  Speaker 2: the Congo, played a little bit of Jimmy Hendricks and
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  Speaker 2: Voodoo Child that's art. That really is got some funky
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  Speaker 2: stories for you from around New Zealand. Russell or wrong
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  Speaker 2: Obey Holiday Park as removing all televisions from its accommodation,
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  Speaker 2: encouraging visitors to get outside and back into nature. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to be one of the first holiday parks in
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand to go completely TV TV free, TV three
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  Speaker 2: but TV free. What do you think about this? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: is this a little bit overbearing by the holiday park
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  Speaker 2: and by the manager. He apparently just hates seeing kids
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  Speaker 2: on screen, so then decided write no screens at my park.
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  Speaker 2: He's a very jovial chap and he's on with Mike
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  Speaker 2: after six and sew in. District Councilors set to trial
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  Speaker 2: a new rubber road surface in January in New Zealand.
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  Speaker 2: First it'll be on State Highway seventy seven's Glen Tunnel.
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  Speaker 2: They use recycled rubber annuals now. I think this is
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  Speaker 2: probably a good thing. When you see all the tire
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  Speaker 2: mountains that farmers store on their land, you have to
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  Speaker 2: say this is a good thing that the tires can
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  Speaker 2: actually be recycled into something new and something good. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure though, if the farmers were making some money
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  Speaker 2: out of that, will agree, But that story also with
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  Speaker 2: Mike after six and of course big changes are coming
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  Speaker 2: to New Zealand's clean car standard. The current penalties and
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  Speaker 2: targets have been putting pressure on supply and pushed up
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  Speaker 2: costs for consumers. How much the clean car standard has
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  Speaker 2: been linked to a twenty five percent drop in vehicle
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  Speaker 2: imports and a thirty percent rise and use car prices,
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  Speaker 2: making popular family vehicles almost unsellable. But here's the question.
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  Speaker 2: Are they just wanting to keep on selling old polluting
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  Speaker 2: models on kiwis claiming that they're looking after the consumer?
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  Speaker 2: Is the government wanting us to have a cheap fleet
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  Speaker 2: and not a good fleet? We'll look at this story
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  Speaker 2: just before six right here on early edition. That's twenty one.
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  Speaker 3: To six news Talk Sibby time to go.
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  Speaker 2: Right around the nation to Duaneeda and Otaga, We go
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  Speaker 2: Cadam Proact to good morning to you morning Andrew. So
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  Speaker 2: as Southern students done some research and been rewarded for it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is quite remarkable for a year twelve South
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  Speaker 5: and Girls High School student who names Sophie Inison, she's
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  Speaker 5: been awarded the fifty thousand dollars Student Endeavor Award by
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  Speaker 5: Prime Minister Chris Luxon and Space Minister Judith Collins for
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  Speaker 5: her work. Sophie's project focuses on how wounds heal and space.
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  Speaker 5: She's designed ways to prevent infection within the context of microgravity,
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  Speaker 5: low pressure, antibiotic resistant bacteria and lunar dust. All this
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  Speaker 5: in year twelve. The Prime Minister says, the prize highlights
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  Speaker 5: the extraordinary talent driving the space industry.
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  Speaker 2: Excellent stuff. How's your weather?
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  Speaker 5: Occasional rain here today with a strong nor'easter we get
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  Speaker 5: to twenty four today.
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  Speaker 2: And I thank you Chris Sherwoo from christ Churche Good morning,
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, christ Church gets IQA first we.
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  Speaker 10: Do well, at least a sneak peak of it. Anyway,
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  Speaker 10: The Scandinavian furniture brand is hosting some pop umps, first
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  Speaker 10: here in christ Church, but then another one in a
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  Speaker 10: week or so in Wellington so the public can explore
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  Speaker 10: a collection of IKEA's most popular products ahead of the
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  Speaker 10: official opening of the Auckland store in two weeks time.
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  Speaker 10: Ike ahead of marketing for Australia and New Zealand. Kirsten
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  Speaker 10: Hasler says there'll be around twenty of IKEA's most popular
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  Speaker 10: products on display, as well as their new Zealand pricing.
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  Speaker 10: She says they have been humbled by the excitement of
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  Speaker 10: Kiwi's looking forward to the launch. There are no plans
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  Speaker 10: for a store down here permanently at this point, and
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  Speaker 10: nothing can be purchased today from the pop up, but
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  Speaker 10: they do say these will be the items available to
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  Speaker 10: buy online and from the Auckland store.
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  Speaker 2: This store opens in two weeks time. And look, it's
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  Speaker 2: causing chaos. It's just a furniture store and some meat balls.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, how's your weather?
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  Speaker 10: High cloud northerly strong this afternoon at a hive twenty
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  Speaker 10: six and.
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  Speaker 2: I thank you. Max Told from Wellington, good morning to you.
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  Speaker 9: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: I've already spoken a little bit about it, but you're
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  Speaker 2: back into another State Highway one debate.
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  Speaker 7: You said three billion dollars earlier. I think it's going
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  Speaker 7: to cost probably closer to four billion, if not more.
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  Speaker 7: It's obviously going to be a mammoth task of building
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  Speaker 7: this thing. And just to paint a more exact picture,
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  Speaker 7: both new tunnels are essentially going into the existing ones,
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  Speaker 7: so the terrace tunnels would be two lanes northbound, two
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  Speaker 7: lanes southbound. You're essentially dividing the traffic. And then it's
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  Speaker 7: the same logic for the tunnel out toward the Peninsula
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  Speaker 7: and the airport at Mount Victoria. Two lanes out, two
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  Speaker 7: lanes in. You're gonna have a lot of traffic going
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  Speaker 7: both ways around a basin reserve. Now both ways. It's
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  Speaker 7: one way at the moment, three lanes along Vivian Street
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  Speaker 7: through the city, which connects up straight to State Highway One.
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  Speaker 7: It is in some ways very exciting. The pain, as
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  Speaker 7: you say, will obviously just be getting to that point,
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  Speaker 7: and as you say, it will be very painful for
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  Speaker 7: some time. The new meyor Andrew Little, has spoken on it.
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  Speaker 7: He's cautiously on board.
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  Speaker 2: He supports it.
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  Speaker 7: But let's talk a little further about what houses would
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  Speaker 7: inevitably have to be knocked down. There's a crash as
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  Speaker 7: well out by the War Memorial that's gone a lot
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  Speaker 7: more traffic on streets not used to traffic. So yeah,
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  Speaker 7: it will be interesting to see what the public feedback
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  Speaker 7: looks like.
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  Speaker 2: Now, absolutely, boy, I hope you guys like road cones,
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  Speaker 2: because you're going to see an awful lot of them
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  Speaker 2: for an awfully long time. And I did see some
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  Speaker 2: reaction yesterday something saying how long are we going to
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  Speaker 2: tolerate the basin reserve because.
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  Speaker 7: Well they've gone to look at ground, so hopefully forever.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know, I'm totally with you on that.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, if you got rid of it,
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  Speaker 2: you could just go straight through there and have your
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  Speaker 2: problems will be solved. But there we go. How's your weather, Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Party cloudy, today's strong Northerlys twenty one and.
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  Speaker 2: To what can we go? And neither ret your MANA
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  Speaker 2: good morning to you your reetings. We've got repairs to
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  Speaker 2: the harbour bridge.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, we do.
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  Speaker 6: So what's happening? Excuse me? Water Key is going to
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  Speaker 6: start these vital repairs to the water pipes under Auckland's
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  Speaker 6: Harbor Bridge today. Now this will renew supports for about
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  Speaker 6: one point two kilometers of pipe, which provides two thirds
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  Speaker 6: of the North Shaw's water supply, so very very vital,
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  Speaker 6: and it's part of this larger renewal project which is
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  Speaker 6: going to see about three hundred and fifty million dollars
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  Speaker 6: worth of repairs a year over the next decade. Suzanne
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  Speaker 6: Lucas she is the acting tooth Program delivery officer. She says, quote,
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  Speaker 6: there will be no disruption to water supply or for commuters.
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  Speaker 2: They're good her words, very good. You have very nice tangerine.
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  Speaker 2: Now polish on someday.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: To go in the dark, will never lose you turn
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  Speaker 2: the lights off. We'll know exactly where never is.
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  Speaker 11: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: How's Awkan's weather?
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  Speaker 6: Rain some heavy falls in the afternoon. Twenty three is
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  Speaker 6: a high here in Auclid.
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  Speaker 2: We're off to Australia in a few moments time. And
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  Speaker 2: they've got the problems with the asbestos as well. And
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  Speaker 2: every time I've been hearing this asbestos story, I've been going, well,
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  Speaker 2: how the hell did the asbestos get in there? And
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  Speaker 2: apparently the asbestos found in the colored sand products have
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  Speaker 2: come from naturally occurring sources and the raw materials used
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  Speaker 2: to make the sand in China, so it's made in China,
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  Speaker 2: sold in Australia and New Zealand educational colours, Rainbow sand,
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  Speaker 2: creatistics colored sand and candink decorative sand. And the lab
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  Speaker 2: tests found tremolite and chrysotile asbestos in the sand, both
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  Speaker 2: naturally occurring minerals found in certain rocks and soils, and
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  Speaker 2: so if the sand was produced in China by crushing
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  Speaker 2: rock instead of using beach sand, asbestos could have been
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  Speaker 2: present in the source. So the reason all our schools
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  Speaker 2: are closed here and in Australia is because of Chinese
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  Speaker 2: manufacturing standards. Will have more on this in a few
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  Speaker 2: moments time with our correspondent Leslie Yeomans. And this is
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  Speaker 2: early edition. It's sixteen to.
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  Speaker 1: Six International Correspondence with ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of
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  Speaker 1: Mind for New Zealand Business third.
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  Speaker 2: Into six to Australia, we go Leslie Yeomans, good morning,
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Andrew. So just like us, you've got schools
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  Speaker 2: closed because of asbestos and sand.
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  Speaker 11: We have this in the Act around Canberra. We've got
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  Speaker 11: more than seventy schools that have been closed because of
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  Speaker 11: this cating sand which is used in sort of arts
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  Speaker 11: and crafts and play and apparently also it's been sold
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  Speaker 11: in a lot of the large retailers like Target and Kmart.
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  Speaker 11: They've done this big recall of the sand and these
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  Speaker 11: seventy two schools across the ACT have been closed down
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  Speaker 11: while further testing is being done. There's also it's also
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  Speaker 11: been found in the Northern Territory and South Australia as well.
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  Speaker 11: In South Australia, more than one hundred sites have been
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  Speaker 11: identified as using the sand. Northern Territory haven't closed any
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  Speaker 11: schools as yet, but they have closed some classes so
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  Speaker 11: that further testing can be done on this sand. So
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  Speaker 11: it's this asbestos that's been found in it. It's called
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  Speaker 11: it tremolite asbestos and apparently it's found as a natural
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  Speaker 11: sort of asbestos, but we're not really sure exactly how
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  Speaker 11: bad it can be. They're still doing tests on it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, China. Meanwhile, you've got a koala
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  Speaker 2: colony in out back New South Wales which is under threat.
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  Speaker 11: It is they've been doing some koala testing for koala
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  Speaker 11: numbers in central western New South Wales in the and
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  Speaker 11: the researchers have found this really large colony of koalas.
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  Speaker 11: The only trouble is it's in an area where there
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  Speaker 11: is a coal mine that wants to expand, and the
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  Speaker 11: coal mine is wanting to move into an area about
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  Speaker 11: one hundred and or just over one hundred hectares of
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  Speaker 11: where the koalas are now. The operators of the coal
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  Speaker 11: mine say that they're aware of it, and they're more
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  Speaker 11: than happy to relocate koalas if they come into the
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  Speaker 11: area that the coal mine wants to go to.
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  Speaker 5: But the.
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  Speaker 11: Environmental researchers and the wildlife researchers are saying that that's
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  Speaker 11: maybe not the best thing because this new colony has
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  Speaker 11: really surprised them because they haven't sort of done a
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  Speaker 11: lot of workout in central New South Wales as far
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  Speaker 11: as Koala numbers have gone, and they've been really pleasantly
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  Speaker 11: surprised that they've found this huge colony of koalas out there.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, has anyone asked the Koala how long they feel
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  Speaker 2: about being moved?
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  Speaker 5: There?
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  Speaker 2: We go and I thank you, Leslie yemens all the
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  Speaker 2: very best. It is now eleven minutes after six. Does
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  Speaker 2: that be all right? The government's having another go at
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  Speaker 2: the clean car standard, saying importers just cannot hit the
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  Speaker 2: current targets. It's moving to slash emission charges, cutting the
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three Clean Vehicle standard by nearly eighty percent
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  Speaker 2: and the change is expected to save around two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and sixty four million dollars in costs to consumers. And
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  Speaker 2: we'll keep our imported cars cheaper, so let's talk to
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  Speaker 2: Greg Epps, who is the Imported Vehicle Association CEO. Good
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  Speaker 2: morning to.
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  Speaker 3: You, Grego morning.
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  Speaker 12: How are you good?
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  Speaker 9: Matt?
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  Speaker 2: Is this good news for you?
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  Speaker 12: It is. It's really welcome relief. The industry has been
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  Speaker 12: struggling for least the last year and a half under
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  Speaker 12: these targets. I mean, people might call this backsliding, but
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  Speaker 12: when you've set a target so hard that we can't
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  Speaker 12: even get to it, you know, it's not backsliding. It's
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  Speaker 12: being realistic and coming back to what can we actually
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  Speaker 12: do to be bringing cleaner cars into the country.
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  Speaker 2: Government says consumers will save two hundred and sixty four million.
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  Speaker 2: So what does that mean for the prices of used cars.
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  Speaker 12: Well, what we've been seeing is that there's a certain
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  Speaker 12: segment of cars, especially it's the family sized vehicles, those
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  Speaker 12: sort of six and seven seaters that have just been
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  Speaker 12: pushed out of the price range of the family, the
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  Speaker 12: normal key we family. You know, they've they've been suffering
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  Speaker 12: from penalties of nearly three thousand dollars on top of
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  Speaker 12: the price of the vehicle. And when you're looking at
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  Speaker 12: things like a hybrid people Mover, which is a really
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  Speaker 12: good car that you want people to get into, you
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  Speaker 12: put another three thousand dollars on top of the price,
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  Speaker 12: and it just gets out of reach.
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  Speaker 2: What I found interesting is exactly that the hybrids, which
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  Speaker 2: have less emissions than your older cars, we're also getting penalized.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, and from next year, And the thing is the
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  Speaker 12: penalties that have been cut, the target is still going
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  Speaker 12: to be harder to reach. Next year, it's still it's
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  Speaker 12: still going to go down. So next year, almost all
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  Speaker 12: all hybrids, whether they're new, used, we're going to be penalized.
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  Speaker 12: So we were going to be pushing this technology out
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  Speaker 12: of reach.
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  Speaker 2: And evs were they penalized too.
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  Speaker 12: No evs, if it's a pure EV it would still
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  Speaker 12: have got a credit. But the problem for us is
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  Speaker 12: that in the used sector, Japan hasn't been making evs,
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  Speaker 12: and so there aren't used evs for us to bring
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  Speaker 12: into the country, and so we weren't able to generate credits.
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  Speaker 12: The policy expected you to be able to generate credits
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  Speaker 12: to offset your penalties. But as the as the government
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  Speaker 12: noted yesterday, well over eighty percent of people of importers
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  Speaker 12: bringing cars and we're just being penalized and being penalized
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  Speaker 12: over one thousand dollars A can't Does.
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  Speaker 2: This mean that evs are a bus in that Japan
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  Speaker 2: is not making them? However, China is making thousands.
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  Speaker 12: That's that's the thing I mean. I think what we've
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  Speaker 12: pointed out to the government is that there are really
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  Speaker 12: two markets here. There are new cars, and the new
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  Speaker 12: car manufacturers have got a lot of opportunity to get
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  Speaker 12: out there and find these to say, the Chinese vehicles,
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  Speaker 12: and to push the Japanese manufacturers to head towards evs
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  Speaker 12: as well. But in the used car market, we haven't
• 31:30
  Speaker 12: had that opportunity. And so you know, we bring affordable
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  Speaker 12: vehicles for Kiwi families and the average Kiwi. We can
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  Speaker 12: bring in class that are cleaner than what we've got here,
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  Speaker 12: and that's how we progress and refresh the fleet and
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  Speaker 12: move it forward. And we can, you know, let's get
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  Speaker 12: as many evs as we can, but we've got to
• 31:51
  Speaker 12: be realistic about about what the average ki we can afford.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: And what do you say to the people that say, oh, great,
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: we're going to have cheap cars, but we're also going
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: to have dirty cars.
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  Speaker 12: Every used import that comes in at the moment is
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  Speaker 12: better in terms of CO two than the average vehicle
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  Speaker 12: in the sleep. We're talking about replacing twenty year old
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  Speaker 12: vehicles with a ten year old vehicle that is cleaner.
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  Speaker 12: So we're not we're not bringing dirtier cars, and we're
• 32:21
  Speaker 12: not bringing dirty cars, and we're actually trying to shift
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  Speaker 12: four million cars and change the composition of that fleet.
• 32:29
  Speaker 12: So no, we're working to bring that carbon level down,
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  Speaker 12: but it does take time.
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  Speaker 2: Greg, thank you so much for your time this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Greg is the CEO of the Important Motor Vehicles Association.
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  Speaker 2: It is six to six.
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  Speaker 3: The first word on the News of the Day early
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  Speaker 3: edition with Adre.
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  Speaker 1: Dickins and r V Supercenter explore r VS, accessories and
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  Speaker 2: So we talked to the Uber drivers who won yesterday,
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: the four of them, and we talked earlier this morning,
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: and I've had reply to reply from real Uber drivers
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: not agreeing with it. So this is from Robin who says,
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: I am an Uber driver, I'm a member of the
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Uber Drivers Advisory Panel. I interact with Uber regularly. The
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: court made the only decision it could under the current legislation. However,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: the four drivers represent themselves as representing the industry. The
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: problem is eighty percent of drivers do not want the change.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Maybe they want better conditions, but they don't want to
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: be employees. They enjoy the flexibility. So yeah, Mike, you're
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: talking to Brook microphone on.
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  Speaker 13: Please. My reading of it is the judges it was
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  Speaker 13: unanimous and two of them got there differently from the
• 33:40
  Speaker 13: other three. So it means the law's fairly solid as
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  Speaker 13: far as I can work out. So they'll need to
• 33:46
  Speaker 13: make a law that allows them to do what they
• 33:48
  Speaker 13: want to do, because you're right, the gig economy is
• 33:51
  Speaker 13: based on freedom to do what you want to do,
• 33:55
  Speaker 13: not what some so they don't seem to be interventionist
• 33:57
  Speaker 13: as well. I'm saying this court they seem to have
• 33:59
  Speaker 13: interpreted the law is it currently sits? Anyway, She's with
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  Speaker 13: us and we'll talk about the aforementioned that cow business.
• 34:03
  Speaker 13: That's funny as so we'll talk about that as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm actually looking forward to the filler from the
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  Speaker 2: holiday park who's got rid of the TVs? That's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be great.
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