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Full Show Podcast: 22 May 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: an early edition with Funk for business technology that keeps
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Speaker 1: business moving, news talks.
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Speaker 2: They'd be good morning, six up for five. Great to
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Speaker 2: have your company. This Friday morning, we'll look at the
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Speaker 2: government's housing changes. We'll go to the UK with Vincent.
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Speaker 2: We'll get an update on Trump and Taiwan for you
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Speaker 2: Auckland f C will talk ticket prices and there's a
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Speaker 2: new age, a new range of flu vaccines for senior
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Speaker 2: citizens that David Seymour reckons will be better than the
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Speaker 2: jab that you're currently getting.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It's Friday, the twenty second of May. Some Republicans don't
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Speaker 2: like Trump's anti weaponization. This is his law fare fund
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Speaker 2: that's been set up.
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Speaker 3: I will tell you my first reaction was this doesn't
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Speaker 3: pass the smell test, where.
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Speaker 4: Since the signal, hey go breach the capital, destroy the building,
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Speaker 4: assault police officers.
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Speaker 5: You may even get compensated for some day.
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Speaker 1: That's absurd.
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Speaker 6: Every policy actually that I look at, I look at
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Speaker 6: it through the lands that wedding packets is going to
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Speaker 6: have on a.
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Speaker 7: Borde and you think this representation finds waste of tax
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Speaker 7: per dollars.
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Speaker 2: I think that would be putting it mildly, and so
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Speaker 2: yesterday we had charges for rol Castro and now Mica
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Speaker 2: Rubio turning up the heat on Cuba.
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Speaker 3: Cuba's consistently posed the threat to the national security of
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Speaker 3: the United States.
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Speaker 2: And the other thing that posted the threat to the.
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Speaker 8: National security the United States is to have a bailed
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Speaker 8: state ninety miles from our shores, run by friends of
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Speaker 8: our adversaries.
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Speaker 2: And to guars. Are basically no one in the world,
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Speaker 2: including New Zealand, happy about this. The Israeli security minister
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Speaker 2: mocking the activists.
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Speaker 5: Welcome to Israel. We are the landlords. The people of
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Speaker 5: Israel live. They came as big heroes. Look at them now,
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Speaker 5: not heroes, not anything.
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Speaker 2: And Maloney, Georgia Maloney, Italian Prime Minister.
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Speaker 9: The images of Israeli Minister Ben Gavert are unacceptable. It's
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Speaker 9: unacceptable that these protesters, including many Italian citizens, are being
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Speaker 9: subjected to treatment that violates human dignity.
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Speaker 2: They've all been deported by the way out of Israel.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: Newly released documents show the late Queen helped push Andrew
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Speaker 2: into that trade Invoyd job that he loved so much
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Speaker 2: that got him traveling around the world.
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Speaker 6: There's nothing else I think to be found. And so
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Speaker 6: the question, so the statements that say that ministers were content,
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Speaker 6: I think is the sum total of the response. And
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Speaker 6: I suppose to some degree that that is understandable, bearing
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Speaker 6: in mind that the Pallace had made it very clear
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Speaker 6: that her Majesty, her late Majesty was very keen that
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Speaker 6: Andrew be given.
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Speaker 2: A job, and he was given the job. Now eleven
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Speaker 2: years in the job. Stephen Colbeer signed off from the
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Speaker 2: Late Show. Bruce Springsteen was there. I'm here in support
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Speaker 2: and i'd restive. And because you're the first guy in
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Speaker 2: America who's lost its show, because we've got a president
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Speaker 2: who can't take a joke.
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Speaker 1: News and views you trust. To start your day, It's
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Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for business technology
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Speaker 1: that keeps the business moving, News talks.
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Speaker 2: It'd be nine nine two is the number to text
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Speaker 2: I want to start. It was some excellent news this morning,
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Speaker 2: and it is our trade surplus for April. It's looking good.
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Speaker 2: So we sold more goods in April basically than we've
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Speaker 2: ever sold before. The all time record high trade surplus
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Speaker 2: was fed by exports, up twelve percent for the month.
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Speaker 2: On a year ago month that was up almost a
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Speaker 2: billion dollars to eight point six billion for the month.
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Speaker 2: Imports were up three point four percent on the same
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Speaker 2: basis to six point seven That gives you a surplus
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Speaker 2: of nearly two billion dollars. Well done to all of
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Speaker 2: our exporters this morning. Exactly who are we talking about?
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Speaker 2: China up three point nine percent, Australia up twenty percent.
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Speaker 2: That was mostly gold, the US up nineteen percent, that
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Speaker 2: was mostly beef, the EU up thirty percent that was horticulture,
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Speaker 2: that was aluminium. Did you know Japan up almost ten
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Speaker 2: percent that was aluminium on the whole. So well done
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Speaker 2: to our exporters. We need you. It's what keeps this
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Speaker 2: country running. We need to ensure it as well. And
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Speaker 2: the problem for our insurance they had it was yesterday
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Speaker 2: is their halfiar profit was down forty percent and the
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Speaker 2: reason it was down forty percent basically was storm payouts.
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Speaker 2: They've had a few storms and they've been paying out
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Speaker 2: for them. So twenty two million dollars was their profit
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Speaker 2: after tax. But it was interesting looking at the comments
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Speaker 2: that were made by the Tower Insurance chair to Interest
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Speaker 2: dot Co yesterday, Naomi Ballentine is her name. So insurance.
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Speaker 2: If you're paying insurance, you know it is like someone
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Speaker 2: is kicking you in the gonads every time you get
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Speaker 2: your bill. Insurance premiums are up three times faster than
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Speaker 2: inflation since twenty eleven. And just think about how much
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Speaker 2: inflation hurts your gonads. So Tower Insurance's chair has said
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Speaker 2: something that I didn't realize government levies and taxes. So
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Speaker 2: of the insurance premiums you're paying, guess how much? What
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Speaker 2: would you say that the levees and the taxes and
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Speaker 2: levies are forty three percent? Now that's one gonad? Isn't it?
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Speaker 2: Cumulative impact of regulation? She says, though well intentioned, adds
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Speaker 2: significant cost and complexity. Now there is a government review
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Speaker 2: going on right now into exactly this insurance premium costs.
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Speaker 2: No doubt, the part of the reason is that they
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Speaker 2: are paying out for more storms. Is more storms happening,
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Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. But how much of this is regulation?
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Speaker 2: How much of this is tax and how much of
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Speaker 2: this is levy And the answer seems to be more
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Speaker 2: than we're comfortable with.
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Speaker 1: Ryan bridge chime is.
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Speaker 2: Eleven minutes after five, So more money coming for farmac
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Speaker 2: that is good news and also a new age of
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Speaker 2: flu vaccines that it will apparently help people if you
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Speaker 2: are over the age of sixty five. We'll talk about
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Speaker 2: that next News Talk sedb.
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Speaker 1: Heurrett First, Bryan Bridge on early edition with Spark for
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Speaker 1: Business Technology that keeps Business Moving.
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Speaker 2: News Talks EDB five fourteen News Talks SB. We're streeting.
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Speaker 2: You know a guy who wants to be British Prime Minister.
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Speaker 2: He's got to try and win over the base, their
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Speaker 2: rank and file of the Labor Party over in the UK.
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Speaker 2: So he's now talking about a wealth tax. He's talking
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Speaker 2: about a wealth tax that would bring in twelve billion
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Speaker 2: pounds a year. That'll gird their loins. Wonder that'll get
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Speaker 2: them excited. How is it going to work? Who is
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Speaker 2: going to penalize? While there are no real answers to
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Speaker 2: that question at this point, ran Bridge. Two hundred and
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Speaker 2: sixty thousand extra kids will get a free flu vaccine
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Speaker 2: under a new FARMAC proposal. Only those sixty five and
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Speaker 2: older are free at the moment from twenty twenty seven.
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Speaker 2: If this goes ahead, kids age six months to five
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Speaker 2: years would get the same. Michael Baker Otaga University epidemiologist
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Speaker 2: with US this morning. Michael, Good morning Mareno, Ryan Good.
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Speaker 2: There's lots of kids get their flu vaccine.
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Speaker 3: Quite a few will get it at the moment because
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Speaker 3: it's recommended for everyone from six months of age and above,
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Speaker 3: but as you point out, it's only provided or funded
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Speaker 3: by the government for certain groups, you know, older people
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Speaker 3: and people of any age with certain underlying conditions.
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Speaker 2: Do kids get the flu and do they die from it?
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Speaker 2: Is it bad?
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Speaker 3: They get the highest rates of flu of any population group,
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Speaker 3: mainly because they just haven't built up antibodies because they
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Speaker 3: haven't been exposed to it, and some Yeah, every year
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Speaker 3: there will be a small number who die from the flu.
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Speaker 3: But they also basically have time off, will preschool in school,
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Speaker 3: and also they often infect other members of their families.
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Speaker 3: So quite a few countries around the world now fund
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Speaker 3: vaccine for under fives or under six's.
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Speaker 2: Michael, what happens You say that they don't get it
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Speaker 2: as often, therefore they don't have well, they get it
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Speaker 2: more often, I should say, because they don't have the antibodies.
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Speaker 2: If you vaccinate them, then they don't get the antibodies.
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Speaker 2: So I mean, you know what happens down the track.
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Speaker 3: Well, they are still exposed to circulating virus. They will
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Speaker 3: build up antibodies. It's just they get a lot of
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Speaker 3: their protection from the vaccine rather than getting sick.
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Speaker 2: Right, It's a better.
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Speaker 3: Way to build up your immunity.
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Speaker 2: So it has no long term difference whether you get
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Speaker 2: your antibodies from a vaccine or whether you get your
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Speaker 2: antibodies from actually having the flu.
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Speaker 3: It probably does have some long term effects, but on balance,
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Speaker 3: it's better to get your protection from vaccination.
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Speaker 2: Okay, what about the I saw David Seymour and FARMAC
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Speaker 2: and teed. We're talking about a new range of vaccines
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Speaker 2: for flu vaccines for over sixty fives. What's better about them?
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Speaker 3: Well, you're right, this is overall is changed by FARMAC
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Speaker 3: is really looking at a total of seventeen vaccines over
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Speaker 3: the next three years, and a lot of them are
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Speaker 3: you call it sort of incremental improvements. So one is
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Speaker 3: with the adult flu vaccine to use one that is
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Speaker 3: what's called adjuv ented. So it's got another item included
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Speaker 3: in the vaccine mix that just means it gives slightly
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Speaker 3: better protection for older adults, and that's the fluid vaccine.
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Speaker 3: So that's a relatively small change. And also all of
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Speaker 3: the other vaccines that everyone under sixty five gets are
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Speaker 3: also switching to a different vaccine which is thought to
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Speaker 3: be slightly more effective, and that's just the way it's produced. Essentially.
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Speaker 3: The other changes the vaccine against new micropical disease, and
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Speaker 3: that's for all children, and it covered a range of
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Speaker 3: thirteen This is getting a bit technical, but there covered
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Speaker 3: thirteen zerotypes and that's been expanded to cover twenties. So
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Speaker 3: it's just going to be more effective at preventing pneumonia
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Speaker 3: in children, and then they'll go into adulthood as well
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Speaker 3: and have that protection.
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Speaker 2: All right. Michael Baker, Epidemiologis time is seventeen Ryan, the
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Speaker 2: expert surplus is the best news I have heard in
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Speaker 2: New Zealand for ages. I wonder why TV and Z
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Speaker 2: lead with it last night, Ron Government for them to
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Speaker 2: be leading with a good news story, perhaps, says John.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you wouldn't lead with it necessarily, but it
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Speaker 2: is excellent news and it is I mean, this is
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Speaker 2: the type of stuff that I don't think gets mentioned
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Speaker 2: or reported on enough in New Zealand. Personally, that is
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Speaker 2: a personal opinion. Eighteen minutes after five News talks 'B.
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Speaker 1: The first Word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology that
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Speaker 2: You know, yesterday I gave everybody just excellent financial advice
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Speaker 2: on the Video stock price and how they were going
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Speaker 2: to make a lot of money and then the stock
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Speaker 2: price wouldn't necessarily correlate with the amount of money that
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Speaker 2: they were making. Well that's what happened. So I mean,
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying take financial advice from me, but take
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Speaker 2: financial advice from me. Fourteenth consecutive quarter that their revenue
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Speaker 2: and they're operating in come beat the forecast, beat the
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Speaker 2: targets that Wall Street had set, that the pundits had set.
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Speaker 2: Stock still fell two percent after the announcement. Five point
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Speaker 2: four trillion is the valuation current rough valuation of in
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Speaker 2: Video and SpaceX. You know, we were saying the other
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Speaker 2: day that they're obviously going to do an IPO where
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Speaker 2: they have now filed for their initial public offering. Company
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Speaker 2: is seeking to raise seventy five billion, just a small
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Speaker 2: seventy five billion dollars. The evaluation would put that at
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Speaker 2: around one point seven five trillion dollars. Ryan Bridge, which
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Speaker 2: is about how much you had to pay for an
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Speaker 2: Auckland FC ticket if you were going through the season.
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Speaker 2: They are heading for their first A League Grand Final
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Speaker 2: v Sydney FC. First time an A League Grand Final
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Speaker 2: has played in New Zealand, first time a Kiwi team
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Speaker 2: has made it this far in the competition. Go Media
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Speaker 2: is a sellout. Tim Adams all condescite fan group with
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Speaker 2: us this morning. Morning, Tim, Hey, Ryan, how's it going? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Good things. Hey what'd you pay for your ticket for
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Speaker 2: the final?
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Speaker 10: I was one of the lucky ones. I got in
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Speaker 10: at my reasonable ticket price about thirty five bucks for
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Speaker 10: the port. Sir.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that's pretty good because they were getting a bit pricey,
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Speaker 2: weren't they the last couple of games.
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Speaker 10: Yeah. Yeah, Because the A League runs the ticket prices
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Speaker 10: for the finals, not the club and they obviously are
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Speaker 10: you trying to make some money that that organization, so
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Speaker 10: they set the prices a little bit more aggressively.
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Speaker 2: What do you think it's going to be now that
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Speaker 2: it's a sell out at go Media this weekend? What's
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Speaker 2: it going to be like there? Do you reckon?
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Speaker 10: I actually think it's going to be actually insane. I
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Speaker 10: think the the ability to comprehend being in a final
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Speaker 10: and being in a home final after having a club
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Speaker 10: for only two years. It's actually just crazy. So I
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Speaker 10: think people are just going to really know, the hardcore
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Speaker 10: fans are really going to just make it an event
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Speaker 10: to be not forgotten.
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Speaker 2: It's interesting because a lot of the players are imports
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Speaker 2: for this team, right because I've been thinking about the
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Speaker 2: All Blacks and you know how there's all the rules
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Speaker 2: around year overseas base you can't play for the All Blacks.
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Speaker 2: Football fans don't really care, do they.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean there's still a hardcore group of Kiwis.
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Speaker 10: I think I think you're like five imports in an
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Speaker 10: a league squad. But yeah, like Kipi, football fans don't
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Speaker 10: really care as long as the teams are winning.
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Speaker 2: Basically exactly like money talks. That's what I kind of
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Speaker 2: like about the football fans. You're not there's no snobbery there,
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Speaker 2: you know.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, Bills come in with
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Speaker 10: a brash, bold claim about winning the league within a
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Speaker 10: couple of years, and I don't think anyone really believed
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Speaker 10: him when he said it, but now he's you know,
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Speaker 10: put the put put the proof on the table. And
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Speaker 10: his money is counted and he's hired the best and
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Speaker 10: we're seeing the results of that.
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Speaker 2: Fantastic. So what's the school going to be this weekend?
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Speaker 10: Oh, I don't know. I think I'm going to go
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Speaker 10: for two nil, maybe a two to one to organize.
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Speaker 2: Fantastic. I hope we at least get some goals. That's
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Speaker 2: the other thing about football that kind of annoys me
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Speaker 2: that sometimes there are.
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Speaker 10: None, you know, yeah, yeah. I mean the thing with
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Speaker 10: the port and the fans there and stuff, is any
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Speaker 10: single goal is going to be celebrated with absolute you
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Speaker 10: know stream, It's going to be crazy.
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Speaker 2: Going to be nasty, going to be mayhem. Tim, good
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Speaker 2: luck this weekend. I hope you enjoy yourself in Your
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Speaker 2: thirty five bucks will be well worth it. Tim Adams
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Speaker 2: Aukan FC Fan Rep Group chair time is twenty four
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Speaker 2: minutes after five.
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Speaker 1: Rayam Bridge.
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Speaker 2: So Trump, you know, anytime that a president speaks to
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Speaker 2: a leader of Taiwan, well it just doesn't happen. So
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Speaker 2: the last time that a sitting US president spoke directly
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Speaker 2: to a Taiwanese president or Taiwanese leader, I should say,
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Speaker 2: was nineteen seventy nine and Donald Trump says he is
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Speaker 2: going to speak to Taiwan's leader. This is a big
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Speaker 2: departure from diplomatic tradition, as you can imagine, and the
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Speaker 2: Chinese will be watching this very closely. So he did talk. Now,
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Speaker 2: technically you could say he did talk to the leader
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Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen, but he was president elect at that time.
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Speaker 2: There was no inauguration done yet, so he wasn't technically
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Speaker 2: the president. He was just elect. That still irks Beijing.
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Speaker 2: Now he's saying, yeah, well, I'm going to get on
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Speaker 2: the blob with this guy. And why Well, it's all
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Speaker 2: to do with deals, It's all to do with weapons.
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Speaker 2: The fourteen billion dollar US arms package to Taiwan includes
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Speaker 2: a whole bunch of stuff, anti drone staff, air defense,
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Speaker 2: missile systems, all sorts. That's what he wants to discuss.
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Speaker 2: Twenty five after five The early.
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Speaker 1: at Me.
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Speaker 2: Twenty seven after five. Nicola Willis's lotto comment yesterday was
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Speaker 2: a bit clumsy, but in the end much to do
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Speaker 2: about nothing. Really. The politics of this housing thing pretty simple.
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Speaker 2: You got eighty thousand social housing tenants who probably weren't
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Speaker 2: going to vote National who now definitely won't vote national.
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Speaker 2: You get one hundred and ten thousand better off who
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Speaker 2: might soften to you. At best, you've got a frothy
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Speaker 2: media and opposition who will use this as a stick
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Speaker 2: to beat the coalition with until November. Nicola Willis's cruel
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Speaker 2: Thatcher light, et cetera, et cetera. But here are the facts.
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Speaker 2: If you're a voter worried about rent, then they are
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Speaker 2: now materially cheaper than they were under the last lot.
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Speaker 2: The average is down thirty bucks a week nationwide from
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Speaker 2: six sixty to six point thirty for April. That's Real
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Speaker 2: Estate dot Co figures. They shot up for a couple
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Speaker 2: of reasons, one of which was Labour's landlord bashing interest
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Speaker 2: deductibility shocker, which didn't hit mega slum lords, by the way,
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Speaker 2: most of them weren't leveraged. It hit mum and Dad investors,
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Speaker 2: many negatively geared who couldn't afford to hold on to
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Speaker 2: their retirement nest Egg any longer got hit with the
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Speaker 2: compliance costs and got the hell out of Dodge Bryan
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Speaker 2: Bridge shortages help push up prices. The bad news is
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Speaker 2: they are more likely than not to do this again
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Speaker 2: if they are back on the treasury benches. This is labor.
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Speaker 2: The social housing waitlist was twenty five thousand and twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty three, it's now nineteen thy seven hundred. Labour was
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Speaker 2: paying a million dollars a day on motels. Remember that.
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Speaker 2: So let's talk about what's cruel and what's fair and
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Speaker 2: what motivates these politicians. Let's play who's more cruel. Willis
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Speaker 2: and Bishop are changing the rules to even the playing field.
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Speaker 2: It is cost neutral. The government is not saving any
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Speaker 2: money here, not banking any money. Hipkins and Co. Were
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Speaker 2: banking one point eight billion dollars in extra taxes that
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Speaker 2: other legitimate businesses weren't having to pay, just the landlords.
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Speaker 2: That's almost the total amount they spent on motels. Coincidentally,
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Speaker 2: in which of these two scenarios are key we renters
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Speaker 2: better off and in which are they worse off. If
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Speaker 2: there's one thing worse than being cruel, to be kind,
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Speaker 2: I think it's being careless. Bryan Bridge, TIMEUS twenty nine
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Speaker 2: after five. Vincent mcavini is in the UK for US
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Speaker 2: and we'll talk more about those housing changes in about
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Speaker 2: twenty minutes. Time News talks.
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Speaker 1: Ab get ahead of the headlines on early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and Spark for business Technology that keeps business moving.
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Speaker 1: News TALKSTB.
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Speaker 2: Twenty four away from Sexer on Newstalks THEMB. We'll get
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Speaker 2: to Vincent in the UK in a few minutes time.
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Speaker 2: We'll also talk more about the housing stuff the government
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Speaker 2: announced yesterday. On energy, I reckon energy is one of
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Speaker 2: the issues that is going to propel New Zealand First
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Speaker 2: to beyond thirteen percent of the election. And I have
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Speaker 2: a bet with Mike Hosking about this. He doesn't think
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Speaker 2: they'll reach thirteen percent. I think they'll reach thirteen percent.
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Speaker 2: He's going to pay me a lot more money than
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Speaker 2: I'm going to pay him if he loses. However, it's
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Speaker 2: interesting because yesterday I had Stuart Nasher on my show
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Speaker 2: over on the Herald and I asked them about you
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Speaker 2: know where there is still going to go with them,
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Speaker 2: because remember he made the comment about the and then
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Speaker 2: it was all over rover Well. I think they will
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Speaker 2: probably have an announcement in due course about his candidacy.
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Speaker 2: That's my feeling anyway. So you got Shane, you got Tain,
18:54
Speaker 2: you got Nash, you got Winston, you got a bunch
18:57
Speaker 2: of lads and they're going to be talking a lot
19:00
Speaker 2: about energy and having an energy plan that we become
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Speaker 2: self reliant on energy. And it's interesting because yesterday Megan Woods,
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Speaker 2: who is Labour's energy spokesperson, they were in a Select
19:14
Speaker 2: committee and they were banging on. She was banging on
19:16
Speaker 2: about a giving Genesis Huntley a wood waste burner, so
19:22
Speaker 2: let's burn wood and that will solve all of our problems.
19:26
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not as dumb as that I made
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Speaker 2: that sound. However, she saying the Select committee, hey, can
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Speaker 2: we do the wood instead of al because all is
19:35
Speaker 2: just a stop gap. It's to fill the void in
19:37
Speaker 2: the meantime. Problem is and put out a press release
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Speaker 2: on it, did a stand up on it saying, oh,
19:42
Speaker 2: we've got them, let's burn wood, not do alng. The
19:45
Speaker 2: problem is that take five years to build the thing,
19:48
Speaker 2: which is three years after you would have had aling
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Speaker 2: in operation. And three years is a long time for
19:55
Speaker 2: factories and mills to shut down. Twenty two minutes away
19:59
Speaker 2: from six News Talks, there'd Big Callum is with us
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Speaker 2: Cindineedan this morning. Callum, good morning, good to have you
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Speaker 2: on the show. As always, Callum the Southerner rail journey
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Speaker 2: reconnecting christ Church to need and she's back.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, back by popular demand. It's a pretty special trip.
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Speaker 12: This one great journey in New Zealand's running special departures
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Speaker 12: over the next four days, following sellout revivals last year
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Speaker 12: and also in twenty twenty four. This was a service
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Speaker 12: originally launched in the seventies and it ended in two
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Speaker 12: thousand and two, but it's back now temporarily. More dates
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Speaker 12: are expected to be unveiled due to the popularity. The
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Speaker 12: last two years has had our Mayor here Sophie Barkers's
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Speaker 12: rail to convenient option for tourists and this route allows
20:43
Speaker 12: visitors to add on half day train journeys from the
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Speaker 12: city to explore more sites.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful, how's your weather?
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Speaker 11: Good day for a train trip? Becoming fine, light wines
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Speaker 11: and thirteen.
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Speaker 2: Today nice one clear and christ this morning. Claire, Good morning,
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Speaker 2: another horse update from you.
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Speaker 4: Yes, well, this whole horse thing with the Crusaders has
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Speaker 4: been quite the stir. They have of course been a
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Speaker 4: constant for Crusaders matches for thirty years, but as we know,
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Speaker 4: they got abruptly canned the week before the new stadium opened.
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Speaker 4: They were then reinstated Our newsroom has got its hands
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Speaker 4: on some of the documents around the decision making there
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Speaker 4: or the emails to and fro. Now they confirmed that
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Speaker 4: the horses were always a part of the stadium plans.
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Speaker 4: In fact, council staff had assessed things like hoof pressure
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Speaker 4: on the irrigation system that explored things like the anti
21:27
Speaker 4: slip options for the horses entrants. The problem was the
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Speaker 4: run that was initially planned to be a club rugby
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Speaker 4: match but later moved to be a Crusaders opening training
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Speaker 4: session with spectators, etc. Had faced delays and that's why
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Speaker 4: the horses never appeared. They then decided it wasn't safe
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Speaker 4: to trop them out for Super Round. Now we've spoken
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Speaker 4: with Crusader's CEO, Colin Mansbridge, who admits, look, things could
21:48
Speaker 4: have been done differently. He says if it was a
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Speaker 4: Crusaders only home game before Super Round, things would have
21:53
Speaker 4: been much easier. The good news as they do intend
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Speaker 4: to have them at every home game from here.
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Speaker 2: Ah, there you go, there is good news at the
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Speaker 2: light at the end of that tunnel. Clear. How's your weather?
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Speaker 4: The kai cloud today breaking up this afternoon. Northeasterly is
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Speaker 4: developing and will make fifteen degrees.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much and endray your weekend. C Adam
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Speaker 2: and Wellington Morning, Adam Morning. Run to Papa Winter Exhibition.
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Speaker 2: What is it?
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Speaker 13: Another big one coming up? Tipapa's hosting a large collection
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Speaker 13: of maur carvings. Now what makes this special Some of
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Speaker 13: them have never been seen by the public. And this
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Speaker 13: ted toy Facaido collection will feature almost one hundred and
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Speaker 13: fifty pieces of Tonga.
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Speaker 2: Some of them date back.
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Speaker 13: To the thirteen hundreds, all the way up to pieces
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Speaker 13: by contemporary carvers. So it includes ponamu, paddels, musical instruments,
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Speaker 13: marionettes and more. They say the works will be carved
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Speaker 13: in traditional and contemporary materials, from wood, bone, stone, power
22:43
Speaker 13: and pornamu to clay and other modern solid surface composites
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Speaker 13: as well. Now, the timing of the exhibition is particularly
22:51
Speaker 13: significant for tep Papa. It comes forty years after the
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Speaker 13: historic tem Mahdi exhibition as well, which brought Tongue Mahdi
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Speaker 13: to the world stage. So there'll be a lot of
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Speaker 13: sighted people for this. It opens at the National Museum
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Speaker 13: late August.
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Speaker 2: Adam. I'm particularly enthused about the solid surface composites. They
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Speaker 2: sound absolutely exquisite.
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Speaker 13: That's top of my list to go on. See mostly
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Speaker 13: cloudy fighting up this afternoon at a high sixteen.
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Speaker 2: They must run to the Papa to see the solid
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Speaker 2: surface complicite. Run scurry, what are we doing? Scammers in Auckland? Yes,
23:24
Speaker 2: this is a Brita is that?
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Speaker 8: Yeah? Two of them? Two of them, I say so.
23:28
Speaker 8: An arrest warrant's been issued for a UK citizen who
23:30
Speaker 8: scarfed the country, having allegedly scammed an Auckland couple out
23:34
Speaker 8: of twenty seven thousand dollars for a painting job never done.
23:38
Speaker 8: What we know is that the couple signed up for work.
23:40
Speaker 8: This is after two UK visitors. They were handing out
23:43
Speaker 8: flyers for this fake, fake ever last home improvements. So
23:47
Speaker 8: a deposit was paid, person showed up, did two days
23:50
Speaker 8: a very lazy exterior scending. They never returned. So a
23:55
Speaker 8: warrants been issued for twenty nine year old Thomas J. Taylor.
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Speaker 8: Twenty one year old, or so said Andrew Glelberman. He's
24:01
Speaker 8: pleaded guilty to fraud in shoplifting offenses.
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Speaker 2: Shame on the shame shame so that twenty seven k
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Speaker 2: was that the deposit for the job. She must have
24:09
Speaker 2: been a big job.
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Speaker 8: I know we're waiting two days of standing.
24:13
Speaker 2: If I was it.
24:13
Speaker 8: Home owner or you know, one of that couple old
24:16
Speaker 8: have been thinking what are you doing?
24:17
Speaker 2: Yeah? Lazy? How's your Where has that baldy?
24:20
Speaker 8: Cloudy but still warm? Nineteen the high here in Auckland beautiful.
24:24
Speaker 5: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: That is our good news for a Friday eighteen away
24:26
Speaker 2: from six News Talks. Heb. We're in the.
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Speaker 1: UK next international correspondence with ends in eye insurance, peace
24:33
Speaker 1: of mind for New Zealand business.
24:35
Speaker 2: It's called a sixth You're on News Talks, EDB. Vincent
24:38
Speaker 2: macaviny are UK europe correspondent with US this morning. Vincent,
24:42
Speaker 2: the Prince Andrew files some interesting revelations about the late
24:46
Speaker 2: Queen Elizabeth's involvement here.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: These were requested back when Andrew Manbattam Windsor was arrested
24:53
Speaker 7: a couple of months ago, and they've now been released.
24:56
Speaker 7: They reveal that in two thousand the Queen was very
25:00
Speaker 7: keen for Andrew Mountbatten Windsor to become a trade envoy.
25:04
Speaker 7: She said she wanted a prominent role in the promotion
25:08
Speaker 7: of national interests for her son, who had just left
25:12
Speaker 7: his naval career and that is a role that he
25:15
Speaker 7: undertook until twenty eleven but had to step down from
25:18
Speaker 7: due to his friendship with the sgraced you know, pedophile
25:24
Speaker 7: Jeffrey Epstein. There were accusations made throughout the time that
25:28
Speaker 7: he was in that role, that he was not behaving appropriately,
25:31
Speaker 7: that he was sort of taking advantage of the role.
25:34
Speaker 7: And there's something that sticks out here which says that
25:36
Speaker 7: he had a preference in these records for going to
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Speaker 7: the most sophisticated countries and that he was apparently particularly
25:43
Speaker 7: keen on things like tech trade, youth cultural events, and
25:49
Speaker 7: so these are raising more questions about how he was
25:51
Speaker 7: ever given this role, and particularly the fact that he
25:55
Speaker 7: apparently had no formal security vetting to take on such
25:58
Speaker 7: a massive role like that.
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Speaker 2: Interestingly, migration numbers that have come out one hundred and
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Speaker 2: seventy one thousand people last year. It's half the number
26:06
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty four. But the asylum seekers, what's going
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Speaker 2: on with them?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, So this data is a big win for the
26:14
Speaker 7: Labor government, which came into office really on the back
26:17
Speaker 7: of a lot of frustration with the Conservatives who had
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Speaker 7: pledged under David Cameron all the way back you know,
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Speaker 7: sort of fifteen years ago to get net migration down
26:26
Speaker 7: into the tens, not hundreds of thousands. So labor will
26:29
Speaker 7: be pleased that the actions that they've taken, and they
26:32
Speaker 7: have taken more which aren't yet reflecting these figures, have
26:34
Speaker 7: brought this down to the lowest level scene in the
26:37
Speaker 7: past sort of decade apart from the COVID years. But
26:41
Speaker 7: the data also reveals that about ninety three thousand people
26:45
Speaker 7: claimed asylum in the UK in March, down sort of
26:48
Speaker 7: just twelve percent on the prior year, but still more
26:51
Speaker 7: than double that just seen before the pandemic. Now, part
26:55
Speaker 7: of that may be because of these sophisticated networks that
26:59
Speaker 7: are smuggling people in and sort of teaching them how
27:01
Speaker 7: to claim asylum. But of course there is sort of
27:04
Speaker 7: greater instability in the Middle East and that drives through
27:11
Speaker 7: traffic through to Europe and we've seen that sort of
27:14
Speaker 7: playing out at multiple times over the past fifteen years.
27:18
Speaker 7: Whether or not you know this will see then the
27:20
Speaker 7: spike next year because of what's going on in Iran
27:23
Speaker 7: that remains to be seen.
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Speaker 2: Interesting. Hey, good to see Vincent Vince Mecavini are UK
27:28
Speaker 2: europe correspondent festinating. It's still more than double the asylum stake.
27:31
Speaker 2: It's still more than double than pre pandemic. It's twelve
27:35
Speaker 2: away from six Ryan Housing announcement. This is Bishop and
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Speaker 2: Willis yesterday. So social housing you'll get eighty thousand families
27:42
Speaker 2: playing an extra thirty bucks a week from twenty seven.
27:44
Speaker 2: Private rentals you get one hundred thousand playing fifteen bucks
27:47
Speaker 2: a week less. Paul Gilbert is Chief Executive Social Housing
27:51
Speaker 2: out here at are on the fine this morning, Paul,
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Speaker 2: good morning, good morning. Are you better off right now?
27:56
Speaker 2: Are you better off in social housing or are you
27:58
Speaker 2: better off in private?
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Speaker 11: Look, that's there's a mixed question there because most New
28:05
Speaker 11: Zealanders are experiencing the private rental market pretty poorly. We've
28:10
Speaker 11: got an atrocious track record of maintaining our houses adequately,
28:14
Speaker 11: and so there's a hell of a large number of
28:16
Speaker 11: people who are really not doing very well in the
28:18
Speaker 11: private rental market at the moment.
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Speaker 2: What's the split how many people are in the social
28:22
Speaker 2: housing versus getting an accommodation supplement for the private do
28:26
Speaker 2: you know?
28:27
Speaker 11: Yeah? Well, sort of ballpark. Tell I can tell you
28:29
Speaker 11: listeners that there are around. We call it the intermediate
28:32
Speaker 11: market or the stressed rental market. There's now about one
28:35
Speaker 11: hundred and sixteen thousand households who are living in the
28:38
Speaker 11: private rental market getting some form of support like accommodation supplement,
28:43
Speaker 11: which really as a program, Accommodation supplements a spectacular failure.
28:48
Speaker 11: It really hasn't done the job it was supposed to
28:50
Speaker 11: building those sorts of pathways that Chris Bishop was talking
28:53
Speaker 11: about yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Is there anything in this that will help to improve
28:57
Speaker 2: that situation?
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Speaker 11: Then? Look, we agree with the Minister that there is
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Speaker 11: a real opportunity for sort of leveling up the playing
29:04
Speaker 11: field here. But I mean, I don't know if your
29:06
Speaker 11: grandma is alive or mine's not. There's a thousands of
29:10
Speaker 11: the people on the social housing who are in social
29:13
Speaker 11: housing today are older adults and their biggest problem is
29:16
Speaker 11: they simply can't afford the rent because a fixed low
29:19
Speaker 11: income on attension it leaves you about two hundred bucks
29:22
Speaker 11: a week for rent, and I don't know many places
29:24
Speaker 11: in the country you can get home for that much money.
29:27
Speaker 11: The harder to get at group high and complex needs.
29:31
Speaker 11: And our concern is that if we don't get these
29:33
Speaker 11: changes right, we as taxpayers can end up paying twice
29:36
Speaker 11: because they loop in and out a lot of these services.
29:39
Speaker 11: So we're up for reform, we're here to help and
29:43
Speaker 11: we want to be involved in helping get it right.
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Speaker 2: That very problem you're talking about those people who are
29:48
Speaker 2: away to my grandma who's on a social housing wait list,
29:51
Speaker 2: which is about twenty thousand people right now. If you
29:55
Speaker 2: do what the government is talking about doing and make
29:57
Speaker 2: the tenure, put a time limited time cap on the tenure,
30:01
Speaker 2: do you not cycle through more? Therefore that wait list
30:04
Speaker 2: will come down. Therefore Grandma gets a bed sooner.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, look, I get the logic. However, the first
30:11
Speaker 11: step onto the next rung of the ladder is a
30:14
Speaker 11: very very big steps. So nineteen eighty six home ownership
30:19
Speaker 11: owner occupying households in New Zealand peaks, and since then
30:22
Speaker 11: we've been in a very very steep decline. And so
30:25
Speaker 11: we need pathways, viable pathways for people to step onto
30:29
Speaker 11: if we're going to get them out of there, rather
30:31
Speaker 11: than paying twice and having them cycling back. So yeah, good,
30:34
Speaker 11: good theory. It's all about the practice and the level
30:37
Speaker 11: of engagement that we get. Because we've got twenty six
30:39
Speaker 11: thousand houses that we look after in the community sector,
30:43
Speaker 11: and we've got a lot of knowledge, a lot of experience,
30:46
Speaker 11: and we're up for helping get this right, Paul.
30:47
Speaker 2: For the private rentals, the prices now are cheaper than
30:51
Speaker 2: they were two three years ago, right, So does that
30:54
Speaker 2: mean does that mean is that inclusive of the lower
30:56
Speaker 2: quarter a l the lowest price rentals are also cheaper
30:59
Speaker 2: than they were three years ago? Or is it just
31:01
Speaker 2: the average?
31:03
Speaker 11: It's the average. There's high degrees of variability. I mean,
31:06
Speaker 11: you're still seeing significant rent increases in places like Queenstown
31:10
Speaker 11: Lakes District. I know that's unusual. In general, rents have
31:15
Speaker 11: come down and that is that is the broad pattern
31:19
Speaker 11: at the moment. But things go up, things go down.
31:21
Speaker 11: So we're really talking about structural with the stuff that
31:25
Speaker 11: was announced yesterday is a significant structural reform of the
31:28
Speaker 11: social housing system and we agree that it's time that
31:31
Speaker 11: we had to look at it because it's not working
31:33
Speaker 11: very well. We need to fix it, all.
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Speaker 2: Right, Good stuff, Paul Gilbert, Chief Executive Social Housing out there.
31:38
Speaker 2: Oh it is eight to six News Talks heb MIC next.
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Speaker 2: It is six minutes away from six and MIC's in
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Speaker 2: the studio morning, Mike Morning. Busy weekend plan for.
31:57
Speaker 14: You, always a busy weekend that my place.
32:00
Speaker 2: A lot going on. Would you watch the football you're
32:02
Speaker 2: gonna be watching clinic?
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Speaker 14: Probably will because but it's late. It's too late because
32:09
Speaker 14: it's an eight o'clock and so that's not me. So
32:11
Speaker 14: I'm also conflicted with the warriors who are also late.
32:14
Speaker 2: What time are you in bed, synty eight o'clock on
32:17
Speaker 2: the weekend. Of course, it's all it's all about sad no.
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Speaker 14: No, this is where people go wrong. It's all about
32:23
Speaker 14: your rhythms. How miserable and if you know, but if
32:25
Speaker 14: you mess with your rhythms, that's why you get like
32:27
Speaker 14: you realize, yeah, well of course, and so if you
32:30
Speaker 14: mess with your rhythms on weekend exactly. But if you
32:33
Speaker 14: mess with your rhythms on the weekend, that's why you
32:35
Speaker 14: come to work on a Monday or feeling like because
32:37
Speaker 14: you've gone out on a Friday and Saturday.
32:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, but so on the weekend, like Friday night, I'll
32:42
Speaker 2: try and get into bed ten o'clock, which is as
32:45
Speaker 2: opposed to what as opposed to on a weeknight, I'm
32:48
Speaker 2: in bed at seven, but then sleep by eight. That's
32:51
Speaker 2: a big shift. Yeah, but it's just so good. It
32:54
Speaker 2: does feel good. I get it.
32:56
Speaker 14: But I've noticed you on a Monday and you're not
32:59
Speaker 14: on it. There's nothing wrong with I think the feedback
33:03
Speaker 14: i'm getting your Monday.
33:04
Speaker 2: Shows of the five what I do on a on
33:07
Speaker 2: a Sunday night is try and go a bit at
33:10
Speaker 2: like six o'clock crazy.
33:11
Speaker 14: And that's the other end of it, because if you've
33:13
Speaker 14: gone to bed later and you've slipped more over the weekend,
33:15
Speaker 14: you're not tired on a Sunday. You can't sleep on it.
33:18
Speaker 14: You can't sleep on Sunday night. That's why your Monday
33:20
Speaker 14: show is not doing so people not at all Cicadian rhythms.
33:25
Speaker 14: The power of the Cicadian rhythm is not to be underestimated.
33:29
Speaker 2: Look at me. Do you know what I try not
33:34
Speaker 2: to I can't argue with this.
33:36
Speaker 14: David Seymour this morning. He's got a couple of things
33:38
Speaker 14: you touched on. That fluey thing, the maori thing I'm
33:41
Speaker 14: interested in with the diabetes. So they're changing the it's
33:46
Speaker 14: just ridiculous. The whole thing's absurd. But he's also got
33:48
Speaker 14: something very interesting to say on charter schools this morning.
33:50
Speaker 12: So that.
33:53
Speaker 2: And I got snooky news. I'm so excited for your sneakers,
33:57
Speaker 2: and no one.
33:58
Speaker 14: Else is covering the hawkspace snookle like I am even
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Speaker 14: more relevant.
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Speaker 2: Fantastic Mike is with your next A well rested Mike
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Speaker 2: Hosking for your Friday morning. Enjoyed. See you Monday.
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Speaker 5: Let you say no one shot better sway or our.
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Speaker 11: Voice are here to say?
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