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Full Show Podcast: 17 June 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew dickots on
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Speaker 1: early edition with Spark for business technology that keeps business
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Speaker 1: moving News talks.
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Speaker 2: They'd be welcome morning to you and welcome to your Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for choosing us coming up on the program today.
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Speaker 2: ACT has a new policy aiming to protect freedom of
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Speaker 2: speech in the workplace. So why is this necessary? We
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Speaker 2: appear to be getting on top of drink driving and
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Speaker 2: as young people leading the charge, and we might actually
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Speaker 2: be getting out ducks in a row when it comes
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Speaker 2: to long term infrastructure planning. We'll have all that and
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Speaker 2: corresponders from right around New Zealand. Kevin Gray out of
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Speaker 2: the UK, and news as it breaks, and you can
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Speaker 2: have your say on the text. Ninety two ninety two
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Speaker 2: small charge applies. It is seven enough for five the agenda, Well,
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Speaker 2: it's Wednesday, the seventeenth of June to the Middle East,
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Speaker 2: and the present is insisting the Iran deal will open
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Speaker 2: the Straight of Hormuz toll free. Trump administration officials say
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Speaker 2: the deal has already been signed electronically by both sides,
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Speaker 2: and there's going to be a formal ceremony taking place
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Speaker 2: in Geneva in Switzerland, next week. They will not have
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Speaker 2: a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 3: And that's the reason I got in and that's the
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Speaker 3: reason I agreed to sign. They're not going to acquire
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Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon. If they do, all hell will rain
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Speaker 3: down on that.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the president's been speaking at the G seven summit
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Speaker 2: in France, where he gave a strong message to Israel,
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Speaker 2: and it's prime edisent. I'll tell you what.
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Speaker 3: Israel's fighting hasbla too long and too many people are
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Speaker 3: being killed. And you don't have to knock down an
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Speaker 3: apartment house every time you're looking for somebody, because there
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Speaker 3: are a lot of people in those apartment houses and
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Speaker 3: they're not all Hasbola. That I can tell you now.
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Speaker 3: I'm not happy with the way Israel has handled themselves
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Speaker 3: with Lebanon and with Hesbola.
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Speaker 2: To the United Kingdom and the former defense ministers said
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Speaker 2: bye bye to Parliament. He resigned, of course, last week,
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Speaker 2: and in his farewell speech he got stuck into the
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Speaker 2: government's defense spending.
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Speaker 4: I see the current defense investment plans for well short
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Speaker 4: of what is required, arise of zero point eight percent
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Speaker 4: from next year to twenty thirty, no date for reaching
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Speaker 4: three percent, no path to three point five percent. By
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Speaker 4: twenty thirty, well over half of NATO members will be
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Speaker 4: spending three percent or more. And when allies are looking
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Speaker 4: for British leadership, we must not fall behind.
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Speaker 2: And finally, keeping with the UK, the Palace has announced
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Speaker 2: where Prince George will go to college.
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Speaker 5: Henston Palace can confirm that Prince George will attend Eaton
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Speaker 5: College in September. That news just coming in from the
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Speaker 5: Royal household.
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Speaker 2: Isn't that where William went? Eton College is the fifteenth
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Speaker 2: century private broading school in Berkshire where twenty British Prime
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Speaker 2: ministers have studied. By the way, if you want to
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Speaker 2: be like the Palace and send your child there, it's
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Speaker 2: going to set you back one hundred and forty four
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Speaker 2: thousand New Zealand dollars a year.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition Withrews and
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Speaker 1: Spark for business technology that keeps business moving, news talks.
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Speaker 2: It'd be well for a hot minute. Yesterday, New Zealand
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Speaker 2: was the center of world attention in the aftermath of
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Speaker 2: that incredible first round game between the All Whites and Iran.
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Speaker 2: The match was the top story in The Guardian, the
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Speaker 2: number one story in The Guardian, and while the politics
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Speaker 2: of Iran's participation made it newsworthy. The New York Times
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Speaker 2: was reporting that it was also a fantastic football match,
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Speaker 2: which it was. Twice. We scored twice, we had the lead,
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Speaker 2: twice Iran came back. I got reports from the courts
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Speaker 2: in Rotorua. They said that proceedings were interrupted. Why were
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Speaker 2: people were going absolutely not soo at the pig and whistle,
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Speaker 2: which is right next door, and everyone could hear it.
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Speaker 2: This is happening up and down the country. Both our
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Speaker 2: goals by eli Just, who's now become a world star,
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Speaker 2: and they all featured excellent interplay and in fact, as
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Speaker 2: night fell, eli Just was equal first in the Golden
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Speaker 2: Boot competition. A New Zealander. Personally, I watched it at
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Speaker 2: home by myself, screaming at the TV. It was the
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Speaker 2: best all whites game I've seen since nineteen eighty two.
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Speaker 2: We look the part, the old defense of mentality gone.
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Speaker 2: There was clever footwork, there was great teamwork. There were
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Speaker 2: a few defensive lapses, and now all four teams in
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Speaker 2: Group G are tied for first place in the group.
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Speaker 2: How exciting. Bring on Egypt on Monday. Now we've all
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Speaker 2: heard about the people let go at work because they
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Speaker 2: posted something inflammatory on social media. So ACT now has
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Speaker 2: a policy to make a law that protects your freedom
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Speaker 2: of expression. They say, when regulators can threaten your career
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Speaker 2: over your personal beliefs, freedom of expression exists only on paper.
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Speaker 2: So what's in the plan and what is it covering.
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Speaker 2: We're going to talk to Annie O'Brien from the Free
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Speaker 2: Speech Union. That's next. It's eleven after five.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens on early edition with Spark for Business Technology
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Speaker 1: that keeps business moving US talks.
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Speaker 2: B Yes, Bob's sent me a text, very true, Andrew,
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Speaker 2: the best I've ever seen the All Whites play. Probably
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Speaker 2: I've never been so pleased to be so wrong. And
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Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of people like that as well.
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Speaker 2: I got to text saying dare to dream from my
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Speaker 2: best mate after the second goal. Dare to dream? Oh
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Speaker 2: yes I do another Texas says Andrew. Does Ryan still
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Speaker 2: work for One's it beat? Or is he unwell or what?
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Speaker 6: Well?
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Speaker 2: Ryan's on holiday. He's on a three week holiday and
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Speaker 2: I believe he's on a sojourn in front. He will
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Speaker 2: be back on Monday. Now. The ACT party is promising
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Speaker 2: to restore freedom of speech to professional regulators. If re elected,
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Speaker 2: they want to band the likes of real estate agents
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Speaker 2: who get struck off for not taking courses in tentivity,
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Speaker 2: or teachers who get told off for controversial Facebook posts.
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Speaker 2: So to speak to this, I'm joined by a member
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Speaker 2: of the Free Speech Union as Annie O'Brien. Good morning
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Speaker 2: to you, Annie, Good morning, How are you? I'm very well.
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Speaker 2: Why is a law like this necessary?
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Speaker 7: I'm basically we've been advocating for this for some time
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Speaker 7: because increasingly we're seeing regulated professions, and around Musia around
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Speaker 7: two hundred thousand New Zealanders are employed and regulated professions,
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Speaker 7: so you've got murs as, doctors, architects, that kind of thing.
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Speaker 7: These people have been increasingly finding that instead of just
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Speaker 7: being regulated on competence, ethics, misconduct, they're being also policed
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Speaker 7: on their thoughts on what they're posting on social media
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Speaker 7: in their private time, and some political beliefs.
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Speaker 2: And so they're writing a bill, right, they're writing a law,
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Speaker 2: So the law has to be quite exact. Will the
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Speaker 2: bill just include firings people who get fired from their
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Speaker 2: job because they've said something or any other type of reprimanding.
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Speaker 2: Will that also be included.
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Speaker 7: Well, we haven't got a bill from Act as such.
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Speaker 7: We've actually our lawyers have drafted a bill ourselves after
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Speaker 7: our chair Stephen Franks, went to an issue like this
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Speaker 7: that his profession as a lawyer, and for us, the
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Speaker 7: purpose is to restore political and ideo ideological neutrality in
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Speaker 7: the regulation of professional services. So this is not about
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Speaker 7: individual employment decisions made between the employer and the employee.
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Speaker 7: This is about regulation. So it's about ensuring that people
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Speaker 7: aren't called before the regulator for something they put on Facebook.
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Speaker 2: So proposed bill would avoid infringing on private businesses rights
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Speaker 2: to make their own decisions around employment. It's only about
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Speaker 2: the regulatory bodies, that's correct.
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Speaker 7: It's affirming the primary purpose of these professional regulatory bodies
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Speaker 7: is to promote and maintain competence, integrity, and kind of
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Speaker 7: the service that they're supposed to provide.
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Speaker 2: Well, that freedom of speech, the protection of that freedom
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Speaker 2: makes speech extend to those public service employees who we
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Speaker 2: expect to remain new. I mean, you can't have somebody
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Speaker 2: working for MB going on, you know, a socialist rents,
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Speaker 2: can you.
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Speaker 7: Well, it will to the extent that for example, nurses
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Speaker 7: employeed in the public service and they're also regulated by
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Speaker 7: a body that allows them to practice, so they would
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Speaker 7: be subject to the regulatory body, would be subject to
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Speaker 7: behaving in a way that was inline was making sure
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Speaker 7: that they were competent and ethical, but not worried about
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Speaker 7: you know, if they posted on Facebook that they supported
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Speaker 7: or opposed the True Principal Bill, for example, that's a
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Speaker 7: relevant to their work.
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Speaker 2: All right, good Steff, and I thank you for your
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Speaker 2: time today. Anneo Brian, the Free Speech Union Council member,
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Speaker 2: joins us. By the way, this is not We're not
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Speaker 2: an outlier with this sort of thing. The policy is
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Speaker 2: actually drawing on a rule and a law that came
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Speaker 2: in in Canada and Albita and they have a Regulated
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Speaker 2: Professions Neutrality Act. But it's been adapted to New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: We'll see how it goes. It is seventeen minutes after five.
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Speaker 2: You want some good news. Tourism is booming and an
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Speaker 2: overseas buyer has now paid forty five million dollars for
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Speaker 2: the holiday park at Hahe on Corimandel. That's a lot
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Speaker 2: of money considering that the people who owned it are
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Speaker 2: bought it in twenty sixteen for about sixteen million, so
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Speaker 2: they've made some coin has been bought by Tasman Tourism
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Speaker 2: New Zealand, a joint venture between an Australian private equity
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Speaker 2: firm and an investment company in the UAE. And before
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Speaker 2: you freak out that some overseas company is going to
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Speaker 2: resortify our precious ha hey, it just seems like the
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Speaker 2: company likes holiday parks that've been on a real estate
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Speaker 2: shopping spring in New Zealand. Tasman Tourism New Zealand has
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Speaker 2: now acquired twelve holiday parks over the six past six years,
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Speaker 2: including Wayhi Papoma and the other day they bought the
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Speaker 2: Raglan Park for five million dollars. It is eighteen minutes
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Speaker 2: after five. Apparently drink driving is on the run and
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Speaker 2: it's kids who don't do it anymore. The statistics are
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Speaker 2: quite extraordinary. We'll talk about this next. It is eighteen
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Speaker 2: after five.
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Speaker 1: News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: early hip with Andrew Dickens and Spark for business technology
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Speaker 1: that keeps business moving, the HUS talks.
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Speaker 2: It'd be of course. The President right now is in
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Speaker 2: France and he's attending the G seven and then he's
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Speaker 2: off to Geneva and we've had a text from someone
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Speaker 2: who obviously listens on iHeartRadio because we broadcast around the world,
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Speaker 2: and the text reads, We've just arrived in Geneva, Switzerland,
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Speaker 2: and good gracious the place is like a warzone, hundreds
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Speaker 2: of shops and other buildings boarded up, including the hotel
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Speaker 2: where we're staying, all because, of course the President is
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Speaker 2: heading towards Geneva to finally sign this deal, well, this
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Speaker 2: interim deal with around I'll have more on how that's
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Speaker 2: affected our global economy, but later on in the program.
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Speaker 2: At the time, right now, five twenty one, so we've
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Speaker 2: got some good news. Less people are drinking and driving,
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Speaker 2: and it's young people that are leading the charge. The
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Speaker 2: number of people convicted of driving under the influence has
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Speaker 2: fallen nearly ten percent in the last nine years. That's okay,
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Speaker 2: that's good. That includes both drug and alcohol, but convictions
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Speaker 2: for under nineteens dropped fifty two percent. So to talk
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Speaker 2: to this, Virginia Nichols is from the New Zealand Alcohol
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Speaker 2: and Beverage Council. She is the executive director.
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Speaker 8: Hello Virginia, good morning, Thanks Sandre, and thanks for having
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Speaker 8: us on.
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Speaker 2: It's a pleasure. Is this further evidence that young people
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Speaker 2: aren't into the drinking.
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Speaker 8: I think it's showing that you drinking is really changing
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Speaker 8: much for the better. I mean, we know that you've
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Speaker 8: made fifteen to seventy years more and not starving to drink.
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Speaker 8: They're drinking later, drinking less and less hazardously than previous generations.
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Speaker 8: I mean, the news Aven Health survey shows declining drinking
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Speaker 8: prevalence and hazardous drinking among young people, reflecting the generational
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Speaker 8: shift as a strong indicator that our drinking culture is changing.
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Speaker 2: Well, that is good news for our health. But the
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Speaker 2: other thing is we spend an awful lot of money trying
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Speaker 2: to stop people drink driving. So do you think the
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Speaker 2: anti drink driving marketing campaign has got into those young
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Speaker 2: people's heads.
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Speaker 8: I think it's a change in the culture that's come through.
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Speaker 8: I'm sure campaigns and things happen. I'm sure targeted sort
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Speaker 8: of targeted support programs are helping as well as the education.
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Speaker 8: So there is most of us agree really that targeted
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Speaker 8: education support programs really help. And since twenty nineteen there's
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Speaker 8: been a program called Smashed. It's a theater based education
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Speaker 8: program on reducing alcohol harm. It's been funded through a
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Speaker 8: charity supported by beer, wine and spirits delivered by the
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Speaker 8: Life Education Trust into high schools and every year we
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Speaker 8: see more than eighteen thousand secondary close students providing practical
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Speaker 8: information and advice to support better decision making.
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Speaker 2: Well, we may have to change that marketing because the
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Speaker 2: bad side of these statistics is convictions have risen for
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Speaker 2: those ages between thirty and thirty nine, and also for
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Speaker 2: those people age over fifty five. Why aren't they getting
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Speaker 2: the message?
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Speaker 9: Well?
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Speaker 8: And I think that the data brings some pretty youthful
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Speaker 8: information to the four real And again I think it
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Speaker 8: goes back to targeting, targeting those particular groups and actually
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Speaker 8: having a look at the justice information and seeing what's
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Speaker 8: happening there and seeing whether or not, for instance, targeted
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Speaker 8: support programs are needed more for those because these are
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Speaker 8: hazardous drinkers. And so we need to really zero in and
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Speaker 8: understand those figures, because I mean, the plus fifty fives,
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Speaker 8: they're up by a considerable amount, really so up by
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Speaker 8: nearly thirty six percent of their convictions. They have a
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Speaker 8: lower base to start with, But it still says that
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Speaker 8: we need to really understand the information. And as to say,
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Speaker 8: has this information, I'm sure health does as well, and
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Speaker 8: then collectively we need to be looking at how can
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Speaker 8: we target how can we help these people?
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Speaker 2: Fascinating Virginia. I thank you for your time, Virginia. And
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Speaker 2: of course you see an alcohol and pear Bridge Council
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Speaker 2: executive director. So those over fifty fives, boy, they still
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Speaker 2: like to drink and they still like to drive. And
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Speaker 2: when is it going to get through to you? It
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Speaker 2: is five to twenty four.
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Speaker 2: AV News talksp It is five twenty six. I'm Andrew
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Speaker 2: Dickins in for Ryan Runs Back Monday. Good golly, good golly,
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Speaker 2: good lord, goodness, gracious me, parliamentarians are actually doing something
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Speaker 2: we've been asking for. They've come up with an infrastructure
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Speaker 2: plan for the next thirty years, and more remarkably, it
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Speaker 2: has rare cross party backing. Was produced independently by the
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Speaker 2: Infrastructure Commission and Labor and the Greens have called it
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Speaker 2: a long term, non partisan blueprint for fixing decades of
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Speaker 2: inconsistent infrastructure decisions. Good lord, now here's our problem. New
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Speaker 2: Zealand spends heavily on infrastructure but ranks poorly on efficiency
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Speaker 2: and asset management. You know, in terms of what we
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Speaker 2: spend on infrastructure, we're at the top of the tables.
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Speaker 2: In terms of what actually comes out and how much
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Speaker 2: it costs, we're at the bottom. So Minister christ Bishop
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Speaker 2: says the government's now acting on ten priority areas, including
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Speaker 2: reviewing transport funding, legislating long term investment plans, improving national
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Speaker 2: infrastructure data, and strengthening public sector project leadership. And further
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Speaker 2: work is needed on predictable funding signals yes please, multi
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Speaker 2: year budgeting yes please, and coordinated workforce planning absolutely yes please.
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Speaker 2: Treasury and mb are going to report back in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty seven. But finally, finally, it might be that we're
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Speaker 2: going to stop the stop start nature of developing this
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Speaker 2: country and that will make everything quicker, more efficiently and
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Speaker 2: most importantly cheaper. And finally, I have to say this, congratulations,
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Speaker 2: the so called grown ups in charge of the country
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Speaker 2: are actually being grown up and ditching infrastructure as a
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Speaker 2: way to define themselves politically.
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Speaker 1: Used dogs d be.
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Speaker 6: We're going to talk to.
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Speaker 2: Nick Leggett from the Infrastructure Commissioner on this just before six. Look,
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you a story. I've told the story before.
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Speaker 2: I had a mate who was a tunneler and he
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Speaker 2: did the Victoria Park tunnel in Auckland, and when that
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Speaker 2: job finished he left New Zealand. But then the Waterview
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Speaker 2: Tunnel started and he came back again, which was good
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Speaker 2: because his wife and his kids were still here. He
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Speaker 2: left New Zealand to work because he's a tunneler. And
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Speaker 2: I remember at a barbecue him saying that if we
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Speaker 2: just got all our tunneling projects sorted and all in
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Speaker 2: a row, the experience could then move from one job
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Speaker 2: to the next and the country would save billions because
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Speaker 2: every project we do carries the cost of being like
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Speaker 2: a startup operation, and that is what is holding us back.
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Speaker 2: So this is a great move for the country, for
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Speaker 2: New Zealand. And now we're right around the country in
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Speaker 2: just a few moments time with all our reporters. Gavin
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Speaker 2: Gray out of the UK. A bit of a worrying thing.
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Speaker 2: Here a Russian warship that's going around the oceans around
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Speaker 2: England fired on a boat. It was a yacht. It
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Speaker 2: was a motoralless yacht and it gave him a spray.
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Speaker 2: So what's that about? And this is very rare in
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Speaker 2: peacetime as well, So what is that all about? And
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Speaker 2: as I said before, the Infrastructure Commission coming up, and
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Speaker 2: some interesting facts and figures about what has happened to
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Speaker 2: the global economy because of what has been happening in
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Speaker 2: the Strait of Horn moves and in the Middle East.
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Speaker 2: Things have changed and things have changed forever in some
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Speaker 2: very bizarre and interesting ways. So we'll have some figures
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Speaker 2: out of that, including trade deficits China, what's happening with
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Speaker 2: renewables and the bizarre case of what's happening with the
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Speaker 2: Japanese interest rates right now because they've gone up. What's
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Speaker 2: that about? That's still to come after News and Sport,
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Speaker 2: which is next on early edition with news Talks.
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Speaker 10: Very stupid, song.
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Speaker 1: Could say Hewett first, Andrew Dickens on early edition with
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Speaker 1: Spox for business technology that keeps business moving. News talks
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Speaker 1: at b are so bad, are so.
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Speaker 11: Bad it hurts good.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to Wednesday, the twenty fourth of Sorry, twenty four
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Speaker 2: minutes to six. I just about seeing the twenty fourth
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Speaker 2: of Journal ahead of myself already. It comes to shortest
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Speaker 2: stay by the way, good news for Bonnie Tyler. By
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Speaker 2: the way, the total eclipse of the Heart Singer is
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Speaker 2: now out of an induced coma. I saw that she
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Speaker 2: was an induced coma. I didn't know why. Apparently she
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Speaker 2: had some emergency intestinal surgery and then was placed in
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Speaker 2: an induced coma. But now she's out of that and
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Speaker 2: her condition is improving. However, obviously she's not going to tour.
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Speaker 2: Got a text here from Simon. Simon says, I am
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Speaker 2: absolutely disgusted about the money wasted over that scrap biometric
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Speaker 2: platform for immigration department. Heads need to roll will It
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Speaker 2: sounds like they are going to. But this was the
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Speaker 2: thing that Erica Stamford was on the warpath about this
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Speaker 2: building of a border biometric system. They spent over thirty
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Speaker 2: million dollars. I was watching the news last night and
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Speaker 2: somebody was the guy from MBY. I said, well, the
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Speaker 2: problem with the guys who were running the project is
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Speaker 2: they had an optimism bias. In other words, they thought
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Speaker 2: it was going to be a good idea. They started
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Speaker 2: working on it, they thought it was a good idea,
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Speaker 2: even though it wasn't working, and they still thought it
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Speaker 2: was a good idea. And when the minister asked them
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Speaker 2: how's that idea going, they go, it's good optimism buias
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Speaker 2: isn't that amazing. And it's not confined though, because we
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Speaker 2: all attacked all the public service. This is an immigration
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Speaker 2: department thing, this is a system. Do not think this
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Speaker 2: is confined to just the public sector. This is what
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Speaker 2: you know the Humphreys of this world do. I once
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Speaker 2: worked for a company that spent sixteen million dollars over
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Speaker 2: two years building a system, only to find that overseas
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Speaker 2: another company was building just the same thing and it
19:30
Speaker 2: was a lot better and we could buy it for
19:32
Speaker 2: one million. And so the sixteen million system got junked
19:38
Speaker 2: and we bought the one million dollar system. And it
19:41
Speaker 2: happens all over the place, but it shouldn't. It is
19:44
Speaker 2: twenty two to six z right around the country. We
19:48
Speaker 2: go Callen Proctor out of Dunedin. Good morning to you
19:51
Speaker 2: morning Andrew. We all know that South Dunedinan's floodable. What's
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Speaker 2: going to happen to it in the future.
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Speaker 10: Well, three options have been proposed for its future here
20:01
Speaker 10: and now it's up to us to decide. I suppose
20:03
Speaker 10: this is to reduce the area's long term risk. One
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Speaker 10: of those is buying back the council buying back South
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Speaker 10: Dunedan properties under the scheme New modeling shows flood risks
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Speaker 10: can be significantly reduced over the next century. The other
20:19
Speaker 10: proposals include raising the land, upgrading the drainage infrastructure, and
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Speaker 10: creating wetlands and waterways. That would cost between one point
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Speaker 10: six and two point five billion dollars over one hundred years. Though,
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Speaker 10: so that's less, they say, than maintaining the status quo.
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Speaker 10: So we have to choose one of them. The analysis
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Speaker 10: will go before the council next week. The program manages
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Speaker 10: Jonathan Rowe. He says they're not being asked to pick
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Speaker 10: an option, but to give approval to start community engagement.
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Speaker 2: I once asked him Anita mayor after the local body elections.
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Speaker 2: I said, ever thinking about abandoning South Dunedin and he
20:50
Speaker 2: said never, So that's an interesting thing. How's the weather,
20:53
Speaker 2: speaking of flooding?
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Speaker 10: More rain today, More rain, possibly heavy, but clearing to
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Speaker 10: find this afternoon southwesterlies and ten today.
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Speaker 2: Jamie Cunningham joins us from Christia Shad Jamie, Good morning.
21:03
Speaker 2: Caterburry's got a new hospice.
21:05
Speaker 9: Yes, so, after fifteen years of post quake planning, christ
21:09
Speaker 9: Jurag is opening a purpose built hospice as demand for
21:12
Speaker 9: end of life care is set to increase by fifty
21:14
Speaker 9: percent in the next two decades. Now, the sixteen million
21:17
Speaker 9: dollar facility, largely funded by donations, will provide specialist palliative
21:22
Speaker 9: care and enhanced support for patients and families of all
21:26
Speaker 9: ages across Canterbury. Nurse More Chief executive Louise Zakist says
21:30
Speaker 9: it includes specialist spaces for young patients and outdoor areas
21:34
Speaker 9: as they know that's important at end of life. She
21:37
Speaker 9: says it's designed to make a challenging time as comfortable
21:40
Speaker 9: and special as possible.
21:41
Speaker 2: How's your weather?
21:43
Speaker 9: Cloudy periods with a spot or two of light rain
21:45
Speaker 9: this morning as northwesterlys turned southwesterly and a high of twelve.
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Speaker 2: Adam Wellington, Adam Cooper, good morning to you, morning, Andrew.
21:52
Speaker 2: How's recovery on the Johns of the line after that
21:54
Speaker 2: train crash.
21:55
Speaker 12: Yeah, well it's taken a while, but things back in
21:56
Speaker 12: action today. Eleven days since a Saturday night train went
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Speaker 12: to after a track offshoot at Kendala station and plodd
22:03
Speaker 12: into a concrete barrier. Six people will hurt. The train
22:05
Speaker 12: carriage was badly damaged. Now the line has been closed
22:08
Speaker 12: since then. The train had to be lifted off the
22:10
Speaker 12: tracks by a crane and taken to the workshop by road.
22:13
Speaker 12: Kee bi Rawl says there was a lot of track
22:15
Speaker 12: repair work to do, including repairing broken rail and repositioning
22:19
Speaker 12: the tracks that had moved in the incident. They also
22:21
Speaker 12: had to pull down some of the overhead electric wires
22:24
Speaker 12: to enable that crane lift of the carriage too. Now
22:27
Speaker 12: they are assuring train passages that they've since gone through
22:29
Speaker 12: a robust testing process, including running test trains along the
22:34
Speaker 12: line over the last few days to ensure all systems
22:36
Speaker 12: are working and the network is safe for passengers. As
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Speaker 12: trains resume today, they are thanking everyone for their patients
22:41
Speaker 12: and I'm sure it'll come as great news as well
22:43
Speaker 12: for those going to the Super Rugby Final this Saturday
22:46
Speaker 12: that the trains will be able to be back up
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Speaker 12: and running for that.
22:49
Speaker 2: How's your weather?
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Speaker 12: Mostly cloudy today with a few showers in a high
22:52
Speaker 12: fifteen and.
22:53
Speaker 2: From workodn't hev it to mony? Good morning too, gorge
22:55
Speaker 2: the morning. So bo Burns is a counselor and she
22:57
Speaker 2: doesn't like she it is she I thought so great
23:02
Speaker 2: name though, bo Burn bou Burn's great name. But she
23:04
Speaker 2: doesn't like other counselors.
23:05
Speaker 13: No, well, yes, she's launched a stinging rebuke of some
23:08
Speaker 13: of her colleagues Andrews, so she's accusing some of them
23:11
Speaker 13: of fostering a culture of bullying, intimidation, hostility and fear.
23:16
Speaker 13: Now bo Burn says that look, she's walked out of
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Speaker 13: meetings twice in the past week due to the behavior
23:22
Speaker 13: of others. She's a HEWIC counselor. She says, it politics,
23:26
Speaker 13: you know what. It's often used as an excuse for
23:28
Speaker 13: poor behavior, but it's damaging to democracy. She's also saying
23:31
Speaker 13: that things work best when people feel safe to contribute,
23:34
Speaker 13: challenge ideas, ask the questions and even change their minds.
23:38
Speaker 13: And the Herald is reporting that chief executive, that's Phil Wilson.
23:42
Speaker 13: He's written to the counselors reminding them about the standards
23:45
Speaker 13: in professional obligations.
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Speaker 2: You can write that story every day for decades, something
23:51
Speaker 2: You're right.
23:51
Speaker 9: You could.
23:52
Speaker 13: How's the cloudy isolated showers? Today's high sixteen here in Auckland?
23:56
Speaker 2: Speaking whether I saw some social media posts from Mount
23:58
Speaker 2: Hutt and also Mount Dobbs in the South Island yesterday
24:01
Speaker 2: showing the picture of the mountains covered in snow and
24:05
Speaker 2: they said, doesn't mount Heart look a lot better when
24:07
Speaker 2: it's got its white jacket on. So the snow has
24:09
Speaker 2: finally started to arrive. Now, the world economy at the
24:12
Speaker 2: moment is a funny old place. Japan has risen its
24:14
Speaker 2: interest rates to a thirty one year high. Prime minister
24:18
Speaker 2: didn't want it to happen, but the central bank said,
24:21
Speaker 2: we've got problems. We've got a tanking currency and we've
24:23
Speaker 2: got inflation because of the energy thing. So they raised
24:25
Speaker 2: the rates. You know what, they raised the rates from
24:27
Speaker 2: zero point seventy five percent and they raised them two
24:31
Speaker 2: one percent. Meanwhile, in Europe they're worried about China, and
24:34
Speaker 2: in fact they've reached a record one billion euro a
24:38
Speaker 2: day trade deficit with China. It's a record. They're worried
24:42
Speaker 2: about the future of Europe's industrial backbone. So leaders are
24:45
Speaker 2: going to meet on Thursday to discuss the trade of ballance,
24:48
Speaker 2: and they're particularly concerned with China flooding the world with
24:51
Speaker 2: evs now on electricity. The New York Times is reporting
24:55
Speaker 2: today that the hangover from the Middle East conflict is
24:57
Speaker 2: going to take a long time to clear. The The
25:00
Speaker 2: energy market has permanently shifted towards electricity and renewables. In April,
25:06
Speaker 2: wind and solar generated more electricity globally than gas, and
25:11
Speaker 2: that was the first time in the planet's history. Five
25:14
Speaker 2: years ago renewables and electricity was barely competitive. Now it
25:17
Speaker 2: is clearly cheaper, and renewables now pay themselves off in
25:21
Speaker 2: two years instead of thirty. So we've fundamentally changed. And
25:27
Speaker 2: everybody is warning that the pre war oil prices won't
25:30
Speaker 2: come back four months. It is sixteen to six. We've
25:34
Speaker 2: got an infrastructure plan and it stretches thirty years. Nick
25:37
Speaker 2: Leggett on this next, Gavin Gray out of the UK.
25:40
Speaker 2: So you would have noticed that markets haven't exactly been
25:43
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25:45
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Speaker 2: Davin Gray out of the UK goobornetier.
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Speaker 13: Hi.
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Speaker 6: There.
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Speaker 2: So we've got a bit of Agibergi heading in the
27:03
Speaker 2: English channel with a Russian worship firing on a yacht.
27:06
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, it all seems to be kicking off lately
27:09
Speaker 5: between the UK and Russia, and.
27:12
Speaker 2: Earlier this morning our time, a small.
27:16
Speaker 5: Motorless yacht appears to have drifted towards a Russian warship
27:21
Speaker 5: in foggy conditions after setting off from the UK. And
27:24
Speaker 5: it is then thought that the Russian warship fired these
27:27
Speaker 5: warning shots from roughly for about four hundred and fifty
27:33
Speaker 5: meters away from the yacht. That sounds a lot, doesn't it,
27:35
Speaker 5: But actually by the distance of the sort of standards
27:38
Speaker 5: of sea distance and sea travel, that is very close.
27:41
Speaker 5: The incident happened about twenty nautical miles south of the
27:44
Speaker 5: Isle of Wight, off the south of England, outside UK
27:48
Speaker 5: territorial waters and between some of the Isle of White
27:52
Speaker 5: and the south coast Normandy in northern France. And the
27:55
Speaker 5: attacking ship, it said, was a Russian frigate, the Admiral Grigorovich.
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Speaker 5: Now what is that trip, Well, apparently it is regularly
28:04
Speaker 5: escorting shadow fleet vessels through the English Channel. And you'll
28:08
Speaker 5: remember that when we spoke as well at the weekend,
28:11
Speaker 5: or rather Monday your time, that the UK forces had
28:15
Speaker 5: boarded one of the shadow fleet vessels and has taken
28:19
Speaker 5: it into effective custody and charged the captain we'll operate
28:23
Speaker 5: in this shadow fleet and is currently off the south
28:27
Speaker 5: coast of England.
28:28
Speaker 2: Sos ll go I Meanwhile, the Defense Minister has flounced
28:31
Speaker 2: out of Parliament with a stinging speech all about the
28:33
Speaker 2: UK's defense spending. But now Nikias Dama has come out
28:37
Speaker 2: and said that the UK is going to be involved
28:39
Speaker 2: with defense. It was particularly the stread of horn moves
28:41
Speaker 2: with you guys and the fringe.
28:44
Speaker 5: Yes, although it'd be very interesting to know what exactly
28:47
Speaker 5: the UK defense is supplying to this mission after all
28:51
Speaker 5: that very loud resignation humbub last week. So the Prime
28:54
Speaker 5: Minister says that they he and the French President Emmanuel
28:58
Speaker 5: Micron are bringing together other countries prepared to protect vessels
29:02
Speaker 5: in the Strait. Of course, the Straight is a key
29:04
Speaker 5: oral shipping channel. Now we still really don't know about
29:08
Speaker 5: this US Iran dei or do we We don't know
29:10
Speaker 5: the details for it. But Sakis Sarma says, look, whatever happens,
29:13
Speaker 5: the Strait is probably going to need some kind of policing,
29:16
Speaker 5: and in May he said the UK could deploy Typhoon
29:20
Speaker 5: fighter jets, drones and a worship HMS Dragon to a
29:23
Speaker 5: future mission. The French president said that France could have
29:26
Speaker 5: fighter jets patrol in the street very soon if required,
29:30
Speaker 5: and that an aircraft carrier is in the region. Emmanuel
29:33
Speaker 5: Matcranz said about twenty countries have made concrete contributions to
29:37
Speaker 5: the suggestion, adding the four were present in the region.
29:41
Speaker 5: Trump initially said that the US would not need much help,
29:45
Speaker 5: then he said they would need some help, and added,
29:48
Speaker 5: though it's probably not a bad idea to have a
29:50
Speaker 5: ship or two from other countries take part in this
29:54
Speaker 5: shipping and free passenger shipping in the Strait and policing
29:58
Speaker 5: that from the.
29:58
Speaker 2: Skies Great Seth Kevin Gray. It is nine minutes to
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Speaker 2: six a z be. So government's given the green light
30:04
Speaker 2: to a thirty year infrastructure plan hes Bush.
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Speaker 11: That's very consistent with what this government is about, which
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Speaker 11: is tackling the tough issues, tackling the systemic issues that
30:14
Speaker 11: have been deviled Zealand for too long, and being a
30:17
Speaker 11: bit bold and courageous in making the right changes for
30:20
Speaker 11: the right reasons.
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Speaker 2: So the government's agreed to thirteen of the sixteen recommendations
30:24
Speaker 2: from the Infrastructure Commission, with the remaining three supported and
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Speaker 2: principal and remarkably, Labor and the Greens have also backed
30:30
Speaker 2: a long term bipartisan approach. So we're joined by the
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Speaker 2: Infrastructure New Zealand CEO mclegg, Good morning to you.
30:36
Speaker 6: Hello, Andrew.
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Speaker 2: This is quite amazing. Isn't a bipartisan I mean, how
30:40
Speaker 2: much support are we getting from all the parties?
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Speaker 6: Well, both Karen McNaughty and from Labor and Julian Ginda
30:49
Speaker 6: from the Greens put wrote forwards to the document, which
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Speaker 6: is really positive. I think it shows that irrespective of
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Speaker 6: political stripe, the party is a realizing that the way
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Speaker 6: infrastructure is done I too driven by politics, too prone
31:06
Speaker 6: to lurch when there's change of government, and if you
31:10
Speaker 6: are leaving government, you don't like to see all your
31:12
Speaker 6: project's canceled. So there has to be a more sustainable
31:16
Speaker 6: funded pipeline that moves irrespective of political cycles. And the
31:21
Speaker 6: reason for that, Andrew. You know, there's some really sort
31:23
Speaker 6: of bold numbers up front. We spend enough on infrastructure
31:28
Speaker 6: deivil take, we're in the we're above average in the
31:31
Speaker 6: oe c D, but the value we get from every
31:34
Speaker 6: dollar we spend is in the bottom sort of one
31:37
Speaker 6: or two of the oe c D. And that gap
31:41
Speaker 6: is what we've got to close. We've got to we've
31:44
Speaker 6: got to do better and get you know, get more
31:47
Speaker 6: efficiencies out of the spend and plan better over the
31:49
Speaker 6: long term. And the shame, the sad thing is it's
31:52
Speaker 6: politics that does us.
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Speaker 2: Of course, yeah, but when we when we say infrastructure,
31:59
Speaker 2: people immediately think roads and trains, but it's actually it's
32:03
Speaker 2: actually an awful lot more than that is labor regulations
32:06
Speaker 2: and all sorts of things, isn't it. What is the
32:07
Speaker 2: most important thing we need to do to improve efficiency
32:11
Speaker 2: and reduce cost.
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Speaker 6: Well, it's the whole planning system. So if you think
32:15
Speaker 6: about Chris Bishop's RAMA reforms, that's a big part of
32:19
Speaker 6: what we're talking about, but the schools, hospitals, water, the
32:23
Speaker 6: list goes on, even housing and the system that delivers housing.
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Speaker 6: So what we have to do is the first thing
32:29
Speaker 6: I think that's really important here is attach proper funding.
32:34
Speaker 6: So when a project is announced, it goes into a
32:37
Speaker 6: pipeline that there's actually money appropriated to build it. There
32:42
Speaker 6: are a lot of phantom projects that have come and
32:45
Speaker 6: gone over the years, and people get very excited. You
32:48
Speaker 6: think about let's get Wellington moving and Auckland light rail.
32:52
Speaker 6: You know, potentially good projects, but they were allowed to
32:56
Speaker 6: be sort of picked off politically because that the money
32:59
Speaker 6: to actually deliver them was never properly put forward and
33:04
Speaker 6: so one that's a really good way of getting efficiency.
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Speaker 6: But there I'll tell you a big part of this plan, Andrew,
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Speaker 6: that I think you and people listening will be interested in.
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Speaker 6: When we talk about an infrastructure deficit in New Zealand,
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Speaker 6: we're talking about sixty percent of what we're talking about
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Speaker 6: when we mentioned a deficit is money. We failed to
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Speaker 6: spend on the infrastructure assets we've already built. And you
33:25
Speaker 6: mentioned rhads, you mentioned roads, maintenance, renewing of those things
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Speaker 6: so they last longer and we get better value for money.
33:32
Speaker 6: Once again, we are a great nation where it comes
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Speaker 6: to the set and forget, and I'll give you one
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Speaker 6: big example.
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Speaker 2: Don't don't depress us. We've had enough what we understand
33:41
Speaker 2: and we wish it all the very best of luck.
33:43
Speaker 2: And I thank you.
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Speaker 2: In Mike, did you watch the game? Were you converted
33:57
Speaker 2: to the beautiful game? I wasn't converted, but my observation
34:01
Speaker 2: as an amateur was it was a quality game. All
34:03
Speaker 2: the goals were good, there were lots of goals, still
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Speaker 2: a draw and we were better than we thought. And
34:07
Speaker 2: that's all good news, isn't it. Anyway, we've got a
34:10
Speaker 2: little bit of it. We've got an optimism bias now,
34:12
Speaker 2: could have an optimism by it's going to talk to
34:14
Speaker 2: the bloke who's running that envy thing this morning and
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Speaker 2: see and see where this goes. This is scandal, isn't so.
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Speaker 2: Police had the same thing with their insist computer system
34:22
Speaker 2: as well. It happens everywhere.
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