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Full Show Podcast: 08 August 2025 · 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 ex pole insulation keeping Kimi Holmes
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Speaker 1: warm and dry.
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Speaker 2: This winter news talks'd be good morning.
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Speaker 3: It is six after five, Big Friday, packed Friday for
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Speaker 3: you this morning. Nikola Willis on the show Live before
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Speaker 3: six on the sixty six billion dollar question over COVID,
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Speaker 3: The BBC Russia correspondent on Trump's meeting with Putin. Yes,
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Speaker 3: they're meant to be meeting next week. Vincent mcavinie on Netanya,
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Speaker 3: who's meeting that's over Gaza. That's happening anytime any second now.
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Speaker 3: In fact, I think it's just underway. Plus this morning
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Speaker 3: we will speak to the company trying to build the
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Speaker 3: world's biggest ever aircraft and they've never built an aircraft
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Speaker 3: of any description, not even a drone before in their lives.
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Speaker 3: We'll speak to them in a couple of minutes time,
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Speaker 3: Just gone six after five.
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Speaker 2: The agenda Friday, the eighth of August.
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Speaker 3: Netanya, who's a meeting with his security cabinet, is underway.
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Speaker 3: They are talking about potentially taking over the Gaza Strip. Earlier,
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Speaker 3: in an interview with Fox News, Netanya, who said he
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Speaker 3: wanted to take over Gaza, but not keep it.
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Speaker 4: We intend to in order to assure our security, remove
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Speaker 4: Kamas there, enable the population to be free of Gaza,
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Speaker 4: and to pass it to civilian governance that is not
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Speaker 4: Kamas and not anyone advocating the destruction divisual.
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Speaker 3: All right, we'll see how that goes down this morning. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 3: Potin's trying to play Trump again. The Kremlin says, I
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Speaker 3: face to face meeting could happen as early as next week.
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Speaker 3: This is between potent and Donald Trump. But we've got
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Speaker 3: US sanctions heaving Russia tomorrow. So the question is will
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Speaker 3: Trump hold off?
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Speaker 5: If it does succeed and we have no sankings tomorrow,
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Speaker 5: Putin will think he has escaped yet another problem with
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Speaker 5: the present American president and ked no real christ for it.
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Speaker 3: Just keep stringing him along, doesn't he. Japan's in big trouble.
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Speaker 3: Too many deaths, not enough babies. It's an old problem
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Speaker 3: for them, but it's still a big one. Nearly a
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Speaker 3: million more people died than were born last year, biggest
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Speaker 3: drop since nineteen sixty eight. The government's tried everything, cash housing, parentally,
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Speaker 3: nothing seems to be working.
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Speaker 6: There are a less and less number of young generation,
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Speaker 6: and the older burdens are on the young generation and
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Speaker 6: they won't be able to sustain. So society is are
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Speaker 6: going to be breaking up. Economy is just going to stagnate.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis earlier this year with Ryan Bridge and ex Bowl
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Speaker 2: A'd bet it's.
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Speaker 3: Gone eight minutes after five on your Friday morning. Yes,
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Speaker 3: so it's interesting what's happening with Trump and Putin. Kremlin
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Speaker 3: confirms a bilateral is on between Trump and Putin. And
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Speaker 3: then because we've had Steve Witkoff over there obviously, so
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Speaker 3: they've been having a chat and the Americans said, well,
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Speaker 3: it'll be a three way probably be a three way
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Speaker 3: meeting including Zelensky, and then Putin's the Kremlin comes back
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Speaker 3: and says, no, no, we're not having to hang on
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Speaker 3: none of that. We're not having No one agreed to
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Speaker 3: a three way meeting. It's just a bilateral with Trump.
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Speaker 3: And there was talk in their little chats in Moscow,
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Speaker 3: there was talk of getting a Zelenski involved, but the
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Speaker 3: Crement says that was all from the American side. There
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Speaker 3: actually nothing to do with us, and we didn't agree
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Speaker 3: to it. Nine minutes after five. We'll talk to the
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Speaker 3: BBC's Russia correspondent about that in a few minutes, well
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Speaker 3: before five thirty this morning, find out exactly what's going on.
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Speaker 3: Could we see President Trump on a plane to Moscow
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Speaker 3: next week? It would be incredible to see it, given
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Speaker 3: what's happened over the last three years. Will it do anything?
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Speaker 3: And what about these terrorists? There's sanctions that he's threatening
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Speaker 3: to impose. Also this morning, I want to get you
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Speaker 3: across the story of Erica Stamford's text to Willow Jen
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Speaker 3: Prime from Labor. These are the education minister and spokesperson.
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Speaker 3: There's the full text in the Herald today and nothing
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Speaker 3: but cordial and welcoming and warm from Erica Stanford. And
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Speaker 3: what did we get from Willow Jen Prime? Well wait
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Speaker 3: till you're here. Ten after five, New Talk said B.
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Speaker 3: This big plane next.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 3: Five twelve on news Talk said B, what lessons are
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Speaker 3: we teaching our children? This is a Willow Jen Prime
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Speaker 3: whose Labour's education spokesperson and Erica Stanford. The Heralds got
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Speaker 3: hold of the receipts the texts between the two over NCA. So,
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Speaker 3: just to set the scene for you, Chris Hopkins very
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Speaker 3: insistent that when he was the education minister, he bent
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Speaker 3: over backwards. He went out of his way to make
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Speaker 3: sure that he consulted the opposition when he was in
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Speaker 3: government so that there'd be lasting and enduring change on education, right,
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Speaker 3: and so, Erica Stanford, this is on NCEEA. Erica Stanford
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Speaker 3: texts Willow gene Prime after she took over from Jantinetti
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Speaker 3: in March, because obviously James Gonski, Hey, Willow, Jan, congrats
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Speaker 3: on the new role. We'll need to get you up
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Speaker 3: to speed with the NCEA change process. Jan and I
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Speaker 3: had started working cross party on this given the importance
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Speaker 3: of our national qualification. She wrote, would be good if
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Speaker 3: we could meet first and I can run you through
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Speaker 3: where we're at and what the process is. There is
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Speaker 3: a policy advisory group, blah blah blah. Anyway, Erica never
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Speaker 3: hears back. Isn't that terrible? She follows up her office
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Speaker 3: does with him with an email and no word back.
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Speaker 3: Now Here is the dog ate my homework response from
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Speaker 3: Willow Gene Prime, which I think is absolute bs. She says, oh, no, no, no,
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Speaker 3: no no, it's because I had to I did want
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Speaker 3: to meet with her, but I wanted to go and
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Speaker 3: talk to parents and teachers first and then come and
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Speaker 3: give come off at Willow Jene. You were either at
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Speaker 3: to lunch or you were just being a bit snooty.
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Speaker 3: Were knew that's what happened. Nothing to do with consultation.
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Speaker 3: You could have gone along to the meeting, heard what
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Speaker 3: she had to say, and then gone and spoken to
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Speaker 3: a teacher. We're not stupid. Fourteen after five, Ryan Bridge,
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Speaker 3: Are you is companies building the world's largest airplane, called
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Speaker 3: the wind Runner, to transport massive wind turbines. The catch, well,
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Speaker 3: they've never actually built an aircraft before, but they say
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Speaker 3: the demand for green energy makes it worth the risk.
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Speaker 3: Mark Lunstrom is the aerospace engineer who founded Radio the
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Speaker 3: company behind this, and is with me this morning. Good morning,
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Speaker 3: All right, good mar Mark, great to have you on
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Speaker 3: the show. Can you just tell us how big? Give
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Speaker 3: us an idea of how big this bad boy is.
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Speaker 7: Sure, it's by far the world's largest aircraft. It's about
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Speaker 7: twelve times the volume of a seven forty seven. It
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Speaker 7: has a cockpit that's about as all as a five
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Speaker 7: story building, and it's about eight times as big as
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Speaker 7: the largest military aircraft flying today, the C five.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so massive.
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Speaker 7: Why So it turns out that there's a lot of
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Speaker 7: very large peloads that need to be moved hard to
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Speaker 7: reach places, and so we originally started working on the
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Speaker 7: wind Runner in order to move the world's biggest wind
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Speaker 7: turbines to onshore locations. So the goal is to be
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Speaker 7: able to move over a one hundred turbine blade and
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Speaker 7: land it on a piece of dirt within the confines
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Speaker 7: of a wind farm. And if you can do that,
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Speaker 7: you can reduce the cost wind energy by about a third.
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Speaker 7: And then it turns out if you can actually have
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Speaker 7: the capability of moving gigantic things too hard to reach places,
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Speaker 7: there's some fantastic humanitarian missions that you can provide, and
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Speaker 7: a lot of defense applications you can provide. So you
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Speaker 7: can basically put you could essentially move a six pack
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Speaker 7: of F sixteen fighters or a six pack of Shino
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Speaker 7: helicopters and land on a piece of dirt as well.
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Speaker 3: Landing on the dirt sounds interesting. This is obviously going
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Speaker 3: to be very heavy if you've got one hundred meter
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Speaker 3: wind to final six jets in there.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: So it's actually the first time that an airplane has
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Speaker 7: been designed to optimize volume instead of mass. And so
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Speaker 7: it turns out that even though the airplane is very big,
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Speaker 7: it's not quite as heavy as you think it as
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Speaker 7: you would think it would be.
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Speaker 2: And it's so.
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Speaker 7: Big that we have the ability to put lots of
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Speaker 7: landing gear on it, and so that enables us to
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Speaker 7: have not that much poundage per wheel and so we're
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Speaker 7: able to land on on just semi prepared dirt strips.
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Speaker 3: So it was seven times the volume of a seven
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Speaker 3: forty seven, did you say, And if that's the case,
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Speaker 3: how do you keep it flying?
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Speaker 7: So twelve times the volume of a seven forty seven,
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Speaker 7: So it is gigantic and you keep it flying by
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Speaker 7: just using standard airspace techniques. You know, if you have
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Speaker 7: if you have powerful enough jet engines, you can make
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Speaker 7: you can make a very large airplane fly. So what
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Speaker 7: the design team did at Radio is we basically have
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Speaker 7: designed this airplane around the things that are already in
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Speaker 7: mass production and already flying. So making sure, we reduce
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Speaker 7: the technology risk by by designing the airplane around the
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Speaker 7: things that are already flying. It turns out that there's
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Speaker 7: some very powerful engines that can move a very large
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Speaker 7: airplane today. And it's and that's because basically it's been
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Speaker 7: it's been essentially thirty years since a large cargo aircraft
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Speaker 7: had been toned, and during those decades, engine technology has
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Speaker 7: improved massively, and so that enables us to move an
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Speaker 7: airplane that's that's much much larger than the industry has
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Speaker 7: made for a long time.
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Speaker 3: Why are you doing this? Well, how are you? How
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Speaker 3: far through are you? Why your business? And why aren't
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Speaker 3: those ones who do you know, large aircraft already attempting
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Speaker 3: something like this or are they?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, so we we are the company behind this, were
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Speaker 7: not the company that's exclusively building this. And so Radia
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Speaker 7: has built a supply chain that includes dozens of companies.
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Speaker 7: The top aerospace manufacturing companies in the world are working
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Speaker 7: with us to pull this aircraft together because it's it's
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Speaker 7: such a unique vehicle and it's so exciting, I think
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Speaker 7: for the supply chain to actually have an opportunity for
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Speaker 7: the aerospace industry to participate in helping solve climate change,
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Speaker 7: and so for an aeronautical solution to help move the
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Speaker 7: needle and climate change is very exciting for the company
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Speaker 7: and very exciting for the supply chain. But it a
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Speaker 7: bit of a unique vehicle and it's not something that's
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Speaker 7: sort of straight down the middle for a company that
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Speaker 7: usually makes passenger aircraft or military aircraft. This is something
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Speaker 7: there's a market opportunity that is a small company. We
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Speaker 7: we identified that and then we inspired the supply chain
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Speaker 7: to work with us to build it.
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Speaker 3: Give us a date, Mark, will we see it in
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Speaker 3: the skies.
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Speaker 7: You'll see in the skies by the end of the decade.
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Speaker 2: So it's no, it's no.
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Speaker 7: It's no fast process to design the world and build
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Speaker 7: the world's largest aircraft. But we've been at this for
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Speaker 7: about eight years. We're about ready to start manufacturing. The
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Speaker 7: supply chain has all been built, uh, and so we're
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Speaker 7: we're we intend to start providing service an end of decade.
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Speaker 3: Based the lock Scie flying Mark Lonstrom has the aerospace
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Speaker 3: engineer at Radia and the founder of that business iteen
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Speaker 3: minutes after five News talks a babel get an update
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Speaker 3: on Trump putin macing with our BBC Russia Correspondent.
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Speaker 3: At be great to have your company. Twenty one after five,
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Speaker 3: we'll get to Nikola Willis the Finance Minister before six
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Speaker 3: on this Treasury report right now. Confirmation from the Kremlin
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Speaker 3: overnight that a meeting between Trump and Persian will take
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Speaker 3: place as early as next week. Time is running out
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Speaker 3: for a ceasfire deal. Of course, Trump's threatening oil sanctions
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Speaker 3: on Russia by tomorrow. Question is will he now wait
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Speaker 3: for the potential meeting? Olga If Shina is the BBC
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Speaker 3: Russia correspondent, Olga, welcome to the program. What do you
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Speaker 3: think will happen?
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Speaker 7: Oh?
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Speaker 8: That's you know, that's a good question. If I knew,
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Speaker 8: I guess I would be somewhere else or working somewhere else.
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Speaker 8: But yeah, the truth is, the things are developing really fast.
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Speaker 8: But the latest from Trump administration it seems that now
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Speaker 8: they say that in order for Putting and Trump to meet,
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Speaker 8: Puttin must meet Zelenski. But then earlier today when Putting
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Speaker 8: was challenged by reporters, if he's ready to meet Zelensky.
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Speaker 8: He said certain conditions must be fulfilled and they're not
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Speaker 8: fulfilled yet, which basically signals that Moscow is not ready
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Speaker 8: to meet the ENSK, which puts the subsequent meeting with
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Speaker 8: Trump into question. But I doubt that Trump will hit
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Speaker 8: with tariffs on Friday, bearing in mind the meeting is
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Speaker 8: so close and possible, and his PR so called PR victory,
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Speaker 8: his possible per achievement is so close. I don't think
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Speaker 8: he's gonna risk it by introducing tariffs on Friday.
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Speaker 3: But does that not just show that person is again
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Speaker 3: stringing Trump alone.
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Speaker 8: It seems that up to now Moscow has been quite
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Speaker 8: successful in dragging on in postponing negotiations and in a way, yeah,
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Speaker 8: playing with Trump's administration on its terms. And we have
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Speaker 8: seen that Putin has achieved, not too much, but he
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Speaker 8: has achieved something. Meanwhile, First of all, he managed to
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Speaker 8: push most of the Ukrainian forces out of the coast
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Speaker 8: region of Russia after the Ukrainian's incursion in twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 8: He managed to capture a few more little villages in Ukraine.
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Speaker 8: And yeah, he seems to have initiative on a father
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Speaker 8: not as much as he wants, but he definitely has
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Speaker 8: achieved something in this last five six months. While he
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Speaker 8: tries to pretend he's still open for the piece deal
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Speaker 8: with Ukraine.
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Speaker 3: What's going to stop potent? I mean, he's obviously not
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Speaker 3: scared of more sanctions, He's obviously not scared of Trump
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Speaker 3: moving as nuclear as subs around.
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Speaker 8: Oh fre It's a good question. I mean, definitely, Russian
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Speaker 8: economy is not performing marvelously. I mean, it does avoids anxious,
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Speaker 8: it does evade anxious quite successfully on some fronts. But
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Speaker 8: on the other front, we see that it's dependence on
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Speaker 8: the trade with China, it dependence on military equipment from
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Speaker 8: North Korea is raising, and there's something which is mister
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Speaker 8: put not happy about. And of course, if Trump hits
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Speaker 8: with tariffs, it Trumps manages to cut Russian oil supplies
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Speaker 8: to the global South, that might hit Russia quite hard.
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Speaker 8: So definitely mister Puttin will try to avoid that either.
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Speaker 8: We diploma see all with chess gains on the on
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Speaker 8: the global chess board, but definitely he won't stop, and
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Speaker 8: he definitely wants to achieve some guarantees of how he
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Speaker 8: sees it, European security and Russian security how he sees this,
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Speaker 8: which means promise of NATO not including Ukraine and basically
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Speaker 8: not enlarging to the east.
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Speaker 3: Oh goat, appreciate your insights. Ares always. I'll get ive China.
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Speaker 3: The Babyc's Russia correspondent with a step. Meeting between Trump
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Speaker 3: and person could happen next week. Twenty four minutes after five,
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Speaker 3: Nit Yah, who's been meeting with his security cabinet. We'll
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Speaker 3: have an update on that upter five thirty. Next, I'll
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Speaker 3: get you across this Treasury report, which is bad news,
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Speaker 3: bad time for labor.
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Speaker 3: AB News TALKSB Twenty seven minutes after five on your
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Speaker 3: Friday morning. The sixty six billion dollar question hanging over
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Speaker 3: Labour's head has been answered. This new Treasury report tells
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Speaker 3: us pretty much what we already knew about Labour's COVID response.
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Speaker 3: They went too far. They spent like drunken sailors. They
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Speaker 3: made it rain dollar bills, and then Treasury said, hey, hey, hey,
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Speaker 3: hey hey, pullback, pullback, And what did they do? They
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Speaker 3: didn't listen, and they kept on spending. COVID was the
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Speaker 3: most expensive economic event this country seeing the government splashed
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Speaker 3: out sixty six billion, which is twenty percent of our GDP.
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Speaker 3: And guess how much of that went on specific pandemic
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Speaker 3: healthcare costs eighteen percent one eight The rest of it, well,
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Speaker 3: they just kept spending. Forget the Nigerian prince. This is
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Speaker 3: the biggest scammed hit Kiwi Shaws in a very long time.
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Speaker 3: They spent money, the COVID fund money on things like
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Speaker 3: school lunches and art therapy programs. The report tiptoes around it,
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Speaker 3: but the clear inference is labor went too far pulling
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Speaker 3: the fiscal lever. The Reserve Bank should be using monetary
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Speaker 3: policy to do the bulk of the heavy lifting and
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Speaker 3: future events. And at the same time, this report lands
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Speaker 3: on our lapse like a thud, like a ton of bricks.
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Speaker 3: Chris Hipkins was in Queenstown yesterday chatting about the policies
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Speaker 3: they don't have but will probably have going into the election.
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Speaker 3: Guess what's on the menu. A capital gains tax, probably
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Speaker 3: more government spending definitely, and talk that the Treasury imposed
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Speaker 3: safe debt cap could be increased, so debt tax and spend.
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Speaker 3: People may not like Christopher Luxen's delivery of this message
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Speaker 3: it greats people at the moment, you can sense it,
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Speaker 3: but you can't hide from the fact that those guys
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Speaker 3: as in labor screwed the Pooch Pooch. If they were
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Speaker 3: to get back into power, best be preparing for more screwing.
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge twenty.
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Speaker 3: Nine minutes after five News Talks, HEB we'll get to
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Speaker 3: Nikola Willis. She's got a few words to say about
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Speaker 3: this after It's sorry, just before six o'clock this morning,
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Speaker 3: and Vincent mcabinnie is in the UK for us, and
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Speaker 3: we'll talk about Nittnyahu's meeting. He's just gone on Fox News.
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Speaker 3: He's come out and said, Yeah, I actually do want
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Speaker 3: to take over Gaza. I won't be there forever, but
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Speaker 3: I at least want to have a crack. So we'll
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Speaker 3: look at that before six to two News Talk SEB.
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Speaker 1: News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: earlier this ship with Ryan Bridge at Expol Insulation keeping
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Speaker 2: This Winter News Talk SEDB. Good morning, and it's twenty.
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Speaker 3: Four away from six news tib It is well, I've
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Speaker 3: just told you at the time, haven't I. What I
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Speaker 3: meant to say is the Bank of England's cut its
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Speaker 3: interest rates just now from four point twenty five percent
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Speaker 3: to four percent, so a bit of a cut from
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Speaker 3: central Vancouver in the UK. We'll get to Vincent mcavanne,
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Speaker 3: who's our UK correspondent, also talk about the Netnyahu meeting,
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Speaker 3: and Nicola Willis on the show before six this morning
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Speaker 3: on this Treasury report. Over in Ohio, there's a river
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Speaker 3: obviously summer over there. Everybody's been out boating and people
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Speaker 3: who eagle eed kayakers, actually a bunch of them on
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Speaker 3: this Ohio river. Thought this is strange. This is an
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Speaker 3: early August. So a couple of days ago, suddenly there
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Speaker 3: was an increase in the river level and a corresponding
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Speaker 3: drop in the lake level during the early days of August,
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Speaker 3: and they thought, this is odd. What's causing this, what's
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Speaker 3: behind us? And they soon found out and realized that JD. Vance,
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Speaker 3: the Vice President, was holidaying there and the Secret Service
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Speaker 3: had requested that they drop the water level, sorry increase
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Speaker 3: the river level thereby dropping the lake level for his
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Speaker 3: family's boating trip. They were all out there kayaking and fishing,
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Speaker 3: having a gay old time for his forty first birthday.
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Speaker 3: They say it was not because it made it more
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Speaker 3: comfortable for kayaking, more optimal conditions. They say it was
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Speaker 3: for safety reasons. No one's buying that. Twenty three to
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Speaker 3: six Ryan Bridge, She's talks ABD. It's get to our
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Speaker 3: reporters around the country. Jordan done for Dunedin. Good morning,
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Speaker 3: good morning ride, Good to have you in now. Tell
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Speaker 3: us about these checks that have been done for ski seasons. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: that's right.
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Speaker 9: So it's in the Central Otago businesses which are being
19:50
Speaker 9: checked to ensure that they're meeting employment standards during the
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Speaker 9: you know, that busy ski season. And it's a joint
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Speaker 9: MB and Labor Inspectorate operation which has focused on ensuring
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Speaker 9: both employers and employees are aware of their rights and responsibilities.
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Speaker 9: So it's been triggered by some ongoing complaints and concerns
20:06
Speaker 9: about that. So here of the Labor Inspector at Joanne Hackings,
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Speaker 9: says they're focusing on businesses that are busiest during the
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Speaker 9: ski season, and she says they include hospitality and retail
20:15
Speaker 9: businesses which tend to hide that extra staff, especially you know,
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Speaker 9: young people or migrants to meet that high demand. How's
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Speaker 9: the weather today, Yeah, so challs developing in the morning.
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Speaker 9: Some possibly heavy northwesterlies, turning it to southwesterlies in the morning,
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Speaker 9: strong at times in a higher ten degrees.
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Speaker 3: William, thanks Jordan, have a great date. Clears in christ Church,
20:33
Speaker 3: take Claire good morning. Oran a Wildlife Park no longer
20:37
Speaker 3: banned from taking in new animals.
20:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, we haven't talked.
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Speaker 10: About a run a wildlife park for some time, but
20:42
Speaker 10: it was all we spoke about twelve months ago. The
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Speaker 10: christ Church Zoo has now messed all of the requirements
20:48
Speaker 10: that were set out by the Zoo and Aquarium Association.
20:51
Speaker 10: This is following a six month review. Than are able
20:54
Speaker 10: to resume animal transfers to bringing in new animals as
20:57
Speaker 10: well as their breeding programs. This all came about after
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Speaker 10: allegations of unreported animal deaths, as well as some unsafe
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Speaker 10: workplace environment situations that arose at the park last year.
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Speaker 10: The board co chair, Professor Ken Huey says the outcome
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Speaker 10: reflects the commitment to positive and lasting change. It all
21:17
Speaker 10: came about after the departure of irana's chief executive of
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Speaker 10: twenty eight years, Lynn Anderson. Former National Aquarium of New
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Speaker 10: Zealand director Rachel Hayden has now taken over that role
21:28
Speaker 10: as well.
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Speaker 3: All right, how's your weather?
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Speaker 10: Cloudy with showers returning in christ Church today, northerlys turning
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Speaker 10: southwest and a high thirteen.
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Speaker 3: Thank you Maxim Wellington, Max, good morning, Good and tag
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Speaker 3: Counsel and Action keeping families out of their homes.
21:44
Speaker 11: Yes, sturing the Post this morning about two Wellington homeowners
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Speaker 11: having to evacuate their properties due to quite large slips
21:52
Speaker 11: caused by you might imagine old pipes bursting under their properties.
21:55
Speaker 11: A seat of large steps leading to these hillside properties
21:59
Speaker 11: in Wadeestown color lapsed on Monday. Fire crews got the
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Speaker 11: owners out, then they had to wait a couple of
22:04
Speaker 11: days just to hear from the council or Wellington Water
22:07
Speaker 11: just to tell them whether they could go home or not.
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Speaker 11: No one checked in, no immediate assessment. And of course
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Speaker 11: this is a pipe that was installed in the nineteen
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Speaker 11: sixties that burst. The latest was yesterday. They were told
22:18
Speaker 11: they couldn't return yet once private engineers visited, and they're
22:22
Speaker 11: still trying to find out more from the council. The
22:24
Speaker 11: Council's not telling them anything. They've tried the mayor as well.
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Speaker 11: They told the Post. At their wits end, assessments seem
22:30
Speaker 11: to be being delayed. The pipe was always a ticking
22:32
Speaker 11: time bomb. It's no surprise it burst. And on top
22:36
Speaker 11: of all this the slip it may also affect the
22:38
Speaker 11: Johnsonville rail line as well. It's quite close to that.
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Speaker 11: So more assessments need to happen.
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Speaker 3: Oh, for goodness sake. And they're busy naming new sister
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Speaker 3: cities in.
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Speaker 11: Garada, more sisters in the von Trapp family.
22:54
Speaker 3: With the mix but of rain.
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Speaker 11: This morning has suddenly turned this afternoon fourteen the high Central.
22:59
Speaker 3: Thank you hate me? You've good morning morning. Happy Friday?
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Speaker 12: Yes, yes, happy Friday, say it with meaning, Come on.
23:05
Speaker 3: Happy Friday. Bootech stores in Auckland have been caught in
23:09
Speaker 3: an overseas scam.
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Speaker 12: Oh these scammers, for goodness sake, Yes, Sam, those scamming
23:14
Speaker 12: dam those scammers. Meticana Village. So what's happened is that
23:17
Speaker 12: there's an online clothing shop based in Hong Kong for
23:20
Speaker 12: attending to be a local store at Meticana Village and
23:24
Speaker 12: Meticana Boutiques. Amy Hope says this issue really gets home
23:27
Speaker 12: for her because the online shop is using the same
23:29
Speaker 12: name as her business. She says, the social media ads,
23:34
Speaker 12: you know, using the same font and there's another store
23:37
Speaker 12: store to boutique owner. That's Alana Silk, she said. She said,
23:40
Speaker 12: twelve people visiting asking for a specific jumper that they
23:44
Speaker 12: saw on this online store and saying, oh, can we
23:46
Speaker 12: come in and try it on? So they've been driving
23:48
Speaker 12: out there and she's said to say, scam, scam, scam.
23:52
Speaker 1: I know.
23:53
Speaker 5: So not good.
23:54
Speaker 12: And especially too, you know, you have the Medicana Village,
23:56
Speaker 12: You've got you know, the the markets every Saturday, and
23:59
Speaker 12: so people are driving out there saying oh I saw this,
24:02
Speaker 12: and Facebook and blah blah blah. So it's all the skin.
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Speaker 3: These crazy they're going up, even small out.
24:07
Speaker 12: I know, and especially for if the you know, like
24:10
Speaker 12: got stuff for here for New Zealand brands and wanting
24:14
Speaker 12: people to do local you know that. I think that's
24:16
Speaker 12: really just upsetting.
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Speaker 3: Every shop in person. That's the moral of the story,
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Speaker 3: isn't it. You're going to go in there and see stuff,
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Speaker 3: make sure it's real.
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Speaker 12: Well that's right.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Hey, how's our weather?
24:26
Speaker 12: We got scared of showers tuning in to rain heavy
24:28
Speaker 12: falls for a time. This morning, sixteen is a high.
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Speaker 3: Brilliant neither, Thank you, great to see you. Enjoy your Friday.
24:36
Speaker 3: It's just gone eighten minutes away from six o'clock. A
24:38
Speaker 3: quick little update for you. This is out of Jakarta
24:41
Speaker 3: overnight because Todd mcclay's over there assigning a deal, an
24:44
Speaker 3: agricultural deal with the Indonesians and the two way trap. Well,
24:50
Speaker 3: exports from our way over to their way about one
24:53
Speaker 3: point six billion at the moment. I actually went with
24:55
Speaker 3: John Key when he was Prime Minister and it would
24:59
Speaker 3: have been the Trade minister Grosser way back in twenty twelve.
25:03
Speaker 3: At that point I think it was one billion we
25:06
Speaker 3: were exporting. It's now one point six billion, which is good,
25:09
Speaker 3: but it hasn't exactly exploded taken off. So Todd mcclay's
25:12
Speaker 3: over there at the moment. He's agg and Trade Minister.
25:15
Speaker 3: He's signed a deal for long term commercial partnerships about cooperation.
25:20
Speaker 3: It's specifically about agriculture, trying to get more of our
25:23
Speaker 3: basically our milk, powder and beef over there. And the
25:25
Speaker 3: Indonesians say this is good, but if you read their
25:29
Speaker 3: side of the story, it must be balanced trade. In
25:32
Speaker 3: other words, yes, we will take more of your milk
25:34
Speaker 3: and your beef, but you're going to take more of
25:36
Speaker 3: our rubber cocoa and palm oil. Sixteen away from six
25:42
Speaker 3: News Talk said b Nicola willis coming up along with
25:45
Speaker 3: our UK Europe correspondent on this net and Yahoo.
25:48
Speaker 1: Meeting International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of
25:52
Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
25:54
Speaker 3: Well, turn away from six we'll get to Nikola Willison
25:56
Speaker 3: just a second right now, Vins and macaviny a UK
25:59
Speaker 3: Europe correspondent. And it sounds like the Israeli defense forces
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Speaker 3: currently warning civilians to get out of parts of Gaza.
26:06
Speaker 3: This after reports that nitnya who actually wants to take
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Speaker 3: it over.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, that's right. This is an evacuation order for parts
26:13
Speaker 13: of Gaza City's old town to evacuate immediately. And it
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Speaker 13: comes after a Security Council meeting chaired by Prime Minister Venuminetignahu,
26:22
Speaker 13: where he expressed to his cabinet what has been long
26:25
Speaker 13: thought that after the apparent collapse of Seafire talks with Hamas,
26:29
Speaker 13: he wants a vast expansion of military operations. Now it
26:33
Speaker 13: is slightly unclear what his plan is. He's saying that
26:35
Speaker 13: they don't want to govern continuously Gaza, but they do
26:39
Speaker 13: want to take full control of it. At the moment
26:41
Speaker 13: they control around sort of three quarters of the territory,
26:45
Speaker 13: but they want to fully take control. This will involve
26:47
Speaker 13: moving into areas they haven't been before, particularly areas where
26:50
Speaker 13: there are some sort of refugee camps in the middle
26:54
Speaker 13: of it, where it's thought that some of the hostages
26:57
Speaker 13: are still being held. And then he says it will
27:00
Speaker 13: be the mission to eradicate Hamas and then for new
27:04
Speaker 13: elections to take place and an hour of power to
27:07
Speaker 13: come in and control the territory after that. So the
27:10
Speaker 13: broad outlines of a plan, but it's already sparking condemnation,
27:14
Speaker 13: not just externally but also internally. There are reports that
27:17
Speaker 13: people senior in the IDF are not happy with this plan.
27:21
Speaker 13: They think their reserves are exhausted. Already there has been
27:23
Speaker 13: a rise in suicide among young Israelis in those defense forces,
27:28
Speaker 13: and so it remains to be seeing whether or not Venuineesnia.
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Speaker 2: Who can get this over the line with his.
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Speaker 3: Country, appreciate that. Thanks so much for your time. Vincent
27:36
Speaker 3: mcavini are UK europe correspondent with an update on the
27:38
Speaker 3: situation in Gaza. It is twelve minutes away from six
27:41
Speaker 3: now Brian Bridge. So Jasindra Doom was worn repeatedly along
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Speaker 3: with Grant Robertson that his spending spree during COVID would
27:48
Speaker 3: have died consequences, and she was warned Aszuli As twenty twenty,
27:52
Speaker 3: newly released documents Showadun's own treasury advised that a blowout
27:56
Speaker 3: of public deal would leave us vulnerable for any future
27:59
Speaker 3: crises and avoided advised to rather to better target the spending.
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Speaker 3: Nicola Witus is the Finance minister with me this morning. Minister,
28:07
Speaker 3: good morning.
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Speaker 8: Good morning.
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Speaker 3: First of all, does the government have any response to
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Speaker 3: what Netnya who's just announced he wants to fully take
28:14
Speaker 3: control of Gaza looks forgive me?
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Speaker 14: I have not been briefed on that, and I know
28:20
Speaker 14: very well on matters of vignacys, one should be brief
28:23
Speaker 14: before one comments.
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Speaker 3: Fair Now this report from treasury. Does this mean that
28:29
Speaker 3: in future events you won't be doing what Labor did
28:32
Speaker 3: and pulling the fiscal lever and leave it to the
28:34
Speaker 3: Reserve Bank.
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Speaker 14: That's exactly what it means. This is officials who have
28:40
Speaker 14: looked very keyfully at what went on. They are not
28:44
Speaker 14: political and what they make very clear in this report
28:47
Speaker 14: very politely, is that big mistakes were made in the
28:51
Speaker 14: way that the last government used government spending to respond
28:55
Speaker 14: to COVID, and they are urging future politicians not to
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Speaker 14: repeat those mists, and our government will not.
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Speaker 3: The vast bulk of that spending was on the wage subsidy.
29:05
Speaker 3: Did you support that, Well, that's.
29:08
Speaker 14: Not actually correct. The wage subsidy was around thirty five
29:12
Speaker 14: percent of spending, h percent was health, eighteen percent was health.
29:17
Speaker 14: That here's here's the kicker.
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Speaker 8: Nearly half of.
29:20
Speaker 14: The COVID spending was on a range of things with
29:24
Speaker 14: a very varied range of objectives, whether that was school lunches,
29:28
Speaker 14: increases to welfare benefits, public housing. Now all good things
29:33
Speaker 14: that we know that many people like. But actually what
29:37
Speaker 14: the officials say is that didn't really make a difference
29:40
Speaker 14: to the economy doing that stuff. Much of it had
29:42
Speaker 14: a very lad defect, and it racked up huge amounts
29:46
Speaker 14: of debt. It was extremely inflationary, and we're now in
29:50
Speaker 14: the position of the country where we are paying the
29:53
Speaker 14: price for that. And so the point is, Yep, you've
29:56
Speaker 14: got to do some things. You've got to do wage subsidies,
29:58
Speaker 14: you've got to increase your spending on the health system,
30:00
Speaker 14: but be really careful that you do the things you
30:03
Speaker 14: have to do and don't rack up so much extra
30:05
Speaker 14: spending and debt that we end up as an economy
30:08
Speaker 14: paying it off for a very long time. That's what
30:11
Speaker 14: the last government did.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's your continuing with it, aren't you. I mean,
30:15
Speaker 3: the bureaucrat counts barely moved. You've still got massive government,
30:18
Speaker 3: still spending more than spending more than you are earning.
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Speaker 14: Well, I reject that. Across our first two budgets, we
30:26
Speaker 14: have already delivered forty four billion dollars worth of savings.
30:30
Speaker 14: Now it is correct that we have put a lot
30:32
Speaker 14: of those savings back into the system into education.
30:37
Speaker 3: Government's still just as big, right.
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Speaker 14: No, it is not just as big, because what we
30:43
Speaker 14: have had smaller. Well, we have constrained government spending significantly.
30:50
Speaker 14: We've had much smaller editions of additional funding, and we
30:54
Speaker 14: have ensured that we're in a position where over the
30:56
Speaker 14: next four years we can get the books back in balance,
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Speaker 14: that track down, that we get them back in balance
31:02
Speaker 14: and we start bending down the deck.
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Speaker 3: To Yeah, but that's one that's all Grant used to
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Speaker 3: tell us too. How much smaller is the government now
31:08
Speaker 3: under your watch than it was under labor. I mean,
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Speaker 3: you keep saying they increased spending eighty four percent, blah
31:13
Speaker 3: blah blah. How much smaller is government spending now than
31:15
Speaker 3: it was?
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Speaker 14: Well, government spending is on track to come down to
31:20
Speaker 14: thirty point nine percent for context, the last government drove
31:24
Speaker 14: it up to thirty four percent of the overall size
31:28
Speaker 14: of the economy. And most importantly, what we've done is
31:32
Speaker 14: ensured that when we've been making investments, we're doing them
31:35
Speaker 14: in a way that actually stimulates growth in the private
31:38
Speaker 14: sector of the economy, things like making sure we're reducing taxes,
31:42
Speaker 14: making sure we've got that investment boost scheme for businesses,
31:45
Speaker 14: because we know the countries don't get rich just by
31:48
Speaker 14: growing the size of their government. They have to grow
31:51
Speaker 14: the size of those who are making things, milding.
31:53
Speaker 3: Things, very doing things very quickly. We've got the tariffs
31:56
Speaker 3: coming in today. Do we have when is Todd McClay
31:59
Speaker 3: going to be over there? Do we have any idea
32:01
Speaker 3: whether they're going to give us a reprieve?
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Speaker 14: Well, look, I think that those who observe Trump and
32:08
Speaker 14: look internationally can see that that seems very unlikely at
32:12
Speaker 14: the stage.
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Speaker 3: Now.
32:12
Speaker 14: That means that New Zealand needs to keep pressing our case.
32:15
Speaker 14: We need to keep making sure the a Uish administration
32:19
Speaker 14: remembers what a good partner they have been to them.
32:21
Speaker 14: But look, I look at Switzerland. They went over and
32:24
Speaker 14: did a huge amount of negotiating. They thought they were
32:26
Speaker 14: going to be on a low tariff. They ended up
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Speaker 14: on thirty nine.
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Speaker 3: Made almost made it careful, almost made the situation where
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Speaker 3: Nicola would appreciate your time this morning, Finance Minister. It
32:34
Speaker 3: is seven away from six News Talks.
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Speaker 1: Bet Ryan Bridge on early edition with ex bowl insulation,
32:42
Speaker 1: keeping Kili hoes warm and try this winter News Talks.
32:45
Speaker 3: A'd be five to six on your Friday morning and
32:47
Speaker 3: Mike's in the studio. Mike, good morning, Good to see you. Ryan.
32:50
Speaker 3: We've got those terriffs coming in and I've got a
32:52
Speaker 3: good idea which I just wanted to run by you,
32:55
Speaker 3: min You know Trump likes a bit of flattery. Sure,
32:59
Speaker 3: why don't we a national park or one of our
33:03
Speaker 3: ocean sanctuaries after him.
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Speaker 5: Like the Trump track instead of the heavy track. Exactly
33:08
Speaker 5: the Trump track. He has good idea, great idea because
33:12
Speaker 5: you're white boarding as almost right.
33:14
Speaker 3: And there's five percent off your terriffy jove nights.
33:16
Speaker 5: It's all it takes, isn't it.
33:18
Speaker 3: Can you imagine the GREENI is sucking up her walking
33:20
Speaker 3: on the Trump's track? Will o Jean Prime? Did you
33:24
Speaker 3: mention that? Did you read it out? Did I read
33:27
Speaker 3: it out?
33:28
Speaker 5: What I can't understand?
33:29
Speaker 4: She?
33:30
Speaker 5: I watch Question Time, as you know, religiously. She is
33:32
Speaker 5: their weakest link. Shows. She's seen to some sort of
33:35
Speaker 5: frontline operator, and they get her up in the house
33:37
Speaker 5: on a regular basis asking questions. I don't think she's
33:40
Speaker 5: that bright, not to be mean to her personally, but
33:42
Speaker 5: I've never seen a person unable to think on her
33:45
Speaker 5: feet as poorly as she is, and worse than TETI yes,
33:50
Speaker 5: and that and that really is saying something. And so
33:53
Speaker 5: when you look at the correspondence this morning, it is indefensive.
33:57
Speaker 5: It is, isn't it?
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Speaker 3: And the excuse is so my dog ate the homework out?
34:02
Speaker 3: Oh no, I did mean to meet with it. I'm
34:04
Speaker 3: sure you'll have it all forever. We will.
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Speaker 5: And then you get Hipkins yesterday talking about a capital
34:08
Speaker 5: gains tax again? Have they not losed that lesson? Three times?
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Speaker 3: They're not. We tried to get them on today apparently
34:15
Speaker 3: too early season All Happy Friday.
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