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Full Show Podcast: 16 July 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickens on
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  Speaker 1: early edition with ex pole insulation, keeping Kiwi Holmes warm
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  Speaker 1: and try this winter news talk. Sa'd be good.
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  Speaker 2: Morning to you. Welcome to your Wednesday. I'm Andrew Dickins.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up in the next sixty minutes. Shane Jones has
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  Speaker 2: had a brain wave to create special economic zones to
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  Speaker 2: make it easier to build power generation facilities. So is
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  Speaker 2: this idea pie in the sky. Will have that story
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  Speaker 2: for you in ten minutes. Should employers pay your health
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  Speaker 2: insurance like they do in America? We'll have that story
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  Speaker 2: for you in fifteen. Why are we so obsessed with
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  Speaker 2: the UN and what they think? Mastership UK has a
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  Speaker 2: new controversy after the Greg Wallace six pest incidents, So
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  Speaker 2: Gavin Greig will have all those details. And then the
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  Speaker 2: government is cracking down on councilors forcing them to stick
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  Speaker 2: to their core business. So what is core business and
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  Speaker 2: what will council stop doing? Telling your taps just before
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  Speaker 2: the news at six you can text me anytime you like.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty two ninety two small charge applies. You can email
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  Speaker 2: Dickens at Newstalks Co dot and said it's seven after five.
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  Speaker 1: The agenda.
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  Speaker 2: It's Wednesday, the sixteenth of July. So to America, and
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  Speaker 2: Trump says he's not done with Putin, but he is disappointed.
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  Speaker 2: He's done an interview with the BBC and he says
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  Speaker 2: he thought a Ukraine deal was on the cards with
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  Speaker 2: Russia four different times.
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  Speaker 3: I'm disappointed in him, but I'm not done with him,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Disappointed in him. So we have a deal done four
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  Speaker 4: times and then you go home and you see just
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  Speaker 4: attacked a nursing home.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, at some point and Kiev, and so what the
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  Speaker 1: hell was that about?
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  Speaker 5: Do you trust him?
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  Speaker 1: I trust almost nobody.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Russia's responded to the threats from the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Those threats are sending weapons to Ukraine and tariff threats
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  Speaker 2: if a dealer isn't done in fifty days. But Foreign
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  Speaker 2: Minister Sirgui is not worried.
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  Speaker 6: You want to understand what is behind this statement on
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  Speaker 6: fifty days. We really want to know what motivates the
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  Speaker 6: President of the United States. It is clear that he
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  Speaker 6: is under enormous I would say, in destined pressure from
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  Speaker 6: the European Union and the current leadership of NATO, who
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  Speaker 6: impudently supports the Lensi's demand to continue pumping him with
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  Speaker 6: modern weaponry, including offensive weapons, at the expense of the
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  Speaker 6: more and more damage to taxpayers in Western countries.
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  Speaker 2: And the UK government says has had to launch a
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  Speaker 2: secret scheme to relocate thousands of people from Afghanistan after
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  Speaker 2: their personal details were mistakenly leaked. Back in twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 2: the personal details of nearly nineteen thousand people who had
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  Speaker 2: applied to move to the UK after the Taliban seize
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  Speaker 2: power were leaked, and the breach wasn't found until August
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, when names surfaced on Facebook.
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  Speaker 3: Nine hundred our principles are in Britain or in transit.
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  Speaker 3: Together we three thy six hundred family members at a
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  Speaker 3: cost of around four hundred million pounds. From today there
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  Speaker 3: will be no u A our office of re looking
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  Speaker 3: to Britain from today. The route is now closed.
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  Speaker 2: And finally, flash floods are back in this time in
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  Speaker 2: New York City. The City Subway was particularly hit. Passengers
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  Speaker 2: and it were left stranded inside carriages after torrential rain
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  Speaker 2: gushed all the way down into the subway caused flood
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  Speaker 2: waters to go onto the platforms.
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  Speaker 7: The flash flood threat is not over. This is the
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  Speaker 7: time of year or or where we get it, because
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  Speaker 7: July is the hottest time of year in the northern
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  Speaker 7: hemisphere and he can hold more water and boom if
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  Speaker 7: you get one of these thunderstorms over you, they're very
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  Speaker 7: slow moving. This is what can happen.
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  Speaker 2: Charming. It's ten out to five the.
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  Speaker 1: News you need this morning and the in depth analysis
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  Speaker 1: earlier this year with Andrew Dickens and ex fol Insulation
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  Speaker 1: keeping Kiwi homes warm and dry. This winter news talks
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  Speaker 1: in me.
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  Speaker 2: So the country is a goog about Panganui Mayor Andrew
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  Speaker 2: tripes efforts at keeping Panganui's rate rises to just two
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  Speaker 2: point two percent, you know the national average eight point
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  Speaker 2: seven percent. And the question we're all asking is how
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  Speaker 2: did he do it? So there was an article on
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  Speaker 2: rang Z yesterday that gave only one concrete example, and
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  Speaker 2: it was getting rid of the food recycling program. You
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  Speaker 2: know that little bucket you put the organics in instead
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  Speaker 2: of dumping them in general trash or using them for
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  Speaker 2: your own compost heat. But a lot of people don't
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  Speaker 2: like them. I don't mind them. But that's saved huangan
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  Speaker 2: Nui one point one million dollars. So we heard that,
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  Speaker 2: but that was just the tip of the Iceberg tripe.
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  Speaker 2: And his team stopped the renewal of the city's car
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  Speaker 2: fleet because you know why, if the cars you got worked,
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  Speaker 2: then why upgrade, just because now that doesn't go down
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  Speaker 2: well with the car trade, but it does save costs
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  Speaker 2: for the ratepayers and difficult times. He called ty hoe
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  Speaker 2: on a eight million dollar renovation of the historic Opera House,
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  Speaker 2: which is a great little hall. He's waiting for an
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  Speaker 2: appropriate business case. He also temporarily stopped grants to the
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  Speaker 2: local surf Life Saving Club. That alone saved one million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: He stopped the review of the district plan because the
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  Speaker 2: government is reviewing the resource management. That saved seven hundred thousand.
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  Speaker 2: He stopped the development of a quarry, and then he
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  Speaker 2: raised the price of car parking of Panganui and swimming
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  Speaker 2: pool entry to raise more non tax revenue or non
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  Speaker 2: rates revenue. All this and more makes life in Wanganui
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  Speaker 2: a little bit less comfy and a little less future proof.
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  Speaker 2: It but it reduces rates, but it increases user pays
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  Speaker 2: so in one way or another, residents still pay for it.
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  Speaker 2: But on the plus side, capital expenditure on infrastructures up
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  Speaker 2: more than eighty percent. Of that capital is going to
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  Speaker 2: be spent on footpaths and roading in stormwater core infrastructure
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  Speaker 2: spending up eleven percent. So yeah, the pools cost more
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  Speaker 2: in Fuanganui, but hopefully the pipes won't leak. And have
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  Speaker 2: I told you rates are lower than the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the country. But this is the thing about austerity. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it can save millions today, but it often defers to
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  Speaker 2: cost to later. So one day huangan Nui will have
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  Speaker 2: to repair the opera house and it's no good having
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  Speaker 2: public pools if the pub that can't of form forward it.
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  Speaker 2: But did I mention this saves rates? And with the
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  Speaker 2: local elections bearing down on you, you have the choice, and
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  Speaker 2: it depends on people getting out of the house and voting.
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  Speaker 2: And the choice you have these days when you're choosing
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  Speaker 2: your civic leaders is a choice between civic ambition and
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  Speaker 2: grand schemes or civic fiscal prudence. It's twelve after five
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  Speaker 2: news talk ZIDB saying Jones has been worried about our
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  Speaker 2: fuel security, so he's increasing their supplies of diesel that
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  Speaker 2: we've got in store and stuff like that. But he
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  Speaker 2: also wants to create special economic zones. This is to
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  Speaker 2: put fuel depots in but also so he can build
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  Speaker 2: some electricity generation. So is this a good idea or not?
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk to the Major Electricity Users Group next. It
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  Speaker 2: is thirteen after five.
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  Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on a early edition with
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Dickins and x fole installation keeping Kiwi homes warm
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  Speaker 1: and dry this winter news talk, said b five fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: So Shane Jones, pushing ahead with has desire to implement
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  Speaker 2: a thing called special Economic zones to boost electricity generation
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  Speaker 2: and to secure fuel. Now the zones will create tailored
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  Speaker 2: regulation policy and special access to financial support for those
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  Speaker 2: in areas deemed desirable for generation. So John Harvard is
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  Speaker 2: the chair of the Major Electricity Users Group, Band joins
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  Speaker 2: who Now good morning here.
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  Speaker 8: John, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: So is Shane Jones' idea a good one? Will it
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  Speaker 2: get more dams and wind farms built?
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  Speaker 8: Look? It certainly would help. One of the big problems
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  Speaker 8: we have in New Zealand is it's very hard to
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  Speaker 8: build things and there's no question that we need a
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  Speaker 8: lot more generation built. It doesn't remove issues around sort
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  Speaker 8: of access to finance potentially, and it doesn't change sort
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  Speaker 8: of the fundamental dynamic we have in New Zealand that
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  Speaker 8: our large generators tend to only build new generation when
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  Speaker 8: the demand is already there for the new build, so
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  Speaker 8: we always sort of lag behind a little bit in
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  Speaker 8: terms of very electricity generation, and that's one of the
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  Speaker 8: reasons why I pray to stay high.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think this might encourage more independent generators to
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  Speaker 2: set up shop because we've got the big four gen tailors,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and it's a bit like the supermarkets as well.
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  Speaker 2: Would this actually create more competition.
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  Speaker 8: Well, it'd be really interesting to see what the Minister
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  Speaker 8: is thinking about in terms of access to finance. So
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  Speaker 8: the big problem for independent generators is raising the capital
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  Speaker 8: they need to actually build the generation, so they look
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  Speaker 8: for a long term, large contract to underpin that investment.
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  Speaker 8: The problem is most of the generation is wind and solar,
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  Speaker 8: so it's intermittent generation because the wind doesn't blow all
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  Speaker 8: the time and the sun doesn't shine all the time.
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  Speaker 8: But our large users like as steel makers and our
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  Speaker 8: your minium makers, they need a really constant supply of
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  Speaker 8: electricity all the time. So what tends to happen is
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  Speaker 8: the only sort of big players that the independent generators
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  Speaker 8: can sell to are the big four gentators, so you
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  Speaker 8: don't fundamentally change the dynamic. And if you're a gentator,
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  Speaker 8: you're a lot of building it yourself than buying it
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  Speaker 8: off someone else. So there's a real challenge there for
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  Speaker 8: the independence to actually enter the market. So if the
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  Speaker 8: Minister's got some good ideas around access to capital and
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  Speaker 8: making that easier, that could make a difference.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and when those people come into the market, and
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  Speaker 2: this is advice for the gentailors as well, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: what would you like them to be doing.
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  Speaker 8: Obviously we'd like them to be building a lot more generation.
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  Speaker 8: They are building more at the moment, but we need
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  Speaker 8: a step change in a large order of magnitude. To
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  Speaker 8: put it in sort of perspective, is you know some
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  Speaker 8: of the wind farms and the solar farms that are
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  Speaker 8: being built, you know they might be twenty or thirty
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  Speaker 8: megawatts of electricity a year. Well, we use about forty
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  Speaker 8: five million megawats of electricity a year, so it gives
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  Speaker 8: you an idea of how much we need to increase generation.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we're round about eighty two percent, and thank you,
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  Speaker 2: John Harvard. That is shame Jones' idea. More on this
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  Speaker 2: with Heather after six this morning. Interestingly enough, there's another
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  Speaker 2: story about alternative pound generation that's just broken, showing how
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  Speaker 2: difficult it is to design the future. And I'll have
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  Speaker 2: details for that later on in the program. And if
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  Speaker 2: you're in the milk shed right now, would you like
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  Speaker 2: to know the global dairy trade results? The latest auction
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  Speaker 2: showed a one point one percent increase in prices, and
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  Speaker 2: digging down into the details, skim milk powder up two
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  Speaker 2: point five percent, whole milk powder up one point seven percent,
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  Speaker 2: and unfortunately, butter unchanged. And I think we'd all like
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  Speaker 2: that to go down right now, wouldn't we? It is
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  Speaker 2: at nineteen after five. You know what, if you apply
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  Speaker 2: for a job in the United States of America, they go,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what's your health benefits?
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  Speaker 4: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Does that happen here? Not so much? Should it? We'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about this Next'spire.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty one on your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early
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  Speaker 1: edition with Andrew Dickens and x full installation Keeping Kiwi
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  Speaker 1: Holmes Warm and dry this winter News Talk SAT be.
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  Speaker 2: So should your employer give you health insurance? We've got
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  Speaker 2: calls for a fringe benefit tax break to help New
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  Speaker 2: Zealanders pay for the rising cost of health insurance. And
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  Speaker 2: this came from a study from the Financial Services Council
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  Speaker 2: which found we are twice as likely to ensure our
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  Speaker 2: cars than we are ourselves and our health They reckon
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  Speaker 2: Only one in four key weis get their health insurance
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  Speaker 2: paid for by their employer, with seventy eight percent of
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  Speaker 2: insurance people paying for it out of their own pocket.
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  Speaker 2: And I know it hurts. Let us go as the
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  Speaker 2: founder of Enriched Retirement and joins you. Now, Hello, Liz,
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  Speaker 2: good morning. So should employers be paying your health insurance?
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  Speaker 2: Or is the whole point of a public health system
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  Speaker 2: to be our health insurance?
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  Speaker 9: Look, I think our public health system is under extreme pressure,
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  Speaker 9: as we all know, you know, with staff shortages, long
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  Speaker 9: waiting lists, you know, the days of relying on that
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  Speaker 9: public health system.
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  Speaker 4: Are gone.
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  Speaker 9: I think, so we have to take care of ourselves.
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  Speaker 9: And look, I think one of the problems here is
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  Speaker 9: that New Zealanders think that a bullet proof, you know,
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  Speaker 9: they think, oh, she'll be right, nothing's going to go
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  Speaker 9: wrong with me, And they don't tend to put health
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  Speaker 9: insurance at the top of their priority list. But it's
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  Speaker 9: getting that way because your health is really important. You know,
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  Speaker 9: if you don't have good health, then you can't enjoy life.
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  Speaker 9: But it may also impact on your ability to work.
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  Speaker 9: And that's where I think employers have a vested interest
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  Speaker 9: in making sure that their employees are healthy, and part
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  Speaker 9: of that is encouraging them to take out health insurance.
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  Speaker 9: So I think, yes, you know, having fringe benefit tax
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  Speaker 9: apply to those health work related health insurance schemes is
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  Speaker 9: a disincentive. It's not heaving us in the right direction
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  Speaker 9: if we continue along those lines. So by all means,
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  Speaker 9: I think a tax break on that would be extremely
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  Speaker 9: helpful to you know, to to encourage us to take
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  Speaker 9: the right steps.
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  Speaker 2: I think we don't invest in health insurance because we
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  Speaker 2: think we bulletproof. We don't invest in health insurance because
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  Speaker 2: it's so damn expensive.
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  Speaker 9: Well, yes, look, but then how do you measure expensive?
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  Speaker 9: To me, it's about what's the benefit that you're getting
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  Speaker 9: in relation to that expense. So and I think particularly
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  Speaker 9: for people who have got, you know, some known health issues,
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  Speaker 9: or who have some genetics or family history or even
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  Speaker 9: history in terms of you know, being heavily involved in
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  Speaker 9: sports and that kind of thing which might impact their health.
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  Speaker 9: You know, those people are at high risk, and I
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  Speaker 9: think in that situation where you're facing a high risk,
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  Speaker 9: then it makes a lot of good sense to have
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  Speaker 9: health insurance because you know there's there's something going to
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  Speaker 9: happen to you potentially down the track which is going
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  Speaker 9: to cost you a lot of money or a lot
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  Speaker 9: of discomforts because you can't get into the public health.
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  Speaker 9: So in that sense, it's not expensive.
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  Speaker 2: Liz, I thank you so much for getting up early today.
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  Speaker 2: This co is from a rich retirement. And on the
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  Speaker 2: subject of health insurance, I think you may or may
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  Speaker 2: not know that I had cancer six years ago and
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  Speaker 2: all my treatment was paid for by health insurance and
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  Speaker 2: that totaled over one hundred thousand dollars, which did not
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  Speaker 2: come out of my own pocket. And also my partner
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  Speaker 2: has had cancer and her treatment costs again well over
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  Speaker 2: one hundred thousand dollars, and that didn't come out of
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  Speaker 2: our pocket. And so that is because we invested in
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  Speaker 2: health insurance and that has been a lifesaver for both
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  Speaker 2: of us. We're both completely one hundred percent clear now
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  Speaker 2: and that's a good thing. But it is very expensive,
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  Speaker 2: and I can tell you as you get older, it
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  Speaker 2: only gets worse. It is our five twenty five. What's
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  Speaker 2: a big deal about the UN in this country? That
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  Speaker 2: next here on News Talks.
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  Speaker 1: At B the early edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: New Shorks B. It is five to twenty seven. I'm
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  Speaker 2: always amazed and how much credence the United Nations has
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  Speaker 2: given in domestic New Zealand politics. So look, the left
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  Speaker 2: loves the UN's pronouncements on where New Zealand stands because
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  Speaker 2: it reinforces the of you that we've got a lot
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  Speaker 2: to feel guilty about. We should do something about it.
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  Speaker 2: The right, meanwhile, believes that the UN can supersede our
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  Speaker 2: sovereignty and is an enemy to be repelled at all costs.
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  Speaker 2: But that's not the truth. Here's the truth. The UN
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  Speaker 2: is an ineffectual bureaucracy. It's a giant global virtue signaler,
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  Speaker 2: judging its signatories to an idealistic standard that is often
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  Speaker 2: unachievable in the modern world. But it makes us all
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  Speaker 2: feel good. There's nothing wrong with the UN writing these
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  Speaker 2: sorts of reports because it might be nice to live
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  Speaker 2: in a world full of unicorns. But they're still just
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  Speaker 2: words and they have no deep context and no significance.
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  Speaker 2: So David Seymour, David Seymour obviously took offense at one
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  Speaker 2: such report and in a fit of peak late one night,
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  Speaker 2: drunk on the power of being Deputy Private so fired
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  Speaker 2: off an angry letter signed Grumpy of EPSOM to the UN.
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  Speaker 2: That's obviously not his job, and it's right that he's
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  Speaker 2: been told off about it. But that is about that
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  Speaker 2: in the story. It's caused a minutif amongst the coalition
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  Speaker 2: partners because of process and pecking order, but it's not
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  Speaker 2: the major crack in the coalition that some claim. And
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  Speaker 2: don't worry about the so called international embarrassment because the
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  Speaker 2: world has a lot more to be embarrassed and worried about,
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  Speaker 2: rather than some that will report by an arm of
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  Speaker 2: the UN that criticizes one piece of legislation in a
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  Speaker 2: very small country globally. So chill out about the UN
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  Speaker 2: other than how much it costs us. But chill out
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  Speaker 2: about them. They're not the boss of us. They're not
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  Speaker 2: the boss of anyone, and that is their biggest problem
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  Speaker 2: in getting anything tangible done.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan news Talk said, b Ah, there.
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  Speaker 2: Is a Ryan Bridge in the I'm Andrew Dickens. Ryan
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  Speaker 2: will be back next week. Ryan's doing the drive right
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  Speaker 2: now now. On the health insurance, A Texas says health
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  Speaker 2: insurance should operate in reverse, paying forward high premiums when
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  Speaker 2: you are young and can afford it. When you're older.
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  Speaker 2: Of course you're likely to be earning much lesser you can't,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, step him down, and Scott writes he
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  Speaker 2: recently stopped the health insurance because it was so expensive
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  Speaker 2: and the A equivalent amounts into a savings account which
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  Speaker 2: is now to five figures and growing. So well done
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  Speaker 2: to you, Scott, but your health is very very important
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  Speaker 2: and you should look out for it. Bad news for
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  Speaker 2: the solar energy. I've got that story on the way.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about the christ Huge Hospital car
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: park again and what a mess at mastercf UK they've
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: got another controversy. Gavin Gray from the UK is on
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: the way. News is Nexus his news talks at B.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Views and Views You Trust to start your day, It's
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: early edition with Andrew Dickins at expol Insulation, keeping Kiwi
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Holmes ward and Dry. This winter news talks at B.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Welcome. What is your and Andrew Differenson for Ryan Bridge.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: He's back on Jack on this show from next week
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: where Mike Hoskin comes back. Listening to the boys in
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: the afternoon yesterday, they were talking about that lotto and
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: with the naked skier and how many people forty eight
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: people have complained about the buttocks scene on their TV screen,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: So that was funny old talkback. I have to say.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: But if you think we're prude's here in this country,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: what about in India where they cut out thirty a
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: thirty three second kissing scene between Lois Lane and Superman.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: They decided that India was not allowed to see Superman
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: and Lowis Lane having a kiss, so thirty three seconds
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: just went and there's a bit of controversy about that.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Now here's a story that will break Green's hearts. And
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: we were talking about special economic zones and electric electricity
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: generation because we all know the price of electricity at
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: the moment is insane, so we'd will want to do
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: something about it. But here we go. A second solar
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: power company has gone to the wall and they've owed
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: three million dollars and they're called Solar Group and they
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: join another company called Solar Zero, who collapsed last year,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: and ironically at a time when electricity prices have never
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: been higher. It's because of a low adoption of solar
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: and the industry's reliance on financial incentives and subsidies. So
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: the New Zealand market is speaking people and they do
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: not like solar. In fact, the number of connections in
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: New Zealand that is solar is about three percent. In Australia,
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: the United States between thirty and forty percent. We are
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: way behind the ball. We do not like solar. Why
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: the biggest issue was cost. A solar system for the
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: average New Zealand home comes with a price tag of
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: twenty five thousand dollars. But it's another lesson to us
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: all that you can't force the future.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: International.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: It is twenty two to six. Let's go around the country.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: We'll do international with Gavin Gray in a few moments time.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: But in first Toned and AICs. Good morning to Michael Segel.
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: Good morning.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: So what's happening too tir No's birds sanctuary.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's up in the air. The community has three
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: weeks to provide feedback on how to retain or enhance
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: the to Punanga Manu facility. Doc has confirmed the Sanctuary's
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: price to tucka hay will likely stay. How we even
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: no decisions have been made about the other birds. Great
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: South is telling us they've already received twenty six high
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: quality submissions, be with some really cool ideas. Nothing out there,
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: but doing what's currently at the site better and differently.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: I love a good taka. Hey, how's the weather in Otago?
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: A chance when early shower? Otherwise fine a hive ten
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: degrees adice.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Good morning to Claire Sherwin from Christis Good morning to Claire,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: good morning, Hey, I know what's fun. Let's talk about
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: christ Church Hospitals car park again again.
• 20:45
  Speaker 10: I heard you saying that, Andrew.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 20:47
  Speaker 10: Well, this is going to be at the council meeting today.
• 20:49
  Speaker 10: Methyl Major is seeking some support from colleagues with this
• 20:53
  Speaker 10: idea to open the Pardakiode Recreation in Sports Center car
• 20:56
  Speaker 10: park to be used for night shift workers at Christchurch Hospital.
• 21:00
  Speaker 10: It's only around the corner from the hospital, so it's
• 21:03
  Speaker 10: nice and handy to it, and we know the saga
• 21:05
  Speaker 10: that it's Christyurch Hospital car parking. The notice of motion
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: comes three months after counselor and rival meyoral candidate Sarah
• 21:12
  Speaker 10: Templeton requested an investigation of the same thing. She says
• 21:15
  Speaker 10: she was told a notice of motion wasn't needed to
• 21:18
  Speaker 10: get the work done. When she put forward the idea,
• 21:20
  Speaker 10: Templeton Stairs staff will let her know that work was
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: already underway on this and a wider safety audit on
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: the area is planned as well.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather today, Samolo.
• 21:31
  Speaker 10: Claude and fog about today? Otherwise should be fine. Southwesterly
• 21:34
  Speaker 10: is easing and the high is eleven.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: And I thank you. And now to Wellington Maxtol, Good
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: morning to you.
• 21:40
  Speaker 11: Good morning.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: So there's debate about how to invigorate Wellington.
• 21:44
  Speaker 11: Yeah, it feels like there's a lot of bad feeling
• 21:46
  Speaker 11: in the capitol at the moment. The Ray Chung email
• 21:48
  Speaker 11: leak is dragging on now, a bit of to and
• 21:50
  Speaker 11: fro between the Prime Minister and the mayor. Again really,
• 21:54
  Speaker 11: I should say we talked on Monday about Wellington missing
• 21:57
  Speaker 11: out on the Lord Lewis Capaldi Concert's homegrown. Christopher Luxon
• 22:01
  Speaker 11: again critical of council spending on the wrong things. Mentioned
• 22:04
  Speaker 11: the Convention Center in particular that has been losing a
• 22:08
  Speaker 11: bit of money. It has been partly propped up by
• 22:10
  Speaker 11: the Council as well, while christ Church's equivalent does well
• 22:14
  Speaker 11: also critical of our glow in the dark public toilets.
• 22:17
  Speaker 11: Interesting that the Prime Minister mentioned how Wellington used to
• 22:20
  Speaker 11: have the V eights here the Nissan mobile five hundred
• 22:23
  Speaker 11: Waterfront Street Race in Wellington until about thirty years ago.
• 22:27
  Speaker 11: Amir Torrifano, quick to respond one fit out the door,
• 22:30
  Speaker 11: turning it around and criticizing the public service cuts by
• 22:33
  Speaker 11: the government, says Luxon is living in the past. It
• 22:36
  Speaker 11: all feels a bit tired. We're going around in circles
• 22:39
  Speaker 11: and it's dark, and it's cold, and everyone's sick, and
• 22:41
  Speaker 11: everyone's shouting at each other. At Rayla Chung's latest campaign
• 22:44
  Speaker 11: event last night, there's video of that online. You could
• 22:47
  Speaker 11: be forgiven for forgetting we just had a successful all
• 22:49
  Speaker 11: Blacks test weekend.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Gee, I feel the need to come to Wellington immediately
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: just to look the spirits. How is the weather there?
• 22:56
  Speaker 11: It is partly cloudy with southerly's thirteen the high.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Okay thirteen the high. It's pretty cold around the place.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Good storemaking weather too awkome? We go nev rittimanu, good morning,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: so wyuku. I'm a franken County boy, And I know
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Masters Road and a head south out of Wayuku and
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: it's a big old up and the downy sort of thing.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: It's a lot of kids go down that during the
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: school rush. Three people died on that road. That town
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: must be in shock. Oh.
• 23:20
  Speaker 12: Absolutely, this is just a tragic story. So you're quite right, Andrew.
• 23:25
  Speaker 12: The vehicle went off Masters Road. Now, this happened about
• 23:27
  Speaker 12: three point thirty yesterday afternoon, ending up in a nearby
• 23:31
  Speaker 12: body of water, killing all three people inside. So Gary Holmes,
• 23:35
  Speaker 12: he's the Franklin local board member. He says, you know,
• 23:38
  Speaker 12: this is a tight knit community. They'll be affected by this.
• 23:41
  Speaker 12: He's also saying, like, as you know this road, it
• 23:44
  Speaker 12: runs through the Auckland White Cuttle jurisdiction. At speed limit
• 23:46
  Speaker 12: it fluctuates between eighty and about one hundred kilometers an hour.
• 23:50
  Speaker 12: So Holmes is saying the two different speeds on roads
• 23:52
  Speaker 12: adjacent to each other can be confusing for motorists and
• 23:56
  Speaker 12: possibly something that the councils need to look into.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Look, I'm going to go out on a limb here
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: and say I would I put eighty on it the
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: whole way because it is quite it's not a great road.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: It's a little week all the roller coasters, the roller
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: coaster and it's a little wee rural road. And what's
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: the rush man? You're in Wyuku? How's Awkin's weather? Cloudy?
• 24:15
  Speaker 12: Isolated chows clearing though this afternoon sixteen is a high
• 24:18
  Speaker 12: here in Aukland.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: It is seventeen to six. More controversy from masterch f
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: UK so Gavin Gray from the UK is going to
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: fill us in on that text about the insurance should
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: we have should we have more employers paying our health insurance.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Kathy talks that she's had one hundred percent for surgery
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: and specialist health insurance. She's had god bladder surgery, seven
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: sinus surgeries, averaging twenty k each. I see a I
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: specialist every year. I've had twenty one Mriyes, half public,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: half private. I've been checking up in a benign tumor
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: on an optic nerve causing loss of sight in one eye.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: There is no way I would have been able to
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: afford all these operations and all these procedures if I
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: didn't have health insurance. So spending five to six k
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: on insurance a year, it's a no brainer for Kathy. Meanwhile,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: I'm the Superman kiss that has been taken out of
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: the film. In India, a person writes, ge if a
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: guy needs to kiss a girl for thirty three seconds
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: to break down her resistance, he's hardly super.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Sixteen to six International correspondence with insin Eye Insurance Peace
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: of Mind for New Zealand Business.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Well, it's fourteen minutes to six and we saved you.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Wanting to Kevin Gray from the UK. Good wanting to
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: you Kevin either Andrew Well fresh from the Greg Wallace
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: to take a look at my junk controversy Master c
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: if UK has a new scandal.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: Yep, I'm afraid it does, plunging the show into absolute
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: chaos because the series has already been filmed with both
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Greg Wallace but also John Torode. Because today You're on
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Droad has been sacked as the Master Chef presenter. It
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: was an allegation against him in what it was said
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: that he had used an extremely offensive racist term. Now
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: this allegation was upheld, although John Road, the TV cheffer,
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: said he had no recollection of the incident and he
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: said I do not believe that it happened. However, the
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: show's production company says it and the BBC agreed that
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: his contract on the show will not be renewed. So yeah,
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: after these allegations, dozens of allegations against Greg Wallace him
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: being sacked. Now John to Road apparently being offered to
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: told by bosses to resign he refused, has now been
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: sacked as well. This is the latest in a long
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: line of controversies at the BBC, including the Bob Villains
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: set at Glastonbury where they were leading Chance of Death
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Death to the IDF and the BBC didn't pull the plug,
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: and also Garza documentary that they didn't realize was actually
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: hosted by the son of somebody in hammers So I'm
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: afraid dark days at the BBC. They've got a lot
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: of patching up to do.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: What are they going to do with the Master cif
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: UK TV series. It's all in the cairn. They've filmed
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: it with the Road and Wallace. Are they just not
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: going to show it as a glorious waste of money?
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: Well that's what some people are demanding. But on the
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: other hand, of course, you know a lot of those
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: amateur chefs that really worked hard to get there. Imagine
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: if you won it and then found actually that it
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: wasn't going to be aired, or there wasn't even going
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: to be mentioned that you'd won it. There's talk about
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: perhaps replacing them with voiceovers or but it's going to
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: be almost impossible to do that. If they show it,
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: people are going to be up in arms. If they
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: don't show, people are going to be up in arms.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Either way, I advise them to make a decision and
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: make it quickly.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Now you remember the story of that tree, the sycamore
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: get tree. This is a tree that was in between
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: two hillocks and you could take a photograph and it
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: looked beautiful in northeast England, and a couple of monters
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: we didn't cut it down. What's happened to them?
• 27:42
  Speaker 12: Yeah?
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: I mean they were described in court as taking moronic action.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: And I think most people would agree. A tree that
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: was really a symbol of romance for so many was
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: famous in Hollywood. If you've ever seen it, you'll realize that.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: Of course, it just looked stunning, and two men set
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: out one night and set timber and cut it down.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: Why we still don't know, but morons, I think most
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: people would agree as a good adjective. One was age
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: thirty nine and the other thirty two, both from Cumbria
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: in the northwest of England, convicted of criminal damage after
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: filming themselves using a chainsaw to illegally fell the landmark
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: tree right on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, causing immense damage.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Now today they.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Have been jailed for four years and three months in
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: what the judge thought was probably just sheer bravado, the
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: judge rejecting a claim of drunken stupidity and saying it
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: was done for some sort of a thrill.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: What a thrill exactly? And I guess when they go
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: to prison they can be put on the garden detail
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: for four years. Oh very good, Yeah, and I thank
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: you Gavin Great from the UK it is ten to.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Six news talks, it'd be.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: So the government is cracking down on councils, forcing them
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: to stick to their core business. It's scrapping the four
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: well being provisions brought in by the last MOB, Social, economic,
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: environmental and cultural. The last MOB added these in twenty nineteen.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: The law change also means councils must report regularly on
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: their finances and reveal how much they're spending on consultants
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: and contractors, wrote rotor Tania Tapsule is Jodd. I mean, now,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: good morning to you, Tania.
• 29:20
  Speaker 13: Good morning.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: What does core business mean for you?
• 29:23
  Speaker 13: Look, this is quite interesting actually because it's mostly focused
• 29:27
  Speaker 13: on infrastructure, but overall it's about making sure that our
• 29:30
  Speaker 13: districts are certainly running well, but also that our community
• 29:35
  Speaker 13: is able to access services and feel happy about excellence
• 29:39
  Speaker 13: in customer service. I suppose when they do contact council.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: And who's responsible for the culture of a city, because
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: if they're scrapping their cultural provision, are they saying it's
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: not the council's job to actually promote the culture of
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: a city and every city has a culture.
• 29:56
  Speaker 13: Well, actually, I've got to give it to this government though,
• 29:59
  Speaker 13: because when the previous one introduced the four Wellbeings, a
• 30:04
  Speaker 13: lot of the councils said, well, okay, then are we
• 30:06
  Speaker 13: going to get more funding to do that police, And
• 30:09
  Speaker 13: of course the answer was no, and so all of
• 30:12
  Speaker 13: a sudden, councils were tasked to worth also having to
• 30:14
  Speaker 13: look after the social wellbeings. Now, that was quite difficult
• 30:18
  Speaker 13: for us because when we're trying to run a city
• 30:21
  Speaker 13: keep the ranks as low as possible, but we also
• 30:23
  Speaker 13: have to drive not only culture but also social wellbeing.
• 30:26
  Speaker 13: We kind of said, hm, hang on, I'm in a government,
• 30:28
  Speaker 13: isn't it your job? So we are very much looking
• 30:32
  Speaker 13: forward to the removal of the four wellbeings. But there
• 30:35
  Speaker 13: is a little bit of hesitancy, I must admit of
• 30:37
  Speaker 13: councils across the country where we say, hmm, okay, so
• 30:41
  Speaker 13: you're going to tell us to focus on core business,
• 30:45
  Speaker 13: But does that mean that you will pick up the
• 30:46
  Speaker 13: bill and also the work if we do have gaps
• 30:49
  Speaker 13: that are left for our communities.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. How do you feel about the government telling you
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: what to do? I mean, you are elected based on
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: your platforms. You go in there telling the people that
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: have elected you what you're going to do. But here's
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: the government saying this is what you're going to do.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: How do you feel about that?
• 31:04
  Speaker 13: This has always been a tricky one for us, of course,
• 31:06
  Speaker 13: and we saw that when we had the three Waters
• 31:09
  Speaker 13: debate now called Local Waters Done Well, where our community said, actually, hey,
• 31:13
  Speaker 13: we want to make sure that we maintain local decision making.
• 31:16
  Speaker 13: We also saw it when the polytechs the two stories
• 31:20
  Speaker 13: got moged across the country and the local DHB has
• 31:24
  Speaker 13: got scrapped, and of course we went to an amalgamated system.
• 31:27
  Speaker 13: So this will be quite interesting because we've seen that
• 31:30
  Speaker 13: when government does tell councils what to do, it doesn't
• 31:33
  Speaker 13: really work very well. So we're hoping at least, and
• 31:38
  Speaker 13: I'll tell you what we're hoping, at least when they
• 31:40
  Speaker 13: talk about rates capping, they also look at how much
• 31:44
  Speaker 13: cost the government is actually putting on local councils. Because
• 31:48
  Speaker 13: I tell you what, half of our rates increases across
• 31:51
  Speaker 13: the country, certainly in my region it's about eight point
• 31:53
  Speaker 13: seven percent on average. Half of that rates increases actually
• 31:58
  Speaker 13: from government reforms and how much money we have to
• 32:01
  Speaker 13: spend to meet those targets.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: So you're going to have to spend a bit more
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: as well, because you've got to report regularly on your
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: finances and you've got to reveal everything that you're spending.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: So there's a whole lot of man hours and person
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: hours and that as well. Tell you, Tapsle, you spoke
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: so fantastically you always do, and I thank you for
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: your time today. It is seven to six.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens on early edition with ex bowl insulation, keeping
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Kiwi homes warm and try this winter news talks.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: It'd be so yeah. The BBC has a whole series
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: of Master Chef in the cam with a couple of
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: miscreants in it, and are they going to run it
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: or not? Which was I was just talking with Gavin
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Gray about this sign and says Andrew, the BBC, which
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: lacks intelligence, could just run the entire Master Chef season
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: through AI and replace the miscreants with made up characters. Easy,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: thank you, Simon. I quite like to watch real humans.
• 32:47
  Speaker 14: Would you watch it if they played it? It's Heather here, Hello, Heather.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Hello, Hello. No, because I think Master Chef uk Is
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: is a pale shadow of Master Chef Australia. I've got
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: enough master Chief in my life.
• 32:59
  Speaker 14: If you did like watching didn't you stop watching it?
• 33:02
  Speaker 14: Because Greg's are PERV and.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: The other racist?
• 33:04
  Speaker 12: No?
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Remember, if anything you're going to watch, I'm going to
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: tell you something controversial. I was against the Spring Book
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: two back in nineteen eighty one, and he went to
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: the games anyway. I watched the games all the time.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: I watched the Flower Bloom game. Did they have a
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: good game? There were good games of football. But you know,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: but at the same time.
• 33:22
  Speaker 14: See this is where the BEB is just I mean
• 33:25
  Speaker 14: the beeB the Beebe is just an example of having
• 33:28
  Speaker 14: no spine, right when you just try to please everybody
• 33:30
  Speaker 14: and you please nobody at all, they' she just bloody
• 33:32
  Speaker 14: will play the thing and they will get so.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Much ad ribon. So I was in the news room
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: the other day and I said, Gallan's going to smash
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Sonny Bill, isn't he? And you know what the guy
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: beside me, Sam said, I hope.
• 33:44
  Speaker 14: So oh yeah, Actually did hear that?
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Sonny bll is not ugerly popular with the with Sam
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: and I still think Gallan's going to smash it. When
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: you're talking to Sonny Bills too, they're going to talk.
• 33:52
  Speaker 14: To Soney Bill after seven thirty. He is a very
• 33:55
  Speaker 14: polarizing character, right, A lot of people want to see
• 33:57
  Speaker 14: him get his head knocked in.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: So he's going to spy. I mean, would you would.
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: You go in a boxing room?
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  Speaker 4: No?
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: No?
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: No, Hello good Man? Ought to be a say tomorrow Well.
• 34:13
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