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Full Show Podcast: 24 April 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight Early with one
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Speaker 2: Dogs, it'd be good morning, welcome to Early Edition. I'm
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Speaker 2: Francesca Rudkin filling in for Brian Bridge this morning. Ryan's
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Speaker 2: going to be back with you on Monday. Gosh, here
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Speaker 2: we are Thursday and it's the end of the week already,
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Speaker 2: well for most of us. Good to have you with us.
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Speaker 2: You conflict me text anytime this morning on ninety two
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Speaker 2: NEWSTALGSTV dot co dot MZ. On the show today, we
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Speaker 2: get the details on new protections that could see banks
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Speaker 2: required to reimburse fraud victims up to half a million dollars.
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Speaker 2: We seem to be getting over the stigma of using
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Speaker 2: AI with more people openly using it at work, but
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Speaker 2: what impact is it having on our jobs? And we
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Speaker 2: find out what the early childhood education sector thinks of
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Speaker 2: the government's new regulations for them.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It's Thursday, twenty fourth of April. First to the US
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Speaker 2: and Vice President J. D. Varnes has threatened to abandon
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Speaker 2: peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine if the US led
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Speaker 2: peace proposal is not accepted.
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Speaker 1: He issued a very explicit proposal to both the Russians
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Speaker 1: and the Ukrainians, and it's time for them to either
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Speaker 1: say yes or for the United States to walk away
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Speaker 1: from this process.
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Speaker 2: This comes as Secretary of State Marco Rubio withdrawals from
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Speaker 2: a major meeting in London aimed at bringing an end
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Speaker 2: to the war in Ukraine. Vance says the proposal would
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Speaker 2: freeze territorial lines at a level close to where they
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Speaker 2: are today. Elon Musk has announced the time he spends
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Speaker 2: on DOGE is going to decrease. It's going to drop significantly,
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Speaker 2: I would say. He says the role has taken his
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Speaker 2: eyes off Tessa, which has reported a huge drop and
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Speaker 2: profit and sales for the start of the year.
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Speaker 3: On Tuesday, Musk blasted his detractor, saying that his work
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Speaker 3: at DOGE is critical and that it is mostly done.
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Speaker 3: In his words, plans to spend quite a bit less
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Speaker 3: time on DOGE starting next month and.
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Speaker 2: To Rome and tens of thousands of queuing to pay
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Speaker 2: respects to Pope Francis.
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Speaker 4: It is not surprised that there are such massive crowds
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Speaker 4: in sam Peter Square throwing this morning to see the
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Speaker 4: remains of poor Francis in queues to get into ques
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Speaker 4: both with then Saint Peter's itself and outside in the square,
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Speaker 4: and indeed extending further down into the streets surrounding the
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Speaker 4: Square of Sam Peters.
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Speaker 2: Today the crowds are hopeful for just a short glimpse
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Speaker 2: of the two hundred and sixty sixth Bishop of Rome.
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Speaker 2: Of the two hundred thousand are expected to descend on
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Speaker 2: the Vatican the Saturdays of funeral and that's the agenda.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition. Where's one
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Speaker 1: roof to make your property search simple?
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Speaker 2: News talks it'd be I'm very interested to talk to
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Speaker 2: the Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Scott Simpson this
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Speaker 2: morning about New Zealand Banking Association Association's new consumer protections
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Speaker 2: against fraud. They're going to roll these out over the
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Speaker 2: next seven months or so because we have been slow
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Speaker 2: in getting up to speed with battling scams in fraud.
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Speaker 2: The other hands, scammers, frauds does criminals that are siphoning
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Speaker 2: off hundreds of millions of dollars out in New Zealand
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Speaker 2: are just getting better at what they do. Banks have
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Speaker 2: claimed to have state of the art banking prevention, but
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Speaker 2: we are behind what other countries have implemented. And you
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Speaker 2: only have to look at some of the scams and
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Speaker 2: you can see there are gaps where by the bank
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Speaker 2: could have picked up a red flag and a transaction.
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Speaker 2: So look, anyway that we can reduce risk the better, right.
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Speaker 2: One of the things that they've done is release this
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Speaker 2: confirmation of pay your service. Have you used that? Have
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Speaker 2: you had to put a new paye in and use this?
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Speaker 2: I haven't been hugely impressed with it. It is, of
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Speaker 2: course for customers to check that the name of the
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Speaker 2: person they are paying matches the account number. It's a
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Speaker 2: really good idea, but it doesn't work because no one
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Speaker 2: gives you both the name of the company or the
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Speaker 2: name of the account and then the nickname of the account.
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Speaker 2: So I've done it about five times and not once
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Speaker 2: have they matched. And then of course we're all paranoid
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Speaker 2: because we don't want the headline to read. You know,
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Speaker 2: radio host just ignores the new you know, the new
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Speaker 2: protections put in place, and you know, sends money to
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Speaker 2: someone they shouldn't have. So then the next thing you know,
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Speaker 2: you're on the phone, you're ringing the people you're trying
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Speaker 2: to make as a payee and you're confirming it and
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Speaker 2: they're saying to you, oh yeah, we're getting lots of
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Speaker 2: calls about this. Anyway, it loses its power if we're
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Speaker 2: not using it correctly. So businesses need to be up
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Speaker 2: to speed with the information they provide, providing you with
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Speaker 2: those key bits of information so when you put it
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Speaker 2: in and you click the button, it goes, yes, you've
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Speaker 2: got the right person. Anyway, new commitments from banks mean
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Speaker 2: that if a bank fails to adequately warn and protect
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Speaker 2: a consumer from a scam, they will reimburse the victim
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Speaker 2: up to five hundred thousand. And this is excellent news,
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Speaker 2: but it's not going to help everyone and banks shouldn't
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Speaker 2: be responsible across the board if you lose money and
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Speaker 2: a scam. Being scammed is horrific. It's traumatic and life
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Speaker 2: changing for people. And they may have done things right,
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Speaker 2: you know, done their due diligence, ticked the boxes and
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Speaker 2: yet still got conned. But the bank can only be
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Speaker 2: responsible for their part in it if they had a
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Speaker 2: part in it and other words, failed to prevent it
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Speaker 2: when they could have. So to be honest, this does
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Speaker 2: sound like a fair approach. We're going to talk more
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Speaker 2: about this shortly. Can you hear your thoughts though? Does
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Speaker 2: that make you feel a little bit more comfortable that
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Speaker 2: the banks are stepping up and also that there's a
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Speaker 2: potential that you will be reimbursed if the bank's mister
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Speaker 2: mister step in things and you lose your money. Ninety
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Speaker 1: News and Views You Trust has done Your day is
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Speaker 2: News Dogs that be fourteen past five. So as I
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Speaker 2: was just talking about, Banks will be required to reimburse
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Speaker 2: fraud victims up to half a million dollars under the
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Speaker 2: new scam protections. The suite of measures also includes providing
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Speaker 2: a twenty four to seven scam reporting channel and banks
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Speaker 2: during information on scammers with each other to help prevent
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Speaker 2: criminal activity. The changes will be delivered through an update
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Speaker 2: to the Code of Banking Practice. Minister of Commerce and
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Speaker 2: Consumer Affairs Scott Simpson joins me. Now, thanks for your time, Scott,
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Speaker 2: Good morning.
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Speaker 5: Good morning, Francesco.
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Speaker 2: Okay, how involved were you in creating these protections?
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Speaker 5: Well, our government's been urging banks take a greater responsibility
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Speaker 5: for protecting their customers for some time. So I'm the
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Speaker 5: government's lead on anti scams as Minister, and it's work
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Speaker 5: that I and my predecessor have been doing now for
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Speaker 5: well since this government came to office.
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Speaker 2: Who is eligible for compensation if a bank fails to
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Speaker 2: meet these new protection commitments.
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Speaker 5: Well, bank customers that meet certain criteria. And this is
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Speaker 5: not a regime that's going to mean that everybody has covered,
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Speaker 5: but that will mean, for instance, that if you take
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Speaker 5: responsibility for your online transactions, your banking transactions in a
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Speaker 5: way that is careful, prudent and responsible, the banks will
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Speaker 5: cover you if they have let you down as their
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Speaker 5: banking provider if you've been scammed.
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Speaker 2: How effective has the confirmation of paye system been already,
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Speaker 2: because that the rollout of that's already been completed. And
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Speaker 2: I was just making the comment there that you know
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Speaker 2: it's not working at the moment because businesses aren't aware
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Speaker 2: that they need to give the account owner's name and
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Speaker 2: then a nickname. So every time I do it, it
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Speaker 2: doesn't match up. Scott.
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Speaker 5: Ironically, Francesca, every time you use it it gets better
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Speaker 5: because it's exactly those sorts of things. So over a
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Speaker 5: period of time, for instance, if someone wants to send
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Speaker 5: me some money as Scott Simpson, or maybe my bank
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Speaker 5: account is s Simpson, that isn't a complete match. But
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Speaker 5: over time the banks get better at it. Now not
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Speaker 5: every bank is up to speed with it completely yet.
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Speaker 5: That's part of the reason why these new initiatives don't
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Speaker 5: come fully into effect until the end of November. It's
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Speaker 5: in order to allow banks time to get the processes
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Speaker 5: and the technology in place to have it up and
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Speaker 5: running completely.
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Speaker 2: And to be fair, Scott, that's a user issue, not
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Speaker 2: necessarily the system issue. It's just us getting used to it,
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Speaker 2: isn't it.
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Speaker 5: You know, Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 2: Look having a look at the list of these measures,
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Speaker 2: I mean, banks are already doing some of these things,
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Speaker 2: aren't they. They're already sort of you know, shutting down
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Speaker 2: if they see a dodgy looking transaction and things. So
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Speaker 2: putting these measures officially in place, is it actually more
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Speaker 2: about allowing customers to hold banks to account.
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Speaker 5: Yes, it will hold banks to account. But remember, in
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Speaker 5: the scam ecosystem, banks aren't the only player. There are
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Speaker 5: digital platform form providers who are the providers that allow
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Speaker 5: the scam. Sometimes to work. There are the telco companies
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Speaker 5: that allow messages to be sent over their networks, So
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Speaker 5: I want the other player in the scam ecosystem to
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Speaker 5: step up in the same way that banks have done.
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Speaker 5: They put a role to play as well, and I'm
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Speaker 5: hoping that we can get a similar set of protocols
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Speaker 5: from the telco companies and the digital platform providers as well.
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Speaker 2: So you're happy with what the banks have come up
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Speaker 2: with here or would you like them to continue sort
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Speaker 2: of moving forward in the space.
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Speaker 5: Well, this isn't a silver bullet. Scams are very prevalent.
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Speaker 5: Scammers are very clever, they're very persistent, they're very energetic.
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Speaker 5: So this isn't going to stop all scams, but it
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Speaker 5: is a very big step forward. I'm delighted that the
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Speaker 5: banks have taken this initiative in conjunction government. It's a
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Speaker 5: very good step. I want others to do the same
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Speaker 5: sort of thing. But it just means that people still
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Speaker 5: have to be careful, they still have to be prudent,
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Speaker 5: and they still have to be alert and aware of
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Speaker 5: what they're doing in terms of their banking transactions and
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Speaker 5: their digital interactions and the interactions they have with their
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Speaker 5: telco companies as well.
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Speaker 2: Scott, thanks so much for your time this morning. That
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Speaker 2: was the Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to hear
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Speaker 2: what you think about the actions that the bank have taken.
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Speaker 2: You can text on ninety two ninety two right. Ninety
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Speaker 2: one percent of keyp WE workers are using generative AI
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Speaker 2: to assist them in their day to day tasks and
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Speaker 2: apparently we're really open about it now, we're all admitting it.
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Speaker 2: We find out what impact though it might be having
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Speaker 2: on the importance of human employees. Next, it is eighteen
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Speaker 2: past five.
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Speaker 1: You with early edition, Rely edition with one roof I
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Speaker 2: It's twenty past five. New research from Robert Harf finds
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Speaker 2: ninety one percent of workers are using AI to help
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Speaker 2: with their day to day tasks and ninety three percent
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Speaker 2: are open with their higher ups about using it, but
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Speaker 2: as it reducing the importance of human employees. Tech commentator
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Speaker 2: Oscar how is with us this morning?
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Speaker 6: Good morning, Oscar, morning Francesca, thank you for having me on.
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Speaker 2: It used to be seen as almost cheating, didn't it.
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Speaker 2: We sort of hit the fact that we might be
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Speaker 2: using AI, but is the perception of AI changing.
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Speaker 6: I think so. I think a lot of employees, especially
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Speaker 6: in traditional desk rolls, really opening themselves up to using
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Speaker 6: AI and their daily jobs, and they're not afraid to
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Speaker 6: be talking with their managers about it.
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Speaker 2: Why are we suddenly so open about using it?
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Speaker 7: I don't know.
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Speaker 6: There was almost a shift in the culture. Really, a
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Speaker 6: new research out of Robert Half of the crypt agency
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Speaker 6: you mentioned fifty six are using it on a daily
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Speaker 6: or near daily basis. You know, maybe the advancement of
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Speaker 6: some of these AI tools that were seeing are making it,
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Speaker 6: you know, are making their workloads so their ability to
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Speaker 6: work so efficient that it's something that you kind of
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Speaker 6: just have to bring up, you know. I mean, if
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Speaker 6: you can turn around a report in thirty seconds that
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Speaker 6: might have taken you a week, perhaps your manager may
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Speaker 6: have started off in questions, so it might be it
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Speaker 6: might pay to be forthright in these situations.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I've been told by a few HR
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Speaker 2: people that actually, these days, you know, they are looking
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Speaker 2: for people who understand how to use it, as opposed
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Speaker 2: to once upon a time, you know, implying that you know,
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Speaker 2: kind of cheating on your job.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: No, I think it's becoming a real staple of a
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Speaker 6: lot of desk jobs. And I think, like you mentioned,
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Speaker 6: businesses are looking for people who have more than just
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Speaker 6: a cursory understanding of how AI works. Obviously, it's allowing
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Speaker 6: people to become more efficient. It's allowing them to get
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Speaker 6: their work done quicker and takes a lot of the
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Speaker 6: workload off. And yeah, I mean there's also the fact
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Speaker 6: that it can help, you know, having an understanding of
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Speaker 6: AI can help you, you know, spot scams, spot when
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Speaker 6: it's used maybe not so well. And yeah, I think
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Speaker 6: it's just improving people's ability to work.
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Speaker 2: What are the impacts of such a huge increase? Are
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Speaker 2: we putting jobs at risk?
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Speaker 6: I mean, that seems to be the fear at the moment,
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Speaker 6: right And I almost wonder if a lot of these
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Speaker 6: people who are upskilling in the use of AI might
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Speaker 6: be doing so with that understanding that perhaps, you know,
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Speaker 6: if they're not on top of things, will maybe coming
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Speaker 6: to their jobs. I mean, at this point, eight percent
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Speaker 6: of work are sampled in this survey said that they
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Speaker 6: think it's necessary for career success in the future. And yeah,
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Speaker 6: I tend to agree because I mean, if you, like
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Speaker 6: I said, like we said, it's so powerful and it
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Speaker 6: can turn around a lot of these creative or desk
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Speaker 6: roll you know, for a lot of these jobs. That
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Speaker 6: can turn around a lot of this work so quickly. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: I think there's a real possibility that some of these
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Speaker 6: roles might find themselves outpaced by technology in the next
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Speaker 6: few years.
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Speaker 2: Oscar, thank you so much for your thoughts this morning.
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Speaker 2: Really appreciate it. And of course we were talking yesterday
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Speaker 2: about the Oscars and how they've mentioned that, you know,
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Speaker 2: if you happen to use AI in your film, that
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Speaker 2: doesn't mean that you won't win an Oscar. You were
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Speaker 2: still eligible and have an opportunity to win one of
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Speaker 2: the big Oscars. The reason they had to say that
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Speaker 2: was because actually, somewhere along the line in Hollywood, when
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Speaker 2: someone makes a film, AI is being used, whether it's
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Speaker 2: being used in the production stage and the post production stage,
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Speaker 2: Somewhere along the way, everybody's quietly using it. They didn't
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Speaker 2: want to admit it, but they are actually all quietly
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Speaker 2: using it in different ways. It is twenty four past five.
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Speaker 2: It's twenty six past five. Sometimes being the grown up
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Speaker 2: in the room is deeply unfulfilling. Pragmatic, sensible, considering consequences,
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Speaker 2: taking a long term view. They're all good, admirable words,
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Speaker 2: and we should take some solace in them. But sometimes
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Speaker 2: I think we'd rather just throw a plate at the wall.
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Speaker 2: And so it is with the government's response yesterday to
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Speaker 2: the Trump tariffs, essentially to roll over and take it. Understandable, sure, sensible, yep. Frustrating,
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Speaker 2: very The government confirmed we're not in the queue to
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Speaker 2: negotiate a trade deal with President Trump's administration, nor are
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Speaker 2: we interested in taking legal action over it, and the
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Speaker 2: tariff hit will come after export has had an excellent
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Speaker 2: March and it's a shame the party music has had
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Speaker 2: a bum note. We want the growth, we want good
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Speaker 2: export news, but without the dark tariff cloud lingering in
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Speaker 2: the distance. As Trade Minister Todd mcla yesterday, we probably
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Speaker 2: couldn't negotiate between below the current ten percent rate, and
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Speaker 2: the legal process would be a long winded affair that
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Speaker 2: would probably go nowhere. And I'm presuming, like the majority
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Speaker 2: of us who aren't diplomats and haven't been in a
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Speaker 2: room negotiating a trade deal. This is a well considered plan,
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Speaker 2: one based on experience and insider information, but perhaps also
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Speaker 2: because making a fast good have unintended consequences and result
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Speaker 2: in even higher tariffs. It also makes sense to keep
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Speaker 2: our head down into our two biggest trading partners, China
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Speaker 2: and US have sorted out their own tiff. We need
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Speaker 2: to ensure both of feeling valued by US and not
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Speaker 2: be seen to take sides as we focus on growing
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Speaker 2: our trade markets. Will the plate throwers get sensible? Trump
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Speaker 2: stated during a White House a White House news conference
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Speaker 2: that the final tariff rate with China would come down
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Speaker 2: substantially from the current one hundred and forty forty five percent.
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Speaker 2: He said the US would be very nice to China
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Speaker 2: and not play hardball. Trump's remarks towards China come on
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Speaker 2: the same day that i AM released a new report
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Speaker 2: showing the United States faces the biggest downgrade among advanced
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Speaker 2: countries due to the increase in tarists and the uncertainty
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Speaker 2: of cause. The IMF predicts the US economy will grow
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Speaker 2: one point eight percent this year, down from the estimated
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Speaker 2: two point seven percent, and there's a forty percent chance
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Speaker 2: of recession. So as this a case, of Trump blinking
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Speaker 2: and a first sign of some steps towards stabilizing global trade.
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Speaker 2: This as a move by Trump to calm the nerves.
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Speaker 2: The markets short responded well to both Trump's tariff call
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Speaker 2: on China and his remarks he has no intention of
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Speaker 2: firing the Federal Reserve chair. I don't think anyone knows
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Speaker 2: what's to come next or how Trump will respond to
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Speaker 2: Chinese social media hashtags such as Trump admitted defeat. But
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Speaker 2: I much prefer the adult Trump rather than the one
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Speaker 2: throwing plates. In the meantime, New Zealand shall remain patient
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Speaker 2: and diplomatic, settle in and see what change may occur
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Speaker 2: again before the ninety day pause is up. Francesca, it's
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Speaker 2: a little bit like the market yesterday. Did you did
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Speaker 2: you have a sort of a bit of a sigh
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Speaker 2: of relief from Trump's comments? I mean, we know it
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Speaker 2: is hard to predict what will come next, but do
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Speaker 2: you feel like there might be some light at the
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Speaker 2: end of the tunnel when it comes to settling these
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Speaker 2: trade walls? Or you're not holding your breath? You might
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Speaker 2: as welcome to text me on ninety two ninety two
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Speaker 2: This is early edition on Newstalks. They'd be I'm Francisca
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Speaker 2: Udkins filling in for Ryan today. Thanks for being with
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Speaker 2: us and the next half hour. Elon Musk has finally
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Speaker 2: given into the call from Tesla to return to the company.
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Speaker 2: What does this mean for DOGE? And the Ministry for
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Speaker 2: Regulation has done a review into early childhood sector. The
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Speaker 2: government recognizes that the current regulation system is outdated and overburdensome,
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Speaker 2: and the sector agrees, but there is some concern from
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Speaker 2: the sector about the lack of detail and some of
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Speaker 2: the recommendations, in particular around the qualifications teachers will need.
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Speaker 2: They don't want to see a less qualified workforce and
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Speaker 2: I'm sure that parents don't either. So we're going to
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Speaker 2: talk more about this before the end of the hour.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for your feedback. Someone said, the
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Speaker 2: beneficiaries don't give you that going back to the banks
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Speaker 2: and the pay confirmation, the beneficiaries don't give you the
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Speaker 2: it was, oh, yeah, we're getting this all the time.
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Speaker 2: ninety two ninety two, it is twenty one to.
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Speaker 1: Six News Talk said be.
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Speaker 2: Right joining me now, we're going to head around the
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Speaker 2: company and joining me now from Dunedin is Michael Sirkle.
19:54
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, and we've got the world's smallest
19:57
Speaker 2: penguins and making history.
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Speaker 8: In Olmu, so called Blue Penguin Colony has begun laying
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Speaker 8: eggs almost three months earlier than usual. This apparently indicates
20:06
Speaker 8: a healthy and successful marine environment. This is a first
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Speaker 8: for the local colony and it's only the second time
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Speaker 8: it's ever been recorded in the whole country. The public's
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Speaker 8: being urged to tack here though, after a male penguin
20:17
Speaker 8: was found dead after getting tangled in a discarding fishing line.
20:20
Speaker 8: It was found near the popular fishing spot Homes Wharf
20:23
Speaker 8: a few days before Easter and unfortunately had to be
20:26
Speaker 8: out put down.
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Speaker 2: Oh that is sad news. What's stone Edin's weather today, Michael?
20:30
Speaker 8: Oh it's a nice one, fine like Win's fourteen degrees beautiful.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. And joining us now from Christchurch
20:35
Speaker 2: is Claire Sherwood. How are you, Claire?
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Speaker 9: Good morning.
20:38
Speaker 2: Now. Twenty names, only twenty names have been drawn from
20:42
Speaker 2: hundreds of hopefuls to be the first to step inside
20:44
Speaker 2: the new stadium.
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Speaker 9: Yes that's right, Francesca. In fact, one thy six hundred
20:49
Speaker 9: and sixteen hopefuls tried to get a chance to look
20:52
Speaker 9: at the new stadium, but twenty people have been drawn.
20:55
Speaker 9: One new Zealand Stadium at Takaha will open to this
20:57
Speaker 9: very exclusive group, which was literally drawn from a hat
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Speaker 9: for next month's Open christ Church Festival.
21:03
Speaker 10: Now.
21:03
Speaker 9: Raylen Palmer is one of them. We spoke to her yesterday.
21:06
Speaker 9: She can't believe she'll be one of the first, outside
21:09
Speaker 9: of of course construction staff and officials. She says, it
21:12
Speaker 9: has been amazing, like many of us, to watch it
21:14
Speaker 9: grow throughout construction. It's quite nice for Raylein. She actually
21:18
Speaker 9: worked for the Crusaders for seven years, so she saw
21:21
Speaker 9: it throughout the earthquakes and the temporary stadium being built,
21:24
Speaker 9: so to be able to see the new one feels
21:26
Speaker 9: like a full circle moment. Experts will also be there.
21:29
Speaker 9: It's going to be a one hour guided tour on
21:31
Speaker 9: May four.
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Speaker 2: What about the media? Clear have you got on there?
21:34
Speaker 6: No?
21:34
Speaker 2: Not even us? Okay, seems rough and the weather today.
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Speaker 9: In christ Church frosty to start, it will clear to
21:40
Speaker 9: a fine day light winds and fourteen and Max.
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Speaker 2: Toll is with us and Wellington. Good morning Max. You
21:46
Speaker 2: got a bit of an a shoe with some in sex.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, a interesting story here. Residents in a Wellington coastal
21:53
Speaker 11: suburb complaining about an infestation of millipedes that has even
21:58
Speaker 11: made some express regret and buying in the area. This
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Speaker 11: is orfeedo or Bay, which is just around from Island Bay.
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Speaker 6: It's seeing a.
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Speaker 11: Massive surge in Portuguese millipedes, which enter homes at night
22:10
Speaker 11: in the hundreds. They're attracted to light. The regional council
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Speaker 11: reportedly doesn't have any immediate plans to tackle the problem.
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Speaker 11: We spoke to a local who complains that these millipedes
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Speaker 11: and they come into the house, they excrete, a smelly
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Speaker 11: liquid that stains the floor. Doors and windows blocked with
22:27
Speaker 11: towels don't help either. Really bad problem for about two
22:31
Speaker 11: months now, apparently.
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Speaker 2: I've just googled them. They're not particularly cute either.
22:35
Speaker 11: Not close up.
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Speaker 2: No, no, not really. Wellington's weather today.
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Speaker 11: Max mostly fine today, light winds peaking in the mid teens.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. And neither writty man who joins
22:44
Speaker 2: me out of the studio, so we've both got the
22:48
Speaker 2: kick was explaining the millipede issue got to me. I know,
22:53
Speaker 2: I had no idea, No, because they're tiny, powerful, powerful
22:59
Speaker 2: and okay neither An Auckland restaurant has had its food
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Speaker 2: grade lower to a d after a person shared video
23:06
Speaker 2: of and here we are laughing at Wellington's story. A
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Speaker 2: person shared video of fish dry on a clothesline.
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Speaker 12: It's like going for one stupid store in Wellington to
23:16
Speaker 12: a stupid story.
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Speaker 2: Here in Auckland, we've got a long weekend.
23:19
Speaker 12: Oh I'm glad too, So yes, you're right, Francesca. So
23:22
Speaker 12: this video shows dozens of fish while it's hanging from
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Speaker 12: stainless steel hooks. That's right on a clothesline in a backyard. Now,
23:30
Speaker 12: the owner of Mount Albert Barbecue noodle House nine three
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Speaker 12: two claims that the fish isn't there is and actually
23:37
Speaker 12: belongs to a neighbor who was using it for personal consumption.
23:41
Speaker 12: So this is not to be confused, because apparently that
23:45
Speaker 12: there's another Mount Albert Barbecue noodle House and it's right
23:49
Speaker 12: next door and it's nine three zero. The cousins, they're cousins,
23:52
Speaker 12: and so they both claim to be you know, the
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Speaker 12: original noodle house. But this one here, who's been you know,
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Speaker 12: like slept over the knuckle, is nine three two. So
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Speaker 12: what they've done is that the Auckland Council they've issued
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Speaker 12: them with the notice and they've said, look, this is not.
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Speaker 13: Acceptable to dry any food in this way. Well you'd
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Speaker 13: think not, eh.
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Speaker 2: Do you think your cloth it smellab it? If you
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Speaker 2: use this line after you just pegged on your T
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Speaker 2: shirt and the edgin and.
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Speaker 4: Even just aren't my things?
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Speaker 13: The flies everything that will be you know, that would
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Speaker 13: be coming around, you know if you've got them on
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Speaker 13: the clothes line and you've got the fish hanging there,
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Speaker 13: wouldn't you think of all the insects and the flies
24:30
Speaker 13: and what are though the millipedes? And from Wellington? What
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Speaker 13: big jumping on the clothesline there? Goodness my right up.
24:37
Speaker 2: Auckland's weather today fine but cloud early morning. Twenty is
24:41
Speaker 2: the high here neither. Thank you very much. Have a
24:44
Speaker 2: lovely long weekend. Next up we are after the US.
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Speaker 14: Good morning match, Good morning, Francisca.
25:50
Speaker 6: How are you.
25:50
Speaker 2: I'm very good. Thank you. So Tesla has finally drawn
25:53
Speaker 2: Elon Musk back into the fold.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, that's right, And the reason for that, perhaps is
25:58
Speaker 14: that a report it's first called earnings yesterday. Tesla are
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Speaker 14: the electric vehicle maker, and it wasn't good. In fact,
26:06
Speaker 14: it was billions of dollars short of what Wall Street
26:08
Speaker 14: had actually predicted. Over the last couple of months, Tesla
26:11
Speaker 14: stock has fallen immensely. Right sales have been lagging in
26:16
Speaker 14: Europe and the United States, but also people have been
26:19
Speaker 14: attacking dealerships because of Elon Musk's role in the Trump administration. Now,
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Speaker 14: in an earnings call yesterday with investors, Musk said in
26:27
Speaker 14: May he will be spending significantly less time in the
26:30
Speaker 14: White House as he goes back to work for the company.
26:33
Speaker 14: He says he'll still be working for Donald Trump whenn't required,
26:36
Speaker 14: but that might only be one or two days a week.
26:39
Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 14: As a result of that, Tesla's share price has been soaring.
26:43
Speaker 14: It was up seven percent at one point this morning,
26:45
Speaker 14: Investors happy he might be leaving the White House.
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Speaker 2: Match sure, yeah, really quickly. It looks like they could
26:51
Speaker 2: potentially be a deal between the US and China. And gosh,
26:54
Speaker 2: the markets loved this news, didn't they.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, it could be getting close to the Treasury Secretary
26:59
Speaker 14: this morning. There's an opportunity for a big deal here.
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Speaker 14: And the Wall Street Journal reports so that terifright of
27:05
Speaker 14: a whopping one hundred and forty five percent on China
27:07
Speaker 14: from the US could come down to around sixty percent.
27:11
Speaker 14: The markets of loving it been loving it. At one
27:13
Speaker 14: point today the Dow Jones was up one thousand points.
27:16
Speaker 14: So finally, Francesca some good news on the markets here
27:19
Speaker 14: in New York.
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Speaker 2: Thank you much. Nice to catch up right. Concern from
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Speaker 2: early childhood educators that proposed reforms would put business over children.
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Speaker 2: The government has recognized that current ECE regulations are outdated,
27:35
Speaker 2: but the sector says changes could love with the standard
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Speaker 2: of teachers. Early Childhood New Zealand CEO Kathy Wolf is
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Speaker 2: with me now, thanks for your time this morning.
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Speaker 7: Kathy Mariner.
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Speaker 2: Do you feel listen to from the results of this
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Speaker 2: review where you're happy with the general gist of it.
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Speaker 7: We will look we call for the review and the
27:52
Speaker 7: general gist of it in terms of addressing some of
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Speaker 7: the cumbersome and complicated processes and overburdened some administration, Yep,
27:59
Speaker 7: there's good things from there. However, some of the recommendations
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Speaker 7: are nine and definitely recommendation ten is something that we
28:08
Speaker 7: are not very happy about at.
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Speaker 2: All, and you came from more detail on this. How
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Speaker 2: concerned would a move away from qualified teachers be.
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Speaker 7: Very concerning qualified teachers are trained to educate our youngest
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Speaker 7: children and they understand the development emotionally and intellectually for
28:29
Speaker 7: children from a vreative five and for school children to
28:34
Speaker 7: be prepared for school. They need that education and the
28:37
Speaker 7: qualified teacher is what is required to provide them that education.
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Speaker 2: And why do you think there would be a move
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Speaker 2: away from this? What's the reasoning behind it?
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Speaker 7: It's mostly about fundings. They're also saying it is around
28:51
Speaker 7: teacher shortages, but there's absolutely no link to teacher shortages
28:56
Speaker 7: and qualifications. The cause and effect of teacher shortages is
28:59
Speaker 7: that we just haven't had a decent workforce strategy that
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Speaker 7: managers supplying the month.
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Speaker 2: How do you want to see the balance between business
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Speaker 2: and children stuck struck here when it comes to looking
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Speaker 2: at these reforms.
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Speaker 7: Look, every early childhood service is a business, whether you're
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Speaker 7: in community based service or a for profit service. At
29:19
Speaker 7: the end of the day, you've got to run a
29:21
Speaker 7: viable business in order to give back to the ken community,
29:24
Speaker 7: but also make sure children are educated well. So you know,
29:29
Speaker 7: and we're also publicly funded and we have to be
29:31
Speaker 7: accountable for that public funding. So for us, it is
29:35
Speaker 7: really important that that is the key thing about the
29:39
Speaker 7: public good and upholding the public good of education and
29:42
Speaker 7: at each other.
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Speaker 2: Because it was a long it was it was quite
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Speaker 2: a fight. Wasn't it a while ago to get you know,
29:47
Speaker 2: more qualified teachers into early childhood education. I can remember that,
29:51
Speaker 2: and of course the big at that time, the big
29:53
Speaker 2: negatives going to cost us more because we have to
29:56
Speaker 2: pay qualified people and things. But I'm pretty sure that
29:59
Speaker 2: most parents out there would really like the workforce to
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Speaker 2: remain qualified.
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Speaker 7: Absolutely. I mean, if you want, if you put your
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Speaker 7: child into an early childhood service, you want to know
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Speaker 7: every single day that your child is not only getting
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Speaker 7: the best care and their well being is looked after,
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Speaker 7: but they've been educated with a qualified person who understands
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Speaker 7: how a child develops. And that can be the difference
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Speaker 7: between an unqualified person who could have an impact on
30:26
Speaker 7: a child through a perverse situation, where a qualified person
30:30
Speaker 7: would absolutely know how to deal with the situation, and
30:33
Speaker 7: that impact on a child can last for a very
30:36
Speaker 7: long time.
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Speaker 2: And can you any other major issues with the reforms.
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Speaker 7: At this stage, It's just going to be really about
30:43
Speaker 7: working with the government and the ministry around the changes,
30:47
Speaker 7: especially around the criteria for the licensing. So that'll be
30:52
Speaker 7: a work in progress, as seymore mentioned, over the next
30:56
Speaker 7: next week, while the Qualification one is going to be
30:59
Speaker 7: a very big focus for the sector and there will
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Speaker 7: be very big pushback on this one.
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Speaker 2: Tathy. I'm just wondering while I've got you, if I
31:05
Speaker 2: can ask you about the data and the Herald this
31:08
Speaker 2: morning that revealed the government's estimate of the number of
31:11
Speaker 2: families eligible for the full Family Boost payment was wrong.
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Speaker 2: Just yeah, two hundred and forty nine out of the
31:16
Speaker 2: twenty one thousand the Government seed were eligible have actually
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Speaker 2: received that maximum amount. The real number of families eligible
31:24
Speaker 2: is unknown. What are your thoughts about that?
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Speaker 7: Well, we always said that the Family Boost was flawed.
31:31
Speaker 7: It doesn't reach the families that it should reach. And
31:34
Speaker 7: also there's a few hoops the families have to jump
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Speaker 7: through to even get access to that, and they only
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Speaker 7: get access it after that paid three months and then
31:42
Speaker 7: they get repaid for that, and many families don't have
31:45
Speaker 7: that money upfront. So we're hoping that Minister Seymour really
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Speaker 7: has a look at the funding for early childhood and
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Speaker 7: we really make a fitful purpose for both fairly child
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Speaker 7: and services as well as parents to get the system
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Speaker 7: fixed and working how it should be.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Kathy. I really appreciate your time
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Speaker 2: and your thoughts. A sting that was Kathy, Thank you Kathy.
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Speaker 2: That was Kathy from Kathy Will from Early Childhood, New Zealand. YEA,
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Speaker 2: that was a bit embarrassing those figures that were released.
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Speaker 2: But Nicola Will have said that the id's advice was
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Speaker 2: based on its best estimates at the time. Unfortunately they
32:24
Speaker 2: got that wrong. But the ID found the modeling for
32:28
Speaker 2: Family Boost challenging because it didn't have reliable data. So
32:31
Speaker 2: apparently now they are trying to get as much reliable data,
32:34
Speaker 2: but there's other things that complicated as well. There's a
32:36
Speaker 2: possibility that some people went, oh, it's not worth applying
32:38
Speaker 2: for it because I'm not going to get a huge
32:40
Speaker 2: amount back, or they haven't got around to cleicking up
32:42
Speaker 2: all those receipts and applying for it yet. But hopefully
32:44
Speaker 2: they'll be able to get that sorted as soon as possible.
32:47
Speaker 2: It is a six to six. My cost ginger is
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Speaker 2: in the studio next.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day earlier
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Speaker 2: Be coming up at Sex is Mike Hoskin and he's
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Speaker 2: in the studio with me. Now, what do you got
33:03
Speaker 2: on the show, mate.
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Speaker 10: Well, I'm just, I'm just I've been watching Ronee Oh Sullivan.
33:09
Speaker 10: You know, the snooker No, okay, I don't.
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Speaker 2: Want anyway, Nobody fascinated.
33:14
Speaker 10: The story is no, no, no. So the World Championships
33:18
Speaker 10: are on right now and this is the this is
33:20
Speaker 10: the thing. This is a place called the Cruciball go
33:23
Speaker 10: to a snooker games. It's amazing. Anyway, Roneoh Sullivan he's
33:26
Speaker 10: the greatest snooker player of all time. In dispute and
33:29
Speaker 10: no one disputes Okay. He hasn't been playing since January.
33:31
Speaker 10: He has a lot of mental health issues and so
33:33
Speaker 10: he's thinking, I don't need this anymore. Shallow play cha anyway,
33:36
Speaker 10: So there's been tremendous anticipation as to whether he will
33:39
Speaker 10: turn up at this tournament, and he has and he's
33:41
Speaker 10: just played his open round and it's over a couple
33:43
Speaker 10: of days because there's a large number of frames. Anyway,
33:46
Speaker 10: he's playing a guy called Ellie Carter, and there's a
33:48
Speaker 10: bit of beef between Ronnie and Ellie, and so that
33:50
Speaker 10: gave it a freshont anyway. So the first frames of
33:53
Speaker 10: five to four, this was yesterday, so overnight he plays
33:56
Speaker 10: the second series of frames first and nineteen and he
33:59
Speaker 10: comes out and he destroys Ellie, absolutely destroys him, and
34:03
Speaker 10: he's playing like the old days and it's just so
34:06
Speaker 10: exciting anyway through to the second round. So that's what
34:09
Speaker 10: I've been doing, not but that will be reflected on the.
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Speaker 2: Show that I think I might have got confused with
34:13
Speaker 2: dance Darts looks like a fun totally different sports.
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Speaker 10: Franchesca completely good time and players. You have a good weekend.
34:19
Speaker 2: Mike Cosking is up next. I'll see you tomorrow morning
34:22
Speaker 2: at nine. Have a good long weekend.
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