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Jason Walls: ZB political editor on Prime Minister Luxon's trip to Japan being impacted by plane breakdown · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: How slick do we look? On our way to Japan?
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  Speaker 2: A couple of fuses leaves on a commercial flight and
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  Speaker 2: the rest get left behind in P and G for
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  Speaker 2: the night before they go to Brisbane, before they get
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  Speaker 2: picked up and taken to Tokyo. Our political letters to
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  Speaker 2: Jason Wall has drawn this political short straw enders with us. Jason,
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  Speaker 2: very good morning to you, Good morning. Make What time
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  Speaker 2: is it in P and G?
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  Speaker 3: I just went three am?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, look so fourteen past three? And what'd you do
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  Speaker 2: last night? Where do you stay in P and G
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  Speaker 2: when you're stuck?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Listen, mane. I couldn't tell you where we are.
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  Speaker 3: We're in some hotel in P and G. It's quite nice.
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  Speaker 3: Basically it was headed down to the entire time while
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  Speaker 3: we tried to figure out what was going on. I
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  Speaker 3: couldn't tell you which way is up at this stage
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  Speaker 3: because there were so many different changes to the plan.
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  Speaker 3: All I know is that we're up. We're leaving from
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  Speaker 3: P and G to go to Brisbane in a couple
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  Speaker 3: of hours before getting an ANTW Zealand plane that's been
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  Speaker 3: diverted from New Zealand to Brisbane before going to Japan.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, there's still a lot of unanswered questions as
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  Speaker 3: to what's going on here, but we're slowly inching our
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  Speaker 3: way towards Japan.
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  Speaker 2: You are on the seven five seven from P ANDG
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  Speaker 2: to Brisbane.
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  Speaker 3: Well, at this stage that's the plan. I mean, anything
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  Speaker 3: can happen. We could get to the airport and they
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  Speaker 3: could tell us something else has gone wrong. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: not holding out much hope given what happened yesterday, But
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  Speaker 3: that is the planet of the stage.
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  Speaker 2: How did yesterday unfold? Is there a sceents of panic
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  Speaker 2: or upset or angle or fury or resignation or depression.
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  Speaker 2: What's the vibe when this unfold?
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's always a sort of a slight glimmer of hope.
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  Speaker 3: We were initially told that there was something that was
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  Speaker 3: wrong that was only going to take an hour, and
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  Speaker 3: then we thought, okay, that's fine, but this is about
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  Speaker 3: my third or fourth breakdown, so I kind of I
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  Speaker 3: kind of had a whop something else was going on.
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  Speaker 3: And at one point we saw the Prime Minister's delegation
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  Speaker 3: go up to the plane and so we thought, oh,
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  Speaker 3: everything's fine, they're getting back on and then they grabbed
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  Speaker 3: all their gear and left, and by this point nobody
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  Speaker 3: had told us what was going on. So I was
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  Speaker 3: seeing them all grabbing their gear and leaving and then
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  Speaker 3: getting into the Prime Minister's convoy and then leaving the
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  Speaker 3: airport was quite the head scratcher because at that point
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  Speaker 3: we hadn't really been told what was going on. And
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  Speaker 3: then from there we were basically just given rolling updates
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  Speaker 3: every hour or so that something has gone on or
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  Speaker 3: something has broken. And then here we are.
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  Speaker 2: Like a shag on a rock. Does is there not
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  Speaker 2: a point person? I mean does the Prime Minister surely
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  Speaker 2: goes to the Business delegation and goes guys once again,
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  Speaker 2: this is embarrassing. I'm so sorry. I'm leaving for Japan.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get you up there as quickly as does he
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  Speaker 2: not say anything to anybody?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm not sure how it played out with the
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  Speaker 3: Business Delegation. We were all in the same room with
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  Speaker 3: them in this holding area in the p ANDNG airport
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  Speaker 3: and they were getting about as much information as we were.
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  Speaker 3: It was all going through fran Dame raise Walsh, who
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  Speaker 3: is the lead of the Business delegation here and she'd
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  Speaker 3: be ushered into a room to be told what was
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  Speaker 3: going on. But the Prime Minister leaving took everybody by surprise.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I saw his face in his decide profile
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  Speaker 3: of his face as he was leaving in the motorcade,
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  Speaker 3: and he looked dark. He was not happy with what
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  Speaker 3: was going on, because obviously he said on your show
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  Speaker 3: this time yesterday that no S buts or maybe so
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  Speaker 3: the Defense Force plane is going to get to Japan.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously that hasn't happened.
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  Speaker 2: No, it has not. So in New Zealand, divert to Brisbane.
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  Speaker 2: They pick you up and the textpayer picks up the
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  Speaker 2: tab to get you into Tokyo. All things going well,
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  Speaker 2: When do you land in Japan?
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  Speaker 3: All things going well? About eight thirty pm tonight is
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  Speaker 3: what we're told.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and then he'll carry on and do his thing
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  Speaker 2: in the Business delegation, we'll look to do whatever that way.
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  Speaker 2: How long are you there for?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're only there till a Thursday. And that's then
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  Speaker 3: when the big supports part of this trip is happening.
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  Speaker 3: That's when he's meeting with President Kashita, and there's the
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  Speaker 3: various different political elements of the trip. There are a few.
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  Speaker 3: The thing is we're not missing any big set pieces today.
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  Speaker 3: There is a few sort of visits and various different
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  Speaker 3: openings of things and MOUs to be signed. So it's
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  Speaker 3: not the end of the world. We actually still get
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  Speaker 3: there for the big Prime Minister to Prime minister meeting
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  Speaker 3: on Thursday. But it's still, you know, a national embarrassment
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  Speaker 3: for this to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Yet again, yes it is. We'll talk to the go well, Jason,
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  Speaker 2: I wish you all the very best of luck. Seven
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  Speaker 2: five seven to Brisbane. So he's going in completely the
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  Speaker 2: wrong direction of course before in New Zealand's weep across
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  Speaker 2: and pick him up. And I when it's say yim,
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  Speaker 2: it's the whole media delegation. It's the business delegation. Isn't
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  Speaker 2: that story about lux and unusual? Wouldn't you, as the
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  Speaker 2: leader of the delegation go to the business people. You
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  Speaker 2: know you got Greg Fum there, you got Peter Beck
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  Speaker 2: of Rocket Lab. For God's sake, wouldn't you go and
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  Speaker 2: go look? You know how embarrassing anyway.
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