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Full Show Podcast: 01 October 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: earlier this year with one roof love where you live
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Speaker 1: news talks, they'd be good morning.
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Speaker 2: Six after five. We've got the Frontier report out today.
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Speaker 2: We'll look at that. Gavin Gray in the UK for
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Speaker 2: us another day. Another minister with good results from their targets.
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Speaker 2: And we've got a smallgas board of out the gate
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Speaker 2: audio this morning from both Trump and Headset at Quanticode.
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Speaker 2: The agenda Wednesday, the first of October. Pins and a punch.
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Speaker 2: Trump reckons from US has three to four days to
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Speaker 2: take his piece, deal or else. But he seems pretty confident.
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Speaker 3: So if this happens, I think it will. I don't
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Speaker 3: say that lately because I know more about deals than anybody.
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Speaker 3: This what my whole life was best. And they can change,
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Speaker 3: and this can certainly change. But we have just about everybody.
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Speaker 4: We have one.
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Speaker 3: Signata that we're near and that segation will pay in
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Speaker 3: how if they don't say, and I hope they're saying
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Speaker 3: for their own good.
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Speaker 2: This weird meeting of generals. The Defense Secretary Pete Headsets
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Speaker 2: also gave us speech. He's gone all warrior, he he man.
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Speaker 5: The military has been forced by foolish and reckless politicians
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Speaker 5: to focus on the wrong things. In many ways, this
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Speaker 5: speech is about fixing decades of decay, some of it obvious,
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Speaker 5: some of it hidden, removing the distractions, clearing the way
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Speaker 5: for leaders to be leaders. You might say, we're ending
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Speaker 5: the war on warriors.
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Speaker 2: More on that soon, including his comments about fat generals
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Speaker 2: to Britain We go now. Starmer's new playbook in full
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Speaker 2: display overnight at the Labour Party conference, where he's basically
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Speaker 2: speaking to a bunch of backstabbing MPs. Don't hate me
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Speaker 2: hate Nigel Faraji, says.
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Speaker 6: Britain stams at a fault in the road. We could
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Speaker 6: choose decency, or we could choose division, renewal or decline.
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Speaker 6: A country proud of its values, in control of its future,
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Speaker 6: or one that su comes against the grain of our
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Speaker 6: history to the politics of grievance.
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Speaker 2: What are you even saying? Finally, this morning, doesn't that
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Speaker 2: bring a smile to your face? Simpsons is returning to
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Speaker 2: the big screen. It's been confirmed a sequel to the
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Speaker 2: original two thousand and seven is in the works and
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Speaker 2: will hit theaters. July twenty twenty seven was announced as
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Speaker 2: a poster of a doughnut being grabbed with the tagline
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Speaker 2: Homers coming back for seconds, views.
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Speaker 1: And views you trust to start your day, It's early
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Speaker 1: Ediship with Brian Bridge and one roof love.
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Speaker 2: Where you live news talks. He'd be he's gone eight
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Speaker 2: after five nine nine two the number to text great
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Speaker 2: to have your company. The story today will be this
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Speaker 2: about the Frontier report and about the government's response to it.
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Speaker 2: These are tweaks. They're not transformational, you know this is.
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Speaker 2: And the question will then be is this Luxon's managerialism.
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Speaker 2: I spoke to a former MP yesterday from the right
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Speaker 2: and they said, basically, he's a tinker guy. He's not
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Speaker 2: a go in and do the big stuff. But then
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Speaker 2: there is the fact that he's got part of a
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Speaker 2: coalition government and you've got two very different traveling companions,
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Speaker 2: don't you in National and Act? ACT would rather go
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Speaker 2: harder on the regulation? I asked, see more about that
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Speaker 2: on Monday. You know what's the problem. Is it the
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Speaker 2: market or is it the regulation? He says, the regulation?
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Speaker 2: So are we going to see the gent Taylor split up?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 2: So why did they let that sort of the idea
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Speaker 2: hang around linger for so long? That's a good question,
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Speaker 2: isn't it. And we know that's not going to happen
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Speaker 2: because Simon Watt says that the response is going to
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Speaker 2: be surgical. So basically the message today is don't hold
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Speaker 2: your breath. Were you expecting much anyway? Nine minutes after five,
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Speaker 2: news Talk said being.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roote Love
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Speaker 1: where you Live, News Talk.
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Speaker 2: Said, be five twelve people getting a bit barred up
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Speaker 2: for property again. Mortgage borrowing up growing now at a
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Speaker 2: fast rate, expanding two billion dollars in August. That's the
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Speaker 2: second most since the end of twenty twenty one. It
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Speaker 2: is the most the biggest increase outside of prime real
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Speaker 2: estate selling season in that time as well. Home loans
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Speaker 2: up five point six percent on the same month a
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Speaker 2: year ago. That is at least an extra twenty billion
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Speaker 2: dollars in mortgage borrowing. And I'm seeing the homes that
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Speaker 2: are being popped up on one roof at the moment.
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Speaker 2: Go and check them out. Some very beautiful people are
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Speaker 2: really manicuring the lawns. They've gone to town on the pools.
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Speaker 2: It's all looking very good. Not that it's going to
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Speaker 2: turn around quickly, but at least spring is here, and
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Speaker 2: spring is sprung twelve after five yet reaction out of
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Speaker 2: Trump's peace plan with the three to four day deadline
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Speaker 2: for Hamas. It includes an immediate cease fire followed by
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Speaker 2: the disarmament of Hamas and in Israeli withdrawal. Linda Gradstein
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Speaker 2: is CBS News correspondent in Jerusalem. Linda, what's the reaction
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Speaker 2: been or what do we expect the reaction might be
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Speaker 2: from Hamas.
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Speaker 3: Well?
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Speaker 4: It's really hard to tell. The sort of reports are
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Speaker 4: that Harmas is tending towards accepting the deal. They're under
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Speaker 4: a life lot of pressure from Kuttar, the Palestinians living
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Speaker 4: in Gaza. I have a friend who lives in Gaza
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Speaker 4: and has been displaced numerous times and is barely, you know,
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Speaker 4: having such a and she's been having such a hard time,
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Speaker 4: and she wrote me and said, I hate all the
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Speaker 4: Palestinian organizations. I'm sick of all of So. I think
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Speaker 4: there is a sense that the population in Gaza certainly
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Speaker 4: wants the war to end, wants the bombing to end,
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Speaker 4: wants to begin to rebuild some semblance of life in Gaza.
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Speaker 4: So but at the same time, it's basically Hamas giving
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Speaker 4: in by saying that it will have no role in
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Speaker 4: any future government of Gaza, that the area will be demilitarized,
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Speaker 4: that Hamas will hand over its guns. So all of
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Speaker 4: those are things that I think are very difficult for
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Speaker 4: Hamasc will Except.
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Speaker 2: Do the people in Gaza want Hamas gone too?
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Speaker 4: Well, First of all, you know, it's hard to tell
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Speaker 4: because people are afraid to speak out against Hamas. And
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Speaker 4: if you do write anything online on social media against Hamas,
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Speaker 4: you will have somebody showing up at your home and
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Speaker 4: threatening you. So people are afraid to speak against Hamas.
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Speaker 4: But I think there is a feeling that Hamas. You know,
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Speaker 4: Hamas was originally elected in two thousand and six, and
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Speaker 4: it was more as a sort of a reaction to
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Speaker 4: the corruption of the Palestinian authority. And the idea was
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Speaker 4: that the people of Hamas, because they were observant Muslims,
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Speaker 4: that they were not corrupt. But I think people really
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Speaker 4: there are people's lives, you know, there's not people are hungry,
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Speaker 4: there's enough food, There's no semblance of a normal life
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Speaker 4: in Gaza. People are living intense people have been displaced
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Speaker 4: numerous times, many kids haven't gone to school in two years,
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Speaker 4: so I think they're against anything that stopped from which
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Speaker 4: in cases.
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Speaker 2: Linda, just on the hostages. Obviously, the families have been
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Speaker 2: putting a lot of pressure on net and Yahoo on
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Speaker 2: the government being very vocal about that. Are they hopeful,
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Speaker 2: you know, are people in Israel hopeful about this or
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Speaker 2: just skeptical?
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Speaker 4: Well, I think a little bit of both. There's four
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Speaker 4: twenty believed to be a love a few days or
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Speaker 4: master that it had lost contact. People were holding of
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Speaker 4: the hearts.
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Speaker 2: That was again, Linda, We'll have to leave it there.
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Speaker 2: I'm so sorry we've we've lost your line, Linda. That's
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Speaker 2: Linda Gradstein, who's the CBS News radio correspondent in Jerusalem,
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Speaker 2: on a bit of a dodgy line. Unfortunately, it is
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Speaker 2: sixteen minutes after five year on News Talk said, be
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Speaker 2: coming up next, we'll talk to Matt Doosey about the
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Speaker 2: health targets, good and bad news on that front.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and one Roote Love Where you
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Speaker 1: Live News Talks.
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Speaker 2: Five eighteen so Trump speaking at Quantico and was waxing
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Speaker 2: lyrical about the Nobel Peace Prize. This is if the
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Speaker 2: Garza piece Stale actually happens.
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Speaker 3: Will you get the Nobel Prize? Absolutely not, they'll give it.
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Speaker 3: They'll give it to some guy that didn't do a
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Speaker 3: damn thing. Go give it to a guy that wrote
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Speaker 3: a book about the mind of Donald Trump and what
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Speaker 3: it took to solve the war. So you'll get the
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Speaker 3: Nobel Prize. We'll go to a raider now. But well,
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Speaker 3: let's see what happens. But be a big insult to
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Speaker 3: our country. I will tell you that I don't want it.
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Speaker 3: I want the country to get it.
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Speaker 2: Brian Bridge, of course you want it. Another Target's update
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Speaker 2: this morning. It's on mental health fast access to primary
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Speaker 2: care achieved or beaten Specialist service metal beaten. In the
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Speaker 2: South Island, the number of people getting access to primary
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Speaker 2: support within a week jump from sixty six percent to
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Speaker 2: ninety one percent. This is called a four e D
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Speaker 2: wait times for mental health patients long way to go.
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Speaker 2: They're the same with staffing. Matt Docy, mental Health Minister.
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Speaker 2: Good morning morning, Ryan. Are there fewer mental people or
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Speaker 2: is the system faster?
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Speaker 7: Well, the first thing I'd say just a big thank
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Speaker 7: you to the frontline mental health staff. They do an
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Speaker 7: amazing job and this is an ability to shine a
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Speaker 7: light on them.
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Speaker 8: Look, there's still a long.
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Speaker 7: Way to go when you look at the veriability within
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Speaker 7: the different twenty health districts in New Zealand, But it
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Speaker 7: comes back to what sort of country do we want
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Speaker 7: to live in? And that's why I've set targets one
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Speaker 7: week for primary mental health support and three week for specialists.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but are you improving on some of these figures
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Speaker 2: because there are fewer people requiring them or is the
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Speaker 2: system faster?
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Speaker 7: It's definitely faster. So if you look at a primary
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Speaker 7: mental health over the last four quarters, so we're going
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Speaker 7: to remember these are the first time we've ever set
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Speaker 7: targets for mental health in New Zealand, we've now got
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Speaker 7: twelve months worth of data. It does bounce around to
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Speaker 7: weep it. But if you look at primary mental health,
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Speaker 7: we've seen a significant increase in numbers from around fifty
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Speaker 7: two thousand people a quarter up to but over sixty thousand.
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Speaker 2: So the numbers of people needing help are going up
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Speaker 2: and you're able to get them through even faster than
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Speaker 2: when they were fewer.
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Speaker 7: Very much so, because when these targets increase, as in
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Speaker 7: the percentage of people are getting one week support or
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Speaker 7: three week the inverse is happening, which means the wasting
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Speaker 7: time is actually going down, which means more people can
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Speaker 7: be seen. And when you think about mental health, it's
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Speaker 7: a real red flag for people to be stuck on
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Speaker 7: weightless and so actually timiness is important. So that's why
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Speaker 7: three out of the five targets are around access.
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Speaker 2: How did these improvements compare to pre COVID? You know,
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Speaker 2: are we just getting back to where we were or
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Speaker 2: are we even better than that?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 7: The difficulty is this is the first time we've set
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Speaker 7: targets for mental health in New Zealand, so as the
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Speaker 7: first mental health minister when I came in to set
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Speaker 7: these targets. So now we've only got twelve months versus
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Speaker 7: worth of data. But just to be clear, I'm not
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Speaker 7: a tar fundamentalists. For me, the magic of these targets
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Speaker 7: is to have a line in the sand and work
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Speaker 7: with my officials to say what worked well to get
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Speaker 7: us there, what didn't work so well, what can we
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Speaker 7: improve next time? And you get that continuous improvement approach.
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Speaker 2: All of this. Does all of this mean that we'll
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Speaker 2: have fewer suicides?
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Speaker 7: Well, Ultimately, what we want to do is ensure people
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Speaker 7: in distress get support as quick as possible and hopefully
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Speaker 7: that will lead to fewer suicides.
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Speaker 2: Because what's the rate of how many deaths are used
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Speaker 2: by suicide in New Zealand?
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Speaker 7: Well sadly last year we lost six hundred and seventeen kiwis.
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Speaker 7: We haven't got the latest provisional statistics that will come
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Speaker 7: out I think by the end of October.
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Speaker 2: What would you like that to be? You know you've
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Speaker 2: got to target all that.
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Speaker 7: No, we don't have a target for our suicide numbers
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Speaker 7: because clearly one suicide is too many. I think when
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Speaker 7: you look at the rate per population, you know we're
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Speaker 7: working for that to be declining.
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Speaker 2: Matt Dooc, mental Health minist Appreciate your time. Twenty two
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Speaker 2: News Talks B twenty four minutes after five, Let's go
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Speaker 2: back to QUANTICOA Shelby because it's just too good not to.
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Speaker 2: This is Pete Higgsseth. He's the Defense sectory and he's
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Speaker 2: the one with the really slipped back here. He's always
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Speaker 2: looking immaculate, always wearing a nice suit, or he'll be,
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Speaker 2: you know, in some sort of military get up if
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Speaker 2: he's on the road. Anyway, he's given a speech to
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Speaker 2: the generals, to the fat generals.
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Speaker 5: It's tiring to look out at combat formations or really
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Speaker 5: any formation and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable
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Speaker 5: to see fat generals and admirals in the wholes of
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Speaker 5: the Pentagon and leading commands around the country in the world.
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Speaker 5: It's a bad look. It is bad and it's not
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Speaker 5: who we are. So whether you're an airborne ranger or
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Speaker 5: a chairborne ranger, a brand new private or a four
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Speaker 5: star general, you need to meet the height and wheat
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Speaker 5: standards and pass the PT test.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's now introduced daily You've got to. It doesn't
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Speaker 2: matter where they're at the very top or the very bottom.
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Speaker 2: You will do daily PT sessions and you will be
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Speaker 2: checked and weighed twice a year. He's also gone after
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Speaker 2: the DEI policies.
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Speaker 5: This administration has done a great deal from D one
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Speaker 5: to remove the social justice, politically correct and toxic ideological
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Speaker 5: garbage that had infected our department. To rip out the politics.
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Speaker 5: No more identity months DEI officers, dudes, in dresses. As
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Speaker 5: I've said before, and we'll say again, we are done
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Speaker 5: with that shit.
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Speaker 2: Brian Bridge, I'd get the message. Five twenty five News
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Speaker 2: Talk said b There's nothing quite like watching a well
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Speaker 2: thought out strategy coming together and working. And hats off
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Speaker 2: to South Korea this morning because they're absolutely caning it
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Speaker 2: on tourism. The government set a goal there are thirty
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Speaker 2: million visitors a year by twenty thirty. In two thousand
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Speaker 2: and five they had six million, last sixteen million. This
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Speaker 2: year they'll hit twenty And this is not by chance,
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Speaker 2: it's by design. They've got government and business coming together
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Speaker 2: and going all in on infrastructure and law changes, a
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Speaker 2: whole bunch of stuff. They're extending an electronic visa free
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Speaker 2: travel pass. They will have integrated ticketing for all your
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Speaker 2: public transport by the start of next year. You can
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Speaker 2: use the same pass for major tourist attractions. Imagine catching
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Speaker 2: the Wahiki ferry and doing the luge all on one pass.
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Speaker 2: Big push on regional tourism. But their secret source is
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Speaker 2: a cultural takeover of movies, TV shows and music. That's
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Speaker 2: another industry that they bought into big time and now
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Speaker 2: it's paying massive dividends. For them dividends we could only
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Speaker 2: dream of. We know this works. We had Lord of
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Speaker 2: the Rings. Remember, almost four hundred million people around the
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Speaker 2: world have watched a little show called k Pop Demon Hunters.
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Speaker 2: Go and watch it on Netflix or don't, but it's
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Speaker 2: their most watched show ever. And now every kid is
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Speaker 2: begging their parents to go to South Korea. This is
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Speaker 2: not to bitch and moan and say that we should
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Speaker 2: be doing or something our government has or is at
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Speaker 2: least trying to pull together similar schemes here. This is
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Speaker 2: simply to say, what an impressive operation to watch the
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Speaker 2: Koreans planning and executing and getting results. It's something that
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Speaker 2: should excite us. The Saudis are going big on gaming.
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Speaker 2: The Irish rolled out the red carpet for big tech.
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Speaker 2: Captain Judith Collins this week reckons our next big thing
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Speaker 2: should be space. We are world leaders in agriculture, so
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Speaker 2: what do we want to add to that list? And
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Speaker 2: how can we follow South Korea's lead and make a
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Speaker 2: plan to get there? Ryan Bridge twenty seven after five
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Speaker 2: news talks, there be labor coming under a bit of pressure.
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Speaker 2: This is on capital gains tax. You might have seen
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Speaker 2: this in the news, so there's a couple of remember
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Speaker 2: that group of people who came out and said this
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Speaker 2: was a couple of years ago, the high net worth
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Speaker 2: individuals people came out and wrote that open letter and said, hello, everybody,
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Speaker 2: we have money and we would like to pay more tax.
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Speaker 2: And you think, well, you just go and pay more,
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Speaker 2: donate it for goodness sakes. Anyway, they've come out and
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Speaker 2: they are putting the pressure on Labor over a capital
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Speaker 2: gains tax. So at the moment, Labor has not announced
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Speaker 2: a plan, has not said what their tax plan is
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Speaker 2: going to be. But these guys are saying, whatever it is,
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Speaker 2: it needs to exclude only the family home. Capital gains
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Speaker 2: tax is only going to achieve our objectives, which they
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Speaker 2: say are funding public health, nutritious school lunches, to kids
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Speaker 2: getting rid of homelessness, responding to climate change, all of
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Speaker 2: this important stuff. So they say the only way to
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Speaker 2: achieve that is to have as wide a scope as possible,
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Speaker 2: covering all other significant assets outside the family home, including
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Speaker 2: those held by companies and trusts. What's more, they are
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Speaker 2: saying that the gains need to be taxed at rates
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Speaker 2: similar to other sources of income, so i e. Your
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Speaker 2: marginal income rate, which could be up to thirty nine percent.
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Speaker 2: So that is the kind of pressure that labor is
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Speaker 2: under from the left, far left as they make these decisions.
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Speaker 2: So the question then becomes how far left do they
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Speaker 2: go and does that count them out come election time
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Speaker 2: next year? Twenty twenty six, it's all on five twenty
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Speaker 2: nine on News Talk ZB. We'll get to our correspondent
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Speaker 2: after news. We'll also talk about this Frontier report before six.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on an early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one roof Love.
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Speaker 2: Where you Live News Talks B twenty four away from
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Speaker 2: the Sex News Talks d be coming up. We're going
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Speaker 2: to the UK with Gavin Gray. Then we'll talk about
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Speaker 2: this energy report that's coming out at eight o'clock this morning.
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Speaker 2: Michael have more on that for you later on Ryan.
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Speaker 2: As commander in chief, will Trump have to pass the
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Speaker 2: height and weight test? I highly doubt that. Hey, we've
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Speaker 2: got a week until exactly week on the clock now
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Speaker 2: till we get our ocr call from our reserve bank.
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Speaker 2: Across the Tasman, the RBA held steady at three point
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Speaker 2: six percent yesterday. It was a unanimous decision. It was
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Speaker 2: also expected they dropped twenty five points in August. Our
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Speaker 2: inflation over there is ticking up. It's ticking up to
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Speaker 2: three percent. This is for the August number. They have
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Speaker 2: a strong labor market, which we know we don't have.
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Speaker 2: Well it's not as strong here anyway, but a strong
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Speaker 2: labor market over there is hacking away at their budget
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Speaker 2: deficit because the more workers you have paying more tax
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Speaker 2: means you have more revenue as a government. So that's
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Speaker 2: a good story for them. It is twenty three to six,
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge. New goals the need and getting in on
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Speaker 2: the target game, that seems. New goals to attract investment
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Speaker 2: and talent Color Proctors will us Coling. Good morning morning, Ryan.
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Speaker 9: This is an initiative just launched by Business South here.
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Speaker 9: They've unveiled a growth plan this morning which is aimed
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Speaker 9: at attracting new investment and talent to Dunedin. So the
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Speaker 9: goals include growing up to one hundred and fifty new
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Speaker 9: businesses a year by twenty twenty nine and boosting tourism
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Speaker 9: revenue here by one hundred and twenty million dollars annually
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Speaker 9: by twenty thirty four. They also wanted to deliver more
19:17
Speaker 9: than fifteen thousand high value jobs in less than a
19:20
Speaker 9: decade and grow MIRII owned businesses by one hundred and
19:23
Speaker 9: twenty nine percent in four years. So some big targets.
19:27
Speaker 9: The CEO is Mike Collins. He says it's a clear
19:29
Speaker 9: blueprint to elevate the city. He says, yes, the goals
19:32
Speaker 9: may be stretched, but are going to be remarkable with
19:34
Speaker 9: many motivated people backing the growth.
19:37
Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather?
19:39
Speaker 9: Showers hail, snow clears this morning, then charts of an
19:43
Speaker 9: evening shower later today. The high just ten today.
19:46
Speaker 2: Cheers Callum. Good to have you on as always. Courtneys
19:48
Speaker 2: in christ Church Courtney, good morning, Good morning Ryan. So
19:51
Speaker 2: counsel sports and Rex prices are up.
19:54
Speaker 10: Yes, so a pre paid annual gym and pull membership
19:57
Speaker 10: now costs one thousand dollars a year, which is increase
20:00
Speaker 10: of fifty dollars, and the entry to the hydroslides has
20:03
Speaker 10: increased by fifty cents to sixteen dollars. The Council's head
20:07
Speaker 10: of Recreation, Sports and Events, Nigel Cox, says inflation has
20:11
Speaker 10: caused costs to climb. He says the hikes a link
20:13
Speaker 10: to increase staff and utility costs, but he ensures there's
20:17
Speaker 10: no relation to Padakiore or Tikaha Stadium building projects.
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Speaker 2: Is the hydra slide up fifty cents to sixteen dollars?
20:25
Speaker 2: Is that for a daily pass or is that for
20:27
Speaker 2: an annual pass? I believe that's for a daily pass.
20:30
Speaker 2: Oh that's pretty steep, isn't it.
20:33
Speaker 10: I'll double check that, but I'm pretty sure it's a
20:35
Speaker 10: daily pass.
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Speaker 2: That's a lot of money for to go down to slide,
20:38
Speaker 2: especially if you've got four kids. Know anyway, how's the weather?
20:43
Speaker 10: Rain developing this morning was snow lowering to four hundred
20:45
Speaker 10: meters before clearing to find early this afternoon a high
20:49
Speaker 10: of fifteen.
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Speaker 2: Nice one, Thank you, Courtney. I suppose you could ration it.
20:51
Speaker 2: You could say you've been good today, you get the
20:54
Speaker 2: slide and the rest of you. Well, you're in the pool.
20:57
Speaker 2: Max and Wellington. Hey Max, good morning. You've got another
21:00
Speaker 2: challenge to the gang patch. Been in court?
21:02
Speaker 8: Yeah, seeing a bit of this through the court system lately.
21:04
Speaker 8: Had a story a couple of weeks ago a man
21:06
Speaker 8: who successfully got his Mongrel mob patch back from police
21:09
Speaker 8: took it to court that had been seized in a
21:11
Speaker 8: traffic stop three point thirty am riding his bike through
21:14
Speaker 8: Lower Hut without a license. A judge decided there was
21:17
Speaker 8: no public disorder though because no one was around. Now
21:20
Speaker 8: you've got this Nomad's member convicted of wearing a gang
21:23
Speaker 8: cap it had a Nomad's logo on it to a
21:25
Speaker 8: community event recently to celebrate the reopening of the local
21:29
Speaker 8: pool in the Hut. He has already been convicted over
21:33
Speaker 8: this and unsuccessfully appealed, but he's taking it further. This
21:36
Speaker 8: nineteen year old manor a pt Brown asking the High
21:39
Speaker 8: Court to issue a declaration of inconsistency i e. Inconsistent
21:44
Speaker 8: with the Bill of Rights of freedom of expression. He
21:47
Speaker 8: argues his nomad's cap is a little different to an.
21:50
Speaker 2: All Blacks or warrior's hat.
21:51
Speaker 8: The Nomads are his team, I suppose his team that
21:54
Speaker 8: he supports. If successful, it would go back to Parliament.
21:57
Speaker 8: The decision reserved.
21:58
Speaker 2: Right distinct defense And how's weather?
22:02
Speaker 8: Some rain developing through today? Strong winds fourteen.
22:05
Speaker 2: Cheers Max Neva and Auckland. Morning Neva, good morning. We've
22:08
Speaker 2: got a new development happening around the city railing.
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Speaker 11: Yes we have, and I can tell you that the
22:12
Speaker 11: sod's been turned. This is Auckland's first major development build
22:15
Speaker 11: around the city RAILINGK. So it's the twenty one story
22:17
Speaker 11: at Symphony Center now that's been built over to Yhadle
22:20
Speaker 11: to your station. That's on the corner of Meryl Drive
22:23
Speaker 11: in Wellesley Street. So this is that six hundred and
22:26
Speaker 11: fifteen million dollar project. It's going to include, you know,
22:29
Speaker 11: the residential the commercial office space should be completed, expected
22:33
Speaker 11: to be completed by twenty twenty nine. Let's see if
22:36
Speaker 11: that happens. RCP Project development director says, Obviously, you know,
22:40
Speaker 11: this project's going to pivot off the CRLs traffic round
22:44
Speaker 11: about thirty thousand people predicted to be traveling through, and
22:48
Speaker 11: that's on top of all that retail offering that they've got.
22:50
Speaker 11: So they're hoping that, you know, they'll be able to
22:53
Speaker 11: be successful and get all grab all that those people there.
22:56
Speaker 2: Have you managed to sort out our exclusive sneak peak
22:59
Speaker 2: to the city railing you know, how are we going
23:00
Speaker 2: to go on there together?
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Speaker 11: Yes, that's right.
23:02
Speaker 2: Have you managed to sort that out? You we need
23:04
Speaker 2: to get on there. Yes'll probably be waiting another year.
23:07
Speaker 11: So you really want do you want your own?
23:08
Speaker 2: I think we should. I think you and I should
23:10
Speaker 2: go down. We can get some cameras from the heral
23:12
Speaker 2: to come with us. I think that would be great
23:14
Speaker 2: and go down there and just see what it's like. Yes,
23:17
Speaker 2: you know, and.
23:17
Speaker 11: Are we going to busk as well? Like while we're
23:19
Speaker 11: just going to go and see what it's like. Well,
23:21
Speaker 11: you can sing, I'm going to take my triangle. I'll
23:24
Speaker 11: hold the cap. We should go down I think that
23:28
Speaker 11: would be fun.
23:29
Speaker 2: That's a good idea.
23:30
Speaker 11: And let's go and see an and just paint the picture.
23:33
Speaker 11: Yeah exactly, Okay, right, you're on.
23:35
Speaker 2: And if it's crap, we'll tell you.
23:36
Speaker 11: Yes, you know, and what if they say no? What
23:38
Speaker 11: if the bosses he said no, we don't want you
23:40
Speaker 11: to going down there.
23:41
Speaker 2: Well do we? We just won't ask them. Yeah, we'll
23:43
Speaker 2: just go correct. How's that weather?
23:45
Speaker 11: Cloudy? Chance of a shower late morning? Eighteen is the
23:47
Speaker 11: high summer is coming?
23:49
Speaker 2: Brilliant neither. Eighteen to six News Talk z B Gavin
23:51
Speaker 2: Gray in the UK. Next, so we'll talk about an
23:54
Speaker 2: energy report that's coming out today. Speaking of energy over
23:57
Speaker 2: in California, the governor there, Gavin Newsom, who's you know,
24:00
Speaker 2: anti fossil fuels, led a crusade against fossil fuel companies.
24:04
Speaker 2: He's now doing a bit of a U ten.
24:07
Speaker 1: Lord makers changing that too, and on fossil fuels, they
24:10
Speaker 1: hope to keep oil and gas companies in the state.
24:13
Speaker 1: What yeah, as a turned around right change?
24:17
Speaker 12: Hard?
24:17
Speaker 2: It certainly is. And this is the boss of Chevron,
24:20
Speaker 2: Andy Waltz, who's going after him.
24:23
Speaker 13: I think it's been a tyranny of about twenty five
24:26
Speaker 13: years of trying to get the refining business to leave California.
24:30
Speaker 13: They've been putting in regulations and bureaucracy and taxes and
24:35
Speaker 13: programs to push us out of the state.
24:37
Speaker 2: So it's not a great time if you're a climate
24:40
Speaker 2: scientist or one of the Green party MPs. So it's
24:43
Speaker 2: not a great time for you, is it? Because everyone,
24:45
Speaker 2: even your friends and allies, are basically turning a blind eye,
24:49
Speaker 2: turning a cold shoulder to the oil and gas debate.
24:52
Speaker 1: Now quarter to six international correspondence with ends and eye insurance,
24:57
Speaker 1: peace of mind for New Zealand business Kevin.
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Speaker 2: Grayand the UK for US Chinese national pleading guilty to
25:03
Speaker 2: money laundering.
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Speaker 14: This is over cryptocurrency, yes, and a massive amount of
25:08
Speaker 14: bitcoin here we're talking about Ryan estimated to be worth
25:12
Speaker 14: now something around eleven billion.
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Speaker 15: New Zealand dollars. So a Chinese national called Yadi Jiang,
25:19
Speaker 15: she's forty seven, was arrested in April last year. She'd
25:23
Speaker 15: spent years on the run, arriving in the UK under
25:26
Speaker 15: a false Caribbean passport having carried out what is an
25:30
Speaker 15: alleged investment scan in China involving round three one hundred
25:34
Speaker 15: and thirty thousand investors, and that scheme netting her this
25:38
Speaker 15: incredible figure. It's been said now police first raided her
25:41
Speaker 15: eleven million dollar six bedroom rented house in North London,
25:46
Speaker 15: but it wasn't for two and a half years after
25:50
Speaker 15: that before investigators discovered what was on the computer sixty
25:54
Speaker 15: one thousand bitcoin in digital wallets, one of the biggest ever,
25:58
Speaker 15: if not the biggest ever cryptocurrency seizures in the world.
26:02
Speaker 15: The Chinese investors want that money back. The British government
26:05
Speaker 15: is saying, well, hang on a minute, because it was
26:08
Speaker 15: brought here. We've now got it, and I have to
26:10
Speaker 15: tell you that five pounds is something our chance to
26:14
Speaker 15: resigning as it would help fill a huge hole in
26:17
Speaker 15: the finances here. Now suffice to say that the court
26:19
Speaker 15: is meeting again in order to now decide a sentence.
26:23
Speaker 15: But this case is quite extraordinary and it seems they
26:27
Speaker 15: almost stumbled upon the bitcoin by accident.
26:30
Speaker 2: Gavin, what about the British military personnel taking legal election?
26:33
Speaker 2: What's this about?
26:35
Speaker 15: Well, this is because British military personnel obviously are standing
26:39
Speaker 15: near and firing off very loud equipment and what many
26:44
Speaker 15: are saying is that they have had life changing injuries
26:46
Speaker 15: like tinatus that ringing in the air constantly and also deafness. Now,
26:51
Speaker 15: they were wearing combat ear plugs for use while training,
26:55
Speaker 15: which they are alleging is what was responsible, because they
26:58
Speaker 15: said they did not do the job. The US industrial
27:00
Speaker 15: giant called three MS supplied the Ministry Defense here with
27:04
Speaker 15: these lightweight combat ear plugs and they say, well, they
27:07
Speaker 15: weren't being used properly. That's why some people have suffered injuries. However,
27:11
Speaker 15: the company has already agreed to pay out roughly ten
27:15
Speaker 15: billion New Zealand dollars to settle similar claims from a
27:18
Speaker 15: court of a million US servicemen and women, but they
27:21
Speaker 15: have not admitted liability. So now here in the UK
27:25
Speaker 15: veterans are going to court hoping that they may get
27:28
Speaker 15: something out of three M as well. Incidentally, rates of
27:31
Speaker 15: hearing problems in veterans to the armed forces under seventy
27:34
Speaker 15: five years old are three and a half times higher
27:38
Speaker 15: than the general population.
27:40
Speaker 2: Kevin appreciate Thatkevin Gray are UK europe correspondent time as
27:43
Speaker 2: twelve to six Bryan Bridge eight am. Will get the
27:46
Speaker 2: Frontier report, We'll get the government's action plan. This is
27:49
Speaker 2: happening very soon. Industry leaders calling for bold moves. Karen
27:53
Speaker 2: Boys's Major Electricity Users group with us this morning. Karen,
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Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning, Ran. Have you had a look
27:58
Speaker 2: at the report yet? Have you give me a copy?
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Speaker 16: No? No, So, just like you and many others, I'm
28:04
Speaker 16: sitting here waiting for that eight o'clock deadline for it
28:07
Speaker 16: to come out.
28:08
Speaker 2: Are you are you holding your breath or are you
28:10
Speaker 2: actually realistic that this is going to be more tweaks
28:13
Speaker 2: than bold moves.
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Speaker 16: It's really I mean, I'd like to be optimistic and
28:18
Speaker 16: hope they've listened to the calls from everybody. I said,
28:21
Speaker 16: the mood of the boardroom was pretty clear that, you know,
28:23
Speaker 16: energy is real concerns. So I hope they've been bold,
28:26
Speaker 16: but I think sadly I'm going to have to be
28:28
Speaker 16: realistic about what they might choose to do.
28:30
Speaker 2: How do you feel about LNG.
28:35
Speaker 16: It's yeah, I said it we certainly helped with bringing
28:39
Speaker 16: in fuel. I said, obviously we're running out of domestic gas.
28:43
Speaker 16: And I said, any options to explore domestically, I said,
28:46
Speaker 16: we'll have time if we do discover anything to bring
28:50
Speaker 16: it to market. LNG does link us at international markets,
28:54
Speaker 16: which means that the cost could be quite high. So
28:57
Speaker 16: I said, it doesn't mean it's a cheap option that country.
29:00
Speaker 16: It just provides you with I guess, more guaranteed supply.
29:04
Speaker 2: And what about the access to it? You know, who
29:06
Speaker 2: would get access to it? What would the cost be?
29:08
Speaker 2: Are those things that you've looked into that you're worried.
29:11
Speaker 16: About, you haven't looked at it in detail?
29:14
Speaker 3: I said.
29:15
Speaker 16: The big question will be is lergy available for everybody?
29:18
Speaker 16: And so that means the electricity generators as well as
29:21
Speaker 16: users of guests directly, because they said industrial users are
29:25
Speaker 16: finding it increasingly hard to get gas at all. So
29:30
Speaker 16: I said, be keen to understand could they access it
29:32
Speaker 16: and what is the cost, because that'll really decide whether
29:35
Speaker 16: that can afford to use it or have to try
29:37
Speaker 16: and transition, or yet make the hard decisions to perhaps
29:40
Speaker 16: stop business.
29:42
Speaker 2: Can you paint a picture for us, Karen, how bad
29:44
Speaker 2: will things get? You know, your major in electricity users group,
29:48
Speaker 2: your big clients, your big members. What happens if we
29:52
Speaker 2: don't sort this out?
29:56
Speaker 16: I said, some of the businesses at the moment who
29:59
Speaker 16: are struggling to get gas supplies, we'll have to make
30:01
Speaker 16: the hard decisions about whether they can convert over to
30:04
Speaker 16: electricity this case, some of them can. I said, then
30:09
Speaker 16: we're faced with a large demand coming to the electricity
30:13
Speaker 16: system and we're going to be faced with having to
30:15
Speaker 16: build a head to build fast. The question is can
30:18
Speaker 16: we get the network built out in advance of this,
30:22
Speaker 16: Can we get the generation built? Can we get it
30:24
Speaker 16: connected to the system? There's going to be a lot
30:27
Speaker 16: of pressure on the system. And I said, we've already
30:30
Speaker 16: facing high cost, So I said, you're going to see
30:32
Speaker 16: a real risk a lot of businesses are going to
30:35
Speaker 16: have to reduce production shutdown. That is a real concern.
30:40
Speaker 16: There are a number of businesses that who do have
30:41
Speaker 16: long term contracts, so that there are a number who
30:43
Speaker 16: will probably be able to get whether it out for
30:46
Speaker 16: a while. Sort of question is how long? And the
30:50
Speaker 16: worst thing is we might miss opportunities like data Center
30:53
Speaker 16: is another other technology and innovations that might want to
30:56
Speaker 16: come here that might decide not to. As I were
31:00
Speaker 16: resolusing what we've got and we're also restolusing what might
31:04
Speaker 16: have companies.
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Speaker 2: Karen, appreciate your time this morning, Karen Boys major Electricity
31:08
Speaker 2: Users group. That report out eight o'clock this morning. Michael
31:10
Speaker 2: had more on it for you later on.
31:15
Speaker 1: On your radio and online on Iheard Radio Early Edition
31:19
Speaker 1: with Ryan Bridge and one Root Love where you Live
31:23
Speaker 1: news Talks.
31:24
Speaker 2: They'd be six to six on news Talks. They'd bear
31:26
Speaker 2: spoke to the sin Lay boss yesterday and he was
31:28
Speaker 2: saying after the Poconos sale, obviously going to save their
31:31
Speaker 2: bacon a little bit, but he was saying for their
31:33
Speaker 2: Dune sandal plant, they have just signed a new contract
31:36
Speaker 2: for energy and it is double what it was for
31:39
Speaker 2: the last one and it's an extra six million dollars
31:41
Speaker 2: to them. Today the Frontier report comes out. There is
31:43
Speaker 2: the big energy report in the government's big response to it.
31:46
Speaker 2: And there was no one more excited about that than Mike,
31:48
Speaker 2: who's in the studio. Mike, good morning.
31:50
Speaker 12: I've read it and without breaking embargoes because the reason
31:54
Speaker 12: they're doing it. This morning is for market reaction. They
31:56
Speaker 12: don't want to come out and the market goes all
31:58
Speaker 12: weird about it. But it's without giving it away. I
32:02
Speaker 12: cannot help but think. I mean, it depends what your
32:05
Speaker 12: problem is. So what's your problem with the power market?
32:07
Speaker 12: So power's too expensive?
32:08
Speaker 3: Right?
32:08
Speaker 12: Why is it too expensive? Because we don't produce enough power,
32:11
Speaker 12: so we need to produce more power. The industry would
32:13
Speaker 12: argue they're going to produce more power with renewables and
32:16
Speaker 12: they're on track to do that. And the main reason
32:18
Speaker 12: was short in these last couple of winters is because
32:20
Speaker 12: the gas is running out. The spot price went up,
32:23
Speaker 12: we didn't have enough coal. The coal thing's been sorted,
32:25
Speaker 12: you know. Yesterday the Commist Commission came out and said.
32:28
Speaker 2: We approve of this. Like what else were you going
32:30
Speaker 2: to do? Anyway?
32:32
Speaker 12: So everyone's got together and they're agreeing to burn lots
32:35
Speaker 12: of Indonesian and local coal and all of that's fantastic.
32:37
Speaker 12: So what is it that's broken that we're looking for
32:40
Speaker 12: today that they're going to be able to do now?
32:43
Speaker 12: Shane Jones will say, or many people will argue, what
32:46
Speaker 12: you need to do is split gentailors, so to do
32:49
Speaker 12: they're not going to do and I but this is
32:51
Speaker 12: not from the press release. Just in case I'm breaking
32:53
Speaker 12: in a barger I've been told previously that they were
32:56
Speaker 12: never going to do that. So what you're going to
32:59
Speaker 12: get today, in my humble opinion, is not a lot.
33:04
Speaker 2: But what you mentioned, what problem are they trying to solve?
33:07
Speaker 2: None of us is going to fix the twenty twenty
33:10
Speaker 2: six crunch that we are expecting will do so next
33:13
Speaker 2: year we could have some blackouts. Regardless of what happens.
33:17
Speaker 12: We will know we want well, they would argue, we're
33:19
Speaker 12: not because we got enough coal. So the Cold Deal
33:21
Speaker 12: alone will keep huntly going to the point that we're
33:23
Speaker 12: not going to So that saved the day, that Cold
33:25
Speaker 12: Deal one hundred percent. So long term, as far as
33:28
Speaker 12: everyone I've talked to in the power industry says, there's
33:30
Speaker 12: plenty of money going in and we're doing solid. Eventually
33:34
Speaker 12: we'll get there. So is today about the hero and now?
33:37
Speaker 3: Not?
33:37
Speaker 2: Really?
33:38
Speaker 12: Is today about something bigger? Theoretically? Is it going to
33:42
Speaker 12: profoundly change the way the market runs? I can't see how.
33:46
Speaker 2: And then the question is is this Luxeon and his
33:49
Speaker 2: incremental managerialism not wanting to make big calls or is
33:52
Speaker 2: he just hamstrung buying party on his left and party
33:55
Speaker 2: on is right. It's a good question.
33:56
Speaker 12: Actually, I think it was the former. I think it's
33:58
Speaker 12: that little you know. I think he sees things are
34:01
Speaker 12: bigger than they actually are and they go, hey, wait
34:04
Speaker 12: till you're here today, and it's like, really.
34:06
Speaker 2: That's the problem. Key and That were really good at underplaying,
34:10
Speaker 2: you know, over delivery.
34:13
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