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Full Show Podcast: 22 April 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 2: News Dogs B Good morning, Welcome to Ernie edition. I'm
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Speaker 2: Francesca Rudkin filling in for Ryan Bridge this morning. Hope
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Speaker 2: you had a great Easter, survived the weather at a
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Speaker 2: welcome to contact me anytime this morning. You can flict
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Speaker 2: at Francesca NEWSTALKSB dot co dot z. On the show today,
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Speaker 2: is Copco about to expand around the country and what
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Speaker 2: impact might this have on the supermarket sector? Elliot Smith
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Speaker 2: has the Easter weekend Sports rap and the world has
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Speaker 2: been mourning the loss of Pope Francis, who died overnight
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Speaker 2: aged eighty eight. We head to Rome before the end
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Speaker 2: of the hour to discuss his legacy and what happens next.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It's Tuesday, twenty second of April and as mentioned, breaking
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Speaker 2: news overnight at seven thirty five am local time on
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Speaker 2: Easter Monday, the Vatican announced Pope Francis had died at
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Speaker 2: the age of eighty eight.
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Speaker 3: Dear brothers and sisters, with deep sorrow, I must announce
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Speaker 3: the death of our Holy Father Francis. His entire life
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Speaker 3: was dedicated to the service of the Lord and his Church.
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Speaker 3: He taught us to live the values of the Gospel
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Speaker 3: with fidelity, courage, and universal love.
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Speaker 2: Tributes have been flooding in from world leaders, including King Charles,
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Speaker 2: Italy's Georgia Maloney and j D Vance, who had just
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Speaker 2: met him on Easter Sunday. Prials have been gathering at
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Speaker 2: Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican to pay their respects.
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Speaker 4: It's a great disappointment, a great loss, a man who
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Speaker 4: has innovented the church, and a man who has left
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Speaker 4: at great mark.
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Speaker 2: And this, this absence causes great pain and then a
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Speaker 2: great emotion, a great emptiness. Yes, we will miss him.
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Speaker 2: Now to the US, where we've got more information on
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Speaker 2: the group chat saga. Turns out US Defense Secretary Pete
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Speaker 2: Hexeth had a second private group chat on the Signal app.
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Speaker 2: His wife, brother, and personal lawyer were all included in
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Speaker 2: the chat, which shared sensitive information about military operations in Yemen.
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Speaker 2: It comes a week after the first chat was revealed,
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Speaker 2: which also discussed sensitive information about military operations. Excess isn't
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Speaker 2: denying anything.
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Speaker 5: This is what the media does.
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Speaker 2: They take anonymous sources from disgruntle former employees and then
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Speaker 2: they try to slash and burn people and ruin their reputations.
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Speaker 6: Not going to work with me because we're changing the.
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Speaker 1: Defense department, putting the patagon back in the hands of
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Speaker 1: war fighters, and anonymous smears from distruntled former employees on
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Speaker 1: all news doesn't matter.
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Speaker 2: And back home police are having more trouble reaching the
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Speaker 2: government's goal of five hundred new cops within two years.
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Speaker 2: A main issue that's been raised does want to be
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Speaker 2: cops not being able to achieve the physical test, which
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Speaker 2: is contributing to a one percent drop in the applicant
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Speaker 2: success rate. And that's their agenda on your.
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Speaker 2: You dog said the it's nine past five. So, as
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Speaker 2: you heard in the agenda, Pope Francis, the first Latin
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Speaker 2: American pope, died overnight. So what happens next, Well, the
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Speaker 2: public are going to be able to pay their respects
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Speaker 2: to the pope. Since the thirteenth century, the bodies of
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Speaker 2: popes have gone on public view, often with their embalmed
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Speaker 2: bodies placed on a raised pedestal, but Francis has chosen
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Speaker 2: a simplest ceremony. A public viewing will take place directly
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Speaker 2: in s Peter's basilica, but his body will remain in
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Speaker 2: the coffin and it will not be on a raised pedestal.
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Speaker 2: The funeral and burial of the pope is supposed to
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Speaker 2: take place four to six days after his death, and
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Speaker 2: Francis has been asked has asked to be buried in
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Speaker 2: the Basilica of Saint Mary Major. So then within fifteen
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Speaker 2: to twenty days of the Pope's death, the Dean of
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Speaker 2: the College of Cardinals will summon the cardinals to Rome
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Speaker 2: for what is known as the Conclave to elect Francis's successor.
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Speaker 2: And when the cardinals meet, they're going to gather in
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Speaker 2: the Sistine Chapel, and all cardinal electors must swear an
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Speaker 2: oath of secrecy and vote by secret ballot. Only cardinals
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Speaker 2: under the age of eighty are eligible to vote, and
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Speaker 2: a two thirds majority is needed to elect a new pope.
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Speaker 2: And of course, if you watch the movies, politicking is
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Speaker 2: part of the process. After every vote, the ballot papers
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Speaker 2: are burnt on a stove along with an additive that
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Speaker 2: produces a color. You're probably familiar with this. The smoke
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Speaker 2: is released through a chimney that can be seen from
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Speaker 2: Saint Peter's Square, and of course there where a lot
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Speaker 2: of crowds will form to watch and wait. If the
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Speaker 2: vote ends without a two thirds majority, the smoke is black,
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Speaker 2: and when a decision is reached, the smoke is white.
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Speaker 2: So that is what we can expect over the coming
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Speaker 2: month or so, and nearer the end of the hour,
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Speaker 2: we are going to be heading to Rhyme to talk
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Speaker 2: to our correspondent to find a little bit more about
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Speaker 2: Pope Francis's legacy, not just within the Catholic Church, but
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Speaker 2: also the impact he had on the world. It is
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Speaker 2: eleven past five. You're with early edition news.
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Speaker 1: And views you trust has done your day is early
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Speaker 2: Youth Dog said the thirteen past five christ Church and
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Speaker 2: Wellington could be next in line for Costco stores. The
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Speaker 2: US retail chain says it's working on expansion outside of Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Costco's Westgates store gained one hundred and fifty thousand members
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Speaker 2: within a year of opening and just introduced home delivery
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Speaker 2: to both members and non members across Auckland through door dash.
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Speaker 2: So is this the new player in the grocery sector
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Speaker 2: that we're looking for? Grocery policy expert Ernie Newman joins me. Now,
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Speaker 2: thanks for your time, Ernie good O.
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Speaker 7: Thanks.
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Speaker 2: Do you think this expansion is likely to Wellington and
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Speaker 2: christ Church? I mean, now it would be the time,
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Speaker 2: right the government's all in for to make things happen.
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Speaker 7: I'd love to think so, but I'm not at all
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Speaker 7: convinced on this one. You know, Costco is an unusual
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Speaker 7: kind of retailer. It's very, very successful in the North
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Speaker 7: American market, mainly, I think because of the high density
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Speaker 7: housing over there and the think you can plug a
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Speaker 7: supermarket down and get huge numbers of people able to
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Speaker 7: get there with a relatively short drive. New Zealand is
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Speaker 7: a much more fragmented sort of place, and somehow I
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Speaker 7: struggle to see how the cost home model will really
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Speaker 7: work in New Zealand, or in fact, there's a lot
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Speaker 7: of countries outside North America.
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Speaker 2: Do you think the membership holds people back?
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Speaker 7: Not necessarily. I think the big problem is the concentration.
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Speaker 7: You know, most of the supermarkets in New Zealand are
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Speaker 7: spread out. They have a site in every suburb and
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Speaker 7: they basically go to where the consumers are. Costco expects
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Speaker 7: the consumers to get in their cars and travel long
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Speaker 7: distances to go to them. So I think if Nichola
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Speaker 7: Willis really wants to make a breakthrough here and if
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Speaker 7: she wants Costco to be part of it, she needs
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Speaker 7: to persuade them to change their business model.
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Speaker 2: Okay, and is Costco opening two more Is Costco opening
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Speaker 2: two more outlets going to have an impact or would
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Speaker 2: you also like to see the government still step up
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Speaker 2: and break up the current entities in place to make
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Speaker 2: an impact as well?
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Speaker 7: Absolutely, the government needs to still step up. You know
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Speaker 7: Costco and Australia for example, they've been going in Australia
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Speaker 7: ten years or so longer than they have here, and
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Speaker 7: they're still struggling to get to two percent market share
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Speaker 7: over there. You know, it's a very long, hard road,
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Speaker 7: and I think that's because their business model doesn't particularly
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Speaker 7: well suit the conditions in either Australia or New Zealand.
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Speaker 7: So if I was Nikola Willis, what I'd be doing
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Speaker 7: is legally requiring Woolworth Australia and food Stuff to each
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Speaker 7: sell off, say one hundred or so supermarkets and then
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Speaker 7: I'd be working with Costco to buy them, but to
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Speaker 7: run them in the way New Zealand super markets tend
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Speaker 7: to run, rather than try to impose the North American
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Speaker 7: model here.
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Speaker 2: Do you think they'd be out for that.
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Speaker 7: I don't know, that's a question for them. But you know,
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Speaker 7: there's a big there's a good opportunity here for somebody.
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Speaker 7: This is a highly highly profitable market which is broken
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Speaker 7: and we really need somebody to come in with a
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Speaker 7: completely new approach and bring back competition.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I do know a lot of people in
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Speaker 2: Auckland who will drive the distance, you know, once a
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Speaker 2: month to do a big stock up of the non
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Speaker 2: perishables at Costco.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, but do you know any in Hamilton or wang
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Speaker 7: ger at will do that?
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Speaker 3: You know, this is this is.
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Speaker 7: A decentralized country. North America is very different and you
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Speaker 7: know the market figures in Australia sort of speak for
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Speaker 7: themselves that Costco, after all, is the decade or so
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Speaker 7: trying to get into that market are still really struggling
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Speaker 7: over there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the problem, isn't It's the long term plan,
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Speaker 2: isn't it Ernie.
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Speaker 7: It's a very long term plan, but we have a
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Speaker 7: short term problem. You know, we've got kids going hungry here.
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Speaker 7: We need something to happen in the next year or two,
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Speaker 7: not in another generation. And that's why I think Nichola
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Speaker 7: Willison's answer is to work with Costco, but as part
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Speaker 7: of a breakup of the supermarkets we already have.
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Speaker 2: Do you think an expansion would enable other players to
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Speaker 2: look at New Zealand a good place to potentially into
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Speaker 2: the market.
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Speaker 7: I think divestment, yes, I think it's the Nichola Willis
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Speaker 7: made has said some very good things, like she's indicated
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Speaker 7: that she is open to an enforced breakup of the
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Speaker 7: existing structure of the market. That's really really positive. So
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Speaker 7: I think there will be a lot of other people
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Speaker 7: sniffing around the market at the moment. But what we
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Speaker 7: need now is to move from the words phase to
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Speaker 7: the action phase and show that she's serious about that.
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Speaker 7: But again, you know, it's divesting what we already have
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Speaker 7: that'll unlock the potential.
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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for your time this morning. That was
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Speaker 2: Ernie Newman. I tend to agree with Ernie. I think
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Speaker 2: this is a nice step in the right direction, but
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Speaker 2: it's a long term solution and I don't think there
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Speaker 2: is one solution for this, oh, this long running debate
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Speaker 2: that we have on how we break up the duopoly
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Speaker 2: of foodstuffs and will Worth. I think he's right. I
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Speaker 2: think it's going to need a variety of steps and
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Speaker 2: actions taken kind of across the board to see a difference.
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Speaker 2: Love to hear what you think you can text on
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Speaker 2: ninety two ninety two right. It was a busy long
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Speaker 2: Easter weekend on the sports front. Elliott Smith is with
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Speaker 2: me next with some of his highlights. It's eighteen past five.
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Speaker 2: It's five twenty and to talk us through his highs
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Speaker 2: and lows of the weekend in sport. Elliott Smith is
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Speaker 2: with us morning Morning. Good weekend for the Warriors.
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Speaker 8: Very good and I think this will give him a
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Speaker 8: lot of confidence. I mean, when was the last time
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Speaker 8: you saw a team taker penalty shot at goal in
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Speaker 8: rugby league from fifty meters out lidlone and golden. It
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Speaker 8: was a very odd game out of the Warriors had
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Speaker 8: it in control and the end I don't know whether
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Speaker 8: it was the conditions, but the Broncos sort of came
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Speaker 8: back into it right at the end, sent it to
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Speaker 8: golden point and then dear old Reese Walshoe obviously left
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Speaker 8: the Warriors makes the era from the kickoff and Luke
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Speaker 8: metcalffho had been shopping off the tee comes in nail?
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Speaker 8: Is it from fifty meters? You don't really see that
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Speaker 8: in rugby league either, but it kind of when that,
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Speaker 8: you know, on the back of that poor game against
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Speaker 8: a storm last week, might just give the Warriors a
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Speaker 8: little bit of confidence in christ Church this week for
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Speaker 8: the ANZACT day game. So quick question turn around, but
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Speaker 8: the Knights are certainly beatable and hopefully this will swing
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Speaker 8: the Warriors back into the winning ways.
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Speaker 2: He's a special game, the ANZACT game. Who are they
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Speaker 2: playing new cast on?
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Speaker 8: Yes, so they've changed it round. So I've got a
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Speaker 8: home game. It's in christ Church, sold out weeks ago.
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Speaker 8: Should be a pretty special occasional.
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Speaker 2: Now a lot of super rugby taking place over the weekend. Geez,
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Speaker 2: my heart bled for Minor Pacifica because they've been playing
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Speaker 2: so well and with such heart and it wasn't a
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Speaker 2: great game against it.
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Speaker 8: It was terrible commentated this game actually, and it was
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Speaker 8: nil all with forty minutes on the clock and it
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Speaker 8: was five and a half time, and then Mina just
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Speaker 8: couldn't get into the game and they clearly missed Ardie Savia,
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Speaker 8: which shows how big his impact has been. But also
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Speaker 8: when he's not in the team he was on rest
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Speaker 8: on the weekend, how much they still struggle without him,
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Speaker 8: and they just didn't have it defensively, didn't have it
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Speaker 8: on attack. And now you know they're on the outside
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Speaker 8: looking in, as are the Blues, as other Hurricanes trying
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Speaker 8: to chase these playoff spots and Super Rugby that are
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Speaker 8: whittling down by the week. It's becoming very very tight
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Speaker 8: this race and you can't really afford to drop too
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Speaker 8: many points. And unfortunately for Mowana they did on the weekend.
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Speaker 8: They've got a drew this weekend back at home at
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Speaker 8: North Harbor Stadium. That's now really a must win for them.
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Speaker 8: But there's a lot of ground that these teams still
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Speaker 8: have to make up. The Force and Hurricanes. They drew
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Speaker 8: both teams in the playoff mix, the Blues obviously losing
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Speaker 8: to the Crusaders on Good Friday.
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Speaker 2: So the depressing start to Easter.
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Speaker 8: Well, not so much for our Canterbury list as I'm sure,
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Speaker 8: but for you obviously. And yeah, look, I think it's
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Speaker 8: really really tight in super rugby, which is what we
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Speaker 8: want going into these last few weeks of the season.
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Speaker 2: Of course checks did well against the.
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Speaker 8: Very good Yeah, came back really well after a pool
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Speaker 8: couple of weeks, but have kind of just looked a
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Speaker 8: little bit off that lost to the Waratas just swipt
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Speaker 8: the Highlanders.
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Speaker 2: I love the way you walk in here without any notes,
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Speaker 2: but you seem to have the rugby schedule for your
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Speaker 2: heat with the person I know I need to text on. Hey, look,
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Speaker 2: let's touch briefly on the form the one Liam Lawson.
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Speaker 2: Not quite in the points yet, but good to see
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Speaker 2: him sort of steadying.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think so. And look it was such as
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Speaker 8: shock to the system. I'm sure he would have been
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Speaker 8: expecting that full season and Red Bull now he has
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Speaker 8: and it's kind of the mindset shift and it's going
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Speaker 8: to take him a few races to go. Actually, I'm
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Speaker 8: back in racing bulls. I've got to start from behind
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Speaker 8: on the grid because that's the nature of you know,
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Speaker 8: being in the development team. So look, he was capped
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Speaker 8: that time penalty yesterday and that then the race he
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Speaker 8: should have been probably eleventh, finished in twelfth.
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Speaker 2: But I don't know.
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Speaker 8: I think there's some positive signs there that the building
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Speaker 8: and maybe just some time out of the spotlight in
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Speaker 8: terms of that international spotlight might actually be good for him.
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Speaker 8: Hopefully he can just you know, now the spotlight's gone
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Speaker 8: and it's now on Yuki Snoda and everyone else, and
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Speaker 8: the way the McLaren's going up the top of the
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Speaker 8: grid and the standings, Maybe just some time out of
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Speaker 8: the spotlight for Liamlawson might be a good thing.
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Speaker 2: I think so too. Just leave him alone and it
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Speaker 2: exactly see what as well. Thank you so much, Elliott,
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Speaker 2: appreciate your time this morning. It is twenty four past five.
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Speaker 2: Talks at b It is twenty six past five. According
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Speaker 2: to an article in the New Zealand Herald this morning,
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Speaker 2: fewer people want to be teachers. Teacher education is still
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Speaker 2: a really popular field of study, but both Canterbury and
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Speaker 2: Tiger Universities have seen a decline in teaching student enrollments
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Speaker 2: over the past four years. So initial data shows that
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Speaker 2: Canterbury has nine hundred and sixty four students enrolled in
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Speaker 2: a course in twenty twenty five, down from one thousand,
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Speaker 2: two hundred and eighty one four years ago. A Tigo
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Speaker 2: has followed a similar trend, with student numbers dropping from
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Speaker 2: six hundred and twenty to four hundred and ninety five
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Speaker 2: in the same period. Our national Politech has seen the
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Speaker 2: lowest number of first year teaching students since it formed
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty. So it is not the best news
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Speaker 2: when we're facing a teacher shortage, is it. PPTA president
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Speaker 2: Chris Abercrombie said the downward trend is extremely worrying, but
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Speaker 2: I'm not surprised by this. All we seem to hear
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Speaker 2: about our issues around pay conditions and the challenge the
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Speaker 2: challenge of changes to the curriculum. And then there are
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Speaker 2: the parents who don't have the time to support their
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Speaker 2: children in their education but complain about teachers when their
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Speaker 2: children don't reach their expectations. Look, I can understand paying
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Speaker 2: conditions being a red flag for someone heading into teaching,
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Speaker 2: but teachers have worked hard advocating for themselves when it
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Speaker 2: comes to pay, and the government has accepted conditions need
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Speaker 2: to improve, but it's in all our best interests that
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Speaker 2: we attract good people passionate about education to the profession.
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Speaker 2: And while we may not be able to do much
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Speaker 2: about the paying conditions outside a general election, we can
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Speaker 2: do something to push back on the shift and attitude
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Speaker 2: towards teachers which has crept up in recent years, preventing
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Speaker 2: some from considering the idea of becoming a teacher. Chris
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Speaker 2: Abercronbie said that one of the things they often hear
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Speaker 2: is the lack of respect from the community from politicians,
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Speaker 2: and people are like, well, why do I want to
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Speaker 2: go into a profession that has that. As in any industry,
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Speaker 2: there are great teachers, good and some who may be
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Speaker 2: a bit useless, but we need to be championing our teachers.
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Speaker 2: Teachers play a massive formulative role in our children's lives.
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Speaker 2: Some even change a young person's life or what our
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Speaker 2: kids believe is possible. Just over three years ago, a
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Speaker 2: young lady rather close to me started at high school,
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Speaker 2: had a bit of a hiccup and was at school
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Speaker 2: for about half of years nine and ten. In year
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Speaker 2: eleven she started a new school and this year she
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Speaker 2: aims to wrap up school and complete year thirteen, a
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Speaker 2: year early before heading to university to do a science degree.
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Speaker 2: There isn't a person who knows what she's been through
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Speaker 2: who isn't stunned by this turnaround. A lot of it
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Speaker 2: is down to this remarkable young lady. She's worked hard
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Speaker 2: to get back on track and look, she loves loves
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Speaker 2: to study. But it's also thanks to a series of
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Speaker 2: extraordinary teachers who also just happen to be extraordinary humans
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Speaker 2: that she is where she is today. So if we
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Speaker 2: want the best outcome for our children and their future,
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Speaker 2: maybe we should all just stop whining about teachers. Maybe
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Speaker 2: we should start by showing some respect, z me. I
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Speaker 2: do think it is time we all start winging about teachers.
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Speaker 2: That we're always talking about how many holidays and things
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Speaker 2: they have. But I think we've just shown a little
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Speaker 2: bit appreciation, a little bit more. It might be all
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Speaker 2: of our best interests, because we want people to become
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Speaker 2: teachers and to love it and to nurture our children.
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Speaker 2: Ninety two ninety two is the text keen to hear
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Speaker 10: God there, it's like crazy jousness at the.
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Speaker 2: Good morning. This is early edition on Newstalk VV. I'm
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Speaker 2: franchise for Raking filling in for Ryan today. Thanks for
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Speaker 2: being with us. In the next half hour we head
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Speaker 2: to Australia where they've had their worst Easter ever for drownings,
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Speaker 2: and we had to roam this hour as well. We
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Speaker 2: all knew that Pope Frances had been unwell recently, but
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Speaker 2: his appearance on Sunday at the Easter Sunday Mass in
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Speaker 2: the Vatican, I think it had given people hope that
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Speaker 2: he'd turned a corner. However, overnight Pope France has passed
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Speaker 2: away aged eighty eight. So we're going to look at
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Speaker 2: the impact the Pope had not just on the Catholic
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Speaker 2: Church but the world. A little later in the hour,
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Speaker 2: thank you very much for your feedback. One A little
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Speaker 2: a lot on the supermarkets. Why would a third player
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Speaker 2: feel comfortable entering into the New Zealand supermarket space if
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Speaker 2: they know that the government will likely just want to
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Speaker 2: break them up as well? If they should get too big. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's a good point, but I think there'd be a
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Speaker 2: little way to go before that happened, and the enthusiasm
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Speaker 2: to force private businesses to break up may work against
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Speaker 2: trying to attract overseas investment in this country. So Brian
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Speaker 2: makes the same point. Somebody else said the best option
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Speaker 2: is the warehouse converted into a supermarket chain. They already
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Speaker 2: have the store fronts and the key locations, and I
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Speaker 2: think that this is a thing, and this is why
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Speaker 2: cost Co might be a good idea. They're already here,
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Speaker 2: they know our environment, feed on the ground, and I
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Speaker 2: think that's where we have to go if we're going
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Speaker 2: to have a third player. You don't want to be
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Speaker 2: having conversations with people for years about potentially coming to
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Speaker 2: New Zealand. It needs to be somebody who is here
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Speaker 2: and already active. So thank you very much for your text.
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Speaker 2: Keep the feedback coming. You can text on ninety two
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Speaker 2: ninety two said be right, let's head around the country
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Speaker 2: and joining us from deneed In this morning Jordan done, good.
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Speaker 5: Morning, good morning, how are you very good?
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Speaker 2: Thank you. A coronial hearing at the disappearance of John
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Speaker 2: and Mike Beckinridge continues.
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Speaker 5: YEA, so the p have vanished after John broke a
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Speaker 5: court order and took the eleven year old from his
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Speaker 5: Invicargo school. In twenty fifteen. Beckinridge's car was found in
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Speaker 5: the sceneior Curio Bay a week later, below an eighty
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Speaker 5: eight meter cliff with no bodies. Now Cooraen and Marcus
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Speaker 5: Elliott is reconvening a hearing in christ Church to consider
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Speaker 5: whether the peer are dead or alive. Several submissions, including
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Speaker 5: a woman who believed she saw them overseas she was
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Speaker 5: heard during a two week hearing in twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 2: And weather interneding today.
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Speaker 5: The cloudy periods, rain developing this evening, then turning to
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Speaker 5: showers overnight, the high sixteen degrees.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Jordan, and we're off to christ Church. Now,
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Speaker 2: Courtney Winter joins me. And Courtney, we've just been talking
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Speaker 2: about the drop and the number of people wanting to
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Speaker 2: study to become a teacher and this is impacting Canterbury University.
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Speaker 11: Yes, good morning.
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Speaker 12: Provisional data shows there are nine hundred and sixty four
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Speaker 12: students enrolled in an education course this year, down from
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Speaker 12: almost a one thousand, three hundred four years ago. It's
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Speaker 12: part of a wider trend like you mentioned, reflected in
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Speaker 12: Ministry of Education data. Overall, the number of people studying
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Speaker 12: at least one education course was thirty four thousand in
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Speaker 12: twenty fifteen, but has dropped to twenty seven and a
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Speaker 12: half thousand last year. PEPTA and President Chris Abercrombie says
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Speaker 12: there's also been a cultural shift in the attitude towards
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Speaker 12: teachers as well as pay issues. The Teaching Council says
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Speaker 12: it's committed to addressing current and future workforce challenges.
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Speaker 2: And the weather today in christ Church Courtney.
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Speaker 12: Cloudy was impossible drizzle clearing to find this morning. Southwesterlies
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Speaker 12: high on fifteen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. And in Wellington Max told good morning, good morning.
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Speaker 2: A pay bump for the new council CEO.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, the post this morning has Matt Prosser. He's the
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Speaker 6: new head honcho at the Wellington City Council. His paypacket
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Speaker 6: it's enviable to five hundred and fifty thousand dollars a
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Speaker 6: year for him. That's a personal pay rise of more
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Speaker 6: than one hundred and thirty thousand dollars on his previous
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Speaker 6: role in the UK. He's British as the chief executive
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Speaker 6: of the Doriset Council, Dorset. On top of that, the
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Speaker 6: council's paying tens of thousands of dollars to relocate him
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Speaker 6: and his family forty fifty thousand plus, perhaps an indictment
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Speaker 6: of the process that there wasn't apparently a local applicant
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Speaker 6: good enough. It's obviously more than his predecessor as well,
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Speaker 6: Barbara mcerro it's more than the Prime Minister, almost three
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Speaker 6: times as much as the Wellington mayor, and yet process
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Speaker 6: so far declining requests for an interview.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I have no words. Wellington's where the today macs
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Speaker 2: not too bad?
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Speaker 6: Find spells developing a higher fifteen central.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much and joining us in the Auckland studio.
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Speaker 2: Need a britty manner. Good morning, good morning, welcome back,
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Speaker 2: a community leader says this weekend's fatal assault at an
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Speaker 2: Auckland bus stop, it's tragic for local this was local community.
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Speaker 2: This is a horrible story, horrible.
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Speaker 13: You're absolutely right. So a thirty three year old died
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Speaker 13: in hospital. Now, this was after the attack which happened
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Speaker 13: on Saint John's Road and Meadow Bank Saturday about ten pm.
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Speaker 13: Now police say they're on the hunt for the two offenders.
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Speaker 13: The motor for the attack is unclear. They're urgently seeking
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Speaker 13: any information from anyone in the area at the time,
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Speaker 13: So if you were around that area, particularly drivers with
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Speaker 13: dash cam footage, you know, contact the police. Scott Milne
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Speaker 13: is Ordarki's local board chair.
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Speaker 2: He says, this was.
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Speaker 13: An unnerving attack and it was you know, provoked unprovoked
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Speaker 13: rather so you know, yeah, one of these horrible at techs.
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Speaker 13: So hopefully they find these guys.
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Speaker 2: And what is the weather doing today and all? Well,
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Speaker 2: are there any improvement?
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Speaker 13: A lot of improvement?
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Speaker 2: Jarsley Easter.
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Speaker 13: Oh, thank goodness, there's an improvement here. We've got partly
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Speaker 13: cloudy conditions, a few shells, but mainly find from the
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Speaker 13: afternoon still warm. Twenty one is the high.
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Speaker 2: Now were you one of the lucky ones? Did you
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Speaker 2: have power? Did you have I did so?
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Speaker 13: Did I? I mean I read my heart and went
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Speaker 13: out to those that went for days without that. Kie
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Speaker 13: Wooden was one of them.
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Speaker 2: Oh, dear right, we're going to hear about that, aren't we.
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Speaker 13: She had to throw out all the food in a fridge.
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Speaker 13: I should have gone down there because she would have
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Speaker 13: had gorgeous This was one of.
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Speaker 2: The cold This is one of the complaints that she
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Speaker 2: had that I read about in the newspaper. She said,
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Speaker 2: if they've given her good information, she wouldn't instead of
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Speaker 2: having to throw it all out because they kept saying
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Speaker 2: it to be on later, beyond later, so you can
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Speaker 2: keep your food going. That's okay, that won't thaw, and
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Speaker 2: then it didn't. She said she would have given it away.
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Speaker 2: I know I must have waited for a text. I
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Speaker 2: would have chopped in the car. You would have been
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Speaker 2: in lovely to see you. Thank you very much for
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Speaker 2: popping in. Next off, we are off to Australia. It
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Speaker 2: is seventeen to.
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Speaker 1: Six International correspondence with ends in Eye Insurance Peace of
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Speaker 1: Mind for New Zealand Business.
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Speaker 2: Donna De Mayo joins US now from Australia. Good morning, Donna.
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Speaker 2: Did you get a small break from election campaigning over easter?
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Speaker 11: H personally you mean.
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Speaker 2: Maybe?
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 14: The election campaign does continue and early voting starts today.
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Speaker 14: They believe that up to forty percent of Australians will
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Speaker 14: actually put in an early vote ahead of the May
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Speaker 14: third election, which I thought was fascinating. And a poll
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Speaker 14: has just come out and there's been a surge in
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Speaker 14: the polls for Albanize for our prime minister, and there's
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Speaker 14: even talk that he be able to get a majority government.
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Speaker 14: The Liberals polled to a lower primary vote than under
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Speaker 14: the Scott Morrison government at last election. So the news
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Speaker 14: poll in the Australian shows that Labor what could be
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Speaker 14: turning the tide apparently, So they're saying that perhaps these
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Speaker 14: policy promises like restoring GP bulk building and what Alba
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Speaker 14: has said is modest income tax with cuts could be
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Speaker 14: impressing voters. So the Labour's primary vote as they call it,
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Speaker 14: is the highest in more than a year.
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Speaker 11: It's about thirty.
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Speaker 14: Four percent, and the Coalition primary vote has dropped to
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Speaker 14: about thirty five percent, which is lower, as I mentioned,
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Speaker 14: than quite a few years ago. Interesting, but we're also
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Speaker 14: heard from the Prime Minister after.
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Speaker 11: The pope's death. Just a few words he gave.
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Speaker 14: He obviously sent his condolences and we know now that
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Speaker 14: the flags will fly half mass today on all Commonwealth
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Speaker 14: buildings and he sent his sincere condolences and saying it
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Speaker 14: was be a very difficult evening.
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Speaker 11: For all Australians.
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Speaker 14: And we also got a statement from Peter Dubbin and
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Speaker 14: the opposition leader who said the pope was driven by
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Speaker 14: christ values of mercy and forgiveness.
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Speaker 2: Donna, you've just had a terrible Easter break at Ossie Beach's. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I think it's been. You've had your worst seats ever
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Speaker 2: from drowning at this time of the year.
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Speaker 11: Yes, so much, so much tragedy.
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Speaker 14: A nine year old was trapped between rocks at a
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Speaker 14: popular holiday spot in New South Wales mid North Coast.
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Speaker 14: Now police did try to free the boy but sadly
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Speaker 14: he died at the scene. Now we know that hordes
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Speaker 14: of holidaymakers have headed to the beach. It's been glorious
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Speaker 14: weather right across the East Coast and Surf Life Saving
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Speaker 14: is saying that you know there've been countless rescues because
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Speaker 14: of these powerful swells. But we know that there's two
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Speaker 14: men missing since Friday. A twenty four year old was
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Speaker 14: swept off rocks in Sydney's Eastern suburbs. A forty one
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Speaker 14: year old in Victoria was missing, is missing. Sorry, three
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Speaker 14: friends were not into the water, and the missing man's
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Speaker 14: wife has rowned. Two people were swept off rocks while
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Speaker 14: fishing on the weekend as well.
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Speaker 11: One saved one passed away.
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Speaker 14: Sadly, a fifty eight year old fisherman was swept into
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Speaker 14: water over the weekend, and another has drowned in New
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Speaker 14: South Wales, and then another fisherman, so absolutely devastating, the tragic.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for all the good news this morning, Donna.
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Speaker 11: Sorry about that. It's quite grim, quite grim.
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Speaker 2: Take care, have a good day. Thank you so much
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Speaker 2: for your time. It is eleven to six, said. The
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Speaker 2: world has been mourning the death of Pope Francis, who
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Speaker 2: died overnight at the age of eighty eight. He was
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Speaker 2: the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Speaker 2: And it comes as a shock as just the day before,
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Speaker 2: on Easter Sunday, the Pope had greeted a crowd of
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Speaker 2: tens of thousands at the Easter Sunday Mass in the Vatican. Right,
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Speaker 2: Rome correspondent Joe McKenna has the latest for us. She
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Speaker 2: joins us, Now, are you there, Joe, we'll just get
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Speaker 2: rid of the yes, Sex, can you me okay, Yes,
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Speaker 2: I can. Where are you There's a lot of bustle
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Speaker 2: around you. Are you out and amongst the people? Yes,
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Speaker 2: good morning, Francesca.
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Speaker 4: I'm at the Vatican right now, and thousands of people
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Speaker 4: are pouring into Saint Peter's Square as we speak for
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Speaker 4: a special rosary in memory of Pope Francis. People are
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Speaker 4: shocked and shaken, as you can imagine, just a day
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Speaker 4: after seeing him in this same square greeting the faithful
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Speaker 4: and blessing everyone for Easter Sunday.
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Speaker 2: It has been a shock. Even though we know he
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Speaker 2: hasn't been well, his health seemed to be improving.
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Speaker 4: Yes, after thirty eight days in hospital and some very
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Speaker 4: dangerous moments there where the doctor said they almost lost him.
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Speaker 2: There were hopes that he would recover.
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Speaker 4: But as we probably as you probably saw, you know,
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Speaker 4: he was looking very weak and frail, and his voice
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Speaker 4: was struggling. I think we still saw that he was
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Speaker 4: struggling to get over that double pneumonia. And in a
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Speaker 4: short time tonight we're about to learn what.
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Speaker 2: The cause of death was.
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Speaker 4: There was a speculation that he died of a stroke overnight,
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Speaker 4: but some other speculations suggesting that it might have been
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Speaker 4: a pulmonary embolism. So just waiting for some results from
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Speaker 4: the Vatican on that tonight.
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Speaker 2: Okay, how much of an impact did Pope Francis have,
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Speaker 2: not just on the Catholic Church, but the whole world.
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Speaker 4: Joe. Look, I think it goes back to that first
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Speaker 4: night Francesco I was here in the square when he
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Speaker 4: was elected twenty thirteen, and he set the tone immediately
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Speaker 4: with his informality, his friendliness. And then soon after that
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Speaker 4: his first official visit, which many people may not remember,
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Speaker 4: was to the island of Lampadusa off the coast of Sicily,
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Speaker 4: where he wanted to reach out to all those migrants
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Speaker 4: who were struggling to make the voyage across the Mediterranean.
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Speaker 4: So really about informality, reaching out to the poor and
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Speaker 4: the underprivileged. He took a strong stand on climate change
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Speaker 4: and saving the planet, and was really against the trappings
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Speaker 4: of capitalism, status and all those things that we all
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Speaker 4: get caught up in consumerism and all that sort of stuff.
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Speaker 2: And we can see that, can't we. Just in the
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Speaker 2: way that he's decided to have his public viewing at
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Speaker 2: the Basilica, you know, he doesn't want he wants to
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Speaker 2: be in the coffin, he doesn't want to be on
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Speaker 2: a raised podium. He wants to keep it simple.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's a very good message, and he
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Speaker 4: doesn't want to be buried at the Vatican. Like many
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Speaker 4: other poets, he has chosen his burial place in a
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Speaker 4: basilica on the other side of Rome called Saint Mary Major,
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Speaker 4: where he would often go and say a prayer to
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Speaker 4: the Madonna before he went traveling on his overseas trips,
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Speaker 4: many many overseas trips to faraway places from including a rack,
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Speaker 4: the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and again emphasizing that outreach
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Speaker 4: that he felt so strongly about.
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Speaker 2: Joe.
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Speaker 4: What happens now, so tonight there will be a ritual
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Speaker 4: inside his apartment inside the Vatican, the Kaza Marta apartment
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Speaker 4: where he lived. They will, I think, smash the ring
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Speaker 4: and seal his room, and then his body will be
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Speaker 4: moved into a coffin and moved into the basilica, probably
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Speaker 4: Wednesday morning, and he will lie in state there and
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Speaker 4: hundreds of thousands of people are expected to come into Rome.
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Speaker 4: I think we'll see the sort of reaction that we
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Speaker 4: saw with Pope John Paul's funeral way back in two
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Speaker 4: thousand and five. People will come from all over the
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Speaker 4: world for this viewing. Then the funeral is likely to
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Speaker 4: be held Friday or Sunday next weekend. Then there'll be
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Speaker 4: a break, There'll be days of several days of morning,
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Speaker 4: and then the conclave will begin inside the Systeine Chapel
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Speaker 4: to elect the new Pope.
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Speaker 2: Joe mckinna. Thank you so much for your time, really
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Speaker 2: appreciate this morning. It is seven to six you with
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Speaker 2: Coming up at six, of course, is Mike Hosking with
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Speaker 2: Mike Costing breakfast. It is with me now, good morning morning.
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Speaker 2: Do you think six a m. Is too early for
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Speaker 2: me to call the police on one I five to
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Speaker 2: let them know that someone stole my car license plates.
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Speaker 9: Just the plates, just the plan. Was something wrong with
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Speaker 9: the car?
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Speaker 2: No, well, wouldn't we take it?
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Speaker 9: Take it personally? So you obviously worried. I'm worried about
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Speaker 9: your car on the street.
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Speaker 2: It is on the street that one.
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Speaker 9: So they came along and simply unscrewed your plates and
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Speaker 9: moved on.
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Speaker 2: I'm worried that they've been used from the serious.
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Speaker 9: Oh as opposed to what franchisca? What do you think
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Speaker 9: they took?
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Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know why they I think they.
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Speaker 9: Probably I think the people who took them probably took
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Speaker 9: them for nefarious.
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Speaker 2: Because it possibility I could be in the headlines by
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Speaker 2: midday because I'm associated with.
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Speaker 9: It is what the crime is, you're fair enough to
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Speaker 9: I would have already called. I wouldn't have gone five.
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Speaker 9: Wuld have gone one one. Absolutely, you can't go on one.
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Speaker 2: You don't for a stolen car that you call one.
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Speaker 9: Of those it's a crime. Well how many cans if
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Speaker 9: you had stolen? I have no experience.
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Speaker 2: I don't expect the police to rush out and deal
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Speaker 2: with it. It's not a one one one.
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Speaker 9: No, it's just a you would log it so technically
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Speaker 9: make me.
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Speaker 2: Never should have I done that at three o'clock?
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Speaker 9: I way too late?
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Speaker 2: Now, don't say that way too late.
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Speaker 9: I would have gone through this thing because imagine if
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Speaker 9: something was committed on four point fifteen and they go,
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Speaker 9: we'll hold on the plates, and they're trying to get
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Speaker 9: hold of me.
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Speaker 2: Now I will refer them back to five point fifty
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Speaker 2: sixty am on news storks what you mentioned.
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Speaker 9: What are you going to do if you get home
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Speaker 9: and they're waiting for you, and you're going to do
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Speaker 9: that hole. It has nothing to do with me.
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Speaker 10: I would never clue.
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Speaker 9: Do you want to give the plates out on here? Now?
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Speaker 2: Okay, thank you very much.
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Speaker 9: Now you've blonde. That Prime Minister's with us later.
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Speaker 2: By the way, fantastic. I'm very much looking forward to it.
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Speaker 2: Mike hosking with you at six. Have a great day.
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Speaker 2: I will see you tomorrow morning at five am, if
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Speaker 2: I'm not in prison or somewhere else. Take care, Louie.
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