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Full Show Podcast: 09 June 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Francesca Ruggin on
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Speaker 1: Early Edition with spark for business technology that keeps business moving,
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Speaker 1: news talks.
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Speaker 2: There'd be good morning, Welcome to Early Edition. I'm Francesca
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Speaker 2: Rudkin on the show today. What does extra funding mean
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Speaker 2: for the QI two National Trust? Retail growth is up,
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Speaker 2: but are we actually getting bang for our buck? And
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Speaker 2: before the end of the hour, I should Police Superintendent
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Speaker 2: Rakeshnadu stay in his job after announcing his candidacy for
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Speaker 2: the Labor Party. You are most welcome to contact me
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Speaker 2: anytime this morning. You can flip me at text ninety
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Speaker 1: The agenda, It's.
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Speaker 2: Tuesday, the ninth of June. Iran says it's done striking
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Speaker 2: Israel for now, but it's warning of a much tougher
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Speaker 2: response if Israel keeps hitting targets in southern Lebanon. It
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Speaker 2: comes after Donald Trump urged both sides to stop shooting,
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Speaker 2: saying an immediate cease Filewars Insight.
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Speaker 3: The United States, there's clear responsibility of a party to
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Speaker 3: the apul the ceasefire understanding whatever happens in the region,
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Speaker 3: whether the US itself violates the Ceakspire, Iranian commercial vessels
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Speaker 3: and incursions against the southern regions of the country, but
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Speaker 3: whether such violations are carried out by Zionist regime in
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Speaker 3: Lebanon or through its coordination with the United States in
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Speaker 3: our region, direct responsibility of the United States is unequivocal.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, nickna Who's whiton. He says, Israel has a right
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Speaker 2: to self defense.
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Speaker 4: We will retaliate forcibly because Israel has all right for
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Speaker 4: self defense and we are realizing it as much as
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Speaker 4: necessary to.
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Speaker 2: The Ukraine war. Now, President Zelenski says he could be
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Speaker 2: willing to freeze the current battle lines for negotiations.
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Speaker 4: Of course, I want to friez, not just free the
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Speaker 4: conflict because we want to live in Ukraine or.
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Speaker 5: Just stop the war.
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Speaker 4: We want to stop and I mean this stopped the
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Speaker 4: way when the war will not come back because of
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Speaker 4: some crazy people and the cterle if they want to
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Speaker 4: come back with the war after some pauses. So it's
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Speaker 4: not the idea just to freeze, but the quickest way
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Speaker 4: to freeze.
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Speaker 2: In the UK the government's turning up the pressure on
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Speaker 2: tech giants. It wants companies like Apple and Google to
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Speaker 2: block under eighteens from taking, sending, or viewing naked images
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Speaker 2: on their devices.
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Speaker 6: We recognize that companies have already developed and implemented nudity
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Speaker 6: detection on devices. We want to work collaboratively with industry
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Speaker 6: to build solutions to call on companies to take action
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Speaker 6: within three months. We have been clear that if the
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Speaker 6: industry does not meet our high expectations, we will not
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Speaker 6: hesitate to legislate.
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Speaker 2: And finally, British actor Sir Idris Elbert says James Bond
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Speaker 2: shouldn't go woke and believe some fans wouldn't accept a
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Speaker 2: black actor as double O seven. Elba says Bond was
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Speaker 2: created the way he was for a reason, but admits
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Speaker 2: he was flattered to be linked to the role. The
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Speaker 2: front runners to replace Daniel Craig rumored to be Callum Turner,
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Speaker 2: Henry cavill and Aaron tom At Karen Taylor Johnson.
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Speaker 1: The first Word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 1: edition with fran Jessica Rudkin and Spark for Business Technology
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Speaker 1: that Keeps Business Moving News talks that'd be okay.
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Speaker 2: So Auckland is, did you see the maps in the
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Speaker 2: Herald yesterday showing the four options for the city's new
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Speaker 2: housing density proposals. So the maps supposedly show the number
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Speaker 2: and the height of homes that might be allowed to
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Speaker 2: be built across the city. But of course what we're
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Speaker 2: most interested in, what you and I'm most interested in,
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Speaker 2: is what's happening in our street, right We just want
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Speaker 2: to know what's happening in our neck of the woods.
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Speaker 2: And the maps shown yesterday weren't very helpful for this.
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Speaker 2: They weren't detailed and they were really hard to read.
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Speaker 2: I don't know whether they like me. You wasted far
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Speaker 2: too much time trying to work out where your house was.
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Speaker 2: Now there was actually a reason for this. They're indicative
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Speaker 2: rather than worked up maps, as no decision has actually
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Speaker 2: been made on which direction to take, so panicking is
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Speaker 2: not warranted just yet. The four options were laid out
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Speaker 2: for us again, and of course EPSOM MP David Cymoor
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Speaker 2: he prefers Option A, which effectively it retains the status
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Speaker 2: quo that was drawn up in Auckland's Unitary Plan about
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Speaker 2: a decade ago. Yes, we have been talking about this
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Speaker 2: about growth in Auckland forever. Seymour told the Herald. He
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Speaker 2: hoped this was a move towards the end of an unending,
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Speaker 2: torturous process, and I think everyone would agree with his
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Speaker 2: final sentiment, I've got some time for Council of Richard Hills.
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Speaker 2: He believes Option B or something similar strikes the right
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Speaker 2: compromise between the Council's desire to enable housing intensity and
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Speaker 2: to deliver more affordable homes and the government's concerned about
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Speaker 2: inappropriate up zoning in some pretty leafy suburbs. And of
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Speaker 2: course the mayor wants to push the boat out on
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Speaker 2: Option C, which would enable more development in areas with
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Speaker 2: better transport access, less development in areas with poorer access,
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Speaker 2: so you'd see more ten to fifteen story apartment blocks
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Speaker 2: being built across the city under that option. Option D
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Speaker 2: is the most extreme option along for two million people,
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Speaker 2: so we'll flag that. Puppy Hill also expressed frustration over
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Speaker 2: the process and delays, saying change is repeatedly forced on
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Speaker 2: the council by the government, meant it has not been
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Speaker 2: a straightforward five years, which is probably a bit of
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Speaker 2: an understatement. So please, let's just pack an option that
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Speaker 2: develops a city in a sensible way that enables affordable
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Speaker 2: housing caters for a growing population in areas with the
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Speaker 2: infrastructure to handle it, and then move on and apologies
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Speaker 2: to the rest of the country, but please trust me
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Speaker 2: on this. I think many Aucklanders are even more over
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Speaker 2: this conversation than you are. Members of the Council Committee
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Speaker 2: are due to decide on their preferred option to day
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Speaker 2: and then of course all the consultation will begin again.
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Speaker 2: Have you got a preference? You can text me ninety
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Speaker 2: two ninety two. It's twelve plus five.
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Speaker 1: News and views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: earlier this year with Frank Jesca Rudkin and Spark for
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Speaker 1: business technology that keeps business moving, news talks there be right.
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Speaker 2: The National Party has pledged to double permanent funding for
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Speaker 2: the Queen Elizabeth's iond National Trust if re elected. It
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Speaker 2: says the move will give the trust certainty to keep
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Speaker 2: working with farmers and landowners to protect New Zealand's heritage.
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Speaker 2: The new permanent funding level would go from approximately four
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Speaker 2: point two million to around eight point five million per year.
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Speaker 2: Tama Portaka, the National Party conservation spokesperson, is worth me now.
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Speaker 7: Good morning, Kyoda, Thanks for having me on your show.
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Speaker 2: Love you to talk to you. Why is this important?
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Speaker 7: It's very important because some of the biggest and most
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Speaker 7: pragmatic conservationists and environmentalists actually farmers, very passionate enthusiastic around
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Speaker 7: protecting areas on their farms which have huge biodiversity. And
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Speaker 7: some of the most important biodiversity is actually located on
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Speaker 7: private land. It's not public land. So when we co
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Speaker 7: invest with farmers, we can put in a dollar and
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Speaker 7: they put in about six or seven dollars, and you
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Speaker 7: expand the amount of land that's got huge biodiversity and
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Speaker 7: it's protected.
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Speaker 2: Is it going to help farmers and land owners? What's
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Speaker 2: the money going to?
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Speaker 7: What it often goes to is helping farmers with fencing,
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Speaker 7: with trapping costs and other investments that they need to
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Speaker 7: make in order to better enhance that land on their property,
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Speaker 7: on their farm which has bi diversity. We visit a farm,
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Speaker 7: you say, for example, out in Bombay, out in the
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Speaker 7: near the hunu Or Range and upset aside an area.
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Speaker 7: They've got some trapping going on, they've got all sorts
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Speaker 7: of birds coming back into the life, and few wetlands
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Speaker 7: being protected, and a whole bunch of kahekati and other
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Speaker 7: native trees growing fantastic.
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Speaker 2: Is this increase just to help farmers currently in the
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Speaker 2: trust or is it to meet the demand of farmers
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Speaker 2: who would like to join the trust. Is there a demand?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, great question, And it all help both because thee
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Speaker 7: Cuit two Trust encourages new areas of land on farms
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Speaker 7: to come within the covenant, but also help support repairs
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Speaker 7: and maintenance because this is nearly fifty years old, nearly
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Speaker 7: and nearly two hundred thousand hectares that are protected in
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Speaker 7: this way, So after fifty years sometimes the fence is
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Speaker 7: break down and they need a bit of support along
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Speaker 7: the way. And this is what the trust does in
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Speaker 7: order to improve by diversity and actually get wetlands, dune
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Speaker 7: lands and other places back and running.
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Speaker 2: If we're putting more public money into the trust, does
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Speaker 2: this mean that the public might get access to these
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Speaker 2: areas or will it still be by the permission of
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Speaker 2: the landowner.
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Speaker 7: Well, generally by the permission of the landown. And don't
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Speaker 7: forget we've got eight and a half million heatdares of
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Speaker 7: public land just in the conservation estate itself, so that's
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Speaker 7: quite a considerable amount. In the Q two land, there's
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Speaker 7: about two hundred thousand hectares.
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Speaker 2: Okay O Federated Farmers is calling for other parties to
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Speaker 2: get behind this and make it across party priority. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's not a huge amount of money considering sort of
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Speaker 2: the figures that we throw out pre election. Tarma, surely
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Speaker 2: they get on board.
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Speaker 7: Well, I hope so, and I hope people see that
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Speaker 7: the National Party is very committed to the environment. Where
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Speaker 7: the Predator Free twenty fifty or point announcement last week,
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Speaker 7: we're very supportive of the elimination of wild and pines
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Speaker 7: and of course getting rid of some of these pisky
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Speaker 7: pists and predators like feral cats, mustelids and rodents. I
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Speaker 7: hear there's a lot of rodents running constant Piece, So
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Speaker 7: that's part of our Predator Free twenty fifty Auckland project.
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Speaker 2: You've got to look after the grayland four hundred. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: what did you think about what did you think about
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Speaker 2: the call for the cats to release the cats to
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Speaker 2: help the rodent issue.
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Speaker 7: I know it's absolutely important that as we go out
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Speaker 7: and eliminate feral cats, we also eliminate rats at the
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Speaker 7: same time, because if you take out all the feral
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Speaker 7: cats at once, the rats to start exploding like anything.
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Speaker 7: It's like exploding like Gretlin's. So you've got to be
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Speaker 7: really focused on getting rid of both of them at
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Speaker 7: the same time. And that's why we're so invested in
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Speaker 7: the predator free movement and also working closely with players
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Speaker 7: like the Next Foundation and the Auckland Council to get
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Speaker 7: rid of these predators up in the Fungal Power Peninsula,
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Speaker 7: some of the predator free islands, and also between Point
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Speaker 7: Shiev and the Tamaki rever Those are the sorts of
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Speaker 7: areas that we're focusing on for that particular project.
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Speaker 2: Talm I'd love you to talk to you this morning.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time. That was Tama Portaka.
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Speaker 5: There.
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Speaker 2: It is eighteen past five.
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Speaker 1: Francesca Rudkin on early edition with Spark for Business Technology
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Speaker 1: that keeps Business moving US talks that be.
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Speaker 2: It's twenty past five. New numbers show Kiwis are spending
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Speaker 2: more but buying less. Total retails spend reach three point
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Speaker 2: eight billion dollars in May, so that was up one
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Speaker 2: point two percent is the same time last year. It's
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Speaker 2: a bounce back from the zero point one percent drop
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Speaker 2: in April. But we're not making big purchases. Instead, we're
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Speaker 2: spending more on food. Carolyn Young, Retail New Zealand chief executive,
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Speaker 2: joins me. Now, good morning, Marina Francester. Why has our
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Speaker 2: appetite to spend turned around this month?
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Speaker 8: Look, I think people are in that we had that
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Speaker 8: panic sort of March and April over the Middle East crisis,
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Speaker 8: and I think things have settled down now and people
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Speaker 8: are feeling a bit more relaxed about where things are.
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Speaker 8: We're not necessarily feeling great about them, but we understand
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Speaker 8: where the flowers, and that uncertainty has dissipated as we
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Speaker 8: know that it's going to be something for the long haul.
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Speaker 8: We're not necessarily in control. We're not going to run
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Speaker 8: out of fuel. We've just got to manage inflation as
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Speaker 8: we work our way through. So people are more inclined
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Speaker 8: to go out for dinner and by a little bit
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Speaker 8: more at the surfermarket rather than necessarily by other purchases.
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Speaker 2: Do you see this as a long term recovery or
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Speaker 2: is it just a little small glimmer of hope.
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Speaker 8: We hope that there's a glimmer of hope. That's always
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Speaker 8: a key thing. The thing that we know is that
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Speaker 8: at least arise is keeping up with inflation and we're
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Speaker 8: not declining, so that's something to be pleased about. You know,
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Speaker 8: it's not the only thing to be pleased without, but
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Speaker 8: that's something to be pleased about. We know that in
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Speaker 8: some areas the country, the farming sectors holding out those
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Speaker 8: areas if you think about Canterbury and Wakato. We know
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Speaker 8: there's upon Terra payout coming out this month and so
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Speaker 8: we might have started to see some farmers spending a
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Speaker 8: little bit early. So that's a good sign as well
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Speaker 8: for more to come.
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Speaker 2: When it says that we're buying more food, are we
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Speaker 2: talking about the supermarket, eating out or takeaways? And is
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Speaker 2: it that we're buying more food caroal and or that
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Speaker 2: the food prices are still quite high. Everything exactly that
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Speaker 2: you said.
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Speaker 8: So we're spending a little bit more at the soupermarket.
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Speaker 8: In some instances people are out buying a bit more
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Speaker 8: at hospitality than they had been doing. Might be reverting
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Speaker 8: back to more normal levels, and you know, it could
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Speaker 8: be a little bit of takeaways as well. But we
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Speaker 8: do know the prices have gone up so that you're
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Speaker 8: not necessarily getting any more, you're just keeping up with inflation.
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Speaker 2: Okay, it's good to see another event making an impact.
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Speaker 2: Another good reason. I'm talking about the six sixty concert
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Speaker 2: and Christ. I mean, it's another good reason we should
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Speaker 2: be filling our stadiums with events, isn't it exactly?
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Speaker 8: You know, events really drive activity in terms of retail
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Speaker 8: and hospitality. It really gets cities moving. People come in
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Speaker 8: in a great mood, they've gone out to a fantastic
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Speaker 8: KEEPI concert and we saw that we can an uplift
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Speaker 8: of ten point six percent in the christ Such economy.
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Speaker 8: That's that's really phenomenal for that economy, right, And what
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Speaker 8: we want to see is more events across cities throughout
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Speaker 8: the year, not just once or twice other summer or
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Speaker 8: once every couple of years. You know, those events really
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Speaker 8: draw people in. We know that, you know, there's some
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Speaker 8: iconic things that happen around the country on a regular basis,
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Speaker 8: and we just need to see more.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, thanks so much for your time this morning, Carolyn.
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Speaker 2: That concert in christ which that event help boost the
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Speaker 2: local retail economy by ten point six percent that weekend.
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Speaker 2: We don't need the stats. We can see it.
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Speaker 7: Right.
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Speaker 2: If you're in Dunedin and you've got you know ed
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Speaker 2: Shearing comes to town, the place is packed. When while
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Speaker 2: I was on in Wellington, there are people coming in
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Speaker 2: from all over the country to check it out. When
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Speaker 2: Coldplay plays at Eden Park in Auckland, you just can't
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Speaker 2: even move in New Market. So we can all see that.
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Speaker 2: You know, let's just keep filling our stadiums. It is
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Speaker 2: twenty four past five. You're with early edition filling.
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Speaker 2: It is five twenty six. So the Labor Party yesterday
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Speaker 2: announced its final candidate list ahead of the election. Did
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Speaker 2: you find it encouraging list? What do you think of it?
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Speaker 2: It looks like there are some very capable, accomplished newcomers
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Speaker 2: with real life experience quite high on the list, and
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Speaker 2: quite a few activists, while several more experienced current MPs
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Speaker 2: find themselves down the list, most likely further than they'd like.
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Speaker 2: So what does this tell us Well, not much more
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Speaker 2: than any other list. President Party president Jill Day said
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Speaker 2: they were proud of the diversity and the depth of talent,
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Speaker 2: and that we represent our whole community with the skills
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Speaker 2: and life experiences we need to bring real progressive change.
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Speaker 2: But every party promotes their list this way. At the
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Speaker 2: end of May, Act release their first batch of candidates,
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Speaker 2: saying ex candidates are a true representation of modern New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: They include farmers, legal experts, business owners, tradees, parents, military veterans,
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Speaker 2: policy exerperts, ta chose engineers and community leaders. They all
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Speaker 2: come from all walks of life that they share one
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Speaker 2: thing in common, to belief that New Zealand can and
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Speaker 2: must do better. Anyway, Hopefully the newbies do bring fresh
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Speaker 2: ideas and get it done attitude. But I reckon we
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Speaker 2: have to wait and see it. All looks good on paper,
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Speaker 2: but until we see the candidates in action do we
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Speaker 2: get a real sense of them. But the list was
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Speaker 2: notable for a couple of things. Of course. Greg O'Connor,
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Speaker 2: the Assistant Speaker who at the beginning of the year
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Speaker 2: said I don't think I'm ready to give up politics yet.
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Speaker 2: I think I've got a lot to offer has not
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Speaker 2: picked up a spot on the party list, or maybe
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Speaker 2: one that he was happy with after his seat was disestablished,
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Speaker 2: so is stepping away. The highly placed Superintendent Rakesh Naid,
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Speaker 2: number thirteen on the list, has annoyed his boss, the
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Speaker 2: police commissioner, who expressed severe displeasure over the process that
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Speaker 2: led to a superintendent being on the label list. Current
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Speaker 2: current Police Minister Mark Mitchell isn't terribly happy either. He said, look,
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Speaker 2: it's critical that the public can have confidence that police
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Speaker 2: are politically neutral. Not the smoothest announcement there, But I
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Speaker 2: think what really caught our attention was the accidental policy
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Speaker 2: announcement about tax relief by another newcomer on the list,
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Speaker 2: Kingy Kerry Honor. Now he got a little ahead of
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Speaker 2: himself by saying he gathered there would be some tax
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Speaker 2: relief policies to be announced and then very quickly referred
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Speaker 2: back to his leader. You know what I actually felt
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Speaker 2: for the guy. The first media stand up as a
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Speaker 2: candidate is intimidating. I wouldn't want to do it, wouldn't
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Speaker 2: have to deal with the media. So it was a
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Speaker 2: learning experience. He now knows why politicians try to stick
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Speaker 2: to a message. Obviously there is some media training to
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Speaker 2: come and we know what that entails, don't we. But
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Speaker 2: in the meantime it was probably the most interesting thing
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Speaker 2: to come out of yesterday's announcement. Maybe this was just
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Speaker 2: a really good tease to get us excited that Labor
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Speaker 2: are about to start releasing policy in a couple of
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Speaker 2: days apparently, so it will be really interesting to see
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Speaker 2: if that policy has, you know, the real progressive change
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Speaker 2: they keep talking about, said be so, can to hear
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Speaker 2: your thoughts about what you thought of the list yesterday?
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Speaker 2: Or are you a little bit like me? Do you go?
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Speaker 5: Okay?
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Speaker 2: All really nice on paper, But until I see you,
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Speaker 2: you know, until I hear your thoughts, see the way
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Speaker 2: you communicate, see what you're on about, it's really kind
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Speaker 2: of hard to say. So ninety two, ninety two and
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Speaker 2: more on Rakesh n I Do two and his announcement
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Speaker 2: to become a Labor Party candidate. We have Police Association
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Speaker 2: President Steve What with us before the end of the
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Speaker 2: hour and he's going to talk through talk us through
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Speaker 2: why it's important for the police to stay politically neutral.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 6: No ever, my friend.
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Speaker 2: The Makan girls. Good to have you with us. This
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Speaker 2: is early edition on Newstalks. Francesca Rudkin filling in for
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Speaker 2: Ryan this week. Thanks for being with us. In the
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Speaker 2: next half hour we're going to head to Australia where
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Speaker 2: another spare fisherman has been killed by a shark in
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Speaker 2: Western Australia. This is the third death in OZ in
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Speaker 2: the month. Also the announcement by Rakesh Naido as to
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Speaker 2: be number thirteen on the Labor Party candidate list for
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Speaker 2: the government. I think this is really good news for Labor.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's a good get, isn't he, as they say.
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Speaker 2: But it's descending into a bit of a standoff as
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Speaker 2: to whether the correct procedures were undertaken by Naido and
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Speaker 2: considering the police must be politically neutral, should he stay
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Speaker 2: in this in his job. So we're going to talk
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Speaker 2: about that more before six o'clock. Thank you for your feedback.
18:56
Speaker 2: Someone said affordable housing just word, I'm afraid Frankie. The
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Speaker 2: text reads, please define, give us numbers, give us context,
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Speaker 2: Explain what represents value for money and the people who
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Speaker 2: can actually afford affordable housing. Which is a really good
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Speaker 2: question because it's a term thrown out, isn't it by
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Speaker 2: local and central government. It's completely different all around the
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Speaker 2: country wherever you are. I tend to think of it
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Speaker 2: as defined as much smaller units and smaller accommodation for
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Speaker 2: people that they can afford wherever that might be. But really,
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Speaker 2: good call, Actually it does need to be defined a
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Speaker 2: lot better. Somebody else asked, are the sea swells still
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Speaker 2: due in Wellington this morning? We're going to head to
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Speaker 2: Wellington and just a moment so we will let you know.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for your feedback. I keep it coming. You
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Speaker 2: can text on ninety two ninety.
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Speaker 1: Two news talk z' be.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So let's head around the country and joining me
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Speaker 2: now from Dunedin. Callum Proctor, Good morning.
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Speaker 9: Callum, morning, Concisca.
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Speaker 2: So planning is ramping up in regards to Dunedin's new hospital.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, especially with regards to the roads in and around
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Speaker 9: the hospital precincts, the transport agents. He's seeking a designer
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Speaker 9: now to map out upgrades to nearby roads and state
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Speaker 9: highways to improve access to this hospital for those not
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Speaker 9: where the hospital site sits between the two double lane
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Speaker 9: one way systems here in Derned and that's also State
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Speaker 9: Highway one. So there's a lot of reconfiguring to do
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Speaker 9: in some areas. Funding's now been approved for the next
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Speaker 9: stage following public consultation on changes proposed to Cumberland and
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Speaker 9: St Andrew's streets to best support traffic there are The
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Speaker 9: nctaca's major construction isn't expected this year, but the planning
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Speaker 9: is now underway to ensure that the roading systems are
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Speaker 9: set up for the inpatient building which opens in twenty
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Speaker 9: thirty one. The new outpatient building opens later this year.
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Speaker 2: Very exciting and in Eden's weather today, callum party cloudy.
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Speaker 9: You got a strong south easterly blowing today. The Hijra thirteen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Claishaw is in christ Church. Good morning, Claire,
20:51
Speaker 2: good morning. Right could alcohol soon be banned in public
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Speaker 2: places in Lincoln?
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Speaker 10: Well, it certainly looks that way. There have been several
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Speaker 10: incidents in recent times around Lincoln. It was obviously a
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Speaker 10: high density student area. Now, in response rather to the
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Speaker 10: concerns about this alcohol harm and related issues, Lincoln University,
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Speaker 10: Selwyn District Council and the police are working together and
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Speaker 10: discussing a potential alcohol free zone in the middle of
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Speaker 10: the fast growing township. Now, before any bylaws can be enforced,
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Speaker 10: councils do have to clearly prove that both a problem
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Speaker 10: exists and an alcohol free zone would be a reasonable
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Speaker 10: way to solve that. Some Wind District Council says it's
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Speaker 10: taking a measured approach to initially understand the level of
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Speaker 10: alcohol consumed in its public places.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 10: In the weather today, fine assigned from a few morning
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Speaker 10: showers for Banks Peninsula. Southwesterly is rising to gale this
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Speaker 10: morning and a high of thirteen degrees.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Claire. Adam Cooper is in Wellington.
21:48
Speaker 2: Good morning, Adam, Morning Francesca. A lot of Texters want
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Speaker 2: to know what is going on with these huge swells
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Speaker 2: which are expected to crash into Wellington's south coast today.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, that's right. So ten meters is the figure that
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Speaker 11: Met Service warning abouts the swells coming through from the
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Speaker 11: south coast due to the southerly weather system that is
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Speaker 11: moving up the country. So round sitted. Late morning early
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Speaker 11: afternoon is when people are expected to be or being
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Speaker 11: told to be on most alert. A state of emergencies
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Speaker 11: in effect for the western and Eastern city wards. There's
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Speaker 11: a mandatory evacuation order in effect at nine am for
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Speaker 11: a waterfront residence between of Fedo and Breaker Bays on
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Speaker 11: the south coast. Wellington Region Emergency Management Office spokesperson Daniel
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Speaker 11: Nearly says in twenty twenty there were heavy swells which
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Speaker 11: notably struck the South coast with five and a half
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Speaker 11: meter waves, so he warns today could be worse. And
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Speaker 11: Nearly says in twenty twenty waves crashed over those South
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Speaker 11: coast roads and hit people's homes which created a risk
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Speaker 11: to property and life, and all cooks straight ferries for
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Speaker 11: the day have been canceled today too.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Wellington's weather today, Adam.
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Speaker 11: Along with those gale winds, we have cloudy periods, scattered
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Speaker 11: showers and high of eleven.
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Speaker 2: Okay, take care down there. Neiva Rittie Mono was in
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Speaker 2: thew Aukland studio. Good morning, Good morning, and you're going
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Speaker 2: to talk about how Auckland is it getting a clearer
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Speaker 2: view of this new housing density plan. Not if you
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Speaker 2: tried to look at the maps yesterday, like I did,
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Speaker 2: try to expand them out and try and sit and
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Speaker 2: you couldn't.
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Speaker 12: See yourself, I know.
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Speaker 2: And that's the thing is they're only indicative. We shouldn't
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Speaker 2: even be looking at them anyway. Nothing's been decided.
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Speaker 12: No, you're quite right, and so what I can say
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Speaker 12: is just expand on the confusion confusion rains is that
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Speaker 12: this Policy Planning and Development Committee, yes, as you say,
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Speaker 12: is going to decide today what option you know that
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Speaker 12: they're going to take to EE local boards with consultation.
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Speaker 12: So of course we know that the government reduced the
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Speaker 12: minimum housing capacity to one point four million. Now the
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Speaker 12: different scenarios we've got here, Scenario A meets the government
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Speaker 12: requirements and apparently Chair Richard Hill says, look, this scenario A,
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Speaker 12: according to it doesn't no and it doesn't give local
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Speaker 12: boards and we much of A say, okay, so that's
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Speaker 12: a B. B keeps intensification around smaller centers only, reducing
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Speaker 12: public transport zones to an allowance of six stories and
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Speaker 12: outlying areas it's.
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Speaker 2: Going to be you don't be you haven't heard C
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Speaker 2: and D oh yeah, I know them. Oh okay, oh
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Speaker 2: you go.
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Speaker 12: See see see allowing for taller buildings in those areas,
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Speaker 12: rezoning a wider area based on public transport access.
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Speaker 2: Nope, but you get you get ten to fifteen story
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Speaker 2: proper year. You do there, you do?
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Speaker 12: Yep, quite wrong.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be an issue.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, and D remaining the same as the initial disputed
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Speaker 12: density plan. So I think you're right, let's fill us
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Speaker 12: with too many people.
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Speaker 2: Are right, they're not going to go. Slide that one
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Speaker 2: off the table and we're good to go.
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Speaker 12: We've got no e So that's it.
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Speaker 6: There you go.
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Speaker 2: Is that clearer?
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Speaker 12: I think people would understand that.
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Speaker 2: Very well done. Thank you. Auckland's with it today.
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Speaker 12: Find apart from the odd early morning shower, seventeen is
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Speaker 12: a high here in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Sounds good. Thank you so much, Neva. Next, we're off
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Speaker 2: to Australia. Donna do Mayo is with us. It is
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Speaker 2: sixteen to.
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Speaker 1: Six International Correspondence with ends and Eye Insurance Peace of
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Speaker 1: Mind for New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: Business fourteen to six. Right, we head to Australia now
24:56
Speaker 2: and Donna DeMeo is with us. Good morning, Donna. Are
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Speaker 2: you there, Donna? Yes, I can now welcome hey. The
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Speaker 2: Prime Minister Anthony Alberenezi has responded to this pretty horrible
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Speaker 2: billboard campaign targeting Victorian Premier just sent to Allen. Is
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Speaker 2: this to do with the trucks featuring the image of
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Speaker 2: her with the witch's hat and the slogan ditch the Witch.
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Speaker 13: Absolutely that these billboards have been appearing for a few
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Speaker 13: weeks now, actually, but we've just heard from the Premier.
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Speaker 13: Oh sorry, the Prime Minister and the Premier in fact
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Speaker 13: one photos being doctored as you mentioned, to show the
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Speaker 13: Premier wearing this black pointed hatten and the warts.
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Speaker 2: On her chin even and this phrase ditch the witch.
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Speaker 13: Anthony Albinizi says the sexist campaign is totally unacceptable, has
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Speaker 13: no place in public life and in his words, we
25:47
Speaker 13: want to encourage women to enter public life and it
25:50
Speaker 13: should not be a contest of idea. Sorry, it should
25:53
Speaker 13: be a contest of ideas, not personal attacks. We've also
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Speaker 13: heard from Julia Gillard, former Prime Minister, and she says
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Speaker 13: she's disgusted to hear that this offensive phrase resurface because
26:07
Speaker 13: she was actually subject to it herself when she was
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Speaker 13: fifteen years ago and she thought she'd seen an improvement
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Speaker 13: in how women were being treated in politics. We also
26:17
Speaker 13: heard from Pauline Hanson who had a message for the
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Speaker 13: Premier and in her words, she said, suck it up, sweetheart.
26:24
Speaker 2: And there you have it. Yeah, another spear fisherman has
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Speaker 2: been killed by a shark, and with an Australia. This
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Speaker 2: is the third in Australia in four weeks. I show
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Speaker 2: that this is deeply concerning and I'm sure it's sort
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Speaker 2: of shaken the confidence of water lovers.
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Speaker 13: Oh absolutely, And this community is in absolute shock and
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Speaker 13: mourning this man. He's thirty five year old man who
26:47
Speaker 13: went spearfishing with his family at the weekend and now
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Speaker 13: this community leaders and say it's going to take some
26:54
Speaker 13: time to heal from this loss. The man was with
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Speaker 13: his dad and his full old nephew on the boat.
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Speaker 13: Now the team had to drive the boat back to
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Speaker 13: Shaw while the victim's dad did what he could after
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Speaker 13: the attack. As you mentioned, third shark attack in Australia
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Speaker 13: in four weeks. We had a thirty eight year old
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Speaker 13: killed recently in a shark attack while spearfishing off Rodney's
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Speaker 13: Island and a thirty nine year old died off for
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Speaker 13: the Far North Queensland coast. Some are talking about a shark,
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Speaker 13: Carl I was saying that wouldn't make a difference. So
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Speaker 13: they're looking at what people can do to stay safe
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Speaker 13: in the water.
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Speaker 2: You have a very tragic story for those families. Thank you
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Speaker 2: so much, Donald. Really quickly, Donna, did we find the
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Speaker 2: owner of the dog that got swept off the rocks
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Speaker 2: in New South Wales.
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Speaker 13: Oh gosh, do you know excuse me, I forgot to
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Speaker 13: follow up.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: It was find out now. It was such a good story.
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Speaker 2: It stayed with me. Anyway, next time we chat, we'll
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Speaker 2: find out. Thank you so much. Don I love you
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Speaker 2: to talk to you News Talk Zibby. The Police Commissioner
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Speaker 2: says a senior officer shouldn't stay in the job after
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Speaker 2: putting his name forward for Labor. Superintendent Rakesh Naid is
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Speaker 2: the Police Partnerships Manager for Ethnic eb and Community Relations. Yesterday,
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Speaker 2: he was announced at number thirteen on Labour's party list,
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Speaker 2: a spot that's likely to see him enter Parliament. The
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Speaker 2: move has sparked concern, with both the Police Commissioner and
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Speaker 2: Police Minister making it clear that they're not happy. Joining
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Speaker 2: me now is Steve Watt, Police Associate President. Thank you
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Speaker 2: very much for your time this morning, Steve, good morning.
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Speaker 5: More than a Francesca.
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Speaker 2: Are you concerned by this?
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Speaker 5: No, not really. Police officers tend to make good politicians.
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Speaker 5: They bring realism, practical way of thinking and lived experience
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Speaker 5: to the house and these are all important characteristics that
28:38
Speaker 5: add value and benefit to everyday New Zealanders.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, he's definitely a good get, isn't he? But
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Speaker 2: is it important for police to stay politically neutral? Can
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Speaker 2: he do his job and do that?
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Speaker 5: Ah? New Zealand police operate independently from government influence and
28:54
Speaker 5: are required to remain apolitical. Because of this, it is
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Speaker 5: important that neutrality and impartial reality is maintained.
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Speaker 2: Do we need better policy to ensure that an issue
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Speaker 2: like this doesn't happen again? Or do we need clarification
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Speaker 2: on the processes that you need to go through if
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Speaker 2: you want to suddenly become a politician.
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Speaker 5: Look, it's not every day that no officer wakes up
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Speaker 5: and goes into politics. And I understand there are policies
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Speaker 5: in place within police and through the Electrical Electoral Commission
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Speaker 5: around this issue. But what this is brought about is
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Speaker 5: that they may need to be highlighted and be a
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Speaker 5: bit clearer for those aspiring to be politicians.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense, doesn't it. If I was wondering
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Speaker 2: if Rakesh was further down the list, would this be
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Speaker 2: that much of an issue. I mean, he's got a
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Speaker 2: very good spot at number thirteen. He is most likely
29:51
Speaker 2: going to be a politician at the end of the year.
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Speaker 2: That certainty around it. Does that make a difference or
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Speaker 2: should it just be across the board.
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Speaker 5: Look, it has to be a the board. Ultimately, the
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Speaker 5: police do need to operate independently, as I've said, So
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Speaker 5: it doesn't kind of matter where you sit within that list.
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Speaker 5: It's you know, you've got aspirations to become a politician
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Speaker 5: into that political environment. So it's really important that neutrality
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Speaker 5: is maintained irrespective of where you sit on that list.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Steve, thank you so much for your time this morning.
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Speaker 2: That was Steve wat they're the Police Association president. Very
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Speaker 2: quickly last night, I can to hear your thoughts on
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Speaker 2: that too. Do you believe that that is the case
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Speaker 2: that if you're a police officer, you are understand that
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Speaker 2: you need to be independent and politically neutral and even
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Speaker 2: though you've got you put your name on a labor
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Speaker 2: party list, that's what you'll be able to do to
30:44
Speaker 2: undertake your job while maintaining that neutrality. Ninety two ninety
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Speaker 2: two is a text like to hear from you, but
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Speaker 2: just very quickly. You might have heard Olli Peterson speak
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Speaker 2: on Drive last night about the passing of a former
30:56
Speaker 2: Australian of the Year. His name was Professor Richard Scollier.
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Speaker 2: He was the pioneer who transformed treating melanoma. Basically, he
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Speaker 2: turned the disease from a death sentence to a curable
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Speaker 2: disease and he ran the Melanoma Institute of Australia. In
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, he was diagnosed with an incurable brain
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Speaker 2: cancer and he used his melanoma research in immunology to
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Speaker 2: treat his condition. He turned himself basically into a human
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Speaker 2: guinea pig and he shared his journey with the public
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Speaker 2: along the way. The cancer he got was really cruel.
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Speaker 2: You're lucky to live six to twelve months, he told me.
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Speaker 2: He died on Sunday, so he did get a couple
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Speaker 2: of extra years with his family through this sort of
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Speaker 2: this research he did on himself. His story is fascinating.
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Speaker 2: I was fortunate enough to interview him. If you want
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Speaker 2: to hear more about his life, if you're interested in
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Speaker 2: medical research, and if you're interested in immunology, then just
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Speaker 2: google the Sunday session in Richard Scolia. He also wrote
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Speaker 2: So the text go like this, the aspiring politician police
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Speaker 2: officer should stand down immediately. Good morning. I believe police
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Speaker 2: need to be separate from politics. Look what's happening in
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Speaker 2: the UK with Henry Noak politics influencing policing. Hi Francisca
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Speaker 2: the police superintendent going on the labor list at such
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Speaker 2: short notice. It's absolutely appalling. Good morning. All government employs
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Speaker 2: eggs are expected to be politically neutral and would have
32:29
Speaker 2: to stand down if they were looking to go into politics.
32:31
Speaker 2: It's not just the police. And it goes on a
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Speaker 2: little bit like that, headed to the Plicicy Oven is in
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Speaker 2: the studio with me. Now she is with you at
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Speaker 2: six not so stressed out about this. No, I think
32:40
Speaker 2: it's going to work itself out. Actually, I mean pretty
32:43
Speaker 2: simply you get a feeling how the police commissioner and
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Speaker 2: the Yes minister feel about it.
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Speaker 14: So, I mean, he's entitled to stand for the Labor
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Speaker 14: Party and he wants to stand for the Labor Party.
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Speaker 2: If you really want to be a politician, why like that?
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Speaker 2: Isn't that the question?
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Speaker 14: Though you're like you have this wonderful job in the cobs.
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Speaker 2: You're up there on police leation. Seed called it. He
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Speaker 2: is a good get though, isn't he? Yeah?
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Speaker 14: But why I mean he must be. I'm thinking I'm
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Speaker 14: just spitballing. But surely to god, this guy is on
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Speaker 14: like three hundred thou right, So now he's going to
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Speaker 14: go be a backbencher on what is that like one
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Speaker 14: seventy or something like that. Plus you also have to
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Speaker 14: deal with the press gallery and everybody's gonna have opinions
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Speaker 14: on you.
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Speaker 2: Hither you know that some people feel drawn to give
33:22
Speaker 2: to their community and their country and to serve their
33:25
Speaker 2: communities and their country. It does, though, so it sets
33:27
Speaker 2: them off kind of badly.
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Speaker 14: He's got off on the wrong foot with people because
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Speaker 14: now he looks sneaky, doesn't.
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Speaker 2: He That a lot of other texts are saying, Look,
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Speaker 2: he couldn't get this process right, So how is he
33:35
Speaker 2: going to come manage process fair enough? Because Parliament is
33:38
Speaker 2: a fair question.
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Speaker 14: So we're gonna have a chat to Chris Hapkin's Chippy's
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Speaker 14: in with us after Huper seven. We'll talk to him
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Speaker 14: about that and also him doing the little rout with
33:46
Speaker 14: the superannuation, buying the beach house.
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Speaker 2: Dear God in me paying off your beach house. No,
33:51
Speaker 2: but I mean, like you know, it's some kind of
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Speaker 2: extra super.
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Speaker 14: Feeling, Like when the contract is up for renegotiation, we're
33:57
Speaker 14: gonna have to have a chat about the super fun.
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Speaker 2: Also, when was the last time you used the phone
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Speaker 2: both or what did you say twenty years ago? Yep, okay,
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Speaker 2: so the phone booths. This has become a doka. I'm
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Speaker 2: interested to hear this. Thank you so much. Here that's
34:13
Speaker 2: up next. Have a great day. I'm back tomorrow.
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