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Full Show Podcast: 02 April 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues is the interviews and the insight. Andrew dickens
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Speaker 2: It'd be he's good morning to you and welcome to
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Speaker 2: your Wednesday. Rain is coming farmers. More of this is
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Speaker 2: just a few months time, but brain is certainly coming
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Speaker 2: coming over the next sixty minutes. It's a return to
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Speaker 2: personal responsibility landowners who will no longer be held liable
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Speaker 2: for recreational accidents on their farm. We'll cover the story
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Speaker 2: in five. Enios is off the All Backs Jersey, so
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Speaker 2: who could be honored in the future that story. In ten,
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Speaker 2: we'll discuss whether Shakespeare is still relevant in the school
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Speaker 2: curriculum in twenty twenty five and the America's cup of Sale.
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Speaker 2: So what do we do wrong? What can we do
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Speaker 2: better in the future. We'll talk to viv Beck just
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Speaker 2: before six we'll have that story. We'll have correspondence around
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Speaker 2: New Zealand. From around New Zealand, we'll talk to Gavin
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Speaker 2: Gray out of the UK. And you can have your
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Speaker 2: say by giving me a text. And the number is
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Speaker 2: ninety two ninety two. A small charge applies. It's seven
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Speaker 2: after five.
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Speaker 1: The agenda well it's been to.
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Speaker 2: Say the second of April, and millions of voters head
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Speaker 2: to the polls in America today for the special elections
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Speaker 2: Wisconsin supreme courts up for grabs and two congressional seats
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Speaker 2: in Florida as well. Some say the race is less
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Speaker 2: about the court and more about a referendum on Elon Musk.
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Speaker 2: And this was Elon at a rally a few nights ago.
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Speaker 3: You want to restore individual freedoms, freedom of speech, just
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Speaker 3: in general, get the government off your back. So and
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Speaker 3: then make sure that you succeed in the United States
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Speaker 3: as a function of your hard work and your talent.
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Speaker 2: Elon Musk and staying in the United States, it's an
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Speaker 2: anxious weight for world leaders. With details of Trump's tariffs
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Speaker 2: are still largely unknown and being announced lated today, Global
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Speaker 2: markets have been volatile as investors prepare for a massive
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Speaker 2: slate of import taxes, and the European Union says we're
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Speaker 2: ready to retaliate.
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Speaker 4: If need be. We will protect our interests, our people
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Speaker 4: and our companies. Europe has not started this confrontration. We
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Speaker 4: do not necessarily want to retaliate, but if it is necessary,
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Speaker 4: we have a strong plan to retaliate.
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Speaker 5: And we will use it.
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Speaker 2: And I'll talk more about that in the moment. And
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Speaker 2: finally to France, where the far right has called for
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Speaker 2: nationwide demonstrations against the court decision to ban Molleene La
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Speaker 2: Penn from public office for five years. President of the
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Speaker 2: party Jordan Bdella has ruled out replacing her. He says
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Speaker 2: the French people will be outraged. Remember the Pen was
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Speaker 2: found guilty for embezzling European funds to finance her party.
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Speaker 2: She's going to appeal.
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Speaker 6: That the system has taken out its nuclear bomb and
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Speaker 6: it's using such a powerful weapon against us. It's, of course,
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Speaker 6: because we're about to win the election. Let me be clear,
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Speaker 6: we will not let the presidential election be stolen from
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Speaker 6: the French.
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Speaker 2: As we're in La Pen and it is nine up to.
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Speaker 1: Five on your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition,
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Speaker 2: Said, be good morning. So today, April second has been
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Speaker 2: called Liberation Day in the United States. It's a name
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Speaker 2: coined by the president. A spokesman for Donald Trump is
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Speaker 2: said that the president will be announcing a tariff plan
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Speaker 2: that will roll back the unfair trade practices that have
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Speaker 2: been ripping off their country for decades, and he's doing
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Speaker 2: this in the best interests of American workers, and I
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Speaker 2: believe him. I think he believes that he is doing
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Speaker 2: the best thing for the American worker. The American manufacturing
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Speaker 2: powerhouse has been depowered by the outsourcing of labor to
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Speaker 2: cheaper markets, and then those markets went learned from the
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Speaker 2: jobs given them, and then they develop their own products
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Speaker 2: that are better and cheaper than anything America can now create,
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Speaker 2: taking away the jobs from American workers. So making overseas
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Speaker 2: manufactured products more expensive in the American market should herd
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Speaker 2: Americans back to their home produced stuff. Well, that's the theory,
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Speaker 2: and in my heart I can approve, because how many
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Speaker 2: times have we said kind of the same thing, how
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Speaker 2: many times have we launched by New Zealand campaigns. But
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Speaker 2: whether this will work and strengthen American manufacturers and the
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Speaker 2: pocket of workers is another thing entirely, because it's a
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Speaker 2: bit like trying to refloat the Titanic when three quarters
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Speaker 2: of it is already underwater. America, remember, was not forced
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Speaker 2: to use and buy Chinese or European or Canadian, or
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Speaker 2: Mexican or Asian stuff in labor, their CEOs, their businesses.
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Speaker 2: Americans chose it willingly in an environment of globalism and
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Speaker 2: free trade agreements, an environment that still exists in most
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Speaker 2: of the world now. The exemplar for this was Apple,
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Speaker 2: of course, they made their phones in China, designed in America,
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Speaker 2: made in China. I'm not sure how the American public
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Speaker 2: will react when all of a sudden they'll see a
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Speaker 2: twenty five percent increase in the price of their cell phones,
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Speaker 2: or their electronic equipment or their cars, because that's the
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Speaker 2: other thing. The tariffs are penalties on overseas countries, but
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Speaker 2: the penalties are paid by a men Americans if they
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Speaker 2: buy those products. Now, we have been through this before
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Speaker 2: when the European Union cut us out of their market,
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Speaker 2: and we learned then that the only thing you could
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Speaker 2: really do was to make things that were so good
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Speaker 2: the Europeans wanted them so badly that pay the extra
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Speaker 2: tax to get them. So no matter what happens today,
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Speaker 2: and we'll have full coverage here on news talks here
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Speaker 2: be the only thing in our control is to keep
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Speaker 2: on making the beef in the dairy that leads the
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Speaker 2: world in its quality. Because quality always wins and the
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Speaker 2: Europeans are thinking about retaliatory actions. I wouldn't suggest that
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Speaker 2: for New Zealand. I wouldn't go tit for tat because
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Speaker 2: we're just too small to play that game. Count dicks
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Speaker 2: twelve minutes out of five. And speaking about global trade,
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Speaker 2: the global dairy trade auction happened overnight. Dairy prices up
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Speaker 2: one point one percent. They're still away off their highs
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Speaker 2: that was back in twenty twenty one. Butter is down
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Speaker 2: one point two percent, whole milk powder virtually unchanged, and
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Speaker 2: the biggest mover is skim milk powder up five point
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Speaker 2: nine percent, and that's good for our trade with China. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 2: the more farming news scatter rain in the forecast today,
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Speaker 2: but even better than that is the widespread rain which
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Speaker 2: is forecast on Thursday and Friday. That's great news for farmers,
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Speaker 2: particularly north of Topa, because have a look at the
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Speaker 2: farms at the moment, they are like, well, they look
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Speaker 2: like parched bone dickens, all right. So and again keeping
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Speaker 2: with the farmers, it's your show this morning. At least
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Speaker 2: at the beginning, landowners will not be legally responsible for
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Speaker 2: recreational activities they permit on their land from now on.
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Speaker 2: So if you're going for a bike ride, going for
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Speaker 2: a ramble you and you hurt yourself, you break your leg, well,
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Speaker 2: it's not the landowner's fault, it's your fault. Return to
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Speaker 2: personal safety. So we'll talk about this with the deer
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Speaker 2: stalkers in just a few moments time. It's thirteen a
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Speaker 2: half to five on NEWSTALKSB.
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Speaker 2: Five point fifteen Stevens text of Beeing says, in some
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Speaker 2: ways Trump is right to have free trades. You need
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Speaker 2: a level playing field like minimum tax rates and minimum
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Speaker 2: wages and robust health and safety rules and visa free travel.
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Speaker 2: And I get that, and yes, you're right in some
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Speaker 2: ways Trump is right. But when you're the only country
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Speaker 2: doing it and everybody else is free trading all over
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Speaker 2: the place and globalizing all over the place, there's a
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Speaker 2: big risk it's all in or all out, really, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what do you think? You can text
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Speaker 2: ninety two ninety two and by the way, compulsory Shakespeare
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Speaker 2: for years ten to thirteen senior secondary school students. Is
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Speaker 2: this do you agree? Is it still relevant in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty five to have a Shakespeare text every year year
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Speaker 2: ten to thirteen. You can text on that as well.
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Speaker 2: And I'll talk about this soon. It's sixteen after five.
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Speaker 2: So the government continues their announcements around health and safety,
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Speaker 2: and this time they reassured landowners that they will not
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Speaker 2: be legally responsible for recreational activities they prevent on their
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Speaker 2: land and their hope is for liability to fall solely
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Speaker 2: on the business or the individual using the land. And
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Speaker 2: Gwyn Thurlough is the CEO of the New Zealand dest
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Speaker 2: Walkers Association and has got up early. In fact, it
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Speaker 2: probably isn't early for you, good and you probably get
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Speaker 2: up at this time all the time. Hello, yeah, good.
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Speaker 7: It's about the early rising time for a good hunter
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Speaker 7: that's keen to get out there at first flight.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I saw yesterday you held this as a return
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Speaker 2: to personal responsibility, which is something we've abandoned in recent years.
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Speaker 7: Absolutely. Yeah, this is exactly what that is. And we've
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Speaker 7: had the work Safe action against landowners for accidents not
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Speaker 7: in their control under the two thousand and fifteen Acts
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Speaker 7: sort of creep into the space of recreation. It was
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Speaker 7: intended for workers and keeping workers safe, and some of
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Speaker 7: the government agencies and the land owners forestry blocks used
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Speaker 7: it to exclude recreation and they just didn't want the
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Speaker 7: risk of having people on their land.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, denying us mountain biking tracks and all sorts of things.
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Speaker 2: Much has this liability that existed beforehand halted recreational activities
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Speaker 2: around New Zealand.
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Speaker 7: It certainly shutgate. It certainly made landowners and corporate landowners
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Speaker 7: and particularly hesitant. Some of our you know, big farms
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Speaker 7: and accesslades are now not just owned by Mum and
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Speaker 7: dad farmers who you knew years ago down the road
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Speaker 7: just you know, speak to Steve and he'll let you in.
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Speaker 7: It created bureaucracy. For example, we solved it for our
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Speaker 7: members by taking out a ten million dollar liability policy
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Speaker 7: to ease the pain on some of those corporate types
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Speaker 7: letting people through or on their land. So it certainly
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Speaker 7: had cost implications, paperwork admin and for clubs like hunting
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Speaker 7: clubs or tramping clubs, it puts a lot of admin
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Speaker 7: on the organizers of trips to do paperwork and risk assessments.
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Speaker 7: It's just a bit like everything. It's turned a lot
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Speaker 7: of things into a bureaucracy and recreation shouldn't be about that.
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Speaker 2: Okay. Now, do landowners now have absolutely no responsibility? Because
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Speaker 2: there was arguments in the courts about for curry White Island,
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Speaker 2: the owners of the land there should have known perhaps
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Speaker 2: that the volcano could explode and could have warned people that,
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Speaker 2: you know, my land's a bit dangerous right now. But
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Speaker 2: do they have absolutely no responsibility now?
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Speaker 7: No, they certainly will have responsibility. They'll have responsibility for
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Speaker 7: their business activities. So if there're a farmer, they're farming.
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Speaker 7: If there a forestry company as forestry workers and the
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Speaker 7: structures around their business. But if we're just going out
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Speaker 7: the back blocks to access some fishing or go to
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Speaker 7: Hiker Mountain, that's a dock block that backs onto a
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Speaker 7: private land and we're walking through, that's where they shouldn't
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Speaker 7: be liable. But as always, they're going to have to
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Speaker 7: identify hazards and do things safely themselves. But it means that,
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Speaker 7: for example, if I'm taking a group of people through
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Speaker 7: their land on a walk, that I will be responsible
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Speaker 7: for that walking activity. It's got nothing to do with
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Speaker 7: farming or forestry. It's just recreating.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Gwynn, happy hunting and thank you so much for
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Speaker 2: joining us. That is Gwynn Thurlow, who is the CEO
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Speaker 2: of the New Zealand d Stalker's Association. So Jim Ratcliffe
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Speaker 2: paid up to the All Blacks and even gave him
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Speaker 2: a little bit more. But now Ineos is going to
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Speaker 2: be off the jerseys. So what have we learned from
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Speaker 2: that and what can we do going forward? And who
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Speaker 2: might want to be on the jersey. We'll talk about
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Speaker 2: this in a few moments time with a fellow who
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Speaker 2: used to run Sachi and Sachi so he knows his branding.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens on a billion edition with one roof to
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Speaker 1: make your Property search simple, Youth Dog Zibby.
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Speaker 2: Five twenty two. Well New Zealand Rugby and Ineos their
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Speaker 2: sponsorship feud has officially ended in the High Court. New
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Speaker 2: Zealand Rugby took the petrochemical company to task Ineos when
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Speaker 2: terminated a twenty one million dollar a year deal with
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Speaker 2: the All Blacks brand. It's believed that Jim Racliffe, the
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Speaker 2: billionaire and the owner of Inios, has now paid what
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Speaker 2: it owed the twenty twenty five deal. So that's good
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Speaker 2: and even off at a small additional payment on top.
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Speaker 7: So.
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Speaker 2: Mike Hutchinson is a marketing expert. He is a former
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Speaker 2: managing director of Sachi and Sachi and despite being an
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Speaker 2: advertising he's up early too. Good morning to you, Mike.
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Speaker 8: I was just saying to your producer, I got working
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Speaker 8: early to cat jump on the bed and then followed
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Speaker 8: by the dog, the dogs of Bernie's mountain dog, you
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Speaker 8: know when she jumps on the bed.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, very good.
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Speaker 8: Are you?
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Speaker 2: Are you surprised that New Zealand Raby did so well
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Speaker 2: out of the court battle?
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Speaker 8: I think in the end it's probably quite benevisual and
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Speaker 8: assuming that I could pick up the right kind of
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Speaker 8: replacement sponsorship, I think they didn't do too badly.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So where are we going from here? And what
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Speaker 2: lessons should we learn from all of this if we're
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Speaker 2: looking for someone to replace Inios Because we thought that
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Speaker 2: in the Os was going to be great. It was huge.
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Speaker 2: Gym was rich and they have the money and they
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Speaker 2: were proud of it all. And yeah there were some dodgings,
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Speaker 2: you know, looks about it because it was a petrochemical company.
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Speaker 2: But we thought this is good, this is going to
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Speaker 2: be a regular income. Who should we be going for him?
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Speaker 8: Well, sadly, they probably need to replace it with something
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Speaker 8: like inios, I mean even ultra d of course who
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Speaker 8: are in a sponsored locally are were the more an
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Speaker 8: infrastructure and some chemicals. But you need to chase somebody
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Speaker 8: like a Jim Radcliffe or a Aldred who can make
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Speaker 8: a call. If you're going to chase after a big corporation,
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Speaker 8: you have to get buy in from everyone down the line,
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Speaker 8: including a board of directors and some one. So it's
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Speaker 8: best to go after an organization is run by someone
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Speaker 8: perhaps even autocratic, but who can make a call quite quickly.
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Speaker 8: And sadly that the numbers are very very small. We're
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Speaker 8: a tiny country in the bottom righting cord of the world.
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Speaker 8: We're not well up there, certainly not in the States.
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Speaker 8: The big the big players are in the States, and
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Speaker 8: you've got to look hard to find someone who can
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Speaker 8: afford this spont to the orblex.
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Speaker 2: So so you're saying that the all Blacks Jersey is
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Speaker 2: really a vanity investment, someone who just like kids.
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Speaker 8: I reckon. I reckon because I'm sure, but see someone
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Speaker 8: like Altrad. I think they're into infrastructure, scaffolding, petrochemical stuff.
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Speaker 8: They build plants, they build big things, and I can
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Speaker 8: imagine the halo effect of that for Ultrad is terrific.
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Speaker 8: And I think that Altred himself, I think it was
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Speaker 8: educated in France. He probably knows about the power of
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Speaker 8: rugby and sprinting in France and in Europe, and so
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Speaker 8: it's probably quite a good mix. But that's the kind
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Speaker 8: of person you're going to go after. You're not going
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Speaker 8: to go after one of the big banks. You're not
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Speaker 8: going to go after Microsoft or.
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Speaker 2: Mike. Very good, thank you so much for your experctis
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Speaker 2: and going for the cat and the dog right now.
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Speaker 2: And now they've got to give a new sponsor in
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Speaker 2: a very short space of time. And it's interesting. Is
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Speaker 2: the all Backs brand still syllable? As Mike said, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's not a big game in American Shakespeare. How do
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Speaker 2: you feel about Shakespeare being compulsory? Years ten to thirteen
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Speaker 2: It is five twenty seven, so the draft year seven
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Speaker 2: to thirteen English Curriculum. Okay, Matt yesterday, and it proposes
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Speaker 2: compulsory Shakespeare for senior secondary school students. You're going to
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Speaker 2: have to do one of the plays you attend to thirteen.
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Speaker 2: That provoked a bit of a debate about the relevance
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Speaker 2: of Shakespeare in this day and age. Now, Shakespeare is
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Speaker 2: obviously very very important, but is it essential? Because even
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Speaker 2: when I was at secondary school, which is a very
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Speaker 2: long time ago, now forty five years ago, Shakespeare was
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Speaker 2: not popular amongst students. One year, we were studying Hamlet.
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Speaker 2: So the school, a major school in Auckland, Grammar School.
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Speaker 2: The school organized an afternoon matinee of the play and
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Speaker 2: it happened at the Mercury Theater. So we all got
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Speaker 2: on buses and we turned up to the Mercury Theater
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Speaker 2: and we were so rowdy that a young Michael Hurst,
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Speaker 2: who was playing the Danish Prince, commented that this is
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Speaker 2: the worst audience I have ever encountered in the theater.
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Speaker 2: A whole theater full of boys hating Hamlet. We didn't
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Speaker 2: even calm down during the sword fights. However, that did
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Speaker 2: not happen when we studied more modern texts like Arthur
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Speaker 2: Miller's Death of a Salesman or even Thomas Becket's Murder
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Speaker 2: in the Cathedral, Because I'll tell you why those plays
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Speaker 2: use language. We understood. Those plays had themes we could
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Speaker 2: relate to, as Shakespeare did not. To teach, you must engage.
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Speaker 2: And much in all as we bemoan the fall of
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Speaker 2: Shakespeare amongst the young, he's still so strong that his
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Speaker 2: influence of the modern world will not fail. So what
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Speaker 2: will engage the kids? And I really don't know. This
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Speaker 2: generation is less engaged in all sorts of stuff than
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Speaker 2: ever so much so I had to explain who Bob
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Speaker 2: Geldoff was to my twenty six year old son the
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Speaker 2: other day. And speaking of rock and roll, I'll tell
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Speaker 2: you the most engagement I ever had at school was
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Speaker 2: when my Engish teacher said we should study the lyrics
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Speaker 2: of David Bowie's song Time from the Aladdinsane album. And
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Speaker 2: we loved it and we got into in depth. And
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Speaker 2: let's remember, here's another thing. In twenty sixteen, Bob Dylan
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Speaker 2: won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Would anyone mind if
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Speaker 2: he was added to the curriculum. I don't think so.
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Speaker 2: So what do you think by the way. I also
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Speaker 2: see the new curriculum says that spelling and keyboard lessons
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Speaker 2: for children at intermediate schools should be compulsory. You mean
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Speaker 2: that not already? How do I can survive in this
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Speaker 2: modern world?
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Speaker 2: Welcome to your Thursday. I thank you so much for listening,
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Speaker 2: but also for contributing by sitting in your texts to
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Speaker 2: Multi two ninety two small charge of Piers on Shakespeare
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Speaker 2: compulsory years ten to thirteen. I'm a sixty seven year
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Speaker 2: old retired professional with a good education. I am dead
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Speaker 2: again Shakespeare being a compulsory subject. I have not once
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Speaker 2: found a use for Shakespeare in my working or social
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Speaker 2: life since studying it. It's elitism. However, on the other hand,
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Speaker 2: I've also got a text from Marge March. Here is Shakespeare.
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Speaker 2: You know how you always know stuff in your job
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Speaker 2: which is really not used much or f at all.
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Speaker 2: Learning that stuff trains your brain to learn the little stuff,
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Speaker 2: and that training is useful overall. To the America's Cup
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Speaker 2: we go. There's no money for the America's Cup, no
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Speaker 2: public money and no kidding, there's not enough public money
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Speaker 2: for a lot of stuff, let alone a saving competition.
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Speaker 2: But that's comparing apples with oranges. To be fair, we're
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Speaker 2: in the era of need to haves, not nice to haves,
18:58
Speaker 2: and you have to admit though that some to have
19:01
Speaker 2: make us feel good, contribute to the sense of national
19:03
Speaker 2: well being and confidence. We are gradually being priced out
19:06
Speaker 2: of major events because we're small, We can't compete with
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Speaker 2: bums on seats, and our time zone is bad for
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Speaker 2: the international markets. We are not going to get the Olympics.
19:14
Speaker 2: The Commonwealth Games appeared dead. The chances of getting the
19:17
Speaker 2: Rugby World Cup again seem limited because of our small stadiums.
19:21
Speaker 2: The Winter Games folded, thank God for sale GP. So
19:24
Speaker 2: we had this link to one big event. Why are
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Speaker 2: we letting it go? It fits the government's agenda for
19:30
Speaker 2: New Zealand as being good for high end tourism, sponsoring
19:33
Speaker 2: innovation and manufacturing and technology, stimulating restaurants and hospitality. And
19:38
Speaker 2: of course it says yes instead of no, which the
19:42
Speaker 2: government would like us to say more often. It's upset
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Speaker 2: a lot of people. This cause for a better funding
19:46
Speaker 2: model so we can put our hands up for these things.
19:48
Speaker 2: This is a global event that landed in our laps
19:52
Speaker 2: and it makes the country feel good, even if we
19:55
Speaker 2: don't give U stuff about sailing and what is wrong
19:58
Speaker 2: with one nice to have just to make the country
20:01
Speaker 2: feel that we're not an irrelevant And I got an
20:05
Speaker 2: email from Andy Fromkrastiach who said the America's Cup what
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Speaker 2: a wasted opportunity to invest in a money maker for Auckland,
20:10
Speaker 2: bringing in tourism in a long term build up gone
20:14
Speaker 2: from Auckland as this government is afraid to spend in
20:16
Speaker 2: anything money to make money. And I thought Christopher Luxman
20:19
Speaker 2: was a businessman. And Andy's last words is if you
20:22
Speaker 2: don't invest, you don't make any money. Twenty one to
20:26
Speaker 2: six seconds around the country. We go into Dunedin and
20:29
Speaker 2: it's good morning to calm proctive morning, heln morning. Andrew
20:32
Speaker 2: so we've been hearing about it on the telenews. The
20:34
Speaker 2: data states of healthcare in Otago here.
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Speaker 10: This is Health Action Wanaka who have issued this report
20:43
Speaker 10: shedding light on the dire state of healthcare in the
20:46
Speaker 10: Upper Kluther region. It's found that there's significant unmet needs
20:50
Speaker 10: there following a consultation with the community. The report shows
20:53
Speaker 10: young people are being turned away from mental health services,
20:56
Speaker 10: elderly and pregnant residents are having to travel to Dunedan
20:59
Speaker 10: due to a lack of local facilities. Youth Services Providers
21:03
Speaker 10: ADL Chief Executive Clive MacArthur says there's things like telehealth
21:07
Speaker 10: services maybe one solution as Uppercluther is very isolated. The
21:11
Speaker 10: Health Minister, Simon Brown's asked officials for advice on this
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Speaker 10: report and says he's looking forward to the recommendations.
21:17
Speaker 2: How's Dindi's weather, chance of a light shower through the
21:21
Speaker 2: day today? And seventeen Claise here, we're from christ Church.
21:23
Speaker 2: Good morning to you.
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Speaker 11: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: So the Council is looking at the draft annual plan
21:28
Speaker 2: and a lot of Cantabrians have had their say, yeah,
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Speaker 2: quite a few.
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Speaker 12: Anyway, we do know that the response rate is not
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Speaker 12: great on consultation for these things, Andrew, But councilors are
21:38
Speaker 12: going to begin considering more than one thousand submissions on
21:41
Speaker 12: the draft annual plan here in christ Church today. The
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Speaker 12: Council here is proposing a combined one point five billion
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Speaker 12: dollars on day to day services and capital works. In
21:49
Speaker 12: this plan, there's an average rate rise proposed of seven
21:53
Speaker 12: point five to eight percent. Now, the Council will hear
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Speaker 12: directly from one hundred groups and individuals, with hearing beginning today.
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Speaker 12: Mayor Film Major says transport, parks and rates affordability are
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Speaker 12: the issues that gained the most attention during the consultation phase.
22:08
Speaker 12: He says counselors will vow to consider every single bit
22:12
Speaker 12: of feedback.
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Speaker 2: Hous Canterbury's weather Patrie.
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Speaker 12: Drizzle clearing early this afternoon, but will remain cloudy, northeasterlyies
22:19
Speaker 12: and the high of seventeen.
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Speaker 2: Max told joins you from Wellington. Hello, Max, good morning.
22:24
Speaker 2: Talk to me about the Mayor's business group.
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Speaker 13: Yes, so, there are documents that our reporter Ethan Minira
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Speaker 13: has tracked down that shine a light on why two
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Speaker 13: members of the Wellington Mayor's high profile business group abruptly
22:36
Speaker 13: quit last year Tory. Fino established the group in part,
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Speaker 13: at least account of the narrative that she and the
22:41
Speaker 13: council weren't listening to business at Willis Bond developer Mark
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Speaker 13: McGuinness he was one of them. His sudden exit came
22:49
Speaker 13: in the form of an email we have now received
22:52
Speaker 13: which criticizes the Golden Mild pedestrian works. He says tens
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Speaker 13: of millions of dollars would be far, but has spent
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Speaker 13: directly targeting safety and homelessness, and he believes the group
23:01
Speaker 13: isn't doing enough to alleviate the high cost of doing
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Speaker 13: business in Wellington. A fellow group member who's still a
23:07
Speaker 13: group member, who works in property, echoes those concerns, saying
23:10
Speaker 13: there's a lack of public appetite for a massive roading
23:13
Speaker 13: project and fears businesses will die as it's carried out,
23:16
Speaker 13: not surviving long enough to see its benefits. Afino says
23:20
Speaker 13: some members of her group do support the Golden Miles,
23:22
Speaker 13: some don't. She insists, still businesses are being listened to.
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Speaker 2: Okay, how's Wellington's weather?
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Speaker 13: Mostly cloudy, afternoon, fine breaks southerleast twenty.
23:32
Speaker 2: And never ready. Man who joins me from walkanhell.
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Speaker 11: Greetings.
23:35
Speaker 2: So Polyfisk gets underway today. This is the world's largest
23:38
Speaker 2: Maori and Pacific Island festival.
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Speaker 11: Correct end. It's celebrating fifty years today. So we've got
23:44
Speaker 11: seventy seven schools that's from across the region taking part,
23:47
Speaker 11: alongside five from outside the city and two groups coming
23:50
Speaker 11: from Australia as well. So a crowd of about injury
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Speaker 11: seventy five thousand people that's expected over the next four days.
23:57
Speaker 11: Pretty good the event. That's come a long way from
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Speaker 11: only four schools performing back in the day fifty years ago.
24:03
Speaker 11: So the speech competition is also growing in numbers, as
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Speaker 11: is the online audience watching from overseas.
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Speaker 2: I've been to one. I went to one at the
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Speaker 2: Monico Sports Bowl and it was it was spine tingling.
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Speaker 2: It was magnificent. It's like the Junior Kappa Haka World Championships.
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Speaker 2: It's so good.
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Speaker 14: Yea, how's it still there?
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Speaker 11: Two at the Monico Sports good?
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Speaker 2: Well, how's orsa?
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Speaker 8: Well?
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Speaker 11: We've got cloudy conditions today, isolated chows mainly from afternoon
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Speaker 11: high twenty three, but the rain is coming for Auckland
24:28
Speaker 11: over the next three or four days.
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Speaker 2: Everybody quite right, Thursday and Friday Saturday. It comes a
24:33
Speaker 2: bit right. Congratulations farmers, you're welcome. It is seven to six,
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Speaker 2: seventeen to six. Another text through Andrew. I have to
24:41
Speaker 2: say I'm getting quite annoyed at the constant references to
24:43
Speaker 2: the two billion dollar benefit to the Barcelona economy from
24:45
Speaker 2: the America's Cup. It's a half truth. The factors. It's
24:48
Speaker 2: bloody easy for the European rich listers to sell their
24:51
Speaker 2: luxury boats around the corner, and it's only an hour
24:53
Speaker 2: or two's flight. Compare that to the same people wanting
24:56
Speaker 2: to come right round the world to New Zealand. You're
24:58
Speaker 2: buddy dreaming. Here's my text. We absolutely should not fund this.
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Speaker 2: We can't even afford our current debt, so why should
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Speaker 2: we do this? Seventy five million, by the way, is
25:06
Speaker 2: that a big price. We're going to talk to Vi
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Speaker 2: Beck about this just before six, But next it's Gavin
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Speaker 2: So it is a liberation day today in the United
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Speaker 2: States of America, where Donald Trump announces the tariffs. He says,
26:32
Speaker 2: it's going to be historic. There will be no tariffs
26:35
Speaker 2: if you make in America, he says. So let's go
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Speaker 2: to the to Europe right now, to Gavin Gray out
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Speaker 2: of the UK oneing to you, Gavin, hither Andrew with
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Speaker 2: liberation on the way. The UK and the EU are
26:45
Speaker 2: already plotting their own responses to Trump's planned tariffs.
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Speaker 5: They are. The UK seems much more sort of at
26:52
Speaker 5: peace with it, suggesting they will if they think it's necessary,
26:57
Speaker 5: take tariffs as well, approach that the EU, who is
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Speaker 5: saying they are much more likely to do. And the
27:03
Speaker 5: reason is that the UK is hoping they're going to
27:05
Speaker 5: be able to negotiate a trade deal sooner rather than later.
27:09
Speaker 5: And if they don't retaliate, they believe that that'll please
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Speaker 5: Donald Trump and therefore they may get some sort of
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Speaker 5: a better deal than if they do either way, these
27:18
Speaker 5: high stakes. The EU saying it's going to considerably knock
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Speaker 5: their manufacturing base, particularly the big two economies Germany and France.
27:26
Speaker 5: The UK well known to be saying that this could
27:29
Speaker 5: knock the British economy by one percent in the worst
27:32
Speaker 5: case scenario if an all out trade walk took place.
27:36
Speaker 5: But the UK, I think already not taking action over
27:39
Speaker 5: the steel and aluminium tariffs. Instead, it's waiting to see
27:42
Speaker 5: what's been said. At times, Donald Trump suggested that because
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Speaker 5: the UK has a similar export to the US's import,
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Speaker 5: in other words, there's not a great trade imbalance, that
27:54
Speaker 5: they might escape the trade taxes. And then the next
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Speaker 5: minute Donald Trump is no, he is going to put
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Speaker 5: the UK in with the EU and the worldwide tariff.
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Speaker 5: So we're simply waiting to find out.
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Speaker 2: Now, this is an epislater on this afternoon, and now
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Speaker 2: unrisked in France, says Marine Lapin can't run for political
28:15
Speaker 2: office for the next five years.
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Speaker 5: No, that's right. So she, along with others of her
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Speaker 5: National Rally party, have been found guilty of embezzling roughly
28:24
Speaker 5: five and a half million New Zealand dollars of EU
28:26
Speaker 5: funds for use in France by her own party. Now,
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Speaker 5: among the sentencing is that she can't run for political
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Speaker 5: office for five years, and that is devastating for her
28:38
Speaker 5: because there is a presidential election in twenty twenty seven
28:41
Speaker 5: and she at the moment in the opinion polls is
28:44
Speaker 5: the front runner. At least she was now she is
28:47
Speaker 5: getting to appeal that sentence, but it just goes to
28:49
Speaker 5: show the height of feeling now in France, with some
28:52
Speaker 5: saying that they believe democracy is at stake. The far
28:56
Speaker 5: right leader Jordan Bardea. He has now called on people
28:59
Speaker 5: to rally in the center of Paris on Sunday, saying
29:02
Speaker 5: that they need to overturn this decision, and also Marine.
29:05
Speaker 5: Le Penn has received support from the Deputy Prime Minister
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Speaker 5: of Italy, Mattio Salva, who said we are not intimidated.
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Speaker 5: Full speed ahead. He's the hardline right wing candidate there.
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Speaker 5: The Populist Builders of the Netherlands largest political party, another
29:21
Speaker 5: right winger, said that lo Penn would win her appeal
29:24
Speaker 5: and that she would be France's next president and also
29:26
Speaker 5: the prime minister. Controversial Prime Minister of Hungary Victor Auburn,
29:30
Speaker 5: also saying support for her with josuis marine in other words,
29:34
Speaker 5: I am marine, So lots of support for her, but
29:37
Speaker 5: will she get that overturned?
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Speaker 2: Kevin Gray and I thank you. It is now nine
29:41
Speaker 2: minutes to six.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Dickins, all right.
29:44
Speaker 2: We're not getting the America's cup orkandun Limited yesterday announced
29:47
Speaker 2: it's not going any further because the government won't put
29:50
Speaker 2: any money in seventy five million. They say, how did
29:53
Speaker 2: the city CEO of vic joins me? Now, Hi, vic Vivo.
29:57
Speaker 2: A lot of people, a lot of people upset about
29:59
Speaker 2: the same an opportunity wasted. Do you believe that?
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Speaker 15: Yeah, well, yes, that's exactly what we said. To be honest,
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Speaker 15: it is a golden opportunity list.
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Speaker 2: But it's seventy five million dollars and we are poor
30:10
Speaker 2: right now? What do you say to that?
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Speaker 15: But remember when we spoke a few weeks ago, I
30:13
Speaker 15: talked about how much effort has gone into raising the
30:17
Speaker 15: importance of major events and alternative forms of funding. So
30:22
Speaker 15: I think the biggest disappointment is that there has been
30:25
Speaker 15: from us and many others of significant effort gone into
30:29
Speaker 15: saying that we do need to find alternative ways. Suggestions
30:33
Speaker 15: were made, and this opportunity. The reason it's so disappointing
30:37
Speaker 15: is it's right for the picking. I mean, we've got
30:39
Speaker 15: the infrastructure, the economic benefits would be there, and if
30:43
Speaker 15: there had been quicker action on finding alternative funding, I
30:46
Speaker 15: mean we understand that there are other priorities of government,
30:50
Speaker 15: but growth is also a big opportunity, a big priority,
30:54
Speaker 15: and you know the reality is that the gest alone
30:57
Speaker 15: could pay for that money. So I think with some
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Speaker 15: imagination and will and determination it would have been it
31:04
Speaker 15: could have been a different result.
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Speaker 2: And it's not just an auckland and a sailing topic.
31:09
Speaker 2: Steve armatatsrom hospitality in New Zealand says we need a
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Speaker 2: nationwide strategy to attract events instead of our piecemeal region
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Speaker 2: by regional approach or event by event approach.
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Speaker 8: Do you agree absolutely?
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Speaker 15: I mean, I think the look, we've got a lot
31:22
Speaker 15: of great work going on in that space, and there's
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Speaker 15: a lot of expertise, so I don't want to knock
31:27
Speaker 15: the work that is done for the limited funding. But
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Speaker 15: we know we don't compete internationally now often we don't.
31:33
Speaker 15: We're a small country.
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Speaker 5: We get that.
31:35
Speaker 15: But I think we do have to have the energy
31:37
Speaker 15: and drive and will to try and find ways to
31:41
Speaker 15: actually grow this because you know we do. Events are
31:45
Speaker 15: a great way of attracting people here. It's not just
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Speaker 15: a one time wonder that people come and have a
31:50
Speaker 15: great time. I mean the benefits from from trade and jobs,
31:54
Speaker 15: international profile. You look at Barcelona. I mean, imagine if
31:58
Speaker 15: we had that in twenty when he said something along
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Speaker 15: those lines at a time where we really do need
32:05
Speaker 15: to have something that actually excites people that we literally
32:09
Speaker 15: are growing and not just full of problems.
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Speaker 2: Verve Beck and I thank you so much for getting
32:15
Speaker 2: up earlier. It was seven minutes to sexist news Talk set.
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Speaker 1: B get ahead of the headlines on early edition, Andrew
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Speaker 2: Be so or the Shakespeare and all this America's cups thing.
32:30
Speaker 2: This last thing I want to say the Malory Party
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Speaker 2: refusing to appear in front of the Parliamentary Privileged Committee
32:34
Speaker 2: over their hocker in the House and they claim the
32:36
Speaker 2: process has been disrespectful to Maori tikanger. Can I remind
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Speaker 2: the Maori Party that the Privileged Committee is part of
32:42
Speaker 2: European tickanger and they're disrespecting it. And what source for
32:45
Speaker 2: the Goose's source for the gander? So why don't they
32:48
Speaker 2: just turn up and argue their point, because isn't that
32:50
Speaker 2: their job? You go to Parliament and you argue your
32:52
Speaker 2: cause not to boycott it? Is this racial hypocrisy and
32:56
Speaker 2: Mike Hosking, I see you're talking to Graham Edula today. Yeah,
32:59
Speaker 2: I am.
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Speaker 14: And the thing about the Privileges Committee, I'm not sure
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Speaker 14: how many people follow this. The Privileges Committee is tremendously
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Speaker 14: powerful and can throw you in jail, and they have
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Speaker 14: the ability to do all sorts of things they never do,
33:13
Speaker 14: and so the interface at the moment is whether they'll
33:16
Speaker 14: actually do anything because they can, and they can summons you.
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Speaker 14: They haven't been summoned yet. Normally you're invited along and
33:21
Speaker 14: you say sorry or whatever. So and Henery did that
33:24
Speaker 14: the other day. He said sorry because he was part
33:26
Speaker 14: of the original thing. So anyway, they're doing what the
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Speaker 14: married party does. And it's the ball I guess is
33:30
Speaker 14: in the Privileges Committee's court to go, Well, if we
33:33
Speaker 14: don't do something here, we're going to look inept.
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Speaker 2: Didn't they dock the pay of the mint?
33:37
Speaker 13: Yes, she did.
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Speaker 14: The young lady got docked, so she's been partially That's
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Speaker 14: why the married party you're arguing double jeopardy on this one.
33:45
Speaker 14: But and they wanted to be heard together. It's just
33:47
Speaker 14: the usual, you know, if you start taking them seriously.
33:50
Speaker 14: So anyway, the balls in their court will talk about
33:51
Speaker 14: that a little bit on the America's Cup because Mark
33:53
Speaker 14: Mitchell happens to be on anyway, and he's the Minister
33:55
Speaker 14: of Stress. Seventy five million, so over three years, which
33:58
Speaker 14: is what it is, million a month. You're telling me
34:01
Speaker 14: we don't have two million dollars a month that spend
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Speaker 14: there on fire that's been there on.
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Speaker 2: Thank you to Rochester Kenzie. My name is Andrew. I
34:08
Speaker 2: can see you again tomorrow.
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Speaker 15: I have a great day.
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