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Full Show Podcast: 25 March 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: an Earliereditio with one roof love where you live News Talks,
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Speaker 1: it'd be.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, sticks up the five. Good to have you
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Speaker 2: company this morning. There's a new poll out on the leaders.
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Speaker 2: I'll give you the details. We'll look at that text
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Speaker 2: package from Nichola Willis yesterday Gavin Graham the UK for
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Speaker 2: US and McCain. They've done it again. Another processor is
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Speaker 2: xing production.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It's Wednesday, the twenty fifth of March. Talkers JD Varnce
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Speaker 2: could be the guide to negotiate with the Iranians. Still
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Speaker 2: no clear at this point what anything they're talking about currently.
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Speaker 3: What we do know is that Pakistan has said that
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Speaker 3: they have spoken to senior officials in Iran, but Pakistan
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Speaker 3: has not publicly confirmed has been whether they have been
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Speaker 3: having these same conversations with senior officials.
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Speaker 4: In the US.
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Speaker 3: So at the moment, really highly speculative. No one going
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Speaker 3: on record not only about the talks, but even confirming
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Speaker 3: that there are talks about the talks.
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Speaker 2: I've talked to you about the JD thing in just
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Speaker 2: a second. Who was the most gung ho on the
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Speaker 2: war to begin with Trump says it was higsth.
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Speaker 5: Peter.
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Speaker 6: I think you were the first one to speak up,
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Speaker 6: and you said let's do it, because you can't let
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Speaker 6: them have a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 2: You call them the secretary of war. I guess the
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Speaker 2: guys want to go to war, isn't he governments around
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Speaker 2: the world splashing the cash, not like during the COVID days.
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Speaker 2: Even labor in the UK says, you can't help everyone
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Speaker 2: with the power Bill Rachel reeves.
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Speaker 7: Later this week, I'm holding meetings with supermarkets and with
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Speaker 7: banks to discuss how they can further support their customers.
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Speaker 7: We have a world class competition and consumer protection regime,
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Speaker 7: and since my last statement, the Competition and Markets Authority
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Speaker 7: have stepped up. There's such a true monitoring of fuel prices.
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Speaker 2: The Philippines president has declared a state of national Energy emergency.
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Speaker 8: What does this executive arguer mean?
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Speaker 2: Well, it gives the government power.
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Speaker 8: Is to control the distribution of food.
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Speaker 9: It also is.
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Speaker 7: Able to control movement and saw reduce the reliance on
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Speaker 7: energy as much.
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Speaker 2: And finally, this morning it's talked about something that's not war.
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Speaker 1: Get Ahead of the Headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and One Root Love where You Live News Talks
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Speaker 1: a'd me.
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Speaker 2: Kenzie is the producer of the show and does a
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Speaker 2: brilliant job. It is nine minutes after five. So Jdevarnce,
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Speaker 2: what's going on? Why is he in the news? So
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Speaker 2: aside from the fact he's the President of the United States.
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Speaker 2: But Pakistan's Prime Minister has said they want to They're
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Speaker 2: putting their hand up saying we want to host these
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Speaker 2: peace talks or cease fire talks, whatever they might be
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Speaker 2: between the US and let's face it, Israel and Iran.
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Speaker 2: So Pakistani sources say jd Vance is the guy being
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Speaker 2: put forward as the chief negotiated from the US side
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Speaker 2: they could start talks in Islamabad as early as next week.
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Speaker 2: None of this has been confirmed, by the way. This
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Speaker 2: is all officials briefing journalists. But it's interesting because Iran
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Speaker 2: apparently doesn't want to talk to Witkoff and Kushna. You know,
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Speaker 2: Trump's son in law. They're his special envoys. They go
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Speaker 2: around the world, they go to Russia, they go to
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Speaker 2: talk to Venezuela that anywhere there's a hot spot or problem,
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Speaker 2: he sends in Witkoff and Kushna. Now the problem with
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Speaker 2: Witkoff and Kushna is that they were sent in to
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Speaker 2: do the nuclear talks with Iran and then what did
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Speaker 2: Trump and now we know Higgs Seth do turn around
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Speaker 2: and bomb the hell out of them. So not a
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Speaker 2: lot of trust going on. So apparently the reigning don't
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Speaker 2: want to talk to them, so maybe they'll talk to
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Speaker 2: Jdi Varnce is the thinking at the moment. So that's
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Speaker 2: the update for you. Also overnight you'll hear a bit
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Speaker 2: about this today. There is a base like a multi
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Speaker 2: national camp of soldiers in northern Iraq and apparently last
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Speaker 2: night British special forces at the base had to shoot
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Speaker 2: out of the sky fourteen Iranian suicide drones or Kamikazi drones,
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Speaker 2: because they're just trying to hammer them anywhere they can.
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Speaker 2: And the Italians have already pulled out of this base,
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Speaker 2: and the reason that they're there in the first place
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Speaker 2: was to basically isis. It's a NATO base, a coalition
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Speaker 2: against ISIS. So you've got a bunch of Brits there,
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Speaker 2: you had some Italians there, You've got some Americans there.
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Speaker 2: Italians pull out. Brits are getting hammered with Kamakazie drones
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Speaker 2: and thankfully they're shooting them out of the sky. Still
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Speaker 2: waiting to hear if anyone has been injured. Gavin Gray
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Speaker 2: will update that on us at about quarter two this morning,
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Speaker 2: the bridge from five to eleven. We're going to Central
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Speaker 2: Hawk's Bay. Next, there is a McCain you've done in
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Speaker 2: a game situation. This is another veggie producer who is
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Speaker 2: closing down a factory. We'll ask why and also how
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Speaker 2: many No one's really said how many staff, how many
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Speaker 2: farmers affected by this? Will talk to the man next on.
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Speaker 1: Your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and One roof Love, where you live.
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Speaker 2: News Talk sad Be thirteen minutes after five Ryan, this
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Speaker 2: is from Taylor fuel package. Where to start? Eleven percent,
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Speaker 2: we'll get it. What about the other eighty nine percent, Well,
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Speaker 2: we'll address that just before five point thirty this morning, Taylor,
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Speaker 2: thanks for your message very quickly to this poll. It's
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Speaker 2: from the Herald. It's done with Consumer Link that's part
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Speaker 2: of the Cantar network. It's basically post war and post
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Speaker 2: Chippy X wife situation, and they asked hefvier, has your
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Speaker 2: opinion of them changed in light of everything that's going on?
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Speaker 2: Have recent events changed your view of Christopher Luxen as
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Speaker 2: National Party leader and prime minister. I'll get to Chippy
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Speaker 2: in a second. The results showed fifty one percent so
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Speaker 2: half said there had been no change for Luxen. Thirty
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Speaker 2: eight percent said their view had changed for the worse,
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Speaker 2: ten percent said for the better. He has a net
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Speaker 2: score of negative twenty eight. Okay, so good but not great,
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Speaker 2: or bad but not terrible and Hipkins same thing. Half.
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Speaker 2: Fifty one percent also said their view had not changed.
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Speaker 2: Thirty four percent said their view had changed for the worse,
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Speaker 2: fifteen percent for the better. His net score minus nineteen,
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Speaker 2: so basically they hate chippy less than they hate Luxon.
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Speaker 2: But then again, everybody's a bit hated, especially if you
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Speaker 2: are a politician. At the moment, it is called a
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Speaker 2: past five Bryan Bridge. Another big blow for Hawk's Bay
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Speaker 2: veggie growers. McCain, the world's biggest frozen food companies, shutting
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Speaker 2: its Hastings veggie plant. What's already acting, it's frozen veggie production.
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Speaker 2: Will Foley is central Hawk's Bay Council mayor with us
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Speaker 2: this morning Morning, Will.
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Speaker 10: Morning Rime. Yeah, good fun the show, but not for yeah,
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Speaker 10: good reasons.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely not. Do you know how many workers would be
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Speaker 2: affected by this?
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Speaker 10: Yeah, we don't know yet from McCain's exactly the number,
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Speaker 10: but obviously there'll be a significant number of workers in
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Speaker 10: that factory. But it's more or just on top of
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Speaker 10: the whole supply chain. Really, there's thousands of hectares grow
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Speaker 10: in my districts in Talks Bay, probably equally in Hastings
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Speaker 10: and then all the logistics of transporting the produce and
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Speaker 10: in Ginets factory and then on from there. So yeah,
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Speaker 10: quite significantly.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the fifty tons of veggies a year come from
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Speaker 2: around your way. Do you know what that means for
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Speaker 2: crop farmers.
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Speaker 10: Well, to be honest, ran that they're still in shock.
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Speaker 10: We were digesting the Waddy's announcement a few weeks ago
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Speaker 10: and talking to farmers and they were saying, look, it's
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Speaker 10: probably not as big an impact than walk spaces and
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Speaker 10: the likes of Canterbury with that decision, and we're quite lucky.
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Speaker 10: We've got McCain's here and we're getting strong and everything's
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Speaker 10: going well in that regard. So this has come as
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Speaker 10: a complete shock, and so farmers are just having to, yeah,
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Speaker 10: probably digest now what this means for them in twelve
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Speaker 10: months time, what would they be doing instead of to
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Speaker 10: replace that area that was in vegetables?
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Speaker 2: What else can they do? I mean that you're basically
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Speaker 2: responding to shock after shock, can't you.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, And obviously not great timing with what's happening around
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Speaker 10: the world and the fuel price impacts that's having on
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Speaker 10: just everyday people and businesses already. So yeah, I don't
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Speaker 10: think there's going to be any quick, easy answers because
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Speaker 10: there's a lot of uncertainty out there. We've got some
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Speaker 10: good things going on at the moment in the shed
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Speaker 10: and beef sector, in the horticultural sector, so Yeah, hopefully
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Speaker 10: there is some options, but it's just going to take
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Speaker 10: time for people to digest and work out what is
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Speaker 10: the best option.
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Speaker 2: And farmers in Canterbury is talking to you said that
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Speaker 2: we could see more conversions. Do you think we might
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Speaker 2: see that in Central Hawk's Bay.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: We don't have as much water as Canterbury for irrigation,
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Speaker 10: so that kind of restricts our options. As I said,
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Speaker 10: the shed and beef sector's going well and that's our
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Speaker 10: kind of our lagos Land news areum in Hooks Bay
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Speaker 10: at the moment, and so yeah, it's not going to
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Speaker 10: be as profitable as crop farming, but it is an option.
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Speaker 10: And then horticulture as well, but there's significant cost and
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Speaker 10: converting to things like air orchards and the like. So yeah,
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Speaker 10: some big decisions to come.
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Speaker 2: Well, appreciate your time this morning. We'll following mere Central
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Speaker 2: Hawks Bay District Council. It is eighteen after five. Bread
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Speaker 2: Rich a little update on the UK manufacturers there. They
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Speaker 2: say this is the sharpest one month acceleration and costs.
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Speaker 2: In other words, costs are going up faster in the
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Speaker 2: lane last month than they have at any time since
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Speaker 2: Black Wednesday nineteen ninety two. Black Wednesday in nineteen ninety two,
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Speaker 2: as you will know, was the currency crisis, the pound collapse.
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Speaker 2: They say output growth across manufacturing services has slowed to
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Speaker 2: essentially a crawl risk aversion. You know, customers basically worried
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Speaker 2: about what's going to happen with the world, so pulling
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Speaker 2: back price pressures, higher interest rates and travel supplies, train
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Speaker 2: chain disruptions are the big problems for them. So a
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Speaker 2: little alarm bell from UK manufacturers. Of course, hopefully it
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Speaker 2: could all be over tomorrow. Then we don't need to worry,
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Speaker 2: do we. Eighteen after five News Talks.
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Speaker 1: Itb News and Views you trust to start your day.
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Speaker 1: It's earlier this ship with Ryan Bridge and one roof
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Speaker 2: Twenty one News Talks. B Jack says Ryan, what's with
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Speaker 2: the Kamikazi drones? Aren't they just drones doing what drones do?
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Speaker 2: Very good question. This is after the fourteen such drones
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Speaker 2: attacked apparently a multinational camp in Norman I ark last
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Speaker 2: night and the British Special Forces had to shoot them
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Speaker 2: out of the sky. So the difference because I asked
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Speaker 2: the same question this morning. The difference is that you
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Speaker 2: get regular drones, your UAVs. They're reusable, They go out
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Speaker 2: and they come back, whereas these ones are just single use,
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Speaker 2: one way, like a plastic shopping bag. They go out
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Speaker 2: and they get used, and they don't come home. They
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Speaker 2: just crash into their target. In fibles twenty one after five,
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge. So the RBNZ Governor Arna Breman's broken his
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Speaker 2: silence on the fuel situation.
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Speaker 11: We are likely to see higher headline inflation over the
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Speaker 11: near term and somewhat weaker growth momentum. I will not
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Speaker 11: rule out neither retakes nor red cuts because of the
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Speaker 11: uncertainty and the global environment.
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Speaker 2: The message to business, we're watching price increases closely, We're
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Speaker 2: watching wage hikes, potential wage hikes close They can't get
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Speaker 2: into an inflation feeding spiral. Here. Catherine bed was listening
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Speaker 2: to the speech and Business and Z joys us this morning. Morning.
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Speaker 8: Catherine, good morning.
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Speaker 2: So business is going to high prices.
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Speaker 8: Look, I believe they will hold off as long as
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Speaker 8: they possibly can. And you know there was discussion about
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Speaker 8: for supplies to make those any fuel increases quite transparent
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Speaker 8: so that you know they're not kind of getting baked
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Speaker 8: in so very much holding off. We had supermarkets in
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Speaker 8: the room, we had ports, we had banks talking about
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Speaker 8: how their customers are handling this. So obviously this all
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Speaker 8: depends how long it goes on. If it's not too long,
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Speaker 8: then it was actually quite a reassuring speech. I think,
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Speaker 8: you know, she pointed out that banks are well capitalized
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Speaker 8: and we are in the early stages of economic with
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Speaker 8: manufacturing performing quite well.
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Speaker 10: Service is slower to improve.
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Speaker 8: But I guess the point being that it's not a
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Speaker 8: hot economic market, so if this is inflationary, it's kind
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Speaker 8: of further down the track, was the message.
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Speaker 2: I think, yeah, in short term they can look through it,
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Speaker 2: but anything medium or longer term than have to start
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Speaker 2: doing something serious about it.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, and I think the message was that that's not
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Speaker 8: now and that New Zealand's not in a bad place
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Speaker 8: to you know, to weather it. They will be super
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Speaker 8: focused on inflation to make sure that it doesn't start
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Speaker 8: to get baked in. And you know, she kind of
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Speaker 8: made the point which everybody knows that an inflation re
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Speaker 8: environment really steals everybody's purchasing power and it's not good.
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Speaker 10: So but yeah, look, I think it was it was positive.
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Speaker 2: It was quite well.
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Speaker 8: Received, and businesses are preparing for the worst obviously, but
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Speaker 8: that things at the moment are not too bad, and
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Speaker 8: that the feeling I got was that, particularly for some
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Speaker 8: of the big businesses, you know, they could probably get
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Speaker 8: through to about the middle of the year before things
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Speaker 8: start to go quite pear shaped. And hopefully that doesn't
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Speaker 8: come about because the situation gets sorted one hundred percent.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate your time this morning, Catherine bed Business end Z.
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Speaker 2: It is twenty four minutes after five. Gavin Gray is
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Speaker 2: with us at quarter two. He's our UK correspondent and
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Speaker 2: I want to talk to him about because the British
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Speaker 2: and the French have come out and said we will
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Speaker 2: and this goes to exactly what Catherine was saying, how
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Speaker 2: long does this thing drag on? Let's hope that inflation
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Speaker 2: doesn't go to medium term. They have come out and said, yeah,
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Speaker 2: we'll do something with the straight of hor Moos. We
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Speaker 2: will help patrol it, we'll send in our we've got
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Speaker 2: really good anti mine boats, etc. We'll send them in there.
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Speaker 2: But we need to cease fire first. So the Brits
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Speaker 2: and the French ready for the Strait, but first you've
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Speaker 2: got to have some talks and agreement between the Americans,
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Speaker 2: the Israelis and Iran on the other side. We'll look
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Speaker 2: at this tax package next twenty five after five the early.
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Speaker 2: ITV News TALKSIRB It is five twenty seven. How much
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Speaker 2: does fifty bucks for some families cost the rest of us?
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Speaker 2: That's the real question we should be asking ourselves this morning. Remember,
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Speaker 2: the government's running a deficit, a structural one. They spend
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Speaker 2: more than they earn in taxes. The up to four
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Speaker 2: hundred million dollars in yesterday's package comes from the operating allowance.
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Speaker 2: That's new money. Government claims this is basically like a
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Speaker 2: checking account, but that's disputed. The Taxpayers Union says, given
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Speaker 2: the fact the books are in the red, new spending
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Speaker 2: is basically funded by borrowing. Therefore, it's more like a
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Speaker 2: credit card than a check account. We do have a
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Speaker 2: budget in May where cuts will surely come. But remember
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Speaker 2: the forecasts for the tax take are also dependent on
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Speaker 2: forecasts for growth, and growth is being hit by oil two.
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Speaker 2: That means they won't earn as much as they thought
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Speaker 2: they would. Add to that the fact that borrowing costs
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Speaker 2: are roughly twenty percent higher now than they thought they
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Speaker 2: would be back in December, and the spending starts to
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Speaker 2: look a little shaky. Fifty dollars per family is not
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Speaker 2: the real number we should be talking about this morning.
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Speaker 2: The number we should be talking about this morning is
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Speaker 2: five six hundred dollars per household. That's roughly how much
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Speaker 2: we are going to spend next year servicing our debt.
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Speaker 2: That is, before all of this extra cost. Just think
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Speaker 2: about that. Look around your household, your family. That's five
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Speaker 2: and a half grand a year, just an interest, more
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Speaker 2: than we spend on schooling our kids through primary and secondary.
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Speaker 2: Debt servicing is now the fourth largest line item on
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Speaker 2: the government's books, according to Treasury, The more we spend,
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Speaker 2: the longer it takes till we even start paying down
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Speaker 2: the debt. That magical, mystical date has been pushed out
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Speaker 2: until at least twenty thirty. Like waiting for Taylor Swift
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Speaker 2: to announce the concert at Eden Park would be amazing.
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Speaker 2: I'd be there, but will it actually ever happen. I'm
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Speaker 2: not saying people don't need petrol money today, but is
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Speaker 2: anyone asking at what cost tomorrow?
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Twenty nine minutes after five News Talks v B get
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Speaker 2: to Gavin Gray, latest out of the UK and Europe,
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Speaker 2: and we will talk to about that tax package. Just
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Speaker 2: before six nine two the number to text you're on
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Speaker 2: News Talk.
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Speaker 1: SEB the news you need this morning and the in
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Speaker 2: Pretty far away from the news talk, said B and La.
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Speaker 2: The jury coming and a ring on the social media trial,
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Speaker 2: the big one, a big tech will keep you across
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Speaker 2: that if we get a result this morning. Also we'll
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Speaker 2: head to London. The arson attacks there on the Jewish
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Speaker 2: ambulances was a group backed by the Iranian state. That's
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Speaker 2: the question, Gavin. We'll answer at quarter two, and we'll
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Speaker 2: look at the fuel package before six as well. Lots
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Speaker 2: of your feedback on that, Ryan, the fuel package seems
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Speaker 2: to be as good as we could expect. We're broke,
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Speaker 2: so we need to deal with that fact. Cut a
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Speaker 2: few streaming channels, one less coffee. Just realize it's not
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Speaker 2: the government's job to prop us up every time something
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Speaker 2: goes wrong. Graham, Good morning, Fred says too many people
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Speaker 2: in this country expect the government to help them whenever
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Speaker 2: there is a problem and bail them out. It's a
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Speaker 2: cultural issue that needs to change. Another says Ryan, The
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Speaker 2: problem is if you are if you've got children, ra
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Speaker 2: even if you don't have children, you're trying to get
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Speaker 2: to work. It's become very expensive to get to work.
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Speaker 2: And if you don't go to work, that affects the
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Speaker 2: economy too, which is a good point, but you've got
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Speaker 2: to balance that with how much extra it is costing
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Speaker 2: us an interest and how what the opportunity cost of
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Speaker 2: that is ie education or health twenty three to two
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Speaker 2: six Ray Challenge and dened Morning Cullum Welling. Right, So
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Speaker 2: we've got a coroner's decision. Do we on the Beckonridge case? Yes,
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Speaker 2: we do.
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Speaker 12: Now this is the case of John Beckinridge and his
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Speaker 12: son Mike Beckinridge, who were last seen near the Catlands
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Speaker 12: back in twenty fifteen. You'll remember their car was found
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Speaker 12: in rough seas at the bottom of an eighty eight
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Speaker 12: meter cliff, though no bodies have ever been found. Mike's mother,
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Speaker 12: Fiona Lou has long been convinced her son is still
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Speaker 12: alive and her former partner faked the deaths, fled New
19:36
Speaker 12: Zealand and established new identities overseas a coroner. Now, though
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Speaker 12: Ryan has dismissed those claims as implausible. The coroner, Marcus
19:44
Speaker 12: Elliot says Beckinridge's actions illustrate he didn't have or display
19:49
Speaker 12: the characteristics of a resourceful and well prepared criminal. He
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Speaker 12: finds it's more than likely the pair died due to
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Speaker 12: injuries sustained when the vehicle crashed over that cliff into
19:58
Speaker 12: the sea and their bodies were washed away.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's the weather.
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Speaker 12: It's cloudy today for most of the day, evening trizzle
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Speaker 12: for to need in the high today seventeenth.
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Speaker 2: Really fascinating case that because there was no bodies in
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Speaker 2: the cars, right, so everyone was like, well where are they? Clear?
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Speaker 2: And christ Church morning, Claire, good morning. Now, a man's
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Speaker 2: death has sparked warning about the deadly risks of copper theft. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: this is a tragic story.
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Speaker 5: A man died after reportedly trying to steal copper from
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Speaker 5: a power box on Brooker Avenue in the Booward part
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Speaker 5: of the Red Zone overnight Monday into Tuesday. Now Orion
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Speaker 5: says more than five hundred homes automatically lost power. The
20:36
Speaker 5: sad thing is first aid couldn't be applied to this
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Speaker 5: man until that was done and until power was cut
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Speaker 5: to the power box in order to keep first responders safe.
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Speaker 5: The Metal Recyclers Association president Spencer Trillo says this tragedy
20:49
Speaker 5: highlights how crazy it is to be tampering with live
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Speaker 5: power lines, which has been an ongoing problem in christ Church,
20:55
Speaker 5: particularly the Red Zone for some years. He says they
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Speaker 5: are working alongside police by building database in order to
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Speaker 5: identify people and get them off the streets when they're
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Speaker 5: doing this from desperation.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's the weather clear?
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Speaker 5: Localout or fog breaking up for a time. A bit
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Speaker 5: later there will be some apache evening drizzle southwesterlyes and
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Speaker 5: a high of nineteen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you morning, Thank you clear in morning, Max, Good morning.
21:18
Speaker 2: You've got an I watering bill coming? Do you well?
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Speaker 13: Homeowners?
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Speaker 3: Do?
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Speaker 13: I don't. TIAQIY is the region's new water entity, replacing
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Speaker 13: Wellington Water, the government's local water done Well policy, drinking water, wastewater,
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Speaker 13: storm water services, etc. Perhaps unsurprisingly also unsavory. It all
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Speaker 13: adds up to about a fifteen percent increase in terms
21:40
Speaker 13: of the overall rates bill household water bills. The water
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Speaker 13: bills just themselves could reach us high as seven thousand
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Speaker 13: dollars within a decade. I think there are going to
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Speaker 13: be a lot of people in the region who are
21:50
Speaker 13: going to be taken by surprise. In July, and that's
21:54
Speaker 13: when the first water bill arrives as a separate bill.
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Speaker 13: It's currently wrapped up into the rate spill. Average water
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Speaker 13: bill will be a twenty four hundred bucks this year
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Speaker 13: for households in Wellington, Hut Valley, Potydoor. And then it's
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Speaker 13: going to climb rapidly year on year. Yeah, eventually reaching
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Speaker 13: potentially almost seven thousand dollars a year within a decade
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Speaker 13: just for water.
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Speaker 2: Wow. Hey, when you go on your trip max.
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Speaker 13: Late June, mid to late June, all right, have.
22:20
Speaker 2: You seen the TUSA lines at the airports in America?
22:24
Speaker 2: You know I'm being smart.
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Speaker 13: I'm flying into Vancouver, a bit more of a friendly
22:28
Speaker 13: country and crossing the land border into Washington. I think
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Speaker 13: Washington probably one of the more liberal states. Hopefully they
22:34
Speaker 13: treat Kiwi's kindly.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, what's wrong with you? What skeletons have you
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Speaker 2: got in your clothing?
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Speaker 13: Who knows what I've posted on Facebook or Twitter about
22:44
Speaker 13: the current president at some point? Who knows how's your
22:47
Speaker 13: weather little cloudy and drizzly nineteen the high.
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Speaker 2: Have a good one, mate, neighbor in Auckland. Morning Neivor greetings.
22:53
Speaker 2: Fewer cranes in the sky.
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Speaker 4: Yes, it's right now.
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Speaker 14: Look data from Quantity Surveyors Rider live at Bunal showing
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Speaker 14: the New Zealand only had one hundred and two cranes
23:02
Speaker 14: in the first quarter of this year. Now this compares
23:04
Speaker 14: to one hundred and fifty four years ago. So it
23:08
Speaker 14: mirror's latest GDP data showing the construction sect has been
23:12
Speaker 14: continuing to shrink. And Bradley Coley, he's the RLB Associate director.
23:16
Speaker 14: He says, look that economic downturn and it's still showing
23:20
Speaker 14: a lot of these older projects are finishing, so there's
23:23
Speaker 14: not many new ones popping up. But he says, hopefully
23:25
Speaker 14: and this will be good that the you know, the
23:27
Speaker 14: government's fast Trek process that should help in more projects
23:30
Speaker 14: likely to come through. Make it faster, yes, make it faster.
23:33
Speaker 14: With about a few showers mainly north of the Harbor
23:36
Speaker 14: Bridge journey to rain in the evening. The rain is coming.
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Speaker 14: Twenty two is the high though here in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant. Thank you very much. Time teen minutes away from
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Speaker 2: six o'clock. There was a report in the Australian last
23:46
Speaker 2: night in Exon Mobil, which owns Mobile New Zealand, so
23:50
Speaker 2: all your mobile stores. Apparently Gold and Sachs has been
23:54
Speaker 2: appointed to sell them off. The x On Mobile, the
23:57
Speaker 2: global American owned wants to get out of New Zealand. Basically,
24:00
Speaker 2: this is just a report from the Australian. It would
24:02
Speaker 2: likely break up the business and sell it in parts
24:05
Speaker 2: it owns the terminals. Think Witty Welling, the Mount Monganui, Wellington,
24:11
Speaker 2: christ Church Bluff. They've got one hundred and fifty service stations.
24:14
Speaker 2: The terminal part of the business is apparently the most
24:17
Speaker 2: attractive bit, the one that people would actually want. Could
24:20
Speaker 2: get between half a billion and a billion dollars for
24:23
Speaker 2: their exit, high tailing it out of here. And why
24:26
Speaker 2: are they doing this? While the you investors Wall Street
24:29
Speaker 2: they want these businesses, this one in particular, to have
24:33
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24:36
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24:38
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Speaker 2: We'll have a tax package in a second, just gone
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Speaker 2: fourteen away from six. Let's go to Devin gray Are
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Speaker 2: UK europe correspondent, because there's been in attack reportedly by
26:04
Speaker 2: Iranian drones on a base in Norman, Iraq with some
26:07
Speaker 2: British special forces housed Givin.
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Speaker 4: What do we know, Yeah, it's one of the busiest
26:14
Speaker 4: days or nights there that they have had so far.
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Speaker 4: Actually ran and it actually brings the number of drones
26:19
Speaker 4: that they have brought down to close to seventy. That's
26:22
Speaker 4: from the base. These ground to air missiles that they're
26:26
Speaker 4: using interting seventy compares to just five shot down by
26:29
Speaker 4: British jets. A sign of changing warfare, I think. But
26:33
Speaker 4: this comes after Tehran ramped up its attacks even though
26:37
Speaker 4: they were talking potentially at least according to the US President,
26:40
Speaker 4: of talking of peace and a roadmap to peace. Now,
26:43
Speaker 4: these RAF Regiment troops are defending a base in air
26:46
Speaker 4: Bill in northern Iraq and they've been there a while.
26:50
Speaker 4: The RAF Regiment's rocket launch just have a range of
26:53
Speaker 4: up to sort of six kilometers and they fire these
26:56
Speaker 4: multi roll missiles that are designed to explode when they
26:59
Speaker 4: get close to their targets and then basically rip them
27:02
Speaker 4: apart with shraknaw. So they have had great success at
27:05
Speaker 4: this so far, and they're using radars and ultra long
27:09
Speaker 4: range thermal imaging cameras to detect these incoming drones. But
27:12
Speaker 4: of course that does go to show as well that
27:15
Speaker 4: this talk of things calming down in the region seeds
27:18
Speaker 4: to be far from the mark.
27:20
Speaker 2: What about the ambulances in London that were the Jewish
27:23
Speaker 2: charity owned ambulances and they were attacked. Is this some
27:27
Speaker 2: suggestion that the Iranian government or the Ranian state might
27:30
Speaker 2: be involved.
27:32
Speaker 4: Yes, more than just a suggestion, in fact quite extraordinary
27:35
Speaker 4: statements from the head of the Metropolitan Police in London,
27:38
Speaker 4: so Mark Rowley. Now he's effectively said that there are
27:42
Speaker 4: possible links to the Iranian state. These four ambulances that
27:46
Speaker 4: attended patients with everything from a cut thumb to causing
27:50
Speaker 4: a cardiac arrest, and are used for not just the
27:54
Speaker 4: Jewish community but non Jewish as well. They were set
27:57
Speaker 4: fire to and completely destroyed in an incident caught on
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Speaker 4: CCTV by three people, but all wearing hoods over their faces.
28:06
Speaker 4: Now the police are obviously investigating this, but the head
28:09
Speaker 4: of Metropolitan Police says yes, they are looking at this
28:12
Speaker 4: claim online of responsibility by an Islamist group. They say
28:17
Speaker 4: they've also claimed other attacks across Europe and have potential
28:20
Speaker 4: Iranian state links. That He also made this incredible statement
28:23
Speaker 4: about Iran. He said, the rapid growth in recent years
28:26
Speaker 4: of Iranian state threats is grave, hostile state surveillance activity,
28:31
Speaker 4: twenty disrupted plots and recent attempted attacks on the Iranian diaspora.
28:36
Speaker 4: He said, everything from assassination to kidnap to espionage. It
28:40
Speaker 4: seems we are definitely having problems trying to keep an
28:43
Speaker 4: eye on people operating on behalf of foreign nations.
28:47
Speaker 2: Turns like Kevin Gray are UK europe correspondent living away
28:50
Speaker 2: from six Ryan Bridge week. One hundred and fifty thousand families.
28:54
Speaker 2: This is the government's response to the fuel price spike.
28:57
Speaker 2: It's working families who get it. Working, US holds people
29:00
Speaker 2: with kids on lower incomes, Greens want more Riccardo and
29:03
Speaker 2: India's march is with our social development spokesperson. Good morning,
29:07
Speaker 2: good morning, so I guess the key question here, and
29:10
Speaker 2: this is the point Nichola made yesterday, is who uses
29:13
Speaker 2: their car more? Is it a worker or a job
29:15
Speaker 2: seeker beneficiary.
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Speaker 10: I think everybody is filling the pens, particularly anyone who's
29:22
Speaker 10: in a lower middle income. We've seen reports of beneficiaries
29:27
Speaker 10: who have kids who are not eligible for working for
29:30
Speaker 10: families who are struggling to make ends meat, who are
29:33
Speaker 10: struggling to get to job interviews because of the cost
29:37
Speaker 10: that it's incurring on them while they're already struggling to
29:39
Speaker 10: make ends meat. But you must package.
29:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, but you must concede that if you are
29:44
Speaker 2: a beneficiary, you will be driving a lot less. You'll
29:48
Speaker 2: have more opportunity to walk than you would if you
29:51
Speaker 2: had a job in kids.
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Speaker 10: Right, Beneficiaries are often having to drive to job interviews.
29:58
Speaker 10: Many of them are actually meant to be driving too
30:00
Speaker 10: many job interviews. Some have kits with health conditions who
30:03
Speaker 10: are in a benefit and are knowledgeable, who may have
30:05
Speaker 10: had to go to breakable medical appointments, who may have
30:09
Speaker 10: additional requirements. And we're talking about people who are already
30:13
Speaker 10: struggling each week to make ends meet. So it's not
30:17
Speaker 10: saying that this package won't help the family that it reaches.
30:20
Speaker 10: It's about actually recognizing but if we're looking at a
30:24
Speaker 10: potential worst case scenario, those people who have kits who
30:28
Speaker 10: are in a benefit won't be supported by the government's package.
30:31
Speaker 10: So this is why we Riccardo.
30:33
Speaker 2: Next week, they're getting an increase to their benefits, aren't they.
30:37
Speaker 10: Those increases happen regardless, This is not something the government
30:40
Speaker 10: has chosen to do. It increase the work complee indexation
30:44
Speaker 10: not It's three point does not actually help people make
30:49
Speaker 10: in smeet. If it did, we would not be seeing
30:51
Speaker 10: an increase in children living in material hardships.
30:54
Speaker 2: Riccardo, It's an inflation adjustment, right, So it's three point
30:57
Speaker 2: one one percent. Next week benefits are getting an increase.
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Speaker 2: Are workers getting one?
31:02
Speaker 10: No, workers should be getting one, And the government has
31:06
Speaker 10: the tools to increase in clickt the minimum wage. The
31:07
Speaker 10: government has the tools, for example, lift the wages of
31:10
Speaker 10: teachers and nurses. This is something that the government pitches
31:13
Speaker 10: if they wanted to, And it's not like wages increase
31:16
Speaker 10: simply because of the market. The government has the means
31:19
Speaker 10: to increase, for example, the minimum wage. It also has
31:25
Speaker 10: the ability to increase wages within the public sector. So
31:27
Speaker 10: these are political.
31:28
Speaker 2: Decisions, all right, Riccardo.
31:29
Speaker 10: Issue is that this is not richest kids who actually
31:32
Speaker 10: live in beneficiary households, for example.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate your time this morning, Riccardo, meaning there's March. What
31:37
Speaker 2: do we think that eight minutes away from six from
31:39
Speaker 2: the Greens news talk.
31:40
Speaker 1: Semb the first word on the News of the Day
31:44
Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and one Route Love where
31:48
Speaker 1: you live news talks, it'd be.
31:50
Speaker 2: Six to six news talks. He'd been quite funny that
31:52
Speaker 2: the government's fast track is going to be used for
31:54
Speaker 2: Lake Onslow. You know Lake Onslow that was going to
31:57
Speaker 2: be funded by the government. There's a private group it now,
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Speaker 2: including David Parker. He's involved and it's been given the
32:04
Speaker 2: first tip to go through the fast track process. So
32:07
Speaker 2: see what happens. I mean, if it's private capital, I
32:08
Speaker 2: suppose who cares?
32:11
Speaker 11: Right?
32:11
Speaker 2: It is five to two. Let's get to my pleasing greetings,
32:15
Speaker 2: good morning, Thanks for having the Greens on this morning. Mate.
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Speaker 9: I didn't realize.
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Speaker 2: I didn't realize morning.
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Speaker 9: I didn't realize how simple it was to fix all
32:23
Speaker 9: the problems. All you've got to do, apparently, is just
32:27
Speaker 9: hand out whatever you want to anybody.
32:29
Speaker 2: Increase the minimum wage? Why do we make it so complicated?
32:32
Speaker 2: I don't know.
32:33
Speaker 9: If it's just all there, whatever you want, whenever you want,
32:36
Speaker 9: and someone will pay for it.
32:37
Speaker 2: Will someone pay for it? I don't know. He's in
32:40
Speaker 2: your hands, isn't it anyway?
32:42
Speaker 9: Look, look, my problem, my problem is this with Nicholas
32:45
Speaker 9: on this morning. My problem with this is if it's
32:49
Speaker 9: linked to petrol in ninety one, you're giving it to people.
32:52
Speaker 9: What about the people who get it? Why don't drive?
32:54
Speaker 9: What about the people who get it to live downtown?
32:56
Speaker 9: What about the people who get it have got an
32:58
Speaker 9: EV and don't need it?
32:59
Speaker 2: I mean, what what? What's the target there? And also
33:02
Speaker 2: it's borrowing. Let's be honest, it's borrowing. I'm not overly
33:06
Speaker 2: I money personally. No, it's not your money. Yeah, operating allowance.
33:10
Speaker 9: No, it's operating allowances.
33:12
Speaker 2: Look technically correct, of course, tending more than they are.
33:16
Speaker 2: Technically you are correct.
33:18
Speaker 9: But if I was to be charitable here, and obviously
33:20
Speaker 9: I'm more charitable than you are because you're a heartless bastard.
33:23
Speaker 9: But if you're saying do nothing versus what they're doing,
33:27
Speaker 9: it's coming out of the operating allowance.
33:28
Speaker 2: You've got to give them credit for that. So they're
33:31
Speaker 2: not borrowing more than they're already best. But it's money
33:34
Speaker 2: they could have been not spending, of course, of course,
33:37
Speaker 2: and this is the government that was elected on the
33:39
Speaker 2: platform and is going up. I get it. And they're
33:42
Speaker 2: spending four hundred million dollars.
33:43
Speaker 9: But the economy runs on diesel, not ninety one, and
33:46
Speaker 9: it doesn't run on people downtown Auckland driving three and
33:49
Speaker 9: a half caves and there.
33:50
Speaker 2: Is we're so money for your you know, rural forest.
33:54
Speaker 2: Agree that's where it should go.
33:56
Speaker 9: But that's the problem with governments.
33:58
Speaker 2: They can't do that. There that you can't target that
34:00
Speaker 2: specific they want to be elected. There's a bit of that.
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Speaker 9: Anyway, She's with this after run seven o'clock.
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Speaker 2: Brignant, have a fantastic morning, everyone, Mike with you next.
34:08
Speaker 2: See tomorrow.
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