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Full Show Podcast: 24 February 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 earlier edition with one roof love where you live
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Speaker 1: News Talk said, be.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, just got six half to five. Great to
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Speaker 2: have your company. Well look at this Genesis Equity raise.
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Speaker 2: Where's the demand actually coming from Donald Demo in Australia
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Speaker 2: for us this morning? Who's poaching our air traffic controllers?
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Speaker 2: And would you use the CRL of the city RAILNK
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Speaker 2: and open unless it was patrolled by police?
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Speaker 1: The agenda Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: The twenty fourth of February. The Mexican drug kingpin who's
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Speaker 2: been captured. He's now dead and all of his henchmen
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Speaker 2: are going on a rampage.
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Speaker 3: And right now our goal is to guarantee peace and security,
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Speaker 3: and this is what we're doing. There is more calmness today,
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Speaker 3: Security forces, government security cabinets, we're all there, so you
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Speaker 3: can feel reassured that peace and security is there.
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Speaker 2: There's still quite a few businesses and buildings burning to
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Speaker 2: the US winter storms. They've got fifteen inches of snow
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Speaker 2: in Central Park. Memdami's put a travel band dangerous conditions.
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Speaker 4: The mixture of this kind of snow with this kind
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Speaker 4: of wind is something that can lead to a lot
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Speaker 4: of danger on our streets and our roads. We know
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Speaker 4: that the snow is going to continue. It's why we
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Speaker 4: have the travel band through until twelve pm, because we
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Speaker 4: are now through the worst of it is still continuing
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Speaker 4: through the morning.
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Speaker 2: Now Albanezi out of Australia written to Starma wants Andrew
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Speaker 2: wants to make sure that Randy Andy is never king
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Speaker 2: of Australia.
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Speaker 5: This intervention from the Australian primary is significant because a
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Speaker 5: key part of what's needed to remove the line of
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Speaker 5: succession is agreement from the Commonwealth realms. All of them
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Speaker 5: have to agree, and obviously Australia is a key part
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Speaker 5: of the Commonwealth. So this does feel like a yet
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Speaker 5: more momentum gathering towards that conclusion put for Andrew.
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Speaker 2: Starmer's responded saying, yet got your letter and we're not
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Speaker 2: rolling anything.
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Speaker 1: Out On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition
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Speaker 1: with Ryan Bridge and one roof Love where you Live News.
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Speaker 2: Talks had been eight after five on your Tuesday morning.
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Speaker 2: Nine two nine two is the number to text. Had
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Speaker 2: a look at what Trump actually did in response to
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Speaker 2: the Supreme Court ruling on tariffs. It affects US quite
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Speaker 2: a lot, as you can imagine. So the US Supreme
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Speaker 2: Court ruled that they were legal, not just the Liberation
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Speaker 2: day ones, but the drug trafficking ones. The duties that
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Speaker 2: applied Canada, Mexico, China all unlawful and so Trump obviously
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Speaker 2: was preempting that this was going to happen, So immediately
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Speaker 2: cancels those tariffs that were applying, including applying to US.
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Speaker 2: Cancels them and bring ins a whole bunch bringing brought
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Speaker 2: in a whole bunch of new ones, a new fifteen
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Speaker 2: percent charge. Now the question if you are a New
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Speaker 2: Zealand exporter right now who was paying the tariff at
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Speaker 2: fifteen percent, those have now been canceled, so a significant
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Speaker 2: potential for a refund. I was having a look at
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Speaker 2: a piece that Minter Allison did in New Zealand. This
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Speaker 2: is the law firm. They said, you have a significant
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Speaker 2: opportunity for a refund across a wide range of sectors.
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Speaker 2: So keywies who are exporting to America, because those tariffs
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Speaker 2: should never have happened and you've been paying them since
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Speaker 2: early twenty twenty five. So the key is to get
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Speaker 2: in quick with your claims because there is a window
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Speaker 2: by which you have to do this, and it really
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Speaker 2: does depend in their opinion on how much cooperation we
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Speaker 2: will see from the US importer of record. So if
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Speaker 2: you are exporting to him, I mean, I'm sure you've
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Speaker 2: got your own legal advice, but it sounds like something
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Speaker 2: you'd want to get onto, and get onto pretty quickly. Anyway.
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Speaker 2: We'll have more about those tariffs later in the program,
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Speaker 2: and including what will happen to the EU and to
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Speaker 2: the UK who signed deals with Trump and said, oh
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Speaker 2: we will set this tariff rate. If those tariff rates
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Speaker 2: were illegal, then on what basis where these deals done
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Speaker 2: and do we need to go back to the drawing
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Speaker 2: board on them? Nine two ten, After five Ryan Bridge
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Speaker 2: come out. Next, we'll speak to Alf Philip Pine and
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Speaker 2: Elf is a city councilor in Auckland. By's also a
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Speaker 2: former cop. He reckons we need police officers long term
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Speaker 2: at every station on the city. Railing which they reckon
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Speaker 2: is going to open in September. Sound expensive? Yeah, that's next.
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Speaker 2: News TALKSB News.
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Speaker 1: And Views You Trust to start your day. It's early
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Speaker 1: edition with Bryan Bridge and one Roofe Love Where you Live.
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Speaker 2: News TALKSB five twelve on news talk ZB some good
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Speaker 2: news on our discretionary spend. This is money we don't
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Speaker 2: need to spend, but we do spend because well, we
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Speaker 2: want to. Our stats in z numbers out yesterday two
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Speaker 2: hundred and thirty nine million seasonally adjusted. This is an
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Speaker 2: increase in sales volumes for the December quarter. The discretionary
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Speaker 2: spending was a big driver of that. Retail sales volumes
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Speaker 2: rose a seasonally adjusted point nine that was much stronger
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Speaker 2: than the economists had predicted and comes on top of
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Speaker 2: a booster one point nine for the September quarters. So
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Speaker 2: retail is coming back, baby, and not just because the
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Speaker 2: prices are gone up because of inflation. They're actually buying
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Speaker 2: more stuff, which is good. And to Roy, good morning, Roy.
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Speaker 2: Royce has no more sick days for Ryan. Please make
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Speaker 2: sure he turns up and treats his z B with respect.
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Speaker 2: It was annual leave. Roy, Okay, you can't say that.
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Speaker 2: I don't think I've had a sick day since I've
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Speaker 2: been here, have I kens nearly two years? Roy? Okay,
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Speaker 2: give me a break. Thirteen after five ray Bridge, an
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Speaker 2: Algan councilor wants cops stationed at the City rail Link
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Speaker 2: long term currently officers are going to be deployed on
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Speaker 2: the trains when it opens we think September to make
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Speaker 2: passengers feel safer, but not permanently.
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Speaker 6: Elf.
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Speaker 2: Philippina is with us this morning.
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Speaker 7: Morning, Elf, morning, not till Mary.
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Speaker 8: How are you around?
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Speaker 2: Very well? Thank you? What exactly are you worried about? Elf?
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Speaker 2: What do you think is going to happen to people
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Speaker 2: on these trains?
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Speaker 6: Well?
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Speaker 8: I think firstly, it's just a safety issue around, especially
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Speaker 8: with the CRL, specially with the tunnel. I just I
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Speaker 8: just sort of worry about the safety of the community
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Speaker 8: and a discussion needs to happen with the government in
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Speaker 8: regards and obviously the police Commissioner, with transport officers dedicated
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Speaker 8: to the safety and there on on our transport system.
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Speaker 8: That's my concern. We need to have a conversation or
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Speaker 8: can transport have traffic officers they obviously don't have the
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Speaker 8: authority to at least locked up. Arrest is not about arresting,
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Speaker 8: but it's just about having officers there so.
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Speaker 2: That Counsel Council has transport officers right ALF, So if
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Speaker 2: someone goes and bashes someone over the head, can a
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Speaker 2: transport officer hold them down and detain them until police arrive.
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Speaker 8: Well, look then and again that courses problem when you
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Speaker 8: end up sort of holding them.
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Speaker 2: But from what problems?
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Speaker 8: Well, if they end up sort of getting assaulted, if
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Speaker 8: they don't end up doing it, if they can't restrain
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Speaker 8: them with the handcuffs, if they can't at least ensure
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Speaker 8: if there's not the numbers there. Look, I don't even
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Speaker 8: transport officers don't have the ability if they end up
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Speaker 8: having numbers against them. I just think the conversation needs
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Speaker 8: to happen because the safety of our passengers, our public
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Speaker 8: is paramount.
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Speaker 2: I agree, But the problem is you can't have cops everywhere.
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Speaker 2: Are you saying that you think these stations are going
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Speaker 2: to be more dangerous than Queen Street for example, any
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Speaker 2: old spot?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think a conversation needs to happen where we
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Speaker 8: are working together with the police. I know that's happening.
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Speaker 8: But I know that when I ended up being the
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Speaker 8: transport chair way back in the day with Mundico going
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Speaker 8: over to Australia for some of the states there having
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Speaker 8: dedicated transport police. Actually in the States, like in Sydney
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Speaker 8: in Brisbane, having the dedicated police officers.
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Speaker 2: There, and they need something to look.
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Speaker 8: I mean the tasers and guns. I think for me
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Speaker 8: having dedicated police officers. Again, it's about the uniform and
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Speaker 8: the fact that people will realize. It's like when we
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Speaker 8: amalgamated in nineteen ninety two with the Ministry of Transport
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Speaker 8: right first of July nineteen ninety two, when we amalgamated there,
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Speaker 8: we ended up sort of having the one Transport Police
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Speaker 8: under the Ministry of Transport under new the You don't
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Speaker 8: think that the structure needs to happen, all.
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Speaker 2: Right, The uniform might help ALP appreciate your time this morning,
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Speaker 2: as I always do. Elf Philippina Auckland City counselor and
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Speaker 2: former police officer himself, seventeen after five News Talks, the'b
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Speaker 2: coming up next, who's poaching all of our aviation air
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Speaker 2: traffic controllers?
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and one Root Love.
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Speaker 2: Where You Live News Talks A B five nineteen on
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Speaker 2: News talks 'b Aiden says, I reckon, a conversation needs
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Speaker 2: to happen. Who doesn't love a good conversation? Stick the
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Speaker 2: kettle on? Yeah, And there was a little bit of that.
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Speaker 2: There is always a little bit of that from counselor
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Speaker 2: as we just spoke to Elf Philippina out of Auckland
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Speaker 2: about the need for police or someone to be on
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Speaker 2: patrol beyond the beat at the New City railing. Speaking
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Speaker 2: of conversations, Saint John want to have one about women.
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Speaker 2: This is an interesting number that's come out this morning.
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Speaker 2: Female patients have lower odds of surviving fifty percent are
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Speaker 2: lower odds of surviving a cardiac arrest, having one out
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Speaker 2: of hospital, so you're out in the street, you fall over, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you have a heart attack sixty percent less likely to
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Speaker 2: receive a DEFIB than male patients, they think, because well
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Speaker 2: obvious reasons of where the heart is. So you'd be
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Speaker 2: less likely to get the defib machine from the church
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Speaker 2: or wherever it might be and clamp it on a
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Speaker 2: woman than you would be a man. We need to
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Speaker 2: have a conversation. Brian Breadley twenty after five warnings that
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Speaker 2: staff and shortages could spell big problems for our airlines.
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Speaker 2: Our air traffic controllers can't start on the job, by
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Speaker 2: the way, until they're twenty one, apparently getting poached off
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Speaker 2: shorter places like the Middle East with big salary packages.
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Speaker 2: Simon Wallace Aviation Industry Association CEO with me this morning, Simon,
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning Ryan. Who's poaching them and how
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Speaker 2: much are they offering.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, there's obviously a growing number of services airlines rapidly
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Speaker 9: expanding in the Middle East and South Asia, so that
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Speaker 9: requires the need for a lot more air traffic controllers.
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Speaker 9: So those are the countries that are taking our well
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Speaker 9: qualified air traffic controllers at very competitive salaries. And we're
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Speaker 9: talking hundreds of thousands of dollars here, Ryans. So we
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Speaker 9: can't compete on that here in New Zealand. So we've
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Speaker 9: got to look at the conditions that we're offering a
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Speaker 9: round lifestyle, work life balance, all those sorts of other
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Speaker 9: things to try and keep our air traffic controllers here.
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Speaker 2: So what would your average air traffic controller be paid
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Speaker 2: here and how much could they get there?
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Speaker 9: Roughly after twelve year, after twelve to eighteen months training
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Speaker 9: by airways who train our air traffic controllers, starting salary
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Speaker 9: round is around about one hundred and ten to one
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Speaker 9: hundred and fifteen k So that's a pretty pretty good
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Speaker 9: start out salary for a young person and it goes
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Speaker 9: up from there. But you know, the Middle Eastern countries.
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Speaker 9: You know UAU guitar. They are offering figures a lot
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Speaker 9: more than that. Of course it varies according to which
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Speaker 9: country they go to, but a lot more than that,
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Speaker 9: as I say, in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Speaker 2: Right, So we train them, then they punkeed them. Why
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Speaker 2: don't we bond them.
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Speaker 9: Look, that's something that I think that airways we'll be
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Speaker 9: looking at. You would need to talk to them, run
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Speaker 9: the training. But you know, it is not just air
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Speaker 9: traffic controls that we've got a problem with aviation here
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Speaker 9: in New Zealand and Ryan, we're incredibly short of aviation engineers,
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Speaker 9: I guess, the less sexy part of the industry, and
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Speaker 9: we're short of more than three hundred engineers out of
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Speaker 9: a workforce of three thousand. So you know, we've got
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Speaker 9: shortages of traffic controllers, engineers, pilots across all those vidal
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Speaker 9: occupations in the system.
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Speaker 2: Simon, is it true that you can't start then the
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Speaker 2: job air traffic control until you're twenty one? And if so, why.
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Speaker 8: That's a rule.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, that is correct, And that's a rule that's set
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Speaker 9: down by the Civil Aviation Authority under the licensing system.
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Speaker 9: And I know that when Airways paid for the Select
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Speaker 9: Committee last week, that's something that they want to get change.
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Speaker 9: So that requires a will and a way from the
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Speaker 9: regulator and others. But certainly one thing that needs to
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Speaker 9: be looked at is that.
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Speaker 2: Just because we think they're more responsible and reasonable to
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Speaker 2: make better decisions that sort of thing.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think that. I think that's a big part
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Speaker 9: of it. Ryan at twenty one, that's the figure that's
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Speaker 9: been put on it. But I think that needs to
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Speaker 9: be looked at when we have this problem with our
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Speaker 9: air control being proached off short.
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Speaker 2: And simon, just give us the overview here. How bad
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Speaker 2: is the shortage of all of the aforementioned Is it
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Speaker 2: going to mean that we can't fly one day or
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Speaker 2: what does it mean?
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Speaker 9: Well, engineers, is the real need right at the moment
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Speaker 9: to set three hundred short and that is causing problems
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Speaker 9: through the whole system economic co operational this you know
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Speaker 9: you're seeing we're already seeing flights being delayed, but it's
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Speaker 9: across what we call the whole general aviation system, which
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Speaker 9: is agricultural aviation, contracting, emergency services. You know, when you
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Speaker 9: can't get an engineer to fix a plane and safety
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Speaker 9: is paramount. You know that plane is grounded and you
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Speaker 9: can't operate or do those services. So this is an
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Speaker 9: issue that has been looked at by this new Aviation
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Speaker 9: Council and the action plan that was launched by James
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Speaker 9: Meaga a couple of months ago. It's not just a
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Speaker 9: white paper. It's got some clear actions in there with
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Speaker 9: workforce fronts and centers. So you know there's some work
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Speaker 9: being done with between industry and government and that's that's
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Speaker 9: coming to the fore in a few weeks time.
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Speaker 2: Simon, appreciate your time this morning. That's Simon Wallace, Aviation
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Speaker 2: Industry Association CEO. So twenty one years. I mean, if
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Speaker 2: you're controlling planes and they could crash into each other
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Speaker 2: with hundreds of people on board, then you would want
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Speaker 2: somebody who's reasonable. But you can do a hell of
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Speaker 2: a lot of other things before the age of twenty
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Speaker 2: one which also have implications for life and death, like
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Speaker 2: driver car. I suppose it's less the collateral potentially nine
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Speaker 2: two nine two. What do we think next? We'll talk
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Speaker 2: about the move on orders. News Talk Said B.
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Speaker 1: by NEWSTALKSB.
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Speaker 2: NEWSTALKSB it is twenty seven after five Kiwis are generally
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Speaker 2: known around the world is good sorts, good people. We
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Speaker 2: open doors, we say please and thank you. We help
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Speaker 2: a neighbor out. We leap into help people when helpers
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Speaker 2: need it. It's one of those traits that we're most
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Speaker 2: proud of as a country, I think. But one thing
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Speaker 2: we hate more than anything else is when that kindness
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Speaker 2: is taken for granted. Then there is no more mister
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Speaker 2: nice guy. And we saw this with the kids stealing
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Speaker 2: from dairies and ram raiding the poor, old, hard working
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Speaker 2: dairy owners. The minute they started destroying livelihoods beating people
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Speaker 2: with screwdrivers and hammers, sympathy evaporated. Sure, some of these
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Speaker 2: kids may have had hard upbringings, but there are plenty
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Speaker 2: of kids out there with tough upbringings who choose not
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Speaker 2: to drive ans Antita through a four square window at
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Speaker 2: three am aren't there. So we voted for boot camps.
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Speaker 2: We reversed ourt no chase police chase policy. We crack down.
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Speaker 2: Kindness has its limits A long time ago for those
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Speaker 2: who frequent the city, we cross the same line with
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Speaker 2: beggars and rough sleepers. We care about them, of course,
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Speaker 2: we do. We're not a holes. We donate our time
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Speaker 2: and our money to the city mission, to charities, We
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Speaker 2: pay our taxes knowing that they should be going to
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Speaker 2: help in some way improve their lives. But there are
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Speaker 2: also a bunch of idiots taking advantage with squirted bottles
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Speaker 2: at traffic lights. They can be quite aggressive and dangerous.
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Speaker 2: Not to mention, same goes for rough sleepers on the
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Speaker 2: footpaths and some of our biggest cities. It's costing businesses,
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Speaker 2: it's destroying the reputation of entire swathes of city shops.
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Speaker 2: These shops provide jobs for the rest of us, especially
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Speaker 2: in our biggest city, where foreign terrists first impression should
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Speaker 2: be not a punch up between two roufies on the footpath.
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Speaker 2: So while the headlines about this move on policy, like
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Speaker 2: the crackdown on ram raiders before it, or the hard
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Speaker 2: line on ko tenants who were throwing knives across the
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Speaker 2: fence or bottles across the fence to their neighbors before it,
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Speaker 2: they will scream cruel and mean in the papers. But
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Speaker 2: I think they are out of step with the reality
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Speaker 2: of people and the reality that these people are facing
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Speaker 2: in their own lives. The good grace, cup hath runneth
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Speaker 2: empty twenty nine minutes after five News coming up. Next,
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Speaker 2: we head to our Australian correspondent, Donna Demeayo, and we'll
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Speaker 2: speak to the big users of energy about that Genesis announcement.
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Speaker 2: News Talk ZBB.
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Speaker 1: The first Word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and One Route Love where You Live,
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Speaker 1: News Talks.
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Speaker 6: B pretty borroway from six News TALKSB.
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Speaker 2: We'll speak to the major Electricity Users group because they
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Speaker 2: are going to be using most of the electricity increase
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Speaker 2: that we'll see over the next few years. We will
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Speaker 2: need twenty five percent more power to power in New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: Donald Demayo out of Australia for us before then too.
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Speaker 2: And we'll get to our reporters in just a second.
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Speaker 2: But first to the bafters where Michael B. Jordan and
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Speaker 2: Delroy Lindo. They are both actors, Black actors, and they
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Speaker 2: and someone in the crowd yells out the N word repeatedly, a.
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Speaker 4: Fatal part of movie making.
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Speaker 2: We're here to celebrate now. There was a guy in
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Speaker 2: is the inspiration behind the now bafter winning film I
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Speaker 2: Swear he shouted several times before and during the ceremony
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Speaker 2: and led to this apology by the host.
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Speaker 10: You may have had some strong and offensive language tonight,
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Speaker 11: To syndrome, has no control over their language.
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Speaker 4: We apologize if you were offended.
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Speaker 2: Now obviously offensive, obviously terrible. But if they can't control it,
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Speaker 2: they can't control it. I suppose you either don't have
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Speaker 12: most gold actually sits in volts accumulating dusts. Investors never
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Speaker 12: see it, so he says, why not just leave it
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Speaker 12: in the ground.
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Speaker 2: But don't you sort of need to make sure it's there?
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Speaker 2: And how much you know? I don't know. How's your weather?
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Speaker 12: A few showers before dawn here, but then a fine
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Speaker 12: day head nor easterlies developing.
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Speaker 2: Nineteen the heighth brilliant. Thank you Claire in christ Itch morning.
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Speaker 10: Clear, good morning.
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Speaker 2: Now there's plans for the red Zone.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, this is the city Council's two point five million
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Speaker 13: dollar plan to regenerate part of what was known as
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Speaker 13: our red zone. So it's for the northern banks of
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Speaker 13: the or tarct or Avon Rivert Corridor area, specifically between
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Speaker 13: fitzyer Old Avenue and Stanmore Road. Now, the plan would
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Speaker 13: include things like nature play areas, some walking tracks, a
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Speaker 13: viewing platform, as well as fruit trees. There's also a
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Speaker 13: plan to allow space for the likes of farmers' markets,
20:52
Speaker 13: art exhibitions and also food truck events. We've caught up
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Speaker 13: with avon Or Tarcato Network manager Hailey Gulietta, who says
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Speaker 13: any progress in the area is really great, but the
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Speaker 13: council should have prioritized basic community engagement in the first instance.
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Speaker 13: She says it would have been better to acknowledge the
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Speaker 13: communities that actually already live there, but she does acknowledge. Look,
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Speaker 13: it's taken seven years just to get to this point,
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Speaker 13: so let's take whatever we can get.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather cloudy?
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Speaker 13: There is a bit of showers about today, should clear
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Speaker 13: to find northwesterlies turning southerly a bit later in a
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Speaker 13: high of twenty.
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Speaker 2: Have a great day, Claire Max's and Wellington Morning Max,
21:27
Speaker 2: Good morning. Our bus lanes raking in the cash?
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Speaker 7: Is it?
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Speaker 2: And fine? Yeah?
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Speaker 11: That's fry story in the post apparently people driving in
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Speaker 11: bus lanes and now the Wellington City Council's leading money
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Speaker 11: spinner regarding infringements at the seventeen nine million dollars in
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Speaker 11: you know, parking other infringement notices six million for driving
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Speaker 11: in bus lanes and there are only a handful of
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Speaker 11: those lanes and cameras and the CBD as well. The
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Speaker 11: biggest money spinner actually is right outside our office on
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Speaker 11: Cambridge Terrace, which apparently just catches everyone out. We even
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Speaker 11: had a reporter started in our newsroom for The Herald
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Speaker 11: the other week bang first day out in the job,
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Speaker 11: one hundred and fifty dollars fine for just shifting over
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Speaker 11: a lane too early before turning up our side street.
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Speaker 11: That we ask for evidence got the photo back of
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Speaker 11: her clutching the steering wheel at ten and two, nose
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Speaker 11: pressed up against the windscreen. That's one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 11: bucks for driving in that lane for just a few meters.
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Speaker 11: The Razine paint shop on Cambridge Terrace has even had
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Speaker 11: to put up a sign warning trades not to drive
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Speaker 11: in the lane. Twenty six thousand infringements in that one
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Speaker 11: Cambridge Terrace lane in one year alone. The council raking
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Speaker 11: it in Wow.
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Speaker 2: And that's so that's for going into a bus line.
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Speaker 11: Yes, slightly early before you have to turn lefts or not.
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Speaker 11: I'm sure a lot of people are flouting it.
22:41
Speaker 2: Anyway, because how long I never know how how long
22:44
Speaker 2: you've got If you want to turn left and you
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Speaker 2: need to go into the bus line to do that,
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Speaker 2: how long have you got?
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Speaker 11: I think it's fifty meters. Don't quote me on it,
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Speaker 11: but I think it's fifty meters.
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Speaker 2: So we all get out of measuring tapes while driving
22:56
Speaker 2: and figured that one out. Well, exactly. Yeah. The other
22:58
Speaker 2: thing I've noticed just around where I live, Max while
23:01
Speaker 2: you hear, is the bus lanes don't have well they are.
23:05
Speaker 2: They do have signs on the side say the times
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Speaker 2: that the bus lanes will operate, but most people either
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Speaker 2: don't read them or don't know, and they're queuing in
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Speaker 2: the right hand lane when they could all be using
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Speaker 2: the left hand lane. They just don't know it.
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Speaker 11: At a fair in the traffic stools.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly. How's your weather.
23:25
Speaker 11: Party, cloudy with the odd shower, gusty north least twenty one.
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Speaker 2: One, Thank you morning, neither good morning. We're in the
23:31
Speaker 2: thick of it. Is it March mad or not?
23:33
Speaker 9: Quite?
23:33
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but it kind of is.
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Speaker 14: But yeah, you're right, just prior to that, because you know,
23:37
Speaker 14: with everyone going back to school UNI and work after
23:41
Speaker 14: summer holidays. You're yeah, you're right, Like Auckland Transports is
23:45
Speaker 14: that that congestion is probably going to increase by about
23:48
Speaker 14: five percent on average average levels. And I think they're
23:52
Speaker 14: also saying too, because this public transport network is going
23:55
Speaker 14: to be busier, busier when it's working. You know, the
23:57
Speaker 14: buses and trains are fairies, so they should be made.
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Speaker 14: Thinking about thirteen thousand trips a day. At is saying, look,
24:04
Speaker 14: busy time between seven and nine am three to six
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Speaker 14: pm Wednesday generally the busiest day. Just to make sure
24:12
Speaker 14: you know you're planned for that. And also like as
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Speaker 14: your mex are talking about, you know, getting into the
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Speaker 14: right lanes.
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Speaker 6: Before I know.
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Speaker 14: I've been pinned a couple of times.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, bloody expensive it is.
24:23
Speaker 14: And I think you're right, you know, like it's knowing
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Speaker 14: when to get into that lane before you know. And
24:29
Speaker 14: I mean usually I'm just say fifty meters. He's probably
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Speaker 14: right because Mex is always right, but I'm usually in
24:34
Speaker 14: there like two meters before here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you're crippled with fear. Crippled crippled with fear.
24:40
Speaker 2: There's a headlights and they're standing there with video cameras exactly. Yeah, Hey,
24:45
Speaker 2: someone's just texting, you know the story about Tourett's and
24:47
Speaker 2: that guy yelling at the best Yes, drama.
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Speaker 7: What do you do? That's what do you do?
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Speaker 14: So they've got to get him out?
24:55
Speaker 2: Do you think something? Just But then it's not his faults,
24:58
Speaker 2: he's got Tourett's.
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Speaker 14: But he said the end how many times?
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Speaker 2: I know, I know it's terrible, it's terrible.
25:02
Speaker 14: What he should have just said, dick hid dick kid,
25:05
Speaker 14: that's okay.
25:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but he can't. He can't. I know,
25:08
Speaker 2: he almost It's almost like they want to say the
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Speaker 2: most offensive thing at that moment.
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Speaker 7: You know.
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Speaker 14: That's I think how many times did he say it?
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Speaker 2: Many? Multiple? Someone's saying, here can I identify is Tourett's
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Speaker 2: one of those things I can identify as having?
25:22
Speaker 14: You know, a lot of people thought I had Tourette's.
25:24
Speaker 2: Really the things that I say, how's that weather? Try
25:30
Speaker 2: and try and hold the turretts back as you read
25:33
Speaker 2: it for for Fine twenty four, very good sixteen Away
25:41
Speaker 2: from sex news talks, they'd be we'll have to Australia.
25:43
Speaker 1: Next international correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of
25:48
Speaker 1: mind for new Zealand Business.
25:51
Speaker 2: Fourteen away from six News talks. They'd be don to Mayo,
25:53
Speaker 2: our Australia correspondent on a good morning.
25:56
Speaker 15: Good morning to you.
25:57
Speaker 2: Good So you don't want Andrew as your can.
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Speaker 15: Surprise surprise. Look, we had heard, we had heard that
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Speaker 15: the British government was considering passing a law that would
26:08
Speaker 15: remove Andrew Mountbatten Winsor's succession rights, and of course this
26:13
Speaker 15: followed his arrest then release without charge. We have now
26:16
Speaker 15: heard that Anthony Albanezi has told the British PM that
26:20
Speaker 15: the Australian government would agree to any proposal to remove
26:23
Speaker 15: Andrew from the line of raw succession. Now he remains
26:27
Speaker 15: eighth in line to the throne. So mister Albinizi is
26:31
Speaker 15: the first leader of a Commonwealth country to confirm support
26:35
Speaker 15: for legislation that would strip Andrew of succession rights. And
26:38
Speaker 15: he actually wrote this to his British counterpart to let
26:41
Speaker 15: him know of Australia's position. It looks it's a very
26:45
Speaker 15: complex legal framework that would surround this changing of the
26:49
Speaker 15: line of succession, but it means that these changes require
26:53
Speaker 15: all countries where King Charles is head of state, including Australia,
26:58
Speaker 15: to pass new law. Minister has said these are grave
27:02
Speaker 15: allegations and Australia takes them very seriously. So he's made
27:06
Speaker 15: that move.
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Speaker 9: Now.
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Speaker 2: It's interesting what did the Australian public think of that,
27:09
Speaker 2: you know, down at the pub, because I had spoke
27:11
Speaker 2: to our deputy Prime minister here going called David Seymour
27:14
Speaker 2: about this last week and he said so many people
27:17
Speaker 2: have to die in order that he would actually become king.
27:21
Speaker 2: It's not probably not worth your time passing a law.
27:25
Speaker 9: Oh.
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Speaker 15: I think I can't speak for all Australians, but I
27:29
Speaker 15: think they, you know, just in case, I think they're
27:32
Speaker 15: going to support that move, just just saying.
27:34
Speaker 2: All right, and you've got a monsoon low hitting your way.
27:38
Speaker 15: Oh, this is quite nasty. In fact, some areas of
27:41
Speaker 15: Australia could actually get a year's worth of rain in
27:46
Speaker 15: just one week. And these are parts of South Australia
27:49
Speaker 15: right across Queensland and New South Wales. And of course
27:52
Speaker 15: there's a risk of a great deal of flash flooding
27:55
Speaker 15: with this monsoon low. The forecast obviously follows this record
27:59
Speaker 15: breaking that we've suffered through in recent times. The Buerau
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Speaker 15: Mineology has issued these quite a number of severe weather
28:07
Speaker 15: warnings for today, and we know that intense rainfalls expected.
28:10
Speaker 15: For instance, some places could get brace yourself two hundred
28:15
Speaker 15: to three one hundred millimeters of rain over just a
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Speaker 15: handful of days. And Melbourne isn't in the clear either.
28:20
Speaker 15: We've got thunderstorms coming, we've got heavy rain, flash flooding,
28:24
Speaker 15: so it's going to be a land of extremes throughout
28:28
Speaker 15: the day and.
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Speaker 2: The rest of the week. Donald appreciate that. Donald de Malo,
28:31
Speaker 2: our Australia correspondent time is eleven minutes away from six.
28:36
Speaker 2: By the way, the price of oil is staying where
28:38
Speaker 2: it was most of for the last few days, which
28:41
Speaker 2: is its highest price in six months, around seventy two
28:43
Speaker 2: dollars a barrel, start of the year at sixty This
28:45
Speaker 2: is all over well, partly the supply issues, but also
28:49
Speaker 2: there's the war in the Middle East, the potential four
28:52
Speaker 2: and the military built up of the US. Now, I
28:56
Speaker 2: am told that the Strait of Humus is where you
28:59
Speaker 2: want to be watching. But there are talks heading to
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Speaker 2: Geneva this week, so some optimism there. Electricity demand is
29:06
Speaker 2: going to increase in this country by twenty five percent
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Speaker 2: over the next ten years, evs, data centers, commercial industrial uses.
29:14
Speaker 2: They will lead the charge. It's part of the reason
29:16
Speaker 2: that Genesis is doing this four hundred million dollar equity
29:19
Speaker 2: raise to fast track solar and batteries to smooth out
29:22
Speaker 2: Huntley's supply during dry years. John Harbord is the Major
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Speaker 2: Electricity Users Group chair and joins us this morning. Hi John,
29:32
Speaker 2: Good morning. So you represent the likes of Fonterra Woolies,
29:35
Speaker 2: who's in and still big users. How worried are they
29:39
Speaker 2: about the security of electricity in this country?
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Speaker 7: Look, security of electricity is pretty critical. When you run
29:46
Speaker 7: a manufacturing business and you need to be operating twenty
29:48
Speaker 7: four to seven, you need to know that the electricity
29:51
Speaker 7: is going to be there every minute of every day.
29:54
Speaker 2: What's driving the increase in their demand? Are they expanding
29:58
Speaker 2: or is it decarbonizational? By both, it's.
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Speaker 7: An element of both. The other thing that's driving electrification
30:07
Speaker 7: is obviously lack of domestic gas. So people who are
30:12
Speaker 7: who can are trying to move away from using gas,
30:14
Speaker 7: and one of the most attractive options obviously is electricity.
30:18
Speaker 2: Does this announcement ease their minds?
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Speaker 7: Certainly it's welcome from a security of supply perspective. The
30:26
Speaker 7: one thing that Genesis is leaning into very heavily is
30:29
Speaker 7: dispatchable firming capacity, which is just a fancy way of
30:33
Speaker 7: saying an ability to store electricity and then put it
30:37
Speaker 7: into the system when you know, when it's we don't
30:40
Speaker 7: have enough water in the hydro lakes and the sun
30:41
Speaker 7: and the wind aren't cooperating, and that's the most important
30:45
Speaker 7: electricity for the system. You know, that backup supply that's
30:48
Speaker 7: there whenever you need it. So look, I think from
30:51
Speaker 7: that perspective it's a really really good thing. It doesn't
30:54
Speaker 7: do much of the short term for affordability issues, but
30:58
Speaker 7: that's a whole other issue.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you mentioned that. I've found it an interesting yesterday
31:02
Speaker 2: everyone was focusing on the solar but it's more of
31:05
Speaker 2: the big battery at Huntley that will smooth the dry
31:08
Speaker 2: years that's more important here, surely.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's from our perspective that's really really critical. But
31:14
Speaker 7: the solar aspect is really important as well. Now it
31:17
Speaker 7: has to be put in the context that our other
31:20
Speaker 7: large generators are also planning to build a lot of solar,
31:23
Speaker 7: and the theory is that if you build a lot
31:26
Speaker 7: of solar, you generate a lot more electricity. During summer,
31:30
Speaker 7: which is when solar electricity obviously is more effective. But
31:33
Speaker 7: what that means is the hydrogenerators keep more of the
31:36
Speaker 7: water in the lakes because they don't need to use it,
31:39
Speaker 7: and then that's available during winter when we're often short.
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Speaker 2: Gotcha, John, Appreciate your time, John Harvard, Major Electricity Users
31:47
Speaker 2: Group here welcoming that announcement yesterday. It is ate away
31:50
Speaker 2: from six News Talk.
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Speaker 1: Seb get ahead of the headlines on early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Branch and one roof Love Where you Live.
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Speaker 2: News Talks'd be five away from sex News Talks. He'd
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Speaker 2: be Mike is here with you next. Good morning, Mike,
32:06
Speaker 2: Sure to see you Ryan. What's on the show today?
32:09
Speaker 6: Well?
32:09
Speaker 2: Andy Willman? Oh right, okay, Now, so he was.
32:13
Speaker 10: Behind top Gear and then the Grand Tour and now
32:17
Speaker 10: Clarkson's Farm.
32:19
Speaker 2: What is the producer of it? He's the producer.
32:21
Speaker 10: Well, if you ever watched top Gear, he became sort
32:23
Speaker 10: of famous. You never seen him, but he became famous.
32:25
Speaker 10: Every time they did a thing, they'd get a note
32:28
Speaker 10: and they go, oh, message from mister Wilman, and that's
32:31
Speaker 10: the Willman. So he's the he's the genius behind it all.
32:34
Speaker 2: Did they ever figure out who the stick was or
32:37
Speaker 2: the guard.
32:37
Speaker 10: We know who the stick is. There's been several sticks
32:40
Speaker 10: in the same guy, but no, it wasn't the same guy.
32:42
Speaker 10: So what happens is that generally once one stick goes
32:45
Speaker 10: because you never know when the stick goes because you
32:46
Speaker 10: never saw the stick. But once the stick goes, some
32:49
Speaker 10: guy pops up in the British press and goes, oh,
32:50
Speaker 10: I was the stick.
32:52
Speaker 2: Tubbies, we know we no, no, no, we know.
32:55
Speaker 10: Well, they're just guys who were moderately okay at driving
32:58
Speaker 10: a car but never quite make it to f one
33:01
Speaker 10: right because a lot of people remember, I'm Schumacher was
33:03
Speaker 10: it was claimed while Michael Schumacher was claimed was the stick,
33:07
Speaker 10: and of course they were never quite that good. And
33:09
Speaker 10: Schumacher famously came on one of the episodes and they
33:13
Speaker 10: went are you the stick and he went no. So anyway,
33:16
Speaker 10: so he's on the program to also we make but
33:19
Speaker 10: it's four years since the war started. Yeah, four So
33:21
Speaker 10: we got the EU EU ambassador to this country is
33:24
Speaker 10: rolling on into the studio to give the.
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Speaker 2: I spoke to someone from their Foreign ministry last week
33:29
Speaker 2: and they want to set up like a war crimes
33:31
Speaker 2: tribunal to try and go after really well, yeah, I
33:36
Speaker 2: mean it doesn't do. It's not gonna get potent setting there.
33:39
Speaker 10: I'd concentrate on finishing the war first. Well, and then
33:43
Speaker 10: you've got that pit.
33:44
Speaker 2: You know, you've got to go at it from all angles.
33:46
Speaker 2: I reckon, you reckon the war will end. And when
33:49
Speaker 2: the war, when you've got to be ready to go,
33:51
Speaker 2: When when's it going to end? Well, I would have
33:55
Speaker 2: said two years ago it was probably going to be
33:57
Speaker 2: over and count and counting. Have a great Tuesday, See
34:02
Speaker 2: you tomorrow.
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