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Full Show Podcast: 26 February 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside Andrew Dickens on
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  Speaker 1: early edition with one roof make your property search simple
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  Speaker 1: news talks.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be hey, goodboying to you. It's hump Day Wednesday
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  Speaker 2: at Amandrew Dickens. And in the next sixty minutes New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand is experiencing an explosion of opioid use, So what's
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  Speaker 2: causing it and how can we stop it? We'll have
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  Speaker 2: that story for you. In five our infrastructure pipeline has
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  Speaker 2: grown by sixty billion dollars, so how many projects are
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  Speaker 2: actually underway? We'll have that story. In ten Keir Starmer
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  Speaker 2: increases the UK's defense budget. We'll go to London for
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  Speaker 2: the latest on that. And retail crime is down and
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  Speaker 2: now the dairy owners happy sunny Koushal. Just before six o'clock,
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  Speaker 2: we'll have correspondence from right around New Zealand and the
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  Speaker 2: world and news as it breaks, and you can comment
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  Speaker 2: by texting me. The number is ninety two ninety two.
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  Speaker 2: A small charge does apply, or you can email me
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  Speaker 2: Dickens at Newstalk zeb dot co dot nz. It's seven
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  Speaker 2: after five.
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  Speaker 1: The agenda.
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  Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, the sixteenth of February. UK Prime Minister
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  Speaker 2: t Kiir Stamer has announced the UK will increase defense
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  Speaker 2: spending to two point five percent of GDP by twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven. Currently, their defense spending is two point three
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  Speaker 2: percent of GDP. This announcement comes ahead of his visit
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  Speaker 2: to Washington. He's going there on Thursday to meet with
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  Speaker 2: President Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: I can announce this government will begin the biggest sustained
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  Speaker 3: increase in defense spending since the.
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  Speaker 4: End of the Cold War.
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  Speaker 3: And let me spell that out in mister speaker. That
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  Speaker 3: means spending thirteen point four billion pounds more on defense
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  Speaker 3: every year from twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 2: More on that throughout the program. Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel
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  Speaker 2: Mcron has already met with President Donald Trump, and after
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  Speaker 2: his meeting, Macron suggested a truce in Ukraine might only
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  Speaker 2: be a few weeks away.
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  Speaker 5: We want this and I think the initiative of President
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  Speaker 5: Trump is a very positive one. Be careful because we
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  Speaker 5: need something substantial Foy Crane, but for the security of
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  Speaker 5: Europe and France. And second, let's work together on the
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  Speaker 5: future to preserve security guarantees, meaning to be sure that
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  Speaker 5: this piece will be respected by Rissa.
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  Speaker 2: And Emmanuel Macron also touched Donald Trump on the arm,
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  Speaker 2: but he did not resign like Andrew Bailey. And finally,
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  Speaker 2: the story there's been making talkback all night long. Qatar
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  Speaker 2: Airways has apologized to an Australian couple after Cavin Cruz
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  Speaker 2: sat a recently deceased passenger next to them while on
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  Speaker 2: a long haul flight to Doha. What a nightmare. Mitchell
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  Speaker 2: Ring and Jennifer Collins were flying from Melbourne to Rome
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  Speaker 2: when a fellow traveler passed away mid flight. So the
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  Speaker 2: Cavin crew initially wanted to move the passenger's body into
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  Speaker 2: business class. They would have loved that, but struggled to
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  Speaker 2: transport the woman up the aisle and therefore they put
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  Speaker 2: the dead woman next to the Aussie seats despite there
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  Speaker 2: being free seats all around them.
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  Speaker 6: And there was another situation at the end when we land,
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  Speaker 6: they told us in our area to stay in our seats,
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  Speaker 6: and then the ambulance officers and the police came in,
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  Speaker 6: and then the ambulance officers started pulling the blankets off
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  Speaker 6: the lady beside, and I was there and I got
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  Speaker 6: to see her face. Yeah, it wasn't nice.
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  Speaker 2: Oh oh oh oh. It is nine after five.
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  Speaker 5: News and Views.
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  Speaker 1: You Trust to start your day. It's early edition with
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens and one roof Make your Property Search Simple.
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  Speaker 4: You talk said, be so all.
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  Speaker 2: Of a sudden, the whole world is talking about defense budgets,
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  Speaker 2: even us here. We've heard that the forthcoming budget will
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  Speaker 2: start an increase in defense spending that will mean will
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  Speaker 2: hit two percent of GDP in fifteen years time. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to double the budget. It is low and it
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  Speaker 2: is slow because that's all we can afford. And even then,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure if it's that affordable in the first place,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, you've got to start somewhere. Meanwhile, the
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  Speaker 2: big story around the world is that the UK is
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  Speaker 2: also ramping up the defense. You've already heard that. UKPM
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  Speaker 2: Kiir Starmer has just announced a far more ambitious target.
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  Speaker 2: His defense spending will rise to two point five percent
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  Speaker 2: of GDP from twenty twenty seven, that's just two years away.
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  Speaker 2: He told the country that you must change your national
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  Speaker 2: security posture. It will be the biggest sustained increase in
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  Speaker 2: defense spending since the end of the Cold War, and
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  Speaker 2: will involve spending an extra thirteen point four billion pounds
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  Speaker 2: on defense every year from twenty twenty seven, and he
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  Speaker 2: has a clear ambition to get it to three percent
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  Speaker 2: in the next term and to find all the money
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  Speaker 2: he will slash AID projects, which is causing coniptions amongst
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  Speaker 2: AID agencies. But what's the point exporting money to struggling
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  Speaker 2: nations when you can't afford to defend your own borders?
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  Speaker 2: And this is a sign of how long so many
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  Speaker 2: countries in the West have allowed national interests to slide
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  Speaker 2: in the mistaken belief that the world is still as
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  Speaker 2: safe as it was at the end of say, the
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  Speaker 2: fall of.
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  Speaker 7: The Bourbin Wall.
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  Speaker 2: And the thing about our competitors and the bad actors
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  Speaker 2: in this world is that they've never stopped investing in
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  Speaker 2: their security. And so this is an admission that we
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  Speaker 2: let the game get away on USUS big drama yesterday
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  Speaker 2: between New Zealand Rugby and Sky Sport. So then Goo
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  Speaker 2: to over all Blacks broadcasting rights between twenty six and
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  Speaker 2: twenty thirty. It's going to go on, or has been
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  Speaker 2: going on for a couple of months, but it's currently
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  Speaker 2: on a bit of a pause. So Sky reduced its
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  Speaker 2: offer to eighty five million dollars for the four years because,
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  Speaker 2: as they argue, there is no competition for the New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand rights ever since Sparks Sport collapsed. They used to
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  Speaker 2: pay by the way one hundred and eleven million, now
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  Speaker 2: down to eighty five million. But now it's been revealed
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  Speaker 2: that New Zealand by B is talking to a company
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  Speaker 2: called doa Zone spelt daz N. They're British and they've
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  Speaker 2: made a lot of money with pay per view fights
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  Speaker 2: and they're buying foxtail in Australia. So this cycle will
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  Speaker 2: include a six week tour of South Africa by the
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  Speaker 2: All Blacks, the twenty twenty seven World Cup, a Lions
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  Speaker 2: tour of New Zealand and twenty nine and another six
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  Speaker 2: week visit by the spring Box in twenty thirty. Plus
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  Speaker 2: of course also Super Rugby Pacific, which even though it's
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  Speaker 2: only two games in, appears to have its mojo back.
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  Speaker 2: So this is pretty sexy, really, this is a pretty sexy,
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  Speaker 2: right schedule. So do Zone is loaded and backed by
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  Speaker 2: Ukrainian billionaire and Saudi interests, and you have to ask
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  Speaker 2: if that buying Foxdell, well why don't they just buy
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  Speaker 2: all of Sky? And this may just be a New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand ruby bluff to force Sky's hand, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: mind that because I think the Sky was low balling
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand Roby in the first place, and I hope
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  Speaker 2: that Sky comes up to the mark because they're still
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  Speaker 2: the best model for a country like ours. You deny
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  Speaker 2: rural New Zealand, they're all blacks at their peril and
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  Speaker 2: with the state of rural broadband, that means Sky's satellite
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  Speaker 2: model is the best delivery option. So we wait to
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  Speaker 2: see it. Is thirteen after.
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  Speaker 1: Five Andrew Dickens.
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  Speaker 2: So they've been looking at our waste water again and
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  Speaker 2: seeing what drugs we take. And the thing that's causing
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  Speaker 2: the most concern is we're taking a whole heap more opioids.
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  Speaker 2: So why is that happening and can we do anything
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  Speaker 2: about that? Glenn Dobson from the Drug Detection Agency is next.
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  Speaker 2: It's thirteen after five.
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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 Andrew Dickens and one roof Make
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  Speaker 1: Your Property Search Simple News Talk Sidy.
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  Speaker 2: This is fifteen out to five. I've got some news
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  Speaker 2: about zero and it's big backer Peter Teel. I might
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  Speaker 2: get that into the program a bit later on, but
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  Speaker 2: right now, the Drug Detection Agency has just released the
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  Speaker 2: latest workplace drug detection data and it's taken a different
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  Speaker 2: trend in the last quarter. Cannabis use is down four
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  Speaker 2: point seven percent, and phetamines are up and opioids are
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  Speaker 2: on the rise. Opioid use up twelve percent. So Drug
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  Speaker 2: Detection Agency CEO Glenn Dobson is with me now, hullo
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  Speaker 2: Glenn won Andrew. So our opioid use it's up. Is
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  Speaker 2: this because we're sicker or are we more addicted?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: Good question, And look, these stats probably don't tell us
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  Speaker 8: exactly the reason why it. That's why we track it quarterly,
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  Speaker 8: seeing it's concerned. One of the big questions that we've
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  Speaker 8: got and we'll continue to trackers. Are we starting to
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  Speaker 8: follow the US and global trends? Hearing Zealand in ration
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  Speaker 8: to the big increase in the problems that synthetic opioids
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  Speaker 8: can cause both in the community and from our perspective
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  Speaker 8: and work based safety.
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  Speaker 2: Because of course, as prescription medications have the opioids in it,
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  Speaker 2: so can you correlate the use of prescriptions and the
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  Speaker 2: actual use of opioids in the waste water and figure
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  Speaker 2: out if there's an excess which proves the addiction.
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  Speaker 8: Look, you're seeing the can and obviously the health side
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  Speaker 8: of New Zealand can comment on prescription usage and so forth.
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  Speaker 8: You know, University of Auckland Effacty of Medical Health Sciences
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  Speaker 8: only a couple of years ago released to papers. They
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  Speaker 8: were concerned about the potential over prescription of tremadol, which
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  Speaker 8: is obviously a synthetic opuwoord as well, so that there's
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  Speaker 8: ways to track that. But there's also a huge issue
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  Speaker 8: globally around the illicit use of opioids as well. From
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  Speaker 8: the criminal gangs perspective, they're cheap to make, they're easy
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  Speaker 8: to make in the labs, and because they're very powerful,
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  Speaker 8: you don't need as much and so they're easy to
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  Speaker 8: move around globally.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, with other drugs, we're not smoking as much weed.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, if there's a positive cannabis uses down that,
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  Speaker 8: it's really good from a safety perspective. Cannabis is always
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  Speaker 8: one of our higher drugs. And the other concern I
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  Speaker 8: guess is that methan phenamine is up as well, and
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  Speaker 8: obviously we know how the base of that drug is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's up to twenty four point four percent. That's
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  Speaker 2: up from eighteen point eight percent in the previous quarter
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  Speaker 2: or the quarter in twenty twenty three. So we're not
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  Speaker 2: winning that battle, are we.
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  Speaker 8: No, Look, we're not. You know, I know you mentioned
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  Speaker 8: before the wastewater stance. We know that we've seen a
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  Speaker 8: real increase in wastewater stance as well. Now from our statistics,
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  Speaker 8: we know we're looking at a slightly different population base.
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  Speaker 8: We're looking at workplaces as opposed to the entire population
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  Speaker 8: from a wasteworth perspective. But from our issue, it's all
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  Speaker 8: around safety, and it's a real concern.
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  Speaker 2: Well, looking at the workplace, what sort of industries are
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  Speaker 2: you testing the most and who's using the most drugs?
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  Speaker 8: But it's right across the board. Predominantly workplace drug testing
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  Speaker 8: is traditionally than what you consider blue collar workplaces, but
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  Speaker 8: now it's right across the board. Obviously, safety is the
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  Speaker 8: main reason around drug tests in the workplace, but also
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  Speaker 8: a lot of companies are doing it from a reputational
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  Speaker 8: risk perspective, making sure they've got no issues within their
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  Speaker 8: workplace that will affect their reputation. You know, we've seen
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  Speaker 8: recently over the years issues around drugs in our cool
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  Speaker 8: and workplaces and what color industries like the legal fraternity
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  Speaker 8: and from the issues that they cause.
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  Speaker 2: And when you show employers this sort of data, what
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  Speaker 2: do they say.
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  Speaker 8: Well, first and foremost, it's really interesting. It's good to
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  Speaker 8: be aware of what trends we're seeing and see if
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  Speaker 8: it increases. They are very keen to understand what it
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  Speaker 8: may mean for them in the workplace and also to
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  Speaker 8: hold really good, strong conversations with their employees. It's around
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  Speaker 8: create a culture of openness, the culture of understanding what
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  Speaker 8: the issues are and discussing them openly so that everyone's
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  Speaker 8: aware and ultimately iring it's own safe to their families.
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  Speaker 2: At the end of the day, Absolutely, the drugs don't work,
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  Speaker 2: and they really don't work at work. Glenn Dobson, you're
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  Speaker 2: doing great work. Can I thank you for your time today?
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  Speaker 2: Glenn's the CEO of the Drug Detection Agency. About infrastructure
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  Speaker 2: at the moment as well, isn't it? That's what we
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  Speaker 2: need to bring up our productivity. So we've got some
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  Speaker 2: good news in terms of the amount of money that's
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  Speaker 2: been committed to infrastructure, But the question is how much
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  Speaker 2: earth is actually being turned. We'll answer that for you next.
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  Speaker 2: It is now five twenty.
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  Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day Early
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  Speaker 1: edition with Andrew Dickens and One Room, Make your property
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  Speaker 1: Surgeon simple.
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  Speaker 2: You talk sippy five twenty two on a Wednesday, and
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  Speaker 2: all is well, and my text number is ninety two
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  Speaker 2: ninety two. Now there's a bit of news realm when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to infrastructure. Last quarter's Infrastructure Commission update shows
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  Speaker 2: an increase of sixty point four billion dollars since the
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  Speaker 2: previous quarter. The total value of projects now set at
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and four billion dollars. That's a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot of projects, but how many have broken ground? Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: the governments announced an overhaul of the Public Works Act,
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  Speaker 2: which will aim to speed up infrastructure processes. Infrastructure New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand Policy Director Michelle McCormick is with me. Now, Hello Michelle,
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  Speaker 2: good morning Andrew. So how many have broken ground? Do
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  Speaker 2: you know?
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  Speaker 9: We've got fifteen hundred in underway under contract, so that's
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  Speaker 9: forty eight point six billion dollars, which is quite significant.
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  Speaker 9: But yeah, we've still got a wee way to go,
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  Speaker 9: so there's still you know, out of a total of
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  Speaker 9: seven six hundred projects in the pipeline, just over half
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  Speaker 9: actually have funding. Committed, so there's a bit of work
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  Speaker 9: to do before we actually get all those into construction.
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  Speaker 9: And I mean also just because they're in the pipeline
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  Speaker 9: also means that, you know, there's a lot of work
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  Speaker 9: to do in terms of getting consenting as well as
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  Speaker 9: the funding aligned. So what is good news though, is
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  Speaker 9: that we've got a lot more organizations contributing to the
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  Speaker 9: pipeline information. So that's not only the government, local government,
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  Speaker 9: but also the private sector. So the value of having
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  Speaker 9: the pipeline and it's been visible both right across New
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  Speaker 9: Zealands to know what work force we need, but also
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  Speaker 9: internationally too to see what opportunities there are.
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  Speaker 10: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I know that the construction industry has complained about the
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  Speaker 2: fact that the government canceled a lot of the projects
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  Speaker 2: and their bid to actually cut government spending. So have
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  Speaker 2: we canceled a lot?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, things did stop, that is very true, and things
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  Speaker 9: are taking a while to get going. As I said,
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  Speaker 9: just because it's in the pipeline doesn't mean there's shovels
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  Speaker 9: in the ground, so all their pre work. You can
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  Speaker 9: take several years actually to get consents to acquire properties.
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  Speaker 9: So maintaining a workforce here have definitely been challenging over
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  Speaker 9: the last couple of years. There haven't been that level
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  Speaker 9: of activity to keep people active, and we have seen
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  Speaker 9: people go after or.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately exactly of course, if we don't give them work,
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  Speaker 2: they go and find it, and they find it overseas.
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  Speaker 2: I talked in my intro about the overhaul of the
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  Speaker 2: Public Works Act that's going to allow agencies like NCTA
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  Speaker 2: to enter into acquisition agreements with landowners and enable collaboration
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  Speaker 2: between agencies. You've got to buy the land before you
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  Speaker 2: can start building on this. Is this making a difference
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  Speaker 2: or will it make it?
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  Speaker 11: Hope?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, it definitely should help speed things up. So we're
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  Speaker 9: looking at legislation being introduced the middle of the year,
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  Speaker 9: but what has been signaled is really promising. It will
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  Speaker 9: cut some of the red tape at the moment MDTA
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  Speaker 9: has to go through the Minister to get those final
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  Speaker 9: approvals once you know they are negotiations. But also when
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  Speaker 9: we've got some complicated development space where you know you
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  Speaker 9: might have one agency doing the roading, others providing telecommunications,
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  Speaker 9: you know, each of them had to go through their
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  Speaker 9: own process and now we can actually see that group
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  Speaker 9: together and acquired for one purpose, So that just makes
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  Speaker 9: total sense.
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  Speaker 2: Well, bring it on, Michelle. We love the work. Michelle McCormack,
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  Speaker 2: the policy director Infrastructure in New Zealand. News Talks here
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  Speaker 2: be it is five twenty five Camslators back in writing,
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  Speaker 2: and he's writing quite well.
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  Speaker 1: More on the CineMo, the early edition full the show
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  Speaker 1: podcast on iHeartRadio. Now it by news Talks at B.
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  Speaker 2: There's talks that B. Good morning to you. I'm Andrew
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  Speaker 2: Dickinson for Ryan Bridge. So Cam Slater say what you
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  Speaker 2: like about him. He can certainly write. His head is
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  Speaker 2: ups and downs. He's paid for some bad behavior, but
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  Speaker 2: he has good flow in his writing. He always had
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  Speaker 2: a good contact book. But whether those contacts still talk
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: to him as anybody's guess. But anyway, he's now renamed
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  Speaker 2: Whale Oil to a website called Good Oil, and yesterday
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  Speaker 2: he wrote a think piece called the Coming National Coup.
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  Speaker 2: He reckons Christopher Luckson's are continued bad numbers means the
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  Speaker 2: National Party is now seriously talking about replacing him as leader,
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  Speaker 2: even cams and on game these days, he claims. Sources
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  Speaker 2: inside caucus say that Luxon has three months to turn
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  Speaker 2: around his numbers He claims that women doesn't don't like Luxon,
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  Speaker 2: people who believe in anything don't like Christopher because nobody
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  Speaker 2: knows what he believes. Kam Sater says his coalition partners
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  Speaker 2: know what they believe, and he says, the free marketeers
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  Speaker 2: can go with Act, the nationalists can go with New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand first, So who's going to go with Christopher? He says,
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  Speaker 2: the opposition can smell blood, and then he lumps the
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  Speaker 2: media into the opposition care even though of course he
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  Speaker 2: is acting like an opposition right now with this opinion.
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  Speaker 2: But slowly, Christopher Luxon seems to be losing the support
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  Speaker 2: of the center right, according to cam Slater, not that
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  Speaker 2: he had much in the first place. To be fair,
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  Speaker 2: he was never given a honeymoon period. I think the
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  Speaker 2: electric could see that he had a very performative nature
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  Speaker 2: in his politics. But these are easy editorials to write,
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  Speaker 2: and everyone can point out the flaws and the problems
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  Speaker 2: with anything. Only the truly talented can provide a solution.
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  Speaker 2: So if the problem is Christopher Luxen, what is the answer?
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  Speaker 2: Is it willis is it Bishop? Is it Stamford or
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: is it Simeon? There the next four on the list
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: you want to go deeper. Would Mitchell, Goldsmith or Collins
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: be any better than Christopher Luxon Fkam is correct and
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: a coup is coming inside the next three months. Could
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: that be National shooting itself in the foot well?
• 16:57
  Speaker 7: Of course it is.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Did they learn nothing from all the long years in
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: opposition where they chopped and changed their leaders without going
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: forward in any way, shape or form. Andrew Dickens, Wayne
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Brown hates Cones. Wayne Brown knows that if he says
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: I hate Cones, people vote for him this election year
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: for the Auka mayor. I'm going to tell you what
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Wayne Brown has said in just a few moments time
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: and before six Sunny Cashale, because look at that retail
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: crime figures are down, which is great news for dairy owners.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: So Sonny is joining me just before six here on
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: News Talks it.
• 17:31
  Speaker 12: Be I say for Foo only you'll never.
• 17:41
  Speaker 13: Life is much better.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Just stash with me, get ahead of the headlines on
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: early edition Andrew Dickens and one Roof make your property
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: search simple News Talks. It be.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Good mon here, I'm at that and for yan Bridgehill
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: were doing the drive show today. Thank you for choosing us.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: I hope you're having a great day so far. So
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: a lot of people don't trust camp Slater. Andrew says, Chris,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: I would trust one thing that Cameron say. It has
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: to say. Most people I know light the way Christopher
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Luxon is working, Hugh says Andrew Slater hasn't liked a
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: National leader since Muller, and look how well that turned out.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Slater and Houghton have a busy subverting the nets again.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: It's the same old, same old, But then we've got
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: John and John says I cannot wait for Erica Stamford
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: to be National's leader. Yesterday's interview with Mike Hosking typified
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Christopher Luxon's inability to answer a simple yes no question,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: which is true. However, here's my question that I put
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: to you. If Christopher Luxen is the problem, what is
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: the answer? And I can't see an answer, So let's
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: give the PMR support now. Oh Ukham Mayor Wayne Brown
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: says he wants to pause work on the Victoria Street
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Linear Park in the Central City, much to the relief
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: of all Orchanders. The park's idea is that it's a
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: green path park from Albert Park to Victoria Park. It's
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: got some footpaths in it's some cycle lanes, and they
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: reduce the road from four lanes of traffic to two.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Now he's sick of the cost and the disruptions. He
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: wants at to tidy the side up and work to
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: improve the flow of traffic from east to west through
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: the city, and just to stop. He's not alone. Councilor
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Ken Turner calls the street a quote bugger's muddle. He
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: claims it takes them thirty minutes to travel the two
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: hundred meters length of the street, and Orchanders will understand
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: the mayor's concerned because though work has taken seemingly forever,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: and maybe that's the real issue. It's not the work,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: but why it's taken so long. But there we go
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: to stop a job when we're in the home stretch.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Is that a waste of all the time and money
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: we've already spent. Imagine when Paris was building the Champs
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: of liz in the sixteen hundreds and somebody said, it
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: takes me forever to get a horse down that road.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Let's just stop that, and they stop work on the
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: shams of leagues. Then the world would be denied one
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: of the great boulevards. Now, I am not saying the
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Victoria Street is anything like the Songs of Ease, but
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: I think I would be a bit hacked off if
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: we've lived through all the mess so far only to
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: find that we're left with a half finished dog's breakfast. Well, man,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: I'll be happy about this. Is Sonny Kashal, the champion
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: of the small business world who hated what happened on
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Albert Street. He's routed against CRL work since day one.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: He joins me just before six. But right now, let's
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: go round the regions and Callum Proctor joins me from
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Dunedin Haller. Callum Hi, right, Andrew talk me through this
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: subregional deal for Otago and the Central Lakes.
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: Well, it's a step closer to becoming a reality. The
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: Queenstown Lakes District Council has voted in favor of adopting
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: this framework, working alongside Central Otago and Otago Regional Councils.
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: So this would see the Council's deliver a range of
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: initiatives to address critical needs in the reas with the
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: help of the government's Regional Deals program. Amir Glenn Lewis
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: says it's a chance, so even the power dynamic of
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: central and local government. He says, this will allow them
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: to achieve things they've talked about for the last six years. O.
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: This proposal now goes to the other two councils before
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: it's sent to the Department of Internal Affairs.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: How's your weather?
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: It's good right around Otago Queenstown twenty two today janeedin
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: a high of twenty Thank.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: You, calam Proctor Claire shere, well, good morning to you
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: from christ Church. Good morning, So the mayor is talking
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: about alcohol.
• 21:30
  Speaker 14: Yeah, well, everyone here in Christchurch in terms of the
• 21:33
  Speaker 14: council is talking about alcohol this week and there's a
• 21:35
  Speaker 14: focus or a hope to ensure that we can address
• 21:39
  Speaker 14: alcohol harm here while not impacting upon our hospitality sector.
• 21:43
  Speaker 14: Public feedback on the draft annual plan will officially begin today.
• 21:46
  Speaker 14: That includes a potential local alcohol policy that would set
• 21:50
  Speaker 14: rules around the number, the location and the opening hours
• 21:53
  Speaker 14: of licensed premises, as well as some other regulations. Now
• 21:57
  Speaker 14: our Mayor Film Major says there is six policies being considered,
• 22:00
  Speaker 14: but some may not make it to that consultation phase.
• 22:04
  Speaker 14: He says, they don't want to kill hospitality here as
• 22:07
  Speaker 14: people come to christ church for that. As we know,
• 22:09
  Speaker 14: we just looked at the weekend with Electric Avenue. How's
• 22:12
  Speaker 14: your weather mostly cloudy with a few spots of brizzle
• 22:15
  Speaker 14: about today, then becoming fine southerles and a high eighteen.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Good day for a beer, But I probably shouldn't say that.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Max coll from Wellington, Good morning, Good morning, Another person
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: hit by a bus?
• 22:26
  Speaker 13: Yeah, this really is a notorious stretch of central Wellington.
• 22:30
  Speaker 13: For the second time in a week, if funnily enough,
• 22:32
  Speaker 13: people had to rush to the aid of a pedestrian
• 22:34
  Speaker 13: critically injured in central Wellington, this time on Manors Street
• 22:38
  Speaker 13: just after four thirty yesterday afternoon. Earlier this week, a
• 22:41
  Speaker 13: sixty six year old German woman badly hit by a
• 22:44
  Speaker 13: car on Courtney Place, both taking the hospital in a
• 22:47
  Speaker 13: critical condition. Last night, a witness told us a pedestrian
• 22:51
  Speaker 13: stepped out onto the road on Manners and was hit
• 22:54
  Speaker 13: between Victoria and Cuba Street's first aid was delivered until
• 22:57
  Speaker 13: ambulances arrived. A double deck of us remained parked on
• 23:01
  Speaker 13: the street. Buses last night diverted to other parts of
• 23:04
  Speaker 13: the CBD. This part of Wellington just the terrible record.
• 23:07
  Speaker 13: It's baffling, in fact to see the chances people take
• 23:10
  Speaker 13: crossing the road away from the lights, because it seems
• 23:13
  Speaker 13: every few months a bus hit someone. It's mostly buses
• 23:16
  Speaker 13: that go along. There dozens of accidents in the past
• 23:19
  Speaker 13: fifteen twenty years.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be self righteous, but we've paid
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: an awful lot of money for some pedestrian crossings with
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: lights that actually keep you safe. So why don't you
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: use those anyway? How's your weather?
• 23:28
  Speaker 13: Yeah, some early rain clearing this morning twenty the high
• 23:32
  Speaker 13: Central And to welcome.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: We go neither write a matter, Hello, good morning. So
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: a police station which closed ten years ago is being reopened.
• 23:39
  Speaker 12: That's right, Andrew. Now look it's a police station custody unit. Now,
• 23:43
  Speaker 12: that's the one that's been reopened on the north Shore.
• 23:45
  Speaker 12: This is after being decommissioned for a decade ago. Actually,
• 23:48
  Speaker 12: so police say it's opening. That's going to support the
• 23:50
  Speaker 12: operations right across north Shore and Rodney, reducing the time
• 23:54
  Speaker 12: take and transporting people in custody. So the Wiamata East
• 23:58
  Speaker 12: District Council or East District Custody Unit, that's a big
• 24:01
  Speaker 12: enough thing to say. Based on the north Shore Policing
• 24:04
  Speaker 12: Center unit that's accepted its first attainees since twenty thirteen,
• 24:08
  Speaker 12: just yesterday morning. So Richard Chambers, the Police Commissioner, says,
• 24:12
  Speaker 12: this facility's really advanced technically and technologically and future focus
• 24:17
  Speaker 12: for custody staff.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: So it's all good, fabulous.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: How's the weather, well, cloudy conditions.
• 24:21
  Speaker 12: We've got isolated light showers this morning, but then it's clearing.
• 24:25
  Speaker 12: Is going to be fine, fine, fine, high twenty.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Five, Thank you, Neva. It is seventeen to six. So
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Peter Teal, you know, the US billionaire, the tech bro
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: who's right behind Donald Trump. He's winding down his New
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Zealand business interests. He has wound down his company called Vala,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: that was his only remaining connection to New Zealand apart
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: from his passport. He's still got a stake in a
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Wellington based audiobook production outfit called book Track, and he
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: still has that one hundred and ninety hectare block of
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: farmland on the shores of Lake Wonica that he can't develop.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: But here's the thing, Peter Teal, right, billionaire, he once
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: claimed he would turbo charge our tech sector, and he
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: found that no other country aligned more with my view
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: of the future than New Zealand. But obviously that's not true.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: And for love inures. By the way, he made a
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: lot of money with that. He did a play into
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: zero right at the very beginning, back in two thousand
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: and seven. He bought into the company when the shares
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: were at one dollar. They then soared to more than
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: ninety dollars. So Peter Teel is out of here, but
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: he made a lot of money, speaking money, a lot
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: of money being spent on defense in the UK. We're
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: off to our correspondent, where's the kutter in just a
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: few moments time here on news Talk se B it's
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: sixteen to.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Six international correspondence with ends and eye insurance, Peace of
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the time is how thirteen minutes to six were
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: off to the UK and we're joined now by Wesley
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Smith Heller Wesley moy going to do how are you
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: very good? The big story right around the world is
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: seeing that Kirs Starmer wants to spend more on defense.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, if his intention to make the nations
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: sit up and listen, he certainly succeeded. Today. This speech,
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: which I listened to live, sounded to say that the
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: UK is on a war footing He described Russia as
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: a menace and said the UK needs a sharper focus
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: on defense, enhancing intelligence budgets too. Probably no coincidence had
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: caused Andrew that all this comes just ahead of his
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: trip to Washington to meet President Trump, who has raised
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: more than a few eyebrows with his recent comments on
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: the Ukraine War, appearing somewhat warmer should we say in
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: his approach to Vladimir Putin was Wastarmer spoke of his
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: visits to Ukraine and how he felt personally affected by
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: what he'd seen and said we must stand by its people.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: So he needs to show now he means business in Washington,
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: but has a huge diplomatic to achieve. So he made
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: a point of underlining the UK's decades long mutually supportive
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: relationship with the US and said it must continue to
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: go from strength to strength. So in the comments he
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: pledged what he calls the biggest increase in defense spending
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: since the end of the Cold War, thirteen point four
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: billion pounds a year. I guess around thirty billion New
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: Zealand dollars from twenty to twenty seven. But on the
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: day householders here had energy prices will rise again from
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: April secure. Starmer said, we all have to shoulder some
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: of the burden through hard choices. Much of the funding
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: will come at the cost of international aid, although that's
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: a budget cut to almost half that and very much
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: to the disquiet of some who fear it will dentile
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: global reputation. He did say, however, he hoped it could
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: eventually be restored.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, the squeaking from aid agencies has you can
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: hear it over here in New Zealand, that's for sure.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: They're really complaining about the whole thing. But at the
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: same time, it has been a very long time when
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: that any country has been on what you call war footing,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: and that war footing all through the ages has always
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: meant hardships. So what interesting times we live in? Such
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: interesting times that apparently there is a solid gold toilet
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: seat worth what six million New Zealand dollars and it's
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: now been stolen it.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: It was an art installation, fully functioning eighteen carrot solid
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: gold toilet called America Make of that what you will,
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: by the artist Barizio Catalan. It was on display at
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Blenham Palace, one of England's most lavish stately homes. Birthplace
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: of the wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill. Now it's taken
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: a while for this case to come to Oxford Crown Court,
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: as the said gold's toilet seat disappeared back in September
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: twenty nineteen, when ninety eight kilograms the gold alone was
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: valued at two point eight million pounds. It's never been recovered.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: The court heard it had most likely been split up
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: into smaller amounts of gold. It only been on display
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: for a day when the overnight raid happened. Whoever removed
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: it used sledgehammers which were left at the sea with
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: water pouring out of the pipes. The entire operation, Andrew
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: only took about five minutes well, the prosecution claimed, in
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: a couple of days contact was made with a jeweler
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: in London's famous Hatton Garden, and the court heard a
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: lot of preparation must have happened before the raid, and
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: claim one of the men acused of the theft had
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: visited the exhibit and taken a photo just hours before
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: that raid. What three men are up in court and
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: the trial continues.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: When you have to go, you really have to go,
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: it seams and I thank you. That is Wesley Smith
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: that is ten to six. Andrew Diggers, there's some good
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: news for us on this Wednesday. Violent crime has increased
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: by has increased by two percent. Sorry, this is not
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: good news. Well would you say decrease? It should be
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: decreased by two percent for the first time since twenty eighteen.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: New police data shows RAM raids down fifty eight percent.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Serious assaults were down one percent. Sorry, Retail crime itself
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: has trended upwards with a twelve percent increaset of theft.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: So dairy business Owners Group Champis and Sunny Kassell joins
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: you right now. Hello, Sonny Cure, Andrew, how are you good?
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: So with the RAM raids down and the serious assaults down,
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: can we say that the tough on crime approach has worked.
• 29:45
  Speaker 11: Well, it's a great beginning and a relief for retailers
• 29:48
  Speaker 11: and dairy owners. As you know, they lived in fear
• 29:51
  Speaker 11: every day for years, you know, and people are feeling
• 29:55
  Speaker 11: the difference between the two governments that you know are
• 29:58
  Speaker 11: soft on crime up versus getting tough on crime. So,
• 30:02
  Speaker 11: as you rightly said, the RAM rates are down. The
• 30:05
  Speaker 11: violent crime, which was increased fifty one percent between twenty
• 30:09
  Speaker 11: eighteen and twenty twenty three has a first time since
• 30:13
  Speaker 11: twenty eighteen. And also the back to basics model in
• 30:18
  Speaker 11: the policing model, it is working. As you could see
• 30:22
  Speaker 11: now the aggravator robberies are popped and you could see
• 30:25
  Speaker 11: Auckland CVD. It's you know, looks much safer than it
• 30:28
  Speaker 11: used to be. And here is also a difference I
• 30:32
  Speaker 11: guess between two police ministers, you know, Ginny Anderson until
• 30:36
  Speaker 11: twenty twenty three, who basically did nothing and it was
• 30:40
  Speaker 11: all talks, but versus Mark Mitchell who is making a difference.
• 30:45
  Speaker 11: So but there's a lot more to be done, and
• 30:48
  Speaker 11: I think there's a broad beginning.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Could we argue that with the violent climb down, the
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: ram rates down, the serious assaults down, those things that
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: has happened, But those bag dectors, those bad dudes now
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: actually going back to the old things, doing burglaries, that
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: they're doing theft and they're doing shoplifting.
• 31:03
  Speaker 11: Well, look, this will take time and also there are
• 31:07
  Speaker 11: new solutions which would be required. You know, one side,
• 31:11
  Speaker 11: police are doing good job operationally, it's making a difference,
• 31:16
  Speaker 11: but we need to make sure that justice system also delivers.
• 31:20
  Speaker 11: The justice system need to be overhauled. They need to
• 31:24
  Speaker 11: get tough, and they need to be consequences. You know,
• 31:27
  Speaker 11: it's a time for a zero tolerance approach to crime offenders.
• 31:32
  Speaker 11: Regardless of their age, they must face real consequences for
• 31:35
  Speaker 11: the actions.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Sonny, thank you so much for your work and your advocacy,
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: and I thank you for your time. Today's Sunnykashaw from
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: the Dairy and Business Owners Group. It is now coming
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: up seven minutes to.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Six on your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: with Andrew Dickens and One Roof. To make your property
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: search simple if you talk, said the.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Thank you if you take thirty two ninety two, and
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: yes it's true. When you're starting looking at statistick sometimes
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: they say one thing and they actually meet another. Texas says,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: I think retail crime has probably gone up because police
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: are actually doing something about it. And that's true. They're
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: catching them, so therefore the numbers will go up. But
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: that doesn't necessarily mean the crime itself is going up.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: But there we go. Show business US you two. Matt
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: the third anniversary of Russian's evasion of Ukraine with a
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: release of a reading of a poem called My Friendly
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Epistle from our nineteenth century. Part read by Bono and
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: a company by a piano. I can think of nothing worse.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: And Mega Markle has been dropped by her talent agency.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: In news to warm Kate Hawksby's heart, and Mike Hasking
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: joins me.
• 32:36
  Speaker 10: Now, morning, there's an announcement coming today. You'll be pleased
• 32:41
  Speaker 10: to know from the Retail Crime group. Remember Sunny Koschel
• 32:44
  Speaker 10: and his mates were just talk to them. Oh good,
• 32:46
  Speaker 10: So did he tell you what he's announcing? Well, they're
• 32:48
  Speaker 10: not announced citizens arrest. Yeah, and so it's got weird.
• 32:53
  Speaker 10: Did he say they're announcing, No, we didn't get there personally. No,
• 32:56
  Speaker 10: we'll see the gold the announced Justice Minister's coming to
• 32:59
  Speaker 10: you anyway. They go, that's what they're announcing today. So
• 33:01
  Speaker 10: along with the violent crime stats. So that's all good
• 33:03
  Speaker 10: because he's getting paid hundreds of dollars a day and
• 33:07
  Speaker 10: millions are not that I'm against some good luck, but
• 33:08
  Speaker 10: they've taken a long time to come up with all
• 33:10
  Speaker 10: the stuff they thought of at the very beginning.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: If you go back to you know, let's go back
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: to citizens arrest though. You know, that's great when it works,
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: but it's terrible when it doesn't. Well, it's not you
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  Speaker 2: and me well, why where a citizen? Why can't we arrest?
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  Speaker 10: Well, yeah, but you know what I'm saying, it'll be
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  Speaker 10: security guards and stuff. I mean, I'm not arresting anybody.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you will, You're very arresting.
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  Speaker 10: Maybe once maybe once. Maybe you do it once, see
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  Speaker 10: if you're any good, and if you're good, you go.
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  Speaker 10: Actually I might try another one if you live and
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  Speaker 10: see see how it. Anyways, and economic zones that they're
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  Speaker 10: looking at now they can't have Mars and place.
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  Speaker 2: Good show and arm and Defense. I thank you, my
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  Speaker 2: thanks to producer Kenzie, and I'm Andrew. I can see
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  Speaker 2: you again tomorrow.
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