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Full Show Podcast: 08 June 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: This is the issues, the interviews and the insight. Francesca
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Speaker 1: Ruggin on Early Edition with spark for business technology that
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Speaker 1: keeps business moving Newstalks, z'b.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Welcome to Early Edition. I'm Francisco Rugging with
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Speaker 2: you for one more week or good to have you
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Speaker 2: with us. Hope you had a good weekend. You're most
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Speaker 2: welcome to contact me anytime this morning. Flip me a
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Speaker 2: text on ninety two ninety two. You can email me
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Speaker 2: at Francesca at Newstorg, ZIB dot co dot NZ. On
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Speaker 2: the show today, the red meat sector releases its latest
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Speaker 2: research on its economic and social value to New Zealand
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Speaker 2: and the numbers are good. We look at new tech
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Speaker 2: measures the EU was putting in place to be less
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Speaker 2: reliant on China and the US, and the government has
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Speaker 2: very quietly pre allocated a billion dollars from next year's
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Speaker 2: budget but won't tell us what for. Is this lack
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Speaker 2: of transparency a concern? We talk about that before the
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Speaker 2: end of the hour.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It's Monday, the eighth of June and it's been one
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Speaker 2: hundred days since Operation Epic Fury began in Iran.
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Speaker 1: A short time ago, the United States military began major
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Speaker 1: combat operations in Iran.
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Speaker 2: Trump told NBC News around's new supreme leader has been seriously,
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Speaker 2: very seriously androd and a deal with Taranta is very close.
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Speaker 2: An Iranian spokesperson says the US has taken contradictory negotiating positions.
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Speaker 3: The main problem of negotiating with this administration is that
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Speaker 3: you have to face so many changing positions, moving the goalpost,
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Speaker 3: different statements, contradictory marks by different officials. So it makes
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Speaker 3: the whole process very cumbersome, very honest, table, and very
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Speaker 3: uncertain to.
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Speaker 2: The UK now where Deputy Prime Minister David Lamming says
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Speaker 2: he'd personally called US Prime. He personally called US Vice
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Speaker 2: President JD. Vance to tell him he was wrong in
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Speaker 2: the comments he made about the murder of teenager Henry Noak.
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Speaker 2: Vance blamed the death of the eighteen year old British
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Speaker 2: student who was fatally dead last year on the mass
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Speaker 2: invasion of migrants and said the only response was righteous anger.
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Speaker 4: And I told him he was rot. This has got
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Speaker 4: nothing to do with mass migration.
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Speaker 5: One.
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Speaker 4: Let's be clear that obviously since the early two thousands
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Speaker 4: and post praxist migration has come down, but murder has
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Speaker 4: come down too actually in our country. And two the
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Speaker 4: young man who perpetrated this crime was a Bret born
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Speaker 4: and raised in this country. Nothing to do with mass migration.
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Speaker 2: And finally, a golden result for Liam Lawson and the
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Speaker 2: Monaco Grand Prix. He crossed the line fifth to earn
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Speaker 2: his fourth points finish in his last five races. After
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Speaker 2: qualifying tenth. Lawson stayed out of trouble in a race
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Speaker 2: that saw seven drivers fail to finish. Gimmi Antonelli took
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Speaker 2: first place, followed by Lewis Hamilton and Isaac Hedger.
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Speaker 5: So many drivers have been court speeding today, so they've
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Speaker 5: all returned to the pit lane the session. The race
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Speaker 5: has been suspended, stopped, suspended, not John, that's it. We're
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Speaker 5: not going to get going again. We have suspended the race.
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Speaker 6: And that's faller.
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Speaker 1: News breaks here at first. Francesca Rudkin on early edition
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Speaker 1: with Spark for Business technology that keeps business moving News
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Speaker 1: Talk said, b.
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Speaker 2: It is nine past five, okay. So yesterday some new
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Speaker 2: polling results were released on the quality of the public service.
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Speaker 2: So the polling of oney three hundred and sixteen adults
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Speaker 2: was done between end of April and May tenth, so
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Speaker 2: before the Finance Minister announced further cuts to the public
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Speaker 2: service and the budget. It was commissioned by the Public
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Speaker 2: Service Association SO Union commissioning pollan twenty five percent of
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Speaker 2: respondent said the public service had improved under the National
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Speaker 2: New Zealand First and At Coalition government, including five percent
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Speaker 2: who said it was much better. Meanwhile, thirty eight percent
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Speaker 2: it said it was worse, including sixteen percent who believed
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Speaker 2: it was much worse, and twenty nine said there had
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Speaker 2: been no improvement under the coalition. The question that was
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Speaker 2: asked to discover this information regarding the performances of the
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Speaker 2: public service under the current government was how do you
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Speaker 2: think the overall quality of public services such as health
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Speaker 2: and education has changed since the National led government came
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Speaker 2: to office in twenty twenty three. Is it not possible?
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Speaker 2: The answer to that question probably has nothing to do
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Speaker 2: with the quality of public services. It's more about how
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Speaker 2: you vote health. Yes, you might have noticed a difference
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Speaker 2: in the health system. Got elect of surgery privately received
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Speaker 2: a newly funded cancer treatment or seen as specialist quicker
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Speaker 2: than you would have previously. Education wise, though a lot
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Speaker 2: of changes are yet to be implemented. So you're largely
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Speaker 2: voting on announcements, there's a good chance that most people
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Speaker 2: are actually answering the question how do you think the
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Speaker 2: overall quality of health and education policy has changed since
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Speaker 2: the New Zealand ed government came to office in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty three. This poll is purely a bid by the
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Speaker 2: PSA to worry voters that cuts to the public service
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Speaker 2: will mean that New Zealanders will see services eroded further
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Speaker 2: and that AI can't replace public servants. But if we're
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Speaker 2: not cutting frontline service, then what's to say that's the case.
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Speaker 2: Keen to hear your thoughts. You're with early edition Welcome
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Speaker 2: to Text on ninety two ninety two. It's eleven past.
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Speaker 1: Five, Heurrett first. Francesca Rudkin on early edition with Spark
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Speaker 1: for business Technology that keeps business moving, News talks that'd be.
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Speaker 2: It's thirteen past five. The red meat sector is a
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Speaker 2: big part of the economy, generating seventeen point five billion
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Speaker 2: and GDP every year in supporting one and every twenty jobs.
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Speaker 2: A New Borld study out today shows the industry backs
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Speaker 2: more than one hundred and twenty thousand full time jobs
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Speaker 2: across the country. Underlying its huge contribution to New Zealand's
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Speaker 2: economic performance. Beef and Lamb chair Kate Ackland joins me. Now,
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Speaker 2: good morning, Kate, thanks for your time.
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Speaker 7: Good morning, thanks for having me.
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Speaker 2: Did these figures come as a surprise to you.
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Speaker 7: No, Look they don't. We do this. You know, we
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Speaker 7: commission this reports of every five years or so, and
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Speaker 7: you know there has been quite an upset, particularly in
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Speaker 7: the number of jobs it supports, and I think it's
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Speaker 7: really just important that it shows the impact of the
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Speaker 7: red sector and how it really underpins to Healean's economy.
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Speaker 8: How significant is it, Well, the red except that generates
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Speaker 8: forty eight billion dollars in spending and when you break
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Speaker 8: that down, you know farmers are spending sixty four million
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Speaker 8: dollars in regional communities every day, and when you add
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Speaker 8: on the downstream spending, that adds up to about one
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Speaker 8: hundred and thirty three million dollars of spending that's happening.
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Speaker 7: So it's really just keeping the economy going round and round.
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Speaker 2: I thought the other statistic that was really interesting is
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Speaker 2: that it supports one in every twenty jobs.
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Speaker 7: Well, absolutely, and that's on a national scale. But when
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Speaker 7: you look at places like Tatanaki or Suthland. That's about
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Speaker 7: twelve percent in regions like that, so really particularly important
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Speaker 7: for region on New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: I wasn't sure whether I should be surprised about these figures, because,
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Speaker 2: as you said, we know that the primary sector is
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Speaker 2: the backbone of the economy. Do we know how maybe
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Speaker 2: it compares to other sectors, like the dairy sector.
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Speaker 7: Well, when you start adding in the dairy sector, then
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Speaker 7: suddenly pastoral farming as a whole becomes incredibly important for
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Speaker 7: New Zealand. And we that the dairy sector is the
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Speaker 7: biggest God's exporter, closely followed by the red meat sector.
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Speaker 7: So look, look, rural New Zealand is driving New Zealand
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Speaker 7: economy at the moment, and I think it's important just
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Speaker 7: to keep these figures, you know, front and center as
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Speaker 7: we look at where we invest in people and where
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Speaker 7: we invest in growing our economy.
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Speaker 2: It also shows just how much the red meat sector
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Speaker 2: relies on exports, doesn't it.
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Speaker 7: Absolutely? I mean what we export that ninety eight percent
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Speaker 7: of our products, and even in these geopolitically certain times,
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Speaker 7: the red meat sector continues to be really, really strong
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Speaker 7: and resilient.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So how do you see the future more jobs,
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Speaker 2: more contribution to the economy.
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Speaker 7: Well, we've got really strong ambitions for the future to
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Speaker 7: grow not just the size but also the value of
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Speaker 7: the red meat sector. And the future is strong demand.
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Speaker 7: Demand has never been stronger for quality of protein, and
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Speaker 7: we've got fantastic market access into a range of different markets.
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Speaker 7: So even though we are facing those things like the
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Speaker 7: Middle East crisis, we've still got a really strong resilience sector.
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Speaker 2: How good to start Monday with a good news story, Kate.
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Speaker 7: Isn't that great, especially as we go into the field
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Speaker 7: days this week.
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Speaker 2: Love you to talk to you. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 2: That was Kate Acklin. There can I quickly go back
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Speaker 2: to Monaco. It was all gone Monico this morning. It
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Speaker 2: was absolute chaos. So Antonelli he was pole position. He
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Speaker 2: managed to convert that into his fifth straight win tick
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Speaker 2: and that sort of further extended his advantage at the
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Speaker 2: top of the World Championship. He is the youngest driver
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Speaker 2: to lead the to lead the race for the title,
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Speaker 2: and he's now quite well clear of George Russell. You've
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Speaker 2: got to feel a little before he finished fourteenth this morning,
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Speaker 2: Liam Lawson crossed the line fifth, so that is very
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Speaker 2: exciting for Stupin retired on the first lap after being
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Speaker 2: stuck in place when the flag went up, so he
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Speaker 2: was a victim of a technical issue on his guard,
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Speaker 2: as you can imagine, not very happy about that. Claire
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Speaker 2: Leclair hit the wall lap sixty eight, so there was
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Speaker 2: a red flag and that meant a standing start. On resumption,
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Speaker 2: the track broke up and had to be repaired. The
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Speaker 2: old roads are just as good as ours here in
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Speaker 2: New Zealand. And seven drivers failed to finish, and there's
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Speaker 2: people with so many penalty counts it's probably going to
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Speaker 2: be days before we know how it's actually all going
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Speaker 2: to unfold. You never know Hadja who finished third, he
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Speaker 2: does have quite a few penalties against him. Liam Lawsyll
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Speaker 2: can find himself in fourth. So for a course that
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Speaker 2: is pretty exhilarating to watch because it's so claustrophobic. But
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Speaker 2: often the leads don't you know, your positions don't change
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Speaker 2: too much because you can't overtake tell you what, it
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Speaker 2: was quite an exhausting and exciting morning in Monaco. It
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Speaker 2: is almost eighteen plus five year with news talks ab.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the news of the day. Earlier
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Speaker 1: edition with Francesca Rudkin and Spark for Business Technology that
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Speaker 1: Keeps Business Moving News talksb It's five twenty.
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Speaker 2: Joining me now chief Economic Advisor at the UK Center
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Speaker 2: for Economics and Business Research and former UK Government advisor
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Speaker 2: Vicky Price, Good morning, Vicki.
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Speaker 9: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so let's talk about the euro GDP growth rate.
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Speaker 2: The euro Zone economy shrink zero point two percent in
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Speaker 2: the first quarter at twenty twenty six. What is this
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Speaker 2: due to.
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Speaker 9: Well, yes, that was a bit of a surprise, but
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Speaker 9: it was due entirely. It looks like it to what
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Speaker 9: happened in Ireland where GDP seems to have fallen after
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Speaker 9: their recalculator. This is the sort of final revision of
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Speaker 9: the data to a twelve and a half percent drop
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Speaker 9: in Ireland. I mean, remember Ireland is a low tax economy,
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Speaker 9: and what tends to happen is there loads of multinationals,
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Speaker 9: whether it is technology companies or pharmaceuticals, do a lot
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Speaker 9: of the business from Ireland and they export a lot
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Speaker 9: of things to the US and elsewhere from there. So
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Speaker 9: what tends to happen is there are cycles. So when
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Speaker 9: everybody was selling a lot to the US to avoid
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Speaker 9: some of the tariffs, which was the case in fact
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Speaker 9: last year, and the Irish economy did incredibly well, and
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Speaker 9: this last quarter it was the opposite because a lot
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Speaker 9: of those experts simply didn't happen. So it brought the
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Speaker 9: whole of the Eurozone down, which is or the YOU down,
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Speaker 9: which is really rather surprising if you take that out.
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Speaker 9: In fact, the Eurozone, the YOU hasn't done badly at all.
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Speaker 9: So they have been growing steadily by something like point
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Speaker 9: two percent, perhaps slightly more per quarter. So it is
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Speaker 9: an exceptional quarter really, and we shouldn't really judge anything
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Speaker 9: from that. If you look at various countries, we've seen
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Speaker 9: growth happening actually in Germany, in France, in Spain and
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Speaker 9: Spain particularly, but also the other major economiess have done well.
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Speaker 9: So it's on the surface of it it looks bad.
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Speaker 9: In reality it isn't. And actually, if I can add,
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Speaker 9: it's really interesting because we're just about to have this
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Speaker 9: week a meeting by the European Central Bank to decide
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Speaker 9: what to do about interest rates, and here we have
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Speaker 9: an economy which on paper is supposed to not have
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Speaker 9: done very well, so they might sort of stop and think,
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Speaker 9: but they're not going to because the inflation figures are
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Speaker 9: not that good, so probably there will be raising rates.
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Speaker 2: Inflation hit three point two percent in the Eurozone, so
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Speaker 2: there is expected hike.
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Speaker 9: Yes, the remember, of course again that because the Eurozone
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Speaker 9: hasn't done that well. It has been most affected by
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Speaker 9: what's happening with the war in Ukraine and the dependence
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Speaker 9: on oil and gas coming from Russia, which had to
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Speaker 9: be reduced very significantly, so they haven't done very well.
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Speaker 9: Interest rates in Europe are very low by comparison in
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Speaker 9: the US and the UK, down to two percent. Inflation
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Speaker 9: is indeed, as you rightly say, picking up to three
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Speaker 9: point two percent. We've seen, you know, places like Italy,
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Speaker 9: Spain having quite substantial increases above that. So what they're
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Speaker 9: worried about is that they just need to show that
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Speaker 9: they are on top of it, even though they can't
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Speaker 9: do very much. So yes, the expectation is that raise
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Speaker 9: interest rates, but only by a bit and from a
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Speaker 9: very low base, and that isn't going to be sort
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Speaker 9: of particularly negative for growth. I think that's what they hope.
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Speaker 9: Whether we need to do it again, it remains to
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Speaker 9: be seen. But remember we're starting from a very low base.
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Speaker 9: So the impact shouldn't be too significant on confidence in
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Speaker 9: the Eurozone.
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Speaker 2: The key very quickly, the European Commission has presented a
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Speaker 2: sweeping TICH package to boost homegrown technologies to reduce the
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Speaker 2: dependency on America and Chinese companies. What are they focusing
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Speaker 2: on here.
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Speaker 9: Well, mainly sort of AI and tech because basically what
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Speaker 9: they're worried about is that they're importing so much from
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Speaker 9: China and also depending so much on even payments for
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Speaker 9: you know, everyday use of credit cards to MasterCard, reason
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Speaker 9: so on all US firms and a lot on tech
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Speaker 9: on China, and that of course means that they're very
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Speaker 9: vulnerable right in the middle. So what they're trying to
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Speaker 9: do is become more independent, and whether that will work,
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Speaker 9: of course, it's a question mark.
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Speaker 2: We shall wait and see. Vicki Price, thank you so
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Speaker 2: much for your time this morning, twenty four past five.
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Speaker 2: Twenty six past five. I like how the government's recent
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Speaker 2: moves are trying to create a more integrated and responsive
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Speaker 2: health system. Last week they moved on the pharmacists and
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Speaker 2: during the weekend it was with the paramedics. It's about
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Speaker 2: making the most of the workforce we already have by
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Speaker 2: extending what they can do, with the aim being to
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Speaker 2: reduce treatment delays, improve patient experiences and take the pressure
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Speaker 2: off our stretched primary healthcare providers. Last Tuesday, changes to
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Speaker 2: the services pharmacists can provide kicked in. Instead of waiting
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Speaker 2: for a GP appointment, paying for a GP appointment, or
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Speaker 2: paying over the counter prices for treatments, you can head
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Speaker 2: to your local chemist where your pharmacist is now fully
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Speaker 2: funded to provide a consultation and supply a funded treatment
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Speaker 2: at a low cost. Benefits obvious patients can get more
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Speaker 2: affordable care quickly and closer to home, while taking pressure
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Speaker 2: off GPS and emergency departments. Over the weekend, the Health
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Speaker 2: Man to Simeon Brown announced that paramedics will soon be
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Speaker 2: able to prescribe medicines that fall within their scope of practice.
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Speaker 2: At the moment, paramedics can administer medicines but can't prescribe them.
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Speaker 2: Once again, the idea is to reduce pressure on the
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Speaker 2: emergency departments by being able to help patients receive treatment
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Speaker 2: in their homes and communities, the Health Minister said. Giving
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Speaker 2: paramedics the ability to prescribe medicines will enable them to
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Speaker 2: provide more complete care when it's clinically appropriate, rather than
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Speaker 2: transferring patients elsewhere, such as an emergency department, solely to
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Speaker 2: obtain a prescription. So this will be beneficial where it
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Speaker 2: makes sense for people to be assessed, treated and prescribed
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Speaker 2: at home, such as for the elderly, those in palliative care,
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Speaker 2: and those living in rural and remote areas. So John
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Speaker 2: says it supports paramedic prescribing as a positive step in
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Speaker 2: the evolution of the paramedic profession and ambulance care. John Moores,
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Speaker 2: who is the Saint John Deputy Chief Executive, he said,
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Speaker 2: what we're all thinking right, He said, it is important
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Speaker 2: that robust clinical governance, training, prescribe vibing frameworks and patient
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Speaker 2: safeguards are in place to ensure prescribing is funded appropriately
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Speaker 2: and safely. He said it is important that the necessary
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Speaker 2: funding and support mechanisms are in place to ensure ambulance
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Speaker 2: services can continue to meet their existing commitments while taking
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Speaker 2: on these expanding responsibilities. And the Health Minister confirmed with
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Speaker 2: me yesterday on the Sunday session that the government would
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Speaker 2: continue to invest in paramedics and funding. This would be
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Speaker 2: subject to negotiations between Health New Zealand and our ambulance providers.
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Speaker 2: According to Brown, it may take a year or two
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Speaker 2: to get this approved and up and running. Look, this
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Speaker 2: isn't transformational change of the health sector. You could perhaps
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Speaker 2: call it tinkering around the edges, but small changes can
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Speaker 2: still be worthwhile change. Talk to clinicians and they will
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Speaker 2: often tell you fixing problems is not always about needing
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Speaker 2: more money, but about creating better systems and using money
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Speaker 2: more wisely. So these are small changes, but they will
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Speaker 2: make life easier for patients. Something tells me that once
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Speaker 2: they're safely implemented, we will wonder why we didn't do this.
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Speaker 2: Earlier news TALGSB very quickly a good news AIS story.
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Speaker 2: FIFA is offering all the teams that are playing at
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Speaker 2: AI a social media protection service. Basically, it's going to
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Speaker 2: prevent them from getting abuse and it can present They
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Speaker 2: can prevent billions of abuseive text coming through to the players,
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Speaker 2: so it's something that they offer them. You'll see that
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Speaker 2: a lot of the Premier League clubs are already using
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Speaker 2: this and things, and that they're removing one provider of
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Speaker 2: the service. If they remove one point five billion hateful
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Speaker 2: impressions from global rugby in the past, and you know
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Speaker 2: what it's like your team doesn't play the way you are.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Franjesca
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Speaker 1: Rudkin and Spark for Business Technology that keeps business moving
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Speaker 2: This is early dedition on NEWSTALKSB. I'm Franchisco Vidkin filling
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Speaker 2: in for Ryn Bridge this week. Thanks for being with us.
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Speaker 2: In the next half hour we head to Europe where
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Speaker 2: the US and Vice President j d Vance is criticizing
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Speaker 2: European nations again, this time for their immigration policy. And
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Speaker 2: we've just had the budget. A very observant person has
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Speaker 2: spotted a note buried in Treasury's Budget, Economic and Fiscal
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Speaker 2: Update that reveals a portion of budget twenty twenty seven
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Speaker 2: has been quietly pre committed by the government, and yet
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Speaker 2: the government refuses to say where. Possibly not the first
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Speaker 2: government to pre commit future funding, but it is a
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Speaker 2: bit odd that they won't say where it's going. Possibly
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Speaker 2: a transparency issue here, So we're going to talk about that.
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Speaker 2: Before six, just before the news I was talking of course,
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Speaker 2: FIFA is kicking off at the end of this week
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Speaker 2: and a very good use of AI is being put
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Speaker 2: into action with the Social Media Protection Service. So basically,
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Speaker 2: this technology, if the Kings take it on board, it
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Speaker 2: filters abusive and offensive comments from thirty thousand keywords on
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Speaker 2: the social media channels of teams and the players, and
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Speaker 2: it hides them under two seconds, So the person who
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Speaker 2: sent their abuse can still see their posts, but they're
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Speaker 2: unaware that it's been hidden and reported for further investigation,
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Speaker 2: and you might find yourself banned from purchasing tickets to
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Speaker 2: fe for matches or other clubs. So it works on
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Speaker 2: all the platforms and things. So I think that's a
19:22
Speaker 2: great thing, because the thing about sport right is we
19:25
Speaker 2: might not intend to send something abusive, but we get
19:28
Speaker 2: so caught up in the game, and then someone misses
19:31
Speaker 2: a shot, or someone misses in the penalty shootout, and
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Speaker 2: the goalkeeper does something silly, and we all just lose
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Speaker 2: our minds and we jump on our phones and text things.
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Speaker 2: So we're just going to make it a little bit
19:42
Speaker 2: more pleasant for those involved in it. You're most welcome
19:44
Speaker 2: to send me feedback this morning. The text is ninety
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Speaker 2: two ninety two. It is twenty one to six Z
19:53
Speaker 2: Right let's head around the country now. And and anedin
19:56
Speaker 2: Callum Proctor is with us. Good morning, Mama Francisca. So
20:00
Speaker 2: long planning process is coming to an end. Tell us more.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, this is the Needin's second generation district plan. It'll
20:07
Speaker 10: become fully operational from next week and it replaces the
20:11
Speaker 10: previous rule book after being first proposed back in twenty fifteen.
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Speaker 10: So it's been a lot of work getting this together.
20:17
Speaker 10: This is a plan that sets the rules for land
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Speaker 10: use and development across Dunedin. Anna Johnson's the city development manager.
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Speaker 10: She says it's been a long journey, dealing with some
20:26
Speaker 10: complex technical matters and difficult decisions, with completing opinions and evidence,
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Speaker 10: but she says this new plan will strike the balance
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Speaker 10: between growth and protecting what the community values like biodiversity
20:37
Speaker 10: and its heritage.
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Speaker 2: And the weather today and Dunedin.
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Speaker 10: Collum showers from this afternoon, gusty southwesters and fourteen today,
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Speaker 10: All right.
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Speaker 2: Take care. Claire Sherwood is in christ Church. Good morning, Claire,
20:49
Speaker 2: good morning. Tell us about where this littleton port development
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Speaker 2: is at.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, Well, the Maritime Union is not happy at all
20:55
Speaker 11: about the idea that an overseas Bidder is reportedly eyeing
20:59
Speaker 11: up for our Littleton Port. Global Port operated DP World
21:03
Speaker 11: is believed to be finalizing a bid to manage operations
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Speaker 11: there for up to thirty years now. The Maritime Union's
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Speaker 11: Carl Findlay says this is a terrible idea. He says
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Speaker 11: it's beyond belief to even consider handing something like a
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Speaker 11: key port to overseas hands. He says this would have
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Speaker 11: nationwide consequences, with the money that we initially get for
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Speaker 11: it acting as a sugar hit that would then eventually
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Speaker 11: fall back on New Zealand consumers. Findlay says Christia City Council,
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Speaker 11: the Port company and Union should all be working together
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Speaker 11: in order to keep this asset in public ownership.
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Speaker 2: And the weather today mainly fine.
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Speaker 11: There should be a bit of clad about midday and
21:38
Speaker 11: the chance of a shower northwesterly is turning southwesterly and
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Speaker 11: nineteen degrees thanks Claire.
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Speaker 2: Adam Cooper is in Wellington. Good morning, Adam, morning Francesca. Okay,
21:46
Speaker 2: so obviously there are going to still be disruptions after
21:49
Speaker 2: Wellington's train network came to a halt after on Saturday
21:53
Speaker 2: night's crash.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, that's right, just after seven Saturday night, a train
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Speaker 12: going between Johnsonville and Wellington somehow ended up being diverted.
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Speaker 12: It down an offshoot sort of runoff track in Kindala
22:02
Speaker 12: plowed straight into a concrete barrier. Six people, including the driver,
22:06
Speaker 12: were injured, and photos to the show the train pretty
22:10
Speaker 12: suffering some pretty serious damage, parts of parts of the
22:13
Speaker 12: carriage structure crumbling on impact. Now investigators have been on
22:16
Speaker 12: site around the clock since it happened. The Transport Accident
22:20
Speaker 12: Investigation Commission says it is too early to determine the cause,
22:23
Speaker 12: but obviously a thorough investigation is.
22:25
Speaker 6: In the works.
22:26
Speaker 12: Now crane will be needed to lift the train off
22:28
Speaker 12: the tracks and take it away. Its structure is so
22:31
Speaker 12: damaged it won't even be able to fit into the
22:32
Speaker 12: tunnels to get it back to the depot. Greater Wellington
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Speaker 12: Regional Council chair Darren Ponder says trains won't be back
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Speaker 12: on the Johnsonville line until Thursday. Buses will be on instead.
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Speaker 2: In the meantime, Adam the weather in Wellington today, Please.
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Speaker 12: Find today then the odd show tonight anah, I have sixteen, Thank.
22:49
Speaker 2: You so much. Never Richiemind who is in the Auckland
22:51
Speaker 2: studio and neither by now pay later is coming to
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Speaker 2: animal Auckland Animal Shelter.
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Speaker 13: That's right, Auckland Animal Shelters. So they're trialing this scheme,
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Speaker 13: the buy now paid latest service. This is you know what, Francesca.
23:07
Speaker 13: This is because you know, like a third of animals
23:09
Speaker 13: go unclaimed, which is quite sad. But recent council figures
23:12
Speaker 13: predict that by the end of this financial year, they
23:16
Speaker 13: reckon that more than nine thousand dogs will be impounded
23:19
Speaker 13: over three thousand unclaimed. In April, the council implemented after
23:24
Speaker 13: pay as its main This is at three of the
23:27
Speaker 13: main shelters. This is in Monaco, Henderson and Silverdale. Nicky
23:31
Speaker 13: Cripps is the regional shelter manager, saying that, you know what,
23:35
Speaker 13: financial barriers are a key reason that many of these
23:37
Speaker 13: dogs go unclaimed. Owners are already saying She's saying that
23:41
Speaker 13: they can't get their pets back without after pay.
23:44
Speaker 2: Oh okay, So this is for people who want their
23:46
Speaker 2: pets back, because I was going to say, if you
23:48
Speaker 2: can't afford to pay for the you probably can't afford
23:50
Speaker 2: the food and the like. But this is people wanting
23:53
Speaker 2: to get their own.
23:54
Speaker 13: And yeah, this is people wanting to get their own
23:56
Speaker 13: dogs back. Otherwise, you know those animal shelters is they're
23:59
Speaker 13: just going to be run and people just don't have
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Speaker 13: the money. But you know, like in a way is
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Speaker 13: kicking the can down the road, because yeah, if they
24:06
Speaker 13: can't afford to get their dogs back, but they carnifford
24:08
Speaker 13: to feed them and everything. You know, it just has
24:10
Speaker 13: it domino effect, doesn't.
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Speaker 2: It with it?
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Speaker 7: Today?
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Speaker 13: Cloudy, a few showers many from afternoon eighteen is a
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Speaker 13: high urin Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Sounds good, Thank you very much, have a good day.
24:18
Speaker 2: Gavin Gray is with us next year on newstalks there be.
24:21
Speaker 2: It is seventeen to.
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Speaker 1: Six International correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance Peace of
24:27
Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 2: And joining me now is Gavin Gray. Good morning, Gavin.
24:33
Speaker 14: Hi the Francisca.
24:35
Speaker 2: Once again, US Vice President JD. Vance has shared his
24:39
Speaker 2: thoughts on European nations, this time in regards to the
24:43
Speaker 2: immigration policies.
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Speaker 14: Yes, of course this is something that has certainly riled
24:49
Speaker 14: the European leaders. They don't really need much reminding that
24:52
Speaker 14: migration into the European Union is something that they need
24:57
Speaker 14: to tackle. But Pete Hasketh used both a very unusual
25:01
Speaker 14: phrasing and a very unusual place in which to make
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Speaker 14: this point. He was actually speaking on a D Day anniversary,
25:08
Speaker 14: a D Day commemoration, in other words, when the World
25:12
Speaker 14: War II was pretty much the start of the liberation
25:17
Speaker 14: of Nazi occupied Europe in nineteen forty four, and he
25:20
Speaker 14: was speaking in that sort of remit when he said
25:23
Speaker 14: the following, Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by
25:28
Speaker 14: different dangerous ideologies, beaches in Spain, Italy, Greece and Bulgaria,
25:33
Speaker 14: boats and men arrive. When will European capitals do something
25:36
Speaker 14: about that invasion? And also continued with something that the
25:42
Speaker 14: European capitals are growing too comfortable with their hard freedoms,
25:46
Speaker 14: forgetting that freedom is not free, and the men who
25:49
Speaker 14: fought and died here restored freedom to Europe. That freedom
25:53
Speaker 14: must be maintained by this generation of leaders. So what
25:56
Speaker 14: he's saying is that this unchecked migration as he sees
25:59
Speaker 14: it into who yes, the UK, but into Europe as
26:02
Speaker 14: a whole, is something that needs to be tackled. And
26:06
Speaker 14: of course he is making the point. I think that
26:08
Speaker 14: this is something that Donald Trump has strived to tackle
26:11
Speaker 14: as well. In the US and amid other policies which
26:14
Speaker 14: perhaps aren't going his way, including the economy and Iran.
26:18
Speaker 14: Perhaps this is something they're trying to highlight abroad that
26:20
Speaker 14: is working more to an international audience.
26:24
Speaker 2: And Keirstamer is still frustrated with others interfering in UK politics,
26:28
Speaker 2: especially over the Henry Noek murder.
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Speaker 14: Yes so I mean Heske's comments the Defense Secretory or
26:35
Speaker 14: Secretary of War or America's comments come after this dreadful
26:40
Speaker 14: incident of this young nineteen year old student, white student
26:44
Speaker 14: attacked by a Sikh man for no reason at all, stabbed,
26:48
Speaker 14: police handcuffed him and he died pretty much shortly afterwards
26:53
Speaker 14: that without realizing the police did not realize the course
26:56
Speaker 14: that he had been stabbed. So plenty of people saying
26:59
Speaker 14: two tier police system in this country and certainly being
27:03
Speaker 14: chimed in now by lots of people from America. The
27:06
Speaker 14: us VI President J. D. Van saying this was a
27:09
Speaker 14: mass invasion of migrants and the only response was righteous
27:12
Speaker 14: anger that Trump administration, not Donald Trump directly, but his
27:16
Speaker 14: administration calling an end for two tier policing as well
27:20
Speaker 14: and as well saying about the United States sense condolences,
27:25
Speaker 14: but the Prime Minister hitting back is saying, look, Henry
27:28
Speaker 14: Novak's family have said they do not want this to
27:30
Speaker 14: become political, and yet that is exactly what we're getting now.
27:33
Speaker 14: And indeed comments a little earlier as well from the
27:37
Speaker 14: Boss of X posting on ex Elon Musk said of
27:41
Speaker 14: the bodycom footage that the police relieved. Send the video
27:44
Speaker 14: to everyone you know, showing how heenously Novak was treated
27:47
Speaker 14: by the police in his dying moments and how police
27:50
Speaker 14: cravenly caught out to his murder. He's also accused in
27:53
Speaker 14: the mainstream media, who wrote about George Floyd millions of
27:56
Speaker 14: times of being dead silent about Novak. Well, again, the
27:59
Speaker 14: Prime Minister, as this is British politics, stay out of bed.
28:02
Speaker 14: Don't try to create division where there is done.
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Speaker 2: Kevin Gray, thank you so much, said the Okay, here's
28:09
Speaker 2: one to raise a few eyebrows. The government's quietly pre
28:12
Speaker 2: committed more than a billion dollars from next year's budget,
28:14
Speaker 2: but is refusing to say where this money is going,
28:16
Speaker 2: so that that's a sizeable chunk of the two point
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Speaker 2: four billion spending allowance Nicola Willis has set for budget
28:22
Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven. Jordan Williams, Taxpayer's Union executive director joins me. Now,
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Speaker 2: good morning, Jordan.
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Speaker 6: Good morning. Is this a bit unusual, It's pretty outrageous,
28:35
Speaker 6: but we have some some of them with Labor calling
28:38
Speaker 6: it out. How do you expect us to review books
28:40
Speaker 6: when you're not saying such a way at such a
28:43
Speaker 6: significant amount of money as being spent. However, the last
28:47
Speaker 6: election year, Labored did something pretty similar and locking in
28:52
Speaker 6: high spending in various areas and then claiming the nets
28:54
Speaker 6: were quote unquote cussing which was only promised for future
28:58
Speaker 6: projective spending. It's pretty new. It's a high bar not
29:03
Speaker 6: to include it. It looks to be done here for
29:05
Speaker 6: political rather than the commercially sensitive or security reasons. But
29:10
Speaker 6: what's interesting is that Nicola Willis is saying, look, I
29:13
Speaker 6: can't include it because it's still under act of consideration.
29:16
Speaker 6: But as we've seen with lots of other disclosures is
29:19
Speaker 6: that it's a high bar for Treasury to include it
29:22
Speaker 6: in there. It's basically saying, or Treasury is basically saying,
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Speaker 6: the decisions already being made, but we're not going to
29:27
Speaker 6: tell you where the money's going.
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Speaker 2: Because budget Government's budget for a four year forecast period.
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Speaker 2: So how is this different to sort of budgeting, you know,
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Speaker 2: pre committing funding.
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Speaker 6: Well, what Nicola Willis is doing is a little bit
29:42
Speaker 6: of a fudge. Is that she's saying, look how virtuous
29:44
Speaker 6: I am, Look how I'm reducing the increased size of spendings.
29:49
Speaker 6: But what she's doing is because it's an election year,
29:53
Speaker 6: is she's bringing forward next year's spending or she wants
29:56
Speaker 6: the political capital for whatever promise or think that this
30:00
Speaker 6: is going to be. We're hearing around the traps that
30:03
Speaker 6: the government is likely to announce something very significant in
30:06
Speaker 6: the solar space. If I was a betting man, I'd
30:09
Speaker 6: say that's what this is.
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Speaker 2: Okay. So most unusual about this is the fact that
30:16
Speaker 2: there's no transparency. We just don't know where it's going.
30:19
Speaker 6: Yeah, and the whole Roots Fiscal Responsibility Act back in
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Speaker 6: the early nineties was set out to prevent the sort
30:27
Speaker 6: of surprise for incoming governments. MICHAELA. Willis rightly complained about
30:33
Speaker 6: some of the things that were hidden from her, she
30:35
Speaker 6: says are hidden from her by the last government. It's
30:38
Speaker 6: a great shame that she's effectively doing the same thing
30:41
Speaker 6: all over again.
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Speaker 2: So why do you think they aren't telling us where
30:44
Speaker 2: it's going. Do you believe the call that maybe they
30:46
Speaker 2: just haven't got their ducks in a row yet and
30:48
Speaker 2: they're just trying to sort things out.
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Speaker 6: Well, that's my point. The fact that it's separately disclosed
30:52
Speaker 6: by Treasury shows that it is a phase to complete
30:55
Speaker 6: that would have managed to convince Treasury Okay, it's going
30:59
Speaker 6: to happen. However, Nikola Willis wants the political surprise. She
31:03
Speaker 6: wants the ability to keep its secret, to announce it
31:06
Speaker 6: at the most political opportune time.
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Speaker 2: Well, it is election year, isn't it, Jordan. You do
31:12
Speaker 2: what you can. This is what politicking is all about,
31:14
Speaker 2: isn't it.
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Speaker 6: It's political skull deggery at its very best. But as
31:20
Speaker 6: a taxpay group, and we want the transparency if the
31:22
Speaker 6: decision has been made unless this sort of commercial sensitivity
31:25
Speaker 6: or a genuine national security reason, which clearly here it's not.
31:29
Speaker 6: It's the National Party wanting to keep their power drive
31:32
Speaker 6: for the election, and that's not how good transparency should work.
31:38
Speaker 9: Jordan.
31:38
Speaker 2: Why do governments preallocate money when the next election could
31:40
Speaker 2: potentially change it all anyway?
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Speaker 6: Well, here it'll be because they want to go to
31:46
Speaker 6: the elector and say, look what we've got coming, don't
31:48
Speaker 6: put it all at risk. For the last labor government,
31:52
Speaker 6: I think it was they were trying to lock him
31:54
Speaker 6: massive increases to various areas of spending so that they
31:58
Speaker 6: had to stick to whack national with where they increased
32:01
Speaker 6: it a bit slower and call that cuts. It's a
32:04
Speaker 6: classic just spin doctoring what actually should be. You know
32:08
Speaker 6: that we don't have money at the moment. You know,
32:12
Speaker 6: the cupboard is bere Now is the time we ought
32:14
Speaker 6: to be very transparent.
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Speaker 2: Jordan Williams, thank you so much for your time this morning.
32:19
Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Can you hear your thoughts? You can text
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Speaker 2: ninety two ninety two. It is six to.
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Speaker 2: News talks that'd be coming up at six am. Heather
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Speaker 2: Duplicy aninism for Mike Costking and she joins me, Now,
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Speaker 2: good morning morning. So Jordan thinks it's going on solar Yeah, possibly, Yeah,
32:44
Speaker 2: to text you on your phone or did he text
32:46
Speaker 2: you on the I spoke to him. Oh, you spoke
32:48
Speaker 2: to her on the radio, and he said it's solar. Yes,
32:50
Speaker 2: well that's that's that's what he's thinking. That's he has
32:54
Speaker 2: pretty good intel. He has good so I would say
32:56
Speaker 2: that may well be true what you got on the
32:58
Speaker 2: show there. Yeah, well we're going to talk about So
33:00
Speaker 2: we were gonna we wanted it because the people who
33:02
Speaker 2: are angsty about this are labor and I think they're
33:06
Speaker 2: over angst and on a Monday morning, frankly, but we
33:09
Speaker 2: wanted them. We wanted them to come on the show.
33:11
Speaker 2: So we said to that the media lady, can Babs
33:13
Speaker 2: come on the show, Bab Edmonds And she said, been
33:16
Speaker 2: dying to do that, you think so? So the media
33:18
Speaker 2: were text her yesterday at four o'clock in the afternoon
33:21
Speaker 2: and so she let me get back to but Babs
33:22
Speaker 2: never got back to her. So it's election year, you
33:25
Speaker 2: have no policy. He's not a huge amount of opposition
33:27
Speaker 2: going on. And then the number one breakfashow in the
33:29
Speaker 2: country says, hey, why come on andout come on the
33:32
Speaker 2: my costs and we're still just discussing like it's just
33:36
Speaker 2: so early on a Monday morning. Actually, I don't know
33:38
Speaker 2: what her reasons for that were, but anyway, we never
33:39
Speaker 2: heard back from Babs, So Babs is not going to
33:41
Speaker 2: be on, Brad is going to be on instead. Brad Elson.
33:43
Speaker 2: He'll talk us through it and then the Prime Minister
33:45
Speaker 2: will be with us half us seven and chat him.
33:46
Speaker 2: How good was he in Australia by the way, he
33:48
Speaker 2: looked like he was having such a he was doing.
33:50
Speaker 2: He did well. I mean, it's it's kind of happening.
33:53
Speaker 2: Had the sports been to go in beautiful? Yeah, it's
33:55
Speaker 2: like a little romance going on between the two of them.
33:58
Speaker 2: And actually I had to say, I looked at the
33:59
Speaker 2: two of them and I thought, if I had to
34:01
Speaker 2: pack one of you guys to lead, it would be
34:03
Speaker 2: luck so, wouldn't it not? Elbow, There we go. Thank
34:05
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34:08
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