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Ryan Bridge: Here we go again with nonsense on mining · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Here we go again with this nonsense about mining. Again,
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  Speaker 1: the same crowd who moan and bitch and moan when
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  Speaker 1: we don't have enough cash to upgrade schools or pay
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  Speaker 1: teachers more or pay nurses more. They are the same
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  Speaker 1: lot who throw the eggs at the crown cars and
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  Speaker 1: chant shame at ribbon cuttings for mining operations. The latest
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  Speaker 1: wind is about Otago Council giving road access to some
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  Speaker 1: Assi gold miners to mine gold in an area that
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  Speaker 1: was basically founded on doing exactly that. You don't get
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  Speaker 1: wealthy sitting on your hands or waving banners. Let's be honest,
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  Speaker 1: that's not how you create communities that people actually want
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  Speaker 1: to live in, in which teachers earn a decent wage,
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  Speaker 1: nurses don't work sixteen hour shifts. A country that looks
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  Speaker 1: a bit more like, oh, I don't know, Australia. You
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  Speaker 1: know that place that all our kids are moving to.
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  Speaker 1: You can't have your cake and eat it too. Critical minerals.
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  Speaker 1: Another example, Why wouldn't we do a deal and pull
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  Speaker 1: it out of the ground. Everyone else is doing it.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, a lot of this stuff goes into electrics,
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  Speaker 1: into electronic technology like cell phones and computers, you know
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  Speaker 1: the computers the Greens use in Parliament rather than into
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  Speaker 1: things like SUVs. So what's the problem. Now, some facts
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  Speaker 1: before people get themselves too carried away, before you start
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  Speaker 1: to imagine giant open cast pits stretching from coast to
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  Speaker 1: coast across the country, blighting the landscape. Current minds make
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  Speaker 1: up four thousand hectares of land in New Zealand. That
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  Speaker 1: is zero point zero one five percent of our total
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  Speaker 1: land mass, zero point zero one five and the conservation
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  Speaker 1: estate will we mind just zero point five percent of
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  Speaker 1: that half a percent? If we are serious about creating
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  Speaker 1: a wealthy country where society functions, our elderly have warm homes,
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  Speaker 1: and our kids see a future, we need to start
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  Speaker 1: doing something about it, something other than waving banners and
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  Speaker 1: getting poor. For more from early edition with Ryan Bridge.
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