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Full Show Podcast: 13 August 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: Earli edition with one roof Love where you Live news Talks.
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Speaker 2: They'd be good morning, It is six after five and
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Speaker 2: your Wednesday morning. Great to have your company. Treasury warning,
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Speaker 2: This is before six, Treasury warning about the polytech debacle.
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Speaker 2: The America's cupboats with batteries on board? Is this still sailing?
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Speaker 2: Gavin Graham the UK for US this morning. Apparently cats
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Speaker 2: get dementia much like humans. Inflation data out of the US,
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Speaker 2: and we got some house prices for you in New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: Good morning. The agenda Wednesday, the thirteenth of August. European
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Speaker 2: leaders say you can't redraw Ukraine's borders by force. Trump
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Speaker 2: says a piece steel would need some territory swapping.
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Speaker 3: Buotin just wants to talk to President Trump and go
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Speaker 3: for the old fashioned way of you know, let's divide
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Speaker 3: the territories and spars of influence. But it's clear that
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Speaker 3: it doesn't work that way because Ukraine has been very clear.
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Speaker 3: Europe has been very clear that we can't agree to
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Speaker 3: anything that Ukraine doesn't agree too.
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Speaker 2: When there's a humanitarian christis on. Who do you call Madonna?
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Speaker 2: She's urging the Pope. She was raised Catholic. This is
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Speaker 2: why she's urging the Pope to go visit Gaza and
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Speaker 2: bring his quote lights to the children before it's too late.
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Speaker 2: And a social media post it says Pope Leo is
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Speaker 2: the only one of us who cannot be denied intrigue.
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Speaker 2: Two the US we go now that inflation number came
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Speaker 2: a bitter than expected helpsteady in July two point seven percent.
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Speaker 2: That's despite the tariffs boosting bits that the Fed will
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Speaker 2: cut rates next month.
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Speaker 4: It's not a big bang as some had forecast. Rather,
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Speaker 4: it's a slow burn. One gets the sense that when
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Speaker 4: we get into October, November, December, which at that point
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Speaker 4: the effect of tariff on old woods entry in the
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Speaker 4: United States will be at seventeen point six percent, things
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Speaker 4: we haven't seen in a century, you'll see a much
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Speaker 4: more announced.
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Speaker 3: Shit.
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Speaker 2: Now to some very exciting news. The swifties will be
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Speaker 2: buzzing this morning. Dad's First is one of the world's
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Speaker 2: biggest pop stars. He's announced her twelfth album, The Life
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Speaker 2: of a Showgirl, on her boyfriend Travis Kelsey's podcast.
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Speaker 3: So I wanted to show you something.
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Speaker 5: Okay, what do we got?
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Speaker 2: We got a briefcase.
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Speaker 5: Yep.
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Speaker 2: Nick Green tears yep.
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Speaker 6: This is my brand new album, The Life of a
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Speaker 6: show Girl.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, very exciting and that is some excellent cross promotion
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Speaker 2: from the two of them. But like Harry and Meghan
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Speaker 2: nine after five.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on an early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one Root Love where you Live.
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Speaker 2: News Talks, a'd me N two is the numbered text
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Speaker 2: always love hearing from you this morning. Now, there is
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Speaker 2: no doubt what's happening in Gaza is disgrace full, disgusting.
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Speaker 2: Call it what you will, as Trump rightly put it,
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Speaker 2: You can't fake starvation, can you? Kids are hungry and
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Speaker 2: when you see those pictures on the telly, you just
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Speaker 2: want to do something anything in walks Chloe Swarbriock wearing
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Speaker 2: her Keefer scarf in parliament.
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Speaker 7: If we find six of sixty eight Government MPs with
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Speaker 7: a spine, we can stand on the right side of history.
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Speaker 7: It is completely unacceptable to make that statement withdrawn and
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Speaker 7: apologize to leave the house for the rest of the week.
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Speaker 2: So there's all this whohad disruption in New Zealand's Parliament
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Speaker 2: miles away from the conflict. The question is not where
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Speaker 2: the New Zealanders and New Zealanders are outraged by what's
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Speaker 2: happening in Garza. Clearly all parties in Parliament are aligned
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Speaker 2: on that. They've all said. So the question is whether
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Speaker 2: this country of five million people, adding its name to
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Speaker 2: the majority of countries who already recognize the state of
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Speaker 2: Palestine will actually change anything for those starving kids. In
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Speaker 2: order for Palestine to get full UN membership, the US
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Speaker 2: must agree, the White House must agree, and they have
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Speaker 2: veto on the Security Council. So this gesture would be symbolic,
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Speaker 2: performative even and as Winston keeps pointing out, not a
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Speaker 2: solution without its complexities. So then the question becomes are
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Speaker 2: politicians dressing up and shouting at each other at the
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Speaker 2: bottom of the world actually helping the situation for those
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Speaker 2: children on the ground or not?
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Speaker 3: Ryan Bridge?
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Speaker 2: After five news talk SB, We'll get to the sailing
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Speaker 2: yet next I should say, there yachting batteries on board
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Speaker 2: the America's cup, folks? Is it sailing eleven?
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Speaker 1: After five views and views you trust to start your day?
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Speaker 1: It's earlier this ship with Ryan Bridge and one Room
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Speaker 1: Love where you live Newstalks b.
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Speaker 2: It is thirteen minutes after five on NEWSTALKSB. We've got
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Speaker 2: the latest QV house price numbers for you. This is
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Speaker 2: the QV House price index for the three months to
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Speaker 2: July I overall, a dip of point five percent to
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Speaker 2: nine hundred and nine six hundred and seventy one bucks.
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Speaker 2: That's your average value. Auckland you're down one point two
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Speaker 2: for the three months. Loads of stop their buyers are
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Speaker 2: still cautious. Toteng A City you're up one point seven
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Speaker 2: percent for those three months. Napier you're down point two. Sorry,
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Speaker 2: you're down two percent, christ Church pretty flat at down
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Speaker 2: point two and Queenstown Lakes Well, no surprise is their
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Speaker 2: biggest mover is up two point four percent. Bryan Bridge
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Speaker 2: Major America's Cup rule changes are coming. Teams must have
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Speaker 2: at least one female sailor on board, use batteries instead
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Speaker 2: of manual power, and stay under a price cap one
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Speaker 2: hundred and forty seven million bucks. Plus two non nationals
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Speaker 2: will be allowed on board the boats. Rayner Hag is
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Speaker 2: the interim CEO a Yachting New Zealand. Joining me this morning, Rainer, good.
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Speaker 8: Morning, good morning, hell are you great?
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Speaker 2: Thank you? What is this a win for women in sport?
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Speaker 9: Why?
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Speaker 2: Well First, why aren't there women on board these boats
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Speaker 2: already to reckon?
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Speaker 8: Well, yeah, there's It is a journey that we're on
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Speaker 8: with our sport. But you know, this is a real
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Speaker 8: significant moment for women in the sport of sailing. You know,
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Speaker 8: in Pure America's Cup terms, it's the most substantial step
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Speaker 8: forward that we've seen towards creating equal opportunities for female
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Speaker 8: sailors and it really opens that door for more women
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Speaker 8: to pursue professional sailing careers at the highest level. Yeah,
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Speaker 8: that's great.
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Speaker 2: Is there a strong community of women in the sport
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Speaker 2: ready to go?
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Speaker 8: Yes, we believe so, you know, but you know, there's
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Speaker 8: no denying that there's still a long way to go
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Speaker 8: before our sport is to truly representative across all levels.
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Speaker 8: But not on in New Zealand has been working on
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Speaker 8: a woman and Girls strategy for the last five years
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Speaker 8: and we believe we're really making some strong progress in
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Speaker 8: our junior space with our women and girls in sailing strategy.
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Speaker 8: We've been focusing on tailoring programs and pathways specifically for
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Speaker 8: girls and really sharing those resources all across the country. Well,
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Speaker 8: with that strategy, Oh sorry.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, what job will they do on board do you reckon?
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Speaker 8: That's a really good question. I mean, there's opportunity with
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Speaker 8: the fact that there's no grinders now will even things
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Speaker 8: up physically, So I believe they can do any job
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Speaker 8: on the boat. They're doing any jobs on the boats
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Speaker 8: now and other realms.
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Speaker 2: How why not captain the thing? And what about what
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Speaker 2: about the fact that they are using batteries? I can't
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Speaker 2: get my head around this is it? I mean, is
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Speaker 2: it still sailing if you've got what are the batteries for?
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Speaker 2: Can they not just use the wind there?
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Speaker 8: So we don't need the grinders on the boat. It
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Speaker 8: will even the playing field physically, absolutely, And so then
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Speaker 8: it comes down to how you set your sails and
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Speaker 8: how you get your boat around the course as fast
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Speaker 8: as possible and be in front of that other.
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Speaker 2: Boat, because how much of it will be batteries, how
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Speaker 2: much of it will be wind.
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Speaker 8: It's probably getting a bit technical for me, but I mean,
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Speaker 8: obviously the windows is the power, but we do need
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Speaker 8: the power to control and obviously those boats are very large,
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Speaker 8: so they do need a lot of power to move
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Speaker 8: the sails around and throw the boat into places where
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Speaker 8: you want them to go. So the batteries will be
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Speaker 8: very important. But so we're having the right heads on
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Speaker 8: the boats and racing the boats properly.
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Speaker 2: Who do you think we might see what female sailors?
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Speaker 2: Have you got any names for us that we might
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Speaker 2: see on board Team New Zealand.
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Speaker 8: Wow, we've got some fantastic female sailors that are you know,
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Speaker 8: chomping at the bits for more professional opportunities. Gold medalist
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Speaker 8: Joe A. Lee, We've got Live Mackay who's involved in
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Speaker 8: the sal GB program as well already with the Black Foils,
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Speaker 8: and Erica Dawson and lots of other fantastic female sailors
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Speaker 8: that have come through our High Falls Olympics pathway as well. Great,
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Speaker 8: so exciting for those girls.
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Speaker 2: Very exciting indeed, Rayner, appreciate your time this morning, Thanks
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Speaker 2: for coming on. That's Rayner Hagg, who's the interim chev
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Speaker 2: executive at Yachting New Zealand. Time is seventeen minutes after five.
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Speaker 2: Coming up next, we'll talk about the energy efficiency of
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Speaker 2: your home. If you haven't got a heat pump, apparently
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Speaker 2: you need one.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on earlier Editia, where's one roof love?
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Speaker 2: Where you live? News talks'b five nineteen on News talks,
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Speaker 2: there'd be willow jen Prime strikes again. Unsure where this
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Speaker 2: one's come from, but she's now claiming that at the
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Speaker 2: youth justice facilities across the country run by ordering a Tambadiki,
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Speaker 2: that there's massive meth problems. And the Children's Commission, which
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Speaker 2: is actually the one that monitors what's going on inside
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Speaker 2: these facilities, they've come out and said, I don't know
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Speaker 2: where that's come from. We haven't seen any evidence of that.
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Speaker 2: Minister's come out and said we haven't seen any evidence
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Speaker 2: of that either. So fight clubs, she says, fight club
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Speaker 2: and huge meth use? Where'd she get that from?
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Speaker 1: Rain Bridge?
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Speaker 2: Could we be better using our electricity? Well, how do
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Speaker 2: we get better use? I should say, out of electricity
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Speaker 2: in our homes? Heat pumps could ease some of our
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Speaker 2: energy woes. A report from the Green Building Council shows
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Speaker 2: KIWIS could save up to one and a half billion
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Speaker 2: bucks off our annual energy bills if we moved to
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Speaker 2: full heat pump adoption. It would also help out with
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Speaker 2: gasplay issues. Richard Briggs is with EKE, the Energy Efficiency
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Speaker 2: Authority and joins me. Now, Richard, good morning, good morning, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: how are you very good, thank you. So what is
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Speaker 2: how much would we save? You know, give us a
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Speaker 2: per household, your average household. What are we saving.
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Speaker 6: On a heat pump? So you know, the way the
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Speaker 6: heat pump works is that it's basically moved ambient heat
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Speaker 6: and compresses it rather than using electrical resistance to generate it.
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Speaker 6: Typically they are about three and a half times more
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Speaker 6: efficient than a resistive heater. So when you look at
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Speaker 6: it on a national level, yeah, that's a significant amount
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Speaker 6: of energy efficiency. About sixty percent of homes use a
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Speaker 6: heater today. They cost around four thousand dollars to buy,
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Speaker 6: so they're not cheap. They're quite expensive, but very very
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Speaker 6: cheap to run, significantly cheaper than a resistance heater. So
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Speaker 6: probably savings in the order of about one hundred and
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Speaker 6: eighty dollars a year per household.
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Speaker 2: So it's significant. But the problem is the upfront cost, right,
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Speaker 2: That's that's why people haven't switched.
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Speaker 6: Yes, you know, what you've got to look at when
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Speaker 6: you look at these appliances is if you're in the
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Speaker 6: position to be able to do so, is to look
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Speaker 6: at the total life cost of those you know, typically
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Speaker 6: appliances that are more energy efficient, higher upfront cost, but
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Speaker 6: the operating costs are so much lower that when you
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Speaker 6: look at it over a period of time that significant
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Speaker 6: savings can be made.
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Speaker 2: And in terms of the increased demand for electricity, I mean,
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Speaker 2: if everyone switched to a heat pump, we'd be using
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Speaker 2: more electricity. Presumably would that push the price up?
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Speaker 6: Well, you've got to look at the If everyone uses
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Speaker 6: more electricity, of course the price goes up. But the
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Speaker 6: conversations we're seeing that the market at the moment is
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Speaker 6: all about more supply. We just need more supply, and
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Speaker 6: you know, by increasing supply does come at a cost,
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Speaker 6: and that cost ends up with the bill payer. But
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Speaker 6: our role is the government lead agency on energy use.
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Speaker 6: We're focusing on the demand side, and so we need
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Speaker 6: to ensure that the energy we do have available now
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Speaker 6: is used efficiently and heat punch is a good example
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Speaker 6: of that. But every killer, whatever you don't use it
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Speaker 6: is a killer. What hour that doesn't need to be
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Speaker 6: generated and distributed? So there's the savings to be made,
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Speaker 6: and so you know we've identified through modeling that right
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Speaker 6: now is up to twenty percent of what we consume
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Speaker 6: today across homes and businesses can be reduced and that's
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Speaker 6: a combination of more efficient appliances. I mean, everyone eats
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Speaker 6: their homes today and if they transferred to a heat pump,
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Speaker 6: there'd be that savings, yeah, which is a significant amount
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Speaker 6: of reduction. When you look at new generation, you're probably
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Speaker 6: looking at a cost of around sixty to seventy dollars
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Speaker 6: a Mega what hour, whereas energy efficiency measures would cost
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Speaker 6: New Zealand probably the magnitude of fifteen to fifty dollars
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Speaker 6: a Mega what hour. So it's actually better to use
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Speaker 6: energy more efficiently than just to seek to generate more
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Speaker 6: than use it inefficiently.
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Speaker 2: Richard, appreciate your time this morning. Interesting stuff. Richard Briggs
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Speaker 2: with the Energy Efficiency and Conservational Authority ECA. It is
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Speaker 2: twenty four minutes after five on News Talks YB. I
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Speaker 2: tell you what you should do to make your thing
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Speaker 2: run better and more efficiently. It is clear the dust
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Speaker 2: out of it and did that yesterday? Geez filled the
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Speaker 2: bin twenty four after five.
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Speaker 1: The early edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio Power by News.
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Speaker 2: Talks AV News Talks B twenty six minutes after five.
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Speaker 2: People have been looking at the poles and it was
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Speaker 2: at home yesterday looking at all the stories about the polls.
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Speaker 2: I don't think people are telling polsters that they would
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Speaker 2: vote for labor because they would actually vote for labor.
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Speaker 2: Labour hasn't got any policies. They are an empty vessel.
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Speaker 2: It's captain still, according to most recent polling, less popular
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Speaker 2: than Luxen. This is a protest vote. They're telling the
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Speaker 2: Prime Minister, hey, hurry up and do something else to
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Speaker 2: rescue the economy that the last lot and the trade
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Speaker 2: will have suppressed. You don't throw the baby out with
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Speaker 2: the bathwater and back a team that has no plan.
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Speaker 2: That clown, literally a clown that's running in the Wellington
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Speaker 2: meryal race, has more policies than hipkins. Right now, he
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Speaker 2: wants to turn the base and Reserve into a swamp.
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Speaker 2: Sure it's mad, but at least it's a policy. Late
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Speaker 2: last year and earlier this year, the recovery was on track.
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Speaker 2: It was heading in the right direction. That we got
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Speaker 2: hit by Trump's Liberation Day. Confidence and investment took a
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Speaker 2: massive hit. The markets were in free fall. Remember that
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Speaker 2: it wasn't that long ago, but you do forget. It's
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Speaker 2: thrown everything. Of course, now you can argue that National
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Speaker 2: went too hard and fast on cutting the spending and
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Speaker 2: stopping infrastructure projects. But at the same time they were
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Speaker 2: voted in to stop wasteful spending on dumb stuff. That's
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Speaker 2: what we asked them to do. Many think that hasn't
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Speaker 2: actually gone far enough. Just yesterday we learned of one
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Speaker 2: hundred jobs going at the Reserve Bank, which under Adrian
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Speaker 2: or wanted a budget of more than a billion dollars
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Speaker 2: and to keep twice the number of staff that they
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Speaker 2: started the pandemic with. Does that sound reasonable to you?
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Speaker 2: This comes down to a question of who is best
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Speaker 2: place to invest in this country, the private sector or
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Speaker 2: the state. The answer of courses a bit of both,
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Speaker 2: but it's chicken or egg stuff right now. One thing
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Speaker 2: is for sure. If the only thing capable of keeping
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Speaker 2: this country afloat is government borrowing like the last lot did,
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Speaker 2: then we'll only ever end up back in this same
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Speaker 2: position over and over again. The medicine needed to dig
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Speaker 2: us out of this hole is nasty, tastes, disgusting, completely unpalatable,
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Speaker 2: but the disease it's treating was worse. Brian twenty eight
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Speaker 2: minutes after five news talks, he'd been nine two nine
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Speaker 2: two is the number to text Ryan. The crew on board.
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Speaker 2: The ac boats are now just decoration. This is about
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Speaker 2: the changes to America's cup, says Andy. They now just decoration.
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Speaker 2: They could easily be sailed remotely by shore based personnel.
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Speaker 2: Interesting point. I mean you got boats with batteries, no
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Speaker 2: one actually you know, working hard on board, just steering
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Speaker 2: the ship. Maybe you could do it remotely. Maybe they'll
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Speaker 2: have remote controls one day, Johnny says Ryan. I love
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Speaker 2: that women are now on the boats. Finally catching up
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Speaker 2: twenty nine minutes after five News Talks VB. We'll get
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Speaker 2: to Gavin Gray in the UK our reporters next and
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Speaker 2: to pooking Up. How much is it really going to
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Speaker 2: cost us this shakeup? News Talks VB.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the news you need this morning and the in
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Speaker 1: depth analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and one Roote
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Speaker 1: Love Where you Live News talkst B.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Welcome to your Wednesday. Twenty four minutes away
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Speaker 2: from Sixpenny Simmons, the Minister vocational, talking about to Pookinger
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Speaker 2: on changes big changes that the cheese made and she
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Speaker 2: had a warning from Treasury. Actually it could be more
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Speaker 2: expensive that and otherwise would have been She's with us
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Speaker 2: before sex. Gavin Gray in the UK before that too.
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Speaker 2: I see Wayne Brown's calling for his bed tax again.
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Speaker 2: It's not going to happen. Government's not interested. But there
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Speaker 2: you go, front page Herald this morning and loads of
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Speaker 2: people texting in about the heat pump. We were talking
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Speaker 2: to Eca and this one from this is an example.
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Speaker 2: For you four thousand dollars to install a heat pump,
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Speaker 2: Ryan one hundred and eighty dollars annual savings from doing so.
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Speaker 2: It would take you twenty plus years to recoup the costs.
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Speaker 2: This thing would need replacing twice over that timeframe. So
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Speaker 2: the economics just don't work out. And this is the
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Speaker 2: people who have got electric heaters as opposed to heat pumps.
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Speaker 2: It's a good point. Twenty three to six bread our
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Speaker 2: reporters around the country. Calum Procter Andnedin this morning. Calum,
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Speaker 2: good morning. All right, hey, farmers are happy with this
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Speaker 2: extension to the water consents down there? Yeah, Look they
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Speaker 2: are a.
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Speaker 7: Lot of these water use permits for crop and grass
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Speaker 7: farming or other agricultural activities were set to expire soon
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Speaker 7: with renewed costs and uncertainties for farmers. But these amendments
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Speaker 7: to the Resource Management Act mean that consense granted since
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Speaker 7: March twenty twenty for periods under six years, will now
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Speaker 7: automatically be renewed for another five years. Federated Farmers has
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Speaker 7: told us that the extension will provide farmers with confidence
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Speaker 7: to keep investing in their businesses and make environmental improvements.
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Speaker 7: But at this stage it's only a short term solution.
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Speaker 2: Okay, callum, how's your weather? Morning?
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Speaker 7: Fog and frost about this morning for duned, but a
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Speaker 7: fine day Northali's eleven the heigh today?
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Speaker 2: Enjoy, thank you, hey clear and christ jitch, how are
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Speaker 2: you good?
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Speaker 5: Well?
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Speaker 2: Thank you very good. Now tell us about the mental
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Speaker 2: health services there better but no one's really feeling it. Yeah.
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Speaker 10: This is on the back of that big review that
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Speaker 10: was launched in twenty twenty two. Effectively, Health New Zealand
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Speaker 10: has now apologized after this big review that Spann and
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Speaker 10: several years has found significant failings contributing to the murders
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Speaker 10: by two Hillmorrton Hospital in patients that happened here in
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Speaker 10: christ Church in twenty twenty two and again in twenty
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Speaker 10: twenty four. This review has found several failings across our
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Speaker 10: inpatient service here. Health New Zealand says, look they have
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Speaker 10: made some progress already on the eighteen recommendations that are
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Speaker 10: in the report, but the Mental Health Foundation Chief Executive
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Speaker 10: Sean Robinson says sadly he's not surprised to see how
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Speaker 10: many issues were found at Hilmorton Hospital. He says it's
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Speaker 10: the result of just how neglected the mental health service
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Speaker 10: has been over probably decades, he believes. Now we've spoken
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Speaker 10: with Katie Neil who works at Hilmorrton Hospital. She says
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Speaker 10: the inpatient units actually remain understaffed and staff continue to
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Speaker 10: feel unsafe there. She says, need is definitely outweighing the
20:51
Speaker 10: amount of available resources. That's both when we talk staffing
20:54
Speaker 10: and also bed numbers.
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Speaker 2: How's your weather, Claire, Really cold.
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Speaker 10: This morning and foggy, but should clear to We are
21:02
Speaker 10: fine afternoon. Northeast of these the high ten.
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Speaker 2: Nice one and Lachlan Renie has news for Wellington this morning. Lochland.
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Speaker 2: Good morning morning, Ryan. Now what's going on in Lower
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Speaker 2: Hut of the cars?
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Speaker 5: Yes, a Heart City Council was making all parking meters
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Speaker 5: cashless after thirty have been intentionally damaged or destroyed since
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Speaker 5: the start of the year. The Council's forked out over
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Speaker 5: one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars so far as here
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Speaker 5: to replace the meters, despite thieves taking just under three
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Speaker 5: thousand dollars in cash. Head of Environmental Protection Justin Roberts
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Speaker 5: called the crimes completely pointless as it can cost up
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Speaker 5: to seven thousand dollars to replace just one meter. Conversion
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Speaker 5: to card only payments will begin on Monday is expected
21:43
Speaker 5: to be completed within two weeks.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's well is weather?
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Speaker 5: It's mainly fine today with the chance of morning shower.
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Speaker 5: Southerlys was easing in the evening, a high of ten
21:52
Speaker 5: degrees today.
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Speaker 2: Nice one, Thank you Lachlan. Good to see you. And
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Speaker 2: let's go to Neva who has news out of Auckland
21:57
Speaker 2: for us this morning.
21:58
Speaker 1: Would welcome back.
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Speaker 2: You never tell us what's Wayne Brownie wants this. It's
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Speaker 2: not going to happen, but he wants to.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, look he's saying it again. Come on now, calling
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Speaker 11: on the government consider this bid tax. Yes, that's right,
22:11
Speaker 11: it's the lead in the herald this morning. So the
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Speaker 11: Auckland Mayor's claiming this would be a vital step towards
22:16
Speaker 11: revitalizing the city struggling economy. Brown says there's no reason
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Speaker 11: the government couldn't make a midnight levy. Neugent priority have
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Speaker 11: it in place by next year. He's saying that, Look,
22:26
Speaker 11: the sector supports a bed tax and most Aucklanders do too.
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Speaker 11: But you're right, it's back and forth, back and back
22:31
Speaker 11: and forth.
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Speaker 2: And they just keep saying no. I think they need
22:35
Speaker 2: to rebrand it. It's got the word tax in it,
22:37
Speaker 2: which National doesn't like of course, because it makes it
22:40
Speaker 2: sound like, you know, they're going to increase taxes on people,
22:42
Speaker 2: so they just need to reach a levy. Maybe that's right.
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Speaker 11: And I think too after last week when the unemplrovement
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Speaker 11: figures came out in Simon Bridges, you know, Auckland had
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Speaker 11: that six point one, had a huge increase in unemployment
22:53
Speaker 11: and thought, come on, something's got to happen. So he's
22:55
Speaker 11: jumped on that bandwagon as well.
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Speaker 2: I think they're all on board. How's our weather okay?
22:59
Speaker 11: Fine, morning frosts, a bit of a chilli start. Fifteen
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Speaker 11: is the high.
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Speaker 2: Nice one, Thank you, Neva. It is nineteen minutes away
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Speaker 2: from six. We'll head to the UK next. They're the
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Speaker 2: US woman who was hired to kill a brit now
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Speaker 2: going through the courts, and then we'll get to Penny
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Speaker 2: On news talks there b Let's go to Gavin Gray,
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Speaker 2: a UK europe correspondent. Gavin, Welcome to the show. What
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Speaker 2: is the latest with this US woman who was hired
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Speaker 2: as a killer to shoot a British man?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, really bizarre court case and bizarrely the victim actually
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Speaker 9: managed to sub because although she shot him at point
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Speaker 9: blank range, the gun jammed.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 9: Today, that woman, Amy Betro from Wisconsin, has been found
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Speaker 9: guilty of conspiracy to murder. She flew into the UK
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Speaker 9: as part of a plot to attack a British family
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Speaker 9: in Birmingham back in twenty nineteen. This would have come
25:19
Speaker 9: to court earlier, but she then went on the run
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Speaker 9: for just about five years. Her co conspirators, Mohammed Nazir
25:27
Speaker 9: and Muhammed Aslam, were involved in a family feud with
25:31
Speaker 9: the intended target Betro wore a knee cab on the
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Speaker 9: day of the shooting to disguise herself and then fired
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Speaker 9: shots at the target. But as I said, the gun jammed.
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Speaker 9: Police believe Betro virtually had no criminal past prior to
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Speaker 9: the murder plot and she's due for sentence next week.
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Speaker 2: Goodness, me Andkevin tell us about this other story, the
25:54
Speaker 2: kets out of Scotland. You research on kets and dementia.
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Speaker 9: Yes, well it's long being wreckedgize that elderly cats often
26:01
Speaker 9: do suffer from dementia, and now scientists at the University
26:06
Speaker 9: of Edinburgh in Scotland have discovered the way felines developed
26:10
Speaker 9: dementia is similar to humans with Alzheimer's disease, and the
26:14
Speaker 9: experts at the university carried out post mortem brain examinations
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Speaker 9: on twenty five cats which had symptoms of dementia in
26:21
Speaker 9: their lives, and they found a build up of amyloid beta.
26:25
Speaker 9: That's a toxic protein which appears to block the junctions
26:28
Speaker 9: of brain cells and reduces the flow of messages between
26:32
Speaker 9: those brain cells. It leads to reduce memory and cognitive abilities.
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Speaker 9: The scientists studying Alzheimer's have used genetically modified rodents in
26:42
Speaker 9: the past for studies, but they don't naturally suffer from
26:45
Speaker 9: dementia rodents, so using cats to study the conditions is
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Speaker 9: leading to hopes of a breakthrough in research for both
26:52
Speaker 9: cause and cure.
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Speaker 2: Well, that would be a promising development, and Dave Gevin
26:56
Speaker 2: appreciate that. Devin Gray are UK europe correspondent. Time now
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Speaker 2: is twelve minutes away.
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Speaker 1: From so rain Bridge.
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Speaker 2: They do much, you know, they don't remember to do
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Speaker 2: Cat's twelve minutes away from six on Newstalk seb Right
27:10
Speaker 2: turns out, Treasury warn the government that breaking up to
27:13
Speaker 2: Pukinger could leave polytechs worse off. Documents released to News
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Speaker 2: Talk SB say the changes may not even fix the
27:20
Speaker 2: financial problems that they had before the merger to begin with.
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Speaker 2: Penny Simmons as the Vocational Education Minister joins us now Minister,
27:27
Speaker 2: good morning.
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Speaker 12: Good morning, Ryan.
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Speaker 2: Did you see these documents?
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Speaker 12: Oh, yes, of course I saw them. Yes, but we
27:34
Speaker 12: had a range of advice from Treasury over a number
27:37
Speaker 12: of months, and more recent advice than what they gave
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Speaker 12: us in March as well.
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Speaker 13: What did the more recent advice say, look Treasuries concern,
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Speaker 13: of course, is whether the sort of work that we've
27:51
Speaker 13: been doing, the financial work we've been doing over the
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Speaker 13: last eighteen months with financial advisors with each polytechnic getting
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Speaker 13: their pathway to viability, whether the polytechnics would be able
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Speaker 13: to undertake that.
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Speaker 12: That's why we pushed the decisions outright till July, to
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Speaker 12: make sure that we could see they were making progress
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Speaker 12: on those pathways to viability. So if we did nothing,
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Speaker 12: Treasury would be quite right, there'd be quite a high
28:19
Speaker 12: level of risk. But we haven't done nothing. We've spent
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Speaker 12: eighteen months, as I said, with financial advisors working with
28:26
Speaker 12: each individual polytechnique, getting rid of programs that aren't viable,
28:30
Speaker 12: getting rid of excess at staffing levels, reducing unnecessary expenditure,
28:35
Speaker 12: and bringing discipline back to and a business like operation
28:40
Speaker 12: back to the polytechnic. So that work that we've been doing,
28:44
Speaker 12: as well as identifying over one hundred million dollars worth
28:47
Speaker 12: of unused or underused assets that need to be sold
28:52
Speaker 12: as well and sourcing the additional twenty million that we
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Speaker 12: reprioritize from back office TC to port some of the
29:01
Speaker 12: unviable strategic provision that we need in certain geographic regions,
29:06
Speaker 12: but also that we need for our specific delivery and
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Speaker 12: for example, forestry and the primary sector. So we've done
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Speaker 12: a lot of work to make sure that the polytechnics
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Speaker 12: are in the best possible financial state to stand up.
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Speaker 13: So we will still got a lot to do.
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Speaker 2: We won't need to subsidize any of them.
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Speaker 12: We've still got a lot of work to do on
29:27
Speaker 12: how much that aren't stood up?
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Speaker 2: How much real thatful? Because the contingency is one hundred
29:31
Speaker 2: and sixty odd million, right, one hundred.
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Speaker 12: And fifty seven. No, we're not anticipating having to go
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Speaker 12: beyond that. We're hoping we won't have to use.
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Speaker 13: All of that.
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Speaker 2: Okay, let's say we use one hundred and fifty seven
29:42
Speaker 2: million of contingency. That's a lot of money. Will will
29:47
Speaker 2: these polytechs be in a better financial position after we've
29:50
Speaker 2: spent that money than they would before we spent it.
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Speaker 12: Yes, they will because we've done all this work. And
29:55
Speaker 12: remember that Taepoukinga had said they needed nearly another billion
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Speaker 12: dollars over the next ten years to be operational.
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Speaker 2: So what about this thing the Greens are saying that
30:06
Speaker 2: they're disestablishing some of them in person teaching, including cutting
30:10
Speaker 2: some programs. This is a Northland around forestry and horticulture,
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Speaker 2: is that true.
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Speaker 12: That's the work that we're putting the twenty million into
30:19
Speaker 12: areas that we need to keep face to face in
30:22
Speaker 12: areas like the Far North and the East Coast where
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Speaker 12: there are a high number of young people not in
30:28
Speaker 12: educational employment.
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Speaker 2: So you won't cut There'll be a guarantee you won't
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Speaker 2: cut in person teaching of horticulture and forestry in the
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Speaker 2: North and.
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Speaker 12: In the East if the numbers are there to do it.
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Speaker 12: But we're not going to subsidize courses that have got
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Speaker 12: two or three people in them. That just doesn't make sense.
30:47
Speaker 12: So if there are numbers, if there's demand for the
30:51
Speaker 12: courses and they're not viable because of the nature of
30:54
Speaker 12: the delivery, then that's what the Strategic Fund is for.
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Speaker 2: Penny, appreciate your time. Penny SIMMONSZEV, Scational Education Minister. On
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Speaker 2: news talks, he'd be eight to six. Mike here next,
31:04
Speaker 2: the first Word on the News of the Day Early
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Speaker 2: Live News talks, he'd be six the six. On news talks,
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Speaker 2: he'd b and Mike is in here with you next,
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Speaker 2: as he always is, Mike, good morning, Good morning. What
31:18
Speaker 2: is a What makes sailing sailing? That's my question this morning,
31:22
Speaker 2: because you've got batteries on board these boats.
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Speaker 14: Now you've always had batteries on board I mean doing
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Speaker 14: what well, I mean, it depends on what sort of
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Speaker 14: sailing boat. I mean, do you think that it's not
31:31
Speaker 14: eighteen thirty five? You realize when they run radios and
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Speaker 14: electronics on board the boat and stuff.
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Speaker 2: These batteries are power helping you.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, they replace the cyclaws.
31:42
Speaker 2: So are they sailing boats?
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Speaker 14: Yes, well, if it's got a sail, I mean you
31:47
Speaker 14: could argue they've they've had a wing for a long
31:49
Speaker 14: period of time and really it's just an aeroplane wing,
31:51
Speaker 14: which is not a sale of it's not a sail
31:53
Speaker 14: then it's not a sailboat. But they're not calling it
31:55
Speaker 14: a sail boat. They're calling it sailing or yachting. It
31:58
Speaker 14: is a yacht, and a yacht is something that's X
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Speaker 14: long with a thing that sticks up that catches the
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Speaker 14: win coaches. The interesting thing, I'll tell you what's Grant
32:06
Speaker 14: Dotton's on the program this morning, by the way, what's
32:08
Speaker 14: interesting about it? For me is that, Well, there's a
32:10
Speaker 14: couple of things that are interesting. They've got a cost
32:11
Speaker 14: cap in bold, which is very F one, and they've
32:14
Speaker 14: also got which may or may not. I'm interested to
32:17
Speaker 14: find out, because if there's a criticism of the America's
32:19
Speaker 14: Cup at the moment, it's that they don't get the
32:21
Speaker 14: entries they used to and so it's prohibitively expensive to enter.
32:25
Speaker 14: You don't want a thousand people entering, but you want
32:27
Speaker 14: probably more than four or five, you know what I mean.
32:30
Speaker 14: If you look at F one, F one's got ten
32:31
Speaker 14: teams expanding to eleven. So the demand's there. I just
32:34
Speaker 14: don't know the demand is there at that level of
32:37
Speaker 14: the America's Cup for you know, six, seven, eight, nine
32:39
Speaker 14: potential contenders to get and which is what you want. So,
32:42
Speaker 14: in other words, you want to contest at the start
32:43
Speaker 14: that you can work out. You've got no idea how
32:45
Speaker 14: it's going to unfold, which is what makes it interesting.
32:48
Speaker 14: The other thing is the women on board. And the
32:49
Speaker 14: problem with putting a woman on board and mandating a.
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Speaker 2: Woman is every go no, no. The point is do
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Speaker 2: they get there a woman?
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Speaker 6: Do they know?
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Speaker 14: Do they get there?
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Speaker 2: But on their own?
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Speaker 14: So in other words, I don't see a gender issue
33:02
Speaker 14: in sailing or yachting at all, do you.
33:04
Speaker 2: Well, there was when you had the cyclist because physical
33:08
Speaker 2: that's physical power.
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Speaker 14: But I mean, if you earn your way on board,
33:12
Speaker 14: you deserve to be there.
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Speaker 2: But if you're appointed, it's a quota system.
33:16
Speaker 14: So you know, so the same way you put a
33:18
Speaker 14: woman on the board.
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Speaker 2: Should a woman be on the.
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Speaker 14: Board, absolutely if they're good enough to be on the board,
33:22
Speaker 14: But are you appointed because of.
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Speaker 2: Your argument would be that you create a pathway? You know,
33:28
Speaker 2: I know what you're doing.
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Speaker 14: But I mean, if you are the woman on board
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Speaker 14: the boat, you're there because you're brilliant, or the year
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Speaker 14: there because someone changed some rules and bang, there you go,
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Speaker 14: you got a job.
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Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying. It's the latter, you know
33:38
Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
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Speaker 14: So anyway, so we'll talk to Grant about that and
33:40
Speaker 14: other matters the morning. And we've got good news and
33:43
Speaker 14: bad news on the How goods know.
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Speaker 2: This hotel and close to you to absolutely brilliant, looking
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Speaker 2: forward to looking forward to it, Mike. It is three
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Speaker 2: minutes away from sex. Micas here with the next and
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Speaker 2: I will see you tomorrow. Have a great day. Everyone.
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