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Full Show Podcast: 05 February 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge, on
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Speaker 1: an earlier edition with one Root Love where you Live
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Speaker 1: News Talk said, be.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, great to have your company on this Tuesday,
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Speaker 2: six minutes after five before six this morning, we'll get
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Speaker 2: to Allen McDonald on the unemployment numbers out yesterday, why
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Speaker 2: they are apparently not as bad as they look. Mitch
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Speaker 2: McCann's stateside for US origineer apparently going to pull out
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Speaker 2: a Westport. What's going on at Mawa Point and Wellington,
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Speaker 2: also Bromley and christ Church. The whole country just stinks
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Speaker 2: this morning, doesn't it. The agenda Tuesday to Tirth of February.
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Speaker 2: Another day, another Epstein's scandal. Starmer's catching heat in the
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Speaker 2: House over Mandelssohn. Angela Rayner, his former MP is leading
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Speaker 2: the charge.
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Speaker 3: Can the Prime Minister tell Us did the official security
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Speaker 3: vetting he received mention Mandelsson's ongoing relationship with the pedophile
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Speaker 3: Jeffrey Epstein.
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Speaker 4: Yes, it did. As a result, various questions were put.
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Speaker 2: To him, Yes, he does regret actually making him a
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Speaker 2: US ambassador back in twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 4: Idelson betrayed our country, our parliament and my party. Mister speaker.
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Speaker 4: He lied repeatedly to my team when asked about his
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Speaker 4: relationship with Epstein before and during his tenure as ambassador.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Randy Andy. Meanwhile, he's been given the boot from
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Speaker 2: Royal Lodge, and a new letter has come out this
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Speaker 2: morning from an exotic dancer who claims he and Jeffrey
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Speaker 2: Epstein asked her to engage in various sexual acts. The
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Speaker 2: lawyers says she agreed to keep the whole thing a
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Speaker 2: secret for two hundred and fifty k. Let's go to
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Speaker 2: the US Tom home and this is Trump's borders are
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Speaker 2: He says He's drawing down ICE agents in Minneapolis, seven
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Speaker 2: hundred of them.
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Speaker 5: Given this increase in unprecedented collaboration, and as a result
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Speaker 5: of the need for less law enforcement officers to do
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Speaker 5: this work in a safer environment, I have announce, effective immediately,
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Speaker 5: we will draw down seven hundred people affected today, seven
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Speaker 5: hundred long enforcement personnel.
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Speaker 2: It still lives about two three hundred there. Finally, this morning, Malfoy,
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Speaker 2: Draco Malfoy. Ahead of the lunar New Year, Chinese households
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Speaker 2: are putting up pictures of a new mascot, Draco Malfoy,
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Speaker 2: his name in Chinese contains the words for horse and fortune,
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Speaker 2: which is suddenly very on brand for the Year of
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Speaker 2: the Horse.
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Speaker 1: Views and Views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof Love where
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Speaker 1: you live news.
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Speaker 2: Talks that'd be great to have your company. My mum
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Speaker 2: goes swimming every day in Wellington in the ocean, which
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Speaker 2: I'm very proud of her for, but she won't be
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Speaker 2: doing that today because it's filled with literally raw sewage.
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Speaker 2: It's not even treated sewerage that they normally warn you about.
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Speaker 2: It's raw sewage. We're going to speak to a councilor
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Speaker 2: about that. In a second. What the hell happened? So
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Speaker 2: it rained a bunch. They literally can't figure out what
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Speaker 2: went wrong. It rained a bunch, There was some kind
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Speaker 2: of blockage and then before you know it, raw seerridge
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Speaker 2: is leaking into the ocean through an eighteen hundred meter
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Speaker 2: pipe that goes out to sea, and then it's coming
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Speaker 2: and obviously on the waves, into the south coast of Wellington. Disgusting.
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Speaker 2: I actually feel quite bad, So we'll talk to accounts
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Speaker 2: about that. In a second. I actually feel quite bad
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Speaker 2: this morning about something I said yesterday. I sort of
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Speaker 2: made light of the situation in Bromley, and I was
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Speaker 2: watching the news last you know, because it's it's a
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Speaker 2: smell and it's sort of funny, but it's actually not.
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Speaker 2: I was watching the news last night and listening to
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Speaker 2: the people at this meeting describe the smell and what
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Speaker 2: it's doing to them physically doing to them was quite heartbreaking.
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Speaker 6: Are you sorry for the past five years where it
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Speaker 6: smells full of the time?
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Speaker 2: I can't hate the birthday party at home?
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Speaker 1: Can you cancel Christmas every year?
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Speaker 6: No one cares about your figures, actually care when they
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Speaker 6: literally peeled over for three four five days straight, nearly
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Speaker 6: vomiting from coughing that much from the stage.
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Speaker 7: I feel sick every day.
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Speaker 8: My daughter was a bad with a bocket kit.
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Speaker 2: Can you think of anything worse? I don't think. I
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Speaker 2: don't think you could. And what about the house prices?
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Speaker 2: And this has been going on for years and years.
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Speaker 2: Remember Leanne Darzel was mayor and she was getting shouted at,
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Speaker 2: she was getting abused. So I'm sorry Bromley. What you're
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Speaker 2: actually smelling at the moment sounds horrendous and how can
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Speaker 2: it not be fixed after so many years? This is
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Speaker 2: what I don't understand. And you listen, you know, watching
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Speaker 2: that meeting yesterday, the town meeting. You've got your good
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Speaker 2: old fashioned working kiwis, and then you've got your bureaucrats
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Speaker 2: and your politicians who were reading from scripts. I mean, honestly,
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Speaker 2: just look people in the eye and talk to them
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Speaker 2: for goodness sakes, and using words like odor, you know,
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Speaker 2: as if that's going to make it better. It's not
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Speaker 2: a smell, it's not a stench. It's an odor. Come on,
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Speaker 2: just call it what it is, smells like, say it
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Speaker 2: on radio and we'll and instead, you know, instead of
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Speaker 2: fixing something, they're going to remediate it. Honestly, no wonder
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Speaker 2: people get frustrated. Can't you just speak in plane language
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Speaker 2: and tell us what's what? Bryan Bridge five eleven, hopefully
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Speaker 2: while you're the councilor out of Wellington will do that
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Speaker 2: for us. Next, also give you an update, you know
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Speaker 2: with the Global Dairy Trade auction kind of poop poot
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Speaker 2: itself yesterday. Finally we have a number and it's good news.
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Speaker 2: I'll give that to you.
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Speaker 1: Next, the news you need this morning and the in
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Speaker 1: depth analysiss early edition with Ryan Bridge and One Room
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Speaker 1: Love where you Live News Talks five thirteen.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Corey. Corey says, are nineteen niney t is
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Speaker 2: number of text. Cory says, why is it a war
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Speaker 2: crime if a farmer accidentally discharges and then gets a
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Speaker 2: fine from the council, But when the council does it
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Speaker 2: with human waste, nothing seems to happen. Corey, Very good point.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to our councilor in just a second, very quickly.
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Speaker 2: The Global Dairy Trade Action from yesterday that we were
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Speaker 2: supposed to bring you and had another teen technical glitch,
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Speaker 2: which is why we didn't bring you the numbers. Finally
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Speaker 2: we got them at midday yesterday. So first two options
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Speaker 2: of twenty twenty six calendar year has seen prices lift.
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Speaker 2: This after we had nine consecutive falls at the back
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Speaker 2: end of last year. The good news that was up
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Speaker 2: six point seven percent overall. Whole milk powder that's what
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Speaker 2: we really care about, was up five point three percent.
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Speaker 2: Skim milk powder, the second thing we care most about,
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Speaker 2: up ten point six percent. Mozzarella was up ten Basso
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Speaker 2: was up eight point eight, which is great. The bad
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Speaker 2: news yesterday, of course, was sinlay. The turnaround not happening
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Speaker 2: quite quick enough, still struggling. They are expecting a first
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Speaker 2: half loss for twenty twenty six of between seventy seven
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Speaker 2: and eighty two million dollars. Their shares hit a five
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Speaker 2: month low off the back of that news. It's fourteen
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Speaker 2: after five bread So we'll go to Wellington. Now, this
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Speaker 2: is the long weekend that you can't swim on the
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Speaker 2: south coast. Don't go near it. They reckon equipment failure
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Speaker 2: at mole Point, the water treatment plant. Not quite sure
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Speaker 2: what caused it, but they say that untreated wastewater is
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Speaker 2: spewing into the ocean. Local city councilor Sam O'Brian's with me, now, Hey, Sam, come.
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Speaker 9: On Ryan, thanks sending me on.
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Speaker 2: Any clarity on what happened.
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Speaker 9: Yet at the stage it's still pretty unknown from my understanding.
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Speaker 9: We had some heavy rain and it appears like there's
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Speaker 9: been some sort of failure and it's led to wastewater
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Speaker 9: backing up one of the outful pipes and essentially flooding
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Speaker 9: the treatment planet itself.
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Speaker 2: Okay, and so can staff actually work in there, like,
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Speaker 2: can you fix it if the thing's flooded and start
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Speaker 2: had to evacuate.
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Speaker 9: Well, at the moment, I guess the process is to
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Speaker 9: pump out that wastewater that's gotten in, and then you
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Speaker 9: can start going in and attempting to sort of assist
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Speaker 9: the damage in terms of the electrical stuff and things.
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Speaker 9: We don't really know what the scale of that damage
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Speaker 9: is at the moment.
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Speaker 2: Right And when you say pump it out, where do
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Speaker 2: you pump it out too?
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Speaker 9: I'm not sure about that process, but I would assume
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Speaker 9: that it would be some sort of thing that gets
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Speaker 9: tucked away to somewhere that can be dealt with.
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Speaker 2: How long do you do do you expect this will
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Speaker 2: go on before people can go swimming again?
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Speaker 9: Well, I guess the first stage is getting pumps working again,
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Speaker 9: which will mean that the wastewater can be discharged to
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Speaker 9: the long outfall, which will make it safer, and that
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Speaker 9: could be done within three days or so they estimate,
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Speaker 9: but that may not make it safe enough to swim
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Speaker 9: for people. So the stage it's really unknown how long
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Speaker 9: it'll take to resolve it.
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Speaker 2: Is that to get it out to the pipe that
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Speaker 2: goes two k's out to the ocean.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a columnar our, and to cook straight, which
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Speaker 9: means that it sort of yeah, can disperse further. Not
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Speaker 9: it's not the short outfall was essentially going straight into
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Speaker 9: the bay.
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Speaker 2: Sam. Are you happy with Wellington Water what they're doing
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Speaker 2: their response?
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Speaker 9: On the short term, I would say, you know, you're
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Speaker 9: doing the best to resolve a situation and we don't
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Speaker 9: know what's caused it. But over the long term, obviously
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Speaker 9: it's a it's an ongoing issue. This isn't an isolated
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Speaker 9: thing and it's disappointing to see yet another example of
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Speaker 9: our water infrastructure failing in such a terrible way.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a terrible way. Where's your what water
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Speaker 2: are you and where do you live?
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Speaker 9: So I'm the multi cutting the eastern ward which includes
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Speaker 9: sort of Miramarlisle Bay area, which is where the treatment
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Speaker 9: plan is.
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Speaker 2: Right, so you won't be going swimming anytime soon. What's
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Speaker 2: what ticket did you run on? Sam? I've not heard
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Speaker 2: of you before. This is all I'm just curious. Are
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Speaker 2: you are left to your right? What are you? I'm
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Speaker 2: a labor councilor okay? And do you what where do
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Speaker 2: you sit with the infrastructure? You want to get this
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Speaker 2: fixed as a priority number one instead of you know,
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Speaker 2: the disco lose all that sort of stuff.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think you could sum it up like that. Obviously,
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Speaker 9: the management of water infrastructure is a big deal, and
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Speaker 9: we're moving to a new water entity and I'm pretty
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Speaker 9: keen to ensure that moving from Wellington Water to our
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Speaker 9: new entity doesn't just mean that we repeat exactly the
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Speaker 9: same mistakes we had with smelling to water.
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Speaker 2: All right, Sam, how old are you?
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Speaker 9: I'm twenty five?
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I thought you sounded quite young. No,
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Speaker 2: good to know, good to know. And we'll just get
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Speaker 2: on and fix it, would you.
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Speaker 9: It's planned all right?
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Speaker 2: Yees, Sam, appreciate it. Sam O'Brien, Wellington Eastern Water Council.
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Speaker 2: The time is eighteen minutes after five years talks. He'd
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Speaker 2: be next origin ere in Westport.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and One Route Love where you
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Speaker 1: live News.
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Speaker 2: Talk said b it is five twenty. We'll speak to
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Speaker 2: Allen McDonald from the EMA just before six this morning.
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Speaker 2: So we had the labor market, well, they say it's stabilizing,
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Speaker 2: even though the number of the unemployment number went from
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Speaker 2: five point three up to five point four. Not as
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Speaker 2: bad as it sounds. Apparently Ellen will help explain that
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Speaker 2: to us. That's coming up. Just before set Ryan bread
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Speaker 2: shovele on the tarmac for the coast. Less than eighteen
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Speaker 2: months in Origin there could be acting its Westport to
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Speaker 2: Wellington route. It's a bid for the government support that
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Speaker 2: looks like it's dead in the water. New Zealand Airport's
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Speaker 2: CEO Billy Moore with us this morning. Hey Billy, Hi,
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Speaker 2: what's going on here?
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Speaker 10: Oh? Look, it's it's a tricky situation. Originea has been
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Speaker 10: clear they'll keep monitoring the route until mid May. It
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Speaker 10: has to work commercially for them and we have to
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Speaker 10: respect that. The difficulty we see in the regions to
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Speaker 10: their place, like Westport, is that the demand for the
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Speaker 10: route is there, but it has to also be matched
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Speaker 10: by the frequency and timing of services. So passenger numbers
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Speaker 10: will depend on having enough like frequency to make it practical,
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Speaker 10: be say commuters, and if you can't get that scale up,
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Speaker 10: the overall financial sustainability of the route is harder to maintain.
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Speaker 10: So it's a bit of a chicken and egg situation
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Speaker 10: with the timing of the routes, of frequency and getting
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Speaker 10: those numbers up to Origin. That's what the Council will
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Speaker 10: be grappling with. How do you give it a jolt
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Speaker 10: so it can become something sustainable.
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Speaker 2: This is your classic regional airline problem, isn't it.
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Speaker 10: It really is, and in a lot of countries around
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Speaker 10: the world, there are processes to provide a bit of
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Speaker 10: that baseline support and get it moving so that it
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Speaker 10: becomes more sustainable over time. The clincher in this case
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Speaker 10: is that we support is also a joint need to airport.
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Speaker 10: That means it's one of the last remaining airports around
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Speaker 10: the country five of them that is also co owned
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Speaker 10: by the taxpayer. So textpayers will already cover half of
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Speaker 10: the airport short for each year just to keep essential
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Speaker 10: airport services open, so things like emergencies, healthcare, ambulance. So
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Speaker 10: the question for us is how do we make sure
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Speaker 10: that public contribution that will continue anyway, is also supporting
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Speaker 10: a passenger route to make the actual public good of
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Speaker 10: that money worthwhile. So we deeply to need to find
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Speaker 10: solution here.
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Speaker 2: One thing I've noticed. I've got friends who are increasingly
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Speaker 2: using regional airlines to get to places like Auckland to
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Speaker 2: Ketty Kitty with who does that one's barrier barrier Auckland
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Speaker 2: to part of pint our Mood that's Chatham Air. They're
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Speaker 2: great airlines and they often have you know, good times.
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Speaker 2: They often have a flat fear structure, so it's a
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Speaker 2: lot more affordable than your you know, your price gounging
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Speaker 2: Air New Zealand, et cetera. Is that how do you
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Speaker 2: get those airlines onto the search engines, because that's one
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Speaker 2: of the problems I reckon you find when you do
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Speaker 2: a search through an international that they don't pop up.
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Speaker 2: You just get Jetstar and Air New Zealand.
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Speaker 10: Look, you're absolutely right to putting that out. It's something
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Speaker 10: we've been talking to the government about these airlines. You know,
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Speaker 10: they are great operations, but they are small in scale,
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Speaker 10: so it is tough for some of them to invest
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Speaker 10: in the systems that allow them to be in those
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Speaker 10: search engines and some of the other capabilities that we
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Speaker 10: see from the big airlines. Chattham does have that capability,
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Speaker 10: but we think there is some more things we can
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Speaker 10: do to make sure they're great offerings are exposed to
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Speaker 10: more and more people, says you, As you say, once
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Speaker 10: you start flying on them, you do tend to stick
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Speaker 10: because it is a.
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Speaker 2: Great service one hundred percent. Billy, appreciate your time this morning.
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Speaker 2: Billy Moore, who's new Zealand Airport's CEO. It's twenty four
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Speaker 2: after five. Now loads of texts coming in about Wellington
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Speaker 2: and the water and well this how it's not water,
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Speaker 2: it's actually wastewater. Ryan, if this was a farmer again,
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Speaker 2: this is the point, million dollar fines, possibly jail time.
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Speaker 2: Because it's a CCO, nothing will happen. The double standards
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Speaker 2: of bureaucracy, says Nathan at Trevis, says Ryan. Every time
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Speaker 2: it rains in Gisbon, the district council is forced to
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Speaker 2: discharge untreated sewage into the so called pristine waters of
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Speaker 2: Poverty Bay. Yeah, so the councils actually can be I
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Speaker 2: remember doing a story about this years ago. The councils
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Speaker 2: can be fined by the regional councils for discharging this stuff.
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Speaker 2: So that'll be interesting to see whether this is a
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Speaker 2: breach of their resource management legislation. Time air is twenty
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Speaker 2: five after five.
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Speaker 2: It is five twenty seven. Happy White Tangy day. Everybody.
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Speaker 2: You'll probably see and hear a bit of Rgi bargie
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Speaker 2: from up north today because the Polleys are getting welcomed
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Speaker 2: onto the Treaty grounds. If you've ever been up there,
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Speaker 2: or if you've never been up there, you should easily
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Speaker 2: one of the best Kiwi weekends that you could experience.
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Speaker 2: Sunshine's guarantee. People are friendly, grubs good, plenty of drinks
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Speaker 2: to be had at the juw Core or another watering hole,
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Speaker 2: talking politics into the night great time. Protest is an
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Speaker 2: important part of democracy Lancer's societies boils. It keeps powerful
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Speaker 2: people in check, but it must be peaceful. The minute
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Speaker 2: you start throwing fists, punching cops and shoving people around,
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Speaker 2: you lose the room. And I've seen that happen at
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Speaker 2: White Tangy several times. We all have seen it happen
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Speaker 2: at many protests about a whole bunch of different issues.
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Speaker 2: I might add, I hope it doesn't happen this year.
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Speaker 2: There is apparently a group of twenty online who apparently
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Speaker 2: say that they're ready to be arrested in the name
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Speaker 2: of protests. And what a shame that would be. If
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Speaker 2: there's one thing we've shown each other as a country
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Speaker 2: over the past fortnight, with the storms and the floodings
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Speaker 2: and the landslides, and then the cleanup. It's that we
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Speaker 2: are still quite a united and down to earth country,
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Speaker 2: I reckon. The politicians might argue, the lobby groups hiss
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Speaker 2: and raw, but at its heart New Zealand is mostly
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Speaker 2: made up of decent people who look up for each other.
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Speaker 2: We saw made house and feed and water their neighbors.
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Speaker 2: I saw farmers being fed by cooier on madey. We
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Speaker 2: saw farmers helping clear mildi own land of debris. We
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Speaker 2: saw tradees and workers leaping to help terists trapped under rubble.
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Speaker 2: They might fight about race and parliament, but the reality
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Speaker 2: on the ground, as you and I both know well,
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Speaker 2: is way more chill than they make out, much more
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Speaker 2: children we in the media make out too. To be fair,
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Speaker 2: we're basically a nation of hardworking people of all different
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Speaker 2: cultures and colors who sometimes disagree but mostly get on
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Speaker 2: with life and look after each other. Of course there
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Speaker 2: are exceptions, but that's exactly the point. There are exceptions,
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Speaker 2: not the rule. And this white tonguey day, especially given
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Speaker 2: how badly some other democracies have gone to the dogs,
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Speaker 2: I think that's something surely worth celebrating. So happy white
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Speaker 2: tongue everybody back.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and one roof love where you live used talks
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Speaker 1: at me.
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Speaker 2: But if we're away from six newstalk sai'd be great
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Speaker 2: to have your company this Tuesday morning. We'll get to
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Speaker 2: our reporters in just a second. We will get to
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Speaker 2: Allen McDonald from the EMA on the unemployment numbers before
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Speaker 2: six o'clock. And Bill Gates has spoken about the Epstein stuff.
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Speaker 2: He's visiting Australia at the moment.
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Speaker 12: You know, it's actually true that I was only at dinners.
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Speaker 12: You know, I never went to the island. I never
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Speaker 12: met any women, and so you know, the morel that
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Speaker 12: comes out, the more clear it'll be that although the
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Speaker 12: time was a mistake, had nothing to do with that
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Speaker 12: kind of behavior.
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Speaker 2: Then there's the email that Epstein wrote to himself about
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Speaker 2: Bill Gates. Mitch McCann our US correspondent with us just
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Speaker 2: before it's quarter to six as well. Ryan, this is
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Speaker 2: from John and Westport, which is the airport we've been
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Speaker 2: discussing because origin here might pull out their flights. They
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Speaker 2: have not been operating very long. Might stop them all
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Speaker 2: together shortly least they get a bailout. Ryan, I used
18:51
Speaker 2: to fly Wellington to Westport two times a year when
18:54
Speaker 2: in New Zealand was flying. They stopped flying and the
18:57
Speaker 2: rental cars vanished. This is the problem. So now there's
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Speaker 2: no getting out of Westport except one intercity bus depart
19:04
Speaker 2: to the Graymouth at ten fifteen am. Normally no flight
19:07
Speaker 2: arrives early morning to get the bus via a taxi
19:11
Speaker 2: to the airport. So that's part of the problem, says John.
19:13
Speaker 2: It is twenty three to six ray and Bridge column
19:16
Speaker 2: first interned and culum good morning, right, So what's going
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Speaker 2: on with this fishing band in the peninsula.
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Speaker 7: Well, look, a bid to titan or broaden this band's
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Speaker 7: being turned down. A legal challenge which sought to extend
19:29
Speaker 7: this fishing band to protect the critically endangered hoyhor, which
19:33
Speaker 7: is the yellow eyed penguin. He has been dismissed by
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Speaker 7: the High Court. At the moment, set net fishing is
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Speaker 7: prohibited around the Otago Peninsula since an initial three month
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Speaker 7: band was introduced in September. It was then extended by
19:45
Speaker 7: the Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones for another nine months,
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Speaker 7: but the charity, The Environmental Law Initiative, had sought a
19:52
Speaker 7: judicial review to force a broader ban, but the court
19:55
Speaker 7: has declined that application earlier this week. Naturally, Seafood inst
19:59
Speaker 7: is welcoming this to see but remains concerned about the
20:01
Speaker 7: impact on local fishes and their livelihoods.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather.
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Speaker 7: It's mainly fine here today, high cloud light, winds twenty
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Speaker 7: two the high.
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Speaker 2: Enjoy long weekend. Callum, thank you, Clear's and christ Church morning.
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Speaker 13: Clear, good morning.
20:13
Speaker 2: This terrible crash in Selwyn.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, this was terrible. This was yesterday afternoon at about
20:18
Speaker 13: three point thirty when police were called to reports that
20:21
Speaker 13: a pedestrian had been struck by a vehicle on Leiston
20:24
Speaker 13: Roads out at Springston. Now they quickly confirmed that yes,
20:29
Speaker 13: the pedestrian was a child who, despite best efforts of
20:33
Speaker 13: emergency services and others at the scene, did die at
20:36
Speaker 13: the scene. The Serious Crash Unit conducted a scene examination.
20:39
Speaker 13: For those who don't know, Springston and Selwyn is beyond Rolliston,
20:43
Speaker 13: beyond Lincoln. It's a small community so it will be
20:46
Speaker 13: hard hit out there with this news. Police of course
20:49
Speaker 13: say their inquiries into the circumstances of the crash are ongoing.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather.
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Speaker 13: For christ Church today? Should be fine, a bit of
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Speaker 13: high cloud, northeasterlies dying out in twenty one degrees.
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Speaker 2: Think you clear in mex and Wellington morning mechs good morning.
21:04
Speaker 2: You're avoiding the wastewater for Kashima the poonami and you're
21:07
Speaker 2: going with cag with the movie museum. Yeah, give listeners
21:11
Speaker 2: a break.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, Sir Peter Jackson's people are talking to the council's people,
21:15
Speaker 14: and it really does seem that this long mooted project
21:19
Speaker 14: will come to fruition, specifically around this massive Lyle Bay
21:23
Speaker 14: site that the movie director owns. I mean he basically
21:25
Speaker 14: owns half the land out that way. Anyway, we understand
21:28
Speaker 14: a resource consent application is expected to be lodged soon.
21:32
Speaker 14: We already know Sir Peter has all these movie trinkets
21:35
Speaker 14: and memorabilia, the car from Chiddy Chudy Bang Bang, the
21:38
Speaker 14: Charlie Chaplain's cane, props, costumes, et cetera, et cetera, so
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Speaker 14: he's basically ready to go. He and partner Dame fran
21:46
Speaker 14: Walsh ranked fifth. Interestingly, they're basically property moguls on nbr's
21:51
Speaker 14: Rich List last year, with a reported net worth of
21:53
Speaker 14: two point six billion dollars. So that movie Museum at
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Speaker 14: Lyle Bay looks like it really is coming along.
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Speaker 2: Spot down there, it's across from what's that beer bar.
22:03
Speaker 2: You'll know what I'm talking about in.
22:04
Speaker 5: Line there's a.
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Speaker 2: Parrot dog.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, it is down there. Spruce goes down there. That's
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Speaker 14: just that's closing up now. But yeah, some good places
22:12
Speaker 14: down there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, once they do that, I think it's going to
22:15
Speaker 2: be an awesome spot. How's your with today, Max?
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Speaker 14: Yeah, look we're looking good going into the weekend. Mostly fine.
22:20
Speaker 14: A bit of a cold start this morning, but fine
22:22
Speaker 14: today twenty the high, brilliant.
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Speaker 2: Enjoy your weekend, Max, neihvas here, Hey, Neva greetings. Tens
22:28
Speaker 2: of thousands of festival goers are off to Lane Way.
22:31
Speaker 6: Today Lane Way, Yes, Oh my god. I'll be so
22:34
Speaker 6: happy about that Western Springs today. So look, last year
22:38
Speaker 6: they're about thirty thousand people filled that stadium for Charlie XCX.
22:42
Speaker 8: This year it's.
22:43
Speaker 6: Been headlined by the twenty twenty five Grammys Best New
22:46
Speaker 6: Artist Chapel Rohan, and joining her will be other globally
22:51
Speaker 6: known ex like Pink Panther is, role model Alex G.
22:55
Speaker 6: Wolf ellis don't know these people.
22:58
Speaker 2: I can tell you don't know. Reader, really was I
23:03
Speaker 2: bubbling over it?
23:04
Speaker 6: Actually, I had to try and find a young person
23:06
Speaker 6: out there going excuse me, youth of today. I found
23:08
Speaker 6: a young reporter who was like read about nineteen twenty.
23:11
Speaker 6: I said, come over here, come over to Auntie nev
23:13
Speaker 6: and just you know, I'm just going to go over
23:14
Speaker 6: these pronunciations.
23:16
Speaker 2: Chapel Rohn is the one that's been in the news
23:18
Speaker 2: for the last two days. She was at the Grammys
23:21
Speaker 2: and wore an outfit that was a She wore prosthetic nipples.
23:24
Speaker 2: It's right, and they were exposed.
23:26
Speaker 6: Yes, I saw that, and producer Kinsey was telling me
23:29
Speaker 6: about that as well.
23:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, quite very controversial, also not revealing. It's actually quite clever.
23:35
Speaker 2: You know, you can get away with looking naked without
23:38
Speaker 2: actually being naked, so no one can complain.
23:40
Speaker 6: And she's pretty popular. So it's going to be you know,
23:43
Speaker 6: it'll be full on and everyone will be going this
23:45
Speaker 6: weekend and we can just say that there will be
23:48
Speaker 6: no rain for Auckland either this weekend. It's going to
23:50
Speaker 6: be mainly fine for lane weight.
23:52
Speaker 9: So that's good.
23:53
Speaker 6: Isolated morning showers and I have twenty five brilliant.
23:56
Speaker 2: Brilliant Neva. Good to see. What are you doing? Got
23:58
Speaker 2: any plans?
23:59
Speaker 6: No, I've got friends. I've got friends. I do have
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Speaker 6: one or two and they're coming up to visit me.
24:04
Speaker 6: So yes, what about you?
24:05
Speaker 2: What do you want to I'm going to the pub
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Speaker 2: this afternoon.
24:08
Speaker 11: Stop.
24:08
Speaker 2: Yes, my friend Phil haven't seen them in ages and
24:12
Speaker 2: we haven't caught up with it. He's got kids. People
24:14
Speaker 2: get kids, yes, and they just disappear. It's like they
24:17
Speaker 2: disappear down a trapdoor.
24:19
Speaker 6: So what will you do? Will you go home and
24:21
Speaker 6: nat obviously?
24:22
Speaker 2: And then I've got a gym, I've got a nap
24:25
Speaker 2: and them are out.
24:25
Speaker 6: Oh nice, and try and stay awake until at least
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Speaker 6: nine p m.
24:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll try. I'll try. Good to see. Have a
24:33
Speaker 2: great long weekend. It is seventeen away from six. Next
24:36
Speaker 2: we'll head to the US with Mitch McCann. Then we're
24:38
Speaker 2: to Alan McDonald from the EMA on Unemployment News Talk SEDB.
24:44
Speaker 2: According to six on News Talks, HEREB a quick little
24:46
Speaker 2: car update for you this morning. New passenger cars. This
24:49
Speaker 2: is for January sales were up. We're buying cars like
24:52
Speaker 2: it's twenty twenty three. Nine thirty six new cars were
24:56
Speaker 2: sold in January. That's a twelve percent increase on the
24:58
Speaker 2: same month a year ago. And since January of twenty three,
25:02
Speaker 2: eighty one percent of them were SUVs. That's actually come
25:05
Speaker 2: down quite a bit. The top selling suv category is
25:09
Speaker 2: the compact version of compact suv, which, let's be honest,
25:12
Speaker 2: if you've ever been in one of those, you have
25:14
Speaker 2: to bend down to get They're not SUVs.
25:16
Speaker 15: Are they.
25:17
Speaker 1: International Correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of mind
25:21
Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.
25:23
Speaker 2: The backdown in Minnesota continues. It's got to Mitch mcckenna,
25:26
Speaker 2: US correspondent, Mitch, good morning, Good morning, Ryan, How are
25:29
Speaker 2: you doing very well? So what's Homan doing with the
25:31
Speaker 2: ice agents?
25:33
Speaker 8: Yeah, in the last fr while, Homan, now that's Tom Homan,
25:35
Speaker 8: and he's Donald Trump's borders are He's decided that they're
25:38
Speaker 8: going to draw down the number of people they have
25:40
Speaker 8: in Minneapolis. Now, remember Tom Homan was sent there in
25:44
Speaker 8: recent days to try and calm the situation down after
25:47
Speaker 8: the fatal shootings of two members of the public. He's
25:50
Speaker 8: announced this morning that they're removing seven hundred agents, leaving
25:54
Speaker 8: a total of about two thousand and Minneapolis. He says
25:57
Speaker 8: the reason they're able to do this is because of
25:59
Speaker 8: what he call unprecedented cooperation between the federal government and
26:03
Speaker 8: state and local officials. Of course, this is not something
26:06
Speaker 8: that's been happening up until now. He said those agencies
26:09
Speaker 8: are now working together to make immigration enforcement more efficient.
26:14
Speaker 8: He says that more officers are now working in jails
26:17
Speaker 8: also to arrest people on immigration related offenses. He said
26:20
Speaker 8: they'll be staying there for a while because many ICE
26:23
Speaker 8: officers are still facing intimidation. But he even thanked Tim Walsh,
26:27
Speaker 8: the governor of Minnesota, someone that the Trump administration has
26:30
Speaker 8: really clashed with in recent weeks.
26:33
Speaker 2: Now let's go to Epstein. I mean who isn't being
26:35
Speaker 2: named at the moment, but Melinda Gates, this is Bill
26:39
Speaker 2: z X says he's probably got some questions to answer
26:42
Speaker 2: now he has.
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Speaker 8: Yes, he's done an interview with Channel nine. He's been
26:47
Speaker 8: in Australia for the last couple of days. And this
26:49
Speaker 8: comes amid new allegations around Bell Gates in terms of
26:53
Speaker 8: some of the emails that were going back and forth
26:55
Speaker 8: with Jeffrey Epstein. But this is related to an email
26:58
Speaker 8: that Jeffrey Epstein appears to have written himself to himself
27:03
Speaker 8: that may have been meant for Bell Gates. And in
27:05
Speaker 8: that email, he suggests that Bell Gates wanted Jeffrey Epstein
27:10
Speaker 8: to source antibiotics for him because he contracted sexually transmitted diseases,
27:15
Speaker 8: and that he wanted to secretly give these pells to
27:17
Speaker 8: his wife. Now Bill Gates has responded, and this is
27:20
Speaker 8: what he said. He said. Apparently Jeffrey wrote himself an email.
27:23
Speaker 8: That email was never sent. The email is false. I
27:26
Speaker 8: don't know what his thinking was. Was he trying to
27:29
Speaker 8: attack me in some way? He said, every minute I
27:31
Speaker 8: spent with him, I regret and I apologize that I
27:34
Speaker 8: did that. Of course, Bill Gates has never been charged
27:36
Speaker 8: or convicted of any crimes or wrongdoing related to Jeffrey Epstein.
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Speaker 2: Mitch, appreciate your time. Mitch mccanna, US correspondent, just gone
27:43
Speaker 2: twelve to six. Brian Bridge unemployment up to a ten
27:46
Speaker 2: year high five point four percent, up from five point
27:49
Speaker 2: three percent. Under usualization also climbing, now sitting at a
27:52
Speaker 2: five year high thirteen percent Alan MacDonald is with the
27:56
Speaker 2: head of Advocacy, Finance and Strategy at the AMA joining
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Speaker 2: us as warning Ellen, good morning. What are your members
28:03
Speaker 2: seeing to you know, are they hiring? Are they sort
28:06
Speaker 2: of holding? What's going on?
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Speaker 15: Probably holding, I think is the answer at the moment, Ryan,
28:12
Speaker 15: everybody wants everything to get better, and some of the
28:15
Speaker 15: indicators are there, but I think they want to see
28:18
Speaker 15: a few months or quarters strung together before they follow
28:22
Speaker 15: through on some of those intentions to invest into hire.
28:25
Speaker 2: This is hard because it's checking and egg stuff. People
28:27
Speaker 2: don't want to spend until they know the unemployment rates
28:30
Speaker 2: coming down, but businesses don't want to hire until they
28:32
Speaker 2: know people are going to spend. Yeah, there's a bit.
28:35
Speaker 15: Of background to those numbers because more people are looking,
28:39
Speaker 15: so that counts. But also you get a little bump
28:41
Speaker 15: towards the end of the year as people leave school
28:44
Speaker 15: and universities and things like that too. But some of
28:47
Speaker 15: the underlying, more positive stuff says that the hiring intentions
28:52
Speaker 15: are there in both the sort of performance of manufacturing
28:55
Speaker 15: and Performance of Services index, and they are long run ones,
28:58
Speaker 15: so we pay a lot of attention to those. But
29:01
Speaker 15: I think you know that the recovery has been coming.
29:04
Speaker 15: The recovery has been coming. Could we wait and see
29:07
Speaker 15: some really solid evidence before we follow through on some
29:10
Speaker 15: of those intentions?
29:12
Speaker 2: Do you think one of the big I was listening
29:13
Speaker 2: to an economist yesterday, one of the big problems is
29:16
Speaker 2: that we had a sort of a false dawn, false
29:18
Speaker 2: start last year. And you know, if this was if
29:21
Speaker 2: we'd come straight out of a recession and this was
29:23
Speaker 2: the start of it, then perhaps we would be more confident.
29:26
Speaker 2: But because we got burnt last time, we're a bit
29:28
Speaker 2: gun show.
29:30
Speaker 5: Yeah.
29:30
Speaker 15: I think there's a fair bit of that, and even
29:32
Speaker 15: going back beyond last year. But I think if you
29:34
Speaker 15: remember at the start of last year, it was going
29:36
Speaker 15: to be thriving twenty five and it became survived in
29:38
Speaker 15: twenty five, and the reality is a lot of businesses
29:41
Speaker 15: died in twenty five. So yeah, that's what's driving some
29:44
Speaker 15: of that caution.
29:44
Speaker 2: I think, what is there anything that you, as the
29:47
Speaker 2: UMA want done now tomorrow that would help get us
29:52
Speaker 2: out of it.
29:54
Speaker 15: I don't think there's any sort of magic wave you
29:56
Speaker 15: wand and away we go kind of approach. I think
29:59
Speaker 15: a lot of the stuff seeing from some of the
30:01
Speaker 15: policy things that they're getting things out of the way.
30:05
Speaker 15: They take time, and so when when you get the
30:08
Speaker 15: cumulative effect of all of those things coming through, then
30:11
Speaker 15: it's not going to be a hockey stick. But I
30:13
Speaker 15: think we'll start to see that slide up into recovery.
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Speaker 2: If you like, we've just got to do the hard
30:19
Speaker 2: yards and tough it out. Alan, appreciate you.
30:21
Speaker 15: That's a bit of a grind.
30:21
Speaker 2: Appreciate your time as always, Allan. Allan McDonald's EMA, head
30:24
Speaker 2: of NBC Finance and Strategy. Time is nine to six
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Speaker 2: EDB seven Away from six. We spoke earlier in the
30:41
Speaker 2: week about this review, this look into insurance premiums in
30:46
Speaker 2: New Zealand. They are up three times as fast as
30:49
Speaker 2: inflation since twenty eleven, forty two years. Weather is obviously
30:54
Speaker 2: a problem, but does anyone think it's this this probe
30:57
Speaker 2: is going to solve anything. It's another one of those
31:00
Speaker 2: as Financial Regulators, Council of Financial Regulators which is FMA,
31:05
Speaker 2: mb ComCom and Treasury all having a little look. See
31:10
Speaker 2: the competition is one of the things that they'll look at.
31:13
Speaker 2: They'll also look at how much capital the insurance companies
31:16
Speaker 2: have to hold. And one of them has already come
31:19
Speaker 2: out of the blocks. Tower has come out and said
31:21
Speaker 2: early on, we are passing on our savings, thank you
31:24
Speaker 2: very much. Our average motor and home premiums fell eight
31:29
Speaker 2: percent in twenty twenty five. Did anyone notice that? Six
31:33
Speaker 2: to six? And bredge Mike greetings, how are you very well?
31:37
Speaker 2: Thank you?
31:38
Speaker 16: Thanks all over again?
31:39
Speaker 2: Isn't it that is?
31:39
Speaker 16: It's their fascination with is there enough competition in the marketplace?
31:43
Speaker 2: And how many industries do we need to say don't
31:46
Speaker 2: have enough competition before we realize that we're just a
31:49
Speaker 2: small country. The national companies name and industry and there's
31:54
Speaker 2: not enough competition. Gets it off, the gets it off.
31:56
Speaker 2: The political agenda. Yeah, I guess Hey, here's the Winter
31:59
Speaker 2: Olympic snug on you. Yes, it has. We spoke to
32:02
Speaker 2: someone a couple of well, we had video from a
32:05
Speaker 2: couple of ethletes on our show Uesday, But apart from
32:07
Speaker 2: that very little.
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Speaker 16: We got the shift of mission today. So we got
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Speaker 16: seventeen biggest team ever he reckons hopefully three plus last
32:13
Speaker 16: time apparently we got three medals that is, so you think, no, no,
32:19
Speaker 16: but we need a little bit more this time around.
32:21
Speaker 16: He's reasonably bullish on.
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Speaker 2: That, Tony. What's interested in me is the Russians. You
32:25
Speaker 2: know how they can compete.
32:26
Speaker 16: Under the tennis the other day.
32:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they they have a board that investigates is
32:33
Speaker 2: this Russian a good Russian or is this Russian a
32:36
Speaker 2: bad Russian?
32:36
Speaker 16: Acceptable Russian?
32:37
Speaker 2: And they've found the BBC Sports done this big thing.
32:41
Speaker 2: And on the board there's a woman who apparently was
32:43
Speaker 2: seen hugging one of the bad Russians. They're saying, this
32:47
Speaker 2: whole thing is corrupt and you shouldn't trust them. You
32:52
Speaker 2: can throw them a bad Russian.
32:54
Speaker 16: The Nikola Willis is on this morning, and she'll try
32:58
Speaker 16: and explain away out of the problem yesterday, which I
33:01
Speaker 16: see the problem in an election year, and she was
33:03
Speaker 16: right yesterday, and the nuance and subtlety. There are actually
33:06
Speaker 16: more jobs. You can't argue with that. And that's the
33:08
Speaker 16: great thing about these sort of stats. They're facts, they're
33:09
Speaker 16: not vibes or mood or stuff. So there are more jobs.
33:12
Speaker 16: But the problem is five point four is not five
33:13
Speaker 16: point two or five point three statement of fact, and
33:16
Speaker 16: an election year. Going the wrong way is not something
33:18
Speaker 16: you can sell easily, not a good headline.
33:21
Speaker 2: Although I thought, actually yesterday the media did quite a
33:25
Speaker 2: good job of explaining all.
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Speaker 16: I couldn't agree with you more, which is unusual, I did,
33:29
Speaker 16: I thought. I think I think part of that came
33:31
Speaker 16: from the fact, though, that the economists came to her rescue,
33:35
Speaker 16: to the extent that they said, have a look at,
33:37
Speaker 16: you know, dig below the headline for once, and you might,
33:40
Speaker 16: you know, go go and find some truth and some
33:42
Speaker 16: fact and stuff like that. So I think she got helped.
33:44
Speaker 2: Out along that.
33:45
Speaker 16: Plans this weekend, well, I'm just relaxing. I'm just decompressing
33:49
Speaker 16: to the land and up to the land, and i'm
33:51
Speaker 16: wind while I'm looking. I've got a little bit of
33:53
Speaker 16: work going on at the land, and the excitements happening. Well,
33:56
Speaker 16: I know I can't give you too much to tame on,
33:58
Speaker 16: but I've got a couple of projects off. But the
34:00
Speaker 16: beauty of going to the land on the weekend is,
34:02
Speaker 16: I know not what it looks like. So as I
34:06
Speaker 16: come around the corner, it's like opening a white tang
34:09
Speaker 16: your day present, right, So it could.
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Speaker 2: Be a pool or something.
34:12
Speaker 16: I already got a pool. I got a pool cent
34:14
Speaker 16: that've done ages ago.
34:17
Speaker 2: Happy White, Tang you weeking everyone, See you Monday.
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