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Full Show Podcast: 28 February 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, these reviews and the insight Andrew Dickens on
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Speaker 1: early edition with one roof make your Property search simple,
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Speaker 1: used talks it be well.
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Speaker 2: Good morning to you and welcome to Friday. You made it.
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Speaker 2: I'm Andrew Dickens. In the next sixty minutes, approval for
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Speaker 2: animal and plant products has now been given the first
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Speaker 2: track treatment. So what does this mean for the primary sector.
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Speaker 2: We'll have that story for you. In five. The Warriors
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Speaker 2: are in Vegas, baby, but are they having a good
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Speaker 2: time or are they having too good a time? The
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Speaker 2: Warrior's CEO is joining us from Sin City. And ten
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Speaker 2: what lessons have the coalition not learnt from labor and
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Speaker 2: will changes to the electricity market make a difference to you?
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Speaker 2: And I will have that story for you just before six.
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Speaker 2: We'll have correspondence from right around the world and one
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Speaker 2: around New Zealand and news as it breaks. You can
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Speaker 2: comment by texting meet ninety two. Ninety two is the
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Speaker 2: number of small charge replies, or you can email me
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Speaker 2: Dickens at NEWSTALKZMB dot co dot NZ. It's seven out.
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Speaker 3: To five.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: So it's Friday, the twenty eighth of February and Hollywood
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Speaker 2: actor Gene Heckman has been found dead along with his
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Speaker 2: wife and his dog in the New Mexico home.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 2: Gene Heckman was ninety five years old, so good in
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Speaker 2: The Unforgiven, What a great movie. His wife sixty three.
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Speaker 2: You may also know him for his role as pop
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Speaker 2: By Doyle from The French Connection.
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Speaker 3: Hi, pot By.
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Speaker 1: Deer, put your hand on your head, Get off the barn.
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Speaker 5: Get on the wall, Come on.
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Speaker 4: Night we home.
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Speaker 2: Such a good actor. The Santa Fe County Sheriff of
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Speaker 2: New Mexico sies is an active investigation, but there's no
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Speaker 2: reason to believe foul play was a fector.
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Speaker 4: These are unusual circumstances for two people and their family
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Speaker 4: dog to be found dead in their home at the
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Speaker 4: same time. But Gene Hackman really had the most incredible career.
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Speaker 4: He acted for sixty years, appeared in one hundred films,
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Speaker 4: won two Oscars for The French Connection and Unforgiven.
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Speaker 2: Now. I have some theories about Gene Hackman. I'll tell
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Speaker 2: those later in the program. As a Kia starmer is
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Speaker 2: preparing to meet with President Trump in the White House,
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Speaker 2: uk US Starmer's meeting comes a day before President Vladimir
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Speaker 2: Zelenski will visit the Oval Office design what Trump describes
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Speaker 2: as a very big agreement on sharing Ukraine's mineral resources.
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Speaker 6: I'm here to meet another close friend of the United Kingdom,
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Speaker 6: President Trump, and my message is really simple. So there
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Speaker 6: is no more important relationship for the United Kingdom in
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Speaker 6: defends and security, and trade, in Turkey and finance. We
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Speaker 6: want to strike a new partnership. We share the view
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Speaker 6: that our best stays lie ahead.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Russian and US delegates met in Istanbul for the
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Speaker 2: first in a series of meetings aiming to remove irritance
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Speaker 2: from their relationship. Putin says the talks inspire hope that
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Speaker 2: the two countries can find common ground on issues including
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Speaker 2: the war in Ukraine. And Finally, Andrew Tate and brother
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Speaker 2: Tristan have left Romania on a private jit bound for
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Speaker 2: the United States. The controversial brothers were arrested in Romania
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Speaker 2: three years ago and face trial on allegations of rape,
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Speaker 2: traffically miners, and money laundering, all of which they deny.
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Speaker 7: Or we know that in the last few weeks that
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Speaker 7: the Trump administration has been bullying Romania to return Andrew
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Speaker 7: Tate and his brother Tristan's passport and to allow them
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Speaker 7: to travel to the US. Many commentators thought that that
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Speaker 7: would just never happen because it was just ser absurd,
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Speaker 7: But it has happened. The reports are that this morning
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Speaker 7: that the Dates left on a private jet from Romania
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Speaker 7: to the US, where they'll be landing.
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Speaker 2: Shortly and the time is now two and a half
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Speaker 2: to five.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition Andrew Dickens
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Speaker 1: and One Roof Make your Property Search Simple News Talk
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Speaker 1: sid Be.
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Speaker 2: It's Friday, so I want to tell you a story.
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Speaker 2: I own an electric MG. It was twenty twenty four's
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Speaker 2: car of the Year. It goes like a school, it
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Speaker 2: says cheap as chips. I quite like my car. Last
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Speaker 2: weekend I took it to a batch in the Corrimandel.
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Speaker 2: Coming back from the beach after a lovely swim, I
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Speaker 2: hit the curb. It eruptured my side wall and the
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Speaker 2: tire went flat. So I thought, no problem, I'll get
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Speaker 2: the spare tire. Opened up the boot to get the
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Speaker 2: spare tire. No spared tire. Electric cars don't have one,
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Speaker 2: makes more room for batteries and in fact, I've learned
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Speaker 2: since the many new cars only have a tire sealant option,
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Speaker 2: no spare tire. Now, the tire sealant doesn't work if
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Speaker 2: your side walls are mounted. So my first point is
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Speaker 2: why don't modern cars have a spare tire, particularly in
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Speaker 2: New Zealand because we're a rough, tough, isolated country. You
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Speaker 2: need a spared tire. God knows where you're going to
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Speaker 2: have a tire go down on you and you've got
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Speaker 2: to get out somehow. You need a spare tire. Why
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Speaker 2: don't they have them? Anyway? So I phoned the MG
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Speaker 2: Roadside Service. They could send a tow truck, pick up
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Speaker 2: the car, tie it back to the nearest town, which
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Speaker 2: by the way, was forty minutes away. But it was Sunday,
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Speaker 2: so it couldn't happen till Monday, and I needed to
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Speaker 2: get back to work to do early edition. So hmm hmm, okay,
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Speaker 2: I was thinking to myself. Second point, why don't modern
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Speaker 2: cars have a spare tire? So look here it is.
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Speaker 2: My neighbor offered to come home a day early and
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Speaker 2: he said, I'll give you a lift. So my third
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Speaker 2: point is Kim is a gentleman and a lifesaver. And
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Speaker 2: so on Monday of this week. I went into MG
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Speaker 2: Tristram where I bought the car, and said what can
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Speaker 2: I do? And we talked about it. I could take
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Speaker 2: a replacement hard down in my second car, get the
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Speaker 2: MG fixed by the AA. But then, of course I'd
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Speaker 2: have two cars but only one driver stuck in the
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Speaker 2: Coromandal total disaster. But then Dave, the sales manager, heard
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Speaker 2: about the scenario and offered this solution. How about the
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Speaker 2: tire tech takes a car and a wheel to the
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Speaker 2: corrimandle with me as a passenger. He'll fix the car,
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Speaker 2: he'll come home and then I'll drive the MG back
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Speaker 2: and drop it in for proper alignment later. So fourth
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Speaker 2: point the blokes from MG Tristram are gentlemen and life
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Speaker 2: savers and understand service. So the upshot is today, after work,
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Speaker 2: I'm on a day long mission to Corrimandel to retrieve
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Speaker 2: a car with Dwayne the tire tech. I have asked.
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Speaker 2: He's not feral. I should get there in one piece.
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Speaker 2: And so I come to my fifth point. Why do
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Speaker 2: modern cars in New Zealand have no spare tire? The
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Speaker 2: mystery of the death of Gene Hackman ninety five years old,
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Speaker 2: Him and his wife, who was sixty three Betsy Arakawa
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Speaker 2: were found dead with their dog in their house. The
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Speaker 2: investigation continues, but TMZ's just reporting that the daughter of
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Speaker 2: the actor says he likely died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Speaker 2: They've been dead for it least a day before their
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Speaker 2: bodies were found. Elizabeth Hackman told TMZ that the family
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Speaker 2: suspects his father, his wife, and one of the dogs
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Speaker 2: died from toxic fumes inside their Santa Fe home. Their
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Speaker 2: bodies were found Wednesday during a welfare check, and police
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Speaker 2: at the moment are not ruling out anything as the
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Speaker 2: cause of death. There was no sign of trauma. Authorities
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Speaker 2: applied for a warrant to conduct a search and called
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Speaker 2: in the fire department and the gas company to ensure
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Speaker 2: the house was safe to search. And like I say,
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Speaker 2: the couple were dead and two of the couple's dogs
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Speaker 2: were found in there as well, some of them were alive.
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Speaker 2: What a tragic into what was a great, great actor?
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Speaker 2: It's our fourteen minutes after five. So about a month ago,
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Speaker 2: Liz Shackleton was talking with Mike Hosking and she said
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Speaker 2: the government needed to give fast track for approvals to
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Speaker 2: animal and health products. Guess what the government did it.
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Speaker 2: So a talk to Liz next here on News Talks,
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Speaker 2: FB News.
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Speaker 1: And Views you trust to start your day. It's early
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Speaker 1: edition with Andrew Dickens and one roof make your property
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Speaker 2: It's sixteen after five, good mording to you. The government
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Speaker 2: is committing to speed up approvals for animal and plant
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Speaker 2: health products. All sixteen of the Ministry of Regulations recommendations
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Speaker 2: were accepted and so now we're going to find so
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Speaker 2: planned an Animal Health Chief Executive as Checkerton has got
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Speaker 2: a be early for us and good morning to you.
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Speaker 7: Lis.
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Speaker 8: Oh, I'm not rie in Andrew lovely to connect.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so what will this do for Fanning?
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Speaker 8: So look, Andrew, if regulators can deliver on the direction
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Speaker 8: set out by ministers in this report, the primary sector
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Speaker 8: economy will grow. It's a glimmer of hope that change
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Speaker 8: is coming. But the real test now is if regulators
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Speaker 8: can turn the ship around and implement the recommendations. You know,
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Speaker 8: this is about getting solutions out of a queue and
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Speaker 8: into the hands of our farmers and growers to help
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Speaker 8: them fight today some of today's toughest challenges. And you know,
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Speaker 8: let's look at the products we're talking about here, soft chemistry,
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Speaker 8: inhibitor solutions, alternatives for resistant pests, biologicals prevented of solutions.
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Speaker 8: You know, if farmers have these options, it's a race
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Speaker 8: to the top. Without them, it's a race to the bottom.
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Speaker 2: Here, it's a month ago you were complaining on the
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Speaker 2: Microlasting Breakfast that they were becklog of more than one
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Speaker 2: hundred applications of waiting approval for the sort of stuff
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Speaker 2: you've just talked about, and you said there could be
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Speaker 2: a four year time spent to clear the queue. So
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Speaker 2: does that still exist? Is it still going to take
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Speaker 2: this on?
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Speaker 8: Yeah? So look, this report confirmed everything that we've been
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Speaker 8: saying about the eyewatering delays. And look, Andre Lete's put
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Speaker 8: it in the perspective of a farmer. And here, you know,
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Speaker 8: say white cattle farmers there this morning. They need meetin
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Speaker 8: and nitrous oxide emission solutions. They've got less than five
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Speaker 8: years to meet the twenty thirty climate targets. This report
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Speaker 8: is saying approval will take five point six years. You know,
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Speaker 8: that's just too little, too late if you're a farmer.
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Speaker 8: And you know, I can give you some other examples
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Speaker 8: about what we've been hearing because you know, the urgency
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Speaker 8: around this queue is significant.
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Speaker 2: Why do you think we dropped the ball so much?
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Speaker 8: Look, I think it's a complex system and this is
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Speaker 8: something that this report absolutely m layers out today. But
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Speaker 8: I think what's more important now is looking forward and
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Speaker 8: actually delivery to turn this hope into reality. About turning
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Speaker 8: this quy around. We absolutely remain committed to work with
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Speaker 8: regulators and want to support them with that. But what
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Speaker 8: our members are calling for is access, you know, engagement, urgency,
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Speaker 8: transparency and accountability. You know, because at a time when
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Speaker 8: our government's crying out for investment in New Zealand here andrew,
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Speaker 8: our members, the keying global businesses say are saying clearly
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Speaker 8: these delays make the future here untenable, you know. So
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Speaker 8: it's about working together, but ultimately can regulators deliver and
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Speaker 8: implement the recommendation?
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Speaker 2: Of course, of course our advantage is innovation. But if
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Speaker 2: we're slowing down the innovation, then we're losing the advantage.
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Speaker 2: Liz Shecky didn't thank you so much. This is the
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Speaker 2: chief executive of Planned and Animal Health New Zealand. The
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Speaker 2: worry is are in Vegas? Have you heard about the
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Speaker 2: rights they ended up getting in trouble because they had
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Speaker 2: a play fight in the lift with a blow up
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Speaker 2: softball bat and the cops came in and arrest of them.
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Speaker 2: Have the boys been in trouble? Have our boys been
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Speaker 2: in trouble? Has it been good for the game? So
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Speaker 2: Cameron George is going to join us in a few
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Speaker 2: moments time from Las Vegas.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens on a Billy edition with one roof Make
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Speaker 1: your Property Search Simple, used Talk Zippy.
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Speaker 2: It is five twenty two. The Warriors are in Vegas
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Speaker 2: for the first game of the season against the Raiders.
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Speaker 2: In terms of the lineup, Charles Nicola Klockstadt has retained
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Speaker 2: his hold on the number one jersey. Roger two of
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Speaker 2: Vasaschek has shifted from the centers to the wing. He
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Speaker 2: seems very happy about that. Cameron George is the CEO
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Speaker 2: of the Warriors and he joins me now in Las Vegas.
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Speaker 2: How the Cameron, Good morning, eight twenty two in the morning.
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Speaker 2: You've just come straight from the buffet. How was the food?
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Speaker 9: No, I haven't actually look.
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Speaker 10: It's crazy over here and I'm very excited about the
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Speaker 10: week we've had so far, and you know, and what's
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Speaker 10: less of it? So getting closer to game day, which
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Speaker 10: is really important for us.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So Andrew Webster has said that the Warriors have
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Speaker 2: done well not to be distracted by the goods of
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Speaker 2: Las Vegas, and from what you can tell as he rates.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, our boys have prepared really well.
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Speaker 10: They know we've come here for you with a purpose,
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Speaker 10: and we've i think collectively managed to work really well,
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Speaker 10: both players and staff, and everyone's enjoyed the moment but
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Speaker 10: also kept very focused on what's important to us, and
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Speaker 10: that's preparing well for the for the game on Saturday.
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Speaker 2: One of the facilities like that you're training it and
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Speaker 2: what's the ground like? Is it all good?
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Speaker 10: Look where we're training is there's soccer fields. There's no
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Speaker 10: goalpost or anything. They've got line marking for rugby league fields,
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Speaker 10: but there are about four or five soccer fields adjacent
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Speaker 10: to each other.
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Speaker 9: That's where we train.
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Speaker 10: We are Jim Wise boys are at the UFC, which
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Speaker 10: is a great experience for them. And look, everything else
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Speaker 10: is pretty similar to what we get at home, but
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Speaker 10: the fields are certainly very different given they're not rugby
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Speaker 10: league fields.
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Speaker 2: What's the sales like? I mean, how many Americans are
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Speaker 2: turning up and do they have any comprehension about what's
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Speaker 2: about to hit them?
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Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 10: Look every billboard you see here is talking about rugby League,
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Speaker 10: and I understand there's just over forty eight thousand tickets
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Speaker 10: sold and fifteen thousand of those have been purchased by Americans,
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Speaker 10: pretty well from every state. So that's a really good
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Speaker 10: sign for the game. I think that certainly passes what
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Speaker 10: they did last year.
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Speaker 9: So it's a great sign that the game's being accepted
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Speaker 9: over here.
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Speaker 2: It's also a great sign that, to course the Australians
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Speaker 2: and New Zealand is thirty thousand of them have decided
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Speaker 2: to travel. We saw that the year New Zealand Warrior's
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Speaker 2: flight sold out in seventeen minutes, so obviously the games
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Speaker 2: and goods stayed in Australasia and that's quite good. I'm
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Speaker 2: so sorry that President Trump's not coming, but I appear
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Speaker 2: he's quite busy.
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Speaker 9: I can imagine he's got a bit on.
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Speaker 10: But at the end of the day, mate, there'll be
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Speaker 10: plenty of plenty of funderhad on game day, and yeah,
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Speaker 10: we're looking forward to it.
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Speaker 2: The Sydney Morning Herald yesterday reckons it's not the Warriors
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Speaker 2: year in fact, they reckoning, you're going to come sick
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Speaker 2: in to last. So we say every year it is
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Speaker 2: your year. So how is this yet any different to
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Speaker 2: than all the others.
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Speaker 9: Who was that Sorry the Sydney Morning Morning, they still existed. Look,
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Speaker 9: we've got.
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Speaker 10: A very good young and blended in with experience what
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Speaker 10: we've noticed this year, particularly training and if you if
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Speaker 10: you saw our second trial very fast, you know, if
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Speaker 10: they execute well, you know they're a team that can
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Speaker 10: score a lot of points in the fendwell. So look,
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Speaker 10: at the end of the day, it's going to be
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Speaker 10: a very tight competition. Our tension is to win it,
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Speaker 10: and we've got a very good squad, very happy with it.
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Speaker 3: Like everyone, you need luck.
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Speaker 10: With no injuries, but or little injuries. But we're ready
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Speaker 10: to go. So there's no excuse from us.
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Speaker 2: We're right behind you. Caaron, all the very best. Give
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Speaker 2: our regards to the boys. Cameron George Warrior is CEO.
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Speaker 2: It is five twenty five NEWSTALKSZVB the Early.
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Speaker 2: ZIB Newstalk's EB. It is five twenty seven. Okay, so
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Speaker 2: I'm a bit of a policy one I like policy.
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Speaker 2: I don't care which party it is. If they come
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Speaker 2: up with a policy, I like to break it down
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Speaker 2: and see if it makes sense, and I'll support any
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Speaker 2: policy from anybody if it's a good one. I also
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Speaker 2: know that politicians are addicted to announcements and attention at
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Speaker 2: media coverage, which means they sometimes say the very first
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Speaker 2: thing in their heads that sounds like it might get votes,
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Speaker 2: no matter if it's deliverable or not. Now we'll all
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Speaker 2: remember that Labor had a very bad case of it
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Speaker 2: last term Phil Twiford and is one hundred thousand KEI
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Speaker 2: we build fantasy. Michael wood I thought was the absolute
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Speaker 2: champion based on five minutes on the back of an envelope.
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Speaker 2: He announced a nearly nine hundred million dollar bike bridge
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Speaker 2: and then faced with a backlash from dominion row businesses.
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Speaker 2: He then casually stuck a light rail system underground, tripling
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Speaker 2: the price to an unaffordable eighteen billion dollars. Now it
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Speaker 2: seems to me that the National Led Coalition has a
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Speaker 2: case of the same disease. Paul Goldsmith has it bad.
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Speaker 2: This week he announced a change to citizens arrest rules,
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Speaker 2: but had no idea of what the changes are going
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Speaker 2: to be. The policy has been greeted with confusion and
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Speaker 2: a mixed reaction. It's an idea that needs a lot
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Speaker 2: more work. That's what he was announcing. In fact, he
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Speaker 2: was doing a classic Labor Party announcement of an announcement,
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Speaker 2: but the king of wishful thinking in the coalition as
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Speaker 2: the Prince of the Province's Shane Jones. This week he
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Speaker 2: proposed a special economic zone for mars and Point, begging
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Speaker 2: the question why not turn the whole country into a
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Speaker 2: special economic zone?
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Speaker 9: Shamee.
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Speaker 2: The whole place needs a hand. And then he proposed
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Speaker 2: repairing Marsden Point refinery, which is a fanciful idea. It
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Speaker 2: was shot down in hours as they realized the almost
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Speaker 2: cost of nearly eight billion dollars. Didn't Shane already know that?
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Speaker 2: And the reason why no government has repaired the refinery
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Speaker 2: ever since it was sold forty years ago is because
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Speaker 2: it's impossible and expensive. Did Shane not know that? But
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Speaker 2: he said it anyway. And the thing I think about
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Speaker 2: leadership is that you need to make adult decisions and proposals.
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Speaker 2: And if you're a cabinet minister, you can't just let
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Speaker 2: the first Walter Mitty like thought bubble pop out of
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Speaker 2: your mouth when you know that there's nothing there. Now.
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Speaker 2: That is the lesson labor should have learned from last term.
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Speaker 2: And hopefully the government we have right now figures it
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Speaker 2: out as well and figures it out soon.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens, all right, do.
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Speaker 2: You understand the energy market? Do you understand the electricity market? Note?
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Speaker 2: Neither do I. But there have been some changes. The
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Speaker 2: big question is will it make it any cheaper for you?
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Speaker 2: And I will find that out just before six.
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Speaker 1: The News you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 11: Did you come?
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Speaker 2: Thank goodbarding to you. Welcome to the end of the week.
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Speaker 2: My name is Andrew Dickens and for Ryan Bridge. Here
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Speaker 2: comes the weekend. Now we're following the progress of Andrew
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Speaker 2: Tat and his brother Tristan. This is the controversial social
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Speaker 2: media phenomenon guy that boys have been following and he's
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Speaker 2: wanting They wanted to try, you know, put him up
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Speaker 2: for trial on allegations of rape and trafficking miners and mannering,
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Speaker 2: lordering and all that sort of carry on. We're following
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Speaker 2: his progress. They're on a private jet, they're bound for America.
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Speaker 2: They could have been going to the UK. All sorts
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Speaker 2: of things happening about that little story in Vincent McAvennie
18:47
Speaker 2: will join us shortly to talk about that. Anko Starma
18:50
Speaker 2: and his trip to Washington. News through overnight in Washington.
18:54
Speaker 2: By the way, Jeff Bezos, the man who owns Amazon,
18:58
Speaker 2: also owns the Washington Post, and he's made an editorial
19:01
Speaker 2: decision the Post will no longer run views opposed to
19:05
Speaker 2: personal liberties and free markets. He says he doesn't need
19:08
Speaker 2: to because the Internet does that. So how do you
19:11
Speaker 2: feel about that? Look, it says paper. He can do
19:14
Speaker 2: what he wants, and at least he's being open, honest
19:16
Speaker 2: and transparent about what they're going to report and what
19:18
Speaker 2: they're not going to report. But hello, do not expect
19:21
Speaker 2: me to read anything in the Washington Post about free
19:24
Speaker 2: speech without caforing And Jeff, I think you might have
19:28
Speaker 2: just lost the anti globalization people who would like to
19:33
Speaker 2: see things anti free market, and that is a significant
19:36
Speaker 2: part of the American market in these Trumpian days. But hey,
19:38
Speaker 2: it's your paper. Myself, personally, I prefer my media to
19:42
Speaker 2: present all sides of a story without buyers and then
19:44
Speaker 2: let me, as an adult, make my own mind up.
19:46
Speaker 2: When I read a paper, I reckon I should disagree
19:48
Speaker 2: with half of it because that helps solidify my own argument.
19:53
Speaker 2: So Jeff Bezos has made the call. Jeff Bezos the
19:55
Speaker 2: world's grosser and habitdasher is no free speech advocate, and
20:00
Speaker 2: he is a censor, and he is a cancellor. Twenty
20:04
Speaker 2: two to eight around the country, we go, Callum Procter
20:06
Speaker 2: from Otarga Halle, Callum morning Andrew. Now there's a plea
20:11
Speaker 2: to end futile CPR in aged residential care facilities.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, lot, This will spark a bit of debate. This
20:19
Speaker 12: comes out of research here at Otaga University. These researchers
20:22
Speaker 12: believe that aged care staff should not have to be
20:25
Speaker 12: forced to provide compressions to pulseless residents at age care facilities.
20:30
Speaker 12: They argue that these facilities should be able to adopt
20:33
Speaker 12: no chest compression policies so that residents can have staff
20:36
Speaker 12: providing comfort and holding their hand in their final moments.
20:40
Speaker 12: Researchers say CPR is not always helpful for the elderly.
20:43
Speaker 12: They say it's likely it will break ribs, which is
20:46
Speaker 12: traumatic for the person and staff.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it's a terrible call, a big call as well.
20:50
Speaker 2: Hey how's the weather? That's pretty good?
20:53
Speaker 12: Fine today evening cloud nor Easterly's twenty two to the high.
20:56
Speaker 2: And I thank you, Claire. Sure we're joins us from
20:58
Speaker 2: christ Riot Teleclaire morning. So they need more health services
21:02
Speaker 2: than Selwyn, Yes.
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Speaker 13: Well, of course, for context, Selwyn is in New Zealand's
21:06
Speaker 13: fastest growing district. That's according to the latest census data.
21:09
Speaker 13: With growth of cause lots of positives for those around
21:12
Speaker 13: Rolliston Way, but also a fair bit of concern. The
21:15
Speaker 13: District Council's latest aging well survey show Selwyn is very
21:20
Speaker 13: under resourced when it comes to blood services, dental clinics,
21:24
Speaker 13: pharmacies and medical centers. In fact, a third of residents
21:27
Speaker 13: are enrolled with a GP outside of Selwyn. Health in
21:31
Speaker 13: ZED says it's working with the council and helping find
21:33
Speaker 13: a GP tenant for Rolliston's Health Hub and a new
21:36
Speaker 13: primary birthing unit Otomidachy are great examples of what they're doing.
21:41
Speaker 13: But Rolliston Residents' Association chair Mark Alexander says government services
21:45
Speaker 13: haven't kept up with the growth. He says it's assumed
21:48
Speaker 13: people will just travel into christ Church, but given not
21:51
Speaker 13: everyone can drive, and there is also a lack of
21:53
Speaker 13: public transport out there, that's not the answer.
21:55
Speaker 2: Yes, you're ill, Oh don't great drive? Okay. How's the weather?
22:00
Speaker 13: Mostly cloudy today, some fine spells a bit later northeasterly
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Speaker 13: is and a high of twenty.
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Speaker 2: One drummex Toll and Willington helm X.
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Speaker 5: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: So the botanic gardens. I love for potanic gardens when
22:10
Speaker 2: I lived in Willington. I love them now the car
22:12
Speaker 2: parks they're not there anymore.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, quite a few of them are not. Yeah, exactly
22:17
Speaker 5: lovely place for botanic gardens. A few months ago, taking
22:19
Speaker 5: quite a few people by surprise, the roadside car parking
22:22
Speaker 5: along the edge of the gardens on Glenmore Street vanished.
22:26
Speaker 5: A cycle way appeared great for those cycling down the
22:29
Speaker 5: hill from Kelbourn to and from work, bad for people
22:33
Speaker 5: driving visiting the boat Ends. Councilor Diane Calvert now has
22:36
Speaker 5: the go ahead to instruct council officers to investigate reinstating
22:41
Speaker 5: that parking. A council committee took a vote yesterday. All
22:44
Speaker 5: but two members were for that, one of whom is
22:47
Speaker 5: of course Mayor Torrifano, who generally has a blanket position
22:51
Speaker 5: against parking. She said in the meeting there are still
22:55
Speaker 5: more than thirty thousand parks in the city, and she
22:57
Speaker 5: wants to do anything she can to incentivize cycle.
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Speaker 2: So what would that news in the news going to
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Speaker 2: restore the Magonia House. The Pagonia House is going to stay.
23:05
Speaker 2: So it's all good news for the botanic gardens. And
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Speaker 2: I remember I used to wander around it. This is
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Speaker 2: how long ago it was. And I bump into Paul
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Speaker 2: Holmes because he'd been He'd be wandering around as well,
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Speaker 2: sniffing flowers. And I go, Paul, hello, how are you weathering?
23:17
Speaker 2: It's in two zb host what do you what do
23:18
Speaker 2: you do sniffing the flowers? Aren't the flowers magnificent? Andrews,
23:21
Speaker 2: I love the tulips? Okay, mate, now how's your weather?
23:25
Speaker 2: So fine? Today?
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Speaker 5: Light wends getting up into the mid twenties.
23:29
Speaker 2: All right, to Orca we go.
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Speaker 11: There's a name, Paul Holmes. I'm glad you brought that up. Oh,
23:34
Speaker 11: I can just imagine him.
23:35
Speaker 2: Oh, you'd be wandering around aimlessly. He'd be wondering around
23:37
Speaker 2: aims exactly what and just get into the flower beards
23:41
Speaker 2: to be snuffling around. He loved his garden.
23:43
Speaker 11: He did love his gardens, and he new, you know
23:45
Speaker 11: all the Latin terms and everything about flowers. He go,
23:47
Speaker 11: did you know, Barblay, you are right?
23:50
Speaker 2: I'd rest his soul. What a lovely man. Okay, what's
23:52
Speaker 2: happening in Auckland, Oh, James, Saint James's back. Yes, we're
23:56
Speaker 2: going to talk about that, Andrew.
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Speaker 11: So what's happened is that the owners of James ninety
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Speaker 11: seven year old Saint James Theater Auckland dos know this
24:04
Speaker 11: well Queen Street. Now it's sat in a state of
24:06
Speaker 11: disreppears since two thousand and seven. This is after a
24:08
Speaker 11: fire forced it to close. But it's been granted funding
24:11
Speaker 11: for restoration. There are conditions though, so Auckland Council's voted
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Speaker 11: to commit fifteen million dollars in funding. This happened yesterday.
24:19
Speaker 11: Owner Steve Bilbe says that look, it's got a meat
24:22
Speaker 11: stretch milestones. As the work proceeds. He says, the timeline
24:27
Speaker 11: is already laid out. He can tell us that he's
24:29
Speaker 11: planning to reopen the theater in twenty twenty eight. Do
24:32
Speaker 11: you think that will happen fingers crossed and that's when
24:34
Speaker 11: it turns Sat James Turn's one hundred.
24:36
Speaker 2: Well, okay as a great concert venue. Saw David Byrne there,
24:40
Speaker 2: Pitt shop boys there in New York dolls there, the
24:42
Speaker 2: dude's there.
24:42
Speaker 11: Stop a music person.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
24:45
Speaker 2: How's the weather in Auckland's okay?
24:46
Speaker 11: Twenty seven is the high, hot and humid? Muggy mainly
24:49
Speaker 11: find passing clown to and.
24:50
Speaker 2: I thank you. It is seventeen minutes to six. It's
24:52
Speaker 2: Newstalk sav B. Vincent McAvennie as her Kirs Starmer makes
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Speaker 2: his trip to Washington tomorrow. He's just moments away. We're
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Speaker 2: going to talk about the electricity market and the monitoring
25:03
Speaker 2: of the jin Taylors. I know it's dents, but hopefully
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Speaker 2: the guy we've got on will help you understand. And
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Speaker 2: the big question is will we get cheaper power.
25:12
Speaker 1: International correspondence with insin eye insurance, peace of mind for
25:16
Speaker 1: New Zealand business.
25:18
Speaker 2: It's fourteen to six. Vincent mcavinni joins us from the UK. Vincent,
25:23
Speaker 2: good morning, good morning, so secure stammagers jours away from
25:27
Speaker 2: meeting with President Trump.
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Speaker 3: Yes, that's right.
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Speaker 14: He is the second European leader to visit the White
25:33
Speaker 14: House this week. He was pipped by President Macron on Monday.
25:37
Speaker 14: He had been hoping for this invite a little earlier
25:40
Speaker 14: because he has built quite a good relationship with Donald Trump,
25:42
Speaker 14: meeting him last year several times ahead of the election
25:45
Speaker 14: in anticipation of his victory. Now he is going, we understand,
25:50
Speaker 14: to tell the United States that they must put security
25:53
Speaker 14: guarantees in place in whatever deal they are going to
25:57
Speaker 14: strike with Russia. They need that backstop. And he's going
26:00
Speaker 14: to say, if you are going to put all this
26:02
Speaker 14: resource and money into rare earth mineral extraction, you need
26:06
Speaker 14: to make sure that your investment is safe and protected.
26:09
Speaker 14: And that's ahead of course of President Zelenski of Ukraine
26:11
Speaker 14: visiting the White House tomorrow. So we think signed this
26:14
Speaker 14: deal on these rare earth minerals, and the UK also
26:17
Speaker 14: hoping to avoid any kind of tariffs that we've seen
26:20
Speaker 14: on allies like Mexico, Canada and the EU because he
26:24
Speaker 14: wants to play sakirstarma on that special love that Trump
26:27
Speaker 14: has for the UK, given his mother was Scottish.
26:30
Speaker 2: Okay. Now, meanwhile, we're following the progress of Andrew Tait
26:33
Speaker 2: and his brother Tristram, who had finally been extra dieded
26:35
Speaker 2: from Romania. It only took three years. Where's that story it?
26:40
Speaker 14: Well, they have now landed in Florida in the past
26:44
Speaker 14: half hour. They have arrived via private jet at Fort
26:48
Speaker 14: Lauderdale International Airport. Now there is still a lot of
26:51
Speaker 14: confusion about this. The pair have been detained for the
26:55
Speaker 14: last three years in Romania, where they had moved to,
26:59
Speaker 14: and they were accused of human trafficking and rape in
27:03
Speaker 14: the country, charges they deny. They were also facing a
27:05
Speaker 14: separate case in the UK of rape and human trafficking
27:09
Speaker 14: as well. But what appears to have happened is that
27:13
Speaker 14: Rick Grennell, who is a sort of representative for Donald
27:18
Speaker 14: Trump at the Munich Security Conference, held a meeting with
27:23
Speaker 14: the Romanian foreign minister, where it's thought that perhaps he
27:27
Speaker 14: had requested that the two be allowed to leave the country,
27:31
Speaker 14: and that is what prosecutors have done. They haven't dropped
27:33
Speaker 14: the cases, but they have returned their passports to them
27:36
Speaker 14: and let them return to the US. Now, once they're
27:38
Speaker 14: in the US, it's highly unlikely they could ever be
27:40
Speaker 14: extradited to face both the Romanian and the British case,
27:43
Speaker 14: so some confusion exactly what this intervention has been into
27:48
Speaker 14: the Romanian justice system to get these two highly controversial,
27:52
Speaker 14: problematic individuals released. And back to the US.
27:56
Speaker 2: Vinja mcaviniy and I thank you. Are more on this
27:58
Speaker 2: with the Mike Husking breakfast is now eleven to.
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Speaker 1: Six Andrew Dickens.
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Speaker 2: So the Energy Competition Task Force is making moves to
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Speaker 2: bring down the power bills and good on them because
28:08
Speaker 2: we all want that. It is recommended that the Electricity
28:11
Speaker 2: Authority crack down on gen taylors who neglect to be
28:14
Speaker 2: fair and competitive. And now the authority is seeking feedback
28:17
Speaker 2: on the proposed approach, and we've got the CEO of
28:20
Speaker 2: rewiring alt role with us, Mike Casey, Good morning.
28:23
Speaker 3: To you, given morning, Andrew, there you go, very good.
28:26
Speaker 2: So what would the monitoring companies actually do and how
28:29
Speaker 2: would this make our power bills smaller?
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Speaker 15: Well, this is pretty exciting because one of the big
28:35
Speaker 15: things that the independent retails are the ones that don't
28:37
Speaker 15: generate electricity, have been sort of talking about.
28:39
Speaker 3: For a long time. It hadn't been particularly their playing field.
28:43
Speaker 15: So the idea behind this change is essentially that the
28:46
Speaker 15: large into town the likes of contact Energie, Meridian, Mercury,
28:51
Speaker 15: and so they are going to have to sell power
28:55
Speaker 15: to the independent generators at the same price they sell
28:58
Speaker 15: it to themselves. And that's just pretty exciting. There's a
29:01
Speaker 15: lot of work that needs to be done to make
29:02
Speaker 15: sure that this actually does happen and happens effectively. And
29:05
Speaker 15: one thing that we're sort of calling for it rewiring
29:07
Speaker 15: Il said, oh, is really trying to figure out how
29:09
Speaker 15: to make sure that this is mandatory rather than just
29:11
Speaker 15: sort of policing it maybe after the fact.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So the question is if they do manage by monitoring,
29:18
Speaker 2: which is a bit of scowling, they manage to get
29:21
Speaker 2: these gent tailors, the big four, you know, who have
29:24
Speaker 2: both sides of the equation, If they do manage to
29:28
Speaker 2: offer this stuff to independence, will those generators bump up
29:32
Speaker 2: the price to keep the same level of profits that
29:34
Speaker 2: they're getting at them at the same time, so will
29:36
Speaker 2: we actually get a lower price?
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Speaker 15: That is potentially an issue, But I think on the
29:42
Speaker 15: other side of it, it's quite exciting. We've seen most
29:44
Speaker 15: of the innovation around pricing for consumers, most of the
29:48
Speaker 15: innovative products coming out, such as things like free hour
29:51
Speaker 15: of power, things like that are coming from the independence,
29:54
Speaker 15: so it being a playing field. I am very very
29:57
Speaker 15: optimistic that this will cause a downward pressure on power prices,
30:00
Speaker 15: more innovation in the space, which is ultimately best for
30:02
Speaker 15: the customer, but that is something the regulator is going
30:05
Speaker 15: to have to make sure right at the end of
30:06
Speaker 15: the day. There is the theory that it can put
30:08
Speaker 15: down with pressure on prices, but we have seen in
30:11
Speaker 15: the past that that is not necessarily always the case.
30:13
Speaker 2: In an ideal world, would you prefer that generators are
30:17
Speaker 2: absolutely separated from retailers.
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Speaker 15: I think that's the big drastic step that the government
30:23
Speaker 15: is going to have to be looking at to see
30:25
Speaker 15: whether that is the ultimate outcome. This is kind of
30:27
Speaker 15: a bit of a lower touch step that might resolve
30:30
Speaker 15: some of the issues and do it far far faster.
30:31
Speaker 3: And I think the thing that we're seeing now for the.
30:33
Speaker 15: Customers of New Zealand, things are going to be done
30:35
Speaker 15: really quickly because power bills keep rising in this country
30:38
Speaker 15: and they don't need to.
30:39
Speaker 2: Be and part of the reason they keep rising is
30:41
Speaker 2: that we keep on running out of power because it
30:42
Speaker 2: keeps on being dry and everything is renewable. Eighty five
30:45
Speaker 2: percent of our power is renewable, So you know you've
30:48
Speaker 2: got your finger on the pulse. Are we going to
30:49
Speaker 2: have another power crisis this winter?
30:51
Speaker 3: Well, I mean I keep my finger on the pulse
30:54
Speaker 3: a lot because I have a huge kind of soul
30:56
Speaker 3: on my farm and I'm doing very well out of
30:57
Speaker 3: that at the moment, selling at the wholesale rate where
31:00
Speaker 3: the price of power is incredibly high. So I do
31:03
Speaker 3: it have my finger on the pulse a lot in
31:04
Speaker 3: that regard. It isn't raining at the moment. I was
31:06
Speaker 3: just on the shores of Lake Chippo a couple of
31:08
Speaker 3: days ago and it's looking very very dry. What we
31:11
Speaker 3: do every year is we sort of sit there and
31:13
Speaker 3: wait and pray for rain.
31:14
Speaker 15: Sometimes it comes. In the case of twenties twenty four
31:16
Speaker 15: it didn't. So you know, it's all going to come
31:19
Speaker 15: down to the work that gods. At the moment, see
31:20
Speaker 15: how this energy industry copes with the current shortage of water.
31:24
Speaker 3: It's not looking good at the moment.
31:26
Speaker 15: And so yes, anything that we can do in the
31:27
Speaker 15: space to improve innovation and also roll out alternative forms
31:32
Speaker 15: of generation like riftop solo on homes and on farms
31:35
Speaker 15: is going to make a massive difference to the outcome
31:37
Speaker 15: for customers.
31:38
Speaker 2: All right, Mike Casey, I thank you so much. Mike
31:40
Speaker 2: Casey is the CEO of rewiring al Te Royer. My
31:43
Speaker 2: son actually climbed halfway up Mount cook over the last
31:46
Speaker 2: weekend and he said he's never seen it so dry,
31:49
Speaker 2: and also the glaciers are very small. It's been a
31:52
Speaker 2: hot one. It is seven minutes to six.
31:56
Speaker 1: The first word on the Use of the day earlier
31:59
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32:05
Speaker 2: Robbie's gone and text me and says it's obviously not working.
32:08
Speaker 2: Everyone's fixed daily charges and power has just gone up.
32:10
Speaker 2: Thank you, Robbie. And another text an email from Nova
32:13
Speaker 2: last night. Gas and power going up. So it's an
32:16
Speaker 2: issue and they're trying to deal with it. I meanwhile,
32:19
Speaker 2: the Warriors game this weekend. I hello, Mike. I talked
32:22
Speaker 2: to Cameron George just a while ago. Forty eight thousand
32:24
Speaker 2: tickets sold, fifteen thousand of them Yanks. So that's not
32:28
Speaker 2: really the revolution. It wasn't last year, it isn't this year.
32:31
Speaker 2: It's the stadium holds sixty something sixty five. I think
32:35
Speaker 2: it's not one of the biggest stadiums. But it wasn't
32:37
Speaker 2: a sell out last year, it isn't this year. It's
32:40
Speaker 2: good fun for the people who jumped on the charter
32:42
Speaker 2: flight from New Zealand and stuff sold out in seventeen minutes.
32:45
Speaker 16: Yeah, and that's good. But you only need two hundred
32:47
Speaker 16: tickets to get out four pointue. But do you know
32:49
Speaker 16: what I'm saying, It's just I wish it was successful,
32:52
Speaker 16: but it's just there's so much sport in America and
32:55
Speaker 16: everyone just goes, I know, I'll join that queue, and
32:58
Speaker 16: it's just it's just not here's the thing.
32:59
Speaker 2: I mean, it's hard times. Fifteen thousand Yanks. That means
33:02
Speaker 2: thirty three thousand Australians and New Zealanders could be bothered
33:05
Speaker 2: to hop on a plane and go.
33:07
Speaker 16: Well, a lot will be expect though true of course
33:09
Speaker 16: they're living in America. By the way, speaking of New Zealand,
33:12
Speaker 16: is doing well Liam Lawson this morning seventh Not that
33:14
Speaker 16: you read too much into that because it's fuel and time,
33:17
Speaker 16: but he was in the car basically all day. And
33:20
Speaker 16: the other good news of your interested and I knew
33:21
Speaker 16: you were going to ask, was that Lewis did well.
33:25
Speaker 16: So there was some concern yesterday that Lewis was a
33:27
Speaker 16: mile behind Charlote Clair. But he's beat Charlie Clair today.
33:31
Speaker 16: Not once again that you read all well, but right
33:33
Speaker 16: up there.
33:33
Speaker 2: In that first round I saw look at that Liam
33:36
Speaker 2: beat Lewis and quite some margin as well.
33:38
Speaker 16: So Lewis beat Liam today. So it depends on what
33:40
Speaker 16: you're looking to achieve and how you're looking to it.
33:42
Speaker 2: Well, the question is is the RB car any good
33:45
Speaker 2: because in the second half of our season it was rubbish.
33:47
Speaker 16: Well the RB yes, well they don't know, we don't
33:49
Speaker 16: know that yet, but it's competitive. So but Stappan's competitive.
33:52
Speaker 16: He's competitive, and so it's everything that you thought might
33:56
Speaker 16: happen so far is happening. McLaren are fast read bullsparts.
34:00
Speaker 16: What's your big story the electricity? Oh mister, what of
34:04
Speaker 16: the electricity Department's going this morning to explain how all
34:08
Speaker 16: this works and why we're yet again in the middle
34:10
Speaker 16: of a winterning.
34:11
Speaker 2: Somebody thought I said, Jennitaylor instead of Gen Taylor. Really
34:15
Speaker 2: you shouldn't do that, Well I didn't anyway, I thought
34:17
Speaker 2: I was funny. Well I'm not sure, but I think
34:19
Speaker 2: it was quite funny anyway, all right, thank you, We'll
34:22
Speaker 2: see you on Monday.
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